Newsletter Issue 4 Term III 2017

NEWSLETTER Issue 4 Term III 2017

Year 11 students with their prize winning crystal (left to right Ashley Dribbus, Harry Borbilas, Alex Grozdanov and Jemma Carroll)

An International Baccalaureate World School

Academic • Christian • Caring

TI G S

The Illawarra Grammar School

HEADMASTER

Mr Stephen Kinsella Headmaster This week, I had the pleasure of attending the presentation of Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Certificates to two former students of TIGS, Claire and Helena Bonham (Class of 2013). I was even more delighted to listen to them speak on behalf of the Gold Awardees.

The Duke of Edinburgh Award The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is an international programme available to all 14 to 25 year olds.

The Award is comprised of three levels each progressively more challenging: • Bronze • Silver • Gold

For students over 14 years old For students over 15 years old For students over 16 years old

Participants are required to complete four sections at each level: Service, Skill, Physical Recreation and Adventurous Journey. Gold level participants also complete a Residential Project.

The Duke of Edinburgh Award is an important part of the co-curricular offering at TIGS and is very popular with our students. Currently there are 60 students participating at Bronze level, 35 at Silver level and 32 at Gold level. The programme is coordinated by Mr Edgerton, our Outdoor Education specialist and supported by a number of teachers who regularly accompany students on expeditions. The Gold level expedition to New Zealand is always popular with students and staff.

The benefits of the Award are considerable.

Gold level recipients are preferred by many employers and some universities allocate additional ATAR points for Gold awardees.

In his speech at the presentation ceremony, the Governor of NSW, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley, said that when he is processing applications for a Rhodes Scholarship each year, one of the key things

he looks for is success in the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

In their speech, Claire and Helena reflected on their time at TIGS and the opportunities they had, specifically mentioning their experience at Emu Point and their participation in the Award.

In identifying the benefits they gained through the Award, Claire and Helena mentioned: • • • • • • • •

Character building Commitment Planning Collaboration Empathy Understanding their limitations Endurance Community service

These are sure to serve them well in their future careers. Claire is in her third year of an Education degree and Helena is in her final year of an Advertising and Communications degree. We are glad they still think fondly of their time at TIGS and wish them continued success in the future.

More information about the Duke of Edinburgh Award at TIGS can be obtained by contacting Mr Edgerton at jedgerton@tigs.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to our Year 12 students exhibiting their HSC Major Works at ‘The Works’ Exhibition this Friday evening and Saturday. The quality of the exhibition this year is outstanding.

It will be a great encouragement to the students to have their work viewed by as many of our school community as is possible. It is a ‘must see’ for students yet to enter Years 11 and 12.

You will be amazed at the skill and creativity on show.

Mr Stephen Kinsella Headmaster

CHAPLAIN

Rev. James Rogers Chaplain The Importance of Place We have just replaced our kitchen at home.

Before the new one went in, the old one had to come out. There was a period of about three weeks where we were without a kitchen. Wow! Who knew kitchens were so vital to good mental health? I found myself walking around in circles feeling like I had been displaced. It was eerie.

Place is so vital to human wellbeing, at least from the perspective of the Bible. The ideal state of affairs presented in the Bible has been summarised as ‘God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule’. This is what the Bible refers to as the ‘kingdom of God’. When all of these ingredients are working together we have the conditions for human flourishing. Note the significance of place. We might not always appreciate its significance, but it is vital. Let me take you on a quick journey through the Bible to underline its importance.

The Bible opens with a garden paradise. Adam and Eve are placed by God in the most perfect of environments. It is a place of wonder. God’s people (Adam and Eve) are in God’s place (the Garden of Eden) living under God’s rule. All is well.

Until, that is, one of the elements is lost. Adam and Eve reject God’s rule with the result they are driven out of his special place. They are now displaced and experience the angst of alienation and abandonment.

