GIB GATE • FRENSHAM • STURT
TERM 2 NO 5 - 26 JUNE 2008

In Canberra from Friday afternoon of 20 June till mid-afternoon of Sunday 22 June I joined 150 delegates representing 68 government and independent schools from all states and territories of Australia and from New Zealand, for the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Annual Conference: Broadening the Horizons for Girls.

Features of this year’s Conference were the quality of Keynote speakers and the intensity of the programme – seven Keynote Addresses in less than 48 hours, whilst also important was the opportunity to discuss with colleagues matters arising from each Address. In brief I note here for current and future consideration some of the ideas of greatest interest:

• Through one of the world’s leading experts in religious and values education, Peter Vardy [Vice President of Heythrop College, London]:  ‘What does it take to be fully human….? What makes a good human being? Who are admirable human beings? What sort of person are you going to become? Do we want our students to be lamps or mirrors in society?
• Through Sally Heligsman, author of The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership and The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organisations, the impact of such issues as diversity, customisation and the breakdown of traditional barriers and/or values, on how we teach today;
• Through Dr Sarah Maddison, Director of The Australia Institute and Lecturer at the University of NSW, the importance of girls knowing what women in the past have done to make a difference, in order to understand what is possible for them to achieve in the future;
• Through Helen Christiansen, Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research and member of the Australian Foundation for Mental Health, the thinking behind a recently-developed interactive, research-based programme for teenagers developed through the Australian National University and designed to support mental health of teenagers: www.moodgym.com.au
  
• Another particularly interesting part of the Conference was a workshop that involved participants in considering another School’s leadership framework, in this case those of Nga Tawa, a Diocesan High School in Wellington, [NZ].  Underpinning their approach for students in the equivalent of Years 10, 11 and 12 were the following notions about leadership:
  • Leadership without integrity is ‘just a performance’
  • Leadership is about responsibility and service (not prestige)
  • The transformative power of leadership is crucial
  • Great leaders leave an imprint on the hearts and minds of others

In designing programmes, they also targeted three personal qualities for development - tenacity, integrity and resilience - based on research that identifies these qualities as being key personal characteristics essential to the success of young people who will enter the world beyond School in the next decade.  Notes from this workshop have been distributed to staff and to Year 11 and in a series of lunch meetings in Weeks 1 and 2 of next term Year 11 will join me, with staff, to consider these ideas and their relevance to our leadership practices.

Enrichment and Inspiration:

• This week’s Year 11/12 ‘around the kitchen table’ discussion led by Mrs Buick, Mr de St Guillaume and Year 12 table hosts, focused on the human rights issues surrounding the elections in Zimbabwe;
• The Daily Bulletin has a ‘new look’.  On the flip side of the daily notices, faculties have undertaken to provide a weekly focus for Form discussion each morning, with HSIE initiating the process with news bulletins on Fuel, Famine and Food Security;
• This week Year 11 met Professor Mark Adams, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources for an evening presentation.  A specialist in Australia’s ‘high country’ and in sustainable plant ecology, he spoke of his research related to carbon, food and water in relation to sustainable farming.  Professor Adams is an internationally recognised scientist who leads an international team of scientists working in this area and also in other areas of plant ecology;
• For the final week of the July vacation and the first two weeks of next term we will be hosting from the Kaifeng School in China, two senior students, Li Yatian and Shangguan Qiizi and one of their teachers, Juan Yingpin.  Whilst our guests will stay on campus during term time, they will be hosted initially by Frensham families to whom we are most grateful for their generous offer of hospitality;
• Ms Jenny O’Rourke’s expertise in the teaching of Mathematics was shared with Gib Gate parents this week in a workshop designed to assist parents in understanding the changes in process and practice of helping students to think mathematically;
• Four young musicians from the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney captured the attention of instrumentalists in a one-hour after-dinner Concert in School Hall arranged by Mr Spencer and supported by Ms Madden;
• Mrs Symons heads to Oxford University on Friday of this week for her three-week Summer School in Literature at Exeter College. With 7kgs of reading material and one-on-one tutorials ahead, we wish Mrs Symons every success in her studies;
• With great anticipation I will be travelling to Harvard University, Boston for a ten-day Principals’ Centre programme (10-18 July) entitled Managing the Evolving Vision.  With the early preparation of pre-reading and submission of a proposal for study completed several months ago I look forward to the opportunity to study again, albeit briefly, in such a magnificent centre of learning.
• Recently awarded a Girdle for Gymnastics, Stephanie Wright is acknowledged for her tireless efforts in support of the team of gymnasts whose training season covers four terms of each year.  Particularly skilled and patient in her work with juniors, Stephanie sets an outstanding example of leadership to those with whom she trains and competes.
• Last week we received two letters of appreciation from Mittagong residents – from the Napier family, owners of injured Cyclops (with his distinct paw print on the card) and from a neighbour who was recently assisted by a student when her house alarm was activated.  The opportunity to acknowledge quiet, generous effort is always appreciated.
• Guest speaker at Fellowship’s Birthday Dinner following the Annual General Meeting, Old Girl Mrs Joanne Pollard (Barbato, 1983), inspired those in attendance when she shared her work/life story, reflecting on the personal qualities and relationships crucial to her success.  Around 100 Old Girls gathered for this year’s Birthday celebration in Sydney.

