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TERM 1
FEB
18 ASSEMBLY Yr.11 Chemistry to ANSTO HSC Music to Encore
19 Summer Grade comp starts
20 Yr.7 Vaccinations P&C AGM, 7pm in Library
21 SCHOOL PHOTO DAY #2: Yrs, 10 & 12, plus special groups
Yr.9 PASS surf theory incursion International Students Awards
25 INTERNATIONAL DAY MEETINGS (Assembly bell times)
Choir rehearsal for In Concert Yr.7 Big Sister activity
26 Yr.11&12 D&T and T&D to SHAPE exhibition
Young Humanitarian Conference
27 Yr.8 STARR Day Young Humanitarian Conference Yr.9 PASS Surf Camp, day 1 Yr.11 Ancient History field study Yr.10 Live Production and Yr.11
Entertainment to Belvoir Theatre P&C Welcome BBQ for Yr.7
students and families, 6pm
28 Yr.9 PASS Surf Camp, day 2 Yr.10 Visual Art to La Perouse
MAR
1 All Schools Triathlon, Penrith Yr.9 Visual Design incursion
4 ASSEMBLY – International Women’s Day
Yr.6 Information Evening, 7pm
6 Yr.7 Camp, 6-8 March FIELD STUDY DAY #1 Yr.11 Music 2 evening excursion School Council Meeting, 7pm
7 Yr.7 Camp Zone Swimming Carnival Yr.6 Tour of the School, 9-10am Prefect Afternoon Tea
8 Yr.7 Camp (last day)
11 INTERNATIONAL DAY MEETINGS (Assembly bell times)
15 National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
Yr.11 D&T to Powerhouse
18 ASSEMBLY
19 Yr.9&10 Engineering Challenges to Olympic Park
20 Yr.10 Commerce to Parliament P&C Meeting, 7pm
21 Harmony Day and National Close the Gap Day
Yr.7 STARR Day Regional Swimming Carnival
22 Yr.7 Big Sisters activity
23 State Election (P&C BBQ)
23-24 BEP rehearsals for Europe
25 INTERNATIONAL DAY MEETINGS (Assembly bell times)
27 Yrs.7&8 police presentations Yrs.7-12 parent night on social
media/cyberbullying, 6pm
P&C MEETINGS, 7:00 pm, Library
AGM: 20 Feb; Yr.7 BBQ 27 Feb
Burwood Girls High School
EVENT Volume 18, Issue 1, 18 February 2019
From the Principal A wonderful start to 2019, “The Year for Creativity” and “The Year of the Pig” – a new administration area, new outdoor learning area, new paint, new staff, new swimming carnival venue, and the return of a deputy principal. Welcome back to Karyn O’Brien who has been working for the last two years at CESE (Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation). Ms O’Brien will be supporting students in Years 10-12.
Karyn O’Brien, DP 10-12; Mia Kumar,
Principal; Kathy Lye, DP 7-9
Lunar New Year
New student/staff entrance
Outdoor learning area
Swimming Carnival
Swimming Carnival
Facelift (new paint) Presentation Day 2018
I value support from our community and thank you for ensuring a wonderful year in 2018! I look forward to discussing our successes at the P&C AGM on 20 February. See you there.
Mia Kumar
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2018 HSC RESULTS Report by Julia Alvarado, Head Teacher Secondary Studies
The school is extremely proud to acknowledge the strong HSC results of our 2018 HSC cohort.
Exceptional achievements included:
Three students achieving the Premier’s All-round Excellence Award having achieved a Band 6 in at least 10 units. Congratulations to Samantha Kotsakis, Sorcha Kyriacou and Yirong (Andrea) Zhao on this achievement.
Two students achieved first place in the state: Alifa Abdul Azis (Indonesian in Context) and Anusha Ojha (Korean Continuers)
Samantha Kotsakis Sorcha Kyriacou Andrea Zhao
Alifa Abdul Azis Anusha Ojha
Six students gaining a place on the Top Achievers list, including:
o Katerina Andrews finishing 10th in the state in Modern History.
o Emma Arthur finishing 5th in the state in Community and Family Studies
o Charlie Pepper finishing 4th in the state in Indonesian Extension
o Natalie Wang finishing 4th in the state in Japanese Beginners
o Elle Xian finishing 5th in the state in Korean Beginners
o Andrea Zhao finishing 10th in the state in English (ESL)
One student achieving an ATAR over 99.00: Andrea Zhao (99.90)
Four students achieving ATARs over 98.00 and 16 students achieving ATARs over 95.00
32% of students appearing on the Distinguished Achievers list (achieving at least one Band 6)
57% of all examinations sat by BGHS students achieving a Band 5 or 6
83% of all examinations sat by BGHS students achieving a Band 4, 5 or 6.