Soon after this, God makes promises to Abraham that his descendants would be the instruments through which he would restore his kingdom – God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule. This promise looked like it had come to fulfilment when Israel, Abraham’s descendants, took up residence in the Promised Land. But it was only short-lived. King David and then, more comprehensively, Solomon his son began to reject God’s rule. All began to follow their lead. Despite God’s warnings that it would not go well with them they persisted in their rebellion. God’s response, as with Adam and Eve, was to drive them out of their land. They were now alienated from their place and dispersed throughout the world. Many were taken to Babylon where they were taunted by their captors: “Sing us the songs of Zion.” Their response is recorded in Psalm 137.4: “How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?”

It seemed to many that God has abandoned his promises to Abraham. But God sent his prophets to those who had been dispersed and told them to remain expectant: God cannot deny himself.

God would fulfil his promises to Abraham. Israel under David had only been a shadow of what is to come. The prophets told them to wait. God would restore his kingdom.

Jesus came proclaiming the fulfilment of God’s promises to Abraham - the kingdom of God. There were high expectations around Jesus. Those who believed he was the one to restore God’s kingdom were waiting expectantly for him to break the yoke of Roman rule which had weighed heavily upon Israel in the Promised Land. But it never happened. Jesus himself admitted that he had no place in the land to even lay his head. When he was lifted up from the ground in crucifixion it was almost as if to prove the point that he had no lasting claim on the earth.

But there was something they had all missed. It only became clear after Jesus had risen from the dead. Jesus’ death was a sacrifice for sin. Those who acknowledged their sin and accepted God’s provision in Jesus were promised a place in the new heavens and earth. That was what God had intended all along. There would be a new heaven and new earth, the home of righteousness. The Bible ends with the promise and hope of this new paradise. It is no longer a garden but a city. The new Jerusalem which is to come.

My new kitchen is in now. The waiting is over. In these smaller endings, we have a portent of what is to come: God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule. Then we will truly sing the songs of Zion.

Rev. James Rogers

JUNIOR SCHOOL

Mrs Judi Nealy Deputy Headmaster, Head of Junior School Collaboration Fluency

One of the strongest assets any student can have is the ability to work well within a team. Collaboration with partners that are both real and digital is a hallmark of the modern workforce. It’s such an important skill to be learnt throughout school. When teaching collaboration skills students work around a task with an end goal or product identified.

The first step of effective collaboration is to establish and organise the group. During this stage students identify roles and responsibilities and start to plan how their team will work together. The second step in the process is to examine the issue or goal and come up with an outcome. Together students need to come to an agreement about how they might attempt to solve the problem presented to them.

Third, students design a method for solving the problem. The approach needs to be achievable and the best solutions use the strengths of all the group members.

The execution step is the one that most children (and adults) rush to. This is when we do the work and put our plan into action. It is in this step that the value of the previous three are really seen. Clear roles and responsibilities, a good understanding of the problem and a clear vision of the solution allow this execution step to really work well.

Finally, the team must then review both their processes and the end result. The idea is to determine if the challenge was successfully met, and to gain insights for areas of constructive improvement.

Our students have been collaborating daily to learn in all subject areas with varying degrees of teacher support and scaffolding. Roles and responsibilities as well as group membership can be predetermined by the teacher or left to students to work out.

Student representing our school at GATEway 8 this week needed to be highly skilled at collaboration to be successful at this event as did those participating in the HICES Music Camp.

What’s Happening In The Junior School HICES Music Festival

The 2017 HICES Music Festival was bigger than ever before, involving over 350 students from 31 Independent schools in metropolitan and regional NSW. The Festival held its inaugural concert in 1988, and aims to give students an opportunity to perform repertoire which might not always be available to them through their individual schools.

