Asquith Boys High School Community Newsletter

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Some would say that 12 months comes around with monotonous regularity, however, this is certainly not the case in Visual Arts. A common adage “The Proof is in the Pudding” sums up the motivation and engagement of Visual Arts students at Asquith Boys. Art studios are a hub of activity with a broad range of media experiences, all of which were exhibited at the fabulous 2010 “50th Birthday” Visual Arts Exhibition. The CAPA Faculty love to promote excellence and some of our best students received awards for their brilliant work.

The Visual Arts Exhibition is also an opportunity to highlight the HSC Body of Work.

Although Ms Cooke was heard saying such things as “they will be the death of me” and “where is my whip, I need to crack it on those boys to get them working”, the Year 12 students finally managed to get over the line well before the Board of Studies deadline. They are to be congratulated on their work. Gallery patrons “oooed” and “aaaared” over the works. Ms Cooke and Ms Holder also invited some very discerning critics to evaluate the works and they too praised the boy’s efforts. These boys are to be congratulated; Josh Every, Simon Heggie, Enzo Mazzaferro, Jason Munns, Tom Millington, Ryan Lennox and Tyler Hughes. continued page 6

Principal: Terry Griffiths

Deputy Principal: Bruce Collins

Phone: 9477 3508 Fax: 9482 2546 www.abhs.nsw.edu.au

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The big news in the TAS faculty is the marking of the Industrial Technology Timber major projects on the 16th August. All 14 students managed to submit their work on

time, much to the relief of yours truly. These projects have taken 10 months from conception to realisation and it is a credit to the class as a whole that despite many glitches, hiccups, minor and major disasters the projects were all submitted on time and ready for the markers to assess.

Among the excellent works presented are a stunning Mahogany Hall Table with cabriole legs by Craig Robinson

and a charming and highly appealing Rocking Horse by Andrew Buzelin. They share the student of the month award for this month. Please enjoy the photos below and marvel at the skills of Yr 12 at ABHS.

Mr C Philip Head Teacher TAS

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2010 is turning out to be a truly memorable one for

Asquith Boys, with one historic event after another.

Consider the following landmarks for our school

this year:

Our 50th year celebrated in great style in May.

The Old Boy Club consolidated with over 800

members.

An academic scholarship established to begin

in 2011 (The Mervyn Brown Senior

Scholarship).

The annual international soccer tour went as

far as Europe (Greece and Cyprus) for the first

time.

Our stage band shared the stage with not only

John Morrison’s Swing City but also the

legendary James Morrison in our biggest Royal

Flying Doctor charity concert yet.

In 2011, our enrolments should top 600 for the

first time in seven years.

I believe that Asquith Boys High School is

increasingly being regarded as a leader in boys’

education. The educational and extra-curricula

opportunities we provide for boys are the envy of

many schools.

Big Week Out

This major annual event on our calendar was once

again conducted very successfully. While Year 12

was sitting their Trial HSC exams and Year 10 was

doing work experience, the other Years were

engaged in a wide range of excursions, and school

based learning experiences. For the first time, as

part of the Year 9 program, students participated in

anti-cyber bullying workshops. In a previous

“Backchat”, I wrote about my concerns of unethical

use of new technology and I am pleased that the

school is tackling this serious problem. My thanks

to overall co-ordinator, Mr Bolger, for his very

efficient management of Big Week Out.

Personal Interest Projects

It was my pleasure to recently be part of the

judging panel for this year’s Year 7 Personal

Interest Projects (based on Habits of the Mind).

This program is now in its fifth year at Asquith

Boys. Each Year 7 student presented a major

project to their peers based on a topic of their own

choosing. An important part of the process was

each student’s self-evaluation of their effort. This

year’s group produced some fantastic and original

projects and it was a very difficult process choosing

the prizewinners. Many of these projects were on

display in the library during the annual

ART/TAS/PIP Exhibition in Week 6 this term. My

thanks to PIP co-ordinator, Ms Tharmarajah, Year 7

Adviser, Ms Schadel, Mr Thomsett, Mr Buckley

and Mrs Noulton for their work in running this

event. Also thanks to the P&C for providing the

prizes and helping to judge the boys’ presentations.

Year 12

I will soon be writing to all Year 12 parents about

leaving arrangements for this year’s group. As part

of this process, the P&C have decided to offer a

“cashback” scheme for senior blazers that are

returned in good condition. In the time up to the

actual HSC exams commencing in October, I will

be urging Year 12 students to maximise their

chances of success by maintaining good attendance

and study patterns, and approaching teachers for

extra help if required.

Terry Griffiths

2010 - Outstanding School Contributions All families were recently sent a Statement of Account and a letter from the Principal regarding outstanding School Contributions and Elective costs.

As we approach the end of Term 3, we are particularly concerned with the amount of outstanding contributions. A large proportion of this total includes contributions for Electives such as Cabinetwork, Electronics, Visual Art’s etc. As you will be aware, the School provides the necessary materials for the boys to participate in these courses and when students choose an elective course that incurs costs, they do so on the understanding that this commitment will be met. If the contributions for these subjects are not paid, then the boys are deprived of extra resources that will assist to enhance their education.

It would be greatly appreciated if these accounts could be settled by the end of October. We appreciate that some families may have problems in meeting this commitment; please contact the Principal if you would like to discuss this matter with him.

Thank you

by Liam Kissick, Year 8

Selected students from Year 8 at Asquith Boys High School have helped the school by providing the sports oval with a drainage system. Students who chose not to participate in their year groups Snow Excursion have volunteered for this monumental task.

On Tuesday 17 August, most of Year 8 got on a bus at 7:30 in the morning to go on their snow camp/excursion. The rest of Year 8, being smart, chose not to go to the snow and to sleep in. However this sleep in didn’t last long. All around Asquith, Berowra etc. alarms were ringing and parents were telling their children to get ready for the ‘School to Work’ program at ABHS.

The students got to school at normal time only to be faced with a monumental task of not only putting the drainage system into the oval, but to do several maintenance jobs around the school.

On Tuesday the crew shovelled and barrowed mulch all over the school to the new gardens that the Year 8 Elective Horticulture class has been working on. They finished the day with a well-earned hot chocolate and computer time.

The following day the drainage system work got under way. After the two contractors finished the digging, the ‘little workers’ jumped into gear and started filling the trenches 50mm deep with gravel. This wasn’t as easy as they thought and a few of the students were not coping very well with the workload. So at the end of the day, as a reward, the students got to choose, either to keep up the treacherous labour or play sport with Year 7 .

Thursday the team rocked up to school again and just worked non-stop while lazy old Mr Murphy and Mr McCubbin stood around chatting and watching the kids work. Most of the students didn’t mind though because they knew that the oval would be 100 times better than it was before.

On Friday, again the students turned up to work and were surprised to find out that they would be receiving a reward if they gave Mr. Blackwood no trouble (of course, there was bribery involved). The reward, your choice of dominoes pizza and a bottle of soft drink each.

Overall, the students had a great time and so did the teachers in charge (because they didn’t need to do any of the work). But either way they all had a ball.

*The oval was nearly complete by Friday but will need to be finished off in the school holidays at the end of Term 3.

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Thursday 19 August dawned crisp and gorgeous and we convened on Hawkesbury River Station at 9.13am. We had a gorgeous day out with our digital cameras and honed our photography skills for the first couple of hours working with deliberate composing of the image, interesting high and low viewpoints and cropping. I was pleased and proud to see so many boys taking on advice to improve and develop their abilities to photograph the land and riverscapes.

Eating being the VITAL aspect of the days planning, we ordered lunch at the best fish’n’chips in Brooklyn, JJ’s, for 12.30. Walking & exploring from the local’s perspective, we employed the local knowledge of Cody & Seamus. We wandered round the point, up onto the headland and around by the railway line to find and record interesting aspects of the Brooklyn landscape.

We then spent the remainder of our day drawing and interpreting the landscape en plein air (or out in the landscape)…when we weren’t eating or planning more eating.

Ms Holder, CAPA

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Thursday night’s opening was as popular as ever with a “bumper” audience of artists with their family and friends. The catering for the evening flabbergasted everyone. The variety of finger food was extraordinary (some commented better than the catering at the Art Gallery of NSW). Ms Amy Greenshields and her Year 9/10 elective group were responsible and are to be congratulated for a wonderful gastronomic feast. The musicians once again “did their thing”. It is always a pleasure to listen to the melodic tinkles of now “guest” pianist, Geoff Limbert (2009 Artexpress exhibitor). Year 8 Elective Music boys; Jackson Besley, Alex Powys and William O’Donohue engaged the audience with their renditions of popular ballads followed by the metallic, grunge alley way sounds of the Year 9 Elective rock ensemble.

Saturday morning’s gathering was rather more intimate with visits from family and friends who missed Thursday night’s extravaganza. A highlight of the morning was a visit by Ms Jane Simmons, the Regional Director who praised

the success of the exhibition including the HSC InTec display.

It goes without saying that everyone will be waiting in anticipation for the 2011 show. Before that happens the boys need to “clear the decks” and collect the work from the previous twelve months. We are sure that Mums and Dads will be keen to get their sons’ beautiful work (Parents are more than welcome to collect their sons’ work from Room 33). It would be a tragedy if they ended up in the dumpster behind the hall!

Ms Caroline Cooke Visual Arts Faculty

Year 7 Personal Interest Project with Habits of Mind 2010

TOP 29 Joshua Allen Bill Everingham Aidan Heap Michael Sheldon

Peter Banks Jack Gammie Mitchell Heighway Jack Smith

Nicholas Cimino Benjamin Gibson Kaan Karagun Thomas Smith

Michael Cowell Jordan Gladen Rafeh Kayani Daemon Stewart

Max Darwin Lachlan Gleave Mitchell Liquete Joshua Talbot

Bailey Douglas Samuel Hanley Hamish McCarthy Harrison Tuynman

Hayden Dudfield Liam Harris James North Thomas Vanderlaan

Keegan Waters

Thank you to the parents of our Year 7 students for your enthusiastic support in creating some amazing projects for PIP. Without your support, PIP could not happen in our school. Keep on supporting your sons in discovery and pursuing their potential, which will be an added benefit to their school life and future.

