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2008 has seen the emergence of a new area of study and co-curricular interest - digital media including film and video studies. It is exciting to witness the rapid growing interest and activity in this area across the school.
Through their studies in Design and Technology students have the opportunity to work with industrial and commercial standard software. The range of software includes Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign (graphic design & publishing), Dreamweaver and Flash (Web publishing, animation etc), Solid Edge and Vectorworks (3D product and environmental/architecture simulation software) and U-Lead Video Studio (film and editing software). In 2008 students will be introduced to Flash animation in Year 8. They will explore issues of storyboarding, composition and framing which are all important skills used in video production, film and editing. The skills taught in Design and Technology are transferable to other disciplines.
Year 4 German students were successful in their production of short films in German during Term 3 this year. They won first, second and third prizes, and S700 prize money, in the Goethe Institu: Film Competition for primary schools.
Harry Greenwood's success at the HSC last year, when his film exploring the 'psychologically complex and imaginative journeys of a young Australian girl' won a place in the Young Writer's Showcase, has been followed this year with a number of HSC major works in film. Two of our HSC Drama students have created video works of a high quality. One student specifically looked at the marginalization of cultural groups and the prediction of Anglo - Islamic race relations in a contemporary society fuelled by a need to blame others. A second student dealt with the impact of technology on our lives in a poignant and chilling way.
Eryk Bagshaw completed a film which looked at the marginalisation of the Muslim culture by the media through the journey of one person subjected to
racism and misrepresentation. His narrative was entitled Assimilation. He attained feedback from students in schools which were predominantly Muslim in culture. So too, industry links were established with feedback gained from a number of film makers and editors. Tyson Perkins created a wonderful story called A day in the life of William Posters. This film commented on the reliance of technology on our lives and the consequences when technology does not support us but creates increased stresses. Ironically the protagonist achieves relief from the noise and increasing pressures surrounding him only in momentary death as it is technology which brings him back to life. The suggestion of nightmare and horror is created through a superb soundscape and a final close up in the protagonist's eye as he is revived. The originality and sophisticated choices in his filming, casting, editing and story construction were very evident in feedback attained from a variety of sources.
In Visual Arts students are taught about the history of video at from its humble beginnings in Korea with Nam Jun Paik to today's flourishing video art scene through the study of artists like Bill Viola and Doug Aitken. Students are able to explore video in their body of works for HSC Visual Art.
Film Club meetings on Friday lunchtimes help students gain insight into cinematic techniques by taking an analytical look at the works of different directors (from Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer to Jim Jarmusch, Jean Luc Godard, Fritz Lang etc). Each week sections of three films on a related theme are shown with introduction and discussion. Students interested in film and using film in their major works in English and Drama use this co-curricular activity to build their knowledge.
In 2008 film studies will be extended with an expansion of the co-curricular program including both appreciation and film-making leading up to an inaugural festival planned for later in the year.
Kerrie Murphy, Principal
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The campaign was a spectacular success, with the IGS community demonstrating its immense compassion. The amount of funds
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Damn About Sudan! campaign raised a grand total of $2,800.
Dylan Parker, Year 10
On a fine spring Sunday, three IGS boys were to be found in the sandstone grounds of Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, along with 213 other primary age boys and girls and their parents. Everyone was there to compete in the 2007 NSW Junior Chess League School Chess Challenge.
The start was a bit chaotic and late but the tournament finally got underway. In the first round, IGS (Wayland Jones on Board 1, Wilber Koslowski on Board 2 and Dylan
Siow-Lee on Board 3) faced St Patrick's,
s next and d won emerged victorious relatively
3-0 agaiist SummeI4tJ.0 round 3). Then disaster struck: with 7 points from 3 rounds
the boys squared off against Scots A on u ' Table 3 (a quirk of the Swiss-style system)
and got white-washed 0-3, their only round without scoring a point. In the 5th round, the boys lost 1-2 to Northbridge A but bøunced back in the 6th and 7th rounds
winning 2-1 against Lindfield East A and Wahroonga B. IGS finished with 12 points earning them a joint 19th - 24th placing in - a tournament with a total of 72 teams.
A great achievement indeed! Slow, Weng Nian, parent
staff
Mia Sharma
"Science is everything," says Mia. "You can't live without it!" Mia sees science as essential to life, in every aspect of our bodies, our environment and our techrologies. She loves the diversity within science and lists as some of her favourite fields anatomy, histology, hazard geology, paleobiology, j and, when she was in Sweden, glaciology! For Mia, science is ) / 7 even romantic: Mia met her husband-to-be when she was in Year 11, at the National Youth Science Forum (otherwise known as Science Camp).