1 student was nominated for “OnSTAGE” for their Drama performances: Amal Dib
Excellent results were also achieved in a wide range of individual subjects:
In English (Advanced), 87% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 63% of the state)
In English (Standard), 59% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 15% of the state)
In Mathematics (Ext2), 91% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 85% of the state)
In Legal Studies, 70% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 44% of the state)
In Modern History, 69% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 42% of the state)
In Studies of Religion I, 67% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 37% of the state)
In Aboriginal Studies, 63% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 22% of the state)
In PDHPE, 79% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 33% of the state)
In Chinese and Literature, 42% of students achieved a Band 6 (compared to 13% of the state)
In Visual Arts, 73% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 12% of the state)
In Hospitality (Kitchen Operations), 100% of students achieved a Band 5 or 6 (compared to 27% of the state)
The Careers Adviser, Mr Hegedus, has provided the following information.
On the back of these results, of the 202 Burwood Girls students that completed the 2018 HSC, 179 had applied for Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP/HECS) or International Fee (IFEE) paying places for Bachelor degree programs at universities across NSW and interstate. Of these 179 applicants, 155 (or 86.5%) of them were offered a place.
Of the total Year 12 cohort, that equates to 77% of students being offered a competitive place in a degree program at university.
This includes around 12 students undertaking Law programs and other students being successful gaining places for Actuarial and Optometry place for 2019.
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING 2019
This year staff will be involved in a variety of professional learning activities designed to achieve excellence in educational opportunity and innovation in teaching practice. In addition to the whole school scheduled professional learning sessions outlined below, staff attend programs throughout the year to meet their individual learning needs.
Whole school professional learning timetable 2019
Term 1
PL Evening 19/2/19
High Resolves (whole school global competencies across the curriculum program) - professional development workshops for staff to facilitate effectively implementing citizenship education in their classrooms, and ensure they are able to fully utilise the comprehensive suite of High Resolves experiences for their school.
Term 2
SDD 29/4/19
Literacy Strategy workshop ELEVATE progress High Resolves Using data
PL Evening 21/5/19
Workshops – staff select 2 sessions 21st Century Skills and reporting Guided inquiry learning Technology 1 Technology 2 Quality Teaching Rounds Pre service teacher mentoring
Term 3
SDD 22/7/19
Mindfulness Agile Leadership
PL Evening 13/8/19
Compliance Training CPR Anaphylaxis
Term 4
PL Evening 5/11/19
Faculty Focus Syllabus implementation and evaluation
Kathy Lye, Deputy Principal 7-9
ENGLISH AND DRAMA NEWS Report by Pauline Hageman, HT English and Drama
Welcome to a new year of outstanding opportunities in English and Drama at Burwood Girls High School.
HSC 2018 / 2019
The implementation of the NSW HSC continues for our class of 2019 who will be sitting the first HSC examination of the new syllabus and we look forward to continuing the journey through Stage 6 English with these dedicated young women. We extend our congratulations to the class of 2018 on their outstanding HSC results in English and Drama and congratulations also to the hard-working team who help to facilitate these results for the students.
New staff
We extend a warm welcome to Tamar Hoffman who is working in English, EALD and Drama in 2019. Tamar is excited to have the opportunity to begin her teaching career at BGHS and we are delighted to have this dynamic teacher join the team.
Welcome to Ms Hoffman
Year 8 Poetry Slam
Year 8’s Poetry Slam in Week 9, 2018 was a fantastic opportunity for 20 brave students to showcase their creative performance skills in our annual competition judged by Sydney Story Factory creative executive, Tony Britten, as well as our very own Daniel Whittemore, Janice Raynor and student representative, Grace Lagan.
Thanks to Kate Stavert for compering and organising this fantastic event and congratulations also to the incredibly talented students who shared their unique and evocative creative voices with their peers.
