Adelaide High School
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Edition No. 10 |September 24, 2018
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
In this Edition From the Principal
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nature, engenders an international mindset.
Calendar Dates
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F1 in Schools State Finals
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Foodbank Food Drive
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SACA Player Visit
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Birthing Kit Packing
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Schools authorized to become an IB World School will gain access to: • high quality programmes of education • IB specific professional development • a worldwide network of connected IB World Schools, working together to share best practice.
Prefects’ Talent Quest
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Stage 2 Retro-Themed Dinner
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Tournament of Minds
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Lower Lakes Bush Festival Day Trip 5 Stage 2 Drama Performance
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Behind the News Filming
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Student Pathways Report
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Uniform Shop Holiday Trading
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Live at the Gov
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Happy 110th Birthday Adelaide High School The official naming and opening of Adelaide High School by the Premier and Minister for Education, the Hon Thomas Price took place on September 24, 1908. Thus commenced the State High School system and the ‘first free High School in the British Empire.’
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It is hard to believe we have almost finished Term 3. This has been an incredibly busy term with so many individual and collective achievements. I would like to thank Ms Lara Nowak, Ms Stephanie Ingham and Mr John Bentley for their work throughout the term and wish them well as they complete their contracts. I would like to also thank Mr Ben Foxwell who will complete his contract behind Mr Aris Bakas in Week 2 of Term 4. All the best to Ms Lynne Smythe and Mr Phil Wilson who will be on leave in Term 4 and Ms Toni Chen who is on leave from Week 3 Term 4, and welcome back to all staff returning from leave. I would like to acknowledge our amazing Year 12s as they transition to an intensive study phase and transition from key leadership positons. Thank you to our Year 12 Prefects, SRC, House Leaders, and International Ambassadors who have embraced and enhanced the heartbeat and soul of our school throughout 2018. Please take the time to peruse the website, Facebook page and the newsletters to capture the amazing achievements of the past few months. As part of the government’s commitment to reinvigorate the study of languages in South Australian schools, the opportunity now exists for four new schools to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme. This will extend and diversify the language offerings and pathways available in South Australian government schools. Like the SACE, the IB Diploma is regarded for its academic rigour and is recognised for encouraging both global and critical thinking. In particular, the IB Diploma Language programme, by its very
The Department for Education has activated an “Expression of Interest” process for schools to self-nominate for selection as a contender to delivering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. I am really pleased to inform you that, with the support of our Governing Council, Adelaide High School has submitted an Expression of Interest to offer the IB Diploma. The benefits are: • Engagement in the implementation of the South Australian Languages Strategy • Providing global pathways for our students, including those from globally mobile families • Strengthening the commitment to languages into the Senior years • Enhancing our curriculum depth • Broadening the professional development and experience of our teaching staff • Establishing networks for professional engagement at state, national and international levels • Further enhancing and building the service opportunities and student agency in their learning and in the community • Strengthening student capacity for deeply reflective and critical thought • Enhancing and strengthening the Special Interest Languages Programme and Languages across the School • Ability for the school to offer an additional alternate pathway for students I look forward to updating you on the progress of our Expression of Interest. Thank you so much for your partnership and support with ensuring students are at school and learning. I wish you a safe and happy holiday break with our students. Kind regards, Ms Cez Green | Principal
CALENDAR DATES September Mon 24 Deadline for Yearbook payments Mon 24 110th Anniversary of AHS Tues 25 Sports Assembly Thurs 27 Achilles Cup Athletics Thurs 27 Live at the Gov Music Night Fri 28
End Term 3
Early dismissal
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F1 IN SCHOOLS STATE FINALS Congratulations to Lickety Split and Ray, proudly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Unley, on their achievements at the F1 in Schools State Finals held at the Royal Adelaide Show. Both teams received awards. Lickety Split, comprising Maddie Berryman, Madeline Budgen, Ivy Bell, Sonia Huygen and Ying Stokes, won the ‘Best Team Verbal Presentation’ and came 3rd overall. ‘Ray’ comprising Easwer Allada, Nimat Anoar, Matthew Barrett, Tony Ngo and Spencer Zhou won the ‘Outstanding Industry Collaboration’ award. Lickety Split have been given a Wild Card invitation to go the F1 in Schools Australian National Final in March next year. Mr Trevor Warren | Teacher of Design and Technology
October Mon 15 Start Term 4 Wed 17 Stage 2 Exam Protocols Assembly Wed 17 Governing Council Meeting Thurs 18 Year 8 Vaccinations Thurs 18 Interact BBQ and Casual Day Fri 26
Senior School Speech Day
Wed 31 Prefect Elections
November Mon 5 Stage 2 Written Exams begin
For a comprehensive list of upcoming events, log onto the searchable Calendar and Events database on the website (http://www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au/ About/Calendar-and-Events).