Mia completed a Bachelor of Advanced Science at the University of Sydney and has been teaching for three years. She loves teaching, and the chance to inspire students and to see the light switch on when they understand a concept. To Mia, one of the most important aspects of sc ence is training in logical thinking. A highlight for Mia this year was working with the students in the Science Club, and helping them run their own demonstrations for primary school students, during National Science Week.
Robyn Moloney, Director of Languages
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The inaugural Chapman Cup, open to students from Years 5 to 12, has raised the profile of debating within the school, and given an opportunity for our students to develop their skills at a high level of competition.
We were thrilled when the Jjnior Division and Open Division teams won through to :he finals. On the evening of 25 October, more than 60 IGS parents, teachers and students were in the Target Theatre at the Dowerhouse Museum to observe the debates and presentations.
The Junior team of six Year € students won :heir debate against Illawarra Grammar, Deing negative to 'That the comics are the 3est part of the newspaper'. Cian Galea was declared Best Debater with Wilber <oslowski runner-up. For the Open debate, 'That working well is not as good as looking good', our team was given the topic, their side and one hour in isolation to prepare. The debate, against Central Coast Grammar, was to an extremely high standard and we only narrowly lost. Tom Hun:, Year 11, was declared runner-up Best Debater. Our teams collected eight Best Debater awards during :he competition.
Three of the four teams IGS entered in the naugural HICES competition won through to :he second round. The Middle Division team of students in Years 8 and 9 was narrowly defeated on a countback. Round 2, being nter-regional, involved much travel, with our teams visiting Wollongong and various Darts of Sydney. We welcomed teams from Newcastle, Wollongong, Maitland and the :entral Coast. The Open and Senior Division :eams consisted of the same <een students in Years 10 and 11, which mearrt they undertook six debates in just over three weeks.
t was a joy to observe our students' ncreasing confidence, fluency and enjoyment of the art of debating.
'Ieryle Sheldon, Head of Learning Centre and <eren Skyring, Primary Teacher-Librarian
The Open Division team ready to debate at the Powerhouse Museum: Sofie Rawlinson, Tom Hunt, Diego Vidal and Dylan Parker.
The Junior Division team. Annabelle Kablean, Hannah Harme/in, Joe McHardy, Clan Galea, Wilder Kos/owsk,, Eliza Atkins.
mathematics in our world
During this year students of Mathematics experienced an alternate slant to mathematics through a number of alternative assessment items. Students of Year 7 investigated the relationship between vertices, edges and faces of solids. Students of Year 8 applied percentages to their world. Year 9 students simulated the finding of a job and rental accommodation in their quest to determine their household budget
alongside the costs of living. Year 10 students investigated the hidden costs involved when purchasing a car.
To our delight, the standard of research and mathematical thinking displayed by students was outstanding for these tasks. Students were actively utilising mathematics to construct meaning to the world.
One of the tasks which Year 8 students were to complete involved writing a column
Local Netball Results
for a local newspaper to summarise the season's results for a local netball competition. Students were provided with the league table of results and were required to use percentages within the body of their article. The article presented is Sarah Long's response.
Jacqui Baker, Head of Mathematics
What a season it has been, with 6 wonderful teams and simply amazing results that will shock all.
Coming in 6th place are the Canberra Darters who won 28.6% of their games, lost 71.4% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the darters was 19.9% of the total goals conceded in the competition and the total goals scored was 11.31% of all goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 8.
Next, in 5th place are the Hunter Jaegers who also won 28.6% of their games, lost 71.4% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the Hunter Jaegers was 18.4% of the total goals conceded in the competition and the total goals scored was 13.27% of all goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 8.
In 4th place are the battlers from the south, the Melbourne Kestrels, who won 64.3% of their games, lost 35.7% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the Melbourne Kestrels was 16.8% of the total goals conceded in the competition and the total goals scored was 14.33% of all the goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 18.
Coming in a close 3rd are the Melbourne Phoenix, who won 71.4% of their games, lost 28.6% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the Melbourne Phoenix was 16.5% of the total goals conceded in the competition and the total goals scored was 15.84% of all goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 20.
In 2nd place are the Adelaide Thunderbirds, who won 85.7% of their games, lost 14.3% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the Adelaide Thunderbirds was 14.8% of the total goals conceded in the competition and the total goals scored was 21.12% of all goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 24.
Finally, in 1st place, the underdogs from the east, the Sydney Swifts, who won 85.7% of their games, lost 14.3% of their games and drew 0%. The total goals conceded for the Sydney Swifts was 13.6% of the total goals conceded in the competition, and the total goals scored was 24.13% of all goals scored in the competition, giving them a point total of 24.
