Post on 08-Jul-2018
26 Dumbarton Road, Canning Vale, WA 6155
Tel: (08) 9334 9000
Email: admin.canningvale.college@education.wa.edu.au
Website: www.cvc.wa.edu.au
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Newsletter Term 3 2017
A Message From The Board
It is really pleasing to note the excellent work of our Act Belong Commit Canning Vale College Circus Troupe in visiting and performing at local primary schools and at CVC. Their shows were based upon the themes of differences and inclusion. I am aware of the positive feedback received to our Circus.
The City of Armadale hosted Outside the Frame Art Awards during August. How wonderful to note the success of CVC in winning three awards during the night. Bear in mind, this was open to year 11 & 12 students from all over Perth metropolitan schools. What a fabulous achievement.
The college will also be conducting an orientation day so that the new Year 7 students for 2018 can attend the college, meet some new friends and begin their high school experience. I am also looking forward to attending the school valedictory ceremony to farewell the Year 12 students and wish them all the best in their future endeavours.
David Goode
College Board Chair As 2017 starts its final term it’s time to reflect and report on the results of the year’s activities of Canning Vale College. (CVC)
The Board has been active in ensuring your school remains functioning at the highest possible level and to this extent we are most pleased with the results achieved by new Principal Peter Rudrum and his staff. Peter, of course, has been at CVC since the school opened in 2004 so he is well versed in all aspects of the school.
Some incredibly wonderful new initiatives and activities have been undertaken this year. For instance, our new Website and Facebook pages will be launched by the end of Term 4. Stay tuned for this.
We enjoyed a visit from Education Minister Hon Sue Ellery MLC and member for Southern River Terry Healy MLA during August. During their visit they were given a tour of the school and met several students and teachers via a visit to their classes. They were also shown areas of where the approved funding would make a huge difference to the school as we have a large student population. This will be an exciting project for 2018.
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The Act Belong Commit Canning Vale College Circus Troupe
During Term 3 the Act Belong Commit Canning Vale College (CVC) Circus Troupe created a fantastic and engaging
performance that was toured across local primary schools and performed at CVC. The Act Belong Commit CVC Circus
troupe is a Healthway sponsored initiative and each show tackles a different aspect of children’s mental or physical
health awareness. This year’s show explored the themes of difference and inclusion.
The students worked hard in showcasing a beautiful performance at each primary school and the feedback we received
was positive and in hope that we return next year. Well done to all students who performed!
Ms Crystle Challinger - Circus/TDS Coordinator
Year 12 Students Visit Notre Dame Arts Symposiums
On Friday June 23, Year 12 Literature students and the
top 15 Year 12 English Students participated in the Notre
Dame Arts Symposium at Notre Dame University in
Fremantle. Students attended a series of lectures which
gave them the opportunity to listen to speakers who are
experts in their fields. It was an exciting day, and students
gained knowledge and skills to give them a winning edge
in the WACE examinations.
