HSC Showcases 2015 Meet the SAGELeadership The Rocks Quest Team and Opera on Kelly
From the Principal OUR STUDENTS 9-k SHINE
In this edition of Jigsaw we celebrate limitless learning and I can't -_imagine a better image for the cover than Matilda Tomasetti's work.
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ou ng woman, mobile phone in hand gazes at thescreen. She sits in blackness. The soft light illuinates her face, neck, fingers. An artful mix of the old and the new. Portraiture at its finest. It reminds me of a Vermeer painting or a Bill Henson photograph.
Matilda Tomaset ti's o otograph is ono at niir il_i .0 .c.nllnc,tinn called The Anatomy of Technology which is on exhibition at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries at the University of Western Sydney.
Matilda is one of the 85 students who completed the HSC at IGS in 2015 Her photographs were selected for ARTEXPRESS along with Vincent Labancz' Gallery of Saints and Catia Single's Birds and Beads.
Emma he's ong ngoai (Grandfather) and Maira Wilkie's Silent Perspectives were also nominated for this annual exhibition of outstanding HSC artworks,
Limitless learning, empowered students, sustainable future These are the three strategic aspirations of our school's new Strategic Plan*, Into the World.
Eight areas of action form a blueprint as we move towards 2020. We will boost innovation and collaboration, champion excellence and incite passionate and creative learning We will inspire meaningful engagement with local, national and global communities and grow tenacious and confident individuals We will promote effective, enduring and ethical practices, improve our information communication technology, and secure, reimagine and redesign the IGS campus.
Over the next five years we will pursue three strategic initiatives We will introduce Chinese as an additional core language from Preschool in 2017 which will enhance our flagship languages program and ensure that it remains dynamic, responsive to the world around us and at the heart of our school's educational philosophy; we will develop the School's first Master Plan for our campus, drawing on the work of the 2015 IGS UTS design collaboration; and we will enhance middle years' development through the SAGE program.
A Year 7 Shakespeare Bo( Lii rip, toe Tom P ho( OLJrrst and Opera on Kelly Street tar year 9 SAGE curs across disciplines and gives students real world project-based learning experiences. Through SAGE, we are building students' critical and creative thinking skills, the depth of their understanding and engagement, their ability to work with others and their love of learning.
The capstone project of SAGE is Tasmania - Writing the Island. In November, we will take Year 10 to Tasmania where they will experience a week-long writing project, exploring the Island its beauty, its history and its stories. They will undertake a two-day master class at the University of Tasmania and work alongside Australian writers and IGS teachers to create an anthology that will become a lasting artefact of the project
We want to continue to craft and shape an educational journey like no other for our students, Into the World builds on the strong foundations of our history and aims to ensure that our students have new and inspiring opportunities to reach their full potential.
In the pages that follow we celebrate our students' love of learning and the many ways in which they continue to shine in diverse arenas of school life here at lOS,
Shauna Colnan Principal
* See details on page 33 for accessing the Strategic Plan online
NIGHT OF STARS
Speech Night was held again at the stately, State Theatre with a wonderful recognition and celebration of students achievements throughout the year.
What I have come to learn is that our school breeds opportunities, and fosters aspiratioI.
The class of 2015 is awash with people of diverse personalities and backgrounds* Our collectiveambition and excitement for what the future holds distinguishes us from the year ve come before, yet it 5 groups that ha also what typifies us as IGS students. Charlie Morgan Head Boy
IGS encourages its students to broaden their minds, be open to accepting new things, to challenge ourselves and strive to be the greatest version of ourselves that we can be. Whether that great version is ex pressing your creativity through bold hair colour, forming, having a joining the debating or mock trial team, per love for mathematics or being a part of the popular volleyball ttewiil, IGS proiirffiS a space where it's okay to be yourselves. Ms Colnan, it has been an absolute pleasure being urtde' your wing for your first year at IGS. You have an incredible vision for the School and I can't wait to see what the future holds...
M,IIif? Beeha
My favourite day of The Rocks was se we got to go on a boat Wednesday becau and we did some called the Tribal Warrior, Aboriginal dancing and bush tucker tasting on Clark Island. In the afternoon we went down to the water and drew the harbour line, which was really beautiful-Overall The Rocks experience was amazing.
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Quest was a giea ihe Rocks thehighlight for me week was. making 0UV personally presentation artwork for oU rat with lots featuring ae alld drawings to of headlin do with the plague*
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An informative, independent and enjoyable week, The Rocks Quest was an Incredible experience none of Year 8 will ever forget.
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YEAR 9 OPERA ON KELLY LIGHTS UP BROADWAY!