What an exciting season. A big thank you to all coaches and teams for participating! Written and published by Sarah Long for the East Coast NewspaperTM.
Connectedness is one of our school's core values. It means as a community we are supportive, close and feel connected as a family. Our various mentoring and buddy systems certainly promote that. In Year 4 we have been fortunate enough to take part in a number of buddy programs.
Earlier this year the Year 4 students met their Year 9 buddies through the 'Being Year 9' program. The program is about building connections in our school community. The students come together once a week and get to know each other through sharing activities such as drawing, sport, poetry writing, games, building boats and racing them and taking part in activities which are a component of the Bounce Back resiliencebuilding program. The benefits for both younger and older students are enormous. It is definitely the highlight of their week.
In Term 3, Year 4 spent some time with their Year 1 buddy. As part of a web quest related to the Products and Services unit of work, the Year 4 students were given the task to design and make an educational game for their Year 1 buddies. The students surveyed their buddies and then brainstormed ideas to come up with the perfect game. They spent many hours in their teams discussing and drafting ideas before creating their games. Students were responsible for making all the components of the game, including the box it was packaged in. In the last week of term, the Year 4 students presented their games to their Year 1 buddies and spent the afternoon playing them. The thought and work that hac gone into creating the games was evident in the high standard of the final product.
In a school such as ours where Preschool to Year 12 share one campus and we cross each
other's paths daily, it is vital that we embrace strong connections with each other.
We believe that students grow when they feel safe and happy and when they are strongly connected to others.
Michelle Weir, Year
4 Teacher
Year 1 and Year 4 buddies sharing games.
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One Saturday in September, three of our teachers and some students from Years 2 to 6 gave half an hour or more of their time to participate in the Glebe Family Reading Nook. The 'reading nook' was set up outside Bi-Lo at the Broadway Shopping Centre. We volunteered our time to read to younger children because we love reading and we enjoy helping other children learn about books. We wert along on the day with two or three of our own favourite books to share. We really enjoyed sharing the stories and like us, tie children loved them. We had a lot of fun!
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Our Community was a unit of work that the Year 7 French Beginners class undertook this semester. Students learnt the names of different types of shops and the items that could be bought in these shops. They also learnt how to ask for directions and how to give directions.
In this context the students were given a project in which they had the choice of building a model of a town with buildings, streets and parks, design a PowerPoint model of a city or draw a model of a city. Each model had to be accompanied by a description of the model written in French. The students handed in beautiful pieces of work. The picture shows the model that Jordan Bromwich built by hand. Irma Braun, Languages
Lara Di Qual, Grace K eppich & Isabelle Nastevski, Year 2 Blue
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On 30 August, ten Year 11 and four Year 12 students attended the first High Resolves Initiative Summit at Sydney University. In addition to IGS there were four other schools also attending.
Throughout the day we heard many speeches by esteemed guests, the first being a : Nobel Laureate, Professor Tom Schilling, who spoke about the taboo on the use of nuclear weapons and also about climate change. After morning tea we were separated : into various different workshops on human rights, justice, democracy, and energy and the environment, the last of which I chose. In our workshops we were grouped with five : or six students and a university student as leader. The university students were studying a Bachelor of Global Studies at the University of Sydney and had given up their day to : facilitate the High Resolves activities. We read through the focus texts and talked them over with each other. I found this very interesting hearing everyone's opinions.
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After lunch the next discussion centred around three panellist speakers who told us of their life experiences, and they were all very inspirational. The most inspirational of all was to hear a young man, Dorjee Sun, tell us his amazing story. With incredible energy and perseverance, he has used the money he has made in IT to mobilise high level support and organisation to halt the logging of rainforests in two provinces in Indonesia.
Over all we had an amazing day and I think it benefited us all, as well as inspiring us to contribute to changing the world in some way. As the High Resolves slogan tells us: Our World Our Choice.
Ariane
Psomotragos, Year 11
Reed all about it!
The Australasian Double Reed Society (ADRS) is a non-profit organisation which promotes and enhances knowledge of double reed instruments (the oboe and bassoon family).
The ADRS encourages performance, education and interaction between double reed players of all standards, and maintains close links with similar societies throughout the world.
Membership of the ADRS consists of a large cross range of the Double Reed community, including professional players in major Symphony Orchestras, freelance professional players, woodwind educators and students in the Secondary and Tertiary sectors, enthusiast and amateur players.
Our fagottino players received certificates at the competition, which ADRS in Sydney organised. Mathias Richter, Leona Cohen, Maira Wilkie and Ed I4cfflIn all performed to a high standardinthe competition and their certificates were in recognition of this.
