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Year 8 Students Raise Funds for the Homeless at the Vinnie’s Winter Sleepout

On Friday, the 3rd of June, Year 8 students and their teachers raised funds and awareness for the home-less by participating in the Vinnie’s Winter Sleepout. To supplement their project in Humanities on ‘Inter-connections’, students explored the social issue of homelessness and its impact on people in our soci-ety.

30 students braved the cold, and left their beds for the night to sleep rough and gain some sense of what it would be like to live on the streets. Due to torren-tial rain, we made the decision to sleep in the hall- with no heaters of course!

To make it through the night, the boys participated in a series of games and empathy tasks relating to homelessness and disconnection. After a dinner of warm souvlaki and hot chocolate, students settled down for the night to watch a film and eventually fall asleep.

Over $400 was raised and donated to the Vinnie’s Winter Appeal. Thank you to Mr. Catalanotto, Mr. Reynolds, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. Kelly and Ms. Demetrios for your willingness to support such a worthwhile cause and our students. A huge thanks also goes out to all of the students for their donations and excel-lent behaviour throughout the night.

To continue the theme of homelessness and dis-connection, Year 8 participated in a Welfare Day on Monday, the 6th of June. The students were involved in a series of workshops and presentations by Vin-nie’s, The Salvation Army, St. Vincent De Paul, Wesley Mission, Anglicare and South Western Sydney Area Health Service. We would like to thank these organi-sations for giving up their time to come and speak to our students about the issues of homelessness, un-employment, emergency housing, emergency food services and coping mechanisms when facing adver-sity.

Calendar

1 July Last Day of Term 219 July Term 3 Starts (all students return) Year 7 Art Gallery and Botanic Gardens Excursion22 July Year 8 Powerhouse Museum Excursion27 July School Disco Legal Studies Excursion- Supreme Court28 July Commonwealth Bank Smart Start Incursion, Year 8 Hook Event29 July Advertise Me, Year 8 Hook Event3 Aug Junior Subject Selection Evening5 Aug Year 10 HSIE ‘Freedom Ride’ Incursion16 Aug Bstreetsmart Excursion Year 10 Music, Art, Drama HSC Performance Evening 22 Aug HSC Trial Examinations Commence

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Year 8 Exhibition Day

On Tuesday, the 28th of June, Year 8 hosted their first whole year Exhibition Day- and what a day it was! The students spent the morning setting up the hall with their final products and portfolios which consisted of cookbooks and recipe cards, mini golf courses, flags and advertising posters, sustainable houses, sustainable vehicles, exercise and diet re-gimes and portfolios. In period 2, students were divided into groups to present their Humanities speeches on the question: ‘how are people and places connected and why is this important?’

The speeches were very well presented and we are proud of all the students who faced their fears and spoke with such confidence in front of their peers and teachers. Rushil Deo, 8C, presented his speech on interconnections:

‘’Oh this stupid Wi-Fi it connects and then discon-nects. Good morning teachers and fellow peers my name is Rushil Deo. To connect or disconnect? That is the question. This quote reminds me of ourselves and our own lives. The things we love, enjoy and have a passion for are the connections we have in our life and the stuff we dislike is our disconnections in life.

What is that I hear you ask? What is connection and disconnection? Well, connections are what we are linked to: what we like and have a passion for, our religion and our family. Connections make us feel like we belong so it is very important that we are connected.

Disconnection is something we don’t like or feel iso-lated from. It is when we feel neglected and might be because of our race or skin colour and gender. This can have a negative impact on our life. Many people experience disconnection from their own family and their own society just because of their race, skin colour and their gender. Just imagine be-ing called names, being the last person to be picked just for being who you are. Many homeless people experience this harsh reality just for having no place to live or sleep.

We all have many things in our life that we can re-late to and connect with . My connections are my religion, family and friends and my passion. I have a strong passion for photography and anything that has to do with art; I enjoy capturing happy mem-ories by videos and photos. One reason I have a strong connection to photography and videography

is because my dad owns a videography business. To connect or disconnect that is the question. We all have a passion and we all have something we dis-like. Either way, it is important to connect with peo-ple and places in our life so that we can feel like we belong. Thank you for listening.”

