11 March - Randwick Boys` High School

11 March 2016
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Randwick Boys’ High School
Guiding Young Men to Success
Corner Rainbow and Avoca Streets, Randwick NSW 2031 Web: www.randwickb-h.schools.nsw.edu.au
Phone: 9399 3122
Email: randwickb-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Fax: 9399 9546
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Open Night
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School Photos
Congratulations to all students for the mature
approach they displayed last week during the school
photos on Monday. We look forward to having the final
products printed and distributed as soon as the company can do so. The uniform compliance on the day
was almost 100%. Our boys looked sensational, more
importantly, their behaviour was exceptional.
Year 7 Camp
From the Principal
The annual Year 7 Camp is not far away. In fact,
in less than one week our Year 7 students will be
enjoying new learning experiences in a camp setting.
For all students, this is a worthwhile and extremely
fulfilling experience. The Year 7 students always
report that one of the highlights of their school
year is the Year 7 camp. I urge all parents and carers to ensure their
son participates in this valuable learning experience with students
he is, more than likely, going to spend the next 6 years alongside.
Open Night
Congratulations to the entire school community for an outstanding Open Night last Tuesday. The feedback from prospective parents
and students is extremely encouraging and supportive of what we are
doing at Randwick Boys’ High School. We had a very large number
of families come and have a look at what we do and how we do it.
Every comment from our visitors was positive. It is a credit to our
current students, staff and parent body that such positive feedback
is spreading in the community. One thing that was mentioned regularly were the new standards, expectations and uniform compliance.
With most students now wearing their whole school uniform with
pride, including their black leather lace up school shoes, the local
community is taking notice. I would like to thank all families and
especially our students, for understanding WHY we are implementing the compliance with uniform. This is where we are starting, with
how we look. It is not where we will finish. Behaviour, standards,
expectations, curriculum and what it means to be a ‘Randwick Boy’
are also being reviewed in 2016 and beyond. We have raised the bar
of what is accepted and we will continue to do so. A huge thank you
to all students, staff and parents who contributed to the success of
the evening, especially Mrs M Olsen, Head Teacher CAPA, who
coordinated the event.
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Parents and Citizens Meeting
Our next P & C meeting will take place on Tuesday 15th March in the staff common room. This will
be our Annual General Meeting (AGM), where
positions on the P & C committee will be open
and a new committee for 2016 will be elected. If
you would like to be considered for a position on the committee,
come along to the meeting from 7.30pm.
L Raskall
Principal
Coming events for Term 1
Week 8
Week A/Events
Monday 14 March
Homework Centre, Library, 3:30 - 5pm
Tuesday 15 March
Yr 11/12 Ancient History excursion,
‘Archaeology at the Rocks’
P & C Meeting, Common Room,
7:30pm
Wednesday 16 March
Year 7 Camp, Wyee
Thursday 17 March
Year 7 Camp, Wyee
Year 8 Visual Arts excursion, Newtown
Sydney North Swimming Carnival,
Sydney Olympic Park
Homework Centre, Library, 3:30 - 5pm
Friday 18 March
Year 7 Camp, Wyee
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Study Skills Reminder
Seminar for the parents on Tuesday 22/3/16 from 7pm
to 8pm in the library
Elevate Education is Australia’s largest provider of study skills
programs to Australian secondary schools, working annually with
over 500 schools and 70,000 students. Elevate Education has been
working side by side with Randwick Boys’ High School throughout
2015 for Year 10, 11 and 12. In 2016, we have implemented the program
for all years in order to provide RBHS students with the best strategies and techniques for their studying regiments. The Study skills
program is working together with students, parents and teachers to
ensure reinforcement in the classroom and at home. This seminar
will have a main emphasis on the year 11 and 12 skills, however,
everyone is welcome!
Garden Working Bee
Seeking interested families for garden working bees (no
green thumb required!)
If you would like to be involved in maintaining and
improving the grounds of the school this year please email
your contact details to sarah@groweatenjoy.com.au. We
have a couple of projects in mind starting with an irrigated
lilli pilli hedge along the Avoca St boundary. This will
hopefully reduce traffic noise, increase air quality and
biodiversity as well as improving the overall appearance
of the school grounds.
We hope to see you all there!!