Thank you John Koellner, Linda Holland and Nicole Cunningham for donating your valuable time in judging the projects. You did the job without any fuss and with great dignity.

Thank you to Mr Allen and Mrs Karagun, Year 7 parents, for sharing their PIP experience honestly and passionately with us. This helps teachers keep on going in the job.

Thank you to the P&C for donating the money for prizes. We were able to buy Borders vouchers. We are always grateful for your support.

Thank you to all our year 7 students for your wonderful projects of which you can be proud. We wish you a continuous success in everything you pursue.

Year 7 PIP Staff

Think U Know This is a new resource to help parents understand and manage student internet access. It has been placed on the Asquith Boys library link. You can also access the site by typing in the following: www.thinkuknow.org.au. It is a program for the wider school community, which aims to EDUCATE and EMPOWER teachers, parents and carers about the risks faced online and how to create a safe online experience for young people.

Premier’s Reading Challenge Well done to all those who completed the Challenge. Hope to see many more boys participating in this fine event in 2011. Congratulations to Keegan Waters, Year 7 for his early entry and completion of the PRC.

Finally… Thank you to all staff and students for making the last term and a half an enjoyable experience. I feel like I have found a supportive and understanding place to stretch my wings as a first-time librarian.

"Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container." - anon.

Mr C Buckley (Teacher / Librarian-in-Training)

OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKS Please ensure you son has returned any outstanding books, resources to the library

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The students of 7E music class have practised a repertoire of material beginning in Term 1 this year, which all concluded on Thursday June 24 when they performed to several thousand people in Angel Place. This professional venue is aptly named, as the acoustics in this auditorium have to be heard to be believed. The concert featured a combined orchestra, ensembles and massed choir items of an extremely high calibre. The choice of material reflected the diversity in the current music curriculum from the classics to contemporary, to non-western (Africa) and Australian works.

Our students acquitted themselves in an exemplary manner – this concert has been supported by Asquith Boys now for about 8 years and is used as an extension activity for the top year 7 class. The students gained a huge amount of skills relating to performing in a large ensemble and self-discipline. The exhilaration of performing a repertoire of songs to a large audience cannot be underestimated in enhancing one’s self esteem and confidence.

Congratulations to all the boys involved. A special thank you to Will O’Donohue (Year 8) who came along for the second year running! Bravo! Well done.

Michael Williamson Music Teacher

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Help us collect Sports gear, for our School! We have registered for the Coles Sports for Schools program where Coles is giving all primary and secondary schools in Australia the chance to get brand new sporting equipment – and we need your help!

Every $10 spent at Coles Supermarkets, Coles Online, Bi-Lo or Pick‘n Pay between Thursday 2 September and Sunday 31 October 2010, will earn a Coles Sports for Schools voucher worth 1 point.

We’re asking our local school community to collect these vouchers from family, friends and neighbours to drop into the collection box we have at Reception at school.

The more vouchers we collect, the more sports gear we can get! Just remember to ask for the vouchers when you pay during your normal weekly shop.

Year 8 Have Been Busy With Their

Homework Assignment

Re-Creating John Kelly’s ‘Cows’.

Josiah Heggie is pictured, delighted with his final outcome.

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Jiapeng (Justin) Han, Year 11 Congratulations to Justin who is currently at training camp on the Gold Coast, as he will be representing Australia in Table Tennis at the XIX Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010. The Table Tennis competition runs 4-14 October. Well done to Justin and Asquith Boys wishes you all the best in your matches.

Tonu Liiband, Year 10 The Asquith Boys High School 1st grade goalkeeper and Manly United goalkeeper was, last Wednesday, formally announced as the latest Lucas Neill Scholarship winner.

This Scholarship presents itself as a wonderful opportunity for Tonu, as on September 25 he will fly to England for trials with two English Premier League clubs and a Championship club. Asquith Boys wishes Tonu all the best for his future football career and maybe one day we will see Tonu in between the sticks for the Socceroos!

Joshua Mawhinney, Year 9 Congratulations to Joshua who recently won three medals whilst competing at the 2010 Combined High Schools Athletics Championships held at the Sydney Athletics Centre in Homebush. In an outstanding effort, Joshua won bronze in the 200m sprint and long Jump and secured a silver medal in the 100m sprint. Once again, well done to Joshua and we look forward to hearing about his future results!

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Congratulations to our newly appointed student leaders for 2011

School Captain Stephen Wilson

School Vice-Captain Matthew Buwalda

Senior Prefect Viliami Alipate

Sports Captain Oliver Campbell

Sports Vice-Captian Richard Johnson

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Acknowledging the sporting achievements from the 2010 Winter Grade season

In the 2010 Winter Grade season, we entered 27 teams across seven sports. This meant we had around 370 students participating in grade sport every week, which show the popularity and value of competitive sport at Asquith Boys.

Today, we recognise the teams that were successful in winning a premiership and the students who have been identified as the Best and Fairest player’s amongst their peers. Furthermore, we are here to acknowledge the great sporting opportunities available and the great tradition and character of this school.

As a school, it is important to remember that we participate in one of the best-organised and strongest grade sporting competitions within the state. Schools like Homebush and Epping are both over twice the size of our school and have the ability to field more teams with greater depth.

The fact that we do so well each season is down to the commitment and talent we have here at Asquith Boys from both our students and teachers and our school spirit and determination, which are qualities to be proud of.

The 2010 winter grade season will be remembered as a much interrupted and rather wet season. However, through all of the gloom and doom we managed to have an amazing 12 team’s progress to the semi finals at the end of the round robin season, which was a fantastic effort.

However, due to heavy rain washing out some grounds and a bit off an ‘off’ day for several teams, only 2 teams from these semi finalists were successful in advancing to the finals. This included our Junior Lawn Bowls team and our 14’s Rugby.

Junior Lawn Bowls Firstly, I would like to talk about the Junior Lawn Bowls team coached by Ms Byrnes. The Junior Lawn Bowls team started the season with seven members who had not participated in grade sport before. Their attendance and sportsmanship at each game was excellent and very rarely was there anyone absent and furthermore, all the boys showed great skill development throughout the season. At the end of the season the team finished second on the ladder, which proved to be vital, as both the semi’s and final were washed out, making Asquith Joint Premiers in Junior Lawn bowls.

The following students receive premiership certificates:

Daniel Adam Craig Belcastro Bill Everingham

Harry Gibbons Shannon Grimson-Smith

Micheal Liu James Vaughan

14 Rugby The 14’s Rugby team had another fantastic season by making the grand final against the minor premiers Epping. The game was played in atrocious conditions of mud and rain at Epping Boys High, which gave them the home ground advantage. Asquith started well by scoring in the first few minutes but Epping hit back to lead at the half time break. In a spirited second half performance, Asquith scored a couple of late tries to secure victory by 23 to 15. This is a very talented bunch of players, seven of which went on to play in the victorious north versus south team. Congratulations on a great season and thanks to Mr Vansteenbeeck for his help coaching the team:

Joshua Andrews

Nelson Clark

Aaron Dayhew

Harrison Endycott

Tufunga Fahamokioa

Harry Fox

Sam Fox

Matt Graham Robinson

Ben Holland

Edward Hollis

Billy Jackson

Connor Johnston

Buddy Khouri

Chris Koop

Connor Murphy

Nathan Sedgman

Matthew Shakeshaft

Matthew Shields

Aidan Sloggett

Joshua Stuart

Jackson Virtue

To win a premiership in any sport in this zone takes amazing commitment, skill and effort and these boys and coaches should be very proud of their achievement.

Now, A very important part of this assembly is not only recognizing the students who play sport, but also, the teachers that give up their time to coach and travel with teams week in, week out. Without their continued enthusiasm, help and commitment sport at this school would not be what it is. Therefore, I would like to personally thank all the coaches for their hard work and effort.

Athletics After our school athletics carnival, which was all the way, back in June, Mr Broome and I took a group of students out to Homebush for the zone athletics carnival. After a great day of competition, we had 16 boys qualify for the Regional Athletics carnival, which was held in late July. This included:

Christopher Allan

Samuel Corcoran

Sean Cornwall

Michael Jones

Buddy Khouri

Matai Koroi

Joshua Mawhinney

Blake Milner

Oliver Parry

Eden Percival

Dylan Seifert

Matthew Smith

Zane Smith

Oscar Steedman

Mitchel Van Noort

Alex Whitney

In an amazing effort, we had three boys qualify for the NSW Combined High School Athletics Championships, which are to be held next week at the Sydney International Athletics Centre in Homebush: Oscar Steedman (High Jump), Blake Milner (Javelin) and Joshua Mawhinney (100m, 200m, Long Jump). Well-done and good luck to those boys next week!

I now move on to two individuals that have excelled in their chosen sports and deserve recognition for their efforts and achievements.

Gordon Broome Gordon has once again excelled in Rugby this season, making numerous representative teams including the North West Met Zone Team, NSW CHS 1st team, NSW all schools, and capping it all off with selection in the Australian Schools Presidents 15, which will be playing against Samoa Schools at Knox Grammar. Justin Han Justin could not be with us today but his achievements and bright sporting future cannot be overlooked or go without mention. It is rare that we have a student here at Asquith, or at any school for that matter, who has reached the elite levels that Justin has done. As we know, to compete at an elite level takes an extreme amount of hard work and commitment. It is unfortunate that Justin is not here today. However, there is a good reason for this. Justin is actually at a training camp on the Gold Coast, as he will be representing Australia in Table Tennis at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India this September. This is an amazing achievement from Justin.

Congratulations to Gordon and Justin and we wish them all the best in their future sporting careers and we will definitely keep everyone updated with their progress and results.

Best and Fairest 2010 Winter Grade Season Through participating in sport, we learn about leadership, teamwork, fairness and equality and how to conduct ourselves in a positive manner.