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Judges
Contestants
Ms Stavert with a contestant
Year 10 Film Festival
We celebrated the conclusion of Stage 5 with our annual Year 10 Film festival Epic Shorts, which was a roaring success thanks to the culmination of hard work, brilliant creativity and effective teamwork by year 10, 2018. 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 and VET Entertainment staff who made the event possible, especially Tristan Carey, Year 10 English coordinator who produced the event. Our Industry panel of judges: Sandra Hooke, Tamra Palmer and Alexandra Lippa collectively expressed their admiration for both the high standard of the films, and the smooth, entertaining and professional quality of the entire show.
Judges and winners
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Debating and Public speaking workshops are getting organised for 2019. If students are interested in debating, workshops will be run every Wednesday from 3:15pm in room 31, so please come along if you would like to participate. For those students interested in public speaking, workshops will be run every Monday, Week B during lunchtime in room 12 for all students who would like to register for the Rostrum Public Speaking Competition.
MATHEMATICS NEWS Report by Gavin Parker, Head Teacher Mathematics
Maths Pathway
Years 7 and 8 are beginning their maths pathway journey for 2019. A new feature for 2019 is that you can see the areas of mastery and those yet to be mastered on the maths curriculum in the parent portal. Please contact your student's maths teacher if you can't see how to find this or would like to know how best to support your student in achieving maximum growth in mathematics this year.
We are looking forward to lots of exciting rich tasks and projects in the Year 8 program including Ilumin8.
A rich task Year 8 has been working on is Painted Cubes: Imagine a large cube made up of 27 small cubes. The large cube is dipped into paint. How many of the small cubes will have 0 faces painted, 1 face painted, two faces painted and 3 faces painted?
Next think about the same problem for a large cube made up of 64 small cubes, then 125 small cubes, then try to find general rules for any size cube.
Maths Club!
In Term 4 last year, 25 students attended our first ever Maths Club at Burwood Girls. They solved Menseki Meiro puzzles, which require basic foundations of mathematics to find missing values. Students then explored the many changing variables in real life situations and attempted to accurately graph one particular variable over time.
Our second session of Maths Club allowed students of different year groups to combine their knowledge and compete against their peers.
This term the first session of Maths Club will be held during Week 5 and will explore how mathematics is the answer to
consonance and dissonance in music. The second session will be another competition with prizes to be won.
Maths Club is open to all year groups and provides students with a chance to explore mathematics outside of the curriculum.
ChooseMaths Student Awards
The CHOOSEMATHS Student Awards celebrate mathematical achievement, creativity and excellence in Australian schools.
The awards encourage students to get creative as they step beyond the classroom to bring their understanding of mathematics to life on film.
Get your classrooms buzzing with conversations about mathematics as students use their imagination to create and submit a 3–5 minute video based on this year’s theme, MATHS MAKES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE.
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The aim of the competition is for students to produce a video which explains a mathematical problem, or demonstrates an application of mathematics, using clear and precise mathematical language, in a creative and entertaining way. Students compete as a team in order to foster a positive environment, giving them the opportunity to reason and work collaboratively.
For more information go to https://choosemathsawards.org.au/student-awards/
LANGUAGES NEWS
Welcome to new staff
Welcome to new staff in Languages: Michael Anthony and Rita Zammit.
Korean sister school visit
Sehwa Girls Middle School (SGMS) of South Korea has been one of Burwood Girls High School’s (BGHS) sister schools since 2017.
The school warmly welcomed 22 students and three staff of BGHS when we visited Seoul South Korea as a part of Korea excursion in September 2017. They provided us with lunch and a coach so that we were able to visit Hyundai Steel Company in Dangjin.
Thursday 31 January was the first full day of BGHS family after a long break. Of course, it is a very busy day for all students and staff. On this day 30 students and three staff of SGMS visited us.
Students were warmly welcomed by all BGHS family at the assembly and participated in class with their buddies. They also enjoyed the morning tea and lunch prepared by our Hospitality students.
They thoroughly enjoyed it and said ‘BIG THANK YOU’ to all BGHS community:
“We have had unforgettable experience at Burwood
Girls High School”
“The experience that we have had at Burwood Girls High
is the milestone of our future career”
“We would like to study at Burwood Girls High School”
Thank you to: buddies and pen pal friends, for looking after the visitors Ms Patonay, Ms Milovanovic and Hospitality students for
the catering Ms Sander Burns, for the room
Ms Hong for providing the girls with Korean snacks
Mr Kent and Ms Dwyer, for roll call and playground duty
Ms Saw for the certificates
and Ms Bennett and Ms Jones, for looking after the pen pal letters.
