THE BONNYRIGG

BULLETIN

Pie in the Face By Sophina Xu On the 26th of October, Bonnyrigg High School held a ‘Pie in the Face’ event in G block. The occasion was an entertaining experience for students and teachers. Organised by Ms Albakri and Ms Bilbija, the event successfully raised $900 for the Cancer Council. “It was just a matter of putting notices out there for the school and the students,” says Ms Albakri. “We had to get the ‘ok’ from the boss and from teachers that volunteered. So once we had a group of people that wanted to be involved, we started organising altogether.” Teachers including Principal Mr Bryce (and many

more), contributed to the fundraising event by allowing students to throw a pie into their faces. Students also payed a dollar to witness the occasion.

Relay for Life By Rachel Huynh Relay for Life occurred on the 4th and 5th of November and Bonnyrigg High School participated in the fundraiser. The weekend event took place at Prairiewood High School, and there were many activities such as running laps, painting, cultural performances and a talent quest. In total, Bonnyrigg High School fund raised $1200. Bonnyrigg set up a bake sale at the event, and many other schools such as St Johns Park, Bossley Park and Canley Vale High School, held food stalls as well. “Everyone got involved and it was great to see so many Bonnyrigg students participating. Even though it was raining, they took it on their chin, got out there and put so much effort and money into it. It was great to see, so well done to Bonnyrigg,” said Ms Albakri.

Term 4, Issue 3, 2017

 

Year 7 China Immersion Day and Year 8 Language Day Rachel Huynh

On the 8th of September, Year 8 had Language Day. The whole grade was split into class groups and rotated between three workshops throughout the day. Each workshop immersed each group in a different language and culture: Vietnamese, Spanish and Japanese. On the same day, Year 7 had China Immersion Day.

Vietnamese activities included learning about the Mid Autumn Festival and creating lanterns from water bottles with Ms Tran. Classes that participated in Spanish activities learned about the cultural aspects of Day of the Dead while making masks with Ms Arapi and Mr Vazenios. Japanese activities involved making sumo wrestler magnets and learning about sumo wrestling culture with Ms Ellis and Ms Li.

Year 7 also had various Chinese workshops which included making dumplings, Chinese dancing, Chinese knot tying, Chinese lion dancing and martial arts.

Overall, Language and Chinese Immersion Day was a fantastic experience for Year 7 and 8 to immerse themselves in language and culture. Thank you to all students, teachers and parents that were involved.

 

Below: Instruments Above: Mrs Sims and Year 7 students par cipa ng in marking dumplings. Below: Dragon Dancing  

Instruments 

Aquatopia: Year 7 and 8’s Fun-filled Day  

By Issabella Ferraro  

On Friday the 19th of November, Year 7 and 8 students put on their swimmers and boarded buses to Aquatopia. Aquatopia is a water park located at Prairiewood Leisure Centre. The water park opened in December of 2016 to the Fairfield City Council community. Aquatopia has a range of different water-based activities. There are 3 main slides that are rated in difficulty from medium to severe. There is also a tower with many smaller water slides and is also equipped with a bucket that gradually fills with water and then spills on people at the bottom.  

Ms Jekki, the Year 8 Year Advisor organised the excursion for Year 7 and 8. Ms Jekki explained, “It was great to see Year 7 and 8 students having such a great day. We couldn’t have done it without all of the teacher’s help. We look forward to another awesome event next year.” When speaking to students who participated in the excursion, it was clear to see they agreed with Ms Jekki. Year 7 student Jordache Tea said the day was “Extremely fun and exhilarating.” Another Year 7 student, Shaniya Sharma, said that it was “A fun day with lots of laughter”. The day was a huge success as both teachers, like Ms Albakri, and students enjoyed the slides and activities.  

Technology Inspiration 

 

By Kelly Nguyen  

As time passes by, new ideas and technology are being adopted to cater to many educational needs. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality apps can be helpful for assisting Multimedia students in their learning, as Ms Dang, a Visual Arts and Multimedia teacher has discovered.  

