TERM 2 JUNE 2019

Liverpool Girls High School Telephone: (02) 9602 0083

Forbes Street Liverpool Fax: (02) 9822 4351

www.liverpool-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

www.liverpool-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

CRICOS Provider Name: NSW Department of Education CRICOS Provider Code: 00588M

UPCOMING EVENTS

TERM 2

1 July

Trial HSC

Year 8 Links to Learning

Year 10 National Maritime Museum

2 July

Trial HSC

After School Rehearsal for Spotlight

on Dance Festival

3 July

Trial HSC

Year 9 and 10 Science and

Engineering Challenge

Drama Performance Rehearsal

Years 7-12 Oz Tag Gala Day

4 July

Trial HSC

After School Rehearsal for Bring It On

Hip Hop Crew

Year 7 Sydney Story Factory

5 July

Trial HSC

Year 8 Creating Chances Mentoring

Program

Year 12 Investigating Science and

Science Extension HSC Study Day

TERM 3

24 July

Years 10,11 and 12 Smith Family

Financial Literacy Program

Years 7 and 8 Round 2 Debating

25 July

Years 10,11 and 12 Smith Family

Financial Literacy Program

26 July

Years 10,11 and 12 Smith Family

Financial Literacy Program

Year 10 Subject Selection

Drama Performance Rehearsal

29 July

Year 8 Links to Learning

Drama Performance Rehearsal

30 July

Year 8 Links to Learning

Year 7 with Year 11 Leaders Peer

Support Activity

31 July

Year 8 Links to Learning

Years 8 and 10 Subject Selection

Selective School Exam 2nd Day

Principal’s Message Term Two has been a busy term with a focus on providing the best learning

opportunities for our students. As we live in such a rapidly changing world, it is

essential that students take every learning opportunity to build their skills and

understanding so they are able to function and deal in any situation in their

future lives. One of the big changes that has occurred is for today’s students

to build resilience to be able to cope in a range of different situations with a

positive and growth mindset. As a school, we aim to equip our students with

the skills to be able to be life-long learners. To achieve this, learning does not

just happen at school. Much learning will happen in the home and outside of

school. It is essential that today’s parents more than ever, talk to their children

and be involved in their daily lives. As social media and the use of the internet

continues to dominate our daily lives, parents need to check in with their

children’s activities when using social media and the internet. The values of

responsible use begins with parents setting boundaries for use of social media

and the internet at home. Talking to your children to set these boundaries is

essential if there is to be responsible usage of technology. Know what your

children are doing when they have technology time at home. It is also essential

to encourage non-screen time to enjoy the outdoors, exercise and talk face to

face with people. This will help to provide for future ready citizens of tomorrow.

At the end of the school term, Semester One Reports will be ready to provide

parents and students with feedback about their child’s progress during the year

so far. Take note of teacher’s comments, celebrate the success and consider

the suggestions of where your child is heading next with their learning in order

to grow as a learner. The school is working on ways to make information more

accessible through the student portal. Already a number of parents have taken

up this service of being able to access information through the parent portal.

Over the next six months we will also be rolling out a student portal for our

students to access information about their education and about the school.

More information will be provided from the school about this during the next

semester.

Enjoy reading the newsletter that provides a showcase of some of the things

that have been happening in our school.

David Hargrave

PRINCIPAL

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Deputy Principal’s Report

Term two is flying by, and we find ourselves past the half way point already. As always, we have

a jammed packed calendar of events and opportunities for students that celebrate the spectrum

of achievement from academic to sporting and wellbeing. Shining lights so far this term, have

been the whole school fundraising efforts for the cancer council’s World’s Biggest Morning Tea

and our annual Athletics Carnival. Both events showcase our students at their very best;

community minded, active and engaged. Thank you to the year 12 students in particular for their

fundraising efforts and the very best of luck to those girls who are representing our school at the

zone athletics carnival.

We have also been busy in the area of student wellbeing this term. Our Positive Behaviour for

Learning (PBL) rewards shop is opening in the next few weeks and promises to have a great

variety of popular items and prizes that students can trade their REACH tokens for. We encourage

all students to continue to strive to earn these tokens and help build a LGHS culture of respect,

excellence, safety, cooperation and honesty. Also keep an eye open for the addition of our new

Wellbeing Wall. This collection of carefully coordinated take home resources covers topics such

as anti-bullying, gay and lesbian support groups, mental health concerns, anti-smoking, cyber

issues and much more. These resources will be readily available to all students and kept up to

date and current.