Period 3 and 4 involved the exhibition in the hall where students moved to each exhibit station in groups to view and listen to presentations by stu-dents about each of the projects and products.

To end the day, the boys participated in sporting ac-tivities on the oval which were hosted by the Col-lege CEC English Studies class. I would like to con-gratulate all students on their hard work this term and thank all of the Year 8 teachers for their contri-butions and assistance with making the day and the term a success.

Ms. Sloan, Year 8 Head Teacher.

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Supporting the Homeless of Sydney

On one cold and wet evening in June a group of amazing boys from Liverpool Boys High School and their teacher, Mr. Adel Ahmed made their way down to Belmore Park in Central to visit the place commonly known as the ‘tent city’: a gath-ering place for many homeless men and women. These boys, led by Matt Pippen and Bilal Taleb, distributed blankets and jackets and put on a BBQ for the nearly 50 men and women who call Bel-more Park their home. It was a humbling and eye opening experience for all those involved.

We are grateful to the many teachers, students and their families from Liverpool Boys who donat-ed blankets and jackets. We are even more grate-ful to the men and women who allowed us into their lives for the briefest of moments to share a meal and hear a story or two. Some of these men and women have fallen victim to alcoholism and drug abuse whilst others battle with horrendous mental health issues, but many have simply fallen on hard times and just can’t make ends meet. I would also like to make mention of Hamze Meats in Liverpool Westfield who kindly donated 15 ki-los of their tastiest sausages. We look forward to holding this event annually at the beginning of every winter, ensuring that our boys understand that the real purpose of learning is to make a posi-tive difference.

Adel Ahmed, Head Teacher Mathematics.

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English Faculty NewsDebating

The Premier’s Debating Challenge, Intermediate Team, debated in the first round of the competition with Holsworthy High School B Team. The topic was ‘Education’ and the topic was ‘sport should be banned in school.’ The students’ first speaker was Brayn Aguilar Mendivar, the second speakerwas Ali Masr, the third speaker was Tommy Sayvong and the Team Adviser was Yohann Al Sabe. LBHS argued the negative. Our students worked hard in deliver-ing arguments to ensure that ‘sport was not banned in schools’. After an intense debate, the adjudicator awarded the win to Liverpool Boys High School. The second round topic will be ‘sport’ against Holswor-thy High School A Team. We would like to congratu-late Brayn, Ali, Tommy and Yohann on their win and look forward to watching the next debate on sport.

Ms. Cruikshank’s Year 9 English Class Performance Poetry

Year 9 students are currently working on a Project Based Learning unit on Performance Poetry. Stu-dents have been engaging in this study of poetry through rap music and spoken word poetry as a reflection of the influence of poetry in their daily lives. Students have an understanding of the power of poetry through reviewing vocabulary words, lis-tening to popular rap music and discussing issues communicated through music, and viewing exam-ples of performance poetry. As part of their study, they will compose their own poem and be required to perform their piece in front of an audience using a number of presentation skills. As a class 9.2 cre-ated a class poem.

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I see no changes, there are too many strangersLiverpool is raising different races in different placesWe’re in Year 9 and we have been asked to rhyme all the time with our teachers by our sideTime is flying by as we learn to strive until we see the prize through our eyesRight through to graduation, our hearts will stop at different stations throughout our generation.

By 9.2 English 2016.

HSIE News

In Year 9 History, we have been learning about the sugar-cane slave industry in Queensland, Austral-ia during the 19th and early 20th Century. After learning about the poor working conditions of the South-Sea Islander slaves, students were required to write a reflective diary entry regarding their ex-periences. Ali demonstrated an excellent use of knowledge, imagery, poetic and emotive language in his letter and myself and Mr Rushworth were amazed at his writing skills.

A diary entry from a sugar-cane slave (Queensland) during the period of 1863 and 1904.

