Newsletter 7 2019

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Edition No.7 | November 2019

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

In this Edition From the Principal

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Calendar Dates

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Calling all STEM professionals

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Languages - Italian News

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Creative Writing Workshop

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Performing Arts Showcase

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Senior Speech Day

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Year 12 Dress Up Day and Interact BBQ

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Student Pathways

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School Musical, ‘Grease’

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The Dress Up Day provided our Year 12 students with the opportunity to celebrate the end of formal lessons with creativity and a sense of fun.

Dear Families We have had a very busy start to Term 4 and it is with pleasure that I welcome back from leave Ms Janette Davidson, Ms Electra Montiadis, Mrs Jess Salem, Mr Steve Kapsambelis and Mr Paul Williman.

We have a number of new staff members join us. Welcome to Ms Kerry Brown, Mr Jacob Fisher, Ms Jenny Wickstein, Mr Rene Gauthier and Mrs Trish Mibus.

We are really thrilled to announce that both of our F1 in Schools teams have qualified for the Nationals. Mr Trevor Warren, in partnership with our Design and Technology team, have worked with the students throughout the year. This learning experience provides the students with the opportunity to apply skills in entrepreneurship, problem solving, team work, design thinking, communication and creativity. Further, Mr Trevor Warren has applied for and won a Student Engagement in Science Sponsorship for the F1 in Schools National Finalists. This is a significant grant and I wish to congratulate Mr Warren for his hard work and innovation in securing this funding.

Adelaide High School West Terrace, Adelaide South Australia Phone 61 8 8231 9373 Facsimile 61 8 8212 7827 office@adelaidehs.sa.edu.au www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au

Both Mrs Jess Salem and Ms Dimitra Rozaklis have returned from Languages Scholarships in Italy and Greece.

This is a fantastic opportunity to refine languages skills through engagement in an immersion program. We really value our languages program and commit to ongoing professional learning to ultimately maximise the learning outcomes of our students.

Thank you to our families for working in partnership with us to support the Year 12 students throughout the year and specifically in their last week of official classes.

Friday’s assembly provided the opportunity to celebrate our Award recipients, our Head Prefects and SRC President and to reflect upon the year and articulate key messages to the graduate class. Mr Lachlan Mullen, as our key presenter, provided this opportunity in a heartfelt and very real way.

It is with pleasure that I announce and congratulate Mrs Nathalia Enriquez and Mrs Catherine Aldous for their nomination for a Mentor Teacher Award from the University of Adelaide.

It was lovely to be at the SAATI/La Dante Annual Italian Competition presentations on Tuesday evening where Mrs Livia DAloia and our Year 9 Italian students received recognition. A beautiful addendum to this is that both of Livia’s classes have opted to donate their prizes to charity.

Congratulations Mrs DAloia and students.

Many thanks for your support of the school musical, Grease. I would like to acknowledge the hard work of the Performing Arts team, and in particular Mrs Michaela Moors and Mr Tim Moors. Tickets are selling very quickly and we have several of our local primary schools attending with their classes.

Our Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Art students showcased their learning during the Arts Showcase on Wednesday night. The students were amazing and performed a range of dance, drama and music pieces, all of high quality.

Continuing the theme of Performing Arts, our beautiful Performing Arts Centre will be handed over to the school within the next 2 weeks. This space will provide our students and staff with a beautiful learning environment that will maximise learning opportunities. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Performing Arts team and Mr Jim Dounas for all of their work.

CALENDAR DATES November Mon 4 Stage 2 Exams begin Mon 4 Newsletter 7 Distributed Wed 6

Outdoor Education Camp

Governing Council Meeting

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Year 12 Art Exhibition, 4 pm

Mon 18 Peer Leader training Tues 19 Peer Leader training

Year 12 Graduation Ceremony Adelaide Convention Centre

Thurs 21 Year 11 Exams commence Fri 22

CHI Picnic

Mon 25 Borneo World Challenge commences

December

Mon 2 5 Highs Cricket - Brisbane

Year 7 Transition Day & Parent Night

Volleyball - Melbourne

FROM THE PRINCIPAL (cont) 48 Hour Movie Making became a reality on Friday night with Mrs Kerry Skinner and Mr Michail Darley supervising a group of highly enthusiastic students from the Movie Making Club to work within the scope of a competition to conceptualise, write, film and edit a movie, all within 48 hours. Please read Mr Darley’s post on Facebook for more details and images.