Mrs Francoise Purdue - English Head of Learning Area
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CVC Athletics Carnival
On Tuesday, 5th September 2017 CVC hosted its annual athletics carnival. The day was filled with many events and all
students enjoyed participating throughout the day. The results are as follow;
House Winners:
1st Place – Aeris
2nd Place – Aqua
3rd Place – Flamma
4th Place – Terra
Year Champions:
Year 7 Boys:
1st Place – Aiden Duncan
2nd Place – Toby Robinson
3rd Place – Kaeldeep Sandhu
Year 8 Boys:
1st Place – Jai Carr
2nd Place – Karl Escalona
3rd Place – Akash Katakam
Year 9 Boys:
1st Place – Blake Pritchard
2nd Place – Ruben Englebrecht
3rd Place – Drew Fisk
Year 10 Boys:
1st Place – Jarod Allen
2nd Place – Abdullah Anjum
3rd Place – Beau Raven
Year 11 Boys:
1st Place – Justin Melling
2nd Place – Leighton Beanland
3rd Place – Christopher Van Der Walt
Year 12 Boys:
1st Place – Cody Beattie
2nd Place – Peng Ye Li
3rd Place – Brandon Marais
Year 7 Girls:
1st Place – Brooke Pitter
2nd Place – Abbbygel Lagmay
3rd Place – Melanie Shreeve
Year 8 Girls:
1st Place – Katie Mobilia
2nd Place – Amber Pitter
3rd Place – Emily Caddies
Year 9 Girls:
1st Place – Bianca Barrongo
2nd Place – Kelly Pillay
3rd Place – Halle Simpson
Year 10 Girls:
1st Place – Alisha Synnedahl
2nd Place – Latesha Wiki
3rd Place – Jenny Cunnigham
Year 11 Girls:
1st Place – Katelyn Mangini
2nd Place – Shayla Burgess
3rd Place – Leilani Golding
Year 12 Girls:
1st Place – Dinna Ciza
2nd Place – Emily Araya Aliivaa
3rd Place – Brooke Fisk
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Year 12 English and Literature Students View Performances at the
State Theatre Centre
Year 10 Students Investigate School Based Traineeships with Reece Plumbing
Year 12 English and Literature students have had the
pleasure of attending performances at the State Theatre
Centre this term. In week 4, the Year 12 Literature
students attended a performance of The Merchant of
Venice written by William Shakespeare. This Bell
Shakespeare production has toured Australia and received
rave reviews. In week 7, the Year 12 English students
watched Switzerland by Australian playwright Joanna
Murray-Smith. The psychological thriller is a fictional
retelling of the last few days in the life of suspense writer
Patricia Highsmith. After the show, students and teachers
took part in a question and answer session with the
director and the two actors from the show. Attending these
shows has deepened students’ understanding of these
texts in preparation for their semester two and WACE
exams.
Mrs Francoise Purdue—English Head of Learning Area
This term our Year 10 students have been investigating
their options for next year. As part of this process, many
students have investigated a School Based Traineeship
(SBT). This involves being paid to work for a company one
day a week whilst completing a Certificate II. Reece
Plumbing offers a great SBT option which involves paid on
the job training whilst completing a Certificate II in
Warehousing and Logistics. In 2017, this option was
offered to our students via the Connect page. Reece
Plumbing recently came to the school to personally
interview a group of our Year 10 students in relation to
their application for an SBT in 2018. This experience was
extremely valuable for our students and we look forward to
hearing if they were successful in their applications.
Mr Duncan Sanderson—Careers Coordinator &
Humanities Teacher
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CVC Year 12 Dance Students Performs Their Last Dance
On Thursday, 31st August 2017 the Year 12 Dance students performed their last showcase of the year and a beautiful
rendition of their final performance as high school students. The students choreographed all their own work with Year 10
and 9 dance classes, Senior Dance Troupe, and Dance Crew supporting them in the show.
It was an emotional night to see our Year 12’s Dance students say goodbye but none the less the show was nothing less
than spectacular.
Thank you to all who were involved and good luck to the Year 12 students on their future endeavours.
Miss Marisa Scidone- CVC Dance Teacher
CVC Students attend Curtin English and Literature Conference
On Friday June 30, Canning Vale College students
attended the Curtin English and Literature Conference at
Curtin University. The annual conference was established
over 30 years ago and is run in collaboration with English
teachers and WACE examiners. Students attended a
series of lectures that supported and challenged them, in
order to help prepare for their upcoming WACE exams.
Mrs Francoise Purdue—English Head of Learning
Area
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It’s a Wrap from CVC Celebrating Two Massive Weeks of Learning and Engagement!
During Term 3, Week 5 and 6, CVC
celebrated two major national events the
Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA)
Book Week and WA National Science Week.
The Children’s Book Council of Australia
(CBCA) Book Week is time for students to
get engaged and rediscover the fun in books
and reading. Throughout the year, the CBCA
works in partnership with authors, illustrators,
publishers, booksellers and other
organisations in the children’s book world to
bring words, images and stories into the
hearts and minds of students.
The theme for CBCA 2017 was ‘Escape to Everywhere’. During the week students had the opportunity participate in a
range of activities during lunch and recess such as;
Colour your own bookmark, book plate or postcard.
