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Term 3 22 September 2016

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Liverpool Boys Celebrate Multicultural Day

On Thursday, the 25th of September, Liverpool Boys High School celebrated the return of Multicultural Day. Organised by the SRC, the day involved a con-cert, a multicultural lunch and afternoon activities to celebrate the diversity of our school and our lo-cal community. The concert featured: Liverpool West Public School’s Senior Choir and Dance Group show-casing their vocals and acrobatics, a Samoan Haka, an Arabic drumming performance demonstrating the celebrations that happen at weddings, a Capoe-ira performance, a solo Latin-American guitar per-formance, and a dance performance by the Greek teachers at LBHS. The concert also featured a speech by school captain, Ahmed Khan, and SRC Member, Wassim Elabed, as well as a flag parade that highlight-ed the many countries that students from Liverpool Boys High School come from. Students cheered their flags as they were carried past and were enthralled at seeing their teachers and fellow students perform on the day. Liverpool Boys High School would like to thank Mr. Masri, Mr. Chehade, Mr. Williams and Ms. Pappas for organising these performances.

After the concert, students had the chance to buy souvlaki, as well as sample an array of tasty cultural sweets brought in by parents and staff. Sweets in-cluded moon cakes, Portuguese tarts, traditional An-zac biscuits, donuts, baklava and many more. At the end of the day, students then had the opportunity to participate in a variety of novelty sports including rugby bullseye, golf challenges, novelty races, kick for goal and so on. The focus of these activities was teamwork and sportsmanship and the boys did very well at showing these qualities.

Those who preferred an indoor activity partici-pated in face painting classes, a fried rice cooking class, a martial arts class, a marinating octopus class and a movie afternoon. These activities gave students a chance to sample cuisines and activities outside the cultures familiar to them and were a great way to finish the day.



The SRC would also like to thank all staff, students and parents who dressed up in cultural costume, who brought a dish on the day, and all who made the day a welcoming and celebratory experience. Below, a reflection from SRC member, Faiz Yasar (Yr 10):

Another fantastic day organised by the SRC boys and Ms. Martins. The day went really well as the sun was shining and the flags of the world were waving proud. Students and teachers wore amazing clothing from their culture and they were absolutely great.

Not to mention the Multicultural concert; various cultural performances were played and it went re-ally well. My favourite was the Arabic drumming or the wedding ceremony - it was exhilarating! We also had a choir and dance work by Liverpool West Public School - kudos to them.

Parents and guests were invited, and many brought food of different cultures which tasted really, really nice. A plate was five dollars and we got to scoop up whatever we wanted that would fit on the plate; it was really neat.

At the end of the day, we students did novelty sports and cultural activities after Multicultural lunch and we were all happy. No issues, no problems everyone was having fun. Great day overall! Everyone was happy.



Here is one reflection from Year 10 SRC student, Julious Vergara:

During September 6th Tuesday, Week 8, Term 3, students from Year 10 participated in ‘Refugee Camp in my School’ which was a confronting simu-lation of how it feels to be a refugee. This simula-tion caused students to learn how it feels like to be a refugee; the only thing they were asked when they participated was to have sympathy and an open mind. Students were placed in ‘family groups’ with different religions which varied across the world, but were usually persecuted minorities. At the start of the simulation, students were confronted by a border guard who took away what was dear to them, like a watch or hat. Students came in the camp, confused and did not know what to do. “We didn’t have any rights, they took everything from us and we couldn’t do anything,” said Year 10 Student, Vyllreth Meas. This experience allowed students to reflect on, and sympathise with those who have been in refugee camps and those who have experienced terrible circumstances.

On behalf of Mr. Catalanotto, Ms. Jock and Ms. Martins, the school would like to thank Ms. Tuck-er, Mr. Akkari, Mr. Prasad and Ms. Huynh for their willingness to participate and act on the day.

Refugee Camp in my School

On Tuesday, the 6th of September, Liverpool Boys High School ran their inaugural ‘Refugee Camp in my School’ simulation for all of Year 10. ‘Refu-gee Camp in My School’ is a program designed by Menai High School and Gymea Community Cen-tre which involves students walking through the common experiences of a refugee. Students were led through a simulation in the school hall that in-volved crossing a border, building a shelter, getting adequate food, water and education, travelling on a leaky boat, and being processed by the UNHCR. Students also spent the day watching the first se-ries of SBS’s Go Back to Where You Came From, a documentary that follows the lives of six Austral-ians as they discover what refugees really experi-ence. At the end of the day, students listened to Mikhail, a refugee from Sudan, talk about his ex-periences of living in a refugee camp before com-ing to Australia. The day was a thoughtful one for students, many of whom discovered a newfound empathy for those escaping war. Students from the SRC, as well as teachers, participated in vari-ous acting roles on the day.