'ear 9 tuned up last term for five days of unlocking their creativity' under the direction of WotOpera*
The 100-strong year group was ''nnired iLr & I ii iJU ui i, uullaLiuiuL,'i_' sarning experience as they took ur I 'Uiflge of roles as writers, set designec ::tage hands and performers to dcvii it short operas Their work jiminated in the 'Opera on Kelly' performance for the school community s fo studeg not utco
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it was a lot of fun, eVery0 got to have a go and we willall take away great memories ... A lead singer in my groUP D;lhan, had never sung before in front of an audience - and he was great!
Isabella Fitzgerald
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The WotOpera High School program has been running since 2008. The program is part of Artology, whose goal is youth development and social change through the arts, and was f,i,,ncIi by phiInthropist Graeme Wood AM.
Opera on Kelly photos by Keith Saunders
Honouring the Global Child
i tones of childhood, music, dance, art and craft workshops, food and guest speakers inspired presentation brought this year's International Jay theme Global Child' to life. Respective Heads of Languages for High School and Primary School, Giuscppina Mustica arid Pilma Rotellini report
International Day (held this year on 27 July) drew the IGS community together as always by presenting and celebrating intercultural awareness and understanding. The aim of this special day is always to excite, to entertain, to inform and to highlight awareness of the worthiness and potential of a multicultural society
The 2015 experience did not disappoint and was enjoyed by a collective audience of students, teachers, parents and friends. Everywhere you looked, our whole school community took on the challenge of moving beyond accepting and appreciating other cultures and differences and actively engaging with international perspectives and diversity.
IAt the High School Assembly, Principal Shauna Colnan spoke about how different classrooms look around the world and the importance of the gift of education.
Our pluri-lingual student hosts moved seamlessly between the languages that form part of their identity, and the audience was treated to several amazing musical performances
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Iwanted to record here my deep thanks to all staff for their contribution to this remarkable inaugural BroadWay/st End musical at IGS. It was a labour of love; that was clear as the team rolled up their sleeves and cleaned up the hall after the show was over on Friday night ...ThiS show was a gift to us all and to our school at this point In our history ... Bravo to Deli and Sarah and thanks to one and all for this triumphant debut' How exciting to imagine what may come, t,ith this one as the starting point.
Shaufla Colnan Principal
WHAT THE DICKENSIT'S OLIVER!
lOS staged its first vvliuO suhoul musical in many years in July. Over .90 Primary and High School students and staff threw themselves into the classic musical Oliver! in performance, stagehand and orchestral roles.
With impetus from the Director of Student Activities Paul Galea (see profile on opposite page), direction by the Music Department's Deborah Cunneen, musical direction by Sarah Travis and piano accompanimermi by our IT Team Manager Paul Rourke, the great show played with three
Such an amazing Show - at no Point did it feel, look fr a-s.
STAFF PROFILE
Paul Galea, Director of Student Activities
S ml Ca ci hLI.S t3ojh1 t lOS for almost 25 Jigsaw caught up with the one utter t on ilely known as Pupa GuIe
What is your background in teaching and learning and how long have you been with IGS?
radii t lron, lhe Hriiver ty Sydney in 1982 wrtn a Bachelor o Education (Physical Education), then taught in the State schools system, mainly at Maroubra Junction High School for four years. After that TtvPIIed [Ire work] lui j lvv f/cd d began working at IGS in 1993, mainly tflaciiii ig in sporl and rrm
What is it like being at the helm of Student Activitioc'? What does your role involve?
Jr s 0 at nyti as Director of Student Activities is never boring. There is always something happening involving kids, staff, parents and providers I am responsible for After Care and Vacation Care, Primary Cubs, High School Clubs, H ICES
Debating year 7 and 8 Tuesday Sport, Drama Companies Duke at Edinburgh, (treative Interns and vlock Trull dusically, i mau sum rI iese all vvur k br the students Also, of course, i work with very talented and dedicated staff who make all these areas run smoothly.
Are there certain areas of school life that you are passionate about?
doing the best they can by faking every uppu fun by that is opcn to them. By doing this they will find themselves involved part of the community and connected to an entity which is mi oh bigger than just thernselve
Tell Jigsaw a bit about your other interests.
1.1 ir ii yr if ieiii terests irsirf from yS! Number 1 ismyfamily my wife
A i e He Haor and my cli !drui Niai ii11, Clan and Maeve. love to travel, usually lqr long periods and to the least glamorous destinations.
According to my wife, i have Iwo unfortunate obsessions. I am a lifelong mad Roosters tan and I have a penchant for from (nhnee) After my wife threatened to get rid of me it i bought another pair of Crocb, I have now got that under control . I think!
Off the shelf
The Primary School and Library has seen a steady flow of outstanding achievements in writing and reading.
