Mackellar Girls Campus Newsletter29 · Mackellar Big Band at the Manly Jazz Festival ... It was a...

Mackellar Girls Campus Newsletter29 31 AUGUST 2018

Term 3, Week 6 Meeting the educational needs of girls

Next General P&C Meeting: Wednesday 5 September 2018

Director General’s Award for Turning Potential into Performance

Director General’s Award for Excellence in Girls Education

Director General’s Award for Excellence in Gifted and Talented Education

Director General’s Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Programs

Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Pacific Islander Programs

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE -

Dear Parents, Staff and Students

The Best of the Best It is the time of the year when our Year 12 students Major Projects for the HSC are completed and submitted or performed for HSC marking. The start of the process has resulted in a very busy week at Mackellar.

Our HSC Textiles and Design students’ Major Projects to be submitted for marking by the Board of Studies are absolutely stunning. They demonstrate the enormous talent and commitment of both our teachers and students in producing such beautiful pieces.

Also our HSC Dance and Drama students performed their HSC works and oral presentations for HSC marking while our Languages students sat their Orals. Again the standard of the work supervised by the skilful expertise of our teachers was exemplary.

The Visual Arts HSC Body of Works display some amazing pieces that demonstrate the creativity and talent that our students possess. The HSC Design & Technology Major Projects are being prepared in readiness for HSC Marking. The quality of the work, the creativity combined with meticulous skills and comprehensive portfolios, are outstanding. In all this work, the expertise and guidance of our teachers have been instrumental.

Year 12 HSC progress Year 12 students have received back their HSC Trial papers during the past week. This will give them a better understanding of how to improve their results and the amount of work that is required over the next few months. The rest of this term is the most valuable time in class for students to further improve their exam performance in the HSC. It is therefore essential that Year 12 students attend regularly, be focused and not waste this valuable time.

All Year 12 students should be studying 3-4 hours each night. They need time also for exercise, healthy eating, relaxation, friendships and family. Part-time work should not exceed 4-6 hours per week. The HSC is really a family event, where parents need to be supportive of their daughters in ensuring that stress is minimised and the optimum environment at home provides for good study patterns to achieve the best possible results.

Mackellar Big Band at the Manly Jazz Festival Mackellar Girls Big Band is to be honoured by their selection to perform at the Manly Jazz Festival, held on the October long weekend at Manly Beach. This is an enormous international event and Mackellar’s inclusion denotes the Big Band’s very high standard, led by Ms Vanessa Patterson’s exceptional expertise as the Band Director.

Congratulations for high achievement to: Vannia and Jaime (Y12) for being awarded the Minister’s Award for Excellence in Student

Achievement Mali (Y8) for her 4 gold medals at the CP Athletics World Games the Open Touch Football team for their 3rd in the NSW CHS Knockout Championships Madeline (Y11) for her 4th in the NSW Irish Dancing Championships and qualifying for the 2019 World

Championships NSW CHS Athletics competitors: Rowena (Y12), Jasmine, Sunny, Jordan, Sophie (Y11), Madeleine,

Sophie, Madeleine (Y10), Jamie, Kiiahla, Freya (Y9), Edie, Sophia, Sara, Charlee, Olivia, Indiana, Mercy (Y8), Alyssa, Madelynn, Inez, Naomi, Lara, Emma (Y7)

EMAILING THE SCHOOL - Please use our [email protected] email address for correspondence

DEDICATED SMS NUMBER - Please text 0427 459 133 before 9am to advise late or absent students

Freshwater Community Bank is the proud Community Sponsor

of Mackellar Girls Campus Manly Vale

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W@M

We, the 2018/2019 Prefects, have officially entered our first term as Mackellar Leaders. We are all extremely excited and nervous to embark on this new journey together, as we learn how to work cohesively in organising various school events and representing Mackellar to the wider community. Our first event as Prefects was the promotion of Education Week, aligning with the theme, ‘Today’s Schools - Creating Tomorrow’s World’. To mark this occasion, we handed out free cookies and organised a series of posters that celebrated the success of past Mackellar students.

On Friday of Week 5, we had our Prefect Planning Day, on which we brainstormed ideas, organised schedules and mapped out numerous initiatives. This planning day has ignited enthusiasm throughout the prefect body, and we are all excited to see our plans come to life in events including Mahboba’s Breakfast, Multicultural Day and numerous charity and community initiatives. It was a great day to explore ideas and gain a greater understanding of each individual’s strengths, skills and interests.

Mahboba’s Promise Breakfast will be held on Monday September 10th from 7:30 – 9:30am and it would be wonderful to see all Year 11 and their mothers and female relatives there to support this worthy charity.

