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CONTENTSReminders; Congratulations, Staff News, Thank you to ........... 1-3

CGHS News & Events: Pink Stumps Fundraising; CGHS Going Solar; CGHS Tree News .... 3

CGHS News & Events: Comment – Life-long Learning; Schooling for the Future; Digital Literacy .......................... 4-5

CGHS News & Events: Week of Wellbeing; Youth Change Agents; NAIDOC Assembly; Zone & Regional Athletics .........6-7

CGHS News & Events: Field Study Day 2017; Tell Them From Me Surveys; BYOD Reminder; Important Notice on Food Deliveries .......... 8-9

CGHS News & Events: Year 5 Enrichment Day 2017; School Zone Parking ..............10-11

Faculty News & Events: Science Competition; Maths Competition; Maths Cookie Lesson; CAPA News - Drama & Dance .12-13

Faculty News & Events: VET News - Hospitality; CAPA News - Music Roundup + Winterfest! . 14-15

Student Wellbeing & Support Careers News; LEAPS News; Year 9 Camp; SRC News – Going Solar with Hot Chocolate, Pop-Up Cake Stall & Canteen Fundraiser .................16-17

Student Wellbeing & Support SEA Youth Summit; SEA News; Community Citizenship Awards, White Ribbon Day .........................18

Eurovision Trivia Night 2017 ........19

Student Wellbeing & Support 100% Attendance ........................20

Hotshots Tennis; Helen O’Grady Drama Academy .................. 20-21

Go4Fun; Tuning Into Teens Program ..................... 22-23

Dates for the Fridge, School Reminders, CGHS P&C 2017 .....24

Reminders n Week beginning Monday 14 August

2017 - Week of Well Being Years 7-10. See information on page 6.

n Thursday August 10 HSC Drama Showcase from 6pm in Cantabrian Hall.

n Thursday August 17 HSC Music Showcase from 6pm in Music rooms.

n Saturday 19 August 2017 - P&C Trivia Night in MPC from 7pm, see fl yer page 19.

n Tuesday August 22 – SRC/Prefect Investiture Assembly in MPC, families of outgoing and incoming student representatives are invited, 11.15am start.

n Wednesday 30th August 2017 - Art Exhibition opening in Cantabrian Hall 5.30pm.

n Weeks 8 and 9 from Monday September 4 – Year 11 Preliminary Exams.

n Wednesday September 6th – Years 7-11 Dance Showcase – evening performance in Cantabrian Hall 6pm.

n Wednesday September 20th Year 12 Graduation Day – late start for students 7-11 due to Staff-Year 12 Breakfast, letter will be sent home and on website by early September.

n Best Wishes to Year 12 students who have undertaken Trial HSC examinations in weeks 2 and 3 of Term 3. Year 12 have resumed normal classes from week 4 August 7th. HSC classes in Textiles and Design, Visual Arts, Society & Culture, Music, Drama and Extension English have practical submission and performance dates over the remainder of term. Good luck to all as you commence the fi nal countdown period! There is a letter on the website outlining all Term 3 expectations for Year 12.

Congratulationsn Long serving staff members, Head

Teacher English Jane Slattery and Visual Arts teacher Daniela Caprin, for 30 Years service and TAS teacher Maria Stephenson for 20 Years service.

n Ella Hosty-Snelgrove, Year 11, for attending the NSW Public School State Drama Camp at the end of last term and Zoe Viney Year 12, for attending NSW State Senior Music

Ms Holden with Ms Slattery.

Ms Barry with Ms Caprin.

Ms Stephenson.

Camp. Also well done to 4 year 7/8 students who recently attended the Junior State Music Camp - Kico Imai-Arnold, Imogen MacBeath, Gabrielle Waterson and Helena Williams.

n Marie Ikonomou Year 10, selected as a member of two state ensembles, as a Featured Dancer in the 2017 Schools Spectacular, in both Girls Hip Hop and Jazz.

n To all students who achieved 100% attendance in Term 2 – see list on page 20.

n To all students for their Semester 1 reports – the vast majority of students earned excellent reports for semester 1 and many were outstanding. Congratulations for all your efforts in learning.

n SEA students from Year 11, Angela Wei, Michaelie Trenbath and Alexandra Scouller, who were interviewed for the Wests Ashfi eld Community Awards. The fi nal awards are announced on August 22nd. Fingers crossed that our wonderful environmental ambassadors are successful! See Angela’s report on the interview on page 18.

n SEA students from junior years who represented CGHS at the Switched on Schools Youth Forum at Bankstown Library on June 23 Zoe Trenbath and Isabella Kutasi of Year 7, and Niamh Hosty-Snelgrove and Kiara Green of Year 8.

n Laura De La O and Emilia Andriamora, Year 10, who represented Canterbury Girls at the Make a Difference Day at Parliament House on July 24th, commemorating 50 years since the 1967 referendum.

n SRC for your ongoing fundraising efforts for the CGHS Going Solar initiative – the hot chocolate stalls at lunch have been a highlight! See photos and report on page 17. Thankyou Ms Cathy Jenkins for your tireless efforts as SRC coordinator.

n Year 10 PASS students who were fabulous assistants at the Canterbury Public School Athletics Carnival in the fi rst week of term – a glowing email was received from the primary school thanking the students for their input on the day.

n Years 7 and 8 debaters for their wins in the Premiers Debating Challenge vs Burwood Girls on August 4th. Year 7: Honora Monagle, Ruby Vandervaere, Samantha Walker, Gabriellle Waterson. Year 8: Izzy Conlon, Edie Harris, Ava Haywood White, Lily Spencer-Tighe.

n All students who moved onto Zone Athletics after the school Athletics Carnival – names are listed on page 7, as well as Regional Athletics competitors.

n Ms Reed’s Dance Company for achieving Highly Commended in the St George Eisteddfod see the report and photo on page 13.