HARMONY DAY BBQ - LAMB SOUVLAKIA
Reminder to all Year 11 and 12, you have access to the Elevate
Education website through a unique username and password. This
website is www.elevateeducation.com. It contains a range of resources
you can access. These include:
A copy of Elevate’s best selling guide, Science of Student Success
written by the company’s founder, Doug Barton. The book retails in
bookstores for $20 but is FREE for Elevate clients. It is available to
download in PDF mode under the tab ‘Books’
•
A range of practice papers for each subject
•
Video tutorials
•
Tips from presenters all around Australia who have recently aced
and faced their final years of high school
•
Question forum that allows students to have support even after
their Elevate session
Monday 21 March (Week 9) marks the beginning of a week with
high cultural significance. Given International Harmony Day, Greek
Independence Day and Easter all fall within this week, the Cultural
Committee will be having a special lunch BBQ of lamb souvlakia
on Monday 21!
To order a lamb souvlaki students need to fill out
the order form below and pay $5 to the front office. Students will receive a receipt/ token which they simply present at the BBQ on Monday to collect their Souvlaki lunch.
Lamb Souvlaki Order Form
Student Name : ______________________
YR: __
One Lamb Souvlaki
One Pita Bread
One bottle of water
Y Loizou
Head Teacher Mathematics
TOTAL PAID $ 5. 00 to front office: _____________
Uniform Shop
The uniform shop will be closed on
Tuesday 05 April. We apologise for
causing any inconvenience.
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The next P & C Meeting
and
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
will be held on
Tuesday 15 March
7:30pm
Staff Common Room
All welcome
Geography Fieldwork in Bate Bay
On Friday 04 March, Year 12 Geography travelled south of Sydney
to Bate Bay, which includes beaches Cronulla, Wanda and Elouera, to
conduct observations and various recording methods of fieldwork.
We learnt about the beach’s topography, vegetation structures and
changing ecosystems due to human impacts. The excursion included
field sketches, replicating sand dunes via modelling, testing against
the elements, photographs and exploring the dune ecosystem using
the transect method. The excursion was a great success and an overall fantastic experience which educated the class on management
strategies enabling the restoration of coastal dunes and why they are
classified as an ecosystem at risk. This is a great case study resource
for our HSC and has facilitated us in becoming active citizens in our
local community for the future.
Issac Bennett
Year 12
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Biology Fieldtrip to La Perouse
On Thursday 18 February a group of 38 Year 11 Biology students,
escorted by their teachers, Ms Edwards and Mr K Brown, completed
a compulsory Local Ecosystem Field Trip to La Perouse. The students were required to understand the living (biotic) and non-living
(abiotic) factors that can influence the health of ecosystems. The
measurements and discussions from the day helped to contribute
to the field trip assessment report due this week.
We were lucky enough to have beautiful weather for the day and
these fine young men were keenly engaged with exploring the living
world and the interactions and inter-relationships between organisms
within the local ecosystem being studied. Well done Year 11 Biology.
Anna Edwards
Head Teacher - Teaching & Learning
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Open Night
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Summer Season Sport Report
Man of the Match Tally
The Winter Season Man of the Match Tally commences in two
weeks after the final week of trials.
Grade Sport Trials - Randwick Boys’ High
School set for a Great Winter Season
With only 2 more weeks of the grade sport trials left, coaches are
starting to finalise their team selections and team lists will be placed
on the sport notice board next week.
Randwick Boys’ High School will have more grade teams representing the school in 2016 than any other year. Our school will be
represented in the Northwest Metropolitan Zone with six soccer
teams and four rugby teams, a hockey team as well as a lawn bowls
team and four table tennis teams among them.
Students who have not been successful, for the grade sport of their
choice, are quite welcome to put their hands up for another grade
sport which requires more players or a house or recreational sport.
RBHS Swimming Age Champions
Northwest Metropolitan Zone Football Gala Day
On Tuesday Randwick Boys’ High School participated in the Zone
Gala day at Epping Boys’ High School. The first grade team topped
their group and a big congratulations go out to coach Pat Marando
and his players who have been training every day for the event.
A number of our players were selected for the Zone team to play
in the Sydney North Championship. Those players are:
Kevin Daley
Kieren Young
Aswin Adinanto
Yiannis Kotopoulos (shadow team)
The following students were successful in being crowned
Randwick Boys’ High School Swimming age champions at the recent 2016 RBHS School Swimming Carnival:
12s Hamish Murray
13s Kaito Nakamura
14s Ben Royston
15s Gleb Samokhin
16s Scott Dyson
17s Alfred Lewis
Two Randwick Boys’ High School students, Gleb Samokhin and
Kaito Nakamura excelled at the 2016 Northwest Metropolitan Zone
Swimming championships to make it into the Regional Swimming
Championships.
Rugby Trials Continue RBHS to defend two premierships in 2016
In 2015 Randwick Boys’ High School won the 14s and the 15s Rugby
Premierships and will once again try to defend their titles in 2016.
The 1st grade squad is shaping up to be a leader with a number of
Australian School Boys representatives wearing the green and white.