Jagreet Malhi, Madeleine Coates, Hamish Anderson, Jessica Stapleton and Munjir Anoar represented Adelaide High and contributed thoughtful, logical constructive opinions to the discussions as part of the Philosothon. This event has students taking part in four philosophical discussions that go for thirty minutes each. Each student’s contribution to the discussion is assessed by a judge according to the criteria provided. The judges are usually university lecturers in philosophy.

Each group also has a facilitator and they are often teachers or lecturers.

Our students scored very well in the key categories of critical and creative thinking, as well as collaborative thinking and I would like to thank and acknowledge the work of Mr Xavier Manning Bennett for his support of our students.

Finally, our summer season sport is well underway. Our Special Entry Cricket and Rowing programs have begun well. I am including below, a photo taken by our Rowing Manager, Mr Dylan Harvey, at training on Wednesday morning. I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful partnership of our parents of the rowers and their ongoing support.

Kind regards, Ms Cez Green | Principal

Tues 3 - Thurs 5 - Musical - Grease Wed 4

Governing Council meeting

Fri 6

Middle School Assembly

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Calling all STEM professionals…. our school community needs you!

Are you interested in inspiring our next generation of problem solvers and innovators?

The STEM Professionals in Schools program is Australia’s leading volunteer science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education program. It creates and supports partnerships between teachers and STEM professionals, allowing you to work together to increase STEM skills, knowledge and confidence for the teacher through a range of activities, including mentoring, career talks and hands on activities, to name a few!

If you are interested in becoming part of the CSIRO program or maybe you are currently

volunteering and would like to have your efforts counted, they’d love to hear from you. More information, including how to apply, is available at www.csiro.au/en/education/STEMProfessionals-in-Schools or by contacting your local Project Officer, Melanie Field.

Melanie can be contacted via melanie.field@csiro.au or (08) 8305 0657.

3 LANGUAGES - ITALIAN NEWS For just over four school weeks in Term 3, Pietro Beltrami, who visited Adelaide High School for a week in July 2018 as part of his school’s Australia Study Tour, returned from Biella to volunteer at our school. It was an entirely self-funded trip. Pietro and his family hosted one of our students, whose family had hosted him, for a week in March during the outgoing 2019 Italy Study Tour.

As a recent graduate of our Italian sister school, IIS, Quintino Sella, Biella, Pietro wanted to return to Adelaide to work with our Italian and some Maths and Science classes before embarking on tertiary studies in Aerospace Engineering in Turin, commencing in October 2019. Pietro has near native proficiency in English and he is also adept at French. He followed all guidelines and requirements, some of which meant that he had to secure a clearance from Italy to volunteer in Australia before his departure, once again at his own expense.

The teachers and students who worked with Pietro during his stay appreciated his assistance and willingness to share his remarkable knowledge and skills in each of these disciplines. In the Italian classrooms in particular, Pietro was also able to bring many insights of contemporary culture into the classrooms, whether he worked with small groups or was addressing large classes. It is impressive that Pietro was able to use his expert language skills to teach others.

Pietro was also willing to help the teachers prepare and adapt some resources, which they can make use of in the future. In short, Pietro is a generous, approachable, reliable and gifted young person, who is willing to help others.

Pietro has been the first such young person from our seven sister schools who has chosen to return to our school to work with us.

He is to be commended for this endeavor. I would like to take this opportunity to wish him every success for his future.

The South Australian Association of Teachers of Italian (SAATI), in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Association of SA, hosts an annual Italian language competition for students. This year’s competition marked the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci.

My Year 9A Italian class won first prize and my Year 9B Italian class won second prize, both in the Year 7-9 category.

Representatives from both classes attended the presentation ceremony at EDC on Tuesday, October 22. I am very proud of the effort that all the students contributed to both class entries.

Livia D’Aloia Teacher of Italian livia.daloia@adelaidehs.sa.edu.au

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP On Monday, September 23, eighteen Adelaide High School students attended the Creative Writing Workshop, hosted by The University of Adelaide. The workshop allowed students interested in English and writing to expand their knowledge on the process and technicality of creative writing. The workshop had three different lectures on specific aspects of creative writing.

The first lecturer spoke about the meaning of creative writing and how the writer’s own personality and experiences impacted on what they choose to write about. The second lecturer spoke about different modes of creative writing and introduced the audience to the “six-word story”, showing us examples from renowned writers like Ernest Hemmingway and Margret Atwood. We were then challenged to write our own six-word stories. Students went around the room eagerly sharing what they had come up with. One of the

most interesting stories came from an Adelaide High student: “Two countries opposed; coffin sales rise”.