This year, 16 TIGS students from Year 5 to Year 8 attended the three day camp at The Tops Conference Centre from Sunday 13 August to Wednesday 16 August, along with Ms Hollander and Miss Howes. Our students did their School proud, challenging themselves and working extremely hard in their ensembles. TIGS students represented our School in five ensembles this year. In the Junior School, we had Hannah Makotsvana in the Concert Band, Rebecca Winn, Aya Naito, Emily Sutherland and Cameron Davies in the String Orchestra, and James Gardner, Tom Kirby and Lilian Glover in the Vocal Ensemble. From the Senior School Annabel Hickling-Smith, Angus Townsend, Poppy Townsend and Olivia Barber were in the Symphonic Winds, Eloise Goodman and Evan Glover in the String Ensemble, Alexandra Wall in the String Orchestra and Xia Lian Wilson in the Vocal Ensemble. The Festival culminated in a performance at the Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday night, which was a real showcase of all our hard work. Congratulations to all students involved on their achievement!

HICES MUSIC FESTIVAL

JUNIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL AWARDS MERIT CERTIFICATES WEEKLY AWARDS

Academic

Christian Vujic Chloe Vickery Astrid Sperring William Rice Billie Prescott Izabela Noveski Grace Hilton Felicity De La Fuente Alexander Attorre

Service - HICES Music Festival Thomas Kirby Cameron Davies James Gardner Emily Sutherland Rebecca Winn Aya Naito Lillian Glover Hannah Makotsvana

Service

Thomas Kirby Alexander Attorre

Assembly 6H will be hosting next week’s Chapel in Rees Hall at 12.10pm.

Awards listed in the Newsletter will be presented at Assembly/Chapel the following Thursday at 12.10pm in Rees Hall.

KM

Harry Coates, Sam Nikpey

KP

Mihir Aurangabadkar, Izabela Noveski

1R

Solomon Kennedy, Evie Rahim, Hafi-Malik Syed

1S

Ava Hernandez

2M

Bridie Hughes, Jia Tang, Zainab Zafar

2T

Jack Cleary, Aushada Ranamuka Rallage

3C

Hugh Bartholomeusz, Elizabeth Hoskins, Parrie Mizori

4G

Charlotte I’Ons, Archer Ryan

4J

Samuel Lowe

4R

Alizeh Syed, Ashton Tregonning

5C

Evangeline Kennedy

5M

Alexander Attorre, Hannah Makotsvana

6Y

Charlotte Palmisano, William Rice

ICAS Certificates - Spelling Year 5 Distinction Ishe Chibanda Tyler Sullivan

Year 4 High Distinction Joanne Park Joshua Burden

Eve Mullins Class: 5A

Who are your friends and what do you like to play? Alana, Nicole, Femke, Chloe. We like to play in the Play Gym.

Year 4 Distinction Ashley Brewer Lachlan Kiang

Year 3 High Distinction Amaan Vakil

Year 3 Distinction Subhaan Ul-Haq Subodh Parab

ICAS Certificates - Writing Year 6 Distinction Rebecca Winn

Year 4 High Distinction Joanne Park

Year 4 Distinction Joshua Burden Saxon Parrish Isabella Perri

Year 3 Distinction Riya Bahl Rhys Chieng Rhea Khanna Aahan Rakheja Lola Stephenson

What are you really good at? Art. What do you need to work hard at?

Maths and Spelling.

How do you improve? Practice.

What do you want to be when you grow up? An Artist.

JUNIOR SCHOOL

JUNIOR SCHOOL SPORT

NASSA Junior Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to our TIGS Athletics Team on winning the NASSA Carnival in Campbelltown last Monday.

There were many strong individual performances across all events. Sixteen students qualified for the NASSA Team to compete at the CIS Championships in September.

New records were set by Samuel Lowe in the 10 Years 200m, Jamaya Wayne in the 11 Years High Jump and Chelsy Wayne in the 10 Years Discus and Shot Put. TIGS also achieved a convincing win in the Championship “Best of the Best” Relay setting a new record.

This carnival win tops a great year for our Junior School students who have won all three NASSA Carnivals this year - Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics.

NASSA Age Champions

Thomas Partland – 9 Years Boys.

Samuel Lowe – 10 Years Boys.

NASSA Team Members to CIS Samuel Lowe - Junior Boys Relay, 10 Years 100m, 200m, 800m and Long Jump.

Saxon Parrish – Junior Boys Relay and 10 Years 200m.

