Foundation Report

Realising Potential

Foundation scholarship recipient, Bryzlyn Sin (Year 12) is an avid performer, who has a strong interest in Music, debating and public speaking and a gift for accounting. According to Bryzlyn, PLC has released the potential she never realised she had.

Her talent behind a piano has seen her perform in Carnegie Hall and win national and international competitions.

Over the past four years, she has represented PLC in a number of public speaking competitions including coming runner-up at her first public speaking competition, the UN Youth Voice Public Speaking Competition in 2017. Since then, she has represented WA at the UN Voice Nationals in Brisbane, won the What’s Your Point? Youth Public Speaking Competition, and been a state finalist in UN Voice Nationals in Perth.

In debating, she has competed in Inter-House debating, WADL debating, AHISA debating and other academic competitions such as the UN Youth Voice, Australasian Philosothon, Fogarty Futures Leadership Conference Camp, Mock Trials, UN Evatt and Da Vinci Decathlons throughout Years 7 to 11. She was also selected to participate in the Curtin Innovative Student Scholars Programme in 2020.

While her achievements seem endless in debating, public speaking, and music, Bryzlyn was also accelerated WACE Accounting in Year 11 and was awarded the Year 12 PLC Accounting and Finance prize in 2021 and passed the Accounting 100 unit with a High Distinction at Curtin University.

With the rigors of academia and music, it would be easy to think that Bryzlyn wouldn’t have time for much else, yet she describes herself as “most passionate about community service”.

“I have been involved in many PLC service programmes including Cooking for a Cause, where we cook meals for disadvantaged people and being a reading buddy for the Smith Family Student2Student Buddy Reading Programme, which helps disadvantaged students to improve and boost their confidence in reading,” Bryzlyn said.

Bryzlyn said that being a PLC girl means she is spurred to work to her best ability and uphold the high integrity of PLC values: learning, community, effort, and honour.

She was named a semi-finalist in the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards, was awarded the City of Kalamunda’s 2021 Young Local Hero of the Year, achieved her Duke of Edinburgh (Bronze) in 2020, and Bronze Medallion by Royal Life Saving in 2021. To top it off, she is also the Chief Editor of PLC’s creative magazine, Pastiche in 2022.

If there was ever a student who embodies the ethos of ‘if you’re given an opportunity, then you grab it with both hands’, it’s Bryzlyn.

From the Wheatbelt to the Wide, Open Ocean

By Emma Wilkinson (Year 11)

Foundation Scholarship Student

When my mum first told me about the Leeuwin sailing opportunity by applying for sponsorship, I prepared my application straight away. I had heard about the amazing time my friends had when they completed a Leeuwin voyage for Year 10 Quest. This motivated me to give it a go.

To start with, I applied for the Co-operative Bulk Handling (CBH) sponsorship. CBH is a grain growers’ co-operative that handles, markets and processes grain from the grain growing areas such as the Wheatbelt - where I am from. I completed the application and waited a few weeks before I got an email advising I was unsuccessful at receiving the CBH sponsorship but instead they offered me the Sir Frank Ledger Trust sponsorship. Frank Ledger was a Perth-born engineer, industrialist, and philanthropist, who wanted to help young people of Western Australia achieve success through education. I was very excited to be offered this opportunity. I accepted the offer in late December then had a long wait until the departure on Friday 21 January 2022 from the Bunbury Port.

We sailed along the coast from Bunbury. Once we got close to Rottnest Island, we headed out to sea. To be exact, we were 135 km away from land and I learnt, once we had arrived back on land, that in fact it was 3,000m deep at that point! The first few days of the voyage we were taught the skills that we needed to sail the ship. I also met heaps of new friends within the first couple of days. It was cool getting to know other people and where they were from and why they chose to come on the Leeuwin too. There was a total of 55 on board; 15 crew members and 40 students.

On about the third day, everyone became seasick which wasn’t too fun. It lasted about two days before we all got over it and could enjoy ourselves once again. Every day we learnt things like the names of sails, each line and rope on the ship, what it controls, the history of the ship and the ocean around us.

On the fifth day they let us have a shore day at Rottnest Island! That morning after we cleaned up and packed for the beach, we travelled over in ‘Doris’ which are like dingy boats. It was a slow trip to the shore but as soon as we got there, everyone let loose and jumped straight into the water to cool down. We went for a walk up to the lighthouse and checked out the view from the top, which was amazing. It was quite difficult to walk straight again, after being used to wobbling side to side for the past couple of days.

One challenge I overcame was climbing up to the top of the main mast. It was very scary, but I brushed past my fear of heights and climbed up to the top with my mate who was also quite nervous. Only those who climb to the very top can read a special message on the mast. I felt very proud once I was back down at the bottom. I knew if I didn’t complete this challenge, I would have regretted it, so it was worth overcoming my fear of heights.

We were anchored near Rottnest for a few days, still training and preparing us for the take-over day. This was on the second last day, where we sailed ourselves from Rottnest into Fremantle, going past all the cargo ships. It was such a cool experience to take up the anchor and set the sails by ourselves to make our way back home after seven days at sea.

I would highly recommend this opportunity to anyone. I learnt so much about myself and the voyage itself was incredible. I believe in giving everything a go and to make the most of the opportunities you are given. If anyone ever gets the chance, take it, say “yes”; I promise you won’t regret it. The Leeuwin is honestly such an amazing opportunity, even though being seasick wasn’t the best it was all part of the experience and made it even more unforgettable.

FOUNDATION REPORT

Mr Green his children; Julian (L), Aleksandra and Stephan (R)

The Green’s Lasting Legacy

At the start of 2022, Mr Barry Green approached the PLC Foundation and made a generous donation in memory of his late wife Helen (Novakov 1961) an honour that will see countless students benefit for years to come.

Helen, born Jelena in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, immigrated to Australia with her parents and sister in 1950 and Mr Green recalls that his wife’s father was extremely progressive for his time as he insisted that his daughters receive a good education. They were not a wealthy family, however, Helen was fortunate enough to be educated at PLC and it was here that she developed her passion for literature and writing.

It is Mr Green’s hope that the memory of Helen is carried forward in perpetuity through an initiative involving literature or writing in some capacity as this was her passion.

“I know what a PLC education has given Helen. It opened up a whole new world,” Mr Green said.

“It means a great deal to me to be able to give this gift in her name – she would have loved that. And if it means a student can, like Helen, have their love of literature ignited then that’s just the bonus, isn’t it.”

Mr Green and their children will be ever grateful to PLC and the life it afforded her.

“When she chose her Year 11 and 12 subjects, the Principal at the time, Dr Summers, said her choices weren’t demanding enough and encouraged her to choose more challenging subjects,” Mr Green said.

Thank you Donors

Thank you for your generous gifts to the PLC Foundation. We are grateful to have your support. Through your donations we have been able to continue to serve as an independent manager and custodian for the provision of sustainable financial support to PLC over the longer term.

The PLC Foundation Board members extend their gratitude and thank supporters of the Annual Giving Programme including all the families who donate through Voluntary Contributions.

Thanks also to those donors who continue to meet their commitment to the 2017 Scholarships Fundraising Campaign and the 2020 PLC Student Hardship Appeal.

Your donations truly make a difference, and we are extremely grateful.

The PLC Foundation Incorporated is a not-for-profit organisation.

Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible. A tax receipt will be issued for all donations to the PLC Foundation Building Fund and the PLC Foundation Scholarship Fund.

The Foundation Welcomes

A very warm welcome to our new PLC Foundation Scholarship student, Brianna Mai (Year 7).

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PLC Foundation 2022 Annual Giving Programme

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