Year 3's Jemima Woodman won a coveted Gold award n the State ',vide Write Do compel lion for her poem, So Now We Can Be In The Sky (Excerpt)
'Di course, we oak, "You can come along and join us on our trip. Do you know that we actually launched this thing off a very high cdt? We will land on the sand to pick you up. And you can have the fun of being lifted up".
From the poem by Jemima Woodman, Year 3 Gold
Maximilian Foley (Year 6) won the. dnrno Ministc'hs Medal for his storybook written for NAIDOC Week. A copy of the story called Kuparr's Adventure to tJluru is now in the library.
Green Rooms
Year 4 have been busy turning green crea, is ii to reality as they designed and created models for their Dream Green Homes. Excursiot is to the Powerhouse Museum, the home ci well-known sustainahility expert Michael Mobbs and a quest talk by UTS's Head of Architecture Anthony Burke helped inspire the budding young environmentalists.
At Michael Mobbs' home in Chippendale
His urban garden has many edible plants stingless bees aiid chickens. He also has started community tomP 0 bins and edible flowerbeds along his and surrounding streets.
Meanwhile, Primary student representatives headed down to nearby Wentworth Park to plant a special tree for the City nf Sy1iiey's liFoject.
"We were delighted to be involved and think it is a great initiative as our urban environment can always be greener Our new schooi tree in Wentwnrth Park has reminded the sLudei its about the importance of trees and bow it is up to us to protect and take care of our environment" Year 4 teacher Miche le Suilivan said rjj
and the community garden
Transition got in on the act too, taking an excursion to Ultimo Coiy- " Gardens to learn more about plant cycles and growing healthy food.
Matilda TaIL
Year 5's Coco Gillies starred in this year's October holidays hit film, Oddball. We asked Coco about the experience.
How was it working alongside Shane Jacobson and Sarah Snook?
CG: Shane was amazing to work with because he is SUPER funny and is fun when you're on set. And Sarah was great to work with too because she was really nice and gave lots of good acting tips!
What was the best thing about making the film?
CG: Working with the animals and with nil the amazing cast and craw who make the film become a reality!
Did it take very long to make the film?
CG: It took 10 weeks. I took all of Term 3, 2014 off and moved to Melbourne.
The 7th series of It's Academic featuring our Year 5/6 team (2014) lie same topic, and finally, will finally screen from 15 January Year 12 on the day of their last 2016 on Channel 7TWO!
Madden in HSC Drama 2014
Naysan scoops short film awards
Yea r12' s Naysan Baghai has just won the prestigious best short him are scholarship award at the Robin Anderson awards. His film, What are YOU looking At? also won in the Junior category at the Calgary International Film Festd'at and has been se;iected for the HSC Showcase On Screen,
Tell us a bit about What are you looking at?
N if/tOt .40' Y'w !_cn?./ng at? In/arm 4aviur, eli aurally Sensitive boO court C/cal mi wIn clear is tables until a judgemental encounter ends with the tables being turned. The film evolved from two dilimis( ideas, 1) vvl ohs it like to be judged based on your protsSiom I or appearance, and are we all guilty of making stereotypical judgements of oil iers? 2) How do musiciOns and/or cnnnnry acm tn individualn eupericncc the world'?
The actual process of principal photography and production is a whole story in its own right, and one that can't he confined in a short response. The total time it took to make the film (writing, shooting editing distribution) was usf under nine months Atthnm ph the flrncess was extremely stres,sti ii at times if prnhahly lP1 to a mi mb hefter resi itt, an each time I had a chance In refine my ideas and learn from my mistakes.
How did being at IGS influence your interest and aptitude in film making?
N: I Here ,.mre tuttim i rid ivio'.iuls r.tI IC/S urhu really fostered my interest in Iii mu taking Mrs Weir, Ms Morabito, Mr Galea and Mr Kennard,
I was in Year 6. 11 only hegi in experimenting with video cameras, and Mrs Weir encouraged me to shoot all the sports carnivals, as well as to produce a film for my IRS, At [he gme time, Ms Morabifo encouraged me to go to the Robin Anderson Film Awards, where I started to coo the potential of filmmaking as a career.
Mr Galea, on the other hand, showed me how liii i is, idiigir rg from Apocalypse Now to Dances With Wolves, can educate us about historical topics, lur timer caialysli ig rily interest in Cinema and leading to many homages in my films. Mr Kennard, who was my Film Studies teacher and HSC Drama teacher, opened my eyes to many important hli r Iiimul',ir rg Lips ur A lrertrrrir.fuCO that I trccp with me to this lay, and together with Ms Morabito, eally supported me throughout the roncepfion and production of this film.
What was it like being at the Calgary International Film Festival (Canada)?
