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(Dates subject to change – see School Calendar)

TERM 1

FEB

19 Ulsan Seo Middle School (Korea)

visiting BGHS 15-21 February Yr.12 Music to Encore concert ASSEMBLY Student Leadership Team Meeting Prefects’ Lunar New Year stall at

lunchtime (wear red accessories)

20 Ulsan Seo Middle School visit Summer Grade Comp commences Yr.7I,M,A,S Digital Thumbprint

Program

21 Ulsan Seo Middle School visit Yr.7T,E Digital Thumbprint Program KO Basketball vs St Ives HS at BGHS P&C AGM, 7pm in Library – all

welcome (enter via Cheltenham Rd)

22 School Photo Day #2 Yr.11 Digital Thumbprint Program BEP Strings to International Students

Awards at the Conservatorium

23 Yr.11 Digital Thumbprint Program True Colours meeting at lunchtime

26 Yr.7 Vaccinations Sports payments due this week Yr.9&10 Engineering Challenges

Sunswift incursion, p.2 Yr.11&12 D&T Sunswift incursion, p.3 SRC Year Group Meetings, lunchtime

27 Yr.12 D&T/T&D to Shape Seminar In Concert choir rehearsal all day

28 Yr.11 Ancient History to Macquarie Uni Yr.12 Economics to Deloitte P&C Year 7 Welcome BBQ, 6pm

(SCB performing)

MAR

1 Yr.9&10 PASS Surf Camp, Day 1 All Schools Triathlon at Penrith Yr.12 VA to Art Express, AGNSW

2 Yr.10 Visual Arts to Ballast Park Yr.12 Languages to USyd “Go Global” Prefects Meeting, lunchtime

5 Zone Swimming Competition Premier’s Reading Challenge open IWD ASSEMBLY Student Leadership Team Meeting Yr.6 Information Evening, 7pm in Hall

(BEP Strings performing)

7 Year 7 Camp, Broken Bay 7-9 March

School Council Meeting, 6pm

8 Year 7 Camp Yr.6 Tour of School for interested

students and parents, 9am-10am Yr.10 NAPLAN minimum standards test

9 Year 7 Camp (last day) FIELD STUDY DAY #1

12 Online sport selection for Term 2 open 12-12 March

Yr.12 English Standard incursion Chikushi Jogakuen Junior High School

(Japan) visiting today International Day Planning Meetings at

10:10 am (assembly bell times today) Yr.9 Engineering to Robotics Comp SRC Year Group Meetings, lunchtime

13 Yr.7 STARR Day & parent evening

P&C MEETINGS, 7:00 pm, Library AGM 21 February; 21 March; 16 May

Burwood Girls High School

EVENT

Volume 17, Issue 1, 19 February 2018

From the Principal Last year we did not publish an Event in February, and parents were disappointed not to receive information about HSC results. I am happy to inform you that we are not making the same mistake this year and Julia Alvarado, Head Teacher Secondary Studies, has prepared a thorough evaluation of the 2017 HSC results for your perusal.

I would also like to thank parents for their attendance at our Presentation Day last year. It was a wonderful celebration of student achievement.

Welcome to Year 7 students and new staff. Special thanks to Janina Longman for relieving as principal.

As I said last year, 2018 is the year for “Inspiration” and we continue to offer quality programs and opportunities to enrich the learning for students, teachers and parents.

Our building program SSRP (Secondary Schools Renewal Project) has commenced and access to the school is limited, so our apologies for any inconvenience.

Our School Plan 2018-2020 is finalised and I look forward to achieving our milestones together.

Remember to follow me on Twitter @MiaKumar8152.

Mia Kumar

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2017 HSC RESULTS Report by Julia Alvarado, Head Teacher Secondary Studies

The school is extremely proud to acknowledge the excellent HSC results of our 2017 HSC cohort. Last year’s results once again placed us in the top 100 schools in the state (the first time since 2014) and we were the 9th ranked comprehensive public school in NSW.

