St George Girls High Schoolo Telephone: 9587 5902 Facsimile: 9553 8043 Email: [email protected] Website: www.sgghs.com.au The Gazette Monthly Bulletin June 2011 Vol. 16 No. 5 Principal’s Message Dear Parents and Students, End of Term 2 Rapidly Approaches…. When this gazette reaches your home there will be less than two weeks until Term 2 finishes. Even so there are many important events still to come before we end the term. Parent Teacher Evening Years 7 and 8 Year 10 Subject Market Day and Information Evening Wednesday 22 June 2011 On Monday 27 June we will begin the process of subject selection for Assembly Hall Year 10 students. This process will culminate in 2013 when students sit 4pm – 7pm for their HSC. Year 10 will attend a curriculum information meeting during the day. HSC requirements, the courses of study available and Parents & Citizens’ assessment and reporting procedures will be explained to them. As well Association Meeting throughout the day students will have the opportunity to meet with Head Thursday 23 June 2011 Teachers and subject teachers to discuss their options, ask questions Staff Common Room about various courses and to seek advice on the most appropriate 7pm courses to study. Year 10 HSC Information Evening Students also need to consider their university aspirations and to check Monday 27 June 2011 with Ms Jospe, our Careers Adviser on any assumed knowledge for Assembly Hall prospective university courses. An information evening for parents will 7pm commence at 7pm in the Assembly Hall. This information will be delivered in English in the hall and, for our Chinese speaking parents; the same Mothers’ Committee Meeting Mothers’ Committee Meeting presentation will be delivered in Chinese in the Staff Common Room. Wednesday 29 June 2011 Library Parent Teacher Interviews 10am Parent Teacher interviews for Years 7 and 8 are being held tomorrow afternoon in the school hall. Your daughter should book an appointment “Inspired” Evening Wednesday 29 June 2011 time with her teacher. As is our usual practice an interpreter will be Assembly Hall available for parents to use if they desire. This can be booked when 6.30pm your daughter makes her appointment. Unfortunately for this meeting we were only able to secure Cantonese interpreters. Parent Teacher interviews for Years 9 and 10 are scheduled for Wednesday 20 July from 4pm – 7pm in the school hall. Inspired On Wednesday 29 June we will be “Inspired” by the creative design talents of our girls. This is our eighth annual inspired evening and I am sure it will be as spectacular as we have come to expect. Our students will parade their creative textile designs and we will once again have a creative design challenge to judge. The evening will be held in the Assembly Hall commencing at 6.30pm and tickets must be purchased prior to the night. The invitation is extended to family members only. We do ask that parents collect their daughters promptly at the conclusion of the evening. Thanks must go to the TAS faculty for organising this highlight of the school calendar. Application for Placement in Years 8-12, 2012 Each year a small number of vacancies may occur in Years 8 – 12. Students who wish to apply for placement on waiting lists should collect an application form from the school. The Selective Schools Unit Application Form as well as the St George Girls High School Application Form Jennifer Chen of 9. should be filled in when applying. The forms can also be downloaded from the school’s website. Please note Tanya Ali, Rachel Cham, Roanna Chan (3), Felicia that applications are due back at the school by 3pm on Fernando (6), Faye Flevaris, Shivika Gupta (2), Thursday 28 July. There is a non-refundable fee of Christabel Hoe, Samira Hoque, Claudia Lee, Melanie $50.00 to cover the administrative costs of processing Mercado (2), Michelle Tsang (3), Alison Wormell, Julie each application. Each application will be assessed by Wu and Yvonne Wu of Year 10. a panel including myself, the Deputy Principal in Noellin Acabado, Vivian Do (2) and Stephanie Xu of charge of each year and a parent representative. Year 11. Building Fund – Tax Deductible Dionisia Andreone, Rene Chang (2), Lisa Chen (5), The St George Girls High School Building Fund was Michelle Cheung (3), Ece Egilmezer (2), Alexandra established in 2002. This is a fund solely for the Gratsis (2), Phoebe Han (3), Ling Hsu (6), Vickie Hu acquisition, construction or maintenance of our school (7), Sumaiya Khan (2), Kyra Kim, Rebecca Lawrence buildings. Contributing to this fund can be attractive to (6), Laurean Lim (4), Jamie Liu, Caroline Ngo (2), Amy parents as donations are tax deductible. Please make Reid (2), Tiffany