N: Initially, I was really apprehensive about travelling all the way to Canada a week before my HSC exams. However, having my short film open the feature films and seeing it screen ta on an IMAX screen, at the Youth by Youth Cinema awards, then winning the best senior film was the most unexpected delight of all!
How did it feel to win all those the awards at the Robin Anderson Film Awards?
N: I was delighted to win Best Senior Fiction, but then was in utter disbelief to hear my name called three more times, especially for the two grand prizes. I genuinely did not expect it as the other films were so qood, and I think I was in a state of shock as I received the prizes! It was an incredibly humbling experience, and I will remember that night for the rest of my life.
What next for you (next year)?
N: I recently found out that I have been accepted into AFTRS (Australian Film Television Radio School), for the Bachelor of Arts (Screen) program. I am so excited to be able to study there as it is one of the top film schools in the world and the facilities are amazing. I also hope to find part-time work in the film industry, and continue to make as many films as I can.
MEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
As we launch our exciting new Strategic Plan: Into the World from 2016, we have made some key changes to the titles and roles of some of our Leadership Team members in order to enhance our school teaching and learning offerings in the years to come. Meet the team and hear from them about what lies ahead...
Principal
Shauna Colnan BA, DipEd, MA, MBA, MACEL, AIMM
Innovation and a spring in our step will be the story of 2016 as we begin to implement the new Strategic Plan!
Head of Commercial Services
Dharma Murugiah BEC, LLB, ACA
2015 has been the busiest year we have ever had and 2016 will be busier.
Head of Junior School
Cohn Bird BEd, GradDipEdAdmin, Dipleach, MEd
Limitless learning, empowered students, sustainable futurebring it on!
Head of High School
Anthony Dennehy BA (GeoEd). DipTeach
We are very excited about how we can continue to shape the future for our students, but even more so for how they will then shape ours.
CO-CURRICULAR NEWS
Out front with co-curricular
Debating di Mock Trial earns upef r ry eJr
TI Fr ial iuLo d the t flO s rounds under the guidance of Jonathan White and former parent and lawyer David Hirsch. The team comprised Max or Adams, Charlie C odsir, Samuel Garrett, Louise Woodward,Ruby Cisson, Jamie Heath, Pali ick Flood and Martin Gossow
F e 7/8 Debating team made it right through to the HICES Grand Final at tI ie Powerhouse Museum After a stellar performance the 7/8 team was overtaken, however the team inpris ng Leo, Ben B, Jayesh and AG ileigh represented lGS admirably. and Ben received awards for being ai ( ng the best debaters In the finals in I 7/8 division. Bee Campbell received an award for being among the best in the 9/10 division finals and fvl xim Adams was awarded equ I debater in the 1/2 division a
IF ES Debating has 37 compet s(-I iools and 190 teams from all over NSW so these results ar r
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STEAM DREAMS
Several more projects took place this semester under the energy of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics)
Primordial Hum
In a project that melded the talents of our STEAM innovator and the Music DepdrLIIIeIIL, PiuituuJiaI Hum "happened" in the KMD.3 space in October.
The school community was invited to immerse themselves in a rich aural and 'usual onporionco grown from a Apr utcur if collaboration hotwoon Year Music, Your Sand 10 Visual Arts and a variety of interested technologists if eluding Margery Smith, IGS Composer- ifi - resider rue, [heir creations were interpretations of Iribal body adornment with significant cultural reference to the New Guinea Asaro Mudmen. The "happening" was the inaugural exhibition of technology driven access to content because the soundscapes were only able to be hoard via Augmented Re..ality usirrct a r'vice.
The team sourced all materials for our plinths from repurposed stock or renycled materials and the sustainahilit, aspoct of tho collaboration added to the special nature of the experience.
A bank of iPads was provided for the guests, however, many participants came "app ready" and simply immerse. themselves from their point of entry.
A?11 donc to thc STEAM tcam includint Alison Housley, Nikolas Glass, Michel, Ellis, Deb Cunneen, Sophie Lampert, Melissa Silk and all members of the CS Facilities team with a special contribution from Michael Bulling ham, who worked tirelessly to construct the plinths for the happening.
Student team rIGS up our first robot!!!
IGS's first robot is being constructed right now, as we go to print!
The 35-strong rIGS student team of budding engineers, marketeers and coders are practising assembling their robot ready for the Macquarie University-based FIRST competition at Homebush in February 2016. IGS Science teacher Claire Loh instigated the project and other staff as well as the University of Sydney'-rk team, the Drop Bears, are helping mentor the team.
Go to the rIGS Facebook sit facebook.com/roboticslGS Wi for updates.
How to make a numerical quilt
Maths teacher Tan Nguyen knows his numbers - and is also great with design. Meet Tan and his quilts of many colours
How long have you taught
How long does it take to make mathematics at IGS? a quilt?