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FOODBANK FOOD DRIVE As part of the Global Awareness and Citizenship foci of the school, the students in Adey House will be promoting and participating in the collection of nonperishable food items for Foodbank. Foodbank is by far, the largest hunger relief organisation in South Australia. Foodbank South Australia is a non-profit organisation established in South Australia in 2000, with a vision to achieve a South Australia without hunger. They source food from the community and the food industry and make it available to welfare agencies and people in need.
What can you do? Your support can take many forms: • •
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A monetary donation will assist with the purchase of goods. Donations can be made to the Finance Office. Send non-perishable goods to school and place them in the provided food bins. Refer to the attached list of goods.
Please help Adey support Foodbank to support those in need in South Australia.
3 SACA PLAYER VISIT Recently, old scholars Michael Cormack and Jake Winter came to speak to the AHS Cricket Program students. They spoke about some of their experiences as Adelaide High students and then what they are up to currently as contracted South Australian Redbacks players striving to be professional athletes. The students were lucky enough to hear about some of their experiences and win some prizes along the way for insightful answers they gave as part of the visit. Thanks Michael and Jake and best of luck for the upcoming season! Mr Phil Hopton | Cricket Manager
BIRTHING KIT PACKING Adelaide High School students, working alongside members of the Zonta Club of Adelaide, contributed to another successful birthing kit packing afternoon, with 600 kits packed to be sent to women in the developing communities of East Africa. With community service as a focus, 30 Year 9 students assisted in the packing process, with the cause aiming to reduce birth-related infections in developing countries. The packing session commenced with stories told by some of the strong women in these developing communities advocating for the importance of birthing kits.
Following this, students worked in a production line to pack the kits and, within 2 hours, the packing was completed and all left feeling empowered and ready to share their experiences with others. Our special thanks to members of the Zonta Club of Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills Catholic Parish for their contributions to support the packing of birthing kits by Adelaide High School. Ms Ashleigh Bandiera | Staff member and Zonta Club of Adelaide member
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PREFECTS’ TALENT QUEST After a hiatus of two years, the Prefects reinstated the Prefects’ Talent Quest this year. Congratulations to Joel Sweet (piano and singing), Finn (acoustic guitar and singing), Jack (drums) and James (singing) – the winner – for their outstanding performances in front of several hundred students in the audience. The Prefects – in their final Prefect role for the year – wowed the crowd with their ‘evolution of dance’ performance, and even managed to get 3 of the staff to join them on stage - Ms Green, Mr Kim and Mr Weeden! Many thanks to our resident judges: Mr Brogden, Mr Black, Ms Andriopoulos and Mr Weeden.
STAGE 2 FOOD & HOSPITALITY RETRO-THEMED DINNER Cooking for 30 guests is no small feat, however the Stage II Food and Hospitality class served up in style. The students worked collaboratively to plan, prepare and present a Retro Themed function, serving a 3 course dinner. With an Entree menu of Spicy King Prawn Laksa or Gnocchi with Fungi, a Main menu of Lamb Rack with Roast Vegetables or Ratatouille, and a Dessert menu of Sunny Lemon Cheesecake or Chocolate Molten Lava Cake with Raspberry Coulis, the guests were spoilt for choice and all left with a smile and a satisfied appetite at the end of the night. Congratulations to all students in Stage II Food and Hospitality this year for successfully completing a tough food service with such high-quality and delicious food. It certainly is a shame that this is the last event these talented cooks are catering for... although we can live in hope that one day they will reunite and open Adelaide’s very own AHS Retro Restaurant and share their tremendous talents with us all. Mr Tim Ducker | Teacher of Food and Hospitality
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5 TOURNAMENT OF MINDS Tournament of Minds (TOM) is a problem solving, student driven program for teams of students from both primary and secondary years. The event was held at Flinders University and the entire campus was transformed with hundreds of students practising their lines and acting out their scenarios. Our two teams were ably assisted by Aidan Griffen and Lahie Amat, with Chris McWhirter-Whitlock coming in at the last minute to assist with the Spontaneous Challenge.
