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Term 3

WEEK 7

2-5 September– HSC Body of Work Exhibition– School Hall

2 September– Year 8 Author Talk—School Library

4 September—International Student and Carers Meeting– 6.30 pm School Hall

5 September– Year 8 & 9 Science ICAS Competition

6 September– Year 10 English Poetry Incursion

Year 9 PASS Sport Leaders Day

Year 7 Science ICAS Competition

Legacy Badge Day

Year 10 ZONTA Conference– Brisbane

Year 11 FINAL EXAMS BEGIN

WEEK 8

9-11, 12 September– Year 11 Final Examinations

9 &10– English ICAS Competition

9-13 September– Year 10 Subject Selection interviews

Year 10 VALID online test

11-12 September HSC Music Practical Exams

12 September– Year 11 MANDATORY Be StreetSmart Road Safety event

12 September– Year 12 Graduation Rehearsal– School Hall

SGHS NEWSLETTER

Week 7 A Term 3 2019

Decision time!

On Monday, 26 August, Years 8 and 10 became our focus as we prepare to graduate them into Stages 5 and 6 of their school career. It is an exciting time for these students as they have important decisions to make about their elective choices for Years 9 and 10 and Years 11 and 12 respectively.

Year 8 Elective Subject Selection Information Afternoon

At the Information Afternoon, Head Teachers presented the subjects offered by their faculty, the content to be studied and the assessment requirements of these subjects. The session was very successful, however many parents did not stay for Subject EXPO this year.

English, Maths, Science, Australian Civics - History and Geography, Physical Development, Health and Physical Education are mandatory. Our school offers a broad range of elective subjects to cater for the ability and interest of all our students. Twenty-two elective subjects, across six faculties are offered to our students. These range from the humanities to the creative, technology and design to language study, child studies and physical activity courses. Year 8 student select 2 elective subjects to study over Stage 5, that is Years 9 and 10.

The Information Session was well attended by families who provided positive feedback about the presentation and subject elective process.

Thanks to Ms Wong who organised the event and to all staff who set up the

Expo and interacted with parents and students about their subject choices.

Upcoming Events

NEXT P & C Monday, 9 September 2019

7 pm SGHS Common Room– Please enter via GYM

pedestrian Gate

Year 10 Subject Selection Information Evening

Later on the same day, Year 10 students and parents attended a presentation where valuable information was relayed about the HSC and NESA requirements to enable the best decisions about patterns of study for Years 11 and 12.

The Vocational Education Senior Pathways Officer attended to inform parents about the value of studying VET courses, the dual qualification obtained and the success of many students, both within and outside of Strathfield Girls High School. We would like to thank Annie Phillips for her presentation, as well as for staying to assist at the VET Stall at the Subject Expo.

The high attendance rate of over 98% demonstrates the commitment and culture of parent involvement in the school and education of our girls. Student and parent feedback about the Subject Expo and information presented was very positive.

Year 10 students, with their parents, will now attend individual interviews and mentoring sessions with a member of the School Executive team to make final choices about the subjects they will study in their senior years.

Congratulations to Year 10 students on their excellent and dedicated attitude to making the best choices for themselves. They listened carefully to the Head Teacher presentations in Week 1 and the information presented at the Expo Evening, asked pertinent and informed questions, were ready to receive/accept advice and are now equipped to take on the challenge of their final two years of high school. Well done, girls!

A big thank you to Ms Dalamagas who organised the event and to all the staff involved in setting up the Subject

Expo stalls and giving parents and students the best “tailor made’ advice.

Subject Selection

Subject Selection

By Amitis Ebrahimian Year 7 Yellow

Year 7 of Strathfield Girls High School had the honour of participating in a wonderfully eventful Languages Day

on the 23 August 2019.

To begin the day with, an absolutely hilarious French mime decided to stroll in and give us a big show of funny

skits that left us all dumbfounded and which also led to non-stop giggling. The performance was spectacular,

and so were all of the brave volunteers who dared to go up on stage and join the mime, making us burst out

laughing.

Mama Mia! Year 7 had the great pleasure of eating freshly made cannoli. The flavours of the cannoli varied from

a bittersweet chocolate, to a mouth-watering ricotta and vanilla. Whilst Year 7 was munching on their cannoli,

our teachers decided to put on an Italian movie called ‘Gladiators’ for a treat.

Following this performance, a number of Chinese traditional dancers came on stage and practically blew us away. Three

finely dressed women had come onto the stage and were neatly waving their beautiful Chinese fans. Their dancing was

spectacularly graceful and elegant.

Year 7 Languages Day

Our long-awaited Japanese period had finally come! We were welcomed into the event by a beautiful Japanese anime

called ‘Arrietty’, which left everyone in the hall squealing for more. Year 7 also had the pleasure of trying out delicious

Bento Boxes.