The next lists of student’s have been recognised for their sportsmanship on and off the field and have displayed qualities such as leadership, fairness, co-operation and teamwork. Therefore, these boys have been recognized as the Best and Fairest player in their team. We must all remember that how we present ourselves, irrespective of the scoreboard is important and something that should never be underestimated.

1st Grade Tennis – Hamish Spinney

2nd Grade Tennis – Jeffrey Rodrick

15’s Tennis – Sung Kim

14’s Tennis – Christopher Bissett

1st Grade Soccer – Matthew Buwalda

2nd Grade Soccer – Chris Easy

3rd Grade Soccer – Chris Pigott

4th Grade Soccer – Andrew laird

5th Grade Soccer – Daniel Pose – Glandian

15 A Soccer – Eden Percival

15B Soccer - Joshua Mawhinney

14A Soccer – Mark Wilson

14B Soccer - Matai Koroi

14C Soccer – Joseph Hulse

13A Soccer – Zane Smith

13B Soccer – David Cook

13C Soccer – Benjamin Gibson

1st Grade Table Tennis – Blake Chen

2nd Grade Table Tennis – Michael Davis

15’s Table Tennis – Stefan Taitan

14’s Table Tennis – Kaan Karagun

15’s Rugby – Mitchel Van Noort

14’s Rugby – Edward Hollis

13’s Rugby – William Van Egmond-Jones

Snr Lawn Bowls – Mark Belcastro

Jnr Lawn Bowls – Shannon Grimson-Smith

Snr Hockey – Adam Shields

Jnr Hockey - Keegan Waters

1st Badminton – David Jeon

2nd Badminton – Sam Xu

15 Badminton – Anthony Woodward

Congratulations to all those students who represented the school proudly during the winter season. Mr D Jones PDHPE

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This year’s annual Year 8 Snow trip to Smiggins had a shaky start. Apart from very little snow in the weeks leading up to the trip, we had rain on the morning of departure, one of the buses broke down on the way to school and the replacement bus had no DVD player to keep the boys entertained – thank goodness for IPods! Despite all the hiccups the spirit of the boys were not dampened and we were finally on our way. Once the customary stop over at everyone’s favourite “road trip” fast food restaurant for second breakfasts was over we headed to Canberra for a visit to the Australian Institute of Sport. A guided tour provided the boys with an opportunity to ask some insightful questions, finishing with a chance to play in the interactive room where balls were kick, thrown, and shot at hoops. We then moved on to Mt Ainslie for lunch while Mr Moscos provided the students with some interesting facts about Canberra, its design and history.

After one final stop over at Cooma for the all-important purchase of nourishments by the boys, we moved onto Southern Cross Motor Inn. That night we met up with the Year 11 students, already at the snow, to find out that snow has been falling thick and fast and with the hope of a glorious days skiing we all were in bed and sleep by 8:30 – really!!!

Day two and after an early breakfast we had the same poor luck as the first day with the busses. Due to heavy snow fall we were stopped to put chains on. Unfortunately due to the design of the busses and their wheel arches, this required a Houdini type manoeuvre by the bus drivers to complete. As teachers we are proud of the way the boys showed patience and understanding, sitting on the busses for an hour and a half while this was done. Alas, we made it to the fields and a great amount of falling over, skiing, falling over, getting up, falling over, eating, some more falling over and fun was had.

Night two involved the customary karaoke with Mr Moscos starting the show and finishing it too with “I Did It My Way”. It’s interesting how the boys every year complain about it before hand but then get into it and have a great time. Special thanks go to the teachers’ quartet or was it a quintet, can’t be sure as I had tears in my eyes – such beautiful voices, is there anything our teachers can’t do?

Day three went without a hitch. The boys had been magnificent on the slope and were rewarded with a stopover at Jindabyne. After two days of solid skiing the boys were very tired and had a quiet night before our final bus drive back to Asquith on day four. As always the boys were exceptional as we visited Questacon in Canberra. A great way to finish the trip, Questacon provides the boys with a chance to relax and burn some energy without getting too tired. With one final stop at Lake George for lunch, we headed back home to see the smiling faces of parents and family.

Despite the problems with the buses, I have to admit this was one of the best Snow Excursions I have been on and it is completely due to the excellent behaviour of the boys and the diligence of teachers on the camp. On behalf of all the teachers we look forward to next year’s excursion.

Mr Razzaghi

On Tuesday 10 August, Year 8 and a dozen teachers went to the snow. Everybody turned up to school on time but the second bus didn’t because it had clutch problems. Bus one got underway on time but bus two was one hour late to leave from school. The students and teachers on bus two were disappointed that the bus was late, they were also disappointed that the bus didn’t have a television. When the bus finally left school at 8:15 it got to Waitara and got stuck in traffic because there was a smash on the highway.

On the way up we stopped to have breakfast at McDonalds but it wasn’t really breakfast because we were too late. The next stop was the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) where we got a tour of the campus, then on to the game room. When we finished we were back on the road. So when we finally got to the hotel, bus one was waiting for us to arrive. The teachers gave the room captains the key and said “you have 20 minutes until dinner”. Within those 20 minutes

everybody had to get ski fittings done. At 6:30, people started lining up for dinner. Mr Razzaghi was letting groups of 15 up at a time. When you walked in you had the choice of chicken noodle soup, chicken or fish with vegetables and to wash it down, orange juice.

Wednesday was an energetic start with everybody waking up at 5:30 for a 6:30 breakfast. After breakfast the bus drivers started loading the buses and left the hotel on the road up to the snow. We got to the chain stop where buses and heavy vehicles have to put chains on the tires. It took 1½ hours to put them on because the space between the tyres and the rim of the bus was really small. Finally got them on and back on the road to Smiggin Holes. When we finally got there everybody put on their snow boots and unloaded the skis off the buses. We had a shortened lesson because of the chains. Our time at the snow had finished and heading back to the hotel. Go to dinner at the same time but this time there was a surprise, Karaoke. This is

Asquith’s tradition to do karaoke every time they come to the snow. It’s also a tradition that Mr Moscos starts off. Matt Witchard was a hit singing Barbie Girl and Mr Jones with Mr Jones.

Thursday was also a skiing day so people were excited. We had to leave earlier so we didn’t have to put chains on the tyres. It was more exciting because we had a proper lesson where they took us on the slopes and told us how to turn and brake. It was funny for the people skiing with Mr Arblaster when he face planted in the snow. Some of the students had a small snow ball fight with Ms Woolley.

Friday, time to head home but with two stops on the way. The first stop was Questicon in Canberra. We stopped there for 1½ hours because we were early. While everyone was having fun people were putting lunch in the bus. The next stop was to Lake George for lunch.

By Shannon Grimson-Smith, Year 8 Journalism

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Year 7 was fortunate to experience Sydney at its best. Two beautiful days that were perfect for exploring new environments. The students were set some artmaking tasks including drawing such iconic symbols as the Harbour Bridge and Opera House. They then embarked on a walk around The Rocks where they were very busy photographing textures, patterns and colours. They loved the local cafe and cake shop with a window stacked with cakes that made for a series of scrumptious photos. Another favourite was the police station with bright red doors contrasting with the beautiful old sandstone walls of the building. The boys

were motivated and excited. We toured the MCA and learnt all about the gallery, the curators, the collection and exhibitions. The exhibition that we viewed was called “We Call Them Pirates Out Here”. The show took on the name of one of the artworks that was an appropriation of a historical painting showing the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay. When Jess, our guide, asked; “who was the captain?” Michael Cowell very quickly responded “Captain Jack Cook”. Everyone was delighted with the response as Michael had interpreted the intention of the painting brilliantly. Captain James Cook was represented as a pirate with the “Jolly Roger” and a parrot on his shoulder. The boys were also treated to some practical activities that they really

enjoyed. These included creating their own gallery plan and weaving baskets. The art staff were exceptionally proud of the boys who were great ambassadors for the school.

Ms Cooke, CAPA

Year 9 Big Week Out

Wollongong Science Centre and Port Kembla Steelworks

Richard Micali – The Plant

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It seems that Year 10 students enjoyed and benefited from their weeklong exposure to the world of work. Placements were arranged across a whole range of occupations e.g. Alexander Ball experiencing the life of a chef at the Novotel Rockford, Jack Everingham the experience of animal keeper at the Australian Reptile Park, Ben Garrett experiencing beef cattle farming at Ferme Campagnie at Dubbo and Vincent Campbell the experience of alpaca farming at Windy Hill Farm near Goulbourn.

The number of employers who praised the boy’s efforts impresses me. Thank you to the dedicated staff who helped supervise the students at their work.

Jan Fry Careers Adviser

Nick Stockwell – Hothan Engineering

(he has been offered an apprenticeship in 2011 Joshua Luu – Target, Hornsby

Sam Gibbons & Marcus Limbert – Museum of Ancient Culture

Leo Pham – Bakers Delight, Hornsby

James Hogarth – Target, Hornsby Jacob Eastburn - Signwave Mizael Santos – Sief’s Music Shop

Hamish Spinney

Tender Value Meats, Hornsby

Reece O’Sullivan – Windybanks Bait Service

Kaitlin Pepper-Edwards – West Pennant Hills Primary

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Shaye Seifert – Gordon Vet Hospital

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All Year 7 students enjoyed a concert called Music from around the world given by Dr Kim Cunio, a very clever performer who played many instruments and who sang in various languages as he played. He taught us that music is indeed a universal language as he involved us all in exotic tunes played on exotic instruments. The concert was designed to give the students insight to the ways in which music can unite people and provide positive shared experiences. Years 7 wrote some excellent reports of the concert and below are some snippets from their responses. Jamie Warren Dr Kim had instruments from around the world, some were very soft and mellow sounding and some were very harsh and had a bad ring to them. He was a good presenter in the way he told us about the instruments and the country they were from. James Seidl The first instrument he played was the ram's horn. He blew into it and it made a deep, long sound. Then he played a shell, it also had a low sound and was quite small, it could fit into the palm of your hand. Michael Sheldon He played a range of instruments including stringed, plucking and piano like instruments. The strings were mostly shaped like guitars or banjos but were not played exactly as you are supposed to play. Tom Vanderland Another instrument he showed us was called a hurdy gurdy. It had a set of piano-like keys that tightened the strings inside it. To play it, you had to wind a handle on the side constantly to produce an organ sound. Jonathon Rapson He had an instrument that looked like a small chisel. He said people used them in religious festivals and there would be hundreds making a loud humming sound. Zane Smith Soon he had all of us join in and we were playing instruments, singing, banging and clapping. Thomas Smith As soon as we knew it, the show was over and we went out of the hall with a good memory. Pam Mail Support Teacher

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The international students in years eleven and twelve spent the last three days of term 2 at the Youth Hostels Association hostel on Pittwater. The only access is by ferry from Church Point, and then the boys carried their bags up the hill to the hostel on the northern side of the ridge. It has bunk style accommodation with up to six in a room. It has a large communal kitchen, which was ideal for the boys to demonstrate their cooking prowess and the types of meals they eat at home. During the day, we ate at tables on the sunny north-facing verandah, and at night, we ate in the lounge room heated by a large wood stove. Sixteen boys and three teachers were there to gain an appreciation of the Australian bush, take in some breathtaking views and make the acquaintance of some native animals and birds. Activities included bushwalking on the tracks and fire trails in Ku-Ring-Gai National Park, which adjoins the hostel, fishing, and kayaking on Pittwater. We even did some English lessons. Some hardy boys, Andrew, Alex Cho, Alex Lim and Minwoo went swimming.