Harley Adams – Junior Boys Relay and 10 Years Long Jump.

Oscar Kiely – Junior Boys Relay.

Pia D’Rozario – Senior Girls Relay.

Rebecca Winn – Senior Girls Relay, 12 Years 100m, 200m and Long Jump.

Mackayla Hutchinson – Senior Girls Relay, 11 Years 100m, 200m and Long Jump.

Allegra Fock – 11 Years 800m, 200m, Long Jump and High Jump.

Josie Lowe – 8 Years 100m.

Thomas Partland – 10 Years 100m.

Christian Vujic – 11 Years 100m, 200m and Long Jump.

Molly Buikstra – 12 Years High Jump and Shot Put. Chelsy Wayne – 10 Years Discus and Shot Put. Ryan Molnar – 10 Years Discus.

Ella Fennell – 10 Years High Jump.

Jamaya Wayne – 11 Years Discus, High Jump and Shot Put. Alexander Gallagher – 10 Years High Jump.

Academic • Christian • Caring

An International Baccalaureate World School

Breakfast

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7.00am to 8.00am SEPTEMBER 2017

In Rees Hall RSVP Tuesday 29 August Visit tigs.nsw.edu.au/events Includes assorted cereals, fresh fruit, yoghurts, pastries and sausage sandwiches DADS, BRING THE KIDS ALONG AND ENJOY A WONDERFUL BREAKFAST TO CELEBRATE FATHER’S DAY

GIFTED OPPORTUNITIES iTAG @TIGS is proud to present Code Camp

These school holidays, TIGS is hosting a very special school holiday programme called Code Camp - Spark where your child can learn to code and build their very own iPhone or Android app!

Code Camp has already taught more than 22,000 students in Australia and is a great way to spend time over the holidays. Kids have lots of fun with friends while learning important new skills such as logic, creativity, problem solving, app development and game building in a fun and engaging way, ready to take on the digital world of the future.

Every child attending a holiday camp will build incredible games on the software platform “Code Camp World” and walk away with their very own app, playable via the Code Camp App store that they can take home to share with family and friends!

The Illawarra Grammar School Spring Code Camp - Spark Date: Wednesday 4 October – Friday 6 October For: Year 2 to Year 6 (beginners and intermediate) Fun, engaging and challenging – Spark is a popular Code Camp that over 18,000 students have completed. Code Camp Spark is where every student in Year 2 to Year 6 should start their Code Camp journey.

Enrol today and help your child become a coding superstar! For more information, visit codecamp.com.au/tigs or email hello@codecamp.com.au.

Games for Enquiring Minds

The Gifted Families Support Group (GFSG) Illawarra Sub-Branch, will be hosting the next exciting “Games for Enquiring Minds” event this Saturday, 2.00pm - 4.00pm at Mount Warrigal Public School (in the school hall).

Meet with friends, make new friends and enjoy the challenge of building a momentous marble run from recyclable materials.

Everyone is welcome.

To RSVP or find out more, please refer to this event flyer.

We hope to see you there!

THE PIPER CENTRE

Mrs Taesha Duley-Smith Director of the Piper Centre Art in The Piper Centre

Art engages children’s senses in open-ended play and develops cognitive, social, emotional and sensory-motor skills. Art is a cooperative learning experience that provides pleasure, challenge, and a sense of mastery. Instruction in the Arts is one of the best ways in which to involve the different modes of learning; through Art, children learn complex thinking skills and master developmental tasks.

In the Piper Centre children are offered art specialist lessons with the intention of providing opportunities to explore and connect with a variety of media and materials. The lessons are designed to give children time, information, inspiration and materials so that they can effectively express their understanding through “100 different languages.”

Our Atelierista (Art Teacher) Angela, is an Early Years Educator with a background in the Arts and is responsible for creating different projects to introduce new concepts to the children, spark their curiosity and creativity and establish a new explorative way of learning.

