BARRENJOEY HIGH SCHOOL’S

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

Phone: 9918 8811

Term 3 Week 6

29th August, 2018 THE PENINSULA PRESS

Year 5’s from 4 local primary

schools have a wonderful

day in High School!

THE FIVE THINKING HABITS OF EMOTIONALLY RESILIENT

PEOPLE

A workshop by Julia Souter

You are probably aware that the Year 10 students at

Barrenjoey take part in our purpose-built Resilience

Program. We are now in our second year of this very

important initiative. Unlike many emotional health

programs, which are purchased straight ‘off the shelf’ our

approach was to develop one with the help of Julia

Souter and Liz Whyte so that it had a local feel and is

adaptable to our needs.

Essentially Julia’s workshop on resilience has 5 ‘Thinking

Habits’ that will be presented and discussed in smallgroups through out the term.

Whilst it is targeted towards Year 10 it is just as relevant for all young people and as such I

believe it important that our parent community is also cognizant of the habits we are promoting

with our younger community.

Each habit is a series of prompting questions that enable the discussion to be directed by the

students’ responses. I have included some of the prompting questions below so you can have abetter idea of the discussions.

1. QUESTION EVERYTHING

• Where does this thought, feeling or belief come from?

• THINK CRITICALLY! Be aware of the power of other people’s ideas on you.

• We are all influenced by others & culture in general (social psych)

• How we think of ourselves, is shaped first by our parents and then by everyone else.

e.g. Instagram. Q: Have you ever posted a bad picture? Why? Why not? Who started this?

e.g. Being good at maths is important. Q: Why? Who decided? And if it’s so important why do

we pay teachers and scientists and nurses so badly but movie stars and models and sports

stars so much?

e.g. Being skinny – why? Who decided? (cultural)

Q: What is influencing your thinking? (social media, other people’s opinions (peer, family,

school, social ‘norms’) Don’t drink the cool aid! Advertising / curated social media. Designed all

to sell you something (either real or aspirational).

Q: Are you judging yourself by standards YOU really believe in or based on what OTHERS tell

you about yourself? Should you trust them? Maybe what they say tells you more about THEM

than you. Maybe you shouldn’t take it personally? (At any rate check in first)

Think: how does thinking this way affect my feelings? Be aware - Is this true or useful?

• Tattoo a ? on your hand for a week! Think to oneself ‘really?’ when people tell you

things about what they think (NB. the difference between ‘thinking’ and ‘feeling’, because you don’t want to question someone’s feelings).

2. REMEMBER THAT EVERYTHING CHANGES

• Change is the only constant and is inevitable in life. This Too Shall Pass. Make this your

mantra.

• Every cell in your body completely new after 7 years; you’re not even the same person, so

why assume your moods, thoughts or opinions will not change?

• Learn to let your moods pass like the weather .. hold on.. trust in change because you KNOW

it to be TRUE and in fact you are already resilient because if you are here it means you have

survived plenty of change (and stress) this far..

e.g. Who was I at 5 and 10 and now? (interests, style, looks, friends?)

Q: How did that change occur? Change happens even if you DO nothing!

e.g. Think of something you used to hate doing that is now over.

Q: How did you get through it? How did it end? Reflect. (think of a happy time – did this last)?

• ‘TTSP’ (This Too Shall Pass) tattoo on hand for a

week or have it always visible.

How to adopt this into your daily life?

How to adopt this into your daily life?

3. BE YOURSELF & BE KIND TO YOURSELF

• The ONLY thing you are in control of is how you respond to something!

• So the only thing that can be more consistent (given that things are always changing) is

YOUR behaviour and integrity. Even if it feels like everything else is happening TO you.

• So how do you do this? Trust your instincts! BE YOURSELF! e.g’s of people doing / not

doing and what happens & how you feel about it) Takes real courage! (not to be a sheep).