Thanks to John Zeng and his catering team for the exceptional meals. Thanks to Ms Lee and to Mr Johnston for their help with all our activities.

Pamela Mail ESL

Fresh and crisp would have been two words that described 7:30am on a Sunday morning in Hyde Park, Sydney. Ms Blake and Ms Mashman travelled on the bus to meet willing Year 12’s – Dylan Seifert, Thomas Holland, James Parkinson, Ryan Stewart and Thomas Warburton, who gave up their Sunday morning sleep-in to race in the 40th anniversary City2Surf. Asquithian team spirit demonstrated right there! 67, 974 runners joined their allocated colour section and warmed up, waiting to begin the race.

Everyone was rugged up and sporting the lovely “ABSH City2Surf Team 2010” singlets that Ms Blake kindly organised for the teachers and boys to wear. Our energised ABHS team was eager, ready and waiting in the Blue section to start the race. There were many verbal bets taking place as to who would win and receive the best time… Also, many comments on Ms Blake and Ms Mashman’s lack of training for this particular event. Ms Blake received a call informing us that William Miles would also be running in the City2Surf, but in the Yellow section with his father. The more the merrier it seemed.

Ipods and earphones placed securely in ears, things started to get serious. Jumpers and other unwanted garments were thrown off to the side - Part of the fun was trying to get garments around the wires, or around the more vertically inclined people’s heads.

At around 8am the Blue section starts to move forward. The shuffle of sneakers on the pavement became and soft rhythm of runners/walkers starting the 14 kilometre trek to Bondi. As you can imagine, as soon as our ABHS boys crossed the starting line and their electronic tag beeped, they were off; running down William Street off into the distance. Less to say, Ms Blake and Ms Mashman did not see them until they finally crossed the finishing line, well after the boys had finished, collected their medals and had a swim at the beach!

Ms Blake and Ms Mashman jogged at a leisurely pace for most of the race and finished in a reasonable time, spotting Mr Jones walking across the finishing line with his partner a few minutes after.

City2Surf race times

1st place – James Parkinson - Time: 1hr 4min 15sec – Place 3263

2nd place – Dylan Seifert - Time: 1hr 10min 18sec – Place 7845

3rd place – Thomas Holland - Time: 1hr 10min 39sec – Place 8180

4th place – William Miles - Time: 1hr 13min 35sec – Place 11035

5th place – Thomas Warburton - Time: 1hr 15min 19sec – Place 12815

6th place – Ryan Stewart - Time: 1hr 16min 09sec – Place 13679

7th place – Ms Mashman and Ms Blake - Time: 1hr 57min 01sec – Place 45354

8th place – Mr Jones - Time: 2hrs 12min 22sec – Place 50836

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Year 7 students spent Wednesday of the Big Week Out learning about what it means to be different. They considered physical disabilities, racial differences and individual differences. They also spent some time learning about the importance of teamwork and how so much more can be achieved when everyone works together for the same outcome. This was done through art, through games, through sport and through listening and talking. The last session for the students was a talk from guest speaker, Armondo Hurley, an African-American actor and singer and old friend

of Asquith Boys High. His entertaining and honest account of the racism that he experienced growing up in America shocked year seven as they heard first-hand about the ignorance and stupidity of racist behaviour. The activities ended with a pledge from the students to work hard for what is important in their education, to respect others and their differences and to make the most of every opportunity.

Thank you to all the teachers who helped on the day: Ms Borger, Ms Schadel, Ms Lee, Ms Anthonisz and our two-prac teachers, Judy and Chris.

A special thanks to Ms Woolley and 7A for the

encouraging letters they wrote in response to the day’s activities. Some comments from those letters are included here.

“On Wednesday, I learnt the importance of understanding different cultures and to accept people as they are.” Jack

“I learnt that all people are different in many ways like skin colour, backgrounds and languages but that we are all the same on the inside.” Connor

“I learnt that we should value difference and we should try to understand that sometimes people have problems and that we should support them.” Nick

“We learnt that we need to respect difference.” Jake

The pencil portraits included in this report have been drawn while the artist looks only at the model and draws without lifting his pencil from the paper. The portraits highlight that indeed, we are all different and that art can takes us beyond physical difference.

Pam Mail ESL

Canteen News

Canteen Volunteers We still need more volunteers so please consider helping in our school canteen. We are short staffed on several days, some Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, which means that the boys have to queue for longer periods to be served, and preparation of our full menu becomes more difficult. Please ring us on 9477-3508.

New Items to add to your Canteen Menu

Banana Bread $2.00 Egg & Bacon Rolls $3.30 Pizza Singles $2.00 Goulburn Valley Fresh Juice $2.50 Nestea Cans $2.00

Sport for Schools Coles Supermarkets are running a promotion at the moment for equipment for schools and Canteen has one of the collection boxes for dockets. Customers have to ask at the checkout for dockets when making their purchases. Customers receive one docket for each $10 spent.

Price Rises

Due to the increased cost of some of our goods from our suppliers, the following items will rise to:-

Hot Dogs $2.20 Meatball Rolls $3.50 Lamb Rolls $3.80 Beef Rolls $3.80 Egg & Bacon Rolls $3.30 Pizza Singles $2.00

Bookpacks for Years 7 & 8, 2011 Bookpacks will be available for sale from early December for the above two Year groups. We are still awaiting quotes but expect to pay around $100 for Year 7 packs and $30 for Year 8 packs.

School Discos Thanks to Steve Bulmer and Simon Cant, who helped serve throughout the night. We had an enjoyable and busy night.

Maryanne Miller Canteen Mange

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Recently all students who entered the Short Film Competition, a 50th Anniversary event, received their certificates of appreciation at a special School Assembly. In addition to their Certificate the boys also received a souvenir backpack. On this occasion, boys who made an outstanding contribution to the School’s 50th were also recognised, with a Certificate of Appreciation. These boys also received a souvenir mug and pen. During the Assembly, four films that gained prizes for their entrants were screened to the audience comprised of proud parents, students, staff and former student representatives. These films included:

‘How Does a Coastie Get to School’ by Will van Egmond-Jones (Special Encouragement Award)

‘School is Lifestyle’ by Christopher Bissett (equal 2nd prize)

‘Back to the Future’ by Daniel Griffin (equal 2nd prize)

‘First Day’ by Hamish McCarthy (1st prize)

The audience showed their appreciation of the films and all of the boy’s efforts with enthusiastic acclaim. A former student, Mr Bruce Northcott, gave an interesting, short address to the Assembly. Bruce graduated from ABHS in 1978. He volunteered as Producer of the School’s 50th Anniversary DVD, currently in production. Mr Northcott shared a couple of anecdotes from his school days and of his passion for making short films. His address was illustrated by a demonstration of some of the technological advances made in film making in recent decades. Following the Assembly, award recipients, parents and former student representatives enjoyed a special morning tea, served in Palm Court. Christopher Kent Asquith Old Boys Club

Name Film Title Placing

Hamish McCarthy (7) “First Day” 1st

Christopher Bissett (8) “School in Lifestyle” Equal 2nd

Daniel Griffin (8) “Back to the Future” Equal 2nd

Liam Kissick (8) “Sport at ABHS” 4th

Mark Wilson (8) “A Day at School” 5th

William van Egmond-Jones (8) “How Does a Coastie Get to School?” Judges Encouragement Award

Benjamin Cant (8) “The Scary TAS Block” Participation

Caleb Estherby (8) “Soccer Tour 2010 to Greece and Cyprus” Participation

Nicholas Goldstein (8) “In Search of Year 8 Electives” Participation

Shannon Grimson-Smith (8) “Past Teachers” Participation

David Jeon (8) “Our School” Participation

Aaron O’Brien (8) “School Water Sports” Participation

Benjamin Olsson (8) “A Day in the Life of Ben Olsson” Participation

James Somerville (8) “The ABHS Band Needs You” Participation

Jonathan Whittaker (8) “Asquith Boys Recess and Lunch” Participation

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Friday 24 September Year 12 Graduation Assembly End of Term 3

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS 25 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER

Monday 11 October Staff and students return

Tuesday 12 October Assembly – Student Leaders Investiture

Thursday 14 October HSC Starts

Tuesday 19 October 8pm P&C - meet in Library

Thursday 21 October ESSA test for Year 8

Tuesday 26 October Year 7 Swim Program begins x 4 days

Monday 8 November School Certificate Starts

Friday 10 December Last day of school for Year 10

Wednesday 15 December Last day of school for Years 7, 8, 9 and 11

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Keep a lasting memory of your days at Asquith Boys High School. Package includes highlights of the 25th Anniversary Cabaret, the 40th and 50th celebrations, history and future visions of ABHS, School musicals, the School in action during its 50th year, ‘Old Boys’ Moments – interviews, messages, Short Film Competition, “Out-takes”, scanned School Photos, the answer to a question posed by one Class of 1987 student and much more! ...

