KRB News Issue 05 – 5 APRIL 2013
A deep r es p e ct f o r in t e l l e c tual values
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FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents, Students and Staff Our goal for 2013 is “A deep respect for intellectual values.” At KRB, we maintain a keen interest in what our students go on to achieve beyond the school and the areas in which they decide to focus future learning and study. It is also the strong connection we have to students of past years that enable us as a school to provide inspiring role models for our current students. Our Class of 2012 has commenced their life after KRB, many of them taking up further study in various fields of tertiary education or spending a year travelling and working. It is interesting to see the broad area of courses they have each chosen to undertake in areas including Arts, Law, Commerce, Science, Communications, Architecture, Business and Engineering. Alice Brennan, (Head of Social Justice) from the Class of 2012, has commenced Aeronautical (Space) Engineering, at Sydney University, a course that has only 12 students. At the end of her 4 years of studying she hopes to go on to work for NASA or the European Space Agency. Alice wanted to study Aeronautical (Space) Engineering because of its high ATAR of 99.40 and because of her interest
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in space, she worked extremely hard throughout Year 12 to achieve her goal. She acknowledges that the Science department at KRB constantly encouraged her and fostered her interests in the topic of space. We hope Alice achieves the goals she has set for herself and we look forward, with great interest, to hearing from her as she progresses through her studies. These course choices show the confidence our students possess to choose a career that suits them, their abilities and interests. It is admirable to see that a number of them are studying courses, which in the past may have been considered “unusual” for a woman to enter. Looking at early records of some of our first graduates, we know that the school has always held the firm belief that women should be encouraged towards a higher education, even during times when such careers were not considered normal for girls. Indeed, out of approximately 1000 enrolments in total between 1882 and1942, Rose Bay produced 47 University graduates, all from Sydney University, as there was no alternative prior to 1949. Some of the ‘firsts’ for Rose Bay were: ♥♥ Lucy McMahon, Rose Bay
1915 – 1918; graduated MB BCSE in 1925
CONTENTS 1
Welcome from the Principal
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Teaching & Learning
3 Reflection 4
Students in Action
5 Boarding 6 Sport 7
Community News
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Calendar
quote of the week ‘History debating has been one of the best experiences I have had at KRB. Aside from the obvious growth in knowledge, I have increased my confidence and of course, have improved my historical knowledge extensively’ Inez Hernandez Denham, Year 11.
IN MEMORIAM Mrs. Elisabeth (Lis) Ritchie 16 March 1967 – 15 March 2013 Please remember in your prayers, Patrick Ritchie and his daughter Tara, Year 9, on the loss of wife and mother, Lis Ritchie, who passed away after a long illness on 15 March, 2013. May she be granted eternal rest.