• “Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed person and still hold yourself in high

regard” (i.e. essentially I’m ok)

e.g. Who are you? Q: Is this based on what your friends / parents think of you? Now re-examine

that list. What are they missing? What do you know that they don’t?

e.g. Each person to think of one bad thing they’ve done. Q: Was there a consequence? How did

you feel? Does it still matter now? Would it have been fair or useful to judge yourself forever more

on that thing you did? (given it doesn’t matter now)

How to adopt this into your daily life?

• Flesh out your “who am I?” list privately at home.

• Practice talking to yourself kindly (even if it’s silly

at first – hey, never mind)

4. KNOW THAT EVERYONE SUFFERS

• Everyone suffers pain and loss – no avoiding it – this means you are never the only one going

through something hard.

• The problems occur because people hide it and pretend to be ‘fine’… “it’s all good” (rubbish!)

Therefore we start to feel like it’s ‘just us’ which makes us feel alone and weird and wrong.

Q: How do people hide their truth? Deliberate pretence or unconscious (i.e. anger for

sadness).

Q: Why? (social media nonsense) & for boys especially there is a hyper-masculine culture

(teaches boys to shut down emotionally)

The antidote? Telling the truth – back to integrity, be real. Life is absurd and has no meaning

so make of it whatever YOU want. Play the game and take as much from it as you can

because it’s also short!

How to adopt this into your daily life?

Look at a newspaper every day - the world is a messy painful place.

Imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes for 1 minute. Foster empathy

– this fosters compassion. (imp for others but also for self). When you

consider yourself a part of a much bigger planet you can see we are all

struggling in our own way.. makes us compassionate and feel less

isolated / take it less personally.

5. FIND YOUR TRIBE

• Genuine friendship will keep you sane.

• Social connection is as important as diet and exercise for a healthy and long life.

• Before you can find your tribe, you have to know who YOU are.

e.g: Be picky! Q: How should we choose our friends?

Q: How do you know who your real friends are?

How to adopt this into your daily life?

Get really good at knowing yourself. Then

look around and start considering whether

you are compromising any part of yourself

to ‘fit in’ with your current tribe.

Are there people you wish weren’t in your

tribe? What is it about them you don’t like?

This gives clue as to YOUR values.

SPECIAL WORKING BEE – This Saturday 1ST SEPTEMBER

AVALON COMMUNITY CIRCLE

Working Bee – Saturday 1st SeptemberTime – 9am to 12 midday

Two Locations:1) Off the North Avalon Beach Carpark and at the beach end of the Yellow Brick Road

2) Barrenjoey High School

We will have multiple projects at this Working Bee, some at the school and the

construction of the Avalon Community Circle which is offsite.

We are planning on building a Community Circle made of stone for the whole

Community to use. Circles are an ideal place to reflect, develop connections,

understanding, belonging, affection, agreements and trust.

Thank you and have a great week…………….Ian Bowsher

YEAR 7 BARRENJOEY HIGH SCHOOL TUTORIAL PROGRAM

TERM 3, WEEK 9 – TERM 4, WEEK 4

Barrenjoey High School is offering small group tutorials in English and Mathematics.

The six-week program starts Term 3, Week 9 Monday 17 September up to and

including Term 4, Week 4 beginning Monday 5 November. The sessions will go for 1

hour starting from 3.30 onwards and all tutorials will be held at school in A Block.

Skilled and experienced tutors will work with students in a friendly environment

delivering course material, challenging concepts, revision topics and exam strategies.

As we run on a cost-only basis the tutorials are offered at the very reasonable price of

$150.00 per subject for the six week program.

Be quick! Enrolments are now open and close Friday 14 September.

Confirmation of places will be emailed by Monday 17 September along with invoices

requesting payment by Thursday 20 September. Please wait for your confirmation

place before making payment to the Treasurer.

Please email your enrolment to evie.menhinick1@det.nsw.edu.au indicating what

tutorial(s) you would like to enrol your child in.