Staffing:

• With thanks for their work in support and care of students we thank House staff leaving us at the end of this term: Mrs Juliet Chester and Mrs Helen French and offer our best wishes for years ahead.   Having moved recently to Sydney, Mrs French will be continuing in her career as a House Mistress after five years of valued service to Frensham;
• We also say ‘Bon Voyage’ and offer our warmest wishes to Mrs Cherylynne Williams who will be on Long Service Leave for the first three weeks of Term 3.

Information Evenings/Cocktail Parties:

Wednesday 6 August, 6.00-8.00pm, Canberra (Commonwealth Club)
Wednesday 20 August, 6.00-8.00pm, Sydney (Royal Sydney Golf Club)

For Further information please contact Mrs Liz Rule:
Phone: 02 4860 2100 - Email: erule@frensham.nsw.edu.au

Ahead:
Sturt Winter School is one of Sturt’s major annual programmes, drawing tutors and students to the Sturt and Frensham campuses for a full week of the vacation.  Please see Sturt News for last-minute enrolment opportunities.

As the term comes to a close I offer thanks on behalf of staff and students for the support of parents and members of our community and convey from all our best wishes for an enjoyable, refreshing family time.

We look forward to seeing everyone back safely for the start of Term 3.

Ms J A Gillick
Head of Frensham
Head of Winifred West Schools

AHEAD:

Parent / Community News

GIB GATE

All parents who attended the ‘Mathematics in Action’ Parent workshop last Thursday were keen to participate in the hands-on tasks.  Through these they gained a new appreciation of how important it is for students to problem-solve and communicate their thinking and strategies with others.  Ms O’Rourke, who organised the workshop, started the session with a five minute ‘mental warm up’ as an example of how students practise mental computation skills on a daily basis at Gib Gate.

After a brief introduction to the Kindergarten to Year 10 Mathematics Framework parents were then asked to form into small groups to try some of the Numeracy tasks in which students take part from Kindergarten to Year 6.  While parents were playing games focusing on addition and subtraction, chance, money and place value and participating in a problem-solving activity on fractions, decimals and percentages, Ms O’Rourke modelled how teachers at Gib Gate ask students questions to elicit understanding and how they share strategies.  Ms O’Rourke also modelled how tasks are adjusted to suit the needs of different learners through changing the type of dice used and through increasing the challenge by working with higher numbers.

Working mathematically through questioning, applying strategies, communicating, reasoning and reflecting are an important parts of the Mathematics programme at Gib Gate and this was very evident throughout the workshop.

Year 5 students have recently completed a unit of work on Machines in Science and Technology.  As part of this unit, they conducted a scientific investigation on friction through riding their bikes on different surfaces around the school grounds.  In the lead up to this highly engaging activity, students learnt to identify the different variables that could affect the validity of their investigation and they carefully planned how they would measure, record and communicate their findings.  Skills in working scientifically and working mathematically were therefore explicit in this learning experience.

