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Blackburn High School 6th November 2019

ISSUE SEVEN

In this issue:

Principal’s Report

Excellence Awards

Dunlop House

Freeman House

Hollows House

Melba House

Art & Technology

Photography

Blackburn’s Got Talent

Sport

Resource Centre

Blackburn’s Got Talent, 2019


Primary and Secondary Numeracy Meeting

Building strong and authentic links with our primary school colleagues is an important focus for us at Blackburn High School. On Wednesday 16th October, Ms Shona Mcenaney (Transition Leader) and Mr Tony Lahy (Maths Leader) met with the primary school teachers for their second Primary & Secondary Numeracy meeting at Blackburn High School. The meeting was very well attended with 14 teachers coming from our feeder primary schools to work with each other in relation to strengthening our common assessment practices across our schools. The group is highly excited and engaged about working together more closely and supporting one another to improve assessment practices across our schools. The next meeting will be held in Week 9.

State Champions in Baseball

Congratulations to the Year 9 & 10 Intermediate Baseball Team who are now the new State Champions. The team competed on Monday 21st October and they fought back from 5-10 down to win 11-10 against Parkdale in the Final. Thank you to Mr Mark Pasquali for coaching and inspiring the students.

Congratulations to our Teachers

This week we acknowledged and celebrated three decades of wonderful contribution to both Blackburn High School and the Government School System achieved by five of our teachers. Congratulations to Ms Cheryl Angus (35 years), Mr Rod Bate (35 years), Ms Marina Crescia (33 years), Mr Greg Hlasko (34 years) and Ms Catherine Tzaikou (30 years).

Examination Period

Students undertaking a Unit 3&4 study are entering an intense examination period. Students from Years 7-11 will also be involved in examinations during this Semester. We wish all the students well and are confident that the hard work and effort they have put in will prepare them for the challenges ahead.


Mrs Joanna Alexander Principal

Year 12 Graduation On Tuesday 22nd October, at a Whole School Assembly, the Blackburn High School community congratulated the Graduating Class of 2019 for achieving this wonderful milestone. Millie Castor provided a moving Acknowledgement to Country to begin the Assembly. We also thanked and acknowledged the 2019 Student Leaders who have been wonderful role models and ambassadors for our school community. School Captains: Ashley Burton and Daniel Fearn-Wannan House Captains: Alyssa Forato, Emily Rushby, Francesca Tan and Lachlan Ord-Steel Music Captains: Stephanie Burger and Nic Walker Sport Captains: Bridgette McLaren and Emily McGuffie Environment Captain: Ellen Tobin-Spall Social Justice Captain: Taya Strahan Debating Captain: Parmida Taheri We are very proud of the graduating students and each one of them has enriched our school community over the past six years. We have seen them grow into young people who are now ready to make their mark on the world. We wish them well during the coming examination period. At the conclusion of the Assembly, students from Years 7-11 organised a guard of honour to congratulate the Graduating Class of 2019.

2019 Valedictory Dinner Graduation evokes both immense happiness and sadness for the students and their parents and at the Valedictory Dinner held at the San Remo Ballroom on 22nd October we had over 430 people in attendance. We had a number of guests including the School Council President Mr Geoff Hugo who spoke on behalf of the parent body, and alumnus Ms Tessa Hubble who shared her experiences as a former Blackburn High School student. Tessa is an artist who speciailises in portrait painting and has travelled the world to further her work. Mr Steve Sedergreen led the brilliant student ensemble that provided the fantastic music throughout the evening. We wish all the students well in their future endeavours and hope that their aspirations and dreams come true.

Excellence Awards

TERM 4 AWARDS Congratulations to all students who put in the required learning effort and are now proud of their Term 3 Interim report. We recently presented the Academic Excellence Awards to students during the Mentor Program. This Award is given to the top academic students in each year level based on their Term 3 Interim report. The aim of this Award is to recognise student achievement and to raise learning expectations across the Blackburn High School community as a whole.