Student name:

Extension Maths Monday 3:30pm

Consolidation English Tuesday 4:00pm

Consolidation Maths Wednesday 3:30pm

Extension English Thursday 4:00pm

We look forward to having your child participate in the tutorial program, which will

assist them to develop and consolidate their knowledge and skills, encourage

confidence and facilitate students to reach their academic best.

Thank you and kind regards,

Ian Bowsher

Principal

Evie Menhinick

Teacher/Tutorial Co-ordinator

Year 11 student Sarah Bradhurst’s

portrait of Keiran McCarthy-Reece

made it through to the 3rd round of

the Northern Beaches Art Prize

(youth 15-18 section).

Well done Sarah.

NORTHERN BEACHES ART AWARDS NIGHT

Year 7 student Lorcan Brondum won the Honourable

Mention for 10-14 age-group, which is the top prize for the

10-14 Category! Along with $400. Well done Lorcan.

The judges described his artwork as…

A wonderful and whimsical portrait, honest and direct. A

very strong and lively sense of character and personality,

achieved by the use of intense colour and very actively

painted surfaces. It has a lovely sense of who is behind

painting the work and the relationship between artist and

subject.

Congratulations to:

The annual Northern Beaches Art Prize began in 1955

and has become the Northern Beaches most

prestigious Art Competition. Awards were presented by

Mayor Michael Regan at an evening at the Creative

Space in North Curl Curl on Thursday 23rd August.

If you would like to see the Exhibition

Creative Space

105 Abbot Road, North Curl Curl.

Finishes this Sunday 2nd August.

Congratulations to:

YEAR 5 SPORTS SPECTACULAR 2017

Last Thursday, Barrenjoey hosted Year 5 students from Avalon, Bilgola Plateau, Montessori and

Newport Public Schools for our Sports Spectacular Day.

The day is run by Barrenjoey Year 10 PASS students who train, coach and oversee ten modified

sports which included hockey, basketball, netball and boxing.

A very big thank you to all of the PDHPE staff for their time in preparation before and during the

day, as well as our Year 7 and 8 students that assisted throughout the day.

Specifically aimed at assisting the transition from primary school to high school, the day was

thoroughly enjoyed by all. It was great to see the Year 5 students learning new skills, participating,

meeting new friends and having fun, all in the spirit of Respect, Effort and Challenge.

SILVER DUKE OF EDINBURGH PRACTICE EXPEDITION

Last week twenty two Silver Duke of Edinburgh students, along with four international students,

three Gold DOE students, Miss Attard and one very brave parent Janelle Amet, successfully

completed their first Canoeing trip for the Adventurous Journey component of the Award. The group

started on Thursday at Wisemans ferry and finished on Saturday at Peats Ridge.

The first day saw the group battle bravely against the tide and the wind to our first campsite. We

set up camp quickly before the anticipated rain and one student discovered they don’t mix well with

horses. Exhausted and keen to get into our warm beds and out of the wind, we had an early night.

The second day saw higher spirits and smiles across all faces as we were paddling with the tide!

Even the sun decided to show its face a few times and the wind AND rain held off! The scenery

was amazing! Jagged red cliff faces protruding out of the water and we saw copious amounts of

jellyfish and huge Sea Eagles hunting. We arrived at the second campsite in the early afternoon

and after trudging our gear out of the canoes and through the mud we set up in an isolated clearing

in the bush that we shared with a greedy kookaburra.

Before the sun set the students had to show off their canoeing skills and demonstrate a capsize

drill in the water! Many squeals were heard as the students willing jumped into the icy water and

worked as a team to turn the canoes up the right way. We then were able to warm up and dry off

next to a roaring fire under the stars and an incredibly bright moon.

The third and final day saw us paddling yet again with the tide, no wind and surprisingly no rain!!!

Hurrah! As it was a Saturday we shared the water with many boats and hitched a ride in their wake.

The group returned to school around 4pm on Saturday, sad that the trip was over, excited for a

warm shower and cosy bed and full of the best memories!