Staff Newsn Welcome Back to a well-rested Ms

Holden after her much deserved leave during weeks 6-10 of Term 2. While Mr Anderson is on leave at the start of Term 3 Ms Spiridoula Dervenis-Loupos continues in the relieving Deputy role and Ms Louise Flannery continues as relieving Head Teacher Teaching and Learning.

n From week 4 Ms Dervenis-Loupos

resumes the Head Teacher T&L position and Ms Robyn Andrews relieves as Deputy Principal, with Ms Jayne Delmas relieving as HT Science while Mr Anderson relieves as principal at Randwick Boys HS. In week 3 Ms Ilhea Yen returned from leave and had been relieved by Ms Sanjeev Kaur in that time. Ms Kathie Burgess continues now as Head Teacher Wellbeing in semester 2 and we thank Ms Karin Strachan for her work as rel. HT Wellbeing prior to this.

n We thank Ms Jamie Moliterno for her time as Year 10 Advisor, Year 10 Advisor for the remainder of 2017 is Ms Natalie Conroy. Ms Moliterno is currently relieving as HT PDHPE while Mrs Turnbull is on a term’s leave.

n Preservice Teaching Experience at Canterbury Girls HS - Welcome to our Term 3 interns from Sydney University, Mr Henry Bromwich (Mathematics), Ms Laura Humphreys (English), Ms Kate Buddle (Science) and Ms Anthea Azzi (HSIE). Additionally we have Mr Paolo Torrenson from the Conservatorium in Music and Ms Jaimee Laslett as school counsellor in training.

Thank You to: n Staff and students who participated

in Winterfest at the end of last term, see pictures on page 15.

n All staff in all faculties for their attendance at two parent-teacher interview dates, June 27 and July 18, to meet with families following distribution of semester 1 reports.

n Staff who supported Year 10 in the subject selection interviews, Ms

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Venkatesan, Ms Matos, Ms Andrews and Ms Burgess at the end of Term 2.

n Ms Vlachos and Mr Trinh, who are attending the Monday afternoon ASK Homework Club in the library each week in a voluntary capacity, to offer additional teacher support to students completing homework.

n Parents and Citizens association who continue to be the most supportive P&C in NSW!!!

n Parent Chris Dunstan who continues to work with the school on various energy effi ciency initiatives.

n 12 fantastic Year 8 students who have mentored during Year 5 Enrichment, and staff members who have delivered the Enrichment sessions over 4 full days, Ms Psyhogios, Ms E Barry, Ms Vlachos and Ms Gioffre, and Ms Slattery for coordinating the program, and Ms Nohra for administration support. With great team work the program has again proven a great success as a high school experience for 110 Year 5s. Year 8 mentors were H Brown, L Spencer-Tighe, E Harris, Z Ottoway, A Bailey, E Saladrau-Barker, C Maloney, M van Wel, A Povaly, I Conlon, C Broadbent, E Costas.

n Year 9 students and staff who have represented us so well at the Digital Literacy STEM workshops at Ashfi eld Boys High School. See the item on the Project on page 5.

n Parent Jakki Trenbath for her support of SEA students to attend the Switched on Schools forum last term and her support of our Wests Ashfi eld Community Awards application.

n Ms Qing Liu and Year 10 students Leona Du, Amy Lin, Coco Liu, Yanni Liu and Pei Luo , who welcomed visiting students and staff from Beijing High School on Tuesday July 18.

SEA students from Year 11, Angela Wei, Michaelie Trenbath and Alexandra Scouller.

SEA students at Switched on Schools Youth Forum

Visiting students and staff from Beijing High School.

Pink Stumps Fundraising Coming up on September 8th with a lunchtime staff vs students cricket match with Umpire Holden behind the stumps, please use the link below to help us fundraise for this important women’s health cause.

https://pinkstumpsday2017.gofundraise.com.au/page/canterburygirlshighschoolcricket

CGHS is GOING SOLAROur application for installation of a 100 Kilowatt Solar Panel system is all go and is about to go out to tender. Combined with this a full analysis of our energy use is currently underway to investigate installation of more effi cient lighting systems which would further reduce our carbon footprint and move us to fantastic levels of sustainability as a school site.

Our tree – before & after For safety reasons our beautiful tree in the quadrangle has been removed after much testing by arborists; watch this space in future editions to see the amazing art installation which will emerge.