Ms Sally Robson, Head of Gib Gate

Curriculum Insights
ICAS Competitions in Science and Writing, run by the University of New South Wales, have been completed by students in Years 3 - 6 during Term 2.  Sixty-two students elected to participate in the Science paper during Week 5 which assessed their accumulated knowledge, investigative, prediction and inferential skills across a range of scientific content areas.  Sixty-five students entered the Writing Competition in Week 7 where they were required to begin a narrative demonstrating both their imaginative and practical skills in response to a visual stimulus.   Results are sent to the school in Term 3 and all students will receive a certificate of participation during Performance Assembly.  Students are looking forward to completing the Mathematics and English Competitions in Term 3.

Each student and class is preparing for one of the School’s favourite events of the year – Children’s Book Week at Gib Gate 2008.  Book Week will be celebrated during Week 4 of Term 3 and this year’s theme is ‘Reading Down Under’. On Monday 11 August, popular Australian children’s author Richard Tulloch will be our visiting storyteller and he is guaranteed to entertain all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 with his humorous tales.  Most famous for his children’s books Barry the Burglar, Being Bad for the Babysitter and Stories from our Street, Richard is also acclaimed nationally and internationally for writing a number of play and TV scripts including many of the ABC’s Bananas in Pyjamas episodes.

On Friday 16 August Mrs Marsh is organising a Book Character Parade and Book Fair where children and families are encouraged to ‘double the literary delight’ by purchasing one book for themselves to share at home and one for the Gib Gate Library for all to share for many years to come.  The Character Parade will commence at 8.45 am in the Hall with everyone dressed as a character from a favourite Australian book or poem or a famous Australian author or poet.  This year there is a new rule for readers: each student (and teacher) must carry (at all times) the book ‘from which they escaped’, so others can have a quick read throughout the day.

FOGG representatives are planning the annual Book Day Feast for the lunchtime Transition to Year 6 celebration and all are welcome to join us throughout the day’s variety of literary activities.

Kate Chauncy, Curriculum Coordinator K-6
Coordinator of Gifted and Talented Programmes

Music and Extra Curricular Activities
On Sunday 15 June, 14 Gib Gate string players joined 80 other students from the local area to participate in a string workshop.  There were four orchestras of varying difficulty with Mrs Graham conducting one.  Gib Gate students were involved in three different orchestras and enjoyed the experience of working with different conductors and a full string sound.  Parents came for an informal recital at the end of the day and were impressed by the work accomplished in one day.

Extra curricular activities
The Puppet class performed a puppet show for the School on Friday 20 June.  This showcased the semester of making the puppets and formulating a show and it was well-received be everyone.
Extra curricular classes will commence at the start of Term 3.  Students who are unsuccessful in their enrolment will be notified.

Gib Gate Sport
It has been another full term of sport with winter sports well under way and all teams training and playing with great commitment.  This term there have been visits from The Hockey Association, The NSW AFL and the NSW Football Association who have all conducted very valuable skills clinics with all classes from Kindergarten to Year 6.

The five Netta and Netball teams are well placed to contest the finals.  The Under 6, Under 7 and Under 9 Rooball teams are enjoying themselves immensely with the Under 7s playing well enough to win the local Gala Day midway through the term.  The Hockey and Minkey Teams are very competitive this year and it is pleasing to see the development in their individual skills and team work.

Gib Gate hosted the Southern Highlands Independent Schools (SHIPS) Cross Country Carnival at Frensham earlier in the term.  It was a very successful day with Gib Gate runners achieving the first top three places in each age group.  The CIS Cross Country Carnival was held at Eastern Creek on 20 June with Lilli Jephcott and Olivia Spring (Year 6) and Emil Thaning (Year 3) qualifying for this event.

In preparation for the Athletics carnivals coming up next term, each class has been involved in a series of clinics conducted by either Little Athletics NSW or Ron Thompson, a very experienced athletics coach.  The children have learnt to refine their techniques for sprinting, throwing and jumping.  The Gib Gate School Carnival will be held on Friday 1 August with the SHIPS and JSHAA Carnivals to follow soon after.

Mr Michael Standen, Coordinator of PE and Sport

STURT

FRIENDS OF STURT Ruth Wright (President), Joan Dinning (Secretary), Denise Sumner, Julie Musgrave, Bill Dinning, Henrietta & Ralph Ierace, Angela Jones (Ex-officio members: Tom Harrington, Melanie Olde, Paul Davis, Megan Patey)

Sturt News
Shirley Becke, Director of the Old Milk Factory Gallery Bowral,   will open the Frensham Art, Design, and Photography Exhibition on  Friday 29 August at 6pm.   This exhibition will feature selected works from Year 12 students and will be open to the public for restricted hours on the weekend of 30-31 August.