The last lecturer chose to focus on how setting affects creative writing and its tone. The speaker asked the audience to analyse small paragraphs and discuss what kind of setting the story had and how it affected the mood, tone and characters. The group discussions let students at the workshop learn from each other’s thoughts and opinions and created a welcoming environment for learning and development.

The workshop was an enjoyable and great learning experience for all the students attending.

By Martha Trayans (Year 10 student)

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PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASE On October 30, 2019 the Arts Faculty held their second Arts Showcase. Students presented a selection of work that had occurred in the classroom in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.

Year 8 Drama students, Tayla Hartshorne, Floyd Salt, Poppy Sheridan and Layla Simmons, performed their piece, titled ‘The Snowman’.

This clever story embraced all of the Drama skills learnt at this year level, including focus, tableau and voice, and had a plot with a clear through line of action.

Year 9 Dance students, Raijieli Bovoro, Linh Chau, Antoinette Dancel, Wasanti Hase, Linda Kaplatzis, Eona Kim, Tila Le, Jinisha Mistry, Alisha Rozaklis, Prem Shah, Searrah Turner, GraceTyler, Trista Vu, Rubina Zafari and Year 11 Dance students, Caitlin Bailey, Tayha Christison, Shorrell Herbert, Illandra Fallavollita, Charlotte-May Fleming, La’Teacia Kohler, Sophie Lim, Dima Mikael, Jes Tarrant and Roberto Viray shared group devised works and a class piece, with both year levels showing how Music and Dance can be integrated in performance.

Year 9 Music students, Faith Fitton-Gum, Amelia Tran, Ruby Travis, Hamish Anderson, Mia Anderson, Selena Davoli, Kate Davoli, Tony Pham, Zoe Liang, Daniel Harasym-Nicopoulos, Declan Kalka, Nathaniel Sims, Michael Fu, Daniel Vu, Henry Tinsley, Nowmi Das, Matilda Spanner, Linh Chau, Taylor Davis, Rossi Milanova, Leo McGregor, Brian Hoang, Stella Lawler, Flynn Peters, Szymon Goldyn, Flynn Peters, Joseph Jimmy Palackal, Jamie Khoo, Brayden Blackman, Ingrid Asenstorfer, Edward Spanner, Chloe Flint, Prachi Gopal, Tyla Lay, Zhi Wang, and Year 10 Music students Vasileia Markou, Eleni Vanikiotis, Madeleine Coats, Milla Maronich, Yang Wu, John Alexandrou, Daniel Codd, Bailey Muller, Yang Wu, Gabriella Akele, Angus McBride, Zac Marriage, Liam McBride, Chiranga Aluthwala, Johanna Evans, Aurelie Guidez, Jordan Barnett, Savio Nguyen, Devante Hapuku, Will Jessen, Jerry Nguyen,

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Alyssa Verbart, Charlie Walsh, Lucinda Wearing, Ivy Bell and Illandra Fallavollita, shared their ensemble work, entertaining the audiences with popular tunes, including Titatinum and Living la Vida Loca.

Year 11 Music students, Grace Richter-Gilbert, Joel Sweet and Zoe Wachla, performed a hypnotic trio, and Tayha Christison and Charlie Walsh sang a beautiful duet titled Lovely.

We were treated to some incredible singing from Octave, Grace Richter-Gilbert, Samantha Timcke, Vasileia Markou, Luella Salt, Zoe Wachla, Joel Sweet, Maximus Caruso and Haysan Morris.

Year 12 Music Subject Prize winner and Performing Arts Award recipient, SamanthaTimcke, sang a piece from her solo assessment, I’m Here, from the Broadway Musical, ‘The Colour Purple’. Samantha brought the audience to tears.

Our 2019 National award winning song writer, Samantha Timcke, performed her work Paper People and was accompanied by the entire string ensemble, which included William Alexander, Munjir Anoar, David Ding, Joel S. George, Nancy Jamal, Thisum Jayawardena, Branson Khoo, Zoe Liang, Bona Nam, Padma Savitri, Imogen Wearing, Selena Davoli, Lilly Green, Ingrid Asenstorfer and Cooper Lee. The Year 11 Dancers told their story through lyrical movement.

The students performed with passion and highlighted how studying arts subjects has made them grow, take risks and have fun with learning.

Kerry Skinner Performing Arts

5 SENIOR SPEECH DAY

Back: Lachlan Mullen (Guest Speaker and old scholar), Cez Green (Principal), Stephen Mitchell (President, Adelaide High Old Scholars Association) Front: Bhavika Jindal (SRC President), Samyak Jain (Head Prefect), Rebekah Frisby-Smith (Head Prefect), Akaysha Hill

YEAR 12 DRESS UP DAY & INTERACT BBQ

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STUDENT PATHWAYS UPDATE The new SA VET policy is released!