In addition, thank you to all the teachers who welcomed the girls at their classes. What a team!
I am proud of being a part of this fabulous team.
Qeefaa An, Korean Language Teacher
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PDHPE AND DANCE NEWS
I am excited to say we have hit the ground running with the extra-curricular Dance program this year!
Many students have been auditioning for the multitude of ensembles on offer, and Year 11 are looking forward to working with our Year 7 Ensembles when they start in the next couple of weeks.
The Dance program at BGHS involves 10 Ensembles in a variety of styles, which requires us to employ external teachers with speciality skills. This year, we are very pleased to welcome back Daniel Dolling (Tap, Musical Theatre) and Ashley Goh (Hip Hop), as well as welcoming new teachers including Joel Piesley (Jazz), Bariah Santos (Acrobatics) and a new Ballet teacher to be announced soon!
As always, all ensembles and elective Dance classes will be working towards our annual showcase. This year the showcase will be on Wednesday 4 September. We look forward to seeing you all there, so make sure you put the date in your calendar now!
Ana Welsh, Dance Coordinator
Dance students on a field study
FRONT OFFICE NEWS
New entrances for students and parents
The new administration area has two entrances:
Left side: entrance for students, staff and deliveries, and student payments.
Right side: public entrance for parents and other visitors, and parent payments.
New BGHS website: https://burwoodg-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
In late 2018, the school’s website underwent a major transformation. It now contains many links to useful department sites and is consistent in format and content to many other school websites in NSW. Calendar items are now listed under ‘Events’. Copies of notes sent home with students can be found under ‘Notes’.
We hope parents and students like it and we would be happy to hear your thoughts. Email the school at [email protected], attention Website Coordinator.
No more payments by phone
Parents are advised that the school no longer accepts payments over the phone. This is a Department of Education policy to protect the privacy and security of parents’ credit card details.
Parents are welcome to make a secure payment online at any time, via ‘Parent Online Payment’ (POP) on our school website. Please allow up to 2 days for the school to receive and process payments made through POP.
Elizabeth Retsas, School Administrative Manager
P&C NEWS
NEXT MEETING: AGM, WED 20 FEBRUARY
The next P&C meeting is the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 20 February 2019 at 7:00 pm in the school library. All parents are welcome to attend.
Guest speaker Julia Alvarado, Head Teacher Secondary Studies, will talk about HSC results.
Volunteers needed for Election Day BBQs
The P&C will be hosting upcoming Election Day BBQs at the school on Saturday 23 March. Volunteers are sought to help out on the day. RSVP to [email protected]
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
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a special invitation to Year 7 parents. We are always happy to see more dads!
Effie Matsas, P&C President
Minutes of previous meetings are available on the school website along with information about the P&C: https://burwoodg-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/supporting-our-students/parents-and-citizens--p-c--association.html
The P&C is hosting a welcome BBQ on Wednesday 27 February for Year 7 students and their families.
This is a great opportunity to meet other Year 7 students and parents, teachers and P&C members in an informal setting.
Starts 6:00 pm outside the Hall. We look forward to seeing you there.
LIBRARY NEWS
Report by Maria Sander Burns, Teacher Librarian
Greetings Parents! Welcome to Burwood Girls Library!
As you might guess, the library is a hub of activity!
Our primary mission is to foster high-level reading and information literacy. We promote reading in all disciplines so that our students can meet the complex literacy demands of the 21st century. We have a wonderful selection fiction and nonfiction books, eBooks, audio books and evaluated web sites.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Starts Monday 4 March 2019. Concludes Friday 30 August. This year we will be aiming to have as many students complete the challenge as possible. So have a look at the tips below to see how you can help.
Open to all students in Years 7-9.
Want to challenge yourself to read 20 books or more this year? Then this is the challenge for you. See Ms Sander Burns, in the Library, for more information.
Tips for parents and carers file:///C:/Users/mburns9/Downloads/Tips_for_Parents_and_Carers_for_Participating_in_the_PRC.pdf
2nd most popular read in 2018 was Jenny Han’s
To all the boys I loved before http://www.jennyhan.com/teen.html
1st was and always is: The Fault in our stars
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SWIMMING CARNIVAL GALLERY
As always, the students showed true ‘house spirit’ by wearing house colours or creative costumes at the school Swimming Carnival on 11 February. The students enjoyed the new venue at Enfield Pool, while Ashfield Pool is closed for renovations.
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COMMUNITY NOTICES