Finishing off with a big bang, we had a number of young men and women to perform a hapkido routine for us. Everyone

was completely stunned because these people had some real talent.

Sadly, the long day came to an end. The outstanding twists and unexpected

turns made Year 7’s Languages Day 2019 a spectacular day to remember,

forever and always.

Year 7 would like to thank our Languages teachers for all their hard work in organising a wonderful cultural experience for

us.

Year 7 Languages Day

SAVE THE DATE/S

Reminders!!

2-5 September—HSC Body of Work Exhibition - School Hall

9-13 September– Year 10 Subject Selection Interviews

24 September– SGHS Dance Night– Marie Bashir Public School Hall

26 September—Year 12 Graduation Evening– Marie Bashir Public School Hall

IMPORTANT NOTICE !!!

Please check and update your contact details at the front office.

Many students do not have Emergency Contacts, or have contacts who are unable to come to school when

parents are not contactable. It is very important that we have correct telephone numbers, addresses and

emergency contact details.

Students can only leave the school with their parent/s or the people listed as their emergency contacts.

Only students in Years 11 and 12 are permitted to leave school on their own, with parent permission.

All students in Years 7– 10 can only leave school with a parent/carer or emergency contact.

If you need to, please check and update your contact details at the front office.

Parents are reminded of the school procedures for early leavers:

1. Parents are to send a signed permission note for the daughter to leave school early. The full name of the

student, date and time of leave must be included.

2. The student must see their or any available Deputy Principal before Roll Call to gain permission to leave.

Their note will be signed by the Deputy.

3. The student must then go to E 4 to the SASS Attendance Officer to have their leave processed on our

electronic data base.

4. An electronic printout will be issued to the student who has to show this to her teacher at the time

indicated on the printout. She is then permitted to leave class to meet her parents in the foyer.

Encourage your daughter to follow the school expectations.

Please do not arrive at the school to collect your daughter unless in cases of emergency/urgency.

NO STUDENT IS PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL WITHOUT SIGNING OUT.

Please discuss relevant sections of this article with our girls, your daughters.

Four reasons why we need to teach our young people how to handle failure

Dr Ramesh Manocha February 22, 2012

Failure has to be an option!

If we cannot accept failing as a natural part of the learning process, then we never genuinely learn anything

new. Yet too many students – and indeed schools – frame their educational model and practices around

avoiding mistakes. Failure is not an option.

This has multiple knock-on effects for our students’ wellbeing.

Perfectionism – a belief that a state of completeness and flawlessness can and should be attained. Anything less

than perfect is unacceptable. This is an unhealthy belief and leads to high levels of anxiety and stress,

particularly in our highest academic achievers.

Disengagement -At the other end of the spectrum are those students who completely disengage from school

because of their fear of failure. Lack of engagement has a direct impact in our students’ wellbeing.

Risk aversion -Those students who, play it safe. These students are happy just to cruise, doing what they’ve

always done with little interest in stretching themselves, again because of the risk of failure. As a result they are

never genuinely engaged with what they are doing.

Lack of resilience – Students who have avoided failure in school or life in general, will inevitably be faced with it

at some point in their working or adult life. The question is how do you learn to be resilient in the face of failure,

if you’ve never been allowed, or allowed yourself to fail?

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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” — J.K. Rowling “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy

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Continued from previous page

https://www.wanderlustworker.com/the-importance-of-failure-5-valuable-lessons-from-failing/ describes failure as

life’s great teacher; it is nature’s chisel that strips down egos as it molds and shapes us.

Without failure, we’d be less capable of compassion, empathy, kindness, and great achievement. It’s through

failure that we learn the greatest lessons that life could teach us.

The most successful people in life have failed the most times. If you try to go through life without failing at

anything, then you’re not really living a life at all. Taking risks and falling down flat on our faces is part of life; it

makes us into who we are.

Important lessons we can learn from failure:

Experience– What happens when we fail at something? We can walk away with firsthand, invaluable experience

that develops a deeper understanding of life. The associated pain alters our frame of mind and allows us to

reflect on the nature of things and transform and improve our future selves.

Resilience– We learn to build our resilience each time we fail at something. To experience great success, we

must know resilience, because if we think we’re going to succeed on the first or even the first few tries, we are

setting ourselves up for a more painful failure.Resilience helps to breed success by setting the game up to win.

Gone are the lofty expectations that thing will happen overnight, and in comes the expectations that true

success will take an enormous amount of work and effort. We learn and grow as human beings.

A few ways to recover from failure:

#1 Ignore the naysayers- people telling you, “I told you so.” and “You should have listened to me.”

#2 Realise and understand that it’s okay to fail, but it’s not okay to give up! Keep on until you do succeed.

