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@REDDAM—The Reddam House High School Newsletter Volume 17, Issue 14, Friday 19 May 2017

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Year 11 Art Retreat

HSC Dance Workshop

Theatre Sports Challenge

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Reddam House High School Newsletter Volume 17 Issue 11

Friday 19th May 2017

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

It is always a pleasure to welcome past students back to

the school. This week I had a visit from Daniel Rotenstein

(class of 2016) who is in the RAAF (Royal Australian Air

Force). Officer Cadet Rotenstein is based at ADFA

(Australian Defence Force Academy), which provides

military training for the future leaders of the Defence

Force in Canberra. As well as taking on his Military train-

ing, Daniel is also studying a Bachelor of Business at the

UNSW Canberra, which is part of ADFA.

This is a huge achievement for Daniel, as there were

over 400 applicants, with a very rigorous application

process and selection criteria. Daniel was 1 of only 20

applicants offered a place at ADFA for the 2017 intake.

We wish him all the best for the future.

This week has seen some amazing results for our Theatre

Sports and Debating teams. On Monday night the Inter-

mediate Theatre Sports team competed at Scots. They

were so funny, clever, creative and most importantly a

cohesive team. They were generous and supportive of

each other. They won the competition by about 5 points

and were the only team to score a triple 5. The Senior

team compete on Friday at Cranbrook.

The Eastside debating competition qualifying rounds

came to an end last Friday with our Years 7, 10, and 11

teams winning their debates against Scots College. The-

se three teams have also made it through to semi-finals.

Congratulations to these teams on the hard work getting

to this stage of the competition and to our Year 8 and

Year 9 teams who have also delivered fantastic perfor-

mances throughout the competition.

Yonatan Freund continues his march towards national

selection for the World Championship for Karate. On

Saturday he won a silver medal in the NSW Open. It was

an impressive result for him having fractured his toe

warming up, which limited his movements throughout

the event.

The Year 11 Art students had a spectacular weekend at

Bundanon. They were involved in a sophisticated pro-

gram of artmaking, exploration and discovery. Our stu-

dents learned about artist Arthur Boyd and his varied

interactions within the art world. They completed many

works looking specifically at design, collage and print-

making. They completed drawings in the bush whilst be-

ing inspired by the sounds of birds and the fresh country

air. The Year 11s manipulated their drawings into relief

prints, etchings and handmade artists‘ books. All these

works will be on display at the HSC Art Showcase. Con-

gratulations Year 11 on all your commitment, hard work

and ability to challenge yourselves to see more in the

artmaking process. (See page 6 for photos).

We would like to congratulate two of our outstanding

senior artists. Finn Holle and Jacob Davidson have been

accepted into the prestigious HSC Intensive Studio Prac-

tice Course at the National Art School.

Only 175 applications were chosen across Australia. Both

students had to submit a portfolio of works as well as an

artistic statement and had to be achieving at a level of

excellence in their Preliminary Visual Arts Course.

This is an outstanding achievement for both these stu-

dents. We are incredibly proud of them and look for-

ward to following their journey as they work within a

broad range of media and art making processes and

refine their ability to interpret and evaluate their own

work.

―By The Billabong‖ by Jacob Davidson

Artwork by Finn Holle


Congratulations to Yoni Herz who has been filming the

show Little Big Shots Australia for Channel 7. The inter-

view and a performance will be screened on Channel 7

soon. A TV presenter in the making.

The U15 rugby side continues to impress with a win (29 –

19) against Riverview.

Congratulations to our 18s Girls Basketball Team who took

out the Championships at Sydney Comets last Friday

night. Coached by 2012 ex pupil Hayley Collins.

Next week we conclude the Parent-Teacher-Student eve-

nings, with the Year 9 meeting on Tuesday from 4:00pm –

8:00pm in Adelaide Hall. These meeting have been so

productive and well received by all participants.

Have a great week ahead.

