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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Congratulations to the Year 9 Theatre sports team who again performed well in the highly competitive semi-finals last night! There is a detailed article about this to follow.
The Department of Education is conducting a review into the provision of Special Religious Education (Scripture) across NSW. There is an information sheet and link to an online survey about this attached to this edition of Ashtag. I urge you to provide your comments to this state-wide review. The survey and review do not relate specifically to our school and are part of a much larger evaluation of the provision of religious education and ethics classes in public schools.
One large focus of our current school plan is to improve our communication with parents and encourage greater participation in the school. To help us do this we are working with a market research company to gain accurate public perceptions from parents and the community about the school. This project is part of a grant we secured for this purpose and there is no cost to us as a school.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Week 9
15 Jun to 19 Jun
Zone Athletics
Yr12 Physics
Assessment P3-5
7.00pm P&C Meeting
Yr9 Bush care P3 & 4
12-12.45 Public
Speaking Comp -Mental
Health
Yr12 Maths General 2
Assessment P7 & 8
Maths Extn 1
Assessment P7 & 8
Yr12 Economics -
Reserve Bank
Yr12 Physics
Assessment P3-5
Yr11 Adv English
Assessment P3 & 4
ABHS vs Burwood
Girls Netball
Week 10
22 Jun to 26 Jun
NAIDOC Week
Yr7 Vaccinations
P1 & 2
NAIDOC Week
Assembly P3 & 4
NAIDOC Week
Yr12 Modern History
Assessment P3-5
Yr11 Adv English
Assessment P5 & 6
Yr12 Maths Ext 2
Assessment P7 & 8
Yr12 - Barista School
Yr10 Subject Selection
Evening 7-8pm
NAIDOC Week
Yr10 Neighbour Aid
Shopping P2 & 3
NAIDOC Week NAIDOC Week
Yr12 Advanced
English Assessment
P3 & 4
LAST DAY OF
TERM 2
TERM 3 Week 1
13 Jul to 17 Jul
Staff Development
Day (NO SCHOOL)
FIRST DAY OF
TERM 3
Yr7/8 Parent Teacher
Night
Regional Athletics
Yr12 Chemistry
Excursion
State X Country
The next three weeks for your diary
TERM 2 WEEK 8 2015
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THEATRESPORTS UPDATE
On Wednesday 10th June, the Year 9 TheatreSports team competed at Tara Anglican College in the
TheatreSports semi-final. The competition was fierce with schools from across the state vying for a position in
the finals at The Enmore Theatre. Our team, consisting of Cristian Triulzi-McNee, Galan Banfield, George
Brooks, Hamish Lewis, Stefan Pekar and Shaiden Tran from the Year 9 Elective Drama class, have rehearsed
rigorously to hone their skills to compete at this level. Although they have not made it through to the final,
they represented Ashfield Boys High School proudly, displaying humour, great sportsmanship and
confidence. The skills that they have developed will assist them in all areas of their schooling and in life.
Congratulations to Ms Whitting, Mr Tyler and Mr Kang who have worked diligently to develop and support
the team. Thank you to the parents and friends of the students involved for their support.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT continued
We are seeking help from 16 (sixteen) parents with sons in Years 7/ 8 and Year 11/ 12 to take part in a focus group next week. The focus group will only take an hour and will be run by an independent market research company engaged by the Department of Education. The school will not be able to identify any responses from parents. This market research is also being undertaken across three local Primary schools and in the wider community. If you would like to be part of the focus groups we would really appreciate your thoughts. The focus groups will be held at 5pm on Thursday 18th June. Afternoon tea will be providing to all participants. Please email the school at [email protected] or call and leave your RSVP on 9798 6620. We would really appreciate your help with this so that we can improve our practice as a school.
Dwayne Hopwood
Principal
YEAR 11 2016 SUBJECT SELECTION EVENING
Parents with sons in Year 10 are invited at attend a meeting to discuss the selection of subjects for the HSC. This evening will provide you with important information about the HSC, courses and different pathways. The subject selection evening will be held on Tuesday 23rd June from 7pm-8pm. A hard copy note will be sent home with your son tomorrow to confirm your attendance. We will also send an email to all parents with a copy of this note. We urge you to attend this event with your son as it is an important step in his education and progress towards the HSC.
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THE MONTY PRYOR VISIT
On Monday Year 7 had a once in a lifetime comedy experience, brought to them by renowned Indigenous writer best known as a storyteller and as the inaugural Australian Children's Laureate Boori Monty Pryor. He was very humorous and thoroughly engaged the students. He informed us about the books he had published, in a very funny manner and told us about some of the jokes in his books. We learnt some very important life lessons, for example, don’t push your sisters onto a rose bush! Monty talked about his Australian bestseller My Girragundji, which is in the process of being adapted into a film. The students were really engaged throughout his monologue. We were dismissed with an aching stomach due to Monty’s jokes. He also played a native instrument called a yiggi yiggi which was a type of didgeridoo and he also showed us some basics of how to play it.
Overall it was great and memorable experience. Written by Wali Mohammed and Fahim Mustafa of 7A
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Science in Focus Excursion to UTS
Last Tuesday a lucky group of Year 10 students attended the Science in Focus Outreach program hosted by
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) accompanied by Mrs El-Rakshy & Ms Boshell.
The day started with an introduction in one of the new, bright green lecture theatres adorned with conical flasks over the ceiling lights, of the new sustainable building at UTS. Inside this building the laboratories are said to be ‘living, breathing laboratories, embedded with wireless sensors to monitor temperature, air quality, noise, and dust particles’. Many students commented how intriguing the theatre was and made many references to Shrek on sight of the room - mainly due to the green walls and the conical flask light features which resembled Shrek’s ears. We returned here throughout the day for a mini-lecture on bacteria and how a bacterium affects and spreads diseases
After the introduction the students participated in workshops that focussed on Microbiology, Forensic
Science and Physics. This was a taste of what a first year undergraduate Science student at UTS would do.
At the Micro-biology Lab, students wore lab coats and tested a synthetic sample of urine for certain
compounds to determine if the ‘patient’ had diabetes. Salmonella Bacteria from a chicken sample was also
prepared and observed under a microscope. The post-graduate host then spoke with the students about
diseases and pathogenic substances and what micro-biology research is like.
The applied Physics workshop involved the students in problem solving to make a thermoelectric generator
that had the highest voltage output. The group which had the highest voltage won a water flask each.
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The Forensics Lab workshop allowed students to learn about (and make their own!) finger printing, foot
printing and types of blood splatter.
At the conclusion of the day the UTS hosts each in turn spoke about their areas of study in Science, and
also how they came to their own decisions about what they wanted to study at University whilst they were
in high school. A lot of our students were also able to ask about University ‘life’ and how they themselves
can use their passions to help them decide what subjects to study in senior school. A lot of the students
gained valuable advice from the UTS students and the post-graduates.
The students all spoke highly of the excursion and many who felt undecided on future paths were able to
grasp what university was like, and some even felt that they were able to readily decide on what tertiary
path they want embark on after they leave high school.
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