Year 7 PBL News

Project A

In Project A this term, we have been doing a topic called Let’s Eat where we have been doing a port-folio and we all cooked a dish from our chosen cul-ture. We searched and learnt about our chosen cul-ture making a document with our big cook and also we had to make that same cook just healthier and fewer kilojoules.Year 7 made food from different cultures. For exam-ple, we made tacos when we did Mexico and we made pizza when we did Italy; we learnt about the languages of Italy and Mexico. After we had finished making our food and learning about those two coun-tries, we started work on our portfolios. We needed to have many things but the most important one was the cook and the pictures of us doing our cook.

By Andrew Strevens

I think Project A this term is really good and help-ful. It really helped me learn more about my coun-try and it was fun to make because we had to make a famous dish. I enjoyed decorating my documents and adding different colours and pictures.

By Yousif Zuhairi

Project B

This term in Project B, Year 7 covered a topic called Inventions that Changed the World. This topic taught us how to build a catapult using simple ma-chines and hand tools. The entire of Year 7 had to build a catapult that had to be bigger than an A4 piece of paper but it had to be smaller than an A2 sheet.Year 7 first learnt about forces which covered push and pull forces. We then learnt about the unit used to measure forces. Year 7 also found out that the amount of force used to pull an object differs if the weight of the object is larger or smaller. The next unit we covered were simple machines which included the lever, wedge, ramp, screw, wheel and axle and the pulley. We had to research where and when these machines originated. After learning about the simple machines, we did a quick recap on the different units of measurement. We then did work about time which included us learning about timelines and the Gregorian calendar. The design process was the next major topic as this specific process helped Year 7 design and make their catapults function and look good. Year 7 then did a safety unit on hand tools, and we had to sign a workshop contract that allowed us to go near the hand tools.As our end product we had to construct a catapult out of wood or paddle pop sticks. We also had to write a portfolio with evidence that we built the catapult. The portfolio was actually worth more marks than our actual construct. After we built our catapults we had the option of painting our cata-pults. The requirements were that it could throw an object close to 5 metres away.

By Drazzel Singh



Year 8 PBL News

Hi Everybody, my name is Raj From 8C and I will be reflecting on the project I completed this term called, “Island Life,” which was delivered by my Hu-manities teacher, Ms. Sloan. This subject was actu-ally fun and enjoyable and in some ways unique, but what made this subject the best was we had to make our own museum artefacts! Now how good does that sound, right! Well, I’ll start off by telling you about our hook event which was at the Pow-erhouse Museum in the city back in week 1 of this term. We had to choose two artefacts and write about them. This was part of our compulsory port-folio items. Overall, we had 11 portfolio items to complete throughout this term, three of them we had to do in Literacy class. These portfolio items sure kept us busy!

Some of the portfolio items included mapping ac-tivities, research tasks, artefact sketches, Polyne-sian poetry and advertisements as well as our blog posts that we have to complete each fortnight as part of the project. Each fortnight, we went to the computer room and wrote blogs that allowed us to reflect on what we have been learning. This term we have written a total of 4 blogs which is cool. Portfolio item 8 was the final display placard for our artefact that we displayed at the exhibition. Each portfolio item had to be submitted on Google Classroom so our teacher could check it.

Lastly, I want to tell you the best part about this project which is actually making the artefact itself. I decided to make a fish hook necklace which didn’t look so bad but I was proud of what I achieved. The Polynesian country that I researched and created my fish hook from was Hawaii. Finally, the moment we (year 8) have been waiting for...Exhibition.. and from my perspective, everyone’s artefacts looked fabulous more than fabulous, EXCELLENT!!!! What a great term of PBL!

Thanks for reading!

Rajneel Lal, 8C.



NAIDOC Celebrations

On Thursday, the 17th of August, Liverpool Boys High School ran a day in recognition of NAIDOC. NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Island-ers Day Observance Committee. In Australia, it is celebrated as a week during the month of July as a time to recognise Australia’s Indigenous culture and roots. The theme this year was ‘Songlines’ – a word which refers to the tracks the ancestral spir-its walked as they sung the land into life. These Songlines are intricate maps of land, sea and coun-try and are recorded in story, song and art.

In recognition of NAIDOC this year, Indigenous students across the school, as well as Year 9 PASS, were invited to a special lesson of activities with Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Martins. Mr. Reynolds explained his own heritage and the difference between an ac-knowledgement to country and welcome to coun-try. Students then had a chance to go out on the oval and play some Indigenous games, as taught by Mr. Reynolds. One of these games is called Koolchie and involved students defending a row of sticks behind them, while at the same time attempting to knock over the sticks of the opposing team. Students also played a game called Noon-gar Wan-a (‘Protect the Nest’) in which students stood in a circle and aimed to hit a bin (‘nest’) the middle, which was protected and defended by two or three students. The games were very fast paced and enjoyable and the boys had a great time!