“Virtual Reality apps are computer generated simulations that allow the user to experience another dimension of their environment while in the comfort of their own space, yet feeling completely immersed in the other dimension,” Ms Dang explains, “Augmented Reality is similar, however it allows the user to still be aware of their surroundings and superimposes a computer generated image with the existing environment. For example, you could have a generated dancing robot sitting at your table or in your hands.  

Some Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality apps that have been used are basketball, Anatomy 4D, Quiver, PF AR, Paper4D AR, and Spacecraft 3D. These interactive apps allow students to experience and witness many events that happen, such as fireworks, constellations, soccer and basketball games, volcanoes erupting, dancing figures, flight plans and many more. Technology can shape society and this allows the students to think creatively outside the box. 

White Ribbon Day

Mariana Barsoum

Selected students of Bonnyrigg High School took part in White Ribbon Day on Monday 27th November 2017. White Ribbon Day is a day where students learn about domestic violence. The day included many workshops such as making a stress ball, Designing and making your own Flowerpot, Tattoo Artisitry, Origami, and participating in challenges such as Lollie Guessing. The students also listened to a vol-unteer’s speech; were she highlighted stagger-ing stastics relating to Domestic Violence in Austraila. In her speech she brought the point that the main cause of Domestic Violence is due to the issue of Gender Inequality. The speech highlighted that Domestic violence in Australia is a national crisis and one out of three women suffer from domestic violence, one woman is killed each week due to Domes-tic Violence and that every fifteen seconds a woman faces domestic violence. The idea of his speech was to spread the awareness of domestic violence and that it is a harmful situation that occurs to both female and men.

Bonnyrigg’s Writers  Writing is a fundamental part of every subject at Bonnyrigg. This is why last term, Mr Stewart or-ganised a workshop that was held by the Sydney Story Factory and the Australian Centre for Photography. The workshop was held over two days on Monday the 24th of July and Tuesday the 25th of July. Students from Years 7-11 participated in the workshop which focused on writing techniques and story structure, photography skills, problem solving and group work skills.  The workshop itself was a collaborative project with other schools in the area. The idea of the project was that one school would take photos and then send them to another schools. The school who then received the photos, would then write stories about those photos. A total of 6 schools were involved. Bonnyrigg students wrote stories about photos from Liverpool Girls High School and sent their photos to Canterbury Boys High School.   Students participated in writing activities and then recieved the photos in sets as a stimulus. For the rest of the day, students worked on their stories eventually publishing and recording them. The stories written were in a variety of formats including, poetry, diary entries, letters and short stories. They also focused on many complex topics such as school-life, friendship, loneliness, moving away and identity. However, students also wrote about supernatural and fantastical situa-tions as well as real world events.  On the second day, the Australian Centre for Photography visited Bonnyrigg and held a workshop that honed students photography skills. Students were given cameras and took photos around the school in small groups of 2-3 people. The photos taken were both portrait and landscape photography. The groups then chose 5 photos each to send to Canterbury Boys High School so stories could be written about them. Students works were published by the Sydney Story Factory 

The Front Cover Of the Magazine!! Student Work Samples!!

INTRODUCING THE NEW 

‘STEM MACHINE’ 

By Mariana Barsoum

Welcoming the all new Stem Machine to the Industrial Arts Faculty. It is a very productive machine for the students of Bonnyrigg High School as it is able to cut out materials such as; wood, metal, cardboard, fabric and plastic. If students were to design a project on a comput-er such as it being 2D, 3D or any level objects, the Stem machine would cut it out, E.g. a Jig-saw puzzle. Remarkably this machine can de-sign any weird object and is capable to read every computer program. This machine is a leap forward for the students contributing to assessment tasks.

Picture: Stem Machine in the Industrial Arts Block

Zero Robotics Team 

 

By Kelly Nguyen  

Coders, mathematicians, strategists and a driver. Those are the people that make up the Zero Robotics Team. They are a group of students who come together to participate in a competition called the Zero Robotics High School Tournament 2017.  

“The aim of the competition is to code a SPHERE that gets launched in the International Space Station, that’s owned by NASA, in January. The school that performs the most efficient coding in the least amount of coding space is the school that will win the competition,” says Ms Stanford, the supervisor of the Zero Robotics Team. “If a school places top 84 in the competition they would proceed to the real-life competition. The remaining schools are to enter a virtual competition.”  