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ENGLISH FACULTY

Recent Highlights English has welcomed having the fresh minds of some student teachers from Sydney University. Tiffany Barraca, Chris Gruar and Jessica Goldstein have contributed their ideas and creativity to the faculty while learning from the experienced staff.

Student of the Month Well done to the Year 12 boys who have gone the extra mile and studied hard in Trial HSC. Standard students Renato Navarrete, Zoheb Ali, Gordon Broome, Jason Munns, Ryan Stewart, Scott Rigby, Robert Sutton and Alexander Russell should be commended for their efforts. Also well done to Advanced students Benjamin Wallace and Benjamin Osborne-Young.

What’s happening around the classes? Year 7: Students in Year 7 are involved an exciting unit on Extreme Sports. In this unit, they will research different extreme sports, focusing mainly on non-fiction texts. They will be assessed on this unit by a speech given to their class.

Year 8: Students have been involved in the close study of a particular novel. Hopefully, novels such as Boy Overboard, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Two Weeks with the Queen and Tolkien’s The Hobbit will whet the appetite for further reading.

Year 9 are engaged in ‘the Centre for Excellence’ Advertising unit involving Epping Boys and Balgowlah High School. Students are learning a range of ICT skills and persuasive language in order to create their own advertisement to sell Australia.

Year 10 are acquiring some classic Australian culture ‘under their belt’ by focusing on a close study of the Australian Playwright, David Williamson. Despite the context of The Club and its subject matter of VFL, the boys are certainly enjoying the rich ‘Aussie’ humour and language. The 1970’s has never been so alive and well! Meanwhile, the Advanced class are Taming the Shrew. After this, they will begin preparations for their School Certificate Trial exams.

Year 11: Students in the Standard Course have been engaged in a Unit that looks at the representation of Image within texts. The core text being analysed is the film The Truman Show, this will also be compared with a number of related texts. In the Advanced Course, boys are engaged in a comparative study of Shakespeare’s Othello and the post-modern film ‘O’.

Year 12: Students have now completed all the modules for their HSC English Courses. They will put their rhetorical skills to the test in their final speech assessment in week 8. Revising for the fast approaching HSC is next in order. Take note of the vital feedback from the Trial HSC exams to make improvements for the coming HSC exam. Remember that your dedicated teachers are more than willing to assist you but it’s up to you now!

Ms Nathalie Bodley Head Teacher

CAREERS Coming Events

Year 12 Careers Night Program on Tuesday 24 August 2010 at Cherrybrook Technology High MPC at 6pm. There will be talks and information stands on universities, private colleges, TAFE and Group apprenticeship trainers etc. and information on applying for university. All students and parents from ABHS are welcome to attend.

Open Day at Sydney University – Saturday 28 August 9.30am-4pm

Open Day at UTS – Saturday 28 August from 9am-4pm vist: www.openday.uts.edu.au.

Open Day at Design Centre Enmore on Saturday 11 September from 10am-3pm. Courses in graphic design, interior design, Live production theatre & events, 3D animation, interactive digital media and design & illustration etc. Application packages can be obtained on Open Day.

Meadowbank TAFE is holding a School to TAFE Career Expo on Tuesday 14 September at 6pm and 6.30pm Block P, Ground Floor, See Street, Meadowbank. Information about courses, entry requirements and employment prospects in a whole range of courses including Sport & Recreation, Business Administration, Trade School Carpentry, Electrotechnology & Plumbing etc. Parents and students all welcome. Phone 9942 3073 for more information.

Open Day at the Hotel School and Southern Cross University on Saturday 18 September 2010 from 9am to 1pm the venue is the Treasury Room, InterContinental Hotel, 117 Macquarie Street, Sydney.

NSW Police Career Day 2011 Sunday 20 February 2011, 9am-3pm NSW Police College, McDermott Drive, Goulburn NSW. Call us on 1800 222 122 or email recruiting@police.nsw.gov.au

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Applying to TAFE for 2011 A reminder to Year 12 students that applications for enrolment in high demand courses in TAFE in 2011 close on Friday 29 October 2010. I have copies of the application form, course application codes and other relevant info. Interested students must see me.

Applying for University in 2011 A reminder to Year 12 students and parents that the only way to apply for courses at universities in 2011 is through UAC’S, apply at www.uac.edu.au. Students need their BOS studies number, their UAC pin number and must have a current email address. The charge this year will be $25 . Applications must be made by Thursday 30 September 2010. After that date, late fees apply. Another outline of key dates for 2011 Admissions is published in this edition of Backchat. Students should be attending open days, information sessions etc so they can make an informed decision about their choices for 2011.

Schoolink is a new feature on the website and contains important information for Year 12 students. A session will be held on 23 August at school for students applying for university. Applications for the Educational Access Scheme (EAS) for students who have experienced long-term educational disadvantage also must be submitted by 30 September.

Students should be attending Open days at Universities and TAFE Private Colleges etc. to make an informed decision about their choices for next year. A list of these is published in this edition of Backchat and in the UAC Guide 2011, which is available for all Year 12 students at school.

The following information has arrived at school and is available for students to access. Bachelor of Paramedic Practice - University of Tasmania. This course commenced in 2010. It is delivered on two campuses, Hobart and Rozelle (NSW). It is a full time 2-year fast-tracked model and is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to provide out–of–hospital emergency health care. General entry requirement with an ATAR score of 75 and higher.

UNSW Undergraduate Law and Tax Guides for 2011 Australian Catholic University – Early Achievers’ Program This program recognizes the achievements made by prospective students to their communities through church, sport, cultural etc. They receive an offer in late October. Students just need to have completed the relevant prerequisite subjects for their course and achieve the University’s minimum entry score of ATAR 58.8.

Mrs J Fry Careers Advisor

HSIE FACULTY

Greetings from the HSIE Faculty!

Student of the Month – Stephen Wilson Year 11 for excellence – Business Studies, Modern History, Legal Studies and Geography – well done, Stevie!!

This has been a very busy month – Assessments, Examinations and Excursions all taking priority.

Miss Foster and I are busy doing revision lessons for all Year 12 students every Thursday afternoon after school.

Firstly, in the area of Assessment tasks, Years 12, 11 and 10 are all getting feedback on their progress so far in all subjects. Assessment Tasks are well into completion in Years 12 and 11 and Year 10 are working steadily in both Mandatory areas – History and Geography.

I have asked all staff to express their efforts for your consideration. They have put in some long days and I am most grateful for their efforts.

Miss Byrnes Year 12 Economics have completed their last assessment task, an assignment on Fiscal Policy and this was done in class last Wednesday. Year 12 Legal Studies have an assignment on a contemporary Legal issue and this is to be completed this week.

Year 10 Mandatory Geography has started a new topic – Australia in its Regional and Global Contexts – and classes will soon be receiving their major assignment for Semester 2. It will be on Human Rights and Reconciliation. 7C have been studying Deserts and there have been some pleasing efforts and assignments. We will soon be moving on to study Coral Reefs.”

Miss Foster Year 12 Business Studies are finishing their HSC Coursework and preparing for their Examination. Revision of all Topics and Study are essential at this time. Mr. Laing and I are available for extra support and direction.

Year 11 Modern History is working on the core topic for the Preliminary Course. I have seen some exceptional work from some students in Assessments. The Major Assessment – a Historical Investigation – is due in Week 7.

Year 10 Mandatory History classes are preparing for an up coming Mabo Assessment in Extended Writing Response this week. All classes are working on extended writing techniques in preparation for the Trial and School Certificate examinations at the end of Term 3 and Term 4.

Year 9 and 10 Elective Commerce classes are learning skills in running a Business and personal and financial management. They will be receiving assessment tasks in coming weeks, which are to be worked on over the holidays.

Year 9 and 10 Elective History are researching Australia’s involvement in the Cold War conflict – particularly the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts. They will be receiving an assessment task in the coming weeks which will involve source- based research and class presentation, due in early term 4.” Miss Woolley Year 7 and 8 Geography classes are working well and practising a number of new geographical skills. 7H are doing Coral Reefs, whereas 7A are about to begin World Heritage Sites. 8C have just completed Threatened Habitats and had pleasing results in their topic test. 8H are ‘Globalising’!

Year 10 Geography classes are trying their best to ‘fight the mid-year slump in motivation’. We are currently working on our major topic on our Major Topic – Urban Growth and Decline. Students should look forward to completing fieldwork towards the end of term 3.

Year 11 Business Studies students are very busy now. They are working hard on their Business Research task. The task allows the students to create a hypothetical business – this is commonly referred to as the BRT – Business Research Task. Many of their Businesses could be very successful. Mr Laing Year 12 Geography need to Revise, revise, revise! Now is the time to really put in the hard yards! Year 12 Business Studies are in tandem with Miss Foster’s class, finishing Employment relations and moving on to Globalisation.

Year 9 and 10 Elective Geography is progressing well as are Year 11 Geography but more effort and home study and revision are certainly required. Year 11 Geography need to focus all efforts on their SGP – Senior Geography Project – due end of week 6.

7E are beginning their History Unit after a very successful Semester of Geography. I have been very impressed by their motivation and exuberance.”

Finally, me… Year 12 Ancient History have just completed their Trials – well done to Ben Wallace, Zoheb Ali, Robert Sutton and Aaksh Patel

who have indicated promising and impressive efforts. We are at present finishing off the course with a study of the Persian Wars and the defence of Greece.

Year 11 have completed their Society – Deir El Medina – the workers’ village in Ancient Egypt and have completed a booklet as their Assessment.

Year 10 Mandatory History – as per other classes will be completing a Mabo Extended writing response soon. They have begun looking at the changing roles of Women since WW2 in my class.

8E are impressively completed the Vikings and have begun a Middle Ages Assignment – a Model and Presentation. Knowing their enthusiasm, I am looking forward to storing them…somewhere!

Thanks to all and good luck.