(From L-R) Maira Wilkie, Edmund Hofflin, Leona Cohen and Mathias Richter.
In Term 2 a dedicated group of Primary students from Years 5 and 6 decided to participate in Tournament of the Minds (TOM). After strenuous training we were finally ready to take on the Social Sciences - It All Ads Up challenge as well as the brand new category of Animation with the challenge entitled NuTube. Both teams worked very cooperatively and prepared really well for their respective challenges and received excellent reports from the judges.
The Animation challenge required the use of three different multi-media components. These included Microsoft Office PowerPoint for text messaging on a screen in the background, Adobe Macromedia Flash for the animation, and Audacity for audio recordings.
Our Animation was set in the year 2040 and had to tell the story about a lost group of explorers from 2007 who had recorded what had happened to them in a metal tube which became exposed in a glacier due to global warming. Our story line included a group of real estate agents, shonky real estate deals, a yeti and rising sea levels. It took around three weeks just to design and make the characters for the flash animation and just over eight weeks to animate the whole story which was written by Eve Osborn and Matilda Elliot.
Lara Weingarten, Matilda Elliot, Wayland Jones and Timothy Roberts comments were "You took story-telling to a new extreme, utilizing everything to do with multimedia to tell a great story. Well done. Use of text messaging - hilarious!! A+'. The judges were so impressed by the whole presentation they It was a great experience and we enjoyed the challenge very much. gave us full marks and we went on to win the category, receiving the inaugural shield at the presentation ceremony. The judges' Wayland Jones and Timothy Roberts, Year 6
National Science Week took place from August 18 to 26. This involved a number of highly enjoyable and thought-provoking activities for both primary and high school students.
In the lead-up to National Science Week, Science Club students created posters to alert others of the imminence of the event and chose particular experiments that they would like to demonstrate to others. In the final week preceding National Science Week, Science Club
students worked extremely hard
gathering all the required equipment and practicing their demonstrations. Then finally, the big week arrived. Every lunch the Science Club students
gathered in the laboratories and demonstrated exciting experiments to primary school students.
Some of these experiments included
making pepper flee across the top of a bowl of water, making a candle mysteriously stop burning, and watching water get sucked up a measuring cylinder when there was nothing obvious to suck it up. In addition, Ms Dodd and Mrs Sharma demonstrated how to make elephant's toothpaste and Mr Smith showed the wonders of liquid nitrogen. It was a fantastic experience that both high school students and primary students thoroughly enjoyed.
Mia Sharma, Science Department
In the spring holidays 20 students and three teachers embarked on a History trip around Vietnam. Journeying from the capital Hanoi in the north of the country to Ho (hi Minh City in the south in 13 days, + ) the trip took in such places as Halong Bay, . Hue, Hoi An and the Mekong Delta. Every -. where we travelled we experienced the many things Vietnam has to offer, from the delicious cuisine to the spectacular scenery.
One of our favourite places was Hatong . Bay which was truly a magnificent place. Our leisure time was spent swimming in the / beautiful water and reclining on the deck chairs of our junk while we floated by the stunning limestone islands which dot this world heritage site. Our other favourite location was Hoi An, which for us girls was paradise. Shopping consumed most of our time and money, while our nights were spent dining out at a restaurant of our choice. The big cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh were nice, though overcrowded, noisy and polluted, but it was the cultural sites that were a vital part of our historical learning in Vietnam.
We enjoyed every moment of our trip and are really grateful for the opportunity to have taken part. We wholeheartedly thank the teachers, Mr Miller, Mr Galea and Ms Ellis for all the hard work they put into making this such a fantastic trip.
Ariane Psomotragos, Lauren Millar, Alex Soderlund, Year 11
The theme for International Day this year was The Natural World recognizing with Aristotle that "in all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." It was a day to celebrate and appreciate what the diversity of the natural World represents culturally, environmentally and personally. The school became a garden for the day and students took part in many different activities, visited our much-loved Country Rooms and enjoyed the delicious multicultural food provided by the parents.
ASISSA and CIS Cross Country
The ASISSA Cross Country Carnival was held on Thursday 17 May at Queens Park and we couldn't have asked for better conditions. The sunwsshining, the sky was blue and thirei,as not a breath of wind. A largenuATher.of students represented IGS anbe tàp 10 place-getters from each•oup were selected to compete átth!X1- . Cross Country Carnival on at Eastern Creek. The following IGS students made it into the ASISSA Cross Country team: Marianna Ebersoll, Sarah Teutenberg, Allegra Bauchinger, Eleanor Kozak, Xanthe Dumbrell, Ringo Taylor, Charlie Morgan, Daniel Black, Dominic Cox, Regan McKee, Thomas Stirk and Ryan Williamson.
