Highlights SYDNEY SECONDARY COLLEGE | LEICHHARDT CAMPUS P: 9560 2355 | F: 9550 9397 | E: leichhardt -[email protected]14 August 2020 IF YOUR CHILD IS GOING TO BE ABSENT PLEASE NOTIFY THE SCHOOL BY 9.30AM If at any time your contact details change please notify the school via email Principal’s Report Dear School Community, As per last highlights, we remain ready to respond to the COVID-19 situaon in the community and will communicate any updates in guidelines. There connue to be no significant changes. Please be sure to keep your students at home if they are unwell, we provide the same instrucon to staff members as we know it is Winter and an increased chance that individuals will generally be unwell. You will receive communicaon about our school being unable to hold our usual Year 8 subject selecon evening via email, details are also in this edion of highlights. In regards to College staffing, we connue to see excing developments, including the permanent appointment of our new College Principal Mr Ian Bowsher, who will join us in term 4 from Barrenjoey High School. During weeks 5-10 of this term, Mr Ian Godby from Rose Bay Secondary College will relieve as College Principal. Once again, many thanks to Julianne Beek who has done an outstanding job relieving in the College Principal role, I wish her all the best for her next role in the Department. In regards to other staffing news, Ms Emily O’Connell is has been successful in a gaining a permanent Head Teacher, Teaching and Learning posion at Dulwich Hill High School, starng Monday August 31 st . Emily has been connected to the College since 2007 and will be missed. Tim Paterson will fill this role for now whilst other staffing processes are finalised. As a final note, I recommend that you check in with your child about assessments that are due. If you are not sure where to find the schedule, please go to the assessment and reporng secon of our school website and click on 2020 assessment schedules hps://leichhardt- h.schools.nsw.gov.au/learning-at-our- school/assessment-and- reporng.html Kind regards, Vince O’Donnell Term 3, Week 4
In Week 1 of this term we had over 40 students participate in the annual Write a Book in a Day competition. Students spent 12 hours in our school library writing and illustrating books from scratch! Not only is it a fun, challenging and collaborative day for our students, all digital stories are distributed to children in hospitals across Australia. This year we had stories about run away giraffes, mermaids and even runaway pigs on train.
In addition to writing their books, the student have also fundraised money for the Kids Cancer Project. So far our school has raised $2340!
SSC Leichhardt is proud to be part of such an amazing initiative again and we are so proud of our students who chose to participate!
If you would like to support any of our 6 teams you can find links to their fundraising pages below:
Team 1: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=263
Team 2: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=264
Team 3: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=265
Team 4: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=266
Team 5: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=267
Team 6: https://writeabookinaday.com/teams/?id=268
Term 3 Update This term has been rather eventful already with three new students joining us in the support unit AND a new permanent member of staff! It is with great pleasure that we welcome the fabulous Ms Michelle Genci to our little team as well as superstar students Vandy, Natalie and Greg!
“My name is Ms Genci and I am very excited to say that I am the new addition to the Support Faculty. I am full of energy and love to laugh and learn with my students. I believe strongly in the idea of treating everyone with kindness and praising those who go above and beyond to help others. I believe we have many students at our school who uphold these values which makes it a huge pleasure to be a part of this school community. Thank you for your warm welcome! "
L Class E Class I Class C Class
English:
Shakespeare’s Macbeth Information Reports Recounts Appropriation & Subver-sion of Fairy Tales
Maths:
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Money Basic Operations Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Science:
The Structure of the Earth
Interplay of Sun, Moon & Earth
Interplay of Sun, Moon & Earth
The Solar System/Planet Project
HSIE:
Ancient Greece Landscapes and Land-forms
Landscapes and Landforms
Ancient Greece
PD:
The Zones of Regulation and Risky Business
Changes in Me The Zones of Reg-ulation and Changes in Me
The Best Version of Me
PE: Oztag Basketball Fitness Focus Fitness Focus & Invasion Games
Tech:
Food Tech & Design Technology
Engineering (bridges) and
Digital Technologies
Food Tech & Digi-tal Technologies
Engineering (raft-building)
& Digital Technologies
Art: Mythical Creatures
Music:
History of Rock
The C Class are studying a modified mainstream English unit where their driving question will be: “how can I make an old story new again”? They recently created their own fairy tale characters and are now working on a setting and plot.
Meanwhile, the L Class are getting deep into Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Ms Genci. I think we have some real thespians on our hands here!
The E Class have been learning about Engineering and Bridges with Ms Khedoori. They were given the task to build a straw bridge with 25 straws and masking tape. In groups, they selected what type of bridge they were going to make and adjust them to strengthen them. They then had to count and work out the weights their bridge could support. They were surprised how much weight they could hold!
And in digital technologies with Ms Cairns this semester, the E Class will be using the micro:bits to code and create some amazing projects.
The I Class are using concrete materials in maths with Ms Robinson to support their learning.
And in food tech with Ms Ahie, they made Mie Goreng!
The C Class have been busy and productive with Ms O’Sullivan in technology too! Last term they learned how to indigo tie dye cotton material, and used this material to make a textile phone stand. They learned how to use the sewing machine and hand sewing techniques to complete their phone stand. This term the students completed a STEM challenge of building a raft to help the gingerbread man cross the river. They used a range of materials such as paddle pop sticks, glue, foil, cardboard and skewers.
Community Participation Due to COVID-19 restrictions we have had to adapt our community participation program this term, but continue to focus on developing students’ social skills through school-based activities. Here is a report written by Felix in year 8:
“Its where we all come together and do an activity. Sometimes we play outdoor games and sometimes we do indoor games. I like it because I get to see Antony who is in another class. I also get food afterwards. It’s fun to see others! Being socially chill is a good skill! Getting exercise is good too!”
Well said Felix! We hope that everything will get back to normal soon so that we can go on excursions again and resume our usual programs. In the meantime, we are looking at other options such as school-based work experience, cooking, wellbeing programs etc. so watch this space!
Have Your Say on the Future of Callan Park
Students are invited to take part in an upcoming consultation event for the development of
a Landscape Structure Plan (LSP) for Callan Park, in Rozelle. The LSP is a high-level
conceptual plan to guide Callan Park’s revitalisation as an iconic urban parkland in ways
that celebrate the park’s unique heritage and waterfront location.
An important part of this consultation is hearing the voices of young people in the area to
inform the future design of Callan Park!
Students are invited to visit the project’s website, where they can provide comments, ideas
and feedback through our interactive map and 10-minute survey, or they can participate in
pop-up consultation activities held in the park from Saturday 8 August to Saturday 22
If you would like further information please do not hesitate to
contact Kristy at Cred Consulting, on 02 9357 2476 or at