Annabelle (Y11) for her competing in the NSW CHS Tennis Championships Holly (Y7) for her 2nd place in the Regional Yrs 7-8 Orienteering Championships The Touch Football and Junior Netball teams for being Zone champions Sarah (Y7) for her being a finalist in the Northern Beaches Art Prize Christine Del Gallo, Principal

P&C NEWS -

The P&C has made a significant contribution to the costs associated with the current renovation of the science labs at Mackellar, and the 5 September 2018 General P&C meeting will include a tour of the upgraded science labs. The meeting will commence at the earlier time of 7:00PM in the Staff Common Room, from where we will go on a tour of the new labs. Joining us on the tour and giving a quick talk about the grant that has provided some of the money required for the upgrading will be Mr James Griffin, MP for Manly.

Following the tour we will reconvene in the Staff Common Room for the regular General P&C meeting.

All parents are welcome to the tour and meeting. If any parents have items of a general/broader nature which they wish to raise/speak to, at the September P&C meeting please, both, come along and email the item to P&C Secretary, Fifi Spechler [email protected] to ensure it can be included on the Agenda.

The P&C meetings this year have enjoyed an increased attendance and an agenda helps with the efficient and timely running of the meeting. We are all aware of how precious time is to parents. Late items can usually be raised in General Business but prior knowledge of issues to be discussed allows for preparation and attendance of parents interested in those items. Please note items/issues for discussion at P&C meetings cannot relate to a specific student.

Looking forward to seeing parents at the meeting and tour of the science labs, again at the earlier time of 7:00pm, Wednesday 5 September, 2018

P&C Executive

SEPTEMBER 2018 Monday 3 (9am-2pm)

Wednesday 5 (12-2pm)

Monday 10 (9am-2pm)


Monday 17 (9am-2pm)

Wednesday 19 CLOSED

Monday 24 (9am-2pm)


TERM 3 ENDSFRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING TIMES SEPTEMBER 2018

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LIBRARY UPDATE

Half way through the term and we are getting close to the best school event of the year: BOOK PARADE!!! With this year’s theme, “Find Your Treasure,” the Library is looking sharp with some new displays and decorations. The theme is encouraging the girls to not only find importance and treasure in their reading adventures, but to also look at what it is that they hold special in their lives. Currently in the Library is a treasure wall that is filled with responses to the question: “What do you treasure.” Great responses included friends, extracurricular activities, family, their heritage and culture. On Monday of Week 6 we turned the treasure responses into craft activities. A MakerSpace was held with tasks including making friendship bracelets and bookmarks for our avid readers. The girls produced some creative and exciting bracelets, with great patterns and gave them to each other. We even had teachers join in, with Mrs Naidu using her expertise to craft some awesome bookmarks. Week 6 was kept busy with a treasure hunt taking place on the Thursday. Our book club members put on their game faces and raced around the school, completing challenges and tasks. Groups of four were tasked with performing Shakespeare, searching for clues in the Library and inventing their own Book Club mascot. The girls all worked wonderfully together, ending with winners all-round! Book Parade is being held on the 5th of September, the Wednesday of Week 7. Remind all you can about creating your costume and taking part in this exciting event. Teachers and students alike will be donning the costumes to recreate the characters from their favourite books. This year, the Parade coincides with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation’s Great Book Swap fundraiser. The idea is to swap a favourite book in exchange for another, for a gold coin donation. Last year, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation raised over $190,000 from the Great Book Swap and this year their goal is to raise $300,000 to gift 30,000 new books to remote communities who have few to none. After all, how can you learn to read without books? We cannot wait to see everyone enjoying Book Parade and wearing some fantastic costumes!

Mrs Reed and Miss Langford

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MACKELLAR GIRLS CAMPUS - TERM DATES - 2018

Term 3 Friday 28 September - Last day for students and staff

Term 4 Monday 15 - Students and staff return Wednesday 19 December - Last day for students

MUSIC NEWS - HSC MUSIC STUDENTS - Best of luck to the Year 12 music students who will be sitting their performance exams in Week 8 this term.

Many of the girls in the instrumental ensembles across the year groups accompany these students in smaller ensembles, gaining invaluable insight into the performance exam experience. CONCERT BAND WORKSHOP with Professor R McWilliams - Wednesday 12thSeptember 7:20am - On Wednesday 12th September Professor Rob McWilliams PH.D. M.Mus, B Mus Ed is visiting Mackellar to do a workshop with all student in the Concert Band. Professor McWilliams is the Education Outreach Clinician for the Music Products division of Yamaha and is based in Brisbane. We are extremely lucky to have him come down from Brisbane to do a workshop with the students. As such I ask all parents to ensure your daughter is at school BEFORE 7:20am so we can start promptly at 7:30am.

SAVE THE DATE: Mackellar Big Band performing at the International Manly Jazz Festival Sunday 30th September at 11am on the “ Stars of the Future Stage” near the Manly Council Chambers.

