English MR ROHAN DAVIS, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT - ENGLISH Burning yet flourishing The closing months of 2019 have been overshadowed by the gloam of a hot apocalyptic summer. Smoke plumes have blighted our normally crisp blue skies, and fouled what should be pure mountain air. Homes and lives have been lost to fires that have launched unrelenting and unpredictable assaults in even the most unlikely and most unexpected corners of peace and tranquillity. How does one make sense of an environment that wreaks havoc on our very sensibilities? Is there any comfort to be had in the thought,
The shortest of literary forays will reinforce the resolution that comes with the end of suffering and when harmony is restored. Our students From a spiritual perspective, this is of English and Literature have faced the trials of a new system in our hope – an ethos reinforced by our school moto, arden sed virens. the form of the QCE. While it has But the fiery trial brings no comfort not been deadly, there has been in the short term; it terrifies and plenty of fire and a little bit of smarts, and, as with The Crucible, stress; nevertheless, thus informed by the wisdom of our culture’s wits has the potential to unleash vengeance and turmoil. Yet in spite and writers, our students can look of the horrors, even in the dreadful forward to bright futures beyond the gloom and haze, and are state of Gilead and the dystopian society of Fahrenheit 451, the assured of a flourishing future. human spirit – phoenix-like – rises again and triumphs over adversity. as Benvolio promises in Romeo and Juliet, ‘that one fire burns out another’s burning.’
Academic Results
30.8+45.7+23.4I 10.8+56.7+32.4I 33.3+60.3+7.4I 21.6+54.2+24.2I 50+25+I 34+51+132I 54.4+36.5+9I 36.7+46+16.5I
Queensland Debating Union
SA 23.4%
Grand Final - Champions Year 12 Georgie Scouller Evie Mason Tarryn Sorour Kaitlin Topalov
HA 45.7%
Grand Finalists – Runners Up Year 12 Zarabella Bambling Zoe Crooke Charlotte Kath Ashling Teahan
SA 24.2%
SA 21.8%
HA 54.6%
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Year 8
SA 6.4%
VHA 20%
HA 56.8%
VHA 33.3%
Year 9
VHA 21.6%
HA 60.3%
SA 25%
Year 11
Year 10
Literature
HA 25%
HA 54.2%
LA 3.6%
Year 11
VHA 32.4%
VHA 30.8%
Year 7
Year 7 Elsie Traynor Molly Lutton Elizabeth Janetzki Ankita Sajjan Hannah Pocknee
SA 10.8%
SA 9%
VHA 54.5%
Year 12 Ext
HA 36.5%
SA 16.5%
Year 12
HA 46.8%
VHA 36.7%
VHA 50%