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Schooling for the Future V3.0 at Canterbury Girls HSCanterbury Girls High School continues to forge ahead into futures focused schooling. Our learning spaces are undergoing upgrades to enable teaching and learning 21st century style. B5 and A5 classrooms have been equipped with furniture to support collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and communication – the 4Cs identified as the key learning skills of the future.

Planning is underway to transform B7 into an open plan learning space during Term 4 this year, where team teaching, project based learning, and innovative use of ICT tools can flourish. Staff continue to devote significant professional learning time to ICT innovation to ensure Canterbury Girls High School is an effective, efficient and well-equipped School of the Future.

Over 2017-18 we plan to have teaching teams in Stage 4 utilise the newly designed learning space in B7 to deliver a collaboratively designed future focused curriculum to a mixed ability cohort with EALD, using a range of pedagogy, assessment and digital teaching tools.

We anticipate the impacts on learning – particularly regarding engagement, motivation, agency and wellbeing for our students – will be overwhelmingly positive and will lead to the implementation of more future focused models of teaching and learning.

In particular, we aim to further develop our work in supporting students, especially EALD students, to be effectively utilising flipped & blended approaches to the curriculum.

Our current practices in student voice in assessment for learning will be the basis for further redesign of learning and connection of students with real world problems to promote the 4Cs. We are focused on staff & student groupings, scheduling, pedagogies & assessment to achieve student-directed, personalised learning.

We are a BYOD school 7-12 since 2013 with 100% uptake, have classroom hardware for ICT based learning dispersed throughout every faculty (we have 42 learning spaces equipped with either Promethean Panels, Panaboards, or IWBs) and we are well established in the use of Moodle and Google Apps, including Google Classroom, and are engaging in professional learning to support Flipped and Blended Learning. As such the use of digital technology for school developed screencasting, vodcasting and podcasting is currently underway.

Staff are currently working on expanding the repertoire of digital tools to use in future focused, student centred learning. A focus on SAMR and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy is also informing future focused learning, as is the personalised approach to learning and reporting in the Students and Parents as Partners project.

Digital Literacy Project Update Canterbury Girls High School was one of 2 Sydney region high schools funded by the Commonwealth to implement a Digital Literacies project in 2017.This project has 3 components:

1) Stage 5 cross curriculum with Ashfield Boys HS which culminated on August 4th with the performance of a 1 minute choreographed routine using the rave gloves they designed and constructed. Our School Education Director was in attendance as well as families. Students have developed lots of new skills and have thoroughly enjoyed themselves as well. It has been wonderful to see how committed they all are on working to complete the project and the strong leadership shown by our students.

2) A Rich Task Day in Term 4 where Stage 5 students involved in the above will work with students from 4 partner primary schools. Canterbury Girls HS will host a day where 4 faculties rotate teaching primary students Digital Literacy tasks related to their KLA. This will be facilitated by the Stage 5 students involved in Part 1. Staff from 4 KLAs will develop a one period task that primary students can work on involving Digital Literacies, and the Year 9 students will facilitate, having been trained to do so. The tasks will be related within the Digital Literacies framework to a larger task.

3) Professional Learning for partner schools. This project is a significant aspect of the suite of initiatives Canterbury Girls is implementing to ensure we develop students for jobs of the future. Thank you to our staff Ms Andrews (coordinating), Ms Di Chiara, Ms Burgess, Ms Jenkins, and Ms Delmas as well as the Music faculty.


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COMMENT: Preparing our children for life-long learningAn article by Mark Scott, secretary of the NSW Department of Education, SMH June 29 2017: http://amp.smh.com.au/comment/preparing-our-children-for-lifelong-learning-20170628-gx08uf.html

While it has always been the case that our schools hold the future within their classrooms, today’s education system needs to set the foundations for these young children to thrive in life and work in 2050 and perhaps through to 2090.

Many experts are predicting that developments in artificial intelligence and automation will transform the way we live and work, on a scale similar to the industrial revolution.

AI is already becoming integrated into daily life – think of the smartphone in your pocket.

What then the role of education?We’re closely examining what these rapid changes will

demand of school education. What does it mean to say that we want these five-year-olds to leave school with the depth of knowledge, skills and confidence required to navigate a more complex world?

Literacy and numeracy will continue to be the building blocks on which all learning rests.

Without these foundations higher order learning and more complex skills cannot be developed. But basic literacy and numeracy skills are not enough.

Many of the routine jobs for which basic literacy and numeracy were sufficient will be performed by machines that will be able to do them more quickly, more accurately and less expensively.

The profound changes ahead demand an education approach that lifts the proficiency of all students.

What might this take? If future adults will need to reinvent themselves and

constantly adapt to change, then education will need to focus even more on learning how to learn as well as what to learn.

A theme emerging from our investigations is that some of the key skills and attributes of the future are not necessarily the ones that we directly measure in our major assessments.

We are good at assessing literacy and numeracy skills and students’ depth of content knowledge in core subjects. These will continue to be critical. But what of broader skills such as resilience, that idea of the growth mindset, the capacity to fail and try again, to persevere?

