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Website: www.cvc.wa.edu.au

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Newsletter Term 4 2017

As the year comes to end some of our Year 9 and 10 students have been lucky enough to spend time at the Electrical College in Jandakot. The Try a Trade program is a great hand on taster for our students to test out a trade. At Canning Vale College we have hosted seven Try a Trades this year and given over 60 students an experience in electrotechnology, plumbing, painting, auto and bricklaying. Parents and students should keep an eye out on Connect for up and come Try a Trade events in 2018.

Mr Sanderson - Careers Coordinator

Year 9&10 Students Participate in Electrical Try a Trade

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CVC Wins Best Pitcher 2017 at Just Start It

As part of the Just Start It Programme, CVC hosted a STEM - Coding Camp earlier this year.

Students from four other schools attended our campus and were treated to experts in the fields of entrepreneurial skills, creating wireframes for “apps” and how to deliver your pitch. This was an amazing day where students had the opportunity to have hands-on experience with exceptionally talented mentors.

Four teams of students from the Year 10 Business class attended Catholic Education Western Australia in Leederville to pitch their incredible solutions to problems that they face in everyday life. The owner/marketing director/ driver and brains behind the Just Start It Programme (Lainey Weiser) was so impressed with the calibre of the students from Canning Vale College that she insisted that they are recognised for their effort and energy that they exhibited in their pitch. At the Final Pitch and Hack Day excursion, at the Perth Town Hall, two teams of our students, both teachers and the school were presented with medals as the BEST PITCHER 2017.

Mrs Smith - Business

Teacher

CVC Circus Troupe Illumination Show

The Act Belong Commit CVC Circus Troupe had an absolutely marvellous time at our Term 4 Illumination night show. The students were absolutely fantastic in their performances as well as their behaviour.

The show consisted of LED performances, UV light reactive performances and Glow in the Dark performances. Both the Senior Performance Troupe and the Junior Training Team performed and everyone did a marvellous job.

Working in the dark proved a worthy challenge and all the kids rose to the occasion. Circus through illumination changes all the norms of how the students designed and perform their skills, and it was definitely a fun and exciting experience.

Miss Challinger - Circus/TDS Coordinator

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Canning Vale College Hosts Tactical Teaching Reading

Canning Vale College hosted a Tactical Teaching Reading facilitator training workshop. This was presented by Deanne Barrett from international teacher training organisation Tactical Steps Education. There were 24 teachers from 10 schools across the state in attendance, including participants coming from afar as Kalgoorlie, Denmark and Albany.

Canning Vale College uses Tactical Teaching Reading as a crucial part of its literacy strategy and already had six staff trained as facilitators before training another three at the November workshops.

Tactical Teaching is a host of activities that teachers can choose from to help them deliver their content at the same time as improving literacy skills. It’s a toolkit of interesting and easy ways to engage students in learning, from which teachers can pick and choose as they see fit.

As a Facilitator you are trained how to use the resource in your classroom, deliver the training to others, and most importantly, support teachers once they have been trained. Facilitators’ help teachers make decisions as to which activities best support student need, and model activities and lessons.

Mrs Purdue - English Head of Learning Area

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CVC Circus Troupe Perform in Queensland

This year, 40 students from the CVC Circus Troupe and the CVC Senior Dance Troupe were given the opportunity to travel to Queensland to perform at Dreamworld.

The group left for this once in a lifetime trip on the 1st of July, Term 2 school holidays, and stayed for 10 days in total. The students were accompanied by the truly wonderful and supportive Mrs Earle; the impressive and approachable Mr Duffy; the majestic and inspiring Mr Candeloro; the breathtaking and resplendent Miss Scidone; and me, Miss Challinger.

This was an amazing trip, with so many different adventures, I will mention just a few standout moments.

Firstly the hotel was incredible! Huge apartments, with views overlooking the ocean and bay. The students did a fabulous job with being self-sufficient, most making meal plans and cleaning rosters.

Next, our theme park experiences were just amazing. Each supervised group found super fun and exciting things to do. Dreamworld and Movieworld were so accommodating to our large performing group and the students worked super hard to provide a performance befitting the event. I think the highlight for my group was the Superman ride, of which they rode 6 times!

My next highlight was definitely the training workshops run by Hyfidelity Dance Studio and Flipside Circus. Both companies provided top quality training for the students over multiple days. The dance students were immersed in hip hop, contemporary, ballet, and jazz classes. The circus students had the opportunity to train with professional performing artists from Circus OZ and other circus companies at Flipside Circus. The workshops included hand manipulation skills, juggling, clown, advanced tumbling, silks, trapeze, ariel cube, Chinese pole, hula hoop etc. It was a truly incredible experience that up skilled the students involved and provided them with hours of educational entertainment.