Primary Athletics Carnival
The annual IGS Primary Athletics Carnival was held at ES Marks on Friday 10 August on a glorious sunny autumn day. Throughout the day competition was strong between the three houses, in the stands with colours and constant cheering, but also on the track and field with most students achieving personal best times, throws and jumps. The carnival was a huge success due to the high levels of student participation and support from family members.
The final house results were 1st Kuyal 1048 points 2nd Baado 1006 points 3rd Gura 899 points
Age Champions
7 Yrs Freja Andersson and Sholto Bremner, 8 Yrs Clementine Landels and Kallen Ferrero, 9 Yrs Tiane O'Connor and Charlie Morgan, 10 Yrs Elodie HennessyTrupheme and Spencer Ferrier, 11 Yrs Allegra Bauchinger and Regan McKee, 12 Yrs Nina Pepper and Calvin Goessler.
New records
Boys 12-13 Year 200m
29.98 - Calvin Goessler
Boys 9 Year Discus
16.05m - Raphael Weir
Girls 11 Year High Jump
1.30m -Allegra Bauchinger
Girls 8 Year Long Jump
2.54m - Clementine Landels
Boys 9 Year Long Jump
3.50m - Charlie Morgan
Boys 12-13 Year Long Jump
4.35m - Nicolas Hilliard
ASISSA and CIS Athletics Carnival
The ASISSA Athletics Carnival was held on Friday 31 August at ES Marks Athletics Field. It was a glorious sunny day and IGS had 80 students from Years 2 —6 compete at ASISSA. All participants worked hard and did extremely well on the day. The Primary CIS Athletics Carnival was held on Tuesday 18 September at Homebush Athletics Centre. IGS had 8 students, from
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Years 4-6, that represented ASISSA at CIS athletics. This is a huge achievement, requiring a high level of skill and ability in their chosen event. Congratulations to the following students who competed at the CIS Athletics Carnival: Charlie Morgan 800m, Clementine Landels lOOm, Alexandra Karikios lOOm, Saccha-Lee Osnabrugge lOOm, Rachel Gammel high jump, Allegra Bauchinger high jump and discus, Kane Foreman lOOm and 200m, Jesse Zammit high jump. Well done to Clementine Landels and Allegra Bauchinger who made it to the finals.
Oz Tag
This has been a successful year for the super six girls at interschool sport. In
Term 2 they won Netball and now they have taken out the Oz Tag competition. IGS were the team to beat heading into the grand final undefeated. As always they performed extremely well and were awarded winners of the Term 3 Interschool Oz Tag competition. Congratulations to the following girls who were members of the Super Six Oz Tag Team: Tjarani Barton-Voafanua, Allegra Bauchinger, Xanthe Dumbrell, Ruby Fischer, Madeleine Gardiner, Hanako Howard-Shibuya, Annabelle Kablean, Tahlia PajaczkowskaRussell, Nina Pepper, Pascale Riley, SacchaLee Osnabrugge
Emma Chipchase, Coordinator Primary Sports
n Years On
Ten years ago when the school was about to farewell our previous campus in Surry Hills, I wrote an article called 'Through the Eyes of the Chi/dren'for a JSHAA bulletin. The article was a reflection on what made our school at the time so special and different to other more luxurious and resource-rich schools. Our premises in those days was an old make-up factory in Surry Hills; we had no playground, no opening windows in most classrooms, and a damp and dark basement which provided perfect conditions every time it rained, for the growth of mushrooms in our carpet. Yet as I looked around the school, the smiling races of our students were evident all around me. It was this that inspired me to ask them why they thought our school was so special and different to other schools.
Here were some of their responses:
'IGS is good because it teaches languages everyday!' (Kindy student)
'I go to orchestra in the morning and I like playing the violin the best. Even though / am in Year 1, I can still go to Music Camp' (Year 1 student)
'My school is special because we have different nationalities and we learn to speak different languages and learn about other cultures.' (Year 2 student)
'My school is special because we are multicultural and to top it all off, we have lovely teachers who understand and care about us.' (Year 4 student)
Ard finally, 'Our school is like a big, happy family. I feel safe here!' (Year 1 student)
I ended that article ten years ago with these words.... We are about to move to our new site with all the modern facilities, a new building and our own playground. I only hope the children see beyond all these and still recognise all that is going on within that building.