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What is your favourite part of id the answer, kici LI L is LI I riPer the process?
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Where do all the quilts go and Did your mathematics background what next? inspire you and if so how?
gvpri caine tr ends I hope to 1cc, very rr ccli I have, always Pncniirga cmir ctt jcPnt-, to appreciate appreciated the scientific precision of how mathematics can have a wide Mall err at cc arid I enjoy dcii onstrating variety at career opporti nit cc ciii how it applies to so many aspects of applications in everyday lifn everyday life
!Award for STEAM Innovator
international Grammar School's STEAM I iicivatoi Melissa Silk tics been rJ 3 IT ic, NSW Premier's Teachers Mutual Bank New and Emerging Technologies Scholarship to lurther expire 1 i i Jingi arid t I' ry aching in the US
chssa's scholar r r I ttJ ,dney STEAM Wonder, will tace -r st practice sites and centres of irning on both the West and East asts of the US
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LANGUAGES AND EXCHANGE NEWS
Chinese language on offer for Early Learning from 2017
Languages, bilingualism, intercultural capacity and diversity are key words in the IGS vocabulary.
With these concepts in mind, the Languages Department is excited that the School will otter Chinese from 2017 P 1 IN lip IHIIIJI H(J(-"-4, Ul( II(J U P French, German, Italian and Japanese, from Early Learning We see this as an extremely positive step which will strengthen ICS cc a leader In languages teaching and learning. It wiii also further align IGS with important cb cctivcs for Auctral on ctudcnto outlined in the new Australian Curriculum and in the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper which was released a few years ago.
Hosalba Genua-1-'etrovic
Director of Languages
Let's do lunch
Earlier this Semester, the exchange students from Guangzhou enjoyed a special lunch and show with their IGS hosts.
Exchange with Tokyo' - school in real time via Skype
Meeting of the ages - in Italian
The Year 6 Italian students resumed IGS's tradition of visiting Scala brini Aged Care Village in Leichhardt to perform some songs and chat in the residents' home language. A great day was had by all. Bravo!
Year il's Maxim Adams topped the State in 2015's HSC in both Italian Continuers and Ukrainian Continuer5
Year 6's Japanese Language class has been interacting weekly with the Maebashi Azuma Primary School in Gunma, Tokyo, via Skype.
The Tokyo school's class of 33 students of a similar age to our Year 6 liaised with IGS about everything from showing traditional games to asking lots of questions.
"Students have been really enjoying it," teacher Ayako Shiragaki said and because the exchange was arranged through the Consulate General of Japan, they have shown a very strong interest.
'Chez nous ...et en Nouvelle Calédonie'
fter hosting many students from New Caledonia in Term 3, 20 students from upper Primary and Years 7 and 8 were accompanied 2y Principal Ms Shauna Colnan and four IGS teachers on a French anguage and cultural exchange to Noumea during the holidays. rhe experience brought our friends across the seas closer
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GOOD SPORTS
Some great winter sports results this Semester with Gabriel Wahl becoming State Champion in the 16 years pole vault At the State and Regional levels, Anthony Vlatko, 3 in the 14 boys 800m GaJ and 2 in 1500m, Stephanie Rotten 30 in 14 years 200m hurdles and Elise Brennan, 3 in 14 years 3,000m walk (competed up an age group)
In the NSW Primary Schools cornpe.tition Kadyn Wright and Isabel Whitaker (CIS loam Captain) made 4 the Touch Football team and Mischa Belunek (Year 6) the Long -Jump at State level and running at Regional level.
Chloe Katerdjian (Year 7) qualified for Nationals in Tennis (under 12s) in Melbourne late in the Semester in December; Tom Bolton (Year 11) made the NSW cycling team to compete in N7, and I aura Whitehead (Year 12) and Charlotte Howden (Year 9) won gold medals in snowboarding.
JOURNEY NDIGENOU167
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The second Red Earth 'IGS Indigenous Connections' tour left for U uru and the APY Lands beyond, under the guidance of Head of Wellbeing (High School) Lucy Howard Sh buya and HSIE teacher Luke Navasha and the Red Earth Tour operators
Seventeen Year 9 students travelled to the APY Lards in the remotest rn n nt South Australia via Contra Ausir
Unforgettable, the most amazin1od: Hugo nsen
Special visitors to Koori Club
Indigenous Scholarship Program ambassadors Professor Larissa Behrendt (UTS) and ABC Radio presenter Richard Glover spent a wonderful morning tea with the Koori Club in August. Another special guest, former principal Kerrie Murphy, visited the students In November.
Red Earth Tours specialise in hands-on assistance to the Indigenous communities and immersion into the culture of our Indigenous Austra uans, be longest continuous living civiiisation n the world
The IGS group had a life -changing experience as the students' words ad vr' and below) bear testament '•iI
And an outing to Bangarra
Years 3-6 enjoyed a matinee pertormance ot Ochres by Bangarra Dance Theatre and met one of the principal dancers Beau in December.