Dear Diary,

My weeping never ends. My tears never seize. My sweat floods the floor before it has a chance to evaporate. The bags on my eyes seem only to ex-tend. The growls of my empty stomach are aban-doned, unheard. This is what they call a “black-bird”.My memory is unstable; my past is out of reach. My family and friends are only a stale thought. My identity? Even that is unclear. My knowledge of my parents is more or less expired, like a distant star – no matter how close I seemingly get, it is still miles away. A faint memory of them remains, from 15 or, maybe, 20 years ago. I yearn to see them, even a glimpse will suffice.My work takes place on a field whereby hazards are unknown, unclear. There are no safety lines, boundaries or borders. A simple flaw could result in my death. I process the sugar harvested by my work mates, only to use it to feed the people who ridicule me and export it to build their pockets. Do they even care? I have a life, just like theirs. I am no different, so why don’t they care?Days pass and my memories fade, but even there it doesn’t end. My ugly life is a disastrous trend. When I return home after a day’s work, I clean my master’s house. I clean places and things of which ordinary people would prefer to avoid. My jobs are so excessive that I am able to count the dust that I remove. Even with this, I am provided with just enough to support my dying heart. I feel alone, hungry and exhausted. Yet, carved into my memory, my oppressor’s name, stained and irremovable. He caused all this; he and the other white men from the boats. They all made it hap-pen. My blame lays tagged onto his clothing, like a dog collar. I pray that, one day, my life returns and the home I adorned becomes my home again. One day...By Ali Masri, Year 9

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World Press Photo Excursion

On Wednesday, the 15th of June, Year 10 PDM (Photography and Digital Media) travelled to the State Library to see the World Press Photo exhibi-tion. World Press Photo runs every year and show-cases all the award winning photojournalism from the previous calendar year. The categories include, ‘General News’, ‘Spot News’, ‘Contemporary Is-sues, ‘Daily Life’, ‘Portraits’, ‘Nature’, ‘Sports’ and ‘Long Term Projects.’ This year’s overall winner (pictured below), is a photo by Warren Richardson which depicts a refugee passing his baby under barbed wire to safety on the Serbian and Hungar-ian border in the middle of the night.

Richardson had camped with refugees for five days to capture this photo, and had to take it without a flash so he would not alert border police to the ref-ugees. The photo, slightly blurry without a flash, is visually beautiful and depicts both the sorrow and hope that refugees experience as they flee their homelands.

Students were attracted to many photos, including incredible close ups of chameleons catching their dinner, a basketball game shot from bird’s eye view, pictures of protests and refugees, and pic-tures depicting remote parts of North Korea and Nepal that audiences rarely get to see. Students completed a worksheet on their favourite photo from the exhibition and then spent the afternoon walking along the Circular Quay foreshore up to the newly finished Barrangaroo, documenting eve-ryday Sydney life as photojournalists themselves. The excursion was an excellent opportunity for students to see photojournalism firsthand and ap-preciate the power photographs have to capture moments, raise awareness and change society’s views.

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Theatresports

A couple of weeks ago, Year 9 Drama was involved in a round of ‘Theatresports’ at Caringbah High School. Bobby Kojic, Ron Dang, Josiah Charles and Ashleigh Zammit competed through four rounds of improvi-sation and received great scores throughout their performances. Their standout performance which scored them 3 and 4 out of five was about a rock throwing competition where they had hilarious commentary!

Excursion to ‘The Unknown Soldier’

Thanks to Monkey Baa Theatre, College Drama had the privilege of watching ‘The Unknown Soldier’. ‘The Unknown Soldier’ was written and performed by Sandra Eldridge, and it explores the tragedies that soldiers are subjected to in the line of fire. It was a beautifully written and performed play. We also had the opportunity to ask questions to the cast themselves and talk to the writer and a current soldier about their perspectives.

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Physical Drama Workshop

College Drama participated in a Physical Theatre Workshop with Danielle McKinnon from Swoop Theatre. During this workshop they tested their lim-its as flyers and bases!