A big thankyou to Janelle Amet for giving up her time to come along and to all the students who

helped each other, kept spirits high and made this an unforgettable experience. The qualifying

canoe trip for the Silver Duke of Edinburgh is in December in the Kangaroo Valley and the

excitement is already brewing. Louise Attard

TUESDAY AFTERNOON HOMEWORK CLUB

Tuesday Afternoon

Homework Club Focus

Week/Date Focus

Week 7 – 4/9/2018 Geography/History

SURVIVING YEAR 12

Get your copy of this special edition book $10

We have limited number of these updated

special edition “Surviving Year 12” books

in the front office for just $10.

A must for final year students and their

families. Written by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

a psychologist specialising in adolescent

mental health and parenting adolescents.

In this edition:

- Advice to students on how they can

cope with the pressure

- Work smarter and actually enjoy their

final year

- Overcoming anxiety and stress

- Setting goals

- Dealing with procrastination

- Ensuring exercise and diet regimes are

good

- How to cope with the exams themselves

If you would like one of these

AWESOME books please come to

reception.

$10

THANK YOU FOR A SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING EVENT

Bulman Central School Children

Thank you for a wonderful fundraising event! Congratulations on raising an amazing

$604.00 which enables us to send all these boxes to Bulman Central School.

Zoe Brigstocke of

Year 12 Visual

Arts has created a

large body of work

that explores

climate change.

This oil stick on

black paper

artwork captures

the intensity of a

bushfire.

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

HOW

WONDERFUL

We would love to

thank the students

and the community

for your generous

donation of books

for Bulman Central

School.

We have been

inundated with

children’s literacy

books.

They are now in

the process of

being packed up

and shipped to the

Northern Territory.

SPORT NEWS

GRADE SPORT

Three Barrenjoey teams won their respective regular season point scores of the Warringah Zone

Grade Sport competition. This is played every Wednesday afternoon in sport time during terms 2

& 3 against all the high schools in our Zone; Pittwater High, Narrabeen Sports High, Cromer

Secondary Campus and Manly Selective High School. The victorious teams were Girls Senior

Soccer, coached by Mr Stone, Girls Junior Soccer, coached by Mr Grunseit and Boys Senior

Touch Football, coached by Mr Edmondson. These teams won their Zone Finals last Wednesday

with the following results:

Girls Senior Soccer: defeated Narrabeen Sports High 3-2 with best on field Ellie Kerr

Girls Junior Soccer: defeated Narrabeen Sports High 3-1 with best on field Eliza Cutrie

Boys Senior Touch Football: defeated Cromer 4-3 with best on field Chris Hope

Well done to these teams and best of luck in the Super Zone Grand final today (Wednesday)

played at Cromer Park against the best of the North Shore Zone:

Girls Senior Soccer vs. Willoughby

Girls Junior Soccer vs. Davidson

Boys Senior Touch Football vs. Balgowlah Boys

Simon Flood

PDHPE Teacher

CONGRATULATIONS – GRAND FINAL CHAMPIONS

Congratulations to the Avalon W18/1’s who defeated

Pittwater RSL 1-0 in the Grand Final last Sunday at

Cromer Park. It was a very tight game with Avalon

scoring 5 minutes before full time! It was an

awesome goal that went over the keepers head in

the top right corner. Well done to Ella Couston,

Francesca Elder, Jessi Foster, Sam Cooper, Tara

Woods, Bella Sanguinetti, and Saige Padilla.

Well done ladies.

Congratulations to the W16/1’s who won in

spectacular fashion. After being down 1-0 at half

time against Seaforth they managed 2 sensational

goals to win the Grand Final. 2-1.

Well done to Saskia Stylianou, Alicia Carruthers

and Nina Paton.