Year 7 Academic Excellence Award Recipients

Harvey Irvin Jiaxin Le Chenyezi Li Sebastian Poynter Samantha Spencer Sayuri Hioki-Walker

Year 7 Learning Norms Award Recipients

Oliver Schley Douglas Shuttleworth Hamish Clarkson

Spencer Zaibak

Kira Bourke

Chloe Chen

Pia Tripathi

Excellence Awards


Ayla Wilson Hafez Yousefi Qi Guan Beatrix Hiep Ella Marsh Angus Collins Jacob Wright Elsie Castle Shi Zhang Chen


Lee Martin Logan Geraghty Daniel Frankish Nathan Wong Wilson Huynh Kyle Richards Isagani Veloira Emma Busuttil Madelaine Harvey


Daniel Frankish Nathan Wong Emma Busuttil Madelaine Harvey


Indyah Chaffer Rubi Reeh Alexandra Procter Elliot Shute Carlos Lai Robert Slenders Alysha Yaacoub Oliva Mirra Sarah Cotterell Madeline Aujard


Jacob Wright Kuafia Sandhu Sam Clochiatti Anne Saramandif Beatrix Hiep Athanassios Tsironis Zaiyani Mohamed Angus Collins

Excellence Awards

Year 10 Learning Norms

Award Recipients

Sebastian Valle Jack Sutherland Cadhla Schmidli Riley Holloway Lachlan Blunden Indyah Chaffer Rubi Reeh Alexandra Procter Oliva Pratesi

Madeline Aujard Jasmine Kellock Emma Smith Hannah Shin Olivia Pratesi Yusi Xia James Howlett Brian Chiu Alysha Yaacoub Olivia Mirra


Ben Johnson Kayla Pratt Sepehr Jahani Behbahani Jamie Messenger Stefan Su Anthony Waymouth Stan Filippis Gemma Goold


Daphne Papamichael

Dainika Morgan

VInay Lim

Jasmine Lefebure

Bethany Hayen

Bethanie Gray

Jericha Edillon

Ben Johnson

Kayla Pratt

Miles Stukenborg

Sepehr Jahani Behbahani Jamie Messenger

We now challenge all students to continue to improve their learning throughout Term 4. Mr Geoff Vezey, Assistant Principal

Dunlop House YEAR 12 CELEBRATION DAY AND VALEDICTORY DINNER

Celebrations this year began with our traditional House Breakfast last Thursday 17th October. Each Mentor Group had organised to bring plates of food to share. We had a terrific morning with many delicious fresh foods and juice. We displayed graduating student photos from both Year 7 and Year 12, seeing how much they have changed and grown, and celebrated all the contributions that our Year 12s have made over the past six years. Our student leaders thanked the Year 12s, presenting them with study survival packs that they had made. Thank you to all the staff, students and their families for being so generous and helping to make the breakfast a special celebration for our senior students.

A Year 9-12 Assembly was held on Tuesday 22nd October to acknowledge the work, achievement and contributions that our Year 12 students have made to Blackburn High School over the past six years. Year 12 students were farewelled by the rest of the students with the traditional whole school guard of honour, a wonderful sight to be seen. The celebrations continued with Year 12s gathering for signing of school uniforms and some fun with a giant jumping castle, pizza and ice cream to share. We thank all Year 12s for a wonderful morning enjoyed by all.

Lastly staff, students and their families gathered at the San Remo Ballroom for Valedictory Dinner. I was proud to present each of our Dunlop students with their Blackburn High School graduation certificate and to celebrate their achievements through the evening.

I would like to thank each of our Year 12 students for being a part of Dunlop House. They have played a significant role in helping to shape our House culture. I would especially like to thank our House Captain, Emily Rushby, for taking on this role in her final year of study and also congratulate her for being an outstanding and positive leader and role model for Dunlop students as well as the Mustard Club.

On behalf of all the staff and students of Dunlop House we wish our Year 12 students good luck for the upcoming exams and every happiness and success for the future. We will miss you all!

Language Star

Congratulations to Isabella Gaspero

for being awarded a Bronze

certificate for the 2019 Education

Perfect Languages Championships.

She is in the top 10% of 150,000

competitors worldwide.

Dunlop House

STRIVING FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE—TERM 3

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Congratulations to the following Dunlop Students who recently received Academic Excellence Awards:

Year 7 Academic Excellence and Learning Norm Award

Recipients

Harvey Irvin Sebastian Poynter Samantha Spencer


Ayla Wilson


Daniel Frankish Emma Busuttil


Logan Geraghty Daniel Frankish Kyle Richards Emma Busuttil


Sepehr Jahani Behbahani Jamie Messenger Anthony Waymouth Stan Filippis Daphne Papamichael Vinay Lim Jasmine Lefebure


Jamie Messenger Sepehr Jahani Behbahani Jamie Messenger Anthony Waymouth Stan Filippis

Congratulations and thank you to Year 7 Leaders Elsa Reynolds, William Glenn, Harvey Irvin, Annie Burnet and Jerry Lauw for being terrific Year 7 school representatives at this year’s Year 6 transition workshops. These students have been excellent ambassadors for the past two weeks, welcoming some of our future Year 7 students to Blackburn High School and supporting them in their first experiences of secondary school classes. Congratulations to our Student Leadership Team who worked together to organize the Year 12 celebration breakfast as well as made Year 12 study survival kits which included homemade stress balls, an inspirational playlist, stress management tips and some extra goodies. The Year 12s loved these thoughtful gifts.