Artists-in-Residence
As part of their joint residency at Sturt, Annie Trevillian (screen printer) and Monique Van Nieuwland (weaver) will both be giving visual presentations on their work and visitors are welcome to attend.

There will be two opportunities to hear Annie speak:
• 5.30 pm Sturt Gallery Monday 7 July
• 4.30pm in the Frensham Drama Theatre Wednesday afternoon 9 July

Monique will be talking about her work at:
• 5.30 in the Frensham Drama Theatre Thursday afternoon 10 July

Twelve-Week Fine Woodworking Course
There is still one position available in the next twelve-week Fine Woodworking course which commences on Monday 30 June and continues till 19 September.  The teacher for this course will be Roy Schack, designer and furniture maker from Queensland.  For enrolment information, ring Sturt on 02 4860 2083.

Sturt Winter School
Enrolments are still being taken for the Winter School (7 – 11 July) in the following courses: Bookbinding, Botanical Illustration, Ikebana, Mosaics, Knitting, Tapestry weaving, and Weaving.  As well, there are positions in both the children’s courses: Painting with Slavica Zivkovic and Children’s Clay with Sue Buckle.

Please ring Sturt on 02 4860 2083 for details or view the website www.sturt.nsw.edu.au

Sturt Weekend Courses
Several weekend courses will be held this year on the weekend of 20 and 21 September.  These are Mosaics with Helen Factor, Digital Photography with Debra Pearson, Enamelling with Barbara Ryman, and Basketry with Meri Peach.  As well, a four-day course will be held from 29 September – 2 October on making a small table in wood with John Gallagher.  Details of these courses are available at www.sturt.nsw.edu.au or by phoning Sturt on 02 4860 2083.

Sturt Summer School
Courses for the Sturt Summer School (3 – 8 January 2009) are being finalised, and will be available on the website from 1 July 2008.

Megan Patey, Head of Sturt

FRENSHAM

Deputy Head

Included with this Newsletter are Extra Subject Enrolment Forms for Term 3.  If your daughter wishes to enrol in a new Extra Subject in Term 3 you must complete and submit a Form by the due date. These include: Sturt Activities, Dance Lessons, Tennis Coaching and Horse Riding.

The only exception to this is Instrumental Music Lessons with the assumption that your daughter will continue her current lessons.  You would only complete a form if your daughter was taking up a lesson for the first time in Term 3.

For the safety of all, parents are reminded that all Day Boarders should be dropped-off and picked-up from their Boarding Houses for all before and after-school activities.

Mr Geoff Marsh, Deputy Head

Director of Studies

Students in Years 10, 11 and 12 have by now received their vacation work for the upcoming break.  While the requirements for each year group vary, the premise behind vacation work remains very similar.  It is important for students to have a refreshing holiday but it is also expected that they use a portion of their three weeks to review and revise first Semester work and prepare for upcoming examinations. 

Year 10 students are expected to complete 1½ hours per subject; Year 11 students are required to complete three hours per 2 Unit subject and Year 12 have individual schedules to prepare them for the HSC Trial Examinations beginning in Week 2, Term 3.  The work which has been designed includes a variety of activities such as: completing past HSC examinations, ensuring study notes are adequate, practice exercises for various subjects and/or preparation for upcoming HSC Practical Examinations or Major Works.

This week Reports for Years 7 to 10 have been posted and parents are reminded to contact us immediately with any queries about these or about any aspect of their daughter’s progress.

Mr Matthew McMahon, Director of Studies

Director of Boarding

Last Sunday morning Year 12 led the Service in School Hall and began with the following: “Charles Conlon once said ‘True friendship is like good health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost’.  The importance of friendship has been echoed throughout history from Shakespeare to the Beatles. What constitutes a real friend?  Is it constant company? Is it someone who flatters – indulging your ego?  Perhaps friendships are constructed on these rocky foundations but it is those relationships rooted in kindness, selflessness and love which stand firm throughout time.  Today it is appropriate to reflect on what a true friend really is and how, in our own lives, we can be better friends to those we care about.”