BAND TOUR 26-28 November - The Performance Band and the Vocal Ensemble will be going on tour to the Hunter Coast performing at local schools and age care facilities in the Port Stephens area. Deposit forms now due.

Gigs - Please mark Calendars

Vanessa Patterson, Band Director

Week 6 Tuesday 28th Aug, Wed 29th Aug

also week 7

Year 8 Band Assessments

Year 8 Music Studio

Week 7 Monday 3rd September

Music Night Term 3 All ensembles 6:30pm Arrival for 7pm

start. Finish 8:45pm PSpace

Week 7 Wednesday 5th September

Book Parade Big Band From recess; Quad

Week 8 Wednesday 12th September

Masterclass/ Workshop with

Professor Rob McWilliams Concert Band

7:20am- 9:30am Performance Space

Wednesday 12th September 3pm-5pm.

Year 12 HSC Performance Exams

Selected Band students

accompanying Performance Space/Hall

Week 10 Friday 28th September

Year 12 Farewell Assembly

9:30am- 11:30am Hall

Sunday September 30th Manly Jazz Festival-

Jazz Stars of the Future Stage

Big Band 11am Performance arrive

10:15am Manly Corso West

TERM 4 Week 7 Monday 26 November-Wednesday

28 November BAND TOUR

Performance Band including Year 8

3 days

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SPORTS NEWS - Congratulations to Mali Lovell who competed in Spain at the CP World Games – Mali won 4 Gold Medals for Athletics from her 4 events!!! (100m, 200m, 400m, 800m) We’re very proud of her achievement and look forward to hearing about her fabulous experience.

Regional Athletics - Last Newsletter, I reported on the success of the Relays teams. There were some other fabulous results for our Mackellar girls. The exciting news is that we came 1st out of all the schools in the region. This is an amazing achievement as we can only enter in half the events as we don’t have boys.

Here are the results of girls who came in the top 4 in their event:

Girls 13 Year Olds 100 Metre 1st - Olivia Girls 15 Year Olds 100 Metre 3rd - Madeleine Girls 12-15 100 Metre Multi Class 1st - Mali Girls 17-19 100 Metre 1st - Rowena Girls 12 Year Olds 200 Metre 4th - Alyssa Girls 13 Year Olds 200 Metre 1st - Olivia Girls 15 Year Olds 200 Metre 3rd - Madeleine Girls 12-15 200 Metre Multi Class 2nd - Mali Girls 17-19 200 Metre 1st - Rowena, 2nd - Sophie Girls 17-19 400 Metre 1st - Rowena, 2nd - Sunny, 4th - Sophie Girls 12 Year Olds 800 Metre 1st - Alyssa Girls 13 Year Olds 800 Metre 2nd - Mercy Girls 15 Year Olds 800 Metre 4th - Tia Girls 12-15 800 Metre Multi Class 1st - Mali Girls 16 Year Olds 800 Metre 1st - Piper Girls 12-14 1500 Metre 2nd - Mercy Girls 15 Year Olds 1500 Metre 1st - Tia Girls 16 Year Olds 1500 Metre 1st - Piper Girls 15+ 3000 1st - Piper Harrison, 2nd - Tia Girls 13 Year Olds 80 Metre Hurdles 2nd - Sophie Girls 15 Year Olds 90 Metre Hurdles 3rd - Madeleine Girls 12-15 200 Metre Hurdles 2nd - Madeleine Girls 12 Year Olds High Jump 2nd - Madelynn Girls 13 Year Olds High Jump 2nd - Sophie Girls 14 Year Olds High Jump 3rd - Charlize Girls 16 Year Olds High Jump 3rd - Sophia Girls 16 Year Olds Long Jump 3rd - Lily Girls 17-19 Long Jump 4th - Eloise Girls 13 Year Olds Shot Put 2nd - Emma Girls 12 Year Olds Discus Throw 2nd - Madelynn Girls 13 Year Olds Discus Throw 2nd - Emma Girls 15 Year Olds Discus Throw 2nd - Freya Girls 12-13 Javelin Throw 400gms 1st - Emma Girls 14 Year Olds Javelin Throw 3rd - Edie Girls 15 Year Olds Javelin Throw 4th - Chelsey Girls 17-19 Javelin Throw 4th - Jaime

GRADE SPORT REPORT - Congratulations to our grade sport teams who made and competed in the Zone Final on the 22nd of August. These included Junior and Senior Soccer, Junior and Senior Netball, and Touch. Well done to all students who played grade sport this session and represented the school in Junior Netball and Touch. The Touch and Junior Netball teams were successful in winning the Zone Final and now go on to compete in the Super Zone final on the 29th of August. Well done girls!

Session 3 sport starts on September the 12th and runs until the end of the year.