My personal favourite moment was The Australian Outback Spectacular. This is a major tourist attraction, which showcases the exceptional talents of horseback riders in an Australian themed dinner and show.

As we were the first group to show up for the evening, the producers asked if the teachers would like to be in the show. None of the students knew this was happening until Mr Duffy, Mr Candeloro, Miss Scidone and myself emerged onto the show stage to engage in an epic battle to the death lawn mower ride. Mr Duffy blitzed the lot of us with an outstanding lead right from the start. Mr Candeloro and I had a photofinisher for second, to which I am certain I came second and have the photo to prove it (although many would contest that Mr Candeloro came second and the photo is just on a bad angle). For now we will concede that second place was a draw. Third and last place was well and truly taken out by Miss Scidone, mostly due to her extremely leisurely jaunt around the stadium, with her relaxed and laid back no cares for competition attitude, more power to you Miss Scidone.

Towards the end of the trip the students were given the opportunity to experience Tambourine Mountain, and for some, it was the first time they had seen a rainforest. Students went on a beautiful rainforest walk to see waterfalls and a treetop walk. We also had the opportunity to see the some glow-worm caves up close and personal.

Right before returning home, students were treated to one last epic experience at iFly indoor skydiving! Every one had a blast floating around in the wind tunnel!

I would like to say how impressed I was by the respect and kindness shown by all our students. I personally will remember this as the best part of the whole trip - thank you to those who made this so special for me.

Miss Challinger - Circus/TDS Coordinator

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CVC Joins Channel 7 RAC Christmas Pageant 2017

The Act Belong Commit CVC Circus Troupe had a marvellous time at the Channel 7 RAC Christmas Pageant representing not only Canning Vale College but also Act Belong Commit.

The CVC Circus Troupe flipped, spun, and juggled their way through the streets of Perth for the 120, 000 strong audience. The troupe was lit up with LED equipment and amazing fluro costumes, which certainly made the group stand out from the crowd.

The students had a truly amazing time, with many of them commenting that it was their favourite show of 2017.

Miss Challinger - Circus/TDS Coordinator

The Act Belong Commit CVC Circus Troupe Country Tour

The CVC Circus Troupe had the pleasure of performing their amazing stage show ‘There is a place for us’ at York District High School on Thursday the 7th, December. The show was really well received and the students from York were amazingly welcoming.

“On behalf of York District High School I wish to express our sincere gratitude and congratulations for attending our school to present two circus performances to our Kindergarten to Year 6 classes. I even believe that some of our secondary classes attended in the afternoon due to the “word of mouth”

that spread around our school on the day of the performance. I have only heard and received extremely positive feedback and commend you, your team, the performers and Canning Vale College for the wonderful contribution you make to sharing with the many schools you visit, the strong and positive message of “Act, Belong and Commit”. We look forward to having you visit our school again and wish you all the best for your amazing circus troupe program.” Mr Adrian Lister, Deputy Principal, York DHS.

After the performances were finished, the Troupe had time to explore the town before heading to their accommodation at Lavendale Farmstay. Students were given the full farm experience and got to feed the animals, take hay rides, had night time animal visits, a BBQ and experienced country cottage living. The next day, students travelled to Mundaring Weir and Kalamunda for lunch. What a truly exceptional country performance tour! Miss Challinger & Miss Scidone

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Year 7 2018 Visual Art Extension Orientation

The Year 7 Visual Art Extension students for 2018 attend two orientation sessions in Term 4. These orientation sessions were carried out to introduce the new students to each other, their future teachers and to give them an idea of how the Visual Art Extension program will run. It also gave parents an introduction to the format of the program and the chance to meet the staff.

Session one; the students were introduced to their tutor, Artist, Tanya De Hass who carried out an intensive course focusing on the Cubist Art Movement. Students were initially greeted with a substantial still life arrangement which they had minimal time to draw before being asked to move to a different position in the room and starting over. Once the students had completed a series of these drawings (5 in total) they were then instructed to tear or cut them up into smaller pieces to come back to later.

Session two; the students were set the challenge of creating a harmonious appearing image by reorganising and piecing together the disparate sections of the drawings they had completed and torn up the previous week. Once this was achieved, students took a workshop in generating a monochromatic/contrasting colour scheme and were then tasked with applying this to their new images.

Overall the Year 7's conducted themselves excellently, taking on the challenges presented to them without falter and they produced some fascinating Artworks and had a great time with their new peers. The works will be on display to see early next year.

Mr Peake - Coordinator Visual Arts Extension

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CVC Hosts S.T.E.A.M Game Design Course for Bletchley Park Primary

For several weeks this term, CVC had the pleasure of hosting Year 5 students from Bletchley Park Primary School for a S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) focused, Game Design Course.