With the cooler months upon us, it is timely to remind families that the MUE uniform shop next to

Liverpool library is the sole supplier of uniforms for LGHS students. So far this winter the standard

of uniform has slipped with a variety of jumpers and incorrect shoes making their way to school.

We want to remind everyone that hooded jackets/jumpers of any kind are not part of our uniform,

neither are long sleeved shirts under blouses nor hats or caps. Only school caps are to be worn

and these are available at the front office. Repeat offenders of uniform breaches can expect to

receive after school detentions as we refocus our attentions on this issue over the coming months.

Another of our key focus areas at the moment are the consistent late arrivals to school in the

mornings, particularly our senior students. A system of students giving up their privilege of leaving

early on Fridays has already begun for those who are repeatedly late during any given week. Of

course, explained and reasonable explanations for late arrival are accepted, however, coffee and

breakfast detours at Westfield and local cafes are not.

Finally, we would like to invite our LGHS families to become more involved in the school and your daughter’s education. Our recently formed Parent and Citizens group warmly welcomes all comers to our meetings, which are held at 6pm, on Wednesday of Week 10 of each term. Our next meeting is Wednesday 3rd July at 6pm at Liverpool Girls High School, we look forward in seeing you all there. If you are unable to make the meetings, but would still like to keep up to date and informed about both your daughter’s education and the day to day running’s of the school, we invite you to sign up to be a part of our Parent and Student Portal. This online portal allows you to access your daughter’s timetable, daily attendance and see the daily events running at the school. We will be holding parent information sessions to help parents set up their account and a look at the features this apps has. Notes have gone home and are also available on our Facebook page. Sessions include, Tuesday 18 June at 9am, 4pm and 6pm and also Wednesday 19 June at 12pm, 4pm and 6pm. Please RSVP your day and session as individual passwords are allocated. This new system for parents and eventually for students will handy and beneficial to all.

Avryl Queffert and Linda Jurcevic

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Library News Semester 2

Thursday 6th June Excursion to Kings Comics Sydney for Manga Resources.

Sixteen lovely girls from Years 7 – 11, who expressed an interest in Manga for their future studies

in Visual Arts, Society and Culture, English or Visual Design, accompanied Mrs Knott to the city.

The Library is continuing its links with local Primary Schools through Readers’ Theatre.

Students from Years 7-10 have visited both Warwick Farm Public School and Liverpool Public

School to work on Literacy activities and reading. These visits will continue throughout the year.

Indigenous Literacy Foundation. A total of $40 was raised by selling off old Library books to

students. This will allow new books to be put into family homes for people in remote areas of

Australia to promote Literacy. Thank you everyone who bought a book.

Just a reminder: That all students need to return their borrowed books to the Library by the due

date!

Mrs Knott (Library Teacher),

Mrs Roache and Ms Churton (Library Assistants)

Manager Siobhan Coombs, who visited the Library in Term 4

2018, showed students the latest publications and talked about

both the content and career opportunities in this Genre.

These suggestions by the girls will help with the ongoing Library

purchases.

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#STEM@LGHS

Year 7 have been working hard this year in STEM. Students have been exposed to

problems in a variety of contexts and have been given the opportunity to develop their

problem solving and collaboration skills as a means of finding appropriate solutions. Their

learning experiences have ranged from engineering challenges, to robotics, to Lego

building. The real challenge was to discover how to pilot and manoeuvre robots such as

Ozobots and Lego Mindstorms and guide them through mazes and obstacle courses.

Students have also used creativity to work through the design process of questioning,

planning, creating and improving, to communicate ideas using a variety of media. STEM

classes have mastered filming techniques to plan, produce, edit and star in a range of

informative and engaging Digital Citizenship videos in order to share important messages

with their peers.

Later this year students will reflect on what makes a good game and develop skills in

coding and game design to create a playable, interactive game that can be modified and

enhanced for optimum enjoyment. They will also utilise skills from previous terms to plan,

design and build working models, including a functioning Rube Goldberg machine!

There are many exciting things happening in the world of STEM and students at LGHS

are getting an early start in a field where the only limit, is their imaginations.

B. Abdul

STEM Coordinator

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Sport Report

OPEN BASKETBALL – This year the Open Girls Basketball knockout was played as

a central venue competition. The competition was held at Minto Indoor Sports Centre.

In round 1, Liverpool defeated St John’s Park HS 48-2. In the second round, Liverpool

defeated Casula HS 24-12. Having 2 successfully wins allowed us to progress to the

second central venue day, where we were unfortunately defeated by the eventually

winners of the SSW Basketball tournament, Miller HS. It was a closely contested

match with us going down 49-45. Congratulations to the Open Basketball team on

your efforts this year.