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On Thursday 24 October the Honourable John Gardner MP, Minister for Education, released the Vocational Education and Training for school Students policy which you can read by clicking on the link. It sets out the government’s strategic direction and plans for reforming how VET is delivered to secondary school students in the state.

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A six week consultation process with a number of stake holders took place earlier in the year. The policy outlines the reforms in vocational education, industry engagement and career education, which will give students the opportunity to help grow and transform our state’s economy.

There will be an implementation process over the next year or two, so please stay tuned.

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2020 Vocational Education & Training (VET) Several Years 9 – 11 have already enrolled in purchased 2020 VET courses. Students can continue to express interest and enrol if there are vacancies. Note that there is a fee for families for most VET courses. Adelaide High School will invoice parents for the cost of courses.

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Courses fill quite quickly, as it is a first come, first served basis.

Enrolments for 2020 full year and Semester 1 VET courses need to occur now or as soon as possible, as many RTOs wish to finalise their enrolments.

Enrolments for 2020 Semester 2 courses can occur in Semester 1, although there is less from which to choose mid-year.

Only complete Certificate III level qualifications, as recorded on the SACE Board’s VET Recognition Register, can count towards the ATAR. The most popular Certificate III level courses chosen by our students are Certificate III Business and Certificate III Fitness.

Only senior students are allowed to do some of the higher level courses. Other qualifications may take more than two semesters to complete, due to the extensive work placement requirement components.

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There are a few courses (in specific trades, perceived to be in industries experiencing shortages) which attract some government funding.

Some of these attract Stage 2 credits, but most attract Stage 1 credits, so they are ideal for prospective Year 11 students (who meet the age criterion).

This will be explained to prospective Year 12 students who wish to undertake VET courses that attract only Stage 1 credits.

Prospective students who meet all the eligibility criteria for funded positions need to agree to certain conditions.

A materials or service fee will be need to be paid, as indicated on the Adelaide High School invoice that your family will receive if your son / daughter accepts the offer for a funded position.

Ask your son / daughter to prepare an electronic folder on their computer, in which they can store all relevant information.

I also ask students to prepare an actual folder, for storing forms, other information and eventually completed work about their VET course.

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In the event of your son / daughter needing to miss a VET class for illness or some other purpose, it is vital that the trainer and I are notified, preferably in advance.

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Students are required to attend each week, arrive punctually and stay for the duration of the class.

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For full year courses, due to the practical nature of many of the courses, no more than three absences are permitted. It is best for students to liaise with their trainer, in the event of known absences or lateness, to see what work can be done in advance or as a catch up later, so they do not fall behind.

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It is an expectation that VET must take precedence over all other events.

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Whilst at VET, students are to keep mobile phones (on silent or switched off) in their bags. Phones can be checked during allocated break times.

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All VET students need to check their email regularly, perhaps once or twice a day, as this is the means of communication from the RTO, their trainer and me. The given email should be the students’ school email.

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If structured work placement is a compulsory requirement of the course, please discuss, investigate or even secure possible industry contacts that would be prepared to take your child at their worksite.

Short courses for Y10 – 12 students Short courses are affordable and can benefit students who are looking for part time work. I promote the following: Barista, Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA: for students who are almost 18 years or 18 years of age) and First Aid. Depending on the course, should your child be considering a longer course, some of this training may already form part of the qualification. For example, • •

Barista forms part of Certificate III Hospitality and Certificate II Food Processing.

First Aid is part of a number of Certificate III courses, including Fitness.

What to do if your son / daughter has enrolled in a 2020 VET course?

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Look out for a confirmation or acknowledgement letter or email from the RTO delivering the training, so that start date and time, uniform and other details are clarified.

Unless specified otherwise by the RTO, school uniform is to be worn to each class.

Some RTOs ask the students to complete an online literacy and numeracy test and / or to complete more forms as soon as possible after the enrolment takes place.

Contact me if you have any queries or ask your son / daughter to make a time to see me.My office is in The Help Hub, but the best way to contact me is via email livia.daloia@adelaidehs.sa.edu.au.

Ms Livia D’Aloia | Student Pathways Coordinator

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Tickets @ Try Booking / Concession&Students: $10 & Adults: $20 Book, Music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

Adelaide High School Middle School students present the School Edition of Grease the musical

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