The tournament starts off with simulations in phases of 2D and 3D, getting harder in difficulty as the competition goes along. The first competition that the Zero Robotics Team went through

was called the Preliminary Competition. They had to develop coding for a SPHERE, which is a spherical object that is responsible for performing various research tasks. They had to make the SPHERE go along and take pictures of other SPHEREs, along with collecting space junk, being rewarded with points if they did. The teams with the most points proceeded to the next stage.  

The aim of the next stage was to write codes that would make the SPHERE drill through ice and collect samples, and take them back to their base camp. However, there were ‘dangers’. There were geysers that

would spring up if the team’s SPHERE drilled in the same place too many times, and cause them to lose all their points. 

ANZAC STORY By Faith Moala

VP (Victory in the Pacific) and the Battle for Australia are 2 memorable events in which the ANZAC ambassadors for our school represented us.

August 15th commemorates Victory in the Pacific, also referred to as VJ (Victory over Japan). The importance of this day highlights Japan’s acceptance of the Allies demand for unconditional surrender. As a country it meant that the threats of World War II and the war itself was over. By helping our school commemorate this event, our ANZAC Ambassadors, Mikaela Ogden (Year 10), Kevin Nguyen (Year 9), James Dobkowski (Year 10) and Abby Murphy (Year 7) represented our school and also laid a wreath in remembrance. Mikaela Ogden was selected to read a poem on the day and was congratulated by many in the community who attended, on the excellent job she did in honouring the event.

The Battle for Australia service is an event that is held each year which remembers the service and sacrifice of the men and women who served in the defence of Australia in 1942 and 1943, during a period of time when our nation faced it greatest danger, during the Second World War. Once again our ANZAC ambassadors, Kathy Do (Year 10), Manar Al Ogaidi (Year 10), Stephen Vujanic (Year10) and Sarah Ly (Year 10) represented our school. Sarah Ly and Kathy Do, also laid a wreath in commemoration. Our ANZAC ambassadors also had the privilege to speak at length with the Mayor of Fairfield Council, Frank Carbone, about life in Bonnyrigg High School, remembering the past and also discussing his time as a former student of our school, while enjoying a nice lunch, with many other school and community members.

Textiles Project By Faith Moala

Throughout the year, the Year 10 Textiles Technology groups have been working on a handcrafting pro-ject. Within their projects they have been displaying and enhancing the use of decorations such as: ma-chine and hand embroidery, fabric painting, quilting, applique and many more handcrafting techniques. Year 10 Textiles Technology have also been working on a Dolphin Project, which look at soft furnishing or toys and this project helps them utilise an array of different fabrics.

Students have also made amazing projects such as Rebecca Tran, who created a lace and faux leather sleeveless crop with a high waisted natural hand dyed fabric and lace. Rebecca’s project was layered with tulle and machine embroidery which was done with a floral and lady beetle design. Rose Yako was another student who created a fantastic project which looked at the wonders of fashion from the last cen-tury and she also incorporated the fashion trends that were highlighted in the last century.

Once again, great job to those students who created such exceptional designs.

China day

By Faith Moala

On Friday, 17th November 2017,a range of selected students were given the opportunity to become more familiar with the Chinese language and culture through China Day, which Bonnyrigg High School had the privilege of hosting.

Each year, schools who are participants of the Confucius Institute host China Day and Ms Beke and Ms Lin volunteered for our school to host this year’s China’s Day. China Day, has a purpose to promote the Chinese culture and language and also host interesting Workshops to engage the students and to assist in educating the students. The Schools who were able to participate in China Day was Bonnyrigg, Kingsgrove North High, Chatswood Primary, Mosman High and many other schools, varying in both secondary and primary schools. Prin-cipals and Teachers from the Confucius Institute were very impressed by the behaviour dis-played by our students. Visiting schools were very impressed with the workshops that were run by the volunteering teachers and students in the Confucius Institute, as they found them very engaging and enjoyable.

Overall, according to the great feedback from visiting schools and our very own school, China Day was a great success.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND A

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Dear, Bonnyrigg students and staff

May Your Christmas sparkle with

moments of love, laughter and goodwill

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year