Tjugito, Elyshia Weatherby, Jenny Xu cheques payable to The St George Girls High School (4), Jessica Zhang (2), Phoebe Zhou and Georgina Zu Building Fund. Your donations would be most (7) of Year 12. gratefully received. Well done to all of these girls and to all who have Sydney Region Award Recipients experienced personal success this term. I recently had the pleasure of attending the Sydney Region Awards ceremony at the Australian Golf Club. Yours sincerely St George was well represented in the awards with Carole Knott two students School Captain Amy Li and Year 7 student Cindy Chen honoured for outstanding achievement by a student. TAS Head Teacher Deputy Principal’s Report Ms Castle won the Sydney Region Award for outstanding service to public education by a teacher in YYearear 1122 and the Trial HSC the category of leadership while TAS teacher Ms Leto ll Year 12 students should be planning to make was highly commended in the category of early career effective use of the coming holidays to revise teacher. It is always a very proud occasion and an Atheir work for the Trial HSC examinations which honour for our school when our wonderful students A commence at the end of Week 2. It is important and teachers receive the accolades they so richly that the girls work in a methodical way which gives deserve. Well done to all! them set work time and set leisure time. It is far better to set a realistic, achievable study timetable and keep Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser to it than develop an overambitious one which cannot Once again the P&C have secured the BBQ at be fulfilled. Bunnings Warehouse as a fundraising activity on Sunday 28 August. If any parent or student can assist Study should be punctuated by frequent breaks and on the day it would be greatly appreciated. Just contact students should, at the end of each session, tell our wonderful P&C member Ms Annie Hong on her themselves (or anyone else they can find) what they mobile. Find further details on a special fridge flyer in have learnt about in the session. This helps clarify this gazette. Come along to lend a hand, have a chat or what has been absorbed and what has not. Exercise is to enjoy a sausage roll to raise funds for our girls! essential throughout all study periods. Many girls make the mistake of giving up sport as part of their Congratulations drive for success. Maintaining sport and exercise or I would like to congratulate the following students for developing an exercise habit is very helpful in achieving Gold Certificates indicating that they have developing a sense of well being. Having a break from received thirty Merit and/or Participation Certificates: study and going for a walk is very therapeutic. Philippa Meikle and Bianca So of Year 10. Students should have a set study space which is associated with work. When they are in the space they Noellin Acabado, Vivian Do and Jemma Payne of are studying. When they are not they are at leisure. Year 11. Short bursts of total focus on study are much better than extended periods of semi-focus or dilatory effort. Ece Egilmezer, Tiffany Ha, Kim Ho, Ling Hsu, Vickie Hu, Jenny Huang, Irene Jin, Rebecca Lawrence, Year 10 HSC Subject Advising Night Jamie Liu, Amy Reid and Georgina Zu of Year 12. – 27 June I would like to congratulate the following students for Year 10 parents should ensure they make themselves receiving Principal Certificates: available on Monday 27 June at 7pm to be told all about the HSC: how it works, what subjects your Rubsat Amin, Christine Azer, Hannah Chiu, Johanna daughter should do, how to ensure she succeeds. We Kennedy, Lily Lasic Latimer, Lucy Liu, Elie Long, will have one talk conducted in English in the hall and Renee Lu, Fiona Pyliotis, Yuchen Ren and Kathleen one in Chinese in the common room. Please be there. Tan of Year 7. Find out what is real and what is myth. Erica Li of Year 8. Mr Morris Social Sciences Sport MMockock Trial 2011 RRegioegional Dance Success! he Law Society of New South Wales, which is ongratulations go to two of our choreographers the representative body for all solicitors in the – Alison Abdullah and Esme Wong of Year 11. TTstate, first conducted the Mock Trial Competition CCThe dance they choreographed and taught their in 1981 with an initial twenty eight Sydney secondary group was successful in being selected to perform at schools. The competition was adapted by the Law the Regional Dance Festival. Our other four Society and the Law Foundation of New South Wales choreographers – Adela Greenbaum, Scarlet Ng, from an original program successfully conducted in a Brenna Harding and Angela Xing should also be number of Northern American states in the 1970’s.