We have begun Term III in the Prep classrooms by investigating the transdisciplinary theme, ‘Where we are in place and time’’ with the central idea explored, ‘Homes are a reflection of who lives there’. The key concepts that guide the learning are ‘Causation’, ‘Form’ and ‘Change’.

In weekly small group Art lessons, the children talked about their homes, they shared the different types of home they live in with their family. The children were questioned with the provocation, “Why do people live in homes? In response they discussed

DID YOU KNOW? Occasional Care Days The Piper Centre offers Occasional Care during school terms and school holidays.

If needing occasional care days for your child, please see Fiona in Piper Centre Administration.

that the climate and available materials affect the way homes are built. The children then drew a representational drawing of their home using a fine black felt tipped pen. The children have also created artworks inspired by various paintings from some of the great artists including Van Gogh, Monet and Gauguin. The paintings depicted scenes of houses and the children used their imagination to paint using the vibrant watercolours. During this experience the children visually communicated their ideas using their own styles of expression with the water colours. At the end of the experience the children used the various mediums to sign their name like a real artist.

During Art in Cooinda, the educator demonstrated to the children exactly what is meant by the term “sketch.” By showing the children the technique it supports them in better understanding what’s involved in the process. The children were then able to touch and feel the texture or contours of the three animal objects which included an elephant, tiger and lion. The children have been playing with the large animal figures in the classroom, and began noticing their interesting detail. During this experience the children discussed the features of the animals and their habitats, which is related to this term’s Unit of Inquiry, ‘Sharing the Planet’. The central idea explored is that animals are living things and are part of our environment. The key concepts that guide the learning are, ‘Form’, ‘Causation’ and ‘Responsibility’. They counted how many legs the animal has, its shape, did it have a tail, their eyes and ears, colour of their fur or skin. The children were given the choice to select which animal they would like to draw and then began sketching with a pencil right away. To enhance the children’s observation and focusing skills, they used the long mirror to look at themselves and draw using a black crayon. This experience is useful for self-reflection and inquiry. As the children engaged in this art experience it encouraged the is development of content, form, detail and the ability to draw specific shapes. It was immediately noticeable that their self-portraits are becoming much more detailed which demonstrates how much more the children notice and understand about their physical traits.

Mrs Angela Oberhardt Atelierista

SENIOR SCHOOL

Mr Greg Lanyon Head of Senior School Year 12 have just completed two weeks of Trial HSC examinations and will be receiving their results before heading off for a rest and reflection camp.

The three-day camp is designed to provide space for students after a period of high pressure in the lead up to the Trials. The aim is for students to “declutter” their brain so they are in a better frame of mind to refocus on their studies in the final weeks of school.

A number of Year 10 students return this week from one of the more challenging camps of the outdoor education programme, having spent a week camping in the Snowy Mountains. They were involved in a range of activities from cross country skiing to survival techniques in a harsh, cold environment. I will have a more detailed report of their adventures in the coming weeks.

Science students in the Senior School have been engaged in several competitions over the last two terms. The first of these was the 2017 NSW Royal Australian Chemistry Institute’s Crystal Growing Competition in Term II. Individuals and small teams from Year 7 to Year 12 entered this competition. The aim was to grow a crystal with perfect shape and clarity. Students tended to their crystal every day to ensure growing conditions were just right. The judges were two crystallographers from the University of New South Wales. Results were announced last week. In the Open Category Year 7 to Year 12, highly commended awards went to: Dylan Koster and Aaron Avenido (Year 9), Francesca Lambert, Nicole Russo, Nhi Thu Trinh, Seh Meh, Min Seo Kang, Claire Nguyen, and Lana Atkinson (Year 10), and Ellen Manson, Oliver Firth and Macinley Butson (Year 11). In the same category, third place went to the Year 11 team of Joseph Daly, Michael Lill, Timothy Gaynor, Harold Borbilas, Alexander Grozdanov, Ashley Dribbus, Sotiris Haris and Jemma Carroll. First place went to Macinley Butson (Year 11).

In the Alum Category Year 9 to Year 12, Macinley Butson received a highly commended award.