Do we know enough about the most effective teaching practices, the tools and resources schools need to nurture them and how best to assess their attainment?

All the while we must take care in discussions about measurement of these skills to avoid the pitfalls of the high stakes test.

What then of empathy, often described as a key 21st century competency? How we build empathy into education

systems is a big question, as it is for the corporate world which has traditionally considered empathy a “soft” and lower value skill.

While school education is often framed as “classroom learning”, to state the obvious, learning takes place not only in the classroom but outside the classroom and outside of school.

Beyond the four walls of the classroom is often where real-life problem-solving occurs, where students work and play in teams to set goals and use determination, hard work and planning to achieve them. Consider the discipline and collaboration built into a sporting team … Or the creativity that comes from a school play … the empathy that’s built into raising funds for Legacy and volunteering at a homeless shelter ... or the critical thinking involved with debating.

We know too that we need to lift the bar for science and maths subjects, and spark an early interest in children, particularly girls and particularly in maths.

In Australia only 16 per cent of STEM qualified people are female and we see a stark gender inequality in the more practical and challenging STEM subjects. The perception of girls about their abilities, particularly in mathematics, is of real concern.

Looking beyond maths and science, it is clear that the impact of advancing technologies means students need to be digitally literate.

As AI and automation infiltrate many more aspects of our lives, it will become increasingly important our students are able to engage with the ethical questions that they raise for all of us – the privacy implications and the potential for in-built biases in the algorithms that are making automated decisions that affect our lives.

Great teaching will never become obsolete. The challenges that advancing technologies present to education can only be met by exceptional teachers and school leaders. We don’t want to lose sight of our teachers’ greatest strengths – those that are uniquely human – and we need to grow those strengths. The relationships teachers form with students, to inspire them and lead them to greater things, will be more important than ever.

Whether today’s young people are well prepared to take advantage of tomorrow’s opportunities – how well placed today’s kindergarten student will be to experience happiness and success in life and work in 2030 – will depend on the policies and approaches that we develop now. l

NAIDOC Assembly at Canterbury Public School.

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We held our NAIDOC Assembly at the end of last term and our neighbouring Public School, Canterbury PS, kindly returned the invitation for our indigenous students to attend their assembly on Thursday 27th July. It featured several performances of music, dance and public speaking and was addressed by community elders.

At the conclusion the whole school sang the National Anthem in Dharawal language – the topic for NAIDOC 2017 was “Our Languages Matter” – which was very moving. The teacher who conducts the school choir acknowledged the assistance of our Year 12 indigenous students, Sharnee Dingwall and Jessie Simon-Fitzpatrick, who trained the CPS students in in Dharawal in 2016. It was a fi tting tribute to this year’s theme.

Afterwards, our students were taken on a tour of the Indigenous Garden to see the results of the Mentoring Project we are engaged in with their school and Canterbury Boys High School. Sections of garden beds now have clear signage with the history of “Warrigal Greens”, “Lemon Myrtle” etc.


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Young Change Agents – Youth Incubator SessionTwo teams from Canterbury Girls High were selected to participate in the second stage of the Young Change Agents program during the school holidays. The purpose of this program is to offer students the resources to solve societal problems using sustainable business models; and to further implement their model in the holidays with an assigned mentor to provide them with feedback. Both teams from Canterbury Girls were targeting issues circulating the education system and wanted to develop programs that empowered the student voice to improve current teachings.

In the holidays, both teams joined with other like-minded youth from different high schools and were exposed to a 3 day learning period comprised of master classes, networking and group work. All teams were required to create prototypes, engage with potential customers and establish business connections; these activities allowed confi dence, diligence, business knowledge and vital communication skills to be developed simultaneously. On the last day of the program, teams were asked to participate in a showcase to refl ect on their learning . The teams from Canterbury Girls found this program an opportunity to enhance their understanding of entrepreneurship, and a platform to advocate and build potential vision.

Overall this was a great opportunity and experience, with one team offered $200,000 to further develop their cyber bullying awareness program during a networking session with industry participants. We look forward to the next round of the incubator during the next school holidays. We highly recommend this program to all students as it offers unique opportunities and experiences which support future studies and employment.

Angela Wei, Year 11

Annual Week of WellbeingPlease see note on website and payment details. The theme for the Week of Wellbeing 2017 is: “Empowering Young Women to find their voice”

Empowerment comes from a sense of self-worth. Everyone has intrinsic worth and no-one can take that away. Each individual’s journey is one of self-discovery and it is through facing challenges that we can discovery our true identity so we can feel confi dent and inspired to speak our truth.

Guest Speakers and Whole School EventsOn Wednesday, a special guest speaker, Manal Younas, will join us for an assembly with Years 7-12. Manal is a performance poet who writes and performs, using her poetry to discover and strengthen her own identity and hopes to inspire students to fi nd their own unique voice. All the students in Years 7-10 will see the Motivational Media multimedia presentation on the big screen in the MPC. This year’s theme is “Take the Shot”. It explores intrinsic worth, self-reliance and resilience.

Study Skills sessions, Drama performances and WorkshopsElevate Education will deliver a study skills session to each Year.