HSIE Faculty News

Stop Gap Animation – Year 9 Elective and Big History

On Wednesday, the 7th and the 14th of Septem-ber, the Year 9 Elective History class and the Year 9 Big History class took part in a Stop Gap Animation workshop held by Compass volunteers from Syd-ney University. Each group had to come up with a theme that linked into a topic that they had studied. Themes included trench warfare, the evolution of airplanes, soccer, continental drift and how hunter-gatherers hunted food.

After a slow start, the boys came up with some very interesting ideas and got to work on creating their characters and props. It took the entire day to film ten seconds of footage but in the end all the stu-dents agreed that it was worth it.

The following Wednesday, they put the finishing touches on their animations and the finished films will be shown at a film festival held at Sydney Uni-versity on the 3rd of December. Well done to all of the students who participated.

Leadership Team 2017

The junior SRC and Ms. Martins would like to thank the outgoing senior SRC for their leadership and dedication to their roles. We wish all these boys all the best in their future as they begin the next phase in their lives: School Captain, Ahmed Khan, Vice Captain, Aman Verma, and SRC members Marc Nguyen, Kadir Khalil, Wassim Elabed and Sohaib Fazal.

We would also like to introduce our new leadership team for 2017: School Captain, James Mansaray, and Vice Captains, Brandon Go and Ricky Luangrath. We wish them all the best in their new roles.

Volunteers

Did you know you need to receive three Volunteers Certificates in order to work towards your Gold Me-dallion within our Merit System?

There are a number of options for Volunteering at our school.

We have two new programs about to commence in Volunteering; one at a local nursing home and another at school working with with some Year 7 students, particularly is sport and practical subjects. Next year students can apply again to participate in the Speech Partners Program at Warwick Farm, where students are trained by Speech Therapists to teach students in Kindergarten and Year 1 to read.

You can also volunteer outside of the school for a number of different agencies, you just need to bring in evidence of your volunteer hours. A Volunteer’s Certificate can be awarded for one whole day’s vol-unteering or up to seven hours of volunteering over several days. See Mrs Kelly in the Engagement Staff room for more information.



Mathematics NewsLuna Park Excursion

I have never been to Luna Park so you can imagine how excited I was to hear that Year 7 was going to Luna Park with our mathematics teachers. This was not only my first time going to Luna Park, but I had never stood under the Harbour Bridge before. So everything on this excursion was all new to me.

We assembled at school at 8:30am and Mr. Ahmed spoke to us about how he expected us to behave and how to be sensitive to the needs of others es-pecially other students, our teachers and especially members of the public. Mr. Touma then marked the role and ushered us onto the waiting bus and before we knew it we were standing underneath the huge white teeth of the clown face that makes up the Luna Park entrance gate.

When we got there, Mr. Ahmed told us to sit down and explained what to do. Mr. Touma and Mr. Akkari gave us a wristband each and a worksheet that we had to fill out during the day. Then Mr. Ahmed said that we were free to move around the park and go wherever we wanted but that we had to stay in groups and we had to be back at the gate by 1:30. We all ran off excitedly, I went with a couple of my friends, Mustapha and Theya. The first ride we went on was the ‘Hair Raiser’. The line was quite long but we managed to get on the ride.

I was so scared because I have never been on this ride before and I was worried about the huge height this ride launched us from. When we got on, we had to put on the safety equipment and then the ride started. From the top of the ride, the view was ac-tually spectacular. We could see the whole harbour including the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House. Just as we were thinking of how tranquil it was up there the ride drops us and we raced to the ground at 80km/h, so fast that my heart was racing and I couldn’t keep my mouth closed. Once it stopped, we got out and I was in shock for about 10 minutes. The next ride we went on was the ‘Big Dipper.’ This ride is one of those rides where you sit in a seat that spins around until you feel you want to throw up. We went on many more rides before lunch. These included the ‘Haunted House’ and the ‘Wild Mouse’ which is a rollercoaster. At 1:30 we had a really nice lunch on the harbour before boarding the bus and returning to school. All in all it was probably one of the best excursions I’ve been on.

By Alex Gerolimatos 7J


Visual Arts

Term 3 has been a very busy time for creative arts students at LBHS. College Visual Arts students sub-mitted their HSC artworks, after exhibiting their work at The M.A.D Showcase with our talented music and drama students. We would like to say an enormous thank you to hospitality students, Alex, Ricky, Dalvin, Charlie, Stefan, Zak and Mr Karan and Mr Cook, who worked all day and into the early evening providing catering for this event. Their professionalism is to be commended and the food and punch was delicious.