Dave Pitcairn

CAREERS NEWS WEEK 4 TERM 2 2017

ATTENTION GIRLS INTERESTED IN TECHNOLOGY- The Coder

Factory Academy is offering Scholarships to study tech-

nology. If you attend a Coder Bootcamp you may be eli-

gible to win one of these scholarships.

For more information visit:

coderfactoryacademy.edu.au

ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT DESIGN?- ISCD School of De-

sign is holding Information Days. The Sydney day will be

held 3 June 2017 10am to 11.30am at Level 3 118 Walker

St North Sydney.

For more information visit:

[email protected]

ATTENTION TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS IN YEARS 11 & 12- The

University of Sydney is holding an Engineering and Infor-

mation Technologies Information Evening on Tuesday 30

May 2017 from 6-8pm. See Ms Jones for registration.

YEAR 12- Latitude Volunteering has numerous European

projects for gap year opportunities for 2018. The deadline

for applications is 16 June 2017.

Congratulations to Sharon Mei in Year 11 for winning the

Auction Idol Competition last Friday during Assembly. She

now goes on to compete nationally in Adelaide next

week representing NSW and Reddam House. We wish her

every success. Congratulations also go to the runners up

Amber Chen and Andrew Shu who gave very creditable

performances.

Claudia Jones


http://www.coderfactoryacademy.edu.au

mailto:[email protected]

CHESS

Last Friday, Reddam House's First Secondary Junior Chess

Team lined up for Round 2 of the NSWJCL Eastern Con-

ference inter-school chess competition. Our opponents

were Randwick Boys; their team made up predominately

of year 8 students. In contrast, we fielded a team made

up entirely of year 7 students. We had lost the week be-

fore in a clean sweep; 4-0. This time, hosting our oppo-

nents at home, the Reddam House team was deter-

mined to do better.

As the week before, the competition was tough and we

suffered an early blow with our first chaired play-

er, Jonathan Herz losing to a very experienced and stra-

tegic opponent. Striking back, Rachel Philips secured a

decisive win, leveling the score at 1-1. Our captain, Rhys

Leong embattled and drained succumbed to his skilled

opponent as the light died around us to set the score at

1-2. It was in these dying moments that Victor Xu; our

fourth chaired player and the most inexperienced of the

team, secured a hard fought draw with only 6 pieces left

on the board. In the end the score was 1.5 - 2.5.

Again, our players, all four of them, were the pinnacle of

sports-personship; gracious in defeat and humble in vic-

tory. This above all else is what made me proud to see

them play. That being said, the improvement of each

player was undeniable and as we move forward into

round 3, the students aim to improve and strive for suc-

cess. We wish them luck.

Dominic Smith

Chess Coordinator.

DEBATING

Reddam‘s Debating club is thrilled to announce that

they have made it through to the semi-finals of the

Eastside Debating Competition! Our teams for Year 7,

Year 10, and Year 11 have advanced to the next

round on the 26th of May at Cranbrook School, where

the topic will be Current Affairs. Year 7 are currently in

2nd place in the competition, Year 10 are currently in

1st place, and Year 11 in 3rd place overall.

Year 7 will be debating against SCEGGS, Year 10

against Scotts, and Year 11 against Sydney Boys High

School. We would love to see parents and students at

Cranbrook on the 26th of May cheering our teams on.

We wish the best of luck to all of our champs!

Esti Guinea

(Debating Students)

RADIO ANNOUNCING COMPETITION

On Mother's Day, a group of Reddam House students

made their way to the radio studios of Fine Music 102.5

where they competed in the Sydney Eisteddfod Radio

Announcing Competition.

Students were given a script and after five minutes re-

hearsal recorded it in the studio. The adjudicator sat in

another room, merely listening to the entrants' voices. At

the end of the section, she gave some excellent feed-

back and for anyone considering a career in perform-

ing arts, it was invaluable.

This was a wonderful opportunity for students to experi-

ence presenting the news in a working radio station,

and congratulations go to all those students who en-

tered this competition. (A special thanks to all the mums

who accompanied their children!)