PASS SKI CAMP 2018 - On Sunday 5th of August, 96 PASS students from Years 9 and 10 headed to the snow for Ski Camp. The week was an amazing display of weather, starting with blizzard-like conditions with guess-the-bump whiteout vision and fresh snow falling. Throughout the week the girls were tested with falls, bumps and bruises as well as success stories and hilarious adventures of T-bar misfortunes. The week finished with blue skies, amazing views of the mountain and Mackellar girls carving up the slopes. Thanks to teachers Ms Saunders, Ms Jones, Ms Rob, Ms Darsley and Ms Adams for an all-round amazing and unforgettable week.

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HOCKEY AT MACKELLAR 2018 - Congratulations to the Mackellar Hockey Teams who represented the school on the weekends in the Warringah Competition.

A big thank you to these amazing coaches, who made Mackellar Hockey run so smoothly this year. Isabella, Kayleen, Madeleine, Gabrielle and Olivia.

The Sky Team was coached by Ms Sue Saunders. Players included Camille, Lauren, Isabella, Madeleine, Kayleen, Tullia, Bridgett, Darcie, Stella, Gabrielle, Yasmin and Ishbel (absent Madeline)

The Navy Team was coached by Olivia and Kayleen. Players included Helena, Heejun, Tenzin, Eva, Veena, Cielle, Olive, Inez, Amirah, Scarlett and Amelie.

Mackellar Blue was coached by Madeleine and Isabella. Players included Cora, Morgan, Eva, Zoe. Maya, Emily, Mali, Siena, Elise, Elinor, Jade and Charlotte.

Also Congratulations to the Knockout Hockey Team who is playing Orange on Friday the 31st August in the final 16 of the State. The team included Yasmin, Madeleine, Olivia, Hannah, Kayleen, Isabella, Olivia, Ruby, Gabrielle, Holly, Chelsea, Tess, Amelie and Bridgett (absent Portia and Eyla.

OPEN GIRLS KNOCKOUT TOUCH TEAM 2018 - On the 14th and 15th of August, our knockout touch football team competed in the final 10 series held on the Central Coast. The girls played 5 games over the two days and were narrowly defeated in the semi final, 4-3, to the eventual champions. The team’s efforts over the two days were amazing and they were proud to finish equal third in the state in the opens division. With the team only losing one year 12 player next year, they should again go very close! The team consisted of Jordan, Edie, Megan, Hannah, Matilda, Indiana, Sabrina, Lily, Teagan, Sascha, Kiiahla, Zara and Olivia. (Zara and Olivia absent on finals day, not in team photo.)

A huge congratulations to Kahli of Year 9 who has made the final cut for the U16 Young Matlida’s team. She is going to Asia next Wednesday 5th September to represent Australia. Good Luck Kahli! We look forward to hearing how you go.

Sue Saunders, Sports Co-ordinator 2018 Gala Day Report The Year 7 Gala Day was held on Tuesday 14th August. This was an opportunity for the students to engage in some friendly competition against local schools where fair play and positive interaction was emphasised. I was lucky enough to visit each of the sports being Netball, Ultimate Frisbee, Soccer and Touch Football, and I was most impressed with the participation, sportsmanship and teamwork that was displayed by our students. As always, the Mackellar girls demonstrated their personal best regardless of their results. The Year 10 PASS students did an excellent job of coaching our teams as well as refereeing, scoring and managing. A big thank you to the teachers who helped on the day and made the event run smoothly. It was a great day out for everyone involved. Ms Angus PDHPE

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DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST – Glen Street Theatre, 21st‐29th September 2018 Each year, the Stage Artz Theatre Company and Stage Artz Performing Arts School combine to stage a musical produc on to raise money for The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Stage Artz Charity Musicals have currently raised $233,000 for the kids at Westmead. Our aim this year is to raise another $17,000, to take our total dona on to $250,000... making Stage Artz an official benefactor of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. The stage adapta on of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is an interna onal sensa on that has played to over 35 million people worldwide in 13 countries. Based on the Academy Award‐winning animated feature, the original Broadway produc on ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Stage Artz is thrilled to bring the enchanted world of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast to the Glen Street Theatre stage! The show includes a cast of 150 talented performers, aged 5yrs to 60yrs, and a full orchestra.

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Girls cricket hub. LOCATION: David Thomas & Millers Ovals, Manly Vale COST: Ull $150 U13/15 $175

TO REGISTER TODAY 60 TO PLAYCRICKET.COM.AU

COMPETITION/S: Sixers Girls Cricket League - U 11 , 13 & 15 TIME: Sat 10.30 am or 1.00pm

COME TRY Sunday 9,16 and 23 September 3pm - 4.30pm Harbord Devils Junior

SESSIONS: At Lionel Watts nets, Belrose CLUB:

Cricket Club (HDJCC)

CONTACT: Kylee Davidson email [email protected]

For further information refer to website

OTHER INFO: www.harborddevils.nsw.cricket.com.au Competition starts 20 October

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