Under the guidance of 1st grade coach Sam Jackson the boys have
already started training and preparing for the upcoming season.
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From Around the Grounds
Open House Sport Display Impresses
Parents and members of the public were treated to a display of
Randwick Boys’ High School sport memorabilia on Tuesday night
with a number of ex-students represented, Australian Cricketer David
Warner amongst them.
The display featured equipment once used by a number of internationals and elite sportsman who started their sporting careers at
Randwick Boys’ High School.
The display also gave parents a chance to see firsthand the number
of Premiership winning trophies and plaques won over the last few
years including the 2015 Northwest Metropolitan Zone Schools’ Rugby
Championship trophy, which Randwick will be defending this season.
RBHS Student Scores for CHS
Scott Dyson represented NSW at the Water Polo Nationals
Randwick Council has commenced a community partnership
with the Sydney Roosters and Randwick Boys’ High School has been
invited to participate.
Randwick Boys’ High School will receive a number of tickets to
various Sydney Roosters home games at Allianz Stadium, which will
be handed out to students as a reward for positive behaviour.
In addition, Randwick Council will be holding a coaching clinic
at Burrows Park, Clovelly which will be run by the Sydney Roosters
first grade team. Again participating schools will be asked to invite
a certain number of students who have shown the right attitude or
have made the greatest improvements throughout the year.
P Brown
Sport Coordinator
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RBHS - Study Skills Time Line- Elevate Education – 2016
Randwick Boys’ High School is in the second year of a study skills program with Elevate Education. Students,
teachers and parents are involved. The following provides a time line and a description of the seminar that the
students are participating in. The program is supported by staff and parent workshops as indicated below, to
ensure reinforcement in the classroom and at home.
YEAR
TERM
DAY
DATE
TIME
WEEK
Seminar
Teachers
1
Tuesday
9/2/16
2:30pm-3:30pm
3
in-service
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1
Monday
15/2/16
8:50am-9:50am
4
Student Elevation
12
1
Friday
19/2/16
8:50am-9:50am
4
Ace Your Exams
Parents
1
Tuesday
22/3/16
7pm-8pm
9
in-service
7
2
Tuesday
10/5/16
8:50am-9:50am
3
Kick Start
12
2
Tuesday
21/6/16
8:50am-9:50am
9
Memory and Mnemonics
11
3
Tuesday
26/7/16
8:50am-9:50am
2
Time management
8
3
Tuesday
9/8/15
8:50am-9:50am
4
Kick Start
9
3
Tuesday
23/8/16
8:50am-9:50am
6
Kick Start
10
4
Tuesday
13/12/16
9am-11am
10
Study Sensei
10
4
Tuesday
13/12/16
11:20am-12noon
10
Career 1
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2016 Student Program
YEAR
7,8,9
Seminar
Kick Start
Seminar Covers
This seminar breaks down the transition process from primary school to secondary
education, introducing students to the fundamental skills specific to each cohort
that they need to be using over the coming years,
Including:
· Dynamic Reading
· Note-taking strategies
· conceptual learning
· Independent Learning
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Study Sensei
This seminar provides students with a roadmap for what work they will have to do
across the year. Specific skills include:
· Note-taking strategies
· Effective revision techniques
· Conceptual learning techniques including mind-mapping
· Succeeding with practice papers
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Careers 1
· Developing independent learning
This seminar provides students with a range of skills in order to help them locate and
apply for their ideal job, even for casual jobs. Specific skills include:
· How to locate job opportunities
· Building a standout Cover Letter
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· Building a standout CV
Student Eleva- This seminar examines the key fundamentals for senior school success and introduction
es students to a range of skills that will allow them to motivate themselves throughout the year, including:
· The role of self-belief, conditioned self-belief and self-limitation
· Establishing a 4-step goal setting process
· Breaking goals into a series of achievable, short-term benchmarks
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Time Manage- Shows students how to find the time to do work across the year, as well as how to
ment
best use their time within subjects. Specific skills include:
· How to develop a study timetable
· Role of independent work
· Leveraging time through study groups
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· How to beat procrastination (delay)
Ace Your Exams This session provides students with a range of skills to improve exam preparation
and exam room performance. Specific skills include:
· Developing a continuous learning loop
· How to use an exam planner
· Exam preparation timeline
· Getting the most out of practice papers
· Rationing time in an exam
· Breaking down an exam question
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Memory and
Mnemonics
· Stress management
The outcome of this session is to move students away from rote-learning in order to
develop higher level memory skills. Skills examined include:
· Role of attention
· Encoding techniques and learning styles
· Semantic learning techniques including mnemonics and associative learning
· Recall skills
Y Loizou
Head Teacher Mathematics
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