A meeting of Australia’s education ministers and experts will highlight the importance of raising the status of teaching to attract the best and brightest graduates.
A significant part of the great education success of Haileybury students is the work of brilliant Haileybury teachers in partnership with the students and supportive families and carers. Sadly, across Australia, the teaching profession itself is under considerable pressure and there are significant teacher workforce shortages emerging.
This Friday, the Federal Education Minister, the Hon Jason Clare MP, is hosting a meeting for nine of Australia’s education ministers to discuss teacher shortages with education experts. I am looking forward to attending the meeting and being a part of the discussion.
To initiate the discussion, the Minister has released an Issues Paper on Teacher Workforce Shortages.
Many elements of the Issues Paper reference the 2021 Quality Initial Teacher Education (QITE) review of which I was a member of the four-person panel. While the QITE review focused on lifting the standards of initial teacher education, many of the findings were relevant for addressing issues of teacher workforce supply.
One of the main issues is the need to raise the status of teaching to improve the attractiveness of the profession to prospective teachers. In research for the QITE review, it was no surprise to learn that high achieving school students are more attracted to study professions they consider prestigious.
As the Minister has noted in his paper, there is a contrast between teacher perceptions and public perceptions of teaching. ‘In a 2019 study, 71% of teachers did not think the Australian public appreciated teachers, while 82% of the public felt teachers were respected.’
Two other issues that are front and centre in discussions on teaching are teacher workloads, particularly growing administrative burdens driven by increasing compliance regulation, and teacher salaries. Graduate salaries are competitive at around $80k, but outstanding classroom teacher salaries after ten years cap out well below other professions.
Teaching is a wonderful, rewarding profession and we need to attract more of our brightest young people to the profession.
We are fortunate at Haileybury that we have a strong three-way relationship between brilliant teachers, great students and supportive families and carers.
It is most important that we all work together in a partnership of mutual respect to keep Haileybury’s brilliant teachers in the profession.
Derek Scott
CEO | Principal
Returning to campus, our students have been extraordinary. They have focused on their learning, enjoyed 100 Days of Prep celebrations, earned leadership badges and received Academic Colours and awards.
These milestones all remind us, as parents, just how quickly the days go by in our children’s lives. At Haileybury, we love to celebrate these moments and invite parents and friends to join us to celebrate together.
I reflected with our Prep students on the many things they have learnt in just 100 days. I was reminded of the poem, Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten! They have learned skills such as sharing, listening respectfully, following instructions, getting along with one another and so much more.
Our 100 Days of Prep Assembly showcased the academic, social and emotional learning that our five-year-olds have mastered. Every student was able to write what they had learned and the best thing about Prep. They filled a page and then confidently read it out to the adoring audience. I am so impressed with all they have learned and with their confidence and literacy skills.
Learning to read is not an easy process and our Explicit Instruction Model is fundamental to our success in Junior School. Timothy Naughton and I could not be prouder of Tracey Cronin and her Prep class.
I look forward to watching their journey as they progress through to the graduating class of Year 12 in 2034!
Our recent parent information session provided families in Pre-Prep with the opportunity to spend time in the Junior School and to hear from our Head of ELC, Rachel Pontikis, and Head of Junior School, Timothy Naughton, about how children are supported to transition to Junior School.
A focus on our Literacy, Numeracy and Social Thinking programs continues to lay the foundations, alongside the ELC’s continued commitment to supporting fine motor skills and language development.
This term will see the commencement of our Buddy Program with our Pre-Prep children building connections with their Year 3 peers. Next year they will be our Year 4 leaders and a known and friendly face for our 2023 Prep students. We look forward to seeing the many benefits this program provides.
The ELC was transformed into a world-class surgery by Dr Halina Mann, ENT, Head and Neck Surgeon, who shared her knowledge and expertise with our Pre-Prep children.
Dr Mann set up stations for the children and taught them how to insert a middle ear ventilation tube or grommet using crocodile forceps and helped them match pictures of organs to their correct function of hearing or smelling.
Another highlight was the opportunity for children to prepare and administer ‘medication’ to a doll through a pretend intravenous drip. Children first checked the medication, the dosage and the patient’s name.
The morning helped children develop fine motor skills, demonstrate their letter and number recognition and it certainly sparked curiosity. We thank Dr Mann for her visit and for the incredible learning opportunity this presented for our children.
We welcome other families to share their skills, passions or interests with the ELC children.
Our Junior School students recently participated in Nude Food Day and were encouraged to think about how they could pack their food for the day without using plastic and disposable waste.