OPEN SOCCER – Our Open girls soccer team were defeated 1-0 by Fairvale HS in

the pouring rain. It was a very close contest in which either team could have won. With

great sadness we farewell our year 12 students, Sofija Kozul, Natalija Cubrilo,

Andrijana Djuric, Susana Tuivaiti, Johanna Vili and Annalisse Matavao. Most of whom

have represented our school and themselves with distinction over a very successful 6

year period of Soccer culminating in 3, final 8 central venue appearances in Sydney

South West.

FUTSAL – Liverpool Girls competed in the NSW Futsal championships in May

defeating Picton HS, John Edmondson HS and International Grammar School and

narrowly losing to Campbelltown Performing Arts HS, to top their pool before going

down to eventual champions Gungahlin College in the semi finals. The girls played

amazing all day and were a credit to LGHS.

TENNIS – 2019, saw the rebuilding of our school tennis team with most of the team

graduating in 2018. Round 1 saw them matched up against Holsworthy HS who

unfortunately had to forfeit the match. Round 2 saw us up against Moorebank HS,

where they unfortunately lost in a closely contested 5-3 match. This year’s team has

worked hard to prepare for the 2019 Knockout tournament and has built a solid

foundation for the years to come.

JUNIOR SOCCER – Our Under 15's Soccer team were involved in this year's Bill

Turner Trophy K/O Tournament. They put in a lot of time and effort into training and

developing their gameplay and team work. They had a successful first game despite

the wet and windy conditions against Picton winning 2-1. In their second round they

had an unfortunate but honourable loss to John Edmondson 3-1. The team should be

very proud of their efforts.

Thankyou to all the coaches who have given up their time to coach these teams and

provide their guidance and expertise in supporting our students involvement in Sydney

South West Sport.

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Open Basketball Open Soccerl

FUTSAL

Tennisl Junior Soccerl

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2019 Cross Country Carnival On the 6th of May 2019, Liverpool Girls held our annual Cross Country event with many promising athletes aiming for the Top 10 spots to lead them forward towards Zone. Arriving upon Jacquie Osmond Reserve, the weather was in perfect conditions to compete, and as well, have a fun day overall. With the management of the PDHPE Staff and the support of the other staff faculties; teachers who were seated throughout the racing trail, teachers who helped write the names of those students that placed, and as well as teachers who participated in the races along with the students. As we were waiting for the age events to begin, students took camp in either the sun or shade revealing all the goodies they brought along to feast upon, with any entertainment of all sorts such as music, playing cards and games to keep themselves busy throughout the day. As for myself, the butterflies got to me as the anticipation of the 17 years+ race would begin at any moment. Mr Dixon yelling into the megaphone initiating the first race of the day was about to start, also didn't help my nerves. All the runners participating gathered in the marshalling area, all their faces painted with determination. Not long after, the sound of the siren blazed loudly and we were off. Those who competed ran to get the furthest lead ahead in the race, while the rest of the seniors who engaged in the event for their sport hours, took a stroll through the field. Colourful cones paired with the encouragement from the teachers kept myself going, until the sight of the finish line was in complete view. Increasing my pace, the distance between me and the finish line grew smaller, I pushed my muscles to the very limit until passing through the finish line. 2nd place! With competitions out of the way, I enjoyed myself a snag straight from the barbie leaving the rest of my day relaxing and peaceful and cheering on fellow peers who ran the race as well. All in all, students and teachers had a great time as a school, therefore resulting that 2019 Cross Country has been an overall success! Congratulations to the following age champions.

12 years – Abigail Bonsu

13 years – Asmet Taha

14 years – Keira Whittingham

15 years – Michelle Eliu

16 years – Crystal Tong

17 years – Zeinab Ayad

18 years – Ashwa Al Kalmashi

The carnival was won by Beachley (344 points) followed by Freeman (312 points), Ellis (273 points) and Jackson (209 points).

Good luck to the students you have been chosen to represent Liverpool Girls in the next level!

Written by Carna Yilmaz (Year 11) A Cross Country Team was selected to represent Liverpool Girls High in the Edmondson Zone carnival on the 23rd May at Lake Gillawarna. Our school had 48 competitors competing at the zone carnival with 20 students making it through to next level, regionals. Congratulations to Claire Whittingham who won the 12 years event and was awarded age champion. Liverpool Girls also had 3 students who were runners up in their age group. Ashwa Al Kalmashi (18 years), Zeinab Ayad (17years) and Crystal Tong (16 years).