The teams should be very proud of themselves for their organisation, teamwork, humour, lateral thinking and the learning that occurred throughout. During their preparation, both teams were very respectful of each member and appreciative of the opportunity to participate. Well done teams! Ms Cheryl McGill | Supervising Staff Member
This year we started with two teams, one competing and the other non-competing. The non-competing team comprised all Year 8 students who, unfortunately, decided at the last minute not to attend the day and perform. Team 1 comprised two Year 8 students, Prisha Anand and Cooper Smiles, one Year 9 student, David Lawton, and three Year 10 students, Amy Huynh, Evan Meneses and Melinda Li. Their presentation related to the Social Sciences genre with the working title of “Don’t Fence Me In”. The team created a script relating to a newly discovered extinct planet, E-826A, with the premise that this planet at one time had colonies of people separated by a “fence” made of bodies of water. This was higher order thinking and, although the judges asked for more dramatic expression, they appreciated the concept that was indeed very clever and conceptual.
LOWER LAKES BUSH FESTIVAL – STRATHALBYN On September 14, the international students along with the International Ambassadors went on a day trip to the Lower Lakes Bush Festival in Strathalbyn to experience Australian country life. The day was beneficial and gave the international students an insight into what farmers do in the Australian bush/country. There was plenty on show during the warm and sunny day. We saw horse jumping, cattle gathering and blacksmiths attaching horseshoes on their stock. The students learnt about rural life and the importance of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. A highlight for most of us was feeding the baby lambs and then watching sheep being shorn, feeling the fresh, soft wool. To finish the day, we saw a whip cracking presentation by a little nine year old! Overall the day was exciting and the international students had a great opportunity to experience elements of the Australian country way of life that they hadn’t seen before. All of us who went on this day trip made new friends and got to participate in new activities and try new food. Maaike Williams | International Ambassador and Que Minh Tranh and JingYi Zhang | ISEC class
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STAGE 2 DRAMA MODERATED PERFORMANCE The 2018 SACE Stage 2 Drama class presented excerpts from three Noel Coward plays for their Moderated Assessment; ‘Private Lives’, ‘Fallen Angels’ and ‘Blithe Spirit’. The plays highlight the lifestyle of the English upper class during the 1920’s and 30’s, and the staging of the scenes resembled ‘a veritable boxing match of words and manners laced with subtext and glamour’. Audiences enjoyed the interaction between the characters and appreciated the efforts of the group. Staff, parents and friends took advantage of the opportunity to not only support the students but also enjoy a comical evening of live theatre. Mr Greg Maher | Teacher of Drama
The ABC kids program ‘Behind the News’ recently visited and filmed a number of the students involved in the F1 in Schools program. They were here to film a hologram machine that the F1 in Schools team, Prismatic, used at the National Finals in early 2018. Prismatic approached a local company called Voxon Photonics late in 2017 after finding them online. Voxon Photonics are the creators of the Voxon VX1 – the worlds most advanced 3D volumetric display. Voxon’s 3D technology brings digital content to life and helps empower people to visualise, communicate, learn and have fun in a collaborative manner with no barrier to the 3D experience, and no glasses required. In technical terms, Voxon’s technology is a volumetric display. At its core is an ultra high speed digital engine and a highly optimized volume rendering engine. This unique combination of hardware and software is capable of projecting over half a million
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points of light every second into physical volumetric space. Through persistence of vision, the human eye blends hundreds of layer together, and the result is a true threedimensional (3D) volumetric holographic representation.