Our Environment Captains, Maxy Biasin (Year 4) and Sammy Ellis (Year 4), explained how all students can play their role in caring for our environment and it was pleasing to see so many students bringing in food in reusable containers and reducing our waste on this day.
Our Year 4 leaders are working towards our 2022 goal of being outward looking and future focused and the rest of our Junior School students are too. Nude Food Day was such a success that we are looking at further ways to promote sustainability and to care for our environment throughout Semester 2.
Our Year 4 students demonstrated their expertise in identifying the properties of circles by learning how to the measure their diameter, radius, and circumference. Students were also introduced to pi and how it relates to a circle’s circumference. The project was a fantastic example of our Explicit Instruction model in action, led superbly by Lizzy Gibney.
Despite a challenging start to Term 3, this year the Middle School has had a strong focus on character, our Haileybury values, and developing and maintaining a culture of respect and kindness.
In the first week of term, we emphasised coming together as a Boys Middle School community, rallying around each other and supporting each other in what will possibly be the most difficult week we will have experienced together due to the sudden loss of respected teacher, Mitchell Williams.
However, one of the things Mitchell demonstrated every day, in everything that he did, was to find and spread the joy.
During discussions with his family and friends, we told them we would keep his memory alive by looking after each other, checking in on our mates and finding the joy in absolutely everything.
We are so grateful that the group of young men and women in our City Middle School were able to engage with a mentor who was so positive, engaging and encouraging.
Our Father’s and Significant Men’s Breakfast will be held at the Flagstaff Bowls Club on Thursday, 1 September, at 8:00 am. Further information about this event will be communicated via the myHaileybury app in coming weeks. We hope to see you all there.
Rehearsals are well underway and everyone is getting very excited! A reminder that the dates of the show are Thursday, 25 August, Friday, 26 August and Saturday, 27 August. Further information regarding ticketing will be released on the myHaileybury app.
Caroline Merrick
Head of City
We hope everyone has settled into school routines and is enjoying participating in the various activities on offer—from sports and music to art, culture and more!
On Monday, 1 August, the HPF Social Representatives and Community Meeting was held. It’s fantastic to see our parents and friends attend and to hear their contributions and suggestions.
During this term, our social representatives will be arranging smaller year level events for you to attend. We hope you take the opportunity to come along.
The HPF City Foundation Scholarship was recently launched. In partnership with the Haileybury Foundation, the purpose of this scholarship is to support a student who otherwise would not have the opportunity to receive a Haileybury City education.
Every donation is gratefully received. To donate, please click the link below.
Always feel free to reach us at hpfcity@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Nina Brooks & Nadine Bissland
Co-Presidents, HPF City
Last year, Theekshitha Karthik (Year 7) won the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. She is now encouraging students across Australia to take part in this year’s competition. She recently met Prime Minister, Mr Anthony Albanese, and spoke about the importance of learning how to be a competent speller.
Theekshitha, along with many other Edrington students, is excited to be part of this year’s competition and we wish all involved the very best of luck.
Congratulations to all involved in the Year 7/8 play Murder’s in the Heir. It was held over two nights and showcased the wonderful talent of our students. It was incredibly entertaining and the audience loved every minute of it!
Minibeasts have been a topic of lengthy discussions and investigations in our Reception classrooms. Observing minibeasts encourages children to appreciate nature and leads to further inquiry and curiosity about the insects that intrigue them.
In Reception H, an interest in caterpillars and butterflies led to the discovery of their lifecycle and this was supported by reading The Hungry Caterpillar.
Children have also been exploring the idea of symmetry and patterns during their first guided drawing task. This supports the idea of listening, observing and then responding step-by-step to produce a piece of artwork.
The children in Reception M have been on frequent walks to the apiary recently as they delved into the world of bees. They have discovered the basic body parts of a bee and the different kinds of bees that live in a hive, like workers, the queen and drones. They’ve also learned about the roles these bees play in the hive.
This has also led to interesting discussions about the different parts of a flower as children begin to understand how honey is produced.
We would like to congratulate our Semester 2 leaders on their induction on Friday, 22 July. All students were very excited to be inducted as our Junior School leaders and we look forward to seeing their contribution to our Junior School this semester.
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The first three weeks of term have been busy, with students taking part in incursions, performing arts and sport.
Last week, our Year 7 boys participated in their Man Cave incursion and the Year 7 girls had Enlighten Education. Both workshops delivered a ‘wellbeing tool-kit’ that aims to support the students through the ups and downs of becoming a teenager.