Congratulations all competitors on achieving excellence in cross country running. Good luck to all competitors at the upcoming SSW Cross County Carnival. PDHPE Faculty

Teacher: Miss Sunarto PDHPE

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Year 11 PDHPE and SLR Camp 2019

During week 3 of Term 2, students from PDHPE and SLR were offered the opportunity to attend

a 3 day camp to reinforce topics covered in class.

The camp was a 5 hour drive away to Forster on the Mid North Coast. For many of our students,

this was the first time they spent a few days away from their families, many hours away from their

homes.

Our girls were confronted with a multitude of outdoor activities that challenged their fears and

encouraged everyone to work together as a cohesive team. Exciting and challenging activities

included Mudworld, High ropes course, Giant swing and Flying fox just to name a few.

The camp has brought the

students closer together as they

built stronger bonds through

teamwork activities.

A big thank you to Ms. Quigley for

organising this camp, without her

dedication in offering our students

a variety of authentic learning

experiences, and recreation

camps would not run at Liverpool

Girls.

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Volleyball Team Report 2019

Team List

Susana Tuivaiti Johanna Vili (VC)

Qasia Isoefo Lydia Vili

Annalisse Matavao Americus Smith

Carna Yilmaz Angela Herman Loto

Gordon Walker Lavenia Tuivaiti

Team Manager: McKenzie Dawkins

The open Girls Volleyball team defeated Sefton HS in a preliminary

round which allowed our team to progress through to Round 1

against Ingleburn HS. Our girls were a bit intimidated by the crowds

of spectators, however, this did not stop their drive for the win.

Liverpool Girls HS won this narrowly, which was due to their ability

to work as team and utilise everyone strength on the court. Round

2 we hosted the game for St Johns Park HS, which was another

close match coming down to the 5th set. We unfortunately lost by 2

points in the last set, but this was one of those games where either

team could have won in the end.

Our girls showed the highest standard of sportsmanship, not only

shaking hands after the match, but organising and facilitating a

large team prayer to congratulate St John Park HS on their

amazing effort. The Captain Susana Tuivaiti and Vice-Captain

Johanna Vili should be commended on their leadership and

supportive roles to ensure all players had guidance and

encouragement. The entire team have displayed teamwork,

commitment, resilience and positivity which was a pleasure to be

involved with. Congratulations to the Open Volleyball team on a

very successful season, your coach and manager are filled with

pride

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Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

Since the exciting launch of the school’s Positive Behaviour for Learning last year, the school has

been focusing on the promotion of positive behaviour within the school. We have been equipping

our students with skills in how to positively deal with certain situations and interact in a more

positive way with all members of the community. We have had 5 lessons so far this year with

each lesson focusing on: Mobile Phone use; Anti-bullying; Physical Violence; Social Media and

Rude and Disrespectful Behaviour. Each of these is taught as a 10 – 15 minute lesson within

class time and is held at the same time throughout the school so that all students are educated

on how to deal with these issues at the same time as their peers.

This term we are asking that all students hand in all of their old REACH awards as we are going

to be hold a barrel draw in week 9 to reward those students who have been achieving REACH

awards within their classes. The students will have the opportunity to win Gift Vouchers, some

totalling up to $50.

A new reward system has been in place since Term 2, as we were phasing out the REACH

awards and replacing them with REACH Tokens!

In Term 3, we will be launching the “PBL Shop” and this is where students will be able to “cash-

in” their REACH tokens for prizes such as Phone Accessories, Musical Instruments and Sound

Equipment, Entertainment Vouchers, Hair and Beauty and Educational Packs. This is an exciting

venture and the aim is for students to strive towards positive behaviour and interactions within all

school settings. They will be rewarded for these behaviours with REACH Tokens and with these

tokens, they will be able to purchase some amazing prizes. More details will be given to the

students and parents regarding this new and exciting venture in Term 3.

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Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) continued.

At Liverpool Girls High School we promote Positive Behaviour for Learning and actively

encourage all students to follow the expected behaviours in all areas of the school. To help the

students will this, a REACH Matrix was devised and signage to help students has been placed

around the school for the students to refer to.

Jen Young PBL Coordinator Head Teacher Creative and Performing Arts

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Online Safety Start the Chat

Materials in your language to help you start the chat about online safety

The internet is an essential part of young people’s lives – for learning, keeping in touch with friends and having fun.

If you spend time with kids, you can help them explore their digital world while educating them about how to avoid harmful experiences online, and how to deal with them if they arise.

Talk to kids and young people early, and often, about what they are doing online. For tips and advice about how to help children to stay safe online, view materials in your language.

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