Digital Thumbprint will explore cyber safety and responsibility.

Young Australia will present the following performances:Year 7: #Change – planting the seeds of cyber respectYear 8: Cybershorts – planting the seeds of resilienceYear 9: Respect – planting the seeds of resilienceYear 10: “Crisis of a Female Kind” – planting the seeds of self-respect

Each Year group will participate in the equivalent of 1 day of workshops, performances and presentations over the course of the week, either in whole school assembly format, small groups or as a Year group. Students will receive a program for their Year in Week 4 of Term 3.

Areas of the student well-being curriculum to be covered will include: self-esteem, anti-discrimination, coping and stress, making safe and positive choices, setting goals and resilience.

Any queries can be directed to your daughter’s year adviser or to Head Teacher Wellbeing Ms Burgess.

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Buia David, Year 8 with family at Government House for ceremonial fl ag raising.

Staff Morning Tea.

Athletics Regional TeamStudents who participated in the Regional Carnival on Wednesday August 2 and Thursday August 3:Fanta Aruna, Nell Bryson-Smith, Phoenix Fitzpatrick, Emma Jonas Moralee, Ada Kelly, Georgia Kirkwood, Eta Liutaki, Xanthia Marinelli, Pofaiva Penitani, Joanna Chami, Edie Harris, Zara Ottaway, Maggie Pirangi, Peta Soilemezis, Zoe Trenbath, Esil Vitukawalu, Maria Zaccheo.

CGHS SPORT: Athletics Zone team12 yearsVivienne Laurie-DicksonIlana UdovcicZoe TrenbathEmma Jonas MoraleeZoe JewellSophia MiralisNaomi MumbullaSavannah VilnerZara Linkous

13 yearsEmmeline WatersonEdie Harris

Mieke van WelAngelina PerezAntonina ScheerMaria MikhedovaMelina SavvasPhoenix FitzpatrickPeta SoilemezisMaria ZaccheoEsil Vitukawalu

14 yearsFanta ArunaCatherine BroadbentHailie BrownEmily EarpAda Kelly

Stella RowleyZara OttawayPofaiva PenitaniBuia DavidLucy RookeMakayla Garuba

15 yearsNell Bryson-SmithRuba HussainSuwanna WaninCaley IstedMaggie PirangiElizabeth KamaraChaltu StrachanKaren SuJoanna Nguyen

16 yearsEta LiutakiGeorgia KirkwoodTatianna Ratumu

17+ yearsJoanna ChamiXanthia MarinelliPearl JosephGiovanna PenitaniLoseli PenitaniAmetisi Tupe

Year 7 Visual Arts at Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.


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On Friday the 16th of June, in the middle of winter, Year 8 went to the Royal Botanical Gardens. To do what? Art? No, Maths. As expected, we completed a variety of activities throughout the course of the day. This included, measuring leaves, counting steps (which resulted in a lot of unwanted exercise), observing people who occupied the park and much more. It was interesting.

Although it was cold and wet, we had a nice hour-long lunch in front of the fountain. At the end of the day, it was an enjoyable and social experience with our peers.

Kico & Claire (8M1)

Year 8 Maths at Botanical Gardens

Year 9 PDHPE Enrichment Day.

Year 10 STEM.

Year 10 STEM.

Year 12 Field Study Day.




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BYOD ReminderA reminder to all students & families about BYOD – all students are expected to have their device every lesson every day – tech support available Tuesday to Thursday in the Library with Mr Zima and Mr Kaczorowski.

A reminder to all students and families about Monday afternoon homework centre ASK, coordinated by our Youth Support Offi cer Mr Safi , in the Library every week until 4.30pm, afternoon tea provided. All students 7-10 welcome.

Senior Student Support continues on Wednesday afternoons during Sport time for Year 12 in the Library with Mrs McLelland.

STUDENT AND CAREGIVERS: Tell Them From Me Surveys in Term 3This term, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.

You may remember that our students also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this year. Asking students to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as well as track engagement and motivation across the school year.

The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help improve how they do things at school.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au

I want to assure you that the survey is confi dential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 21 August and 13 October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.

A consent form and FAQs for parents/carers about the survey is being sent home with students. If you do not want your child or children to participate, please return the form to school as requested. Copies of the form and FAQs are available from:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents

This Term, our school will also be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school’s support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, ipads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confi dential. The parent survey will be conducted between 21 August and 13 October. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

Our school will provide further information about how to access the survey. In the meantime, more information about the survey is available at:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/

Important Notice About Food Deliveries To SchoolALL CGHS please note, food deliveries to school students, other than by a family member to the front desk, are prohibited for safety reasons.You may not order food online to be delivered to the school. Only a family member can deliver food to the school and it must be delivered to the front desk.



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Year 5 Enrichment Day 2017

Science Comp Awards 2017The annual UNSW Global ICAS Science Competition was held during term 2. In total, 148 students participated in the competition where 3 were awarded distinctions, 29 were awarded credits and 22 were awarded merits.

Emma Gallagher in Year 9 placed in the top 6% of all Year 9 students within Australia and received the Principal’s Award for the school’s most outstanding result in the UNSW Science Competition for 2017.