The following poem, read as part of the Service, is one which parents might like to discuss with their children:

A Portrait of a Friend
I can’t give you solutions to all of life’s problems, doubts or fears.
But I can listen to you, and together we will search for answers.
I can’t change your past with all its heartache and pain,
Nor the future with its untold stories.
But I can be here now when you need me to care.
I can’t keep your feet from stumbling,
I can only offer my hand that you may grasp it and not fall.
Your joys, triumphs, successes, and happiness are not mine, yet I can share in your laughter.
Your decisions in life are not mine to make, nor to judge,
I can only support you, encourage you and help you when you ask.
I can’t prevent you failing away from friendship,
From your values, from me, I can only pray for you, talk to you and wait for you.
I can’t give you boundaries which I have determined for you,
But I can give you the room to change, room to grow,
Room to be yourself.
I can’t keep your heart from breaking and hurting,
But I can cry
With you and help you pick up the pieces and put
Them back in place.
I can’t tell you who you are.
I can only love you and be your friend.

The service was preceded by a surprise breakfast at McCarthy for Year 12 organised by Year 11, to thank Year 12 for their friendship.

Mrs Susan Cyganiewicz & Mrs Ros Buick, Co-Directors of Boarding

English and Drama

On Wednesday 25 June, Victoria Steadman-Towell and Lucinda Reynolds from Year 11 Drama will perform a dualogue between Olivia and Viola from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, at the Illawarra Shakespeare festival at St Mary’s Star of the Sea School in Wollongong, under the direction of Mrs Muir-Smith.  This is a new competition in 2008.

Madeleine Bowdern in Year 8 has received a Highly Commended Certificate in the Sydney Writer’s Festival Write Now Competition.  From 3,800 entries only ten students in each year group received this commendation.

As the term draws to a close there is much progress evident with Debating and Public Speaking.  Ms Samuels is working with the Year 10 team on pairs debates and Sarah Hayes and Charlotte Merz, Heads of Debating and Public Speaking, have formed a group with students in Years 7-9. Two Year 9 students have been preparing for the Legacy Junior Public Speaking Competition which will be held at Frensham on 1 August.  Each day, all girls in their Year 9 class prepare a two minute impromptu to help develop skills in the presentation of these particular speeches.  Two or three students speak each day and the class shares its differing interpretations of the topic set.

Lucinda Nicolls Small in Year 11 will be speaking in the Rotary 4 Ways Speaking Competition for Berrima District Rotary on 30 July.

Extension 2 Major Works are nearing completion as final drafts have been submitted with journals and the Report assessment task.  This is the final stage in the process for this course which constitutes 50% of the final mark.  The Work itself is then submitted to the Board of Studies for marking.

Mrs Trish Symons, Director Language/Arts

HSIE

Year 12 History Extension students will submit their final Research Projects this week.  These projects are the culmination of over six months of hard work and it is clear that much thought, research and time have gone into them.

While students have been required to ensure that their projects cover the key historiographical questions which are part of the Board of Studies syllabus, they have chosen to focus their research around a wide ranging selection of very particular topics.

The topics for 2008 are: the history of the Mau Mau & perceptions of Kenyan identity; the power of Eleanor of Aquitaine; perceptions about women in the Crusades; the Glencoe Massacre; social historians’ coverage of the Industrial Revolution; East and West German treatment of the Holocaust post World War II; the history of Cleopatra; changing perceptions about Marie Antoinette; the psychohistory surrounding Francisco Franco; the veracity of the history surrounding Idi Amin; the Rwandan genocide, the influence of both Darwin and eugenics on Hitler, and; varying interpretations of the Turkish seizure of Cyprus. 

Students are to be commended for their hard work and the great interest which they have brought to their historical studies.

Mr Matthew McMahon, HSIE Coordinator

Latin

The last few weeks have been an exciting time for Latin students.  On Friday 5 June, the awards for the National Latin Exam were presented at Morning Prayers.  This Exam, organised by the American Classical League, was held in the second week of March with 135,000 participants from all States of the USA as well as Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Switzerland, China, Mozambique and Brazil.