When approached by ‘Behind the News’, Voxon recommended coming to Adelaide High School to show how their creation was being used in schools. The program recently aired on the ABC and shows Prismatic using the Voxon VX1 and introducing it to the next generation of F1 in Schools students. Mr Trevor Warren | Teacher of Design and Technology
7 STUDENT PATHWAYS UPDATE
Shipbuilding and Allied Industries
On the afternoon of Thursday, September 6, I attended a very interesting afternoon tea hosted by PEER. At this event participants were able to find out about future career opportunities, especially for young workers, in the state’s growing shipbuilding industry. We heard presentations from the Hon. Mr David Pisoni, Minister for Industry and Skills, and representatives from the newly established Naval Shipbuilding College (hereafter NSC), PEER and the Defence Team Centre. The NSC is managed by the Naval Shipbuilding Institute (NSI (Aust) Pty. Ltd.), a joint venture between Kellogg Brown & Root and Huntington Ingalls. Interestingly, Australia is the eleventh largest consumer of defence procurement in the world. PEER and the Rosewater Academy, two of the Registered Training Organisations we use to access vocational training for Adelaide High School students, are partnering with the NSC to begin to plan for the development this future workforce. According to their website, https://www. navalshipbuildingcollege.com.au/ . • by the mid to late 2020s, the naval shipbuilding workforce is expected to grow to an estimated 5,200 workers, with more than double this number employed in supply chains and sustainment activities. A skilled workforce is critical to the success of the naval shipbuilding enterprise responsible for delivery and sustainment of the Royal Australian Navy’s future frigates, future submarines and offshore patrol vessels. • The NSC will work with key stakeholders to ensure a suitably skilled and qualified Australian workforce is available at the right time to meet industry’s needs in delivering
Australia’s continuous sovereign naval shipbuilding program.
options or to give me their completed VET enrolment paperwork
• The NSC will operate as a hub-and-spoke model that enables students to undertake courses through NSC-approved registered training organisations or higher education providers across Australia.
So far, for 2019, students are well on their way to enrolling in these VET courses:
• NSC graduates will have the opportunity to work on major naval construction, including the offshore patrol vessels, the future frigates and the future submarines. Construction of the offshore patrol vessels will commence this year in SA. So, exciting times lay ahead for our young people! We found out that workers with the following trades will be needed: structural welding, electrical, outfitting or fabrication, and there will also be employment opportunities in related and non-defence fields, such as digital technologies (radar systems, drones, air security), medical technologies, space, agriculture, component design and advanced manufacturing. The NSC is establishing a Workforce Register of individuals with skills, knowledge and capabilities relevant to the naval shipbuilding enterprise. If you or your child are interested in learning how you and /or they may be involved in naval shipbuilding, as a prospective student, a worker or a potential industry, education or training partner, register your interest through the afore mentioned website. You can also keep in touch with developments by liking the Naval Shipbuilding College Facebook page.
2019 VET It is still possible for current Year 9 – 11 students to express interest in commencing vocational training in 2019. Please ask them to see me as soon as possible to discuss
Cert III Fitness, Cert III Business, Cert II Retail Cosmetics, Cert II Electrotech and Cert II Construction. By the middle of 2019, a few continuing VET students will receive qualifications in Cert III Hospitality and Cert III Music Industry. I don’t yet have any firm interest in VET courses that are usually quite popular, such as Cert I Construction (Plumbing), the Basics to Retail Cosmetics, Digital Photography and Lighting, Cert II Salon Assistant (Hairdressing) and Cert III Hospitality. There are also some new VET courses on offer for 2019, such as Cert III Aviation (working with UAV unmanned aerial vehicles or drones) and Cert III Dance. Based on what I heard at the PEER event discussed above, I would also like some students to consider Cert II Engineering and Cert III Information Technology.
Current VET students in Years 10 – 12 VET students who need to carry out Structured Work Placements, as required for their courses and who are planning to do shifts / placements during the coming October school holidays need to give me their completed Workplace Learning Agreement Forms by the start of Week 10 (Monday, 24 September). My office is in The Help Hub, but the best way to contact me if via email livia.daloia@ adelaidehs.sa.edu.au. Ms Livia D’Aloia | Student Pathways Coordinator
UNIFORM SHOP HOLIDAY TRADING HOURS The Uniform Shop will be open on the following days during the school holidays. Saturday 6 October 2018 9.00am – 12.00 noon Friday 12 October 2018 10.00am – 12.00 noon
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