The course was an introduction to the design of video games, and to showcase the fantastic work that students produce at CVC in the field. After viewing a short showcase of games made by Year 9 - 12 students, the group was introduced to creating 'Sprites' and 2D Game Art. The goal was to visualise themselves as an 8-Bit Video Game Character, that would be included in their games by the end of the course.

Students were then introduced to basic programming techniques using the program Scratch, and learned quickly the amount of problem-solving required to create interactive games. Students were able to produce a game that allowed their character to respond and be controlled by the user's input, avoid enemies and create a 'Game Over' screen. I cannot commend the students enough for their enthusiasm, creativity and resilience during the process. Many stated that they now share a greater appreciation for the video games that they play!

The students had a wonderful time and were awarded certificates to declare themselves official Game Designers!

Miss Piccioni - ICT Teacher

VET in Schools Outstanding Achievement Award

It is with great pleasure we announce that our Year 12 student, has recently won the Master Plumbers Association, Vet in Schools, Outstanding Achievement Award for 2017.

Sinead was enrolled in a Certificate II in Plumbing – Plumbing Pre-Apprenticeship through the VET in Schools program.

We are very proud of Sinead, who has worked hard with both the theory and work placement components of the Pre-Apprenticeship.

Congratulations Sinead and all the very best for your future.

Mrs Robertson - Workplace Learning Coordinator

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School Based Traineeship—Cert II Warehousing

Congratulations to our Year 10, 11 and 12 students that have graduated from their School Based Traineeship, Cert II Warehousing at GMS Training Solutions, Maddington.

All students attended the Maddington warehouse for one day a week during 2017. They completed a variety of tasks in the warehouse environment for industry, and theory in the classroom. Canning Vale College had 18 students accepted into the School Based Traineeship. They attended on different days – Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

Our students nearly scooped the pool with the Awards and should be very proud of themselves. Apart from completing their Certificate II in Warehousing, they have developed many skills that will help them in the future including; teamwork skills, social skills, improved confidence, increased reliability and responsibility.

Congratulations to the following award winners:

- Most Helpful – Yashpal Singh - Encouragement Award – Jacob Kuhn - Most Improved – Quinn Walters - Best Teamwork – Dylan Ong and Faizal Rahim - Class Clown – Cale Turnell

Mrs Robertson - Workplace Learning Coordinator

Year 10 Workplace Induction 2017

During Week 8, approximately 55 of our Year 10 students attended work placement with a large variety of employers.

Students attended a Workplace Learning Induction during Week 7 at school. We covered Occupational Safety and Health in the workplace, how to fill in their logbooks and Work Readiness. The Work Readiness session was presented by Natalie Montgomerie from B.C.S. Development Training. She was a fantastic and enthusiastic presenter who covered a large number of areas including the importance of first impressions, what employers look for in an employee, communication and body language.

Mrs Robertson - Workplace Learning

Coordinator

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LEAP Education Support Dinner 2017

It was a lovely Friday evening as parents, family members and guests were greeted to appetiser plates. The official event started with Mrs Melissa Sarich announcing that the night was unashamedly about the Education Support Program, celebrating LEAP (Learning Enrichment and Active Partnerships) programs, Education Support students and their achievements. The Education Support Hospitality students under the expert tuition trainer Mrs Yvonne Stephenson produced a standout menu following an Italian theme, with the Galileo foyer decked out in red, white and green.

Families and guests enjoyed short movies of each year group highlighting their activities over the year, followed by a buffet meal. The graduating Year 12 students were then individually acknowledged with a movie showcasing all of their time at CVC and received their portfolios which holds copies of all certificates awarded, workplace learning assessments and a school reference.

Finally, one student was awarded the highly desirable trophy as the recipient of the LEAP Creating Futures Award for 2017. Alex Wright was proud but humble as he accepted the award. The evening concluded with tea, coffee and a range of delectable desserts.

Special thanks are extended to the LEAP staff for the planning, organisation and running of the LEAP Dinner, your time, hard work and commitment is much appreciated.

Mrs Sarich - Deputy Principal - Education Support

CVC Wins At Youth Black Prize Awards

On Wednesday, 15th November 2017 CVC Year 9 student, Lucas Tan won second prize at the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture Youth Awards in the Years 9-10 category for his artwork ‘Self-Portrait.’ It was a proud moment for Lucas, his mum and his art teachers as they announced the winner. Lucas received an art pack from the Perth art supplier HU Kendall and Co.

CVC was also awarded a full day art workshop. These workshops will be run by a professional portrait artist, and are courtesy of Squire Patton Boggs.

The 2017 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture Youth Award provides young artists with an opportunity to showcase their creative talents and to challenge them from an artistic perspective through the field of portraiture.

This year 180 youth entries were received for WA’s only portrait prize that is now celebrating its 11th year anniversary, up from 167 entries last year.

Many secondary schools enter this prestigious award ceremony, and we are proud to have done so well. Congratulations to all involved!