Homework club * Come and do your homework with the support

of a teacher

When: Tuesday afternoons 3.15 - 4.15pm

Thursday mornings 8.15 – 9am

Where: In Top Deck, upstairs in D block next to D18

Any questions ask Ms Smith or Ms Hines in the LASS staffroom upstairs in

C block, next to C12

Week/Date Focus

Week 7 – 04/09/2018 Geography/History

Week 8 – 11/09/2018 General Homework

Week 9 – 18/09/2018 General Homework

Week 10 – 25/09/2018 General Homework

Tuesday Afternoon Homework Club Focus

SANDBAR CAFÉOPEN EVERY

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MORNINGS8am -10am

Come along and enjoy some of the delightful treats. Open to

our wonderful community, bring your family and friends.

The Sandbar Café is officially open to staff, students

and friends of Barrenjoey.

We have been practicing our coffees and now ready to

serve our community not only coffees but also

milkshakes, teas, and some delicious food items.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU AT

SANDBAR CAFÉ.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

WEEK 7 (A) TERM 3

MONDAY

SEPTEMBER 3

TUESDAY

SEPTEMBER 4

WEDNESDAY

SEPTEMBER 5

THURSDAY

SEPTEMBER 6

FRIDAY

SEPTEMBER 7

Year 12 Tutorial

Program Week

HSC Visual Arts

Bodies of Work

Due

SRC Induction

Assembly

Year 12 Flexible

Learning Week

(English

Workshops) &

HSC

Engineering

Studies

Workshop

CHS

Athletics

Carnival

(Homebush)

CHS

Athletics

Carnival

(Homebush)

PCS Science

Fair (Avalon

Public

School)

HSC

Showcase

6pm-9.30pm

CHS Athletics

Carnival

(Homebush)

Band Rehearsal

3.15pm-4.30pm

MONDAY

August 27

TUESDAY

August 28

WEDNESDAY

August 29

THURSDAY

August 30

FRIDAY

August 31

Year 12

Tutorial

Program

Week

Year 12

Biology

Practical

Portfolio

Due

IT Timber &

MM Marking

Year 9

English

Assessment

Due

Year 8

Wellbeing

Production

HSC IT MM

Marking

HSC Mathematics

AT4

Year 11

Economics

Excursion

(Reserve Bank of

Australia)

Year 11 Flexible

Learning Day

PDHPE First Aid

and Extension

English

Year 9 Maths 5.2

and 5.3 AT3

Band Rehearsal

6pm-8pm

Year 12

Chemistry Prac

Portfolio Due

HSC Extension

1 English

Assessment

HSC Design &

Technology

Major Projects

Due

Year 7

Wellbeing

Production

HSC

Mathematics

Ext 2 AT4

Year 12 Earth &

Es Assessment

Task Due

Year 10

Wellbeing

Production

Year 9 Maths

5.1 AT3

GIRLS

NETBALL

GALA DAY

(West Gosford)

Band

Rehearsal

3.15pm-4.30pm

WEEK 6 (B) TERM 3

Saturday SEPT 1 – WORKING BEE

9AM START

YEAR 12 SCHEDULE

GRADUATION REHEARSAL MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

VALEDICTORY DINNER TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 7.30pm – 11pm

DAWN LIGHTHOUSE WALK & BREAKFAST

THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 5.15am

GRADUATION ASSEMBLY FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 10am

Excursions Term 3

NAME YearDate of

ExcursionDue Amount

Silver Duke of Ed

FUNDRAISING10 various

Duke of Ed- Equip Hire various

Maths On Line $30

Yr8 Japanese - Taiko

Drumming8 10th September 22/10/2018 $20

Year 12 Study Skills 12 14th September 5/06/2018 $30

WELLBEING

7

various

27/02/2018$30

8 $55

9

28/02/2018

$30

10 $110

11/12 $30

Dance Performance various various $200

HSC Min Stds Online Test Tuts 10 various 13/04/2018 $50 per subject

Maths Competitions 7-12 $7 &/or $10

Yr 9 Camp 919-21st

September

Dep=4/07

Bal=29/8

Total=$340

Dep=$240

Bal=$100

Year 11 Tutorials 11 T3 W1,3,4,5 $200ea

Jewish Museum 10 6th November 29/10/2018 $27

Band Tour 7-1230th November–

7th December

Deposit due

17th August

Total = $750

Dep = $250

Bal= $500

If you make a payment via the online POP please ensure you

attach your receipt to your child’s permission note when they

bring that into the Treasurer’s Office. This makes it much

easier to match payments or your child can bring a screen

shot of the receipt to the treasurer.