Mr George Moscos Head Teacher HSIE

MATHEMATICS FACULTY

Year 12 have received their Trial papers back from marking. It is very important that students go through their papers thoroughly and learn from any mistakes or fill gaps in their knowledge. Each student has been provided with solutions to help with this process and teachers are available to assist with any concerns or uncertainties. Late last term we advertised books of past HSC papers, which some students bought. These are very worthwhile in helping to familiarise students with the style of questions they can expect. The next few weeks until the HSC exams are vital preparation time and we often find that students make huge leaps in their knowledge of their courses during this time.

Year 11 have exams at the end of Term 3. It is the culmination of the assessment program for General Maths, Mathematics and Extension 1. It is not quite the end of the course since there will be more content to cover early in Term 4. Students should be aware that all preliminary content is also examinable in the HSC, so there is nothing that can be left behind as irrelevant.

Maths Challenge for Young Australians Some time ago, we received the results from the Maths Challenge, which was held during Term 2. The nine boys who participated were enthusiastic and determined in attempting to solve difficult problems. They are all congratulated for their achievement. The results are as follows:

Distinction Credit Sung Kim Zach Waddell

Participation awards Nick Gibson, Sam Penno, Alistair Powell, Mitchel Van Noort Reach for the Stars During Week 7, we participated in Reach for the Star. This is an activity, which was held for National Literacy and Numeracy Week. Three Year 8 classes were involved in creating data, which was submitted along with data from other schools around Australia for analysis. So far the organisers have received data from 3,500 classes in around 700 schools which is around 77, 000 students. The activity-involved classes breaking

into four teams, with students taking turns to run 20m to place a shuttle (bottle top or ice cream stick) into a container, then run back to their team. The number of shuttles delivered in 2 minutes, then 4 minutes then 6 minutes was recorded. The results of the activity are available online and we will be having a look and analysing the data. It will be interesting to see how we compare. It is a great opportunity to do some real life Maths around some important statistical concepts and to collaborate with students from schools all over Australia.

Problem of the month The answer from last newsletter (access code problem) was 74658 Well done to Michael Davis (Yr 10) and Sung Kim (Yr 9) who were first with a solution. Well done also to other students who approached me later with an answer.

Try this one If an analogue clock reads 12:05, what is the approximate angle formed by its hands? What if it reads 1:36 or 4:57?

Mr David Arblaster Head Teacher

SCIENCE FACULTY

Year 12 students have just finished their Trial HSC exams with some notable high achievers. Congratulations to the following students for their excellent results.

Biology: Ben Wallace, Alex Russell and Akash Patel

Chemistry: Ben Wallace, Garion Ross-Knapp, Zoheb Ali and Akash Patel

Physics: Garion Ross-Knapp, Kirril Smelov, Steven Grimson-Smith and Adrian Wu

Senior Science: Nathan Clarke, Zale Kewin, Max Holden-Corfield and William Miles.

A special mention goes to our School Captain, Nathan Clarke for producing an almost perfect paper with a mark of 98% in Senior Science. This is even more impressive when it is realised that the exam was externally sourced and not set by Nathan’s own class teacher. This process of external sourcing for the Trial ensures that the standard is close to what will be expected in the actual HSC later on in October.

The Science staff wishes all students fair sailing in the HSC. We know that if they work hard, study well and keep their options open our students will succeed in life. Through endeavour, we hope that our students strive to reach their goals, achieve their best and live fruitful, satisfying and useful lives.

Year 11 are entering the Preliminary exam period and should be studying 3-5 hours a night. All assessment tasks and chapter summaries should have been completed by now. This exam session is a test of how well each student has applied himself this semester. We urge parents to help their son to revise by providing a calm and quiet study area at home away from TV, DVD, computers and other career-thwarting distractions. Best of luck Year 11.

Year 10 have now submitted their Major Science Projects and presented their findings to their class. The Major Projects have now been returned to them following marking. Notable

research projects were submitted by Jeffrey Roddrick (Ballistics), Hamish Spinney (Projectiles), Marcus Limbert (What causes Corrosion?) and Reece O’Sullivan (What is the Best Antifouling?) These projects all scored Band 6 as assessed by several teachers, and the boys are to be commended on their excellent Science processes and their efforts. Oliver Campbell, Blake Chen, Sam Gibbons, Leo Pham, Jack Ballinger, Richard Johnson, Shaye Seifert, Hank Beyer, Brad Errington, James Dimento, Mark Belcastro, Alex Pearson, Alex Jarrett and Nathan Sloggett also submitted excellent projects.

Thank you to all the Mums and Dads who assisted their sons. Many of the reports show photos of parents being directed by their sons as experiments were conducted. They are luck y they have your support.

Year 9 Participated in the Big Week Out again this year taking a tour to Wollongong Science Centre and the Pt Kembla Steelworks. The students were commended on their safe and co-operative behaviour during the tour by BlueScope management and the Science Centre staff. At the Science Centre students participated in a variety of activities ranging from; viewing the best Planetarium in the Southern Hemisphere, the Nitrogen Show and playing with the dinosaurs, meteors, science toys and exhibits. At the steelworks, the students were lucky to see the whole process of making steel from iron ore to rolling steel into plate as all the plant was operating to capacity on the day. Students will always remember crossing the river of glowing, red-hot cast steel; the spark storm of the BOS furnace and the half-kilometre-long ships docked alongside the steelworks. Thanks also go to Mr Elkin and Ms Laffer for the lashings of food – morning tea, BBQ lunch and afternoon tea. Well-done Year 9. Your good behaviour ensures that next year’s Year 9 students will be able repeat your experiences.

Year 8 and Year 7 have had a range of activities this term with the Year 7 Personal Interest Project (PIP) being a highlight. We acknowledge the excellent leadership of Ms Tharmarajah who co-ordinated not only the Habits -of-Mind training day, assisted by Year 8 students, but the whole project. Ms Tharmarajah produced the training booklets and talks to ensure that the Year 7 students kept to the schedule and were able hand in their projects on time. Thanks go to all the parents who came into the Library to listen to the students’ presentations, to those who assessed the projects and all the mums and dads for assisting their sons over the past three months with their endeavours. Thank you Ms Tharmarajah for your professional skills in co-ordinating this important part of the school’s academic program.

There will be some changes in the Science Faculty for the coming Term 4.

Mr Christopher Yates, replacing Ms Sheridan who passed-away earlier this year from cancer, will take up his posting following a 6-month delay due to his Year 12 commitments at Katoomba High School. We welcome Chris who is a highly motivated and accomplished senior teacher to the Asquith Science Faculty. Chris’ specialty is Environmental Education and is noted as a specialist in Earth and Environmental Science as well as Senior Science.

Mr Broome will replace Mr Jacobsen as he takes some long service leave during Term 4. Mr Broome is a young and energetic teacher who knows the students well. He is a local rugby player, keen community member and a past student of the school.

I wish to thank all the Science staff; Mr Murphy (snr), Mr Murphy (jar), Mr Rui, Ms Tharmarajah, Mr Broome, Mr Flynn and our Lab Manager, Ms Hughes, for their professional efforts during Term 3. Well done!

To all students, make the next term successful by working hard and studying for the yearly exams.

Best Wishes, Mr Rolf Jacobsen Head Teacher

CREATIVE ARTS FACULTY

WELCOME AND FAREWELL! Sadly, we have had to say goodbye to the gorgeous and

amazing Ms Blake. In doing so however we are joined by the fabulous and hilarious Ms Ryan who makes us smile

and laugh.

REMINDER ALL CAPA PARENTS – Creative Arts Catch up Lesson on Tuesday afternoons

FANTASTIC DAYS OUT

Year 7 Excursion to MCA, The Rocks & Cockatoo Island

Year 9/10 Photography & Drawing Excursion to Brooklyn

WOW, WOW, WOW – What a fabulous event our Annual

Exhibition & Awards night was!

ALSO – congratulations to all boys who performed music on the night!

Bravo! to our Stage Band & Year 8 Ensemble ‘Usual Suspects’ for performing at the Brooklyn Spring Fair Sunday September

12th STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

All award winners

This has been the hardest year of my life with the recent passing of my adored mum. I must thank my wonderful faculty and many of our gorgeous boys for the support and understanding I have been given.

All of the hard work, energy and planning of recent events has only gone ahead because of the dedication, organisation and support of some very precious people. Thank you to all of you.

CREATIVE ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS I am working on holding interviews in week 1/2 of next term. Following this will be the Scholarships Luncheon, which will acknowledge students who have achieved Scholarships for 2011 as well as those who have completed their Scholarships in 2010. Thankyou for the patience all applicants have shown.

Catherine Holder Head Teacher CAPA

VISUAL ARTS Major Homework Assignments Ms Holder, Ms Ainge & Ms Mashman’s Year 7 Classes We are completing the last practical tasks of our unit on trees & the environment, painting exploring the techniques of Van Gogh. This class has created some beautiful work. Cultural Study of Representation of Trees on Moodle is due and Andy Goldsworthy and MCA reports are OVERDUE. Please update your VAD for marking at the end of the unit.

VISUAL ARTS Ms Cooke and Ms Ainge’s Year 7 Class – Assessment is underway for the Yearly Report. Students need to ensure that they have finished all aspects of the Creature program; Puppy, Cirque Calder and John Kelly “Cow”. During the holidays, they will create their own cow in the style of Kelly. Assessment will be in the last week of term except for the COW, which will be submitted and marked, on the first day back from holidays.

Miss Ryan’s Year 7 Class – These creative and enthusiastic little men have finished making and under-glazing their amazingly imaginative creatures. Well done gentlemen! We all can’t wait to see the results when they come out of the kiln after firing. We have also looked at the artwork of John Kelly and have a holiday project to replicate one of his weird and wonderful cows. This is due first lesson back after the break. This week we are all very excited about beginning a new unit on wire sculpture based around the circus art of Alexander Calder.

Ms Mashman’s Year 8 Class – Trees Unit. Students have finished and displayed their beautiful Van Gogh markmaking artwork in the Art Exhibition. They looked amazing. Good work boys.