Student Leadership Team House Captain Speeches Congratulations to our 2020 House Captain candidates, Jasmine Lefebure, Annaliese Hughes and Daphne Papamichael. As part of the captaincy process, short listed students are required to give a speech to the Year 8-11 students in Dunlop House. All speeches were highly engaging and showed each student’s passion for Dunlop House. We wish them luck. The House Captain appointment will be announced later in the term.

Ms Claire Greve, Dunlop House Leader

Freeman House We are very proud of the efforts of our many Freeman students who have continued to show excellence in their learning endeavours: Year 8 Learning Norms Award Recipient Elsie Castle Year 9 Academic Excellence Award Recipient Wilson Huynh Year 9 Academic Excellence & Learning Norms Award Recipient—Madelaine Harvey Year 10 Academic Excellence Award Recipients Madeline Aujard, Rubi Reeh, Elliot Shute, Robert Slenders, Alysha Yaacoub Year 10 Learning Norms Award Recipients Madeline Aujard, Brian Chiu, Jasmine Kellock, Olivia Pratesi, Rubi Reeh, Alysha Yaacoub Year 11 Academic Excellence Award Recipient Gemma Goold Year 11 Learning Norms Award Recipient Bethany Gray

We are also very proud of all of the Freeman students who participated in Blackburn’s Got Talent – I just wish they wouldn’t all be so wonderful, making it so hard to judge! Congratulations to the following students: Tink An, Isla Berick, Ashleigh Bowman, Andre Heeraman, Jason Kelly, Inigo Lamond and Alanis Yim.

Freeman House It was with some sadness and excitement that we farewelled the Freeman Year 12 Class of 2019. At a special House Assembly, we were able to reminisce with them as we looked at their Year 7 photos and others from the past few years. A photo booth organised by Ms McDuff was an extra special surprise for them. On their last day of classes, we all enjoyed a pizza lunch together while they opened their time capsules from Year 7, 2013 – there were some hilarious photos and recollections in there! We wish them well in their exams and whatever the future holds for them. The graduating class of 2019 were: Kurtis Barker Elizabeth Becker Ashley Burton Harriet Castle Vanessa Choong Kevin Choi Carla Cremona Hao Wen Deng Kiara Elder Bradley Fong Alyssa Forato Jacinta Friebel-Suhr Yuuri Fujimura Joseph Gerring Matthew Hicks Bruce Hou Andy Hu Pearl Jansz Cameron Jones Roy Josef Andrew Jung Natasha Kate Seth Kawamura Benjamin Kiss Josh Lambert Niran Jack Lauder Livia Li Evita Liu Annie Liu Gandanni Liu Kara Mazzilli Emily McCosh Emily McGuffie Emily Miles Ali Moeini Adam Ollaik Dae Wen Ong Pema Pema Dadon Matthew Skinner Thomas Slocomb Xavier Sun Habibi Tuasikal Nicholas Walker Amber Wang Kynan Whitehead

During Term 4, senior students have the opportunity to apply for leadership roles in the school for 2020. Freeman House had so many fabulous candidates apply for the role of House Captain that the decision to short-list only four, after writing an application and having an interview, was challenging for the House Leadership Team. On Thursday during our Assembly Bethanie Gray, Millie Castor, Georgia Miers and Andre Heeraman delivered their speech to the rest of Freeman House. The students spoke very well and it is going to be a difficult task choosing the best candidate for the role. Good luck to the four students.

Ms Sharon Gardner-Drummond, Freeman House Leader

Hollows House FAREWELL AND GOOD LUCK TO OUR YEAR 12S Our Year 12s had their final Assembly last week which was followed by a Valedictory Dinner with parents and siblings. Our Year 12s began exams this week and we wish them well. We have been proud to have had you as members of our Hollows family and we wish you well in the future.