RESULTS

Junior Division:

Highly Commended Certificates: Guinevere Giddings

and Julia Tymula

Third Place: Jacqueline Xie

Senior Division:

Highly Commended Certificates: Joshua

Stotski and Saphira Moran

Third Place: Kai Mashimo

Second Place: Rose Chachko


DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI

Reddam House Science Department is honoured and

excited to announce that Dr Karl Kruszelnicki will be

hosting a 30 minute Skype session with 30 students from

Years 5 – 12. Three students from each year and the

winners of the ―Design a Cell‖ and ―Ask Dr Karl a Ques-

tion‖ competitions are being invited to attend and pose

questions.

Ask Dr Karl a question competition

If you would like to take part in this amazing opportunity

please email your proposed question to both your Sci-

ence teacher and Ms Dignan

[email protected]

by Monday 22nd May 2017 at 3pm.

Parents? Yes you can take part!– I have saved a couple

of spaces around the edge of the room for you.

The skype session will take place at 2pm on Wednesday

24th May.

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

―When NASA classified Karl as non-astronaut material in

1981 he walked straight into ABC Radio station Double J

and offered to talk about the Space Shuttle launch.

They said ‗Okay‘ and his radio career took off from

there. ‗Great Moments In Science‘ ran on Double J

while Karl moonlighted as a medical student.

Since then, his media career has exploded from radio,

to TV, books, newspapers, magazines, scripting, profes-

sional speaking, and of course, the Net.

Karl made his TV debut in 1985 as the presenter of the

first series of Quantum. Since 1986 he has reported on

science on the Midday Show, Good Morning Australia

(including a full-time stint in 1991-2 as the TV Weather-

man and science reporter), the Today Show and Sun-

rise. Along side his fellow geek Adam Spencer, he has

written and co-produced two series of Sleek Geeks for

ABC TV.

Karl popularizes science on ABC radio stations across

Australia and, on the BBC, for several hours each week.

Many of you will be familiar with the original talk back

programme each Thursday on JJJ from 11am to mid-

day.

Karl has written (so far) 40 books, beginning with ‗Great

Moments In Science‘ in 1984, including such titles as ‗It

Ain‘t Necessarily So…‘Bro‘ (2006), which was launched,

quite literally, via rocket at Sydney‘s Bondi Beach (a

world first).

November 2009 saw the simultaneous release of Karl‘s

28th book, ‗Never Mind The BULLocks…Here‘s the Sci-

ence‘, board game (‗Fact OR Fishy‘), and first ever mu-

sic single, ‗Get Fact‘. In August 2010 Karl‘s 29th book,

‗Dinosaurs Aren‘t Dead‘, was released. In November

2010, Karl‘s 30th book, ‗Curious & Curiouser‘, was re-

leased into the adult non-fiction market. His latest book,

‗Short Back and Science‘ was released in October

2015.

In 1996 Karl was invited by the United States Information

Agency to be a Distinguished Foreign Guest in their In-

ternational Visitor Program. Previous Alumni of this pro-

gram include Julius Nyere, Anwar Sadat, Indira Gandhi

and Margaret Thatcher. As part of this program he visit-

ed NORAD, Dryden Air Force Base and the Jet Propul-

sion Laboratory – and got to sit in the front seat of an SR

-71 Blackbird.

In August 2000 Karl was one of first eight Australian Ap-

ple Masters to be announced (there are fewer than 100

in the entire world). The Apple Masters Program cele-

brates the achievements of people who are changing

the world through their passion and vision, while inspir-

ing new approaches to creative thinking.

In 2002, Dr Karl was honoured with the prestigious Ig No-

bel Prize awarded by Harvard University in the USA for

his ground-breaking research into Belly Button Lint and

why it is almost always blue.

In September 2003, Dr Karl was bestowed with the great

honour of being named ‗Australian Father of the Year‘.

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki received the Member of the Order of

Australia Award in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list. In

2007 the Australia Skeptics Society awarded Dr Karl the

Australia Skeptic Of The Year Prize.