In Photographic and Digital Media, otherwise known as PDM, Year 9 have been creating artworks to enter in three competitions. Each competition has a theme and the boys have been photographing around the school, a big thank you to the PDHPE faculty and stu-dents for letting us photograph your classes on the oval. We have also photographed around our local area participating in, walking photo classes in our lo-cal community.

The three competitions and themes were, Pixel Prize: My Generation, Moran Prize: Contemporary Austral-ian Culture and the Atom Prize: a Sense of Place. A selection of these photographs will be on exhibition with photographs from the Year 10 PDM class, in the library corridor exhibition space. Everyone is invited to the exhibition opening Wednesday week 10 after school 3.30 – 5pm.

Congratulations to Jason Truong who has just been selected as a finalist for the 2016 Pixel Prize Exhibi-tion. His photograph will be on exhibition, McGlade Gallery, Strathfield 13th – 29th October,

Tuesday week 3 next Term, students who are current-ly, or will be studying Visual Arts subjects next year, are going to see Sculptures by the Sea, an art exhibi-tion along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. This excursion is for the first 50 students from years 9 & 10 Photographic and Digital Media classes and next years College Visual Arts students to pay the their $15 at the back office and return notes to Ms Wilson.

Jane WilsonVisual arts and Photographic and Digital Media teacher




Student Engagement Faculty

Work Experience

It’s not to late for Year 10s to inquire about work experience. Students should visit Mr Cooper or Mrs Kelly to organise this. You must complete any work experience before Week 5 Term 4 (before College commences)

University Partnerships

We have had a great run on some amazing programs this year so far.

Compass Sydney University - Several students are participating in the Stop Motion Film program with Compass. Six boys form year 7 are nearing the end of their Numeracy Program with Compass Volunteers and have made great gains in their results and confi-dence. College 1 and 2 participated in the two senior program, Thinking Ahead and Yr12 Promote Yourself. UTS – it’s very pleasing to see that 19 students most-ly from College 1 enrolled in the September Holiday HSC Workshops. These workshops have been provid-ed free of charge to our boys. Four Year 10 students have also enrolled in the Summer School at UTS dur-ing the January School Holidays – this will be a won-derful experience for the students who elected from areas of interest including Media & Communication; Science; Design; Business and Engineering and IT. An orientation day is being held in November for these four boys and all projects, transport and meals are provided. This year UTS HSC tutoring program is also drawing to a close, with record number of students participating in the program. We wish to thank Dan-ny and Jolly for coming back to our school in 2016 to work with both our Senior and Junior Students. A big thanks also goes to Ms Martins for volunteering her time to run the after school homework centre.Student Interest Clubs

LBHS staff have designed some new Clubs for stu-dents to join, commencing in Term 4. Students can choose from a great selection of activities such as:

Chess ClubRay’s Guitar ClubBecome a Learner Driver Art Studio Boot CampWraps with Love Games ClubDrama Club

See the Student Engagement Staff room for more information.

Year Advisor News: Year 10

Spending more time with Year 10 as their year advi-sor this year has been a pleasure. This term Year 10 have been involved with a multitude of programs that have being organised by their inspiring teach-ers at this school.

They went to bstreetsmart, the Youth and Road Trauma Forum at Olympic Park Stadium and learned about being safe drivers. Students were able to gain a realistic look at the trauma caused by road crash-es. Furthermore they were provided with informa-tion and strategies in an attempt to reduce serious injuries and death. This is a great program as many of the Year 10 boys will soon be eligible to get their L plates.

The Liverpool police came and talked to us for Wear It Purple Day. Students participated in an activity exploring ideas of being citizens that respect and support all people in our society and how to create a safe space for all students at LBHS, so that every-one feels comfortable coming to school each day.

Participating in the program Refugee Camp in my School, year 10 got an insight into what it might feel like and some of the challenges faced by people having to flee their country/homes because of war and persecution.

At each event the majority of students showed what great young men they are growing into, giving respect to their classmates and participating in all events. It is getting closer to our Year 10 camp to Yarrumundi in week 4 term 4, notes will be coming home soon with more information. This is an excit-ing time as they embark on their journey transition-ing to College in week 6 next term.

Jane WilsonYear 10 Year Advisor

Calendar

23 September Last Day of Term 310 October Term 4 Begins (students return)13 October HSC Examinations Begin11 November Big Day Out- Last Day of Academic Year14 November Roll Over- New Academic Year Begins

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