ACHIEVEMENTS Academic and Learning Norms Awards Congratulations to the following Hollows students who received awards for Academic Excellence and Learning Norms:

Sayuri Hioki-Walker Jiaxin Le Chenyezi Li Sam Clochiatti Lee Martin Nathan Wong Isagani Veloira Indyah Chaffer Alexandra Procter Cadhla Schmidli Lachlan Blunden Emma Smith Hannah Shin Jericha Edillon Miles Stukenborg

We now challenge our students to continue to improve their learning throughout Term 4. Keeley Ronalds-Greatbatch and James Patterson Congratulations to Keeley Ronalds-Greatbatch and James Patterson who were both members of the Intermediate Baseball team that won the first ever State Final in Baseball for Blackburn High School last week. Both these boys were outstanding contributors, Keeley as starting pitcher and James as catcher and power hitter. David Goddard Congratulations to David Goddard who received a Silver award for Language perfect. Well done David! Exams/Step Up November is a big month for our students. Beginning on 13th November our Year 10-11 students will undertake exams. This will be followed on 25th November by the Step Up Program where students move into next year’s classes. I encourage our students to work hard during this period and begin the 'new year' on a positive note. Phone Policy Parents should be aware that we will be trialling our new ICT user policy from 25th November. This will mean that mobile phones will not be used at school and must be kept in lockers between 8:30am and 3:15pm. This may cause a big change for some students, so I encourage parents to prepare their child/ren for this change.

Mr Mark Pasquali, Hollows House Leader

Melba House

CELEBRATING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT As the 2019 academic year is rapidly drawing to a close, we have been focusing on saying goodbye to our Year 12s and celebrating student achievement in its many facets. We wish all of our departing students farewell and good luck in their exams, and their new educational settings, and look forward to seeing the rest of our students continue to thrive and grow in the 2020 academic year. YEAR 12 Our Year 12s are in the beginning phases of their VCE exams and we had the pleasure of acknowledging them at an Assembly early in Term 4 as well as at Celebration Day and the Valedictory Dinner. We wish all Year 12s good luck with the final part of their schooling and all the best for their future endeavors!

The Melba 2019

Graduates

Sohjin BAEK

Stephanie BURGER

Sebastian CASTELLANO

Celynna CHAU

Caragh CHALKER

Alan CHEN

Fraser CLARKE

Claudia CLARKE

Max COUSTLEY

Claudia DATOY

Sarah DE BRUYN

Marina FAN

Daniel FEARN-WANNAN

Sean FLYNN

Joel GOLDIE

Emma HAMILTON

Caleb HAYEN

Maggie HE

Jayden HOLLOWAY

Ella HOLDEN

Gabriel IOANNOU-BOOTH

Sunwoo JE

Gaganpreet KAUR

Gabriel KEAM

Louis KELSON

Aryan LAL

Flora LAMOND

Sol LEYES

Jack LONGMAN

Karen LONG

Eunice LYE

Ethan MAEA

Aidan MARINELLI

Keith NGUGI

Lachlan ORD-STEEL

Bailey PORTER

George QIAO

Chiara SHUNG

Has SINGH

Rory SPEIRS-SPENCE

Maurice VALLE

Cathy YU

Melba House House Captain 2020 Election

This Assembly also saw students presented with

a difficult choice - who will be the 2019 Melba

House Captain? I would like to acknowledge the

students below who went through the rigorous

application process including a written

application and interview. Shortlisted candidates

were also asked to do a 2 minute speech in front

of the whole House at Assembly, followed by a

student vote. Well done to Charlize Estrada,

Nyah Humphreys-Crouch, Dainika Morgan, Roan

Nair and Ryan Stevens who participated in these

speeches. We eagerly await the results!

Academic Excellence

Learning Norms

Kuafia Sandhu Lucy Saramandif Beatrix Hiep Nash Tsironis Angus Collins Zaiyani Mohamed Carlos Lai Sarah Cotterell Oliva Mirra Ben Johsnon Kayla Pratt Stefan Su

Oliver Schley Douglas Shuttleworth Hamish Clarkson Spencer Zaibak Kira Bourke Chloe Chen Pia Tripathi Claire Chen Jessica Guan Beatrix Hiep Angus Collins Jake Wright Hafez Yousefi Sebastian Valle Jack Sutherland Riley Holloway Oliva Mirra Dainika Morgan Bethany Hayen Ben Johnson Kayla Pratt Bella Martin

Academic Awards

During Week 3 numerous award ceremonies

were held in year levels to celebrate award

winners for Academic Excellence and Learning

Norms from Term 3. Well done to the Melba

recipients listed here:

Ms Jacinta Marcus, Melba House Leader

Art & Technology

BEAT - Blackburn Exhibition of Art + Technology

This exhibition will showcase the work of our Art, Drama, Photography, Multimedia, Media, Visual Communication, Food, Wood, Systems and Information Technology students.

This is our second time we have run the BEAT event and we hope the school community can make it along see the showcase of Arts & Technology student work. Family and friends are warmly welcome to attend the exhibition to support the creative talents of Blackburn students.

