Term 1 , 2018 Issue 1

13/4/2018 The Bonnyrigg Bulletin

Centre: Maxine Huynh, year 7. Right: Jennifer Vu, year 10. Left & Right: Participating in the program

Sharing the Knowledge from Leader to Peer

By Jennifer Vu Year 10 peer support leaders teach the Year 7 students all the tips and tricks to getting through high school successfully. Organised by Mr. Adam Stewart, Mr George Elafros and Mrs. Danielle Freeman, Peer Support is a program that enables Year 7 students to identify their school values and express these important values to others with the assistance of their Year 10 Peer Support Leaders.

Selected Year 10 and their allocated Year 7 students spend one period participating in fun but informative activities. These activities encourage the Year 7 students to break out of their comfort zone and create new friendship groups as well as discover personal and core values. Mr. Stewart commented on the communal opportunities the Peer Support program delivers. “I think it’s fantastic at giving all Bonnyrigg students another opportunity to take responsibility and feel like they’re a part of the school community,” he stated. The students also recognised the benefits of Peer Support Leaders. Year 10 Peer Support Leader Sylvia Tran stated, “I like it because I can share my experiences with the kids, especially with one of them who came to me to share their problems”. Additionally, Maxine Huynh, a Year 7 student, mentioned that “the activities are fun”.

2018 Swimming Carnival By Issabella Ferraro

This year the swimming carnival was organised by Tayla Propst and Sarah Trees from the PDHPE faculty. It was held on Monday the 12th of February at Prairiewood Leisure Centre. Students from Year 7 – 12 attended the swimming carnival and participated in events which included the 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and some novelty events such as the pool noodle race and water running.

The day ended with a house students versus teachers relay which had multiple students and teachers race in a team of four in a 50m freestyle relay. In the end, the teachers came in 1st, the team from The Roos in 2nd and The Taipans in 3rd with the other houses not far behind.

Overall, the winners of the swimming carnival were The Crocs.

After the swimming carnival, the school had 48 students attend the Bernera Zone Swimming Carnival.

Bonnyrigg’s Super Swimmers

By Issabella Ferraro

Throughout March, Bonnyrigg High participated in the Bernera Zone Swimming Carnival and the Sydney Southwest Regional Swimming Carnival. 48 stu-dents attended both events accompanied by Propst and Trees from the PDHPE faculty.

On March 1st, 48 students attended the Zone Swimming Carnival.

“We had 6 age champions throughout all the age groups, boys and girls, and we got the overall first place for girls, first place for boys and then we won the Bernera Zone overall. So, we were the best team by over 150 points” – Tayla Propst

On March 12th, the same 48 students attended the Regional Swimming Carnival. The outcomes of the races were also positive as Bonnyrigg High won the 16 Years Girls Relay and the 16 Years Boys Relay as well as both male and female butterfly races.

The 9 students who won races at the Regional Swimming Carnival will then attend the State Swimming Carnival in April.

Clean Up Australia Day By Vivien Nguyen

On the 9th of March, SRC’s environment committee held an event for all volunteering students to help clean up our school, Hari Ram and Stefan Vujanic successfully lead 115 students to make our school a cleaner and more pleasant environment. In period 6, students were to come out to the Cola where they were sorted into year groups, be aware that no students with behaviour issues were permitted to take part. Members of the environment committee were accountable for their own year group, each year group were given a specific area to clean and stayed in their area until it was time to go back to the Cola. "This year's Clean Up Australia day was overall successful and popular event amongst students from all year groups. We look forward to hosting an even bigger and better event next year," stated Stefan, a Clean Up Australia day coordinator. "I didn't have any trouble with my year group specifically but I'm sure students from other year groups were all well behaved." said an anonymous environment com-mittee. “I felt really satisfied to see so many people cleaning our school and making it clean.” -Jimmy Ly At the end of the day, they managed to collect approximately 15 bags and all students who took part were rewarded with ice blocks. This year’s Clean Up Australia day was an overall success, next year SRC urges anyone to take part in this commendable event.

Students sizzle in the kitchen

By Issabella Ferraro

On Wednesday, 28th March, year 8 students studying Spanish got to experience a Spanish incursion. The incursion was based on consolidating learning of the Spanish culture and food, which was organised by Language teacher Mr Acosta.

Ms Arapi explained, “it was a great opportunity for students to get involved with the Spanish culture. Students enjoyed making and eating traditional Spanish cuisine.”

During the incursion, students got to cook traditional Spanish foods including paella, tacos and do lots of fun activities.

Here are some foods made from some crafty

year 8 students!

Morisset Camp By Roy Lim

Year 7 Camp, an event organised by Ms Kay and Mr Pheng will be held from Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th in September. The students will leave at 6 AM on the departing day and will return at 3 PM on the Wednesday.

“Morisset will be a fun place to bond with other students and get to know each other more and to learn about teamwork”, Ms Kay said. Morisset is located between Newcastle and the Central Coast, northeast of Bonnyrigg High School.

Some activities at Morisset will be: hiking, abseiling, archery, canoeing, giant swings, flying foxes, high ropes, leap of faith, super drop, raft building, bushwalking and mud world.

The camp will go on for 3 days and 2 nights with paid accommodation and may be paid with three instalments.