The following students received the following awards:DISTINCTION: Thien Nha Tran Nguyen (Year 7), Antonina Scheer (Year 8) and Emma Gallagher (Year 9)

CREDIT: Year 7: Zoe Balikcioglu, Hannah Carr, Caitlin Hamilton, Dhriti iyengar, Zara Linkous, Michelle Luu, Elizabeth Thomas, Samantha Walker and Katelyn Yu

Year 8: Catherine Broadbent, Hailie Brown, Rebecca Dang, Rebekah Lee, Caitlin Maloney and Meg O’Gr ady

Year 9: Cara Baldwin, Michaela Carter, Elena De La O, Sofi a Goulding, Michelle Lee, Zoe Morris, Lilli Pollard and Sarah Veitch

Year 10: Belinda Carmona, Eleanor Dunstan, Kayla Fulcher, Christina Nguyen and Annie Smith

Year 11: Danielle Wang

MERIT: Year 7: Leilani Nakui, Phoebe CausleyTodd, Isabelle Epps, Matilda- Lily French, Polly Jennings, Emma Jonas Moralee, Mae Mitsak, Olivia Ngo, Peta Soilemezis and Ruby Wilkinson

Year 8: Joanne Kim, Edie Harris and Imogen MacBeath

Year 9: Swoopnam Bhattachan, Liana Borja, Emma-Cate Lymn, Heather Miller-Saford, Hannah Veitch

Year 10: Susie Bui

Year 11: Emily Qiu, Michaelie Trenbath and Csilla Turcsanyi

Maths Comp “Students overfl owed from Cantabrian Hall into classrooms to take part in the annual Mathematics Competition; results will be reported in next edition”

Mathematics Cookie LessonOur Maths class had this cookie lesson because we were learning about ratios. Our teacher had decided for the class to make some cookies to end the topic but as well as teach us in a more enjoyable way. Baking cookies involves ratios. For example, how much fl our to water do you need? Ratios.

We enjoyed this activity because we got to experience Maths in a unique way and because we got to eat and make the cookies. I think people in our class like to cook so a lot of people found it fun and pleasant. We could also cook with our friends, so it made the experience that much more fun. I didn’t even realise I was doing Maths because of how fun it was!

The cookies tasted delicious - it tasted like a shortbread cookie. I think most of my classmates enjoyed the cookie. Some of us took the chance to secretly add chocolate in ;)

The cookies were nice and golden brown. Some cookies had cherries on the top, others had chocolate and we also had plain cookies. Overall, they tasted delightful.

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DRAMA: Seven Stages of GrievingOn Thursday June Year 10 Drama travelled out to Parramatta to watch a performance of Queensland Theatre Company’s Grin & Tonic production of the Seven Stages of Grieving at the Riverside Theatre. Having studied the play in class through workshop moments it was an exciting prospect to at last get to see the whole play performed by a professional production team.

The actor Chenoa Deemal created a touching and thought provoking performance. The play explores the Aboriginal experience, the loss of culture, home, land, family and history. The loss of status and quite literally the loss of family as a consequence of government policy of removing Aboriginal children from their families. Although this play explores quite weighty and dark themes the mood and atmosphere the audience experienced was predominantly one of light and progression.

The play presents strong statements about passion and discrimination. In one scene the solo performer opens with” Have you ever been black?” Humour and tension is created as the audience is personally addressed with this question. “You know when you wake up one morning and you’re black”. This direct address draws the audience in to speculate over what it would mean to be in this situation. The audience seriously considers this absurd comment and the actor goes on to describe instances of hardship and discrimination that people of colour encounter every day but with humour. The line “Nice hair, beautiful black skin, white shiny teeth” used in this scene is repeated to emphasise the pride of the people. A modern audience very quickly makes the links to examples of racism in our society. We get the message that in the same way we have no control over just waking up and being a different colour, nor do Aboriginal people have any control over the colour of their skin. Nor do they deserve to be treated differently based upon the colour of the skin.

The staging in another scene showed respect for Aboriginal culture. The audience was told about Aboriginal

respect for the land and different coloured circles created on the stage taught us we about the inter-connectedness of Aboriginal land, people and history. The audience became confused and the actor grew fl ustered. To confuse the situation further the suggestion is made that we should take away one coloured pile, this we learn represents the children. This added further confusion and the audience began to learn that an ancient culture like that of the Aboriginal people cannot be explained away in a couple of sentences in a language, which perhaps has the inability to actually express the difference in culture and outlook.

Seeing the play enacted on the stage was a mind blowing experience, suddenly it all began to make sense and the play took on a whole new, vivid and inspirational meaning. I really enjoyed this excursion and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to study such a play which still has signifi cance and meaning for all.

Eleanor Dunstan, Year 10 Drama student

Dance Company The dance company performed beautifully at this year’s Ultimo Dance Festival and again at a more recent event, the St George Dance Eisteddfod at the Hurstville Entertainment Centre. The girls were awarded a Highly Commended for their performance.