This year we celebrated 10 years in our Kelly Street building in Ultimo. It provided a great opportunity for me to reflect and once again go to the children and ask them what they now think makes our school so special and different to others. These are some of their responses:
'Our school is special because people from other countries come to this school and NEVER feel left out. It doesn't matter where you come from or what your religion is, we accept everyone.' (Year 3 student)
'Our teachers care for us and keep us safe. They make our work fun.'
(Kindergarten student)
'We have Aboriginal elders come and tell us stories about the Dreamtime.'
(Year 3 student)
'Our school has a playground on the roof and we learn to play musical instruments.'
(Kindergarten student)
'We celebrate special days like International Day, where we get to eat food from other countries, learn about other cultures in the country rooms, watch performances from different language groups and dress up in our National costumes.' (Year 4 student)
'We are all different but we are all one, that's what our school song is all about.' (Year 3 student)
'In this school we respect each other, no matter who you are. The teachers respect us and we respect them. They make learning easy, even when you don't understand something.' (Year 5 student)
J"We have buddies in Year 1 and Year 9. When I'm with my Year 1 buddy / look after him and feel very responsible and when I'm with my Year 9 buddy, he is lots of fun and makes me feel safe around the High School students.' (Year 4 student)
'The teachers make this school special. They really care about us... not just because they're teachers but because they REALLY care. They care about our learning and what happens in the playground. That's what makes our school special.' (Year 6 student)
And finally my favourite...'Our school has happiness ALL around it.' (Year 2 student)
So there you have it! It doesn't matter what the building looks like or what resources we have, for our students it really is what is happening inside those walls that makes it special for them. All that has been voiced by the students can be summed up in our core values of Diversity, Personal Achievement, Connectedness, Authenticity and Vibrancy. I believe our strong core values are what has made International Grammar School what it was, is and will be in the future.
Michelle Weir, Year 4 teacher
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Languages come alive at the IGS language assemblies. These assemblies are a tool for learning, exploring and expressing not only for the performers but also for the audience. It brings together such a variety of sparkling performances full of energy and commitment. All of this is delivered in the four languages French, Japanese, Italian, and German with confidence, good humour and immense energy. Drama, dance poetry or song, with no elaborate sets limited rehearsal times at times technical difficulties, quick costume and prop changes are just some of the challenges.
Year 3 Japanese Assembly worked on a unit of work on Australia. The story, an Aboriginal legend 'How the birds got their colours' was performed in a short play in Japanese. Delaine opened the play speaking some Bunjalung, an aboriginal dialect from the north coast of NSW.
Vilma Rotellini, Primary Language Head of Department
primary lang uages
International Day
Year 5/6 German entered the German School Film Festival Competition held by the Goethe-Institute this term. The topic was "Koffer packen" (Packing bags/A new start). The class entered 4 separate short films, three of wiich were short-listed and went on to win the first, second and third prizes.
Rosa Chironna, Language Department
Coco Chinn, Year 5 Japanese
Keren Skyring, Primary Library teacherlibrarian: I had been a teacher for many years and decided to go back to Uni and train to be a teacher-librarian after my youngest child went to school. I then worked in the State system at a school near Bankstown for 6 years. I have been a teacher-librarian at IGS s nce 2000. I love books and reading and watciing young children grow and change.
Elizabeth Prsevska, Primary Library assistant: My job at the Primary Library involves cataloguing, processing and shelving library materials. I'm also responsible for the taping of educational programs for the teachers' use in the classrooms. What I like the most about my job is helping the teachers and students choosing books. Outside school I really like spending time with my family and my two beautiful boys.
Jane i3ibian, Senior Library: I'm a librarian who works part-time in the afternoons so the library is open after school for high school studeits to do homework, study or read in the library. My job involves choosing new
The Learning Centre Who We Are and What We Do
fiction for our collection and I also help high am not at school, I try very hard to read all school students with careers information, the books I have processed.
study skills and database training, and assist teachers with resources. Outside school, I like writing poetry, reading and learning Vietnamese. My new book of poetry, Ardent, was recently published by Giramondo.
Alison Neville, Senior Library assistant: My job involves processing all the new resources that come into the library, and then encouraging people to borrow them. I assist staff and students with any enquiries, and keep the library collection in order. When I
Neryle Sheldon, Head of Learning Centre: I was an English teacher in an earlier life, so I have always been passionate about books, reading and ideas. I review books for the WA Education Department. The best part of my job is the students who come to the library, from the tiny ones entrusted to carry the camera, to the senior students with quite complex research needs. In my spare time I love bushwalking, exploring and classical music.
The Learning Centre has been running a Visiting Author Program for many years. The authors are chosen for their relevance to students and their passionate conviction for their subjects and the craft of writing. Students are always interested in the variety of paths that writers take to become published and the authors always comment about how engaged and interested our students are.