Mrs Roberts - Head of Learning Arts

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CVC Students Achieve Mathematics Competition Success

During Term 3, CVC students participated in the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC).

“The AMC was introduced in Australia in 1978 as the first Australia-wide mathematics competition for students. It has since spread internationally, with students in more than 30 countries attempting the same problems. The AMC is for students of all standards. Students are asked to solve 30 problems in 60 minutes (Years 3–6) or 75 minutes (Years 7–12). The problems are designed to test mathematical thinking and questions are designed so that they can be answered just as quickly without a calculator as with one. The problems get more difficult through the competition, so that at the end they are challenging to the most gifted students. ”

Congratulations to all the students who achieved an award:

Year 7: Distinction: Anjanette Lee, Josie Wood, Nouvelle Tamilagan, Keisha Gabrielle Patricio, Wei-Hing Zhan Credit: Zachary Tang, Aaron Chau, Kenzo Harsono, Aarya Raut, Blake Harbord, Jennifer Howe

Year 8: Distinction: Ruchita Patil, Zarif Solaiman, Jan Briones, Eliot Chen Credit: Hengxiang Li, Daniel Pham, Katie Mobilia, Taya Downing

Year 9: High Distinction: Khairul Adli Roslan Distinction: Lucas Tan, Shivani Bhat, Christopher Round Credit: Serena Jones, Yu Chin, Jorja Petersen, Muhtasheem Hossain

Year 10: Distinction: Pierson Chung Credit: Ramudhi Kottage, Rehaab Syed, Bingying Chen, Benjamin Song, Alysha Duncan

Year 11: Credit: Chante Mitton, Naing Lin, Jaishnaa Nambiar

Year 12: High Distinction: Nicholas Subianto Distinction: Ali Hassan Syed, Weiyong Xu, Aidan Wearne Credit: Kevan Tan, Matthew Lim, Conor Warrilow

Friendly Debate Among CVC Students

During Week 6, Year 9 students had an enjoyable, friendly debate on 'Globalisation, Friend or Foe'.

Both teams were not short of facts and enjoyed working on their debating skills.

Thank you to Mr Sanderson for being part of the adjudication panel and for his valuable feedback to the debaters.

Special thanks to all students and staff in participating.

Mr Ismail - Humanities and Social Science

Teacher

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CVC Progressing to Become Waterwise

During Term 3 and 4, CVC Year 7 A+ Humanities and Social Science (HASS) students and Mrs Fiona Grant have been working hard on making our school Waterwise.

The Year 7 A+ HASS students have been studying water scarcity as part of the Geography STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) curriculum program. The Year 7 A+ students conducted an in-depth survey examining how students and staff use water in the college. The Year 7 A+ students then created posters on helpful tips in saving water in everyday activities within the college.

Emma Williams, a representative from Waterwise, attended the Year 7 & 8 assemblies during National Water Week and discussed how much water we all use and how students can save water both at home and in school. She also explained the effects of our changing climate on our water sources, and the need to conserve water as a non-renewable resource and what we are doing to secure our water supply.

The theme for National Water Week this year was 'Water – the Heart of our Culture' which encourages young people to explore how water shapes our everyday lives through recreational activities, the natural world and our community values.

Through these projects, CVC students and staff are now more aware of the use of water in our everyday lives and doing our part as a community to secure water supplies for the future.

Mrs Grant - Senior Humanities and Social Science (HASS) Teacher

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CVC Game Design Club

The CVC Game Design Club is back again this term, with students ready to complete their projects in larger teams. Students are starting to experiment with the game engine, Unity. The industry-grade game making software allows students to create 2D and 3D games, as well as virtual worlds. Others are experimenting with concept and game art, and we are even hoping to 3D print some of their original character designs! I am looking forward to seeing what this creative group of students come up with to finish off the year.

Miss Piccioni - ICT Teacher and Game Design Club Coordinator

Last week CVC exhibited a beautiful Arts Showcase that illustrated some of the best artwork created by our students and our local primary school students including; Canning Vale College Primary, Excelsior Primary, Forest Crescent Primary and Campbell Primary.

The two day CVC Arts Showcase included an extensive display of artwork and also featured performances from the Music, Circus, Drama and Dance students.

CVC's art is renowned in our local community with many art pieces being exhibited in competitions such as the Young Originals Exhibition, Outside the Frame Art Awards, the City of Gosnells Exhibition and the Black Swan Exhibition. Throughout the year there have been many student award winners.

Thank you to all the staff and students involved in making the CVC Arts Showcase a magical two-day event.