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Refugee Week, 20th-24th June 2016

This year, the SRC planned a full week of events for various year groups in order to raise awareness of the plight of refugees. The week started with our usual Monday assembly, where Ahmed Khan and Wassim Elabed delivered a moving speech about the realities that refugees face. Erick Perdomo-Borelly and Julious Vergara also read out two po-ems for students to reflect on – ‘We Refugees’ by Benjamin Zephaniah and ‘Refugee Blues’ by W.H. Auden. Below is an excerpt of Ahmed and Wassim’s speech:

You’ve abruptly woken up to the sound of a heavy crash. You’re unsure whether it’s the building next to you or the building across the street that’s been shelled. It doesn’t matter to you, though, because you’re just happy that you managed to get at least 40 good minutes of sleep. It’s also not an unfamil-iar occurrence by now. War planes and helicopters, and the turbulent sound of machine-guns are active constantly, especially during the night. It’s no longer an option to stay here. There’s a land mine down every block, and every corner of every window has become a vantage point for a sniper’s bullet. We all need to leave. But where do we go?

Refugee Week is a week whereby individuals and group organizations on small and international scales address this matter. It shouldn’t be unknown to you right now. Everywhere there is talk, debate and speculation. But where is the contemplation, the reasoning; the humanity?

Apart from speculation, we need to address what is concrete in relation to the situation, and stance our leaders have taken. In a catastrophe that since 2010 has claimed the lives of over 400,000 people, the Syr-ian Civil War has produced over 4 million refugees and left many more millions internally displaced. Even previous to that, the instability in Afghanistan and other countries has produced hundreds of thou-sands of more refugees. These are people fleeing violence on a historic scale. They are fleeing mas-sacres, torture, slavery, possible genocide, and just about every crime against humanity. Their heritage destroyed, and their identities muddled.

We hereby want to raise awareness. This Refugee Week, let’s show them that we are indeed with them, not against them. As Australians who have all been beneficiaries of this truly prosperous and op-portune society, we must acknowledge those who are not as fortunate.

There are young men among us who come from refugee backgrounds and who have been witness to this experience; who have been in refugee camps and who have seen it all. We should rightly boast our diversity and be a force for change. This Refu-gee Week, let us show those who have come across the seas, that we truly do have boundless plains to share.

On Tuesday, the 21st, 8T was invited to participate in a Capoeira lesson with Capoeira teacher Mestre Roxinho for Refugee Week. Capoeira is an Afro-Bra-zilian martial arts which is non-contact and involve acrobatics, strength, music and singing. At Liverpool Boys High School, we are provided with Capoei-ra lessons every week by STARTTS for students of refugee background, so this class was an excellent opportunity for 8T to get a taste of one of the pro-grams we run for refugee students.

On Wednesday, the 22nd the whole school was en-couraged to participate in a mufti day in order to raise funds for the UNHCR and ANCORW (The Aus-tralian National Committee on Refugee Women), two charities which support, and advocate for, refu-gees internationally. Alongside the mufti day, Col-lege 1 and 2 had the opportunity to listen to a spe-cial guest speaker, Najeeba Wazefadost, a Hazara refugee from Afghanistan.

Finally, on Friday the 24th, twenty students had the opportunity to travel to Casula Powerhouse and see a performance of Tree of Life. Tree of Life is a play that features children from Miller Technology High School and IEC expressing their own refugee experiences through both song and drama. Below are two students’ thoughts on the day and the per-formance:

Hi, my name is Raj and I’m in class 8C. On Friday the 24th of June 2016, twenty lucky students got a chance to experience a play called Tree of Life at Ca-sula Powerhouse. We got in the train and reached our destination. It only took two stops until we reached there which made this train trip the shortest one which I have been on. When we reached there, we saw some other schools including Casula high school. Before entering the theatre, a man gave us a flyer which had all the information and program for the play. The show started exactly 10am and the real life students in the play were Elbra, Isha, Bal-sam, Haroun, Mohseen, Ourgina, Ali, Sam, Athmar, Adam, Tasir, Yousif, Adam and Hadeel. There were also two special people that made the show what it is now; they are Ruth, who is a director, and Cath-erine, who is a producer. This show was about refu-gees and their experiences coming to Australia and what torture, pain and sacrifice they made just to be safe in Australia. The first part of the play was sad and depressing but the second half turned out to be funny and quite fun, and I guess this play turned out to perfect. When we left from the theatre we had a little lunch and off we went to the train station. We had to wait 10 mins before our train came so in that time we did a little survey on how the show was. Then we returned to school and I’ve got to say it was a nice experience and I am hoping I go to a play like this next time.