They will be performing their piece ‘Negative Forces’ again at the Dance Showcase on the 6th of September. This event will take place at 6pm in the Cantabrian Hall. This year’s program will showcase performances and compositions from Elective Dance students as well as new works from the dance company and the Wednesday ensemble.

Congratulations to the following Year 7 students who have been chosen to join the dance company this Semester.

Matilda-Lily French, Zoe Jewell, Margaret Ji, Olivia Johnson, Lily Jones, Isabella Kutasi, Sophia Miralis, Tia Mohajer, Scarlett Rasmi, Jessica Rudder, Zoe Trenbath.


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SMUSIC News Last term fi nished in a decidedly musical way that saw students from Years 7 – 11 watch Kinky Boots at the Capitol Theatre. As you can see from the pictures, students had the opportunity to meet the cast members, pose with them and have a question and answer session after the performance.

Winterfest was a huge success with a range of students and ensembles performing pieces that they have been preparing in semester 1. Also, last term we saw a lot of talented students attend programs to further their musical understanding.

Yasmina Sadiki from Year 10 attended Talent Advancement Program (TAP), an audition only program which identifi es, nurtures and promotes young vocalists within our local schools. Sharnee Dingwall from Year 12 was accepted into the Aboriginal Vocal Identifi cation Program (VIP) for her third and fi nal year this will culminate in a concert on August 10th at Casula Powerhouse.

Cracker talent had its inaugural open mic late last semester and a number of our talented music students represented us. This event is sponsored by Canterbury and Hurlstone Park RSL and involved the students performing and being interviewed by the X-Factor vocal group “Beatz”.

The Choir has successfully auditioned for School Spectacular where we will see our students go for combined rehearsals leading up to the performances on the 24-25th of November this year.

Education Week was celebrated on the 3rd of August with a group of musicians and dancers providing an hour of entertainment at Ashfi eld Mall. We saw a vast amount of student lead performances that showcased the diverse talents of CGHS.

There are many upcoming events for semester two, we start off with the Year 12 HSC Music Showcase in week 5, 17th of August. This will provide an opportunity for the students to perform a selection of pieces that they have been preparing for their upcoming exam.

The Kool Skools project has started with students busily composing original songs and fundraising so they can be recorded them on the 18-19th of October. Tickets are now on sale for “Beautiful”, a musical about the life and songs of Carole King, on the 13th of December.

VET NEWS: HospitalityCongratulation to the Year 11 Hospitality class, who completed an intense practical exam in term 2 on Wed 7 June 2017 for their Cluster B Competency task. The students worked towards achieving their competencies for the new demanding syllabus that has been implemented this year ready for HSC in 2018.. They performed superbly as they prepared an enticing 3 course meal.

Entrée: Crispy Salt and Pepper Squid served with AioliMain meal: French de-boned Lamb Cutlet, and De-boned Chicken Wings, served with Mashed Sweet Potato and Chilli Lime Salad.Dessert: Chocolate and Raspberry Muffi ns served

with a warmed Raspberry Coulis.

Each student had to prepare and present all aspects of this menu. They had to work within a given time constraint, demonstrating that they are able to follow a logical and sequential work fl ow. They had to demonstrate their individual culinary and precision cutting skills and aim to present their dishes in a creative and stylish manner.

Well done class. I’m proud of your effort and dedication to this task.

Mrs Maria Stephenson, VET Hospitality Teacher

Sarah and Xanthia completing mise en

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Open Mic Performance.

Talent Advancement Program (TAP). Winterfest.

Kinky Boots.

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Yanina preparing mirepoix.

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Careers Students took part in the annual careers expo at the end of term 2, always an important step in planning for post-school pathways!

LEAPS Thank you Ms Conroy for this great photo of the Year 9 LEAPS program in action at our city law fi rm partner for a fortnightly lunch meeting with lawyer mentors in the professional workplace.

Year 9 Camp, Mowbray Farm

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Careers Day 2017On Thursday the 29th June, Marie Ikonomou of Year 10 attended the Sydney Opera House annual Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Student Careers Day. This event gave her the opportunity to learn about different career paths offered by Sydney Opera House, practise resume preparation and interview techniques in a workshop setting and hear about work experience and traineeship programs.

Hot Chocolate StallOn the 23rd of June, a new era of SRC fundraising began. Hours of planning went in to how much whipped cream and how many marshmallows were needed. Students were encouraged to think ‘green’ and were offered a 50 cent discount if they supplied their own mug. Many teachers supported the stall and sent along their mugs with their order.

The SRC Hot Chocolate Stall has been a major success in providing warmth and comfort for our students but most importantly, raising money for the “GOING SOLAR” project. In total, we have raised over $500.

By Year 11 Reps

Parent/Teacher Night FundraiserThe SRC have run the Canteen/Cake Stalls for “GOING SOLAR”. The SRC members baked and provided may delicious treats such as rainbow cupcakes, chocolate scrolls, cookies, ANZAC biscuits and a selection of coffee and tea. It was a great success and parents and teachers were very supportive by not only buying food but making small cash donations as well.