Hooked on Books book club members and any new members who were interested in sharing and discussing the
CBCA books
Book Week Quiz
Debate in the Library with two Year 7 teams. Team One Topic: Books are better than movies. Team Two Topic:
Books should have age ratings.
Book Speed Dating with students and teachers. Finding the right book is like finding the right person. There is a
book for everyone, but life is too short to read books you don’t like.
Students thoroughly enjoyed participating and getting involved and learning about new books and escaping to the story
within.
National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. Running each year in August, it
features more than 1000 events around Australia, including those delivered by universities, schools, research
institutions, libraries, museums and science centres. ‘Future Earth’ was the school theme for National Science Week in
2017. This is an exciting and important theme for teachers and their students to explore sustainability, energy,
agriculture, water, technology and current research. Students got involved by completing a number of experiments
during recess and lunch, with the Year 7’s having a fun competition in a race to see whose balloon rockets travelled the
furthest.
Ms Keesha Murray - Marketing and Media Officer
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CVC Education Support Program
The "Leap Frog Swim School" is
a mobile swim school and is
officially endorsed by the Royal
Life Saving Society of
W.A. CVC is the only college in
the state to be running a
Swimming and Water Safety
programme in a secondary
school. The levels achieved and
certificates that are achieved
are officially recognised
Australia wide under the same
curriculum that is run by
Education Department.
Within the Education Support
Program, the Year 9 students
have participated for 2 years,
with the Year 8’s commencing
their first year and the future commencement of the year 7’s in term 4. The students are initially assessed at their current
swimming level and are then broken up into groups to develop their water skills, water safety, survival skills and develop
their swimming strokes appropriate to each student’s level. The Year 9 class who have been coming consistently have
all improved dramatically in all areas.
We have a supportive working network with the Cannington Leisureplex Swim School and the administration
department. We use the heated pool with an inbuilt bench in waist deep water. This has a temperature of 32 degrees, so
it’s like having a warm bath. Water Safety, familiarisation and confidence are always my first priority to ensure that a
student is calm and knows what to do to save themselves in any aquatic environment, as we are a country surrounded
by water.
Benefits of Swimming and Water Familiarisation Program:
80% of all drowning’s in Australia occur in the Autistic population (Austswim Foundation 2017).
Early Childhood swimming programs promote eye-hand coordination and the provision of cognitive stimulation
(Sigmundson &Hopkins 2010).
Aquatic intervention has a positive effect on perceived social acceptance and social function (Getz 2007).
Evidence suggests various forms of movement whether motor skill, balance or aquatic training has potential to influence
neural networks in response to aquatic stimulus (Dodge 2008).
Mrs Shereen Denholm - Education Support Special Needs
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CVC Students Attend Skills Expo
On Friday, 18th August our Year 10
students from Canning Vale College
attended the Skills Expo at Perth
Convention Centre.
This Expo showcased industry and
TAFE along with the alternate path to
University. The students enjoyed the
welding demonstrations, Army displays
and TAFE barista stand the most.
Murdoch University offered advice along
with a host of trade related
organisations.
Our students were impeccably behaved and were often seen asking questions to the Expo participants. Overall, this was
a valuable experience for all who attended.
Mr Duncan Sanderson— (Careers Coordinator)
CVC Student Selected for WA 2017 Volleyball Team
One of CVC’s very own, Isabella Popovic has been
selected to represent Western Australia in the 2017
Volleyball Team. The team will be competing at the School
Sport Australia National Championships in Mandurah, WA
in mid-August.
To be selected for state representation is an honour and
often represents a significant stepping stone in the ultimate
achievement of senior and national selection.
Isabella has been training for over three years and trains
three times a week. She is truly passionate about the sport
and did not expect to be selected for such a high honour.
She looks forward to competing and representing WA.
Congratulations Isabella and CVC wish you the best of
luck!
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CVC Receives a Special Visit
CVC Takes Side-by-Side Competition For The Win!
The Side-by-Side competition was run by the Modern
Languages Teachers Association of WA (MLTAWA), as part
of the Languages in the Mainstream Project, which is a year
long partnership between the MLTWA and the Office of
Multicultural Interests to promote the learning and
maintenance of languages within our community.