Your success will be much sweeter when you experience it. Pushing forward is the best way to recover from

a setback.

#3 Use your failure as leverage to propel yourself forward in the future. Write down what you did, reflect on

what you could have done differently and you will learn from the past to shape a bigger, better future.

Failure isn’t the end of the road as long as you don’t give up. Push past the limitations of your past!

#4 Revisit your goals and create a massive action plan– redefine your goals, ensuring that you are tracking,

analyzing and adjusting them regularly. Create an action plan as to how you are going to achieve your goals.

Push past the stumbling blocks and watch yourself surely recover from any setbacks, upsets or failures.

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

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Term 3 Week 6 Sports News

Grade Sport

Students travelled by bus to their various venues to play in the Bligh Zone Grade Competition.

Players of the week

SPORT RESULTS SCORE

7/8 Netball 1 Defeated Leichhardt 1 22-2

7/8 Netball 2 Defeated Dulwich 1 18-7

7/8 Netball 3 Defeated by Leichhardt 3 10-8

7/8 Volleyball 1 Defeated by Strathfield 2 0-2

7/8 Volleyball 2 Defeated Strathfield 1 2-0

7/8 Volleyball 3 Defeated by Tempe 2 0-3

7/8 Soccer 1 Defeated Strathfield 3 9-0

7/8 Soccer 2 Defeated by Leichhardt 3 1-4

7/8 Soccer 3 Defeated Tempe 2 0-5

7/8 Soccer 4 Bye

9/10 Netball1 Defeated by Balmain 2 13-9

9/10 Netball 2 Defeated by Balmain 1 29-9

9/10 Ultimate Vortex 1 Defeated Strathfield 2 6-4

9/10 Ultimate Vortex 2 Defeated by Strathfield 1 4-6

9/10 Ultimate Vortex 3 Defeated by Balmain 2 2-8

9/10 Ultimate Vortex 4 Defeated by Balmain 1 2-6

SPORT

STUDENT

7/8 Netball

Sesilia Taufa

7/8 Volleyball

Joy Limbu

7/8 Soccer

Jana Khansa

9/10 Netball

Subiksha Thiyagarajan

9/10 Ultimate Vortex

Hanan Maaliki

Term 3 Week 6 Sports News

YEAR 7/8 SWIMMING

REMINDERS

BADMINTON

The badminton club on Wednesday is free and available to years 7 and 8 students only from 3:15 pm 4:15 pm (1 hour). If you are looking to start out at badminton then turn up and have a go!

FITNESS CLUB

A reminder that Fitness Club, led by a core group of fitness leaders from a variety of year groups, meet on Tuesday and Friday mornings at 8.00 am in the Gym.

Monday 2 September , Week 7A

Day Events HSC Visual Art Body of Work Exhibition

Chinese Spectacular (Hall) P1 & 2

Yr8 Kristy Eager Author Talk P3 - Library

Student Assessments Yr9 Maths CT3

Yr10 Japanese Task 3 ICT & Speaking FinalWork Due

Reminders Yr11 Assess tasks due to print room

Tuesday 3 September , Week 7A

Day Events HSC Visual Art Body of Work Exhibition

Badminton Training with AustralianBadminton Association - Gym 3.15pm

Theatresport P4 & 5

Student Assessments Reminders Executive Meeting 3.15pm

Yr11 Students removed by KK

Wednesday 4 September, Week 7A

Day Events SGHS Badminton Club

NSW CHS Athletics Carnival

HSC Visual Art Body of Work Exhibition

Yr10, 11 & 12 Science ICAS Competition

Yr7-11 LAB Design Thinking

International Student & Carers Meeting (Hall)6.30pm-8.00pm

Student Assessments Reminders

Thursday 5 September, Week 7A

Day Events HSC Visual Art Body of Work Exhibition

NSW CHS Athletics Carnival

Yr8 & 9 Science ICAS Competition

Yr10 Mental Health Public SpeakingChallenge

Student Assessments Yr10 Drama Assessment Task 3 Dramatic

Contexts

Yr7 French Task 3

Yr10 Assessment Incursion

Reminders Faculty Meeting

Fr iday 6 September , Week 7A

Day Events

Yr11 Exams begin

SGHS Volleyball Training

NSW CHS Athletics Carnival

Badminton Invitational Competition

Yr10 Steven Herrick Poetry Incursion (Hall) P3

Sports Leaders Day

Yr7 Science ICAS Competitin

Yr10 Zonta Conference (Brisbane)

Legacy Badge Day

Student Assessments

Yr7 Geography Assessment Task - Field WorkReport Due

Assessment Task - Field Work Report Hand inTask

Reminders

Welllbeing Team Meeting 8am

Bligh Zone Meeting

Yr12 Finalise marks for NESA

N e w s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n B u l l e t i n o f S G H S