In 2012 Karl was delighted to have Asteroid 18412

named after him. Asteroid Dr Karl/18412 was discovered

by Robert H. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observato-

ry in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, on

June 13, 1993.

Karl has degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engi-

neering, Medicine and Surgery and has worked as a

physicist, tutor, film-maker, car mechanic, labourer, and

as a medical doctor at the Kids‘ Hospital in Sydney.

Dr Karl is currently the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at Syd-

ney University, where his ‗mission‘ is to spread the good

word about science and its benefits.

His enthusiasm for science is totally infectious and no

one is better able to convey the excitement and won-

der of it all than Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.‖ Source http://

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YEAR 11 ART RETREAT TO BUNDANON AND RIVERSDALE


DANCE NEWS

On Friday 12th May, our Senior Dance students (Yr 10-

12) travelled to the Roslyn Packer Theatre at Walsh Bay

to watch the latest Sydney Dance Company program,

'Orb'. This is a highly unique production featuring new

works choreographed by Rafael Bonachela (Company

Artistic Director) and Taiwanese choreographer, Cheng

Tsung-Lung.

Apart from being inspired by these beautiful, abstract

pieces of Dance performed by highly skilled, athletic

and articulate dancers, students were also given an

insight into how the works were made, including the

costumes and set, via a question/answer session with

Rafael Bonachela himself along with his Company

dancers. The audience were able to ask questions

about the conception and rehearsal process, which

was highly informative.

HSC DANCE 'SUE HEALEY' WORKSHOP

On Tuesday 9th May our HSC Dance students had the

amazing opportunity to work with the talented Sue Hea-

ley at our Dance Studio at the Woollahra Campus. Sue is

a highly sought after Australian choreographer and film

maker who created 'Fine Line', one of the Works HSC

Dance students must study for the Appreciation compo-

nent of the course.

The students engaged in a 3 hour workshop, learning

about Sue Healey's choreographic process by experienc-

ing it themselves, while also having the chance to discuss

her background, influences and the context of her work.

This was an invaluable experience for our students and is

sure to inform their own choreographic process as they

complete their own compositions as well as give them

great insight into 'Fine Line', allowing for deeper analysis

as they prepare for the theory examinations.

As always, our HSC Dance class approached the work-

shop with great focus and Sue even commented on

what fantastic young artists they are. Well done, Girls!

Liz Collier-Walsh

High School Dance Coordinator


REDDAM HOUSE FOOTBALL

Another great morning of football at Centennial Park. I

caught up with the combined Year 8/9 team and what

a dramatic improvement there has been in this team

from last year. Coach Seamus has worked a minor mira-

cle with this bunch of boys. Whilst they were soundly

beaten by a very good side from the Kings School, our

boys were far from disgraced and better days are

ahead if they can maintain this rate of improvement.

The next game was the combined Year 9/10 side and

coach Spencer has these boys playing a very attractive

brand of football. Newington looked like they were go-

ing to be more than a match for this side but once

Young Harry steered in a nice volley early in the first half,

it was one way traffic. I particularly like the way every

boy in this team is encouraged to get their foot on the

ball and play the easy pass. Emile and Koshin were

wonderful playing out of defence and were ably sup-

ported by Sasha and Luke, who possesses a very sweet

left foot. I really enjoy watching this team play and look

forward to more of the same.

Open Boys v Cranbrook won 5-1

The first half of this game was a joy to watch. Our lefties,

Pirippi, Luke A and Captain Claude tore the opposition

to shreds with wonderful interplay and finesse. How the

score was only 1-0 at half time was a miracle as we

constantly created excellent chances. It was fitting that

Luc B-M got our goal as he was in everything that was

good during this period. He almost finished off the best

move of the game with a booming shot from outside

the box that bent the cross bar.

The goals flowed in the second half with Claude getting

his usual double, Toby landing a bomb from range and

Liam getting a tap in. But more importantly we kept the

ball moving with unselfish play.