The CVC Arts Showcase

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CVC Student Donates For A Great Cause

CVC Student Hallee Nicole donated 40cm of her hair and raised over $1000 in funds for the organisation Variety - the Children’s Charity. We are very proud of Hallee for committing to such a noble cause. Please see Hallee’s story below and watch her video via the link to see her journey;

“One of my best friends from primary school suffers from cerebral palsy and I watch her on Telethon performing with Variety Youth Choir. I would see so many people who suffer from a medical condition who have lost their hair. I have become friends with some people who have lost their hair due to this and I know how much they would like to have their hair back. I have been growing my hair out for 5 years now and I had the idea of giving it to someone who needs it more than me. I love to make other people happy and I know that this will. I have so much hair and I would love to share it with someone else to make them happy.

I have made the decision to make a difference by cutting and donating my hair to be made into a wig for someone who has lost their hair due to a medical condition.

Wigs cost families up to $6,000, lasting 1-2 years, meaning families can spend tens of thousands of dollars on the purchase of wigs throughout a child’s youth. By making a donation to Variety - the Children's Charity, you can help provide a wig or other vital equipment to a child in need. Thank you for helping kids to simply enjoy being a kid.”

Hallee Nicole - CVC Year 9 Student

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Year 7 A+ Students Learn Something New With Picture Books

English Excursion: The Main Focus

On the 11th of October, we (the year 7 A+) went to the Literature Centre which was at the Fremantle Prison. It has many picture books and novels that are available for a range of ages. This term (4) in English, our main focus is on picture books. Assignments that we are going to be working on this term are all about making picture books & the excursion has made us think more about what it is, rather than just what we already know about picture books. This excursion helped us understand more about it and the process which goes into making a picture book.

By Kiara Chau, Ngoc-Huong Duong, Julia Le and Hui Jing Tan

History of Fremantle Prison

The Literature Centre is located inside Fremantle prison. The instructor (Ms Beck) told us that most of the walls were made of limestone as it is a pretty sturdy rock. The prison is listed as a world heritage place and so no renovations have been made. She also told us that the builders put two types of wires to make sure no prisoner could escape the prison: razor and barbed. The now Literature Centre was originally the hospital for the prison. A common thing the prisons would do is fake being sick to get away from fellow prisoners. The excursion was intriguing and informative. We learned a lot about the prison itself and the picture books.

By Luke Veneris, Thomas Roper and Brayden Tay

Picture Book Elements

At our trip to the Literacy Centre in Fremantle prison we learnt that the colours in picture books are important to the audience's reading it. Children’s picture books should be bright in colour to intrigue them. On the other hand, dull colours can mostly be for people in their teens or adults. Overall, children’s picture books should be vibrant and books for older people can be both vibrant or dull. We also learnt how to identify picture book by looking at their font, colours, size and illustration. The number of pages inside the picture book must be a multiple of eight. This is because before the book is published it goes through a storyboard, and it has to be folded in fours and then cut into separate pages. This cannot be done if the book is not a multiple of 8. If the writer has written a book that is not a multiple of eight, they would add a page that includes the title with a little illustration to represent the story. Overall, we enjoyed our excursion and we learnt a lot of things relating to picture books.

By Anjanette Lee, Munira Mohamed Ali, Asia Pillay and Maya Winn

The Use of Lines

During our excursion at the Literature Centre, we learned about the different techniques of illustration used in picture books. We studied several different picture books which gave us an introduction to the different techniques used in picture books. One book, in particular, Mrs Millie’s painting written and illustrated by Matt Ottley, was used as an example to show how curvy and sharp lines are used to influence the reader’s opinion about characters. Mrs Millie was presented with several round lines and had no jagged lines on her whereas the antagonist of the book, Mrs Compost, was made up solely of sharp and seemingly “dangerous” lines. From her hair to her body her entire character was riddled with sharp lines. The psychology behind this is that since we were young we were taught that sharp objects such as knives and scissors were dangerous and that curved objects such as pillows are safe. The protagonist in this story is comprised of only curved lines thus creating an easily likable character. On the other hand, Mrs Compost, the antagonist of the story, is illustrated with sharp jagged lines; from her hair to her butt cheeks. We thought that this was an excellent experience and learning opportunity for all of us.

By Keisha Patricio, Kenzo Harsono, Tabeeba Zaman and Zachary Tang

Illustration Techniques

After our short break, when we ventured back inside, we came to learn about the hidden meanings and techniques behind the illustrations in some of the books such as “Way Home” and “Boo to a Goose”. The techniques that we learned about the illustrations is that sharp edges/lines can represent fearful things or that curved lines can ...

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...mean simplicity or happiness. We did a drawing based on the sentence “there was a knock at a door”. As we did our drawings we then discovered that as an illustrator, we can’t just think about the first thing that comes to mind, we have to think outside the box. When thinking about illustrating the ideas come from imagination, research, and past experiences. We now understand the different techniques and how to find them in any type of illustration.