Exceptional achievements included:

Two students achieving the Premier’s All-round Excellence Award having achieved a Band 6 in at least 10 units. Congratulations to Yuntian (Betty) Bi and Minnie Liu on this achievement.

Betty Bi Minnie Liu Joey Yung Ivy Wu

Joanne Tae Bronte Powell Nara Brown Jessica Anderson

Two students achieving ATARs over 99.00: Betty Bi and Joey Yung

Ten students achieving ATARs over 98.00 and 26 students achieving ATARs over 95.00

Six students gaining a place on the Top Achievers list, including:

o Betty Bi finishing 4th in Chinese and Literature and 9th in ESL English in the state.

o Ivy Wu finishing 2nd in Chinese and Literature

o Joanne Tae finishing 3rd in Korean in Context

o Bronte Powell finishing 3rd in Indonesian Extension

o Nara Brown finishing 4th in Indonesian Extension

o Jessica Anderson finishing 14th in English (Standard)

40% of students appearing on the Distinguished Achievers list (achieving at least one Band 6)

59% of all examinations sat by BGHS students achieved a Band 5 or 6

85% of all examinations sat by BGHS students achieved a Band 4, 5 or 6.

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2 students were nominated for “OnSTAGE” for their Drama performances: Mia Evans Rorris and Emma Douglas-Oliviera

1 student received a certificate of High Distinction and the Dr Margaret White Award for outstanding research in the Personal Interest Project in Society and Culture: Fatma Mawassi

1 student was nominated for “Callback” for her performance in Dance: Emily Mee

2 students were nominated for “Art Express” for their art work: Lola Nesbitt and Skye Farrajotta

Emma Douglas-Oliviera Mia Evans Rorris Fatma Mawassi Emily Mee

Lola Nesbitt Skye Farrajotta Excellent results were also achieved in a wide range of individual subjects:

In English (Advanced), 94% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 64% of the state)

In English (Standard), 56% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 16% of the state)

In English (ESL), 53% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 25% of the state)

In Mathematics (Ext1), 93% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6

In Chemistry, 63% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 43% of the state)

In Senior Science, 47% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 25% of the state)

In Legal Studies, 75% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 44% of the state)

In Modern History, 79% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 40% of the state)

In Studies of Religion I, 57% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 16% of the state)

In Aboriginal Studies, 50% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 26% of the state)

In Chinese and Literature, 40% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 16% of the state)

In Visual Arts, 36% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 12% of the state)

In Hospitality, 53% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 21% of the state)

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On the back of these results, at least 85% of students who applied for either a Commonwealth Supported or International Fee paying university degree place have received such an offer. Students are going on to study a broad range of subjects at universities across the state (and ACT). Student Artwork nominated for Art Express:

ENGLISH AND DRAMA NEWS

We are very excited about the new opportunities in the English and Drama Faculty in 2018. The implementation of the NSW HSC has begun for our Year 11 students who will be undertaking the new HSC examination in 2019 thereby taking senior English in exciting new directions for every Stage 6 course.

We would like to welcome Tristan Carey, a permanent member of staff, who is delighted to be working at Burwood Girls High School. Tristan brings with him outstanding academic qualifications with both a first class honours degree in English literature and a Masters of Teaching from UNSW. Most recently, he has enjoyed teaching at a public school in the Western suburbs and looks forward to coaching Burwood debating teams for the 2018 Premier’s Debating Challenge. We also welcome back Annie Dang who will be with us two days a week this year.

We celebrated the conclusion of Stage 5 with our annual Year 10 film festival Epic Shorts that was a roaring success thanks to the culmination of hard work and brilliant creativity and teamwork by Year 10, 2017. Thank you to all

the students and staff from Years 7-9 who came and shared in the joy of the film festival and a huge thank you to the English, Drama, Music and VET Entertainment staff who made the event possible. Our Industry panel of judges: Paul Melville, Leone Carey, Mark Foster and Liam Kinkhead; collectively expressed their admiration for both the high standard of the films, and the smooth, entertaining and professional quality of the entire show.