The most memorable aspect of this game was that

Brendan Jiang from Year 12 made his debut in goals for

us. Brendan learnt his football with Chinese powerhouse

Guangzhou Evergrade. Hopefully he will be the first of

many of our international students to join Reddam

House Football as we try to assist their integration to our

wonderful school through football.

Brad Palmer

Technical Director of Football

SPORTING RESULTS 13TH MAY 2017

Basketball – Semi Finals Comets Comp

Girls

10R Easts Comp (Lee) V Maccabi 9 - 5

12E Easts Comp ( Lee) V Bondi 8 - 22

18 R Div 2 (James) V Newtown 32 - 21

Boys

12D Easts Comp (Lee) V Bronte 20 - 14

14 R Div 1 (James) V Magic Lakers 8 - 65

18D Div 3 (Lee) Year 11 Boys V Meerkats 24 - 28

Rugby

Reddam 15s V St Ignatius, 31 - 24

Reddam 13s V Barker, Forfeit

Soccer

Open Boys V Cranbrook, 4 - 0

Year 9 and 10 Boys V Newington, 5 - 0

Year 8 and 9 Boys V Kings, 0 - 3

Year 7 R Boys V Kings, 4 - 0

Year 7 E Boys V Kings, 2 - 3

12s V Pagewood 8 - 3

11Rs V Reddam E 4 - 4

11Es V Reddam R 4 - 4

10s V Easts 2 - 0

9s V South Eastern 4 - 3

Netball

Reddam 1 V Saints 20 - 0

Reddam 2 V St Catherines 64 - 15

Reddam 3 V Coogee 35 - 21

Reddam 4 V Randwick 5 - 21

Reddam 5 V Bronte 29 - 22

Reddam 6 V Bye

Reddam 7 V St Catherines 26 - 9

Reddam 8 V Bye

Reddam 9 V Maccabi 9 - 4



Reddam 12 V Mascot 7 - 9

Touch Football

Reddam 1 Girls V Galaxy Queens 5 - 2

Reddam 2 Girls V Themagain 6 - 2


SPORTING FIXTURES 20TH MAY 2017

Basketball - Easts Comp Sundays

Girls

10R (Lee) V Bye Waverley Pavilion Sunday

12E ( Lee) V Clovelly Warriors 2.10pm Waverley College

Sunday

15R (James) V Games start Sunday 4th June

Boys

12D (Lee) V Bronte Bouncers 11.05am Waverley College

Sunday

12M (Kenny) V Games start Sunday 4th June

12A ( JJ ) V Games start Sunday 4th June

14E (James) V Games start Sunday 4th June Rose Bay

Secondary College Gym Sunday

16E (James) V Games start Sunday 4th June Rose Bay

Secondary College Gym Sunday

Basketball - Comets Comp Fridays and Saturdays

Girls

12 R Div 2 ( Lee) V Magic Pink 10.15am Alexandria Bas-

ketball Stadium Saturday.

16 R Div 2 (James/Hayley) V Newtown Sonics 4.30pm

Alexandria Basketball Stadium Friday. The bus will leave

the Woollahra Campus at 3.30pm

18 R Div 2 (James/Hayley) V Sydney Girls High 5.15pm

Alexandria Basketball Stadium Friday. The bus will leave

the Woollahra Campus at 3.30pm

Boys

10R Div 1 (Lee) V Inner City Storm 8.00am Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday.

12R Div 2 (Lee) V Inner City Scorchers 1.15pm Alexandria


12E Div 3 ( JJ ) V Inner City Devils 10.15am Alexandria


14R Div 1 (James) V Magic Lakers 2 3.30pm Alexandria


16R Div 2 (Henry) V Magic Lakers 6.00pm Marrickville


18R Div 2 (Luke) V Newington 3.45pm Marrickville Basket-

ball Stadium Saturday.

18E Div 3 (Luke) V Pheonix 3.00pm Marrickville Basket-

ball Stadium Saturday.