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We drew art and collected gold coins for Hagar, the international humanitarian organisation that looks after women and children caught up in slavery or human trffirkina
Valerio's Garden
Valerlo De Simoni (Class of 2004) was tragically killed in 2011 in Malawi on an Oxfam Quad bike charity ride and his mother Vittoria and friends have kept his memory and dreams alive through the Valerio De Simoni Association. To help out, IGS ran a gold coin day and Year 12 a cake stall to raise funds for a source of clean drinking water at Gamba School in Malawi.
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HSC SHOWCASES
IGS showcased the beautiful work of our HSC students in Drama, Music, Visual Arts, Design and Technology and English this semester.
Congratulations to those HSC candidates who were also nominated and selected for the State major works showcases:
ARTEXPRESS
Selected:
I Matilda Tomasetti for The Anatomy of Technology
I Vincent Labancz for Ga//ynf Saints
I Catia Single for Birds and Beads
Nominated:
I Emma Le for ong ngoai (Grandather)
I Maira Wilkie for Silent Perspectives
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I Naysan Baghai for What are you looking at? (Year 12 Drama Individual Project)
I Dara Ruggeri for Costume Design for Les Liaisons Dan gereuses (Drama Individual Project)
ENCORE
Nominated:
I Naysan Baghai for Music
LAST DAY'S
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Oscar Draper
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mentors also deserve Special a mention you' not Only our teachers but our
Having a mentor has been such huge weightoff a our shoulders even if we don't always have regular meetings, no student can say no
to free Cup of tea or coffee, or even a free lunch [And] for our real parents, You've Seen us at our best, and P up With us at Our Worst, yet You're still here, beaming at us all, so Proud that We actually made it.
Ruby Learn,
I will always look back on my time at IGS with fondness and always remember the amazing people with Which I have gone on this Journey. Walking past those I magenta walls for the last time as a student Was sad, but I know, as written by A. A. Mime, "how lucky I am, to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
Laura Whitehead
PWhen i sat down to write my [farewell] speech I looked around my bedroom in a somewhat lacklustre attempt to gain inspiration Well Seek and ye shall find. For there, atop my bookshelf was a hat. The brown, broad-brimmed hat with which I have travelled on two
IGS voyages - the Greece/Italy History Tour and Red Earth. At the sight / Of this singularly ordinary Piece of headwear my mind was filled with wonderful and unique sChanI memories - sunsets Over the Aegean, gnocchi aSIa Sorrentina, being dragged around the outback by small but decidedly strong AboriginaiChildren. si Thank You IGS for a truly beautiful behalf of Year 12, farewell
x years, and, on
Luke ChristopherWeat
COMMUNITY NEWS
Welcome
Welcome to this edition or Jigsaw. hope you will enjoy reading stories from our Alumni as well as from past Principal Dr David Wright. You can also learn more about our Mentoring Program and inaugural offsite Graduation Dinner p at which alumnus Joe Glover was a apecial guest speaker.
Please feel tree to get in touch it you would like to tell your story
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Julia Glass
Director of Community Relations
IGS Class of 2003
InGeniouS was an exhibition cu rated by former IGS Art Teacher Mel Hodges. The exhibition was held in October at Central Park Mall and featured artworks by several IGS Alumni artists including: Nowhere Famous, Ears (aka Daniel O'Toole), Hugo Muecke, Milly Cobb, Pops Bagnall, Luciana Smith, Ryan Hancock, Geniusi, Rebekah Delaney, Chester Buchanan, Oscar Nimmo, Holly Greenwood, Harley Alexander, Anouk Berney, Penelope Tsoutas, Ella Cutler, Brigitta Summers, Adrienne Lim, Bronte Leighton-Dore, Anzu Kawano, Ally Joseph and Cay Barnum. There were also performances on Opening Night by Georgia Godworth and Mia Morrissey!
our students to be world readyMentoring Program launches!
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P/,ulva. Jun K//born (above with 'nientoring sessions for IGS Year 11 IGS Year 11 students) is Senior 'ntudents. Participating mentors worked FinancialAdviso, wid Lesler .ri holds as diverse as nun iputer Fernandez (below with IGS Yuw ii suici inn, nui mCi research, animated students) is a Criminal Lawyer. films and psychiatry. We hope the Both are proud IGS dads! -rxperience was a great one for all of the students and r rem ituns who took PLant.
' A/e look forward /u nnntinrnn row the program in 2016. lt.PL,. 3", are interestad in participating as haggssyd.nsw.edu.au N 11 or
Chloe Génion
Class of 200?