This semester we have welcomed Jane Goodall and Tug Dumbly. Crime writer Jane Goodall's sessions covered the craft of writing, her inspiration for writing and tips for aspiring young writers. Jane has published two crime novels, The Walker and The Visitor and has also written fiction for the Australian Women's Weekly. A research professor with the Writing and Society program at the University of Western Sydney, her academic interests include theatre and dance performance, and the history of science.
Tug Dumbly is a performance poet and satirist. His sessions are always insightful, extremely amusing and thought-provoking. Tug can turn a simple item such as the humble thong into an extended metaphor for the human condition. His satire is both sharp and gentle.
Neryle Sheldon, Head of Learning Centre
Elizabeth Prsevska, Alison Neville, Jane Gibian, Neryle Sheldon and Keren Skyring.
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Featured below are two excerpts from the 2007 Extension 2 English Short Story Major Works.
Daniel Fry Short Story: 'Working Title'
A century of creative thought.
Salinger's Seven-Step Model for Creative Thinking
Step # 1 - Orientation
I hate that pen. Dipped in obsidian black ink, its shine is like the new-car gleam of a cherry-red Cadillac. The longer I rest my gaze upon it, the further my ideas plunge into the cruel dominion of writer's block.
January, 1950 and the ecstatic buzz of post-war New York has begun to fizz into a dreadfully crass grab for cash. On the streets, cartoon days, drawn by the rich and ignorant, unfold, frame by frame.
In a grainy technicolour, empty blondes wiggle their way into poorly sketched Parisian parlours below my rubbedout window. A smoggy New York morning, lined by my better-than-Mondrian Venetians, has already begun to cast phantom shadows across the bedroom.
Step # 2 - Preparation
Still no ideas emerge in the present, and so my mind strolls, back again, into the shelter of the past. It's two years since my return from a blood-stained Europe and the 'Second World War', as they are calling it in the tabloids, still rages on in the dankest nooks of my memory. The droll grinding of D-Day tanks, the soon-silenced grumbles of struck friends, the saline sorrow of blood in salt-water, the shouts, the shells, the silence -they all still dwell below my return to the flushed warmth of the everyday. On mornings like these, when a wall of wartime pain and cherry-red pen block any hope of a beginning to my book, I often consider writing of those things - D-Day, death and the blood on the beach, but then, like all mornings, the thought of sharing those aches with America becomes too much. I will leave that unenvious volume to another unknown author - for me, for my family, refuge lies in another memory.
Reuben Holt Short Story: Detachment
I was considering the hopes I had formed for life. The one which appeared the most important or the most affecting was the desire to acquire a way of seeing life (and, what was related, of being able, by writing, to convince others) in which life would keep its heavy movement of rise and fall, but would at the same time be recognised, and with no less admirable clarity, as a nothing, a dream, a drifting state."
- Franz Kafka
The Hand
An interesting conundrum.
It appears I have lost something -that is clear. I seem to have lost my body - which is absurd, for there it is, somewhere beneath me, rising and falling with each breath.
How could there be any doubt in the matter? And yet there is. On this very matter of "having" or "possessing" a body, I have become profoundly doubtful, fundamentally unsure.
Hobbes comes to mind.
That which is not Body is no part of the Universe ... and since the Universe is all, all which is not Body is Nothing - and Na Where.
** * * * * * * * * * Walter Bewlay
November 1914
Night was falling over the trenches.
All day long, invisible as fate, it had been approaching and now it encroached on the embankments of the long ditches, the lips of an unending wound.
Since morning, in the depths of the crevasse, we had talked, eaten and slept. With the arrival of evening a stir had spread along the limitless hole, shaking and unifying the inertia and the solitude of the men scattered along it.
I was cleaning my rifle when my mind drifted from the task at hand, my pianist's fingers unconsciously fashioning the Second Movement of Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique. I jolted back to full consciousness as my right hand struck a silent cadenza on the edge of a sandbag.
I peered over the parapet, anticipating the anacrusis of enemy fire. I studied the horizon for any sign of movement. I turned my head briefly to the right, glancing at the sunken, colourless faces of the men of my company. their dull vibrato, letting out the odd intermittent trill of scattered sediment.
The Year 9/10 Theatricks elective class collaborated to create Commedia Dell 'Arte performance work using the traditional Italian masks and costumes.
The Drama group experimented with plot and character and devised their original performances and then invited the Preschool Green Italian class to come and see some of the characters in action. Although some of them were unsure about the masks, the preschoolers all expressed that their favourite character was Isabella the beautiful
we created 10 years ago to mark our move to Ultimo from the Surry Hills campus.