Many thanks, Treasurer

PAYMENT BY POP

Credit Card Payments over the phone - If you are paying by Credit Card

please be advised that only the treasurer may now take your details and

complete the transaction with your details. If they are unavailable we can take

your contact details and they will call you back to complete. Payments can be

made via POP as a preferred method of payment.

CANTEEN ROSTER – Term 3

Week 7 CANTEEN ROSTER

MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER Anne McWilliam

TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER Help Needed

WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER Help Needed

THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER Help Needed

FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER Jackie Sailer

CAREERS NEWSLETTER with Mr Moylan

The Barrenjoey Careers Website is a great resource for students, parents and staff

with information on careers and post school.

Good Afternoon everyone,

Here is the link to this weeks careers newsletter

http://bit.ly/bhscareersnewsletter27818

Year 10:Year 10 work experience finalised paperwork is due week 10 term 3.

Michael MoylanCareers Advisor Year 9 Advisor

Week 6 CANTEEN ROSTER

MONDAY 27 August Kate McGilchrist

TUESDAY 28 August Help Needed

WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST Help Needed

THURSDAY 30 AUGUST Help Needed

FRIDAY 31 AUGUST Nicky Stanley-Jones

SCHOOL BYTES - What is this?

To put in simple terms, it is a reminder email that payment is required. It is also a direct link to

Parent Online Payment (POP).

This does not replace the ability to pay via the website.

You can still access POP via the School Website to make your payment.

This extra system allows us (the school) to create email groups for payment. eg. Sport, Music

1. You will receive an email from the school’s email address:

(Barrenjoey-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au) with the subject “Student Statement of Account”.

All children in a family will be included in the same email.

Dear Parent,

Please find attached the statement of account for your child – John Citizen

Payment can be made online via our Westpac Parent Payment System. Use the link(s) below

to pay using a debit or credit card (MasterCard/Visa):

Make a payment for John Citizen

2. To make an online credit card payment, click the secure payment button and follow

the prompts.

Make a payment for John Citizen

SCHOOL BYTES

EMAIL TO INFORM PARENTS OF PAYMENTS REQUIRED

Barrenjoey High School will be sending student statements of account &

fee reminders directly to parents via email using a system called School

Bytes. These statements will include a link to make secure payment

online through the Westpac Parent Online Payment (POP) system (Visa &

Mastercard credit/debit cards accepted).

To make an online payment for your child(ren)’s school fees, please followthe steps below:

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Dear Parents,

We are looking forward to the Barrenjoey High School App - School Stream update being

released on the Apple and Google Play Store over the course of the next 7 days.

Please check that you update the app when it’s released. You can even set your phone’s app

updates to automatic.

Here are the instructions for the Apple App Store (https://goo.gl/mvC9as)

and the Google Play Store (https://goo.gl/XCgkL1).

To get the most out of the app features we do recommend registering an account so you can

easily manage the content the school sends through.

To register an account, go to the side menu via the top-left corner and click on "Log-in".

This is a quick and easy process that will require your first and last name, and a mobile number,

email, or Facebook account authorisation.

Once you have registered your account, you will be able to access all of the new app features

which will be highlighted in the welcome video which is displayed within the app.

SCHOOL STREAM – BARRENJOEY APP

VERSION 2.0 UPDATING THIS WEEK!

New Canteen Menu