By Maddie and Ruby, Year 10 Reps

Year 7 SRC Pop-Up Cake StallOn the second day of Term 3, the SRC raised funds for solar panels – “GOING SOLAR” – by holding a ‘pop up’ cake stall in the Rusty Cott Pavillion. Students enjoyed a range of home-made treats donated by the students and families of the SRC. Due to the amazing turnout, the SRC is one step closer to achieving an energy-effi cient school. A big thanks to all SRC involved, and especially the students and teachers who supported us by spending BIG.

By Roxy, Stefanie, Honora, Isabelle and Scarlett, Year 7 Reps

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Year 7 Pop-Up Cake Stall.

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White Ribbon Recognition

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Youth Summit 2017Five representatives from SEA, Year 8 Aleyna Atlihan, Ada Kelly and Kiara Green, and Year 7’s Isabella Kutasi and Zoe Trenbath, were invited to the Youth Summit of 2017 organised by Bankstown council AYCC at Bankstown library. At this meeting we took part in several workshops with AYCC volunteers and other students from local high schools in our region.

We worked on leadership skills and brainstormed a variety of ideas to improve the school’s environmental outlook and how our campaigns and actions affect the environment around us in a positive way. We also got ideas to help with our schools’ garden beds and improve our composting. We actively participated in debates on various environment issues. We had a great time and found it very useful to bring these ideas back and discuss with our team.

By Kiara Green, SEA Representative,Maria Stephenson, SEA Coordinator

Community Citizenship Awards’ Interview SEA was nominated by the school to participate in 2017’s Community Citizenship Awards hosted by West Ashfi eld Leagues, and were further invited to participate in an interview as one of the fi nalists. The purpose of the interview was for the fi nalists to present their achievements and initiatives to a panel of judges.

As a complement of the interview, representatives from SEA will be participating in the Community Spirit Awards Celebration on the 22nd of August with all the other fi nalists, and learn from each other’s developed campaigns; it is also an event for recognising the commendable achievements. Angela Wei, Alex Scouller and Michaelie Trenbath participated in the interview.

Angela Wei, SEA Representative

Our White Ribbon Respect program was completed at the end of Term 2 with a presentation from headspace, and distribution of Respect Passports to the Year 7 students by their Year 9 mentors.

Youth Summit.

Headspace presentation.

SEA Herb Garden sales.

SEA Switched on Schools Summit & Energy Presentation Forum.

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REMINDERS for familiesPlease ensure that if your address or phone number has been changed the school administration is informed. A Change of Contact Details Form can be collected from Office A.Excursions: The school is more than happy for students to pay overnight excursions off across the year as long as a $50 deposit is paid prior to departure. One day excursions must be paid in full before departure.Newsletter by email: All families will receive an SMS when the newsletter is available on the webpage. This comes out each month and issue dates are on the calendar on the website. The newsletter is emailed to all students as well. If you wish to have a hard copy your daughter must collect this from Office A.School Calendar: Remember to check the student calendar on the CGHS website for excursion dates, upcoming events, rehearsal times and assessment items.

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Parents and Citizens Association2017 P&C EXECUTIVE President: Heather VeitchVice Presidents: Lee White & Adrian SmithSecretary: Lynne Scouller Treasurer: Shane McArdle

: Canterbury Girls High School P&C

Meetings: 4th Wednesday of the month during termWednesday 23rd August, 2017Wednesday 25th October, 2017 Wednesday 22nd November, 2017Cantabrian Hall, entry via Church Street.

Dates for the Fridge n Thursday August 10: Year 10 Meeting

in DEAR for Cantabrian Scholarshipn Friday August 11: PATHE UWS Pasifika

workshops for Years 7-8n SRC elections in DEARn Week beginning Monday 14 August 2017:

Week of Well Being Years 7-10n Monday August 14: HSC Textiles & Design Practical

Works submissionn Saturday 19 August 2017: P&C Trivia Night n Monday August 21: Year 9 LEAPS excursionn Tuesday August 22: SRC/Prefect

Investiture Assembly in MPCn Tuesday August 22: HSC Drama

Performance exams in Cantabrian Halln Wednesday August 23: Year 10 Child Studies

excursion to Marrickville Big Yellow Busn Wednesday 23 August 2017: P&C meetingn Friday August 25:

Year 9 Engineers Without Borders – incursion all dayn Monday August 28:

HSC Visual Art Bodies of Work submissionn Tuesday 29 August 2017:-

Art Exhibition in the evening n Thursday 31 August 2017:

Dance Showcase – evening performance in MPCn Monday Sept 4: Year 9 LEAPS excursionn Monday Sept 4: Preliminary Exams begin

(for next fortnight – weeks 8-9)n Thursday 7 Sept 2017: Public Speaking Challenge n Friday 8 Sept 2017: Cantible Music Festival at the

Opera House - Year 7 Choir n Monday 11 Sept 2017 to Friday 15 Sept

2017: NAPLAN Online Trial n Thursday 14 Sept 2017: RUOK Day n Friday 15 Sept 2017: Year 9 to ABHS RUOK Dayn Tuesday Sept 19: Year 12 Picnic – Big Day Outn Wednesday Sept 20: Year 12 Graduation Dayn Friday 22 Sept 2017: Last day Term 3

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