By Jasmine Grubber, Disarnia Naidoo, Olivia Goodchild and Luke Dagostino

The Lessons of Creativity

The presenter, Miss Beck, focused on being creative. Miss Beck encouraged us to channel our thoughts and ideas to think outside the box. Being creative meant that our ideas were original. Miss Beck allocated some time at the end of the presentation to illustrate a sentence. The sentence that we were supposed to illustrate was ‘There was a knock on the door’. Surprisingly, most of our illustrations were similar. Miss Beck told us that she presumed that most of our illustrations would be similar. She then told us to think from a different perspective. Miss Beck told us to think about where the door leads to and the size of the characters and the door. She asked us to draw another illustration based on the same piece of text. This time, everyone’s illustration was unique and original. Miss Beck told us to ask ourselves the question, ‘What if?’. She told us to always be imaginative and to be singular in our work. We certainly learned much about having our own mark in work and will surely apply this knowledge in our work in the future.

By Nouvelle Tamilalagan, Aarya Raut and Josie Wood

The publishing process of picture books

While we were there, Ms Beck taught us many things about picture books including the stages and processes that a picture book must go through before it can be published. Most picture books have an author and an illustrator but in some rare cases, the author does both the writing and the illustration. The author begins with a manuscript, which outlines the basis of the story. From there they can spend months to years writing a book, perfecting each line and making the book to their standards. When they have finished writing the book they submit it to a publishing company, the book is then read over and if it is accepted it is given to an illustrator. There are a few occasions where the author and illustrator collaborate but most commonly the author has no say in what the illustrator does, they often don’t even meet until the book is published. The illustrator spends time analysing the story and coming up with the concepts for each page using thumbnails. Once they are happy, they do the art and send it away to be published. We found it incredibly informative and interesting; it was a great way to open our eyes to how a picture book is formed.

By Laura Loveday, Mia Oughton, Joelle Jones and Rithika Ramesh

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CVC Welcomes New Year 7’s for 2018

CVC Hospitality Students Host Morning Tea

The move from primary to secondary school is a major milestone for any student. It's a time of big changes in development, education, and life. As part of the transition from Year 6 to Year 7, enrolled students from feeder primary schools are invited to attend an Orientation Day. Throughout the day Year 7 students experienced what a day is like in high school.

The CVC Student Council Leaders were there to guide the Year 7’s to each class during the day. They had the opportunity to participate in all learning areas from Maths, Physical Education, Arts, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The Year 7’s finished the day with a wonderful performance from the CVC Circus Troupe.

CVC is very excited to welcome the Year 7’s in 2018. We hope they enjoyed their day as much as we had fun hosting the day!

On Friday, 20th October 2017 the Hospitality students prepared and showcased some of the items they have been learning throughout the year. Staff and students were invited to Morning Tea to taste the delicious spread on display and thoroughly enjoyed the food.

Mrs Stephenson - Hospitality Lecturer

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CVC After School Study Sessions

We have Mrs. Van Eijck and Mr. Langridge running after-school study sessions every Wednesday afternoon in the library from 15:15 pm - 16:00 pm. In these sessions, students can receive additional tuition with a focus on HASS and English. We aim to offer an environment where students are supported with their homework and revision. Students are also able to use the library resources which include the use of computers.

Education Support South Network (ESSN) Soccer Carnival

On Tuesday, 31st October, 14 of CVC education support students attended the first-ever Education Support Southern Network Soccer Carnival at Coker Park, hosted by Cannington Education Support Centre. The students were excited to participate in this much-loved sport, and the competition was fierce with many schools in attendance.

The first game was a difficult match against Cannington Education Support Centre, for the CVC Division 1 Team, while the CVC Division 2 Team had success against Kenwick School for a strong start.

With a few changes to the side, the CVC Division 1 Team saw a strong second battle with Armadale Education Support Centre for a nil all draw, and success was seen again for the CVC Division 2 Team with a win over Leeming Education Support Centre.

The CVC Division 1 Team had success with a win over Leeming Education Support Centre, and a rematch with Cannington Education Support Centre for a tight finish with a close loss, while the CVC Division 2 Team gaining two more wins over Malibu School and Cannington Education Support Centre.

The students demonstrated exceptional teamwork and sportsmanship throughout the competition.

The competition was fierce, but overall the students did themselves and CVC proud with The CVC Division 1 Team, coming in tied 2nd, while the CVC Division 2 Team being undefeated all day winning the home cup.

Thank you for all the staff and students involved in making the event happen and supporting the students to take part in a great game.

Paul Wilmot—Year 9 Education Support Teacher

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CVC Celebrates Academic Excellence

It’s with great pleasure that we announce our complete school performance in the recent International Competition

for Australian schools (ICAS) in Science, English, Writing & Maths, in which Year 7-10 students within our A+ Academic

Extension Program, and high achieving Year 11 & 12 students participated.