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Jigsaw: When did you start at IGS arid si(_river did you graduate or leave Ibo "_honl?
Chloe Génion: I started at IGS in Yes' 7 '200 , 1) and graduated in 2009
J: What's a clear memory you hold from your school days at IGS?
CG: Performing an acoustic cover of Kyo's La Dernière Daose with Eger Serov (Class of '10) in front of the whole school for Mme Naomi Bulliard's farewell would be a standout moment, Turns out she had Kyos CD with that song on if at home and she gave it to me before she left I still have it!
J: Who was your biggest role model or mentor whilst you were at IGS and what ..iii they teach you about life?
CG: Mr Dennehy probably had the rrongest impact. I came to IGS being pretty unaware of my potential and I feel like Mr Dennehy maybe saw some of that in me and helped me realise it. I'm not sure how to phrase it exactly. Honestly though, I remember each and every one of my teachers so it's difficull to pick just one... Mrs Housley, Mrs Ellis, and Ms Souroullas (she's since changed her name, I heard?) are candidates for that spot tool
J: What advice would you give to your teenage self sitting the HSC it you had the wisdom you do now?
CG: Aim to give future-you as many options as possible. By that I mean, even it you're determined to run off with the circus ASAP, aim to do well in the HSC so that you have more avenues available to you later. Having said that, a week into uni no one will ever care about your AJAR again, and it they ds then you probably don't want to be friends with them anyway.
So, take if seriously, challenge yourself, but don't lei it ruin your lite.
J: What did you pursue after school?
Are you still working in the same field in y.ihich you studied or worked right after school, or have you changed direction'?
CG: I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after high school In retrospect, it was a pretty arrogant assumption, but I'd always thought I'd just go to Sydney Uni and keep learning things until I'd made up roy mind. Thankfully, that's exactly what happened.
I started oft doing a Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science, double majoring in psychology and music, however at the end of my second year I realised that only studying two subjects was boring me, I had a look at other degrees out there and decided to give primary education a go because it meant studying around 13 subjects overall Four years later, I'm in my final week of Internship in a Kindy class and I'm loving every moment. I completely lucked out'
J: Do you still have IGS friends?
CG: Doesn't everyone who went to US?! I'm yet to know of someone who finished year 12 and didn't keep at least one friend around... But yes, some of my closest friends are still: Bianca Pecotich (currently on exchange in Bologna as part of her nursing degree), Jayla Dumbrel! (completed a Masters in Physiotherapy), Jordan McDonald (working at a global artist management music company), Pares Huckstepp (working as an architect/designer for a Sydney firm) and Massimo Raso (completed a Bachelor of Neuroscience) - all class of '09
George Viotis
Class of 2010
Jigsaw: When did you start at IGS and which year did you graduate ui leave the School?
George Viotis: I started at IGS in 1997 (I think), and I graduated in 2010.
J: What's a clear memory you hold from your school days at GS?
GV: So many memories, but perhaps the best ones were to do with the student teacher relationships. Playing Friday afternoon soccer against the teachers or just being able to joke around and have a great time with them at lunch made my colleagues and me really respect and appreciate them as people outside of the classroom environment. They didn't just show up to teach, we could see how good a people they were - how much they genuinely cared. And consequently we wanted to perform well for them. as well as ourselves, academically.
J: Who was your biggest role model or mentor whilst you were at IGS and what did they teach you about life'?
GV: I don't think] could single out one sic model or mentor at ID? the reaching staff is (awash with] them arid Ill err rre lii i OT1C people tho list would go on. However what they instilled in me was a love for learning. And taught riO [Ire value uleducotion. lhoy'ro a very encouraging staff and always seek lv build yni ii ip.
J: What advice would you give to your teenage self sitting the HSC if you had the wisdom you do now?
GV: I was pretty relaxed going through Ihe HSC so I don't think I'd be able to say much else to my Year 12 self but maybe perhaps that your final mark is really not a dictator of your life once you 'cave school Ithink Year 12 students often think it's the be all and end all, but --ally once you get out into the world whether it be university, the workforce or whatever you choose to do, no one really cares about how you did in the HSC.
J: What did you pursue after school'? Are you stilt working in the same field in .vhrch you studied or worked right odor school, or have you nhengpd direction?
GV: Ii illidlly I tudld architecture at the L.lnrversity of New south Wales However after two years I decided If wasn't for me and transferred into
.,Journalisrn at U lb. Uurrei tily, II rove jubt finished my degree and have been working and interning In and out of different media agencies including the SBS, and UNICEF. I have also just farted reporting on the A-league (soccer) online.
J: Do you stilt have IGS friends?