Students should be completing their Andy Goldsworthy Internet task for homework, as it is due end of week 9 for marking, for their reports.

All work – John Olsen watercolour in particular, must be completed and VAD must be up to date for making.

Ms Ainge & Ms Holder’s Year 8 Class – Students have completed wonderful reduction lino prints and are currently working on their Photoshop work using the graphics tablets and hopefully with time a Cubist style etching. As the term draws to a close, students are reminded to have their Visual Art Diary completed and ready for assessment. Students are reminded that the Joy Hester report of “Boy with a Yellow Bird” and the Margaret Preston assignment are now overdue. Anyone who has not submitted these tasks is jeopardising their overall results for this course. The class is to be congratulated on their artmaking in this course. Well done!

Ms Cooke’s Year 8 Class – Assessment is underway for the Yearly Report. Students need to ensure that they have finished all aspects of the Creature program; Puppy, Cirque Calder and John Kelly “Cow”. During the holidays, they will create their own cow in the style of Kelly. Assessment will be in the last week of term except for the COW, which will be submitted and marked, on the first day back from holidays.

Ms Cooke’s Year 8 Journalism Class – Not all boys have submitted their sporting pages for an imaginary “Asquithian” newspaper. These are required NOW! Students are developing their Semester II PIP project. This is a documentary of their choice using; words and/or photos and/or video. Assessment to a panel will be Wk10. Details on all assignments can be found on MOODLE.

Ms Ainge’s Year 9/10 PDM Students have been working in groups taking photos using a manual SLR camera. The negatives are now ready to be used in the darkroom to develop into positive prints. Students are learning to make test strips and develop positive prints. Studies have been made of photographs by prominent photographers in class using their laptops to word process their findings. Homework task “The Steerage” by Alfred Stieglitz is due Tuesday 14

th September and the homework task “Meudon” by

Andre Kertesz is due Tuesday 21st September. Each student need to ensure that their Journal is up to date as this is a significant part of their learning and contributes to their overall yearly result.

Ms Holder’s Year 9 & 10 Visual Arts – Landscape Painting We have had our lovely day at Brooklyn and have fabulous photos and drawings from the day. Many of these were seen on a huge slideshow at the Exhibition. We are working to develop these into paintings – both watercolour and acrylic. Boys have all been reminded to visit Art Riot or Hot Dollar to buy an A4 canvas (thick sided if possible please). There is an overdue email report on John Wolseley outstanding from many boys and a second report comparing Woldendorp’s photography to John Olsen’s paintings due before end of term. We are waiting for our wooden totem poles to arrive and will be working on ceramic totem creatures as well.

Miss Ryan’s Year 9/10 IT and Digital Media We are learning to use Photoshop ‘to the max’ - presently working through tutorials and experimenting with many techniques and tools. One aim while we master Photoshop is to design a company logo. We will be considering that a logo is a company’s ‘identity’ and therefore needs to represent the capabilities and ideals of the company well and is able to be reproduced (and look great) in many ways. The gentlemen are encouraged to think carefully about colour, shape, text and symbolism based on our continuing research into what makes a good logo and what logos we think are successful and why. Some have already mastered many tools and techniques and have presented interesting concepts. With concentration and effort from all, we are looking forward to many excellent finished products. Can’t wait guys!

Ms Holder’s Year 11VA We are finalising Installation. Your completed VADS should be submitted containing all documentation, planning and evaluations of your installations. Photoshop work/s and optional film should also be submitted before going on exams. You will have received your studying package and should be well into preparing for your written examination by studying the areas of content, selecting and preparing five artists and answering sample questions for both section and two of the exam. Remember the if you write practice scripts Ms Ainge, Cooke or Holder will happily look over them and give you feedback.

Coming up in Week 1 next term Painting, object & abstractions study via both artwriting & making. Gathering interesting images and artists for VAD Assessment task Ms Cooke’s Year 12VA - TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! The remainder of the term will focus on exam technique and success. Considering their Trial results, it is essential that they attend all lessons to consolidate their knowledge and make much need improvement in these final weeks.

MUSIC Mr Williamson’s Classes Year 7 – Students are engaged in a World Music topic, which looks at music from around our region in particular case studies on Japan & Africa. A major research assignment was set & due in week 5 – late work will still be accepted but penalties apply. The major focus for this term is the Instrument Project, which is due from week 8 until the end of term. Student’s homework is to construct a musical instrument, which must play a tune of some sort. Recycling is one theme to be explored as well as the nature of sound & how it is produced. The better projects have a chance, along with exemplary work in class, of being in the running for a $100 gift voucher from BMJ Music Hornsby – ten are on offer to Year 7 & Elective music students.

Year 8 Elective – The major project this term is for all students to continue to perform material as a member of a band. Students have formed their groups, selected appropriate repertoire and are refining their ensemble skills. As students’ musical backgrounds and interests are varied, this is proving to be a valuable exercise in teamwork. To benefit their band, students are finding themselves taking on new roles and developing new skills. Some ensembles are working exceptionally well as evidenced by our recent Variety Show. An individual PIP project must also be completed which may be related to their band work or an extension of it. These are due mid term 4/2010.

Year 9/10 – Students are working in small groups in a Jazz unit aimed at bringing their theoretical/performance skills up to a higher standard. Many students lack confidence in basic tools of music such as reading, chords & knowledge of harmony/scales etc. Aural skills continue to be developed in classroom practice to complement performance and composition skills. Several listening tasks have already been completed as in-class assessments. The basic concepts of music – pitch, duration, structure, texture etc are continually being revised & refined.

Year 11 – Most students are working well towards improving their musical understanding of the concepts of music with particular focus this term on structure, duration, pitch and tone colour. Task 4 is a composition exercise, which can include arrangement of pre-existing material or an original work. A composition process diary must be submitted as well as a recording / performance of the piece – some works are still outstanding! Task 5 is Musicology Viva Voce, which is a discussion/presentation of the concepts of music from an excerpt of a work chosen by the student. Some of these are also overdue! Task 6 is the Yearly Aural/Performance Examination – due week 9.

DRAMA Ms Mashman’s Classes Year 8 Elective Drama – big CONGRATULATIONS to all year 8 drama boys!! They have been working on a performance all term called “The Actor’s Challenge”. It is a short play where the actors are challenged to perform many styles of drama at the flick of TV remote control. Rehearsals after rehearsals, the boys practiced their lines and developed their characters and deliberated over what costume to wear – resulting in some rather unusual characters and dress!

They performed their play to entire year 8 cohort and did a fabulous job. We definitely have some young aspiring actors in the mix. Well done boys!

For the rest of term students need to be completing their PIP booklet and completing the tasks that have not been finished.

Year 9 & 10 – Students have been doing a great job of learning the ropes of how to create a TV commercial. They have defined the different types of camera shots and angles and have put this learning to use in small groups.

The class was divided into 2 groups and they were given instruction to follow a script and create a commercial for the drink FUSION. Both groups have been working really hard and coming up with some great shots.

Filming has now finished, and the students have been asked to INDIVIDUALLY create their own commercial, using editing techniques in either Windows Movie maker or Adobe Premier Pro-Edit. They need to access the video footage from the student server, which means bringing their laptop to school EVERY DRAMA LESSON or a USB so they can continue the editing process on one of the school computers.

Final edited commercials are due MONDAY, PERIOD 1, WEEK 10!! No excuses. If it is not submitted then an N-AWARD warning will be issued for non-completion of work. STAGE BAND Thank you to Mr Howick for the Charity Concert evening. It was a resounding success. The band surpassed all expectations and all had a wonderful and memorable evening.

HUGE thankyous also go out to parents who assisted with transport, promotions and planning the Charity Concert.

As always - A reminder to all band members - Stage Band practice is held PROMPTLY at 7.30 am on Monday and Thursday mornings. You should be there 10 minutes early so the rehearsal can be of maximum value to all. One latecomer shortens the rehearsal for the whole band and we have to adhere to the school’s learning times. Mr Howick is noting on the roll your arrival time.

Ms Ainge, Ms Cooke, Ms Holder, Ms Ryan, Ms Mashman & Mr Williamson.

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We are a modern and professional

Service Centre equipped with the latest

technology and expertise to service and

maintain your vehicle.

Complimentary

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Kelray Automotive Pty Ltd 2/7 Kelray Place, Asquith 2077

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Woy Woy FC is looking for a suitably qualified coach for our DIV1/DIV1RES

squad for season 2011. The right applicant will have a

passion for improvement, an interest in fostering emerging talent & will

share the club's promotion ambitions for our senior squads.

Please contact David Cornwall on 0413 119 333 if you would like to

know more.

L – Got them? Gearing up to get them?

It’s a fairly well known fact that young people are seriously over-represented in road safety statistics.

But a much lesser known fact is that Learner drivers are actually the safest drivers on the road. It’s only when a novice driver ‘goes solo’ that their crash-risk sky rockets ... so much so that they are 20-30 times more likely to be involved in a fatal or serious crash in the first 6 months on their Ps.

To tackle this issue, keys2drive, the single largest national Learner driver safety program ever undertaken in Australia has commenced. keys2drive will see 200,000 lessons provided by specially trained, keys2drive accredited driving instructors for FREE.

Developed by Australia’s motoring clubs and funded by the Federal Government, a keys2drive lesson brings together a professional driving instructor with the Learner and their supervising driver – most often mum or dad. In doing so, everyone benefits from a better understanding of how to work towards making sure the Learner driver becomes a safer P plate driver.

If you already have your Ls or are planning to get them in the next 12 months, or if you are or will be supervising a Learner driver, you can find out more information and register for a FREE keys2drive lesson at www.keys2drive.com.au

PPaarreennttss Hills Schools Partnership, on behalf of your school is contacting the school community seeking

your help to provide opportunities for our students.

Enthusiastic Year 11 and 12 students are looking to develop their Information Technology

skills through one week of work placement. This is a compulsory requirement of their course

for the award of the HSC. Students and employers are covered by insurance through the

school.