This year's results were:

Year 9 (Introduction to Latin)
Outstanding Achievement Certificate:
Hannah Beith, Isabel Faulkner, Rosetta Freelander, Fiona Greader, India Irvine, Rose Kennedy, Emily Maker, Emily Meredith, Georgia Nelson, Camille   Nock, Amelia Pavitt, Cassandra Perry, Emma Quinn, Cordelia Williamson
Year 10 (Latin I Exam)
Gold Medal,summa cum laude certificate:
Guislaine Allen, Emma Bowman, Tess Brennan, Georgia Fairbairn, Beatriz Grattan-Smith, Lucy Hawker, Harriet Hooke, Sarah Loewy, Jaleesa Newell, Teresa Santonastaso
Silver Medal,maxima cum laude certificate:
Lucy Bean, Antonia Cadell, Arabella Kilmartin, Alice Lee-Warner, Zoë Philip, Melinda Ryan
Year 11 (Latin II)
Gold Medal,summa cum laude certificate:
Jesse Ambler, Emma Campbell, Katherine Evans, Madeleine Maslin, Gemma Moran-Gibson, Sally Newton, Lucinda            Nicolls Small, Annika Rookyard
Year 12 (Latin III)
Gold Medal,summa cum laude certificate:
Alice Bowman, Amy Cavill, Odetta Davison, Sarah Hayes, Jessica Kennedy, Edwina Meyer, Olivia Pirie-Griffiths
Perfect Scores
Year 9 (a total of 356 out of a candidature of 16,923)
India Irvine, Emily Maker, Emily Meredith, Cassandra Perry, Emma Quinn.
Year 11 (a total of 279 out of a candidature of 33,628)
Jesse Ambler, Madeleine Maslin, Gemma Moran-Gibson, Lucinda Nicolls Small.

On Wednesday 18 June, Years 9 and 10 students travelled to SHORE, North Sydney, to take part in the annual Kevin Lee Latin Quiz.  The quiz was started eight years ago to commemorate the life of Professor Kevin Lee, Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, who had died unexpectedly several years before.  He encouraged the study of all aspects of the Classics. Frensham has participated in the Quiz for the last three years.

There are two levels of the Quiz, a mixed team of Years 7-9 and a Year 10 team.  Each team has two chances: a preliminary heat and then a repechage for those eliminated from their heat.  The Year 9 team, consisting of Hannah Beith, Rosetta Freelander, Cassandra Perry and Emma Quinn, won their repechage and went through to the final.     Frensham and Kinross Wolaroi, the other finalist, ended with equal scores, requiring a playoff.  Frensham won on the third question, “What is the river which flows through Rome” the answer the Tiber.

The team was presented with a plaque which will be inscribed with the School’s name and will be kept until the Quiz next year.

Gaudeamus igitur!

Ms Liz Stephenson, Latin Teacher

Music

Frensham recently hosted a String Day Camp at Clubbe Hall, with students of string instruments from all over the region coming together to form four separate orchestras, catering for differing abilities from preschool to high school students.  Frensham is particularly well suited for such an event with rehearsal spaces such as School Hall, the Drama Theatre and the Orchestra Room in addition to Clubbe Hall.  Frensham students benefited greatly from this opportunity to work with other enthusiastic young musicians and to bring an intense focus to the development of their skills on their instruments and in playing together in an ensemble.

On Monday night, the School hosted a concert by four outstanding performers from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.  Frensham students of the cello, flute, clarinet and guitar were able to enjoy a programme which featured their instruments and to hear these young musicians talk about the repertoire they were presenting.

Mr Michael Spencer, Coordinator of Music

Science

The Science Faculty has been reviewing a number of the units of work which have been taught this Term.  These reviews are designed to ensure that the material covered matches the syllabus outcomes and is stimulating and appropriate for the classes involved.  The method of delivery is reviewed, as well as the resources in place for the practical components of the course.  The Faculty is also reviewing the level of differentiation in each class to meet the needs of all students.

Mr Peter Bull, Laboratory Assistant, recently sat his final Physics 101 Examination at the University of Wollongong. This comprises part of the course work he is completing to gain his teaching qualification.