Two students of the same year level sit/stand side by side
and hold a conversation by asking and answering questions
about any topic using familiar language that has recently
been explored in class. The conversation must be filmed.
The conversation needs to be spontaneous and should
sound as natural as possible. This is an opportunity for students to apply the language structures that have been
practiced previously. Language fillers, error correction, survival phrases and repair strategies are allowed and tolerated
in order to sustain interaction.
Our students were fantastic participants! Congratulations to the winning students and supporting CVC staff.
Canning Vale College State Winners:
Year 7 & 8 Category Indonesian: Blake Harbord & Isaac Johnson
Year 7 & 8 Category Italian: Josie Wood & Rithika Ramesh
Mrs Esther Blood—Head of Languages & EAL/D
There was plenty of excitement on Friday, 11th August 2017 as CVC had
the honour of hosting distinguished guests Minister for Education and
Training WA, Hon. Sue Ellery MLC. and Terry Healy MLA.
The Minister and her colleagues were in the Southern River Region visiting
multiple primary schools for the day and ending the tour at one of the
largest secondary schools, Canning Vale College.
The Minister had the chance to visit classrooms, talking to teachers and
students on what they are currently learning and experiencing in class.
CVC also had the chance to talk about some of the challenges we are currently facing as a college and how we are
implementing strategies to overcome those challenges.
We thank the Minister and Terry Healy very much for their visit. It was a wonderful experience for us at CVC and we
hope to see more visits in the future.
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CVC Celebrates Wins at ‘Outside the Frame Art Awards’
On Saturday, 12th August 2017 the City of Armadale hosted
the Outside the Frame Art Awards showcasing some of the
best contemporary artwork by young artists across Perth.
Established as a platform to help develop young artists, the
exhibition explores some of the hot topics of the younger
generation.
The Outside the Frame Art Awards was open to students in
Years 11 and 12 from across the Perth metropolitan region,
high schools put forward student works for six categories; painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, digital media/photography
and textiles.
The exhibition featured over 70 thought provoking works, sharing current trends and thoughts directly from the minds of
our youth.
CVC walked away with three awards from the night;
School with the Best Collective Works – Canning Vale College
Drawing – Caini Wang, Canning Vale College, Self Portrait
Digital Media/Photography – Zachariah Kassem, Canning Vale College, Homemaker
Congratulations to both students for their tremendous efforts, and well done to the CVC Arts Department for walking
away with the ‘School with the Best Collective Works’ prize.
Mrs Erin Roberts—Head of Learning Area Arts
Poetry in Action at CVC
On Monday, 14th August 2017 the Poetry in Action (PIA) Theatre Company did three performances for our Year 7 and
Year 11 students.
The Poetry in Action (PIA) Theatre Company is founded on the belief
that poetry is not written to sit on a page in silence but demands to be
heard. PIA believes that poetry should be spoken, torn apart and put
back together, twisted, turned, adored, derided, loved and hated with
equal passion and simply enjoyed by both the actor and the audience.
‘The Citizenship Test’ performed PIA was equally whacky and endearing; this performance engages students with a
diverse range of Australian poetry from the Dreaming to today. Far from a collection of dusty bush ballads, the show
explores a range of viewpoints including indigenous, feminist and migrant perspectives and asks what it means to be
Australian today. This performance also highlighted the language techniques used in poetry such as; imagery,
alliteration, rhyme, simile and so on. CVC students enjoyed each performance and have a new insight into what poetry
means to them.
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CVC Arts Learning Area Leading The Way!
The Visual Arts team, in their role as an Arts Teacher Development School, held an indigo dying workshop in Term 2.
The day began with Mrs Erin Roberts,CVC Head of Learning Arts,providing an update on the WA Curriculum and
Schools Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) website to fellow secondary arts teachers. From there Tanya Cain-
Abbs, from Old Grey House, introduced the group to the Shibori and Indigo dying processes. The group had the
opportunity to try some of the folding techniques and look at a range of effects that can be achieved. Tanya led
discussions about some of the technical aspects that need to be considered when transferring this into our classrooms
before we headed outside to the dye bath. After a short break we were able to look at the effects we had all achieved
with our test runs and then we had the chance to create our own scarves.