18D Div 3 (Lee) Year 11 Boys V Bye Marrickville Basketball

Stadium Saturday.

Please check sydneybasketball.com.au to ensure there

have not been any late changes to the draw.

Rugby

Reddam 15s V Barker, Parade Ground No.6 Centennial

Park ( where we train) 12.00 noon Saturday

Reddam 13s V Trinity , Trinity Oval No.3 10.00am Satur-

day. The bus will leave Woollahra at 8.30am

Soccer

Open Boys V Kings, Parade Ground No.6 Centennial

Park (where we train) 11.00am Saturday

Year 9 and 10 Boys V St. Patricks College Strathfield, Ma-

son Park No.3, 10.00am Saturday. The bus will leave

Woollahra at 8.30am

Year 8 and 9 Boys V Kings, Parade Ground No.6 Centen-

nial Park (where we train) 10.00am Saturday

Year 7 R Boys V Kings, Parade Ground No.6 Centennial


Year 7 E Boys V Kings, Parade Ground No.6 Centennial


12s V Pagewood Jellicoe Park 1.00pm Saturday

11Rs V Pagewood Jellicoe Park 12.00 noon Saturday

11Es V Waverley Old Boys, Waverley Park 12.00 noon

Saturday

10s V Easts Queens Park 02, 11.00am Saturday

9s V Maccabi Queens Park 02, 12.00noon Saturday

Netball

Reddam 1 V Saints Heffron Netball Courts 1.42pm Court

No. 5 Saturday

Reddam 2 V Kambala Heffron Netball Courts 1.42pm

Court No. 3 Saturday

Reddam 3 V Randwick Heffron Netball Courts 9.48am


Reddam 4 V Rose Bay Secondary Heffron Netball

Courts 9.48am Court No. 4 Saturday





Reddam 7 V Rose Bay Secondary Heffron Netball

Courts 12.24pm Court No. 2 Saturday

Reddam 8 V Rose Bay Magic Heffron Netball Courts

11.06am Court No. 25 Saturday

Reddam 9 V Mascot Heffron Netball Courts 8.30am


Reddam 10 V Coogee Dolphins Heffron Netball Courts


Reddam 11 V Saints Heffron Netball Courts 8.30am Court

No. 22 Saturday

Reddam 12 V Marrickville Heffron Netball Courts


Touch Football

Reddam 1 Girls V Wild Girls Queens Park 9.00am

Reddam 2 Girls V Black Panthers Queens Park 10.00am


sydneybasketball.com.au


First place for Reddam at the Theatresports Schools Challenge heats!

Congratulations to the Reddam team who gained first place in the

intermediate heats of the Theatresports Schools Challenge, competing against schools including Kambala, Sydney Girls High

School, Waverley College and St Ignatius College on Monday 15th May at The Scots College. A huge thanks to their talented coach

Harry Milas for preparing the team for the competition. They will now represent the school at the semi-finals.

Good luck – we are proud of you!

The victorious Reddam team (from L to R): Kai Mashimo (Yr 10), Ari Banos (Yr 9) Emily Wang (Yr 9), Charlie Roberts (Yr 9) and Zoe Gross (Yr 10)


Skiing and Snowboarding 2017

Reddam will be fielding teams in the Northern NSW Snowsports Championships on the 4rd – 8th July. This year racing will be at Perisher.

Along with this we will also be taking a group of recreational skiers to the snow. Regardless of your experience on the snow you are guar-

anteed to have a great time. We will be staying at Smiggins Hole where we ski to both Perisher Valley and Blue Cow Resorts.

Departing from Sydney on Sunday 2nd July and returning late on

Friday evening 7th July. 5 days of skiing with your friends and staying on the snow.

Students from Year 7 though to Year 12 are welcome to attend.

For further details please collect an enrolment form from the Sports Department Office at Woollahra or email Phil Kable on

[email protected]

Students wishing to race should also collect their entry form from the Sports Office.


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