What: BEAT - Blackburn Exhibition of Art + Technology

Where: Blackburn High School Dunlop Building

When: Tuesday 26th November, 4:30 – 7 PM

Photography

Year 10 Photography

Over the last two Wednesdays, the Year 10 Photography classes have visited exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria in Federation Square. One of the exhibits was Civilization: The Way We Live Now, an international photography exhibition of monumental scale, featuring the work of over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe with over 200 original photographs. Students also had the opportunity of see two more photographic exhibitions by Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks. In the afternoon students toured some iconic Melbourne sites, taking photographs for an assignment. Ms Cheryl Angus, Art & Technology Leader

Blackburn’s

Got Talent

Once again Blackburn’s Got Talent was a very successful and

popular event. Students and teachers were treated to four heats

and a spectacular Grand Final, concluding the Year 12s last full

week at school. Congratulations to the band BAM!, the winning

act, which took out the competition this year with its engaging and

energetic performances that included fine musicianship, costumes,

acrobatics and even merchandise spruiking.

BAM narrowly beat superstar singers Andre Heeraman and Jericha

Edillon who brought the house down at Thursday’s heat with their

spectacular rendition of Shallow from A Star is Born. Other notable

performances were given by the Coyne brothers with their violin

and viola duo, comedy from Steven Bevz, sensational vocals from

Hannah McAulay and Ashleigh Bowman, a Rubik’s Cube champion

and many, many more.

A huge thank you to the Adrienne Gammune and the amazing Tech

Crew students who set up all the equipment for every show,

Kaitlyn Archer, Melissa McDuff, Adrian Metheringham, Bruce

Wolstenholme, all the students who participated and the teachers

who acted as judges.

Ms Louisa Pennell, BGT Leader

Sport

Ms Ashleigh Hosier, Sports Coordinator

Term 4 has been the busiest yet for Inter-school Sport at

Blackburn High School, with a number of Eastern

Metropolitan Region Finals taking place, as well as the last

of the Whitehorse Division Competitions for our Year 7 and

8 students.

Firstly, congratulations to the Year 7 Boys Cricket, Year 7

Girls Tennis and Year 8 Boys Cricket Teams who won their

respective Whitehorse Division Competitions and have all

made it through to the Eastern Metropolitan Finals. Best of

luck with these events!

This term has also seen the EMR Finals for Year 7 and Year 8

Boys Volleyball, Year 8 Girls Basketball and Year 7 Boys

Baseball take place. These students represented the school

to a high standard with great displays of sportsmanship and

enjoyed the competitive atmosphere. The Year 8 Baseball

Team will compete on 7th November – good luck to those

students!

The Year 7 Boys Hockey Team participated in their EMR Final

on 22nd October. They won every game in their Pool A

Round Robin and advanced to the final against Mount

Waverley. The game ended in a draw and went to a penalty

shootout, with Blackburn winning 2-0! The boys will now

complete in the State Final on 19th November at Footscray

Hockey Club. Congratulations for your achievements so far

and we wish you all the best at the State competition!

Lastly, the Intermediate Boys Baseball Team competed in the State Final on 21st October. They too won all their

Pool A Round Robin games and advanced to the final against Parkdale, having already beaten last year’s State

Champs – Dromana. What an incredibly tense game! The boys went into bat for the last innings down 10 runs to 5.

In a great display of ultimate teamwork, the boys managed to tie the game at 10-10 and take it to an extra innings!

With a massive 4th innings effort by our pitcher, James Richardson and fielders like Joel Carter taking epic catches,

the boys went out to bat without conceding any runs. They simply needed one run to win. James Richardson to

the rescue once more with a giant homerun hit!! Intermediate Baseball STATE CHAMPIONS!

A huge congratulations to the boys and a big thank you to Mr Pasquali and student coach Miles Stukenborg! Well

done all!

Sport

On 18th October our 11 School Sport Victoria Athletics State Finalists headed out to Lakeside Stadium

for their various events. It was a perfect day for Athletics and we had some fantastic results, with three

of our students finishing on the podium for medals.

Our results were as follows:

Nathan Philactides—1st Place 14 Yrs 100m Hurdles with a Record Time (13.71 Secs)

Hannah Linnett—2nd Place 14 Yrs High Jump

Maurice Valle—3rd Place 20 Yrs 800m, 9th Place 20 Yrs 1500m

Owen Mulady—5th Place 16 Yrs 800m

Tom Carroll—8th Place 16 Yrs 1500m

Joel Casey—14th Place 17 Yrs 1500m

Bethany Hayen, Bethanie Gray, Louise Hewitt, Kayla Parratt—6th Place 17 Yrs 4 X 100m

Ms Nadine Roche—Carnivals Co-ordinator

Congratulations to our

State Athletics Finalists &

State Hurdles Champion—Nathan Philactides

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