Once these were completed staff at CVC led the discussions on how this could be used in the classroom, linking it back
to the Year 10 Syllabus documents and also VET (Certificate III Fashion). We also provided the participants with two
example tasks that they could simply adapt to suit their school.
The day went well with all participants walking away enthused and prepared to teach a new skill to students.
Mrs Erin Roberts- Head of Learning Arts
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A+ Year 9 Humanities Class Enrichment Task - Class debate on the ‘Lindy Chamberlain Case’
The A+ Humanities class studied civics as a subject in Term 2. In class, we created an enrichment task involving our
case study: The Lindy Chamberlain Case. As a class, we put together a courtroom in which we appointed students to fill
the positions of a judge, jury, and innocent and guilty parties.
Each party had three main speakers. These speakers proposed ideas for their own party while the other gathered
evidence in order to rebut the opposing parties theories. The final verdict came to the jury and judge. This verdict was
based upon the information brought forth during the class debate. The final statement was declared as 'Lindy
Chamberlain is innocent'. The debate covered a series of ideas and rumours which looked into whether a dingo stole
Lindy Chamberlain’s baby, whether Lindy neglected her child, if evidence was tampered with, if the police were biased
etc. Our debate made sure to hold precedent to the previous criminal trials conducted on this case but also to view the
case in a new perspective with ‘fresh’ eyes.
For this enrichment task, the process was ultimately more significant than the product (the final verdict). This activity
enabled us to learn in a practical and engaging way while highlighting the specific speaking, debating, researching and
organising abilities of ourselves and our peers.
CVC Student Kelly Pillay & CVC Student Zoe Hart
Mr Ismail - Humanities and Social Science Teacher
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Mrs Jo Ewing visits Bantayan Primary School in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
"At the end of Term 2, the senior LEAP Canning Vale College students made exercise books for kids in an
underprivileged school in Malaysia. Mrs Jo Ewing tasked the students to colour in the front cover pages and asked
students to post a photo in the front of the book so that kids knew who decorated them. The students at Bantayan
Primary School needed books and stationery to learn. These books and stationery were sent with Mrs Jo Ewing when
she went on holiday and visited Bantayan Primary School in Kota Kinabalu." - Quinn Walters Yr 12 LEAP
"I enjoyed decorating the books knowing that they were going to kids in need. It made me feel happy because I like
giving things to other people who are less fortunate. Listening to Mrs Jo Ewing talk to the class about how much she
learnt and what they did was good and I liked knowing that they enjoyed the books that were given to them. To see the
students of Bantayan Primary School smile in the photo was awesome." - Amy Leonard Yr 10 LEAP
"I learned that other schools around the world aren't the same and some are less fortunate. We are grateful for the
school we have and the things we do at school." - Liam Gall Yr 11 LEAP
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CVC Celebrates WA Languages Week
WA Languages Week is a time to celebrate language diversity within our community – the languages that we speak with
our family and friends and the languages that we are learning through our education.
We are very fortunate to have a very language rich community at CVC. Of our 1687 students, 352 (21%) speak a
language other than English. A massive 47 different languages are spoken by our student population.
Our staff is also linguistically diverse. Over 30 staff members speak other languages, with 31 different languages being
represented. In fact, several staff speak more than 3 languages.
This rich language diversity is an asset in our increasingly globalised world. Being able to communicate across cultures
is an essential skill in the 21st century. Speaking and learning other languages can open doors to opportunities and
other worlds you never knew existed. It can enrich your life socially and culturally and bring exciting employment
opportunities.
Also, did you know that being multi-lingual is good for your brain and memory?
CVC celebrated WA Language Week by hosting a range of fun activities for students to participate in which included;
languages banner decorating, languages karaoke, bocce & Indonesian krupuk challenge, Italian Simpsons and Italian
card games & Indonesian board games.
Mrs Esther Blood—Head of Languages & EAL/D