If you could assist in providing a placement with your employer

please contact Kathleen on 9639 7999

Hills Schools Industry Partnership

Supports DET schools

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Australian Catholic University Canberra campus 28 August North Sydney campus 28 August Strathfield campus 11 September

Australian Maritime College Launceston campus 15 August Campus tours can be arranged by appointment. For further information call (03) 6335 4646

Australian National University 28 August

For campus tours call 1800 620 032.

Canberra Institute of Technology Bruce and Reid campuses 28 August

Charles Sturt University Every day

For campus tours/appointments and course information call 1800 334 733.

Griffith University Gold Coast 8 August

La Trobe University Albury–Wodonga campus 15 August Mildura campus 8 August

Macquarie University 11 September

Southern Cross University For personalised campus tours and special events call 1800 626 481 or (02) 6620 3975.

University of Canberra 28 August

University of New England For personalised campus tours call 1800 818 865.

University of New South Wales Open Day 4 September Australian Defence Force Academy Canberra 28 August

University of Newcastle Newcastle campus (Callaghan) 28 August Central Coast campus (Ourimbah) 21 August Port Macquarie campus – Information Night 2 September

University of Sydney Camperdown & Darlington, Mallett St, Sydney College of the Arts and Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Macquarie St campus) 28 August For campus tours call 1300 362 006

University of Technology, Sydney UTS Information Day, Broadway campus 28 August UTS Information Evening, Kuring-gai campus 8 September

University of Western Sydney Parramatta campus 29 August

University of Wollongong For personalised campus tours and special events call 1300 367 869. For information on school visit days contact individual institutions.

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Applications Early August 2010 applications open Thursday 30 September 2010 on-time applications close Friday 29 October 2010 late applications close with $113 late fee Tuesday 30 November 2010 late applications close with $129 late fee Thursday 3 February 2010 final close of applications with $139 late fee

Year 12 results and ATARs Wednesday 15 December 2010 NSW HSC results e-released by BOS 2010 ACT Year 12 results issued by ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies Thursday 16 December 2010 NSW ATARs e-released by UAC Friday 17 December 2010 ACT Year 12 ATARs available on UAC’s website

Change of preferences Mid-August 2010 – 6 January 2011 for consideration in Main Round 19 January 2011 – 26 January 2011 for consideration in Early February Round 2 February 2010 – 3 February 2011 for consideration in Final Round

Offers Thursday 28 October 2010 October Round offers e-released Thursday 18 November 2010 November Round offers e-released Thursday 9 December 2010 December Round offers e-released Wednesday 5 January 2011 Early January Round offers e-released Wednesday 19 January 2011 Main Round offers e-released at 9pm Wednesday 2 February 2011 Early February Round offers e-released at 9pm Wednesday 9 February 2011 Final Round offers e-released

Processing charges 2010 domestic Year 12 applicants – $25 Non-Year 12 applicants – $54

Contacting UAC

Telephone (02) 9752 0200

email and website

use our online enquiry form at www.uac.edu.au

postal address

UAC Locked Bag 112

Silverwater NSW 2128

in person

Quad 2 8 Parkview Drive

Sydney Olympic Park NSW

office hours 8.30am – 4.30pm Monday to Friday

BACKPAGE GALLERY @ BACKCHAT Each issue CAPA will select works of excellence to exhibit in our new display space.

Unexpected Viewpoint, Brandon

Liquette, digital photograph, August

2010

Creature Design, Zac Hughes, Photoshop

Graphic, August 2010

Expressive Self Portrait, Nick Miller,

Reduction Lino Print, August 2010

Expressive Self Portrait, Harry Gibbons, Reduction Lino Print, August

2010

Expressive Self Portrait, Graham Pinnock,

Reduction Lino Print, August 2010

Creature Landscape

by Joshua Woodward, August 2010

INFORMATION NIGHT FOR FATHERS WHO HAVE A CHILD WITH A DISABILITY

Connecting with Fathers – talking about what guys talk about least! Centacare Broken Bay & Northcott Disability Service are looking at running an information night for fathers who have a child, less than 18 years of age, with a disability that requires moderate to high support. This will be a one off informal information night to decide what topics you, the fathers, want. There will be light refreshments on the night. This is also a chance for fathers to connect and talk to each other about the reality of fathering a child with a disability. There are options for a support group, playgroup and picnic outings from this event.

Some of the 12 topics offered in the program

Maintaining Positive adult relationships

Managing behaviour

Focusing on the future

My child and Me

Stress management

Date Venue

Tuesday 26th October 2010 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Northcott

Level 5, 20 George Street, Hornsby

Parking available at Westfield Free after 6pm

Free parking is also available at the Council Car Park after 6pm

(Corner of George & Burdett Street)

Some comments from previous workshops

“It was very interesting meeting different fathers with children that have different disabilities but have the same concerns”

“It provided an opportunity to discuss issues as fathers, with fathers only”

“There was nothing to be scared of once we were here!!.... I didn't know what to expect but was happy to know other people can

relate to your own situation”

If you are interested and want to book in or get more information you can contact

Sean Williams on 8425 8715 (Mon-Fri) or email sean.williams@dbb.org.au

Hello ABHS community, The P&C met for August on Tuesday 24th, thank you once again to all those parents in attendance.

Once again, the ABHS “Big Week Out” has been a huge success with many diverse activities and events being conducted for our boys, while Year 12 undertook the trial HSC. This initiative has been in place within the school over several years and has proven to be a success.

Well done to all those involved in organising and managing the events of the week.

The P&C have had the great pleasure in being involved in the judging and prizes for the Year 7 “Personal Interest Projects” for this year.

In judging the projects, we found the standard was at very high level, with many of the entries warranting of a prize. In all, there were over 25 prizewinners, truly a great effort.

Well done Year 7.

We P&C is launching an initiative to “buy back” Year 12 Blazers and make them available to the next years Year 12 to buy, some will also be set aside for students in need.

During the Year 12 sign out week, the P&C will be running a stall on Wednesday 27th October from 9.30am to 11.30am for the “buy back”. We encourage all Year 12 students to participate in the “buy back” initiative.

The final piece in the development of the school oval is being put in place with the installation of the drainage system. This will allow of the collection of the surface water and storage in the water tanks. This will give the oval an opportunity to recover from any periods of rain and enable the re-use of the collected rainwater.

This has been a great environmental initiative and will allow the school to have an oval of the best standard.

Finally, the P&C is running a shopping tour fundraising event on Saturday 6

th November. This is a great opportunity for

some pre-Christmas shopping at several factory outlets across Sydney. It will be a full day tour with lunch provided.

Please support this fundraising event, full details to be released shortly.

The next P&C meeting will be held on Tuesday 21st

September at 8pm in the School Library.

Thanks,, John Koellner, P&C President

See our flyer on the

P&C Fundraiser

Warehouse Shopping Tour

Saturday 6 November

only $35

Your 2010 Committee Members P&C President - John Koellner Vice Presidents - Marg Gibson & Bill Somerville Treasurer – Nicole Cunningham Secretary - Kim Pinnock Grounds Maintenance - John Koellner Council Parent Representatives: Marg Gibson, Kerry Limbert, Leanne Dalziel

The next P&C meeting Tuesday, 19 October

@ 8pm in the Library

ASQUITH BOYS HIGH SCHOOL CALENDAR TERM 4 2010

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT/SUN

Week

1A

October 11

School resumes

for

Staff and Students

October 12

Student Leaders Investiture Ass’bly

October 13

October 14 HSC Commences

October 15 HSC

Oct

16/17

Week

2B

October 18 HSC

October 19 HSC

P&C 8 pm

October 20 HSC

October 21 HSC

ESSA Yr 8 on-line

October 22 HSC

Oct 24/24

Week

3A

October 25 HSC

Year 9 Exams this

week

October 6 HSC

Yr 7 Swim Program

October 27 HSC

Yr 7 Swim Program

October 28 HSC

Yr 7 Swim Program

October 29 HSC

Yr 7 Swim Program

Yr 7 Vaccination

2nd

Dose

Oct 30/31

Week

4B

November 1 HSC

Year 8 Exams this week

November 2 HSC

Melbourne Cup Newsletter issued

November 3 HSC

November 4 HSC

High School Experience Day

Special Orientation Visit (Yr 6)

November 5 HSC

SLR/DofE Manly Dam Excursion

Nov 6

P&C Fundraiser Christmas

Shopping Bus

Tour

Week

5A

November 8 HSC

School Certificate

Yr 7 Exams start

November 9 HSC

School Certificate

November 10 HSC

School Certificate

November 11 School Certificate

November 12 School Certificate

Yr 7 Exams

Mufti Day (Savlation Army Xmas Appeal)

Nov

13/14

Week

6B

November 15

November 16

Year 10 Formal

November 17

November 18

Special Orientation Visit (Yr 6)

November 19

Yr 10 Mock Interviews

Nov

20/21

Week

7A

November 22

November 23

ESSA Yr 8 written

P&C 8 pm

November 24

November 25

November 26

Mufti Day Mo-vember

Nov

27/28

Week

8B

November 29

Leadership Camp

November 30

Leadership Camp

December 1

December 2

Leadership Induction Assembly

SRC, Peer Support, Peer Mediation, House Captains

December 3

Dec 4/5

Week

9A

December 6

Newsletter issued

December 7

Yr 7 Orientation Day

December 8

Year 12 Formal

December 10

Winning House Beach Party

December 10

School Certificate Assembly and

Yr 10 Reports Issued

Dec

11/12

Week

10B

December 13

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December 14

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December 15

HSC Results Out

Yr 7, 8 & 9 Reports issued

End of Term 4

Years 7, 8, 9, 11

December 16

Staff Development

Day

December 17

Staff Development

Day

Dec

18//19

Please note dates of events may change and you should check with Reception if in doubt. Updated calendars will be printed in ABHS Newsletter (Backchat) each Term. Updated 17/09/2010

Have a

wonderful summer

break

2011 Terms

Term 1 – Friday 28 January - Friday 8 April

Years 7, 11 & 12 start Monday 31 January

Years 8, 9, 10 start Tuesday 1st February