The second instalment must be paid by:

21st May, Week 8, Term 2 - $100

And the third and final instalment must be paid by:

3rd August, Week 2, Term 3 - $75

A Trip To

Remember By Cindy Dinh

On the 28th of March, the Year 8 Chinese classes went on an excursion to visit Chinatown and the Chinese Garden of Friendship. It was a long trip to the city and they were able to explore the different places in Chinatown. Afterwards, they went and ate Yum Cha with many varieties of food. The experience helped them connect to each other. One half would go to the Chinese Garden of Friendship and one would go to Chinatown to explore. The day was a very exhausting one as while going back to school. It was a trip to remember for the year 8’s since they had a fun and enjoyable day. “It was a really fun day and I’m pretty sure all the Year 8’s would agree with me. ” -Jimmy Ly

Chinese New Year Incursion By Danielle Luu

On the 16th of February, an event was held for the students in Year 8 whom are studying the Chinese language and culture. This event was planned by Elaine Lin who said, “I wanted to let everyone experience a real Chinese cultural festival”. So as planned, the Year 8 Chinese students met under the cola where they participated in three activities; dancing to a Chinese song, learning to play diabolo (Chinese Yo-yo) , and developing skills on jianzi (footpucka).

Following on, a majestic show of the music produced from a pipa calmed the audience after an amazing lion dance performance which had the students in awe, as the lion dancers had gotten close enough to the students so they would be able to touch the costumes; an occurrence that would not usually be seen in public. After that, two other displays were held by Year 10 classes whom are also studying Chinese. These students had bravely danced whilst others had sung beautifully in Chinese.

As the event was coming to an end Ms Lin hosted a trivia in which the students had participated to earn the Chinese Good Luck Candy. A question from the trivia was “How do you count in Chinese?” In which a female student had answered correctly, so she earned some lollies which had been handed out from a helper of Ms Lin. This helper was then given the responsibility of being the host as Ms Lin had matters to attend to.

Once the trivia ended, the students had waited until the bell had rung before they were dismissed,

thus ending the event. One of the students, Jimmy Ly has said “It was really fun and I enjoyed most of

the activities there!” In the next years, Elaine Lin hopes that there will be another Lunar New Year

Celebration at school and the next Year 8s should hope as well!

Students Making a Change By Jimmy Ly

As we head into a new year, students are given the chance to try and do something to change our

society. Some of these people include, the Year 9 and Year 10 High Resolves Team. Lead by Ashleigh

Hollinger, the Year 9’s and 10’s go through a leadership program where they focus on leadership

skills, communication, team building and confidence. With the use of those skills, they use it in their

Social Action Plan which becomes a project for them to work on throughout the year. These

projects are usually based upon Social Justice Issues like racism and home phobia. They all usually

pick a topic that they all agree on and then create a project for the issue. Some examples of the

projects are fundraising or completing activities in the hall with Year 7s to raise awareness.

Last year, Year 9 arranged questions that were completed by students in roll call to raise awareness

about homelessness. They also raised money to donate to a company called Mission Australia. This

year, they are going on the very first High Resolves camp, Monday 9th of April. They will be staying

at Stanwell Tops for 3 days where there are cabins for the students to stay. There will be a wide

range of activities, like bushwalking and trivia nights. That place will also be the place where they

will start to work on their projects. These projects will be seen by the principle, Michael N Bryce,

who will approve or suggest other options to their projects. Mr Bryce likes to interact with the

students of High Resolves Team to help them create their best possible project and help them reach

their goals.

As said by Miss Hollinger, “For the past 2 years, this leadership program has been new and has just

started but it's getting a lot of momentum and it’s really good that the kids are enjoying it”. This

organisation has been pretty much successful in raising and donating money to charities and raising

awareness to big issues in the world right now.

There is also a website, http://www.highresolves.org, where you can head to to get more

information.

Year 7 Bonding Day By Tianna Luangrath

The Year 7 Bonding Day was a marvellous day to support the Year 7’s with their transition into high school. The meaning of the day was to help the students connect and discover life-long friendships. The event commenced at school from first period to fifth period. This occasion took place on the 28th of March with the help of the SRC and the peer support leaders.

The day consisted of communication and teamwork activities such as the human knot, chinese whisper and bullrush. This was arranged by the peer support leaders and the SRC members with the supervision of the teachers. The skills include trust, communication and teamwork exercises to help them adjust to their new environment.

The SRC are planning to make this event annual, to help bring the Bonnyrigg High School community closer together.

“It was an outstanding day for me to get to know more people and make more friends” - Roy Lim.

“Planning Bonding Day was a challenging, yet rewarding task as the SRC aimed to improve from last

year. The SRC members and the Peer Support groups collaborated and tried really hard to make the

day interesting and fun. We had an enjoyable day and believe that the Year 7s created new friendships

and a more comfortable year group” - Harrison Pham

Bonnyrigg we are collecting your second hand uniform.

Option 1 - Discount

When making a purchase, bring in your second hand uniform of a satisfactory standard to the

uniform shop.

Discuss the discount with staff member before selecting items.

Receive a 5% discount on a single item for each single item left at . (Indicated with a 5% on the

order form by staff)

Make payment for the items on the day

Wear your new items with pride

Offer available during 2018

Option 2 - Donate

Bring your second hand uniform to the attendance office.

Write your name and roll-call down on a ticket and put it in the barrel.

Wait for the Draw on the 21st May 2018 Monday Week 4

Collect your Prize (2 movie Tickets and a movie snack pack for 2)

Know that you have done a good thing

If you have any questions, contact Mr Lee Ferguson, HT LAT

Contributions:

Editing: Articles:

Danielle Luu Roy Lim Danielle Luu Roy Lim Tianna Lunagrath

Vivien Nguyen Jimmy Ly Vivien Nguyen Jimmy Ly Jayda Van

Cindy Dinh Mrs. Freeman Cindy Dinh Issabelle Ferraro Jennifer Vu