In addition, it is with great recognition that Canning Vale College has set a new record high with academic excellence at

our college this year with our first ever medalist in ICAS in the writing division, Keisha Patricio! She achieved the top 1%

of Year 7 participants in Australia! This year over 980,000 entries were received but only 514 students from Australia

and 100 students from New Zealand and the Pacific Region were awarded medals for their outstanding achievement.

Congratulations Keisha for achieving such an outstanding award.

The following students are to be commended and congratulated in attaining the following awards of achievement:

Science Results

Award: Distinction

Yr8 – Jude Keenan

Yr9 – Yu Chin

Yr12 – Maleeha Bhorat, Kevan Tan

Award: Merit

Yr7 – Joelle Jones, Lisa Mlambo, Mohamed Ali Munira, Brayden Tay, Luke Veneris

Yr8- Sharai Gaiger, Ian Loh, Nouvelle Tamilalagan, Amritha Thirumalai Chetty

Yr9 – Phoebe Tan

Yr10 – Alysha Duncan, Michael Volmink, Yuqi Zheng

Yr12-Georgia Roberts

Award: Credit

Yr7 – Kenzo Harsono, Eric Liew, Aary Raut, Zachary Tang, Josie Wood, Tabeeba Zaman

Yr8 – Liam Carroll, Anna Luong, Raghav Mittal, Katie Mobilia, Marcus Poh, Chloe Poi, Jamie Teo

Yr9 – Serena Jones, Wei Lang Ong, Christopher Round

Yr10 – Stephanie Ewings, Ramudhi Kottage, Rehaab Syed

Yr11 – Chante Mitton

Yr 12 – Leona Marantan, Samatntha lee, Zahraa Bhorat, Saara Goo, Conor Hachey, Ali Hassan Syed, Nicholas Subianto,

Aidan Wearne, Weiyong Xu

Writing Results

Award: High Distinction

Yr7 – Keisha Patricio

Award: Distinction

Yr7 – Laura Loveday, Munira Mohamed Ali

Yr8 – Heli Das

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Yr9 – Tej Balasubramani, Christopher Round

Yr 10 – Ramudhi Kottage, Yuqi Zheng

Award: Merit

Yr7 – Brayden Tay

Yr10 – Stephanie Ewings, Cassandra Killeen

Award: Credit

Yr7 – Kenzo Harsono, Joelle Jones, Dinura Kularatna, Lisa Mlambo, Aarya Raut, Tammay Shinde, Nouvelle Tamilalagan,

Zachary Tang, Josie Wood, Tabeeba Zaman

Yr8 – Shauma Lantansha, Anna Luong, Ruchita Patil, Nikitha Tannbuddi, Jamie Teo

Yr10 – Alana La Brooy, Rehabb Syed, Michael Volmink

Yr11- Chante Mitton

Yr12 – Nicholas Subianto

English Results

Award: Distinction

Yr7 – Lisa Mlambo, Keisha Patricio, Nouvelle Tamilalagan

Yr11 – Chante Mitton

Award: Credit

Yr7 – Olivia Goodchild, Kenzo Harsono, Laura Loveday, Zachary Tang, Bradyen Tay

Yr8 – Eliot Che, Kaviya Karuppsamy, Katie Mobilia, Nikitha Tannubuddi, Jamie Teo, Amritha Thirumalai Chetty

Yr9 – Yu Chin, Chloe Griffiths, Chloe Hutton, Serena Jones, Wei Liang Ong, Christopher Round, Phoebe Tan

Yr10 – Shahin Adie, Ariana Downing, Lynette Nice, Rehaab Syed, Michael Volmink

Yr12 – Maleeha Bhorat, Ariel Chan, Nicholas Subianto

Award: Merit

Yr7 – Josie Wood,

Yr8 - Lydia Jones, Shauma Latansha, Anna Luong

Yr10 – Stephanie Ewings

Math’s Results

Award: Distinction

Yr7 – Kenzo Harsono, Aarya Raut, Josie Wood

Yr8 – Katie Mobilia

Yr9 – Yu Chin, Serena Jones, Christopher Round

Yr12 – Kevan Tan, Nicholas Subianto, Aidan Wearne

Award: Credit

Yr7 – Jagpal Hansra, Dinura Kularatna, Eric Liew, Tanmay Shinde, Nouvelle Tamilalagan, Zachary Tang, Tabeeba Zaman

Yr8 – Taya Downing, Jude Keenan, Anna Luong, Raghav Mittal, Ruchita Patil, Wee How Poh, Chloe Poi, Nikitha

Tanbubuddi, Jamie Teo, Amritha Thirumalai Chetty

Yr9 – Tej Balasubramani, Muhtaswheem Hossain, Way Han Lim, Wei Liang Ong, Khairul Roslan, Peter Zeng