Second place went to Seungryeol Lim and Nathan Troiani (Year 12) and first place went to a Year 10 team: Francesca Lambert, Nicole Russo, Nhi Thu Trinh, Seh Meh, Min Seo Kang, Claire Nguyen, and Lana Atkinson.

Winning and place-getting crystals will now be sent for consideration in the National Competition which is judged in October. Well done to all students for their perseverance and patience!

As part of celebrations for National Science Week (12 - 20 August), a small group of Science students entered the online 2017 Global Science Championships. Overall, TIGS came 6th in NSW (out of 73) and placed a respectable 31st in the world rankings (out of 321 schools). Well done to Lana Atkinson who gained the most points and received a gold award. Francesca Lambert achieved silver, and Nicole Russo and Ahmad Wahaib achieved bronze awards. Well done to all students who participated.

Last week, our Year 10 team competed in the GATEway 8 Competition at Macarthur Anglican School. It is an academic gala day and TIGS team place second out of 21 schools. In the individual elements the team placed first in English and Music.

The team were William Barber, Darcy Fisher, Min Seo Kang, Cailyn Knill, Finley McLaren, Nicole Russo, Claire Smallhorn and Ethan Brunskill. Congratulations to the team and to Mrs Toland their mentor.

Our Year 8 HICES Debating team of Lucy Koder, Aria Bacic-Johnston, Daniel Michelmore and Nicholas Seal travelled to Arndell Anglican College in Oakville this week and were assigned the affirmative case in the debate “that face to face communication is more beneficial than Facebook”. They won this debate and now progress to the semi-finals.

In the South Coast Public Speaking Competition, Beth Michelmore was awarded second place in her session and Nicholas Chiaverini third place.

Congratulations to all the students in this report for making the most of the opportunities available in a myriad of co-curricular activities at TIGS.

An inspiring exhibition featuring creative work from our HSC students

‘THE WORKS’ EXHIBITION From the ‘Pin k’ ser ies

6.30pm - 8.30pm FRIDAY 25 AUGUST 2017 11.00am - 1.00pm SATURDAY 26 AUGUST 2017 At The Illawarra Grammar School - IGC

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We had a great week with different challenges such as Lego Creation Contest and Paper Plane Challenges. We also got on the crafty side and created beautiful masterpieces doing handprint painting! We tried a new healthy recipe for banana muffins this week. Finally, we enjoyed group physical activities such as Hang the Washing, Kneecap Tag, Musical Chairs, and Crocodile.

What’s on next week?

Monday: Animal Creation Competition and Open Hand Tag Tuesday: Cartoon Drawing and Stay on Board Wednesday: Musical Statues and Captain of the Ship Thursday: Lego Catapult and Cats in the Corner

Samareh, Team Leader

Friday: Balloon Games and Play Gym

Our Extend Superstar is: Henry Chen …… for being responsible and helpful at Extend!

Spring holiday programme bookings are open!

Make your own DIY paints and have fun with messy art, participate in delicious cooking activities, learn all about persistence of vision by inventing your own spinning thaumatrope, and loads more!

Book 14 days in advance to receive the lowest rate.

To check out what’s on, visit our website at extend. com.au and book via the Extend Parent Portal.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Aug

Monday

28 Aug

Tuesday

29 Aug

Professional Learning Day Pupil Free Day

Prep, Kinder, Year 5 and Year 6 Father’s Day Stall Junior School Breezeway Prep and Year 1 to Year 4 Father’s Day Stall

Friday

Junior School Breezeway

Sep

Junior School Father’s Day Breakfast

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7.00am in Rees Hall Tuesday

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HSC Music 1 Concert 6.30pm to 8.30pm in the Recital Room

Monday

HSC Music 2 Concert 6.30pm to 8.30pm in the Recital Room

Aug

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Sep Wednesday Find us on Facebook

‘The Works’ Exhibition 6.30pm Friday in the IGC 11.00am Saturday in the IGC

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Sep

TIGS Information Evening 5.30pm to 6.30pm in the Goodhew Research Centre (Library)