Epic Shorts – more photos below

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Mr Gallaway and I accompanied Years 11 and 12 Drama students to On Stage HSC Performance evening at The Seymour Centre on Tuesday 6 February, which was a fantastic opportunity for our current Stage 6 students to view performance work of the highest calibre and gain inspiration for their own HSC drama major works.

For students in Stages 4 and 5, preparations are underway for this year’s involvement in the Shakespeare Carnival run by Sport for Jove Theatre Company and the school Theatre Sports challenge run by Impro Australia. Thanks to Mr Gallaway for facilitating these opportunities for our students.

Pauline Hageman, Head Teacher, English and Drama

Epic Shorts - Year 10 film festival 2017

LANGUAGES NEWS

Korean Writing Contest Report by Jenny Saw, Year 10

On Friday 6 October last year multiple students from Burwood GHS participated in the Korean writing contest.

We listened to welcoming speeches from directors and hosts about the competition. We were then separated into several rooms for each category (English and Korean).

The topic was “What is your favourite thing about Korea?” I wrote about my recent trip to Korea with the school in the September holidays. I wrote about the activities we did and places we visited but also the delicious food we ate.

For lunch we enjoyed sushi, fried chicken, drinks and other snacks that were available.

We participated in some traditional Korean cultural activities such as making fans and stamps.

At 3pm the awards were announced, and the 1st prize of Korean writing division went to Cici Chen, Year 12 with $200 gift card and the Grand prize of English writing division to me with $300 gift card. We were delighted.

It was a memorable experience, which is why more people should participate! Thank you Mr An.

Korean Writing Contest winners

FIELD STUDY DAY IS ON 9 MARCH.

SEE LAST PAGE FOR

PAYMENT REMINDERS!

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING

Entertainment Industry News Shrek The Musical at Riverside Theatres Students from Elective Music joined Year 11 & 12 Entertainment in attending the Australian premiere of Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure ‘Shrek The Musical’, by Packemin Productions and Riverside Theatre. We went on a backstage tour before the matinee performance and it was amazing to walk across the stage, explore the wings and see the set pieces suspended above our heads operated by the theatre’s counterweight fly system.

The show itself was wonderfully spectacular. An incredible amount of effort and detail went into the designs of each character’s makeup and costuming as well as perfecting their dialects to reflect the familiar voices from the film. After the show we stayed back for the Q&A with the cast and crew to ask every question from how long Shrek sits in make-up (just an hour!) to how many lighting cues in the entire show (248!).

The combination of a highly talented cast, fantastic orchestra and hardworking production crew wooed our lovely group of students and their appreciation for live theatre.

Ms Sim, VET Entertainment Teacher

On the stage of Riverside Theatre at Shrek The Musical.

P&C NEWS

AGM: WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY The next P&C Meeting is the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 21 February at 7:00 pm in the school library.

Everyone is welcome to attend P&C meetings and we warmly invite parents to join our discussions and find out more about programs and initiatives that may benefit your daughters. Please come and share a cup of coffee and a chat. We extend a special invitation to new Year 7 parents. We are always happy to see more dads!

The BGHS P&C Grounds Improvement Committee is seeking parents who may be able to assist with preparing a concept landscape design for a specific area of the school. We are also seeking builder/concreters who could provide quotes for small works – concrete pads for seating area. If you would like to assist, please forward your email to effiem@ozemail.com.au

If you wish to be added to our email list and receive updates, please send an email to effiem@ozemail.com.au

Effie Matsas, P&C President

Minutes of previous meetings are available on the school website along with information about the P&C: http://web3.burwoodg-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ourschool/pc

BGHS Homework Centre

Interested in enrolling in Year 7, 2019? Information Night is on Monday 5 March.

Year 7 enjoying their activities with Year 10 ‘Big Sisters’

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