Mr Geoff Marsh, Deputy Head

Visual Arts

Congratulations to Sophie Bligh, Emily Cameron and Olivia Stewart on their selection in the HSC Intensive Studio Practice course at the National Art School in Sydney.  This course, run in the July and September vacation periods, provides the opportunity for students who are already achieving at a high level in Year 11 Visual Arts to extend their skills in a range of disciplines.  Both Sophie and Emily will participate in the Sculpture course and Olivia will participate in the Printmaking course.  We look forward to hearing of their experiences when School resumes.    

Mr Philip Alldis, Coordinator of Visual Arts

Sport

Soccer
Frensham had a successful first season of Soccer and all teams are congratulated.  Seven teams reached the semi finals and Team 3, Junior As, Junior Ds and Year 7 Purple all made it through to the finals.

Congratulations to the Junior As and Year 7 Purple for winning their games. All girls demonstrated an improvement in skill and game play.  We thank all senior girls who assisted with coaching and led by example in all areas of sport this term, and to Rachael Fisher who displayed outstanding leadership as Captain.

Jane Barrett, Acting Sport Coordinator

Athletics
The Athletics Team travelled to the Sydney International Athletic Centre on 20 Friday June for the 85th IGSSA Athletic Carnival.  The girls trained hard this season with results showing numerous personal bests on the day.

Congratulations to Lucinda Beak who was placed in the Division 3 Senior 800m heat and Charlotte Cosyn in the Division 3 16 years 90m Hurdles heat with both going through to their respective finals. 

We thank coach Ron Thompson and Year 7 for their support on the day.

Basketball
It has been a very enjoyable and successful Basketball season this year for Years 9, 10, 11 and 12.  Congratulations to the 2nds and 5ths who finished second in the Grand Final on Saturday 21 June at Auburn Indoor Basketball Centre.

Hockey and Netball with CGGS
On Sunday 22 June we hosted four Netball and two Hockey teams from Canberra Girls’ Grammar School.   This enabled Frensham to gain valuable game experience before the IGSSA competition commences next term. 

IGSSA Hockey and Netball Term 3
Netballers are reminded that they require a whistle next term and Hockey players must have a mouth guard, shin pads, hockey stick and ball. 

Netball Uniform
White socks with purple and green stripe
Green scungies
Purple sports skirt
Green polo shirt

Hockey Uniform
Green knee high socks
Purple bike pants
Purple sports skirt
Green polo shirt

Miss Jacqui Longworth, PDHPE and Sport Teacher

Frensham Ski Team 2008
The Frensham team will be down in the NSW snowfields between 9–15 July.  The Interschool Competition NORTHERN Division events are in Thredbo this year and spectators are most welcome.

The School has its largest team on record with 31 skiers and many are first time competitors.  We have representatives in all three age divisions and are competing in the Alpine, SkierX, Snowboard and Mogul events.  Thank you, in anticipation, to the parents who have volunteered as Team Managers and to those who actively support all the teams both on and off the snow fields. 

Division 3   Year 7:  Jessica Burns, Hannah Buschman, Antonia Scott, Lauren Zawal.  Year 8:  Nicola Fenaughty, Anna Gemmell-Smith, Tennessee Lang, Kate Lee, Madeleine Quinn, Jarra Robinson, Victoria Sanderson, Emily Vainsaar, Charlotte Voegeli.
Division 2  Year 9:  Miriam Carr, Emily Maker, Sarah Mitchell, Emma Quinn, Harriet Robertson.  Year 10:  Harriet Hooke, Arabella Kilmartin, Charlotte Midson, Beatrice Osborne.
Division 3  Year 11:  Sophie Bligh, Emily Irish, Kate Maitland, Madeleine Maslin, Olivia Stewart, Cassandra Wait-Hughes.  Year 12:  Alexandra Hanbury, Adelaide Lang, Sophie Studd.

Ms Joanne Allison, Ski Coordinator

Wet Weather arrangements for Saturday Sport
Due to the short season for all IGSSA Sports, every attempt is made to play the inter-school matches and cancellations of Saturday Sport are rarely made before Saturday morning, unless a venue notifies IGSSA that the facilities will not be playable prior to this.

Means of gaining information concerning play:

Means of gaining information concerning play:
IGSSA Wet Weather Line 1900 922 834
IGSSA WEBSITE  http://igssa.ahigs.nsw.edu.au
Boarding Houses
All the above are updated throughout the morning

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