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Yr10 – Alysha Duncan, Ramudhi Kottage, Alana La Brooy, Rehaab Syed, Yuqi Zheng

Yr11 – Change Mitton

Yr12 – Connor Hachey, Ali Hassan, Weiyong Xu

Award: Merit

Yr7 – Brayden Tay

Yr8 – Eliot Chen, Sharai Gaiger

Yr10 – Alyssha Kwok

Yr11 – Lana Todd, Lleyton Turner

Mrs Qasem - Academic Excellence Coordinator

Keisha Patricio with Principal Peter Rudrum

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CVC Year 7’s Learn From Departing Year 12’s

"The final assignment for Year 12 General English students was to produce an oral presentation, accompanied by a

digital text, in the form of a ‘Guide to Surviving High School’. I arranged for some of this Year 12’s work to be shared

with an appropriate intended audience, my Year 7 students.

On Thursday 21 September, one of my Year 12 General English students, Rhys Cannarella, visited my Year 7 classes in

order to share his work with them. Our Year 7’s had also been preparing oral presentations and I provided them with

an opportunity to observe an outstanding piece of work, with content directly relevant to them as relative novices in

the secondary school environment. In this respect the Year 7’s received some genuine mentoring by an older student,

who imparted his wisdom and advice at the conclusion of his five years at Canning Vale College, and as a graduating

Year 12 student.

Rhys is planning to study Teaching and eventually become a teacher himself. The sharing activity I arranged for him

provided him with a memorable opportunity to practise his leadership and communication skills in an authentic

context.

These are some remarks made by my Year 7 students in their self-evaluation reviews of this classroom activity,

following Rhys’s presentation:

Rhys presented really well and he was moving around, involving the class and asking us questions. I will remember the

things he said and apply them in the future. – James Stobart

In his power-point he included dot points to help him remember what to say. When he stated his point, Rhys would

ask us for our opinion. – Serena Brown

The points that I learned from the presentation were that I should balance my studies and my social life. This

presentation is good advice for younger students on how to do well in high school. – Angammal Moorthy

The way in which Rhys presented was a good example for us Year Sevens to learn from. He knew his content, involved

the audience and made eye contact with everyone in the class. He showed us a number of techniques I will be applying

to my future presentations. – Mei-Lynne Chiang

Rhys made a list of dos and don’ts such as; don’t put up with bullies, do have a positive mindset, don’t argue with the

teachers, and many more. He told us some ways of handling homework while balancing your social life, elaborating on

dot points he made. – Brianna Hembra

Rhys spaced out his work and most of that was in dot points. Rhys also memorised all of his work and that made it a lot

more interesting. – Manmeet Singh

Some of his points were to make time for school and play; put your head down and do your work and listen to do well

in your classes. – Raina Asim

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Rhys mainly stated that what happens in high school affects your future life and can also limit what you can do in the

future. He mainly focused on aiming for a higher grade than you currently have. I learned that you will eventually get

through it. – Georgia Kremer

Rhys said that no matter what, you have the right to feel comfortable and safe in the situation that you’re in! I learned

that you should really only have two or three friends you really trust. – Keira Miller

Rhys spoke about and elaborated on topics such as: attendance, grades, relationships, social media, balancing work and

play, friendship groups and ATAR. – Vanessa Bailey

In oral presentations, thanks to Rhys, I am a bit more confident as he performed in front of people he didn’t know.

From the actual content, I found the presentation very helpful and I learned quite a lot. – Kael Sandhu

One thing I really liked was when Rhys compared his Year 7 self to his Year 12 self. His speaking manner, posture and

impeccable jokes were all up to scratch. – Tanmay Shinde

What I learned was that school is not for ‘cool’ people and I also learned that the more friends you make the easier

school will be. – Kudakwashe Faneti

Rhys had a great start to his presentation. He had key points on his slideshow and when he explained those points, he

further elaborated, explaining it to us in detail. He had a very clear voice and didn’t read from a piece of paper. I was

very glad that Ms Di Noto arranged this because I learned a lot from Rhys on how to present an oral presentation. –

Aaron Chau

Ms Anna Di Noto - Level 3 Classroom Teacher, English

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CVC Banned Book Competition

In the last week of Term 3, CVC held a Banned Book Competition in the Library. Students were invited to guess the

identity of a shredded Banned Book that was housed in a large jar. We are pleased to announce ten student winners

out of eighty-two entrants. These were: Keisha Patricio; Will Spann; Akashdeep Dhaliwal; Elise Thompson; Maya Filez;

Joelle Jones; Tabeeba Zaman; Natasha Musonda; Leila Temuri and Mostafa Al-Asadi. Congratulations are extended to

these clever students; it was not easy to guess the identity of a book that is in tiny strips of paper and jammed into a

jar. All students chose a book from a selection as a prize.

Miss Nybo - Teacher Librarian