Rajneel Lal, Year 8

On Friday the 24th of June, twenty students were privileged enough to attend Tree of Life: Songs of Childhood performed by Miller Technology High School. The event was held in Casula Powerhouse and many students from other schools attended to watch the performance as well. The Tree of Life per-formance was based on students’ real experiences of being refugees and their path coming to Aus-tralia. In the beginning of the performance, every student and teacher was given a booklet contain-ing the actors from Miller Technology High School and the timeline of the events. Some of the scenes were dramatic, frightening, powerful, emotional and amusing.

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Najeeba spoke about her experiences fleeing from Afghanistan with her family after being discrimi-nated against for her minority ethnicity. She spoke about travelling by boat, her mother giving birth in Indonesia, being in a detention centre in Western Australia and beginning school with no English. Six-teen years later, she now has a degree in Medical Science and works as a case manager with Settle-ment Services International to assist other refugees. Her story was powerful, sorrowful and inspirational. Students were invited to ask Najeeba questions be-fore then watching a documentary about refugees called ‘Leaky Boat.’

Wednesday culminated with a positive ‘Cakes for Compassion’ stall at recess, with fresh cakes and sweets prepared by the SRC, SRC parents and vari-ous staff members. Students and staff enjoyed eat-ing a treat, knowing their money was going to a very good cause. Between the mufti day and the cake stall, approximately six hundred dollars was raised for refugees through UNHCR and ANCORW.

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The performance really connected to the audience and set an entertaining atmosphere. Students were asked for their feedback about the performance and whether they’re perspective about refugees had changed. Most of the students from Liverpool Boys ticked the box that meant they found the per-formance very worthwhile to watch.

Julious Vergara, Year 10

Overall, the week was a dynamic and informative experience, and the SRC thank all the students, staff and parents who assisted in making Refugee Week 2016 possible.

PE Faculty News

On Friday, the 17th of June, the ‘Know Your Back-yard Amazing Race’ (KYBAR) excursion took place throughout the busy streets of Sydney’s CBD. The aim of the KYBAR excursion was for students of LBHS to experience the inner city of Sydney. Surveys conducted in class had exposed the alarming fact that the majority of students in Years 9 & 10 have not personally visited national landmarks in their own city, Sydney. Therefore, the purpose of this ex-cursion was to give students of LBHS the opportu-nity to get up close and personal with their own city and take photos of iconic Australian symbols such as the Harbour Bridge, Opera House and Queen Vic-toria Building as well as learning about the history of such landmarks.We started the day with a train ride to Milsons Point Train Station where we began our journey back over the Harbour Bridge. On the way, the students left the city something to remember them: an engraved padlock reading ‘LBHS 2016’ which was fasteneded onto the bridge’s fence. Before meeting at the IMAX Theatre in Darling Harbour, three teams were se-lected to participate in a race across the city.

Each team had a different route which visited differ-ent landmarks all within a few streets of each other. At each landmark, the students were instructed to take a ‘selfie’ with all members in the group as well as the landmark in the background and post it onto the school Edmodo page - a web based forum from which teachers and students can communicate. As each group raced through their route I would re-ceive notifications and ‘selfies’ along the way. Once at the IMAX Theatre, all students were engaged in a scientific documentary titled ‘Forces of Nature’, be-fore catching a train back to school.

Overall, the excursion was a great combination of history, geography, science and exercise which was thoroughly enjoyed by all students who demon-strated leadership and teamwork to work toward their goal.

By Mr. Chehade, PE Teacher.

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