GV: Almost exclusively - dli I I ry l,irnds are still from ICS. Five yesis out of oliuul and my youiu cohort Ore sill] very tightknit. It's something I'm so grateful for and renliy cherish
J: What's your favourite quote about -di .icution?
GV: 'Ii is the mark of an educated nririd to be able to entertain a thought without accepting if" Aristotle
J: Where's your favourite place to go in Sydney to relax?
GV: Really, just hanging out with IGS mates around the inner west with a beer.
J: And your favourite cafe or restOui5ri[ to visit near IGS?
GV: I used to walk up to the Cantonese md Szechuan hotpot places up on Parramatfa Road near the bus stop, they were always my favourite.
J: Do you have any other thoughts or ocr r ii rients?
GV: ,Jusf that IC? van a uniq'.'P snhnnl arid I hope ii doesn't change or become institutionalised like so many other private schools out there. I have confidence that if won't.
Mr and Mrs Martin and Eugenia Biggs, long-time supporters and friends of our school, came to visit earlier in the year on their 671h wedding anniversary! We gave them an IGS bear to take home as a small token of appreciation for their kind support of IGS.
lna great show of their confidence and belief in the values and teachings of the School, just look how many of our staff send their own kids to IGS!
Dr David Wright
IGS Principal from 1994 to 2000
In my career I have, besides English, learned five languages All, sadly, were earned academically. I can read them I cannot fluently speak them. IGS, admirably, has a different emphasis. Importantly, one 'earns to 'speak' other languages There is often a further, a hidden, purpose in the linguistic end it champions. Its aim is to indicate what all languages, in their best moments, should be attempting to convey Words alone are insufficient It we have not learned the eloquence of silence; if we have not, as Olive Schreiner used to say, learned to listen to the stones speaking, have been unaware of the role of tone, cadence, rhythm, rhyme in speaking, we have not really understood the full capacity of language to communicate meanings. As my splendid Chishona teacher used to say, if you haven't an ear for the inherent musicality of the language, you can nether speak nor properly e dnrRtar d if
It is not what you might have, but what you are, that counts.
Virginia Woof tried to pin language down firmly. She was regularly exasperated by her failure to find the words that would adequately encompass the meanings she had in mind. She rued the way words, 'broke up the thought and dismembered it fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low' 'Words and words and words. . how they lash their long manes and tails, but for some fault in me I cannot give myself to their backs; I cannot fly with them, scattering women and string bags.' Perhaps she had never pondered sufficiently carefully how the imprecise character of ,sords, their shadowy and evasive ality, had in fact made her the p end d writer that she was. Had she been able to !ay hold of words of requ vocal meaning, much of her imaginative capacity, her literary taler t RRiy I have f ' r fc
One of my daughters emailed me recently She extolled, in her ema I, the marvels of Goggle Her two sons now rely on it. If answers all their questions. has replaced, she said, what teachers used to do I needed gently to correct her. Teachers fail in their primary role if they see themselves only as sources of supposedly correct information. Genuine teachers know that you can never know unambiguously As Socrates made the point, you are educated when you know that you know nothing. Good teachers throw back questions at those who pose them. They participate in seeking ful er,
As Socrates made the point, you are educated when you know that you know nothing.
of what an apt metaphor eucalypts provide The trees lose their leaves But never completely so. The light with which you walk under them is thus always filtered The trees make clear to you that the path you follow is, at one and the same time, hum ned and obscured. The trees invite one to a more diffident kind of stepping
One of the great tragedies of our times so it seems to me, is the way, under the influence of our significant scientific and technological developments, we have lost much of the sense of wonder, mystery, ineffability in the world about us. Educating has become largely a matter of achieving predetermined objectives The prosperity of our nation is bee judged by measureable, material standards We are losing, in other words one of the intrinsic attributes of be n n human. It is not what you might have, but what you are, that counts Worthy, individuals don't know all the answer' They permit the silence to speak The wok won y the albs they tread
My name Is Joe and I graduated at IGS in 2010. I hope that IGS hasn't changed much in the past five years. I hope that you still hear the word "rorter" being shouted down the corridor by Mr Galea, Mr Dennehy is still baffled as to why anyone would suggest New Zealand was not the greatest country in the world and that Mr Miller still looks the same as he did In his 1980 staff photo.
Wk DEROLS
an
After Year 12,1 went straight Into Architecture degree at Sydney University, where I met a motley crew and weird and great people who are noW my friends, had many sleepless nights frantically model making or shouting at a printer malfunction a few hours before a presentation and long lazy afternoons at The Rose discussing architecture" ...
I Don's Worry too m I HS lt' uch about thel ig be Over before You know it and Whatever mark You end up With is no the be all and en afl - there are so many Ways to en UP Studying for doing] What You want. And try not to forget about IGS ... I think it's important to school is, and remember ho different this appreciate it.