Students who were in Kindergarten and Years 1 and 2 in 1997 performed in their same performance roles as Year 10-12 students while the DVD played in the background, shcwcasing their efforts as younger performers. This celebration was introduced by the drumming group Taiko no wa who performed Tabidichi, which means farewell. The original performance of The Journey was an event which involved every student and teacher in the school and which utilised the entire school as our performance space.
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Athletics Carnival
The annual IGS Athletics Carnival was held at ES Marks Athletics Field on Tuesday 24 July. This year was another great success, with fantastic participation from all students competing in the house walk. It was a great site to see the stands completely empty for the house walk and participation points were the highest ever. The final point scores after field and track events were added are as follows:
1st place Kuyal 1604
2nd place Baado 1349
3rd place Gura 1193
Age Champions for 2007 include: 12 Yrs: Serena Prelec, Harvey Green; 13 Yrs: Adrienne Lim, Sam Lodge-Coombes; 14 Yrs: Millicent Middis-Eng&aer, Max Nimmo; 15 Yrs: Rebekah Delaney, Tayla Dumbrell, Chester Buchanan; 16 Yrs: Hannah Kitchin, Alexander Haupt; 17+ Yrs: Kai Kamada Laws, Gus Malfroy.
From the CDSSA Athletics Carnival over 20 IGS students were selected to compete at the AICES Athletics Carnival which took place on the 4 September 2007 at Homebush Athletics Centre. All were competing at the AICES Athletics championships to qualify through to the next round. A tough competition was had by all, with several zones competing to get to CIS. Seven medals were awarded to IGS students, including Gold to Evan Jennis - Javelin, Max Nimmo - 400m, Evan Jennis - Shot Put; Silver to Max Nimmo - 800m, Max Nimmo - lOOm, Evan Jennis - Discus; Bronze to Marvin Goessler - Discus. AO%
On Tuesday 28 August the CDSSA Athletics Carnival was held at The 'Crest' Athletic Track, Georges Hall. Over 60 IGS students represented IGS at the carnival and performed exceptionally weIt resulting in a placing of 5th overall. The junior team (Years 7 to Year 9) were 1st overall with a staggering 683 points. The senior team were placed 6th overall with 524 points. (
Throughout the day several fantastic results were achieved, including Evan Jennis of Year 8, breaking and setting new records in discus, shot put and javelin.
Max Nimmo of Year 9 also performed spectacularly breaking the 800m and 400m records. Both the junior girls relay team and junior boys relay team won their respective events with a fabulous finish by both Rosie Thomas and Simon Comensoli. Max Nimmo, Marc Love and Marvin Goessler were placed in the top 25 male individual scores and Caitlin Bickerton was placed in the top 25 females.
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CDSSA Soccer Gala Day
The CDSSA Soccer Gala Day took place on Wednesday 8 August at Queens Park. Five IGS teams participated throughout the day. The junior boys A and senior girl's team won their final match and a number of students were presented with the best and fairest
CDSSA Athletics
October 24 was United Nations Day. This year is 62 years since the foundation of the United Nations, but it is 60 years since the first United Nations peace-keeping mission was formed.
To commemorate this event, a group of Year 10 students worked with the United Nations to raise public awareness and to participate in the events. IGS students distributed information
and sold United Nation pins to the pullic, and were present at a special service at the Cenotaph to honour UN service personnel who have fallen in the 63 peace-keeping operations since 1947. They met many "blue berets" and enjoyed talking to the UN veterans from many missions. They also attended the annual United Nations Conference and heard a variety of presentations about the peace-keeping work of the UN, the role of Peace and Conflict studies, and the UN role in addressing climate change. In appreciation for IGS involvement, the United Nations presented the IGS students with a very handsome Atlas of the World. Robyn Moloney, Director of Languages
Enter Here
ylogy cohort was a high mT.p of students. Their Major rresented a cross section of ciesign aicipitnes including architectural landscape design, multimedia and industrial design. Each student undertook a challenging journey in design arocess and production, utilising a range of current technologies including rapid prototyping and advanced web design software. Acquiring skills and experimenting with toots and techniques not only increased their individual awareness of des gn in practice but also exhibited the technological opportunities offered by the school. Each project could not have achieved its success without the collegia:e support of the TAS :aculty and the inherent collaborative support of the students themselves. The relationship built between s:aff and students in Design and Technology provides a young person with an accurate taste of the rigours of the design profession and ir 2007 has inspired over half of the HSC class to pursue their study of design into the tertiary arena. This was a pleasant surprise for leL3S lAS Facutbi. staff rnembefs andne of which we