Next week, our Year 7s and 8s are off to Keysborough to hear from Eddie Betts about respectful relationships in what is sure to be an invaluable experience for them.
Students involved in dance and aerobics are busily preparing for the Nationals in Queensland on Friday, 19 August, until Sunday, 21 August. Good luck to all teams representing Haileybury at this exciting event.
Winter Sport season has now concluded and Spring Sport begins on Saturday, 20 August.
On Friday in Week 6, students will be recognised at our Academic Awards Assembly and the results will be released soon. We also look forward to parent-teacher interviews the week after that. These are a great opportunity to discuss the progress of your child with their teachers. Bookings open soon through the myHaileybury app.
Jeanette Rawlings
Head of Edrington (Berwick)
Please see some important dates below, follow the links, fill in the forms and add them to your calendars. Come and get involved!
The ELC & JS Fathers Day Stall is coming up. If you are available to assist with sales on the day, please complete this link. It will take place on Monday, 29 August, from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and lunch will be provided
The HPFE are supporting the All-Campus Cross Country on Thursday, 1 September, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm. We will be cooking and handing out sausages to students on completion of the events. Lunch will be provided for those who come and assist. Please complete this link if you are able to help.
After many requests, we are hosting an evening HPFE meeting on Monday, 5 September from 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm with drinks and nibbles provided.
We will also be holding two HPFE meetings this term and would love to see as many of you as we can. We would also really appreciate some input and ideas for upcoming events in Term 4. Please advise if you are able to attend here.
Finally, the Uniform Shop will be open every Wednesday morning from 8.30 am – 10.00 am and every 2nd Friday in Term 3 to coincide with JS assembly. It will be open from 2.45 pm to 4.00 pm.
The Uniform Shop is managed by the HPFE and relies on our community to keep it running. If you are available for a couple of hours a week to help Di, please contact her by email Shus-berwick@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Have a great week!
Kerry Ilic
HPFE President
The Newlands Years 7 and 8 Musical, Into The Woods, is an epic fairytale exploring the consequences of wishes and the choices we make. It is a magical, imaginative adventure filled with unexpected twists, witty dialogue and an enchanting score by Stephen Sondheim.
This musical epitomises the phrase ‘fractured fairy tale’ as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of the beanstalk fame), Rapunzel, and a childless baker and his wife venture into the woods to have their wishes granted, only to discover that real-life seldom works like a fairy tale.
Join us on Wednesday, 24 and Thursday 25, August as the Newlands Years 7 and 8 students bring this show to life on the Berthon Hall stage.
When: 24 and 25 August, 2022.
Where: Berthon Hall, Newlands.
Tickets: $20.00 adults / $15.00 concession via the link below.
Book Week 2022 will run from Saturday, 20 August, to Friday, 26 August.
The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s theme for this year is ‘Dreaming with eyes open’ and it focuses on Australia and our First Nations People.
Students will be able to purchase books during the Lamont Book Fair and engage in activities that promote the joy of literacy.
We are also pleased to announce that the following authors will be visiting Newlands.
Don’t forget to visit the Book Fair held in the library from Monday, 22 to Thursday, 25 August. Books written by our visiting authors will be on sale and students may wish to purchase a book and have it signed by their guest author.
Please be mindful and observe traffic and parking regulations during pick-up and drop-off times. We ask that you do not park in disability car parks unless you have a disability permit on display.
Please note that Friday, 12 August, is a student free day.
Newlands educators have been teaching our students about road safety using the latest evidence-based research. The students have been learning about the personal responsibility of being safe pedestrians, safe cyclists and safe passengers.
To support this, we have booked a Starting Out Safely Road Safety Education Session by Thingle Toodle. This will occur in the Pre-Prep classes on Monday, 8 August. Thingle Toodle is a character sponsored by the Road Traffic Authority to help children learn to become safe and independent road users.
Educators work alongside families to embed road safety in the daily lives of students and useful parent resources may be accessed here.
Each day, educators embed Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the curriculum through play-based experiences.
During the week commencing Monday, 22 August, we celebrate STEM Week with presentations by Marco Cudizio, Head of Pre-Senior Science, and Senior Science Technician, Lisa Langenfelds.
The Pre-Prep students will visit the Pre-Senior Science laboratories to conduct supervised, hands-on experiments and Reception classes will have the Science teachers visit them in the multi-purpose room.
Each year at Newlands ELC we celebrate The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book Week with a focus on Australian children’s literature. During this time, we have a dress-up day where children can dress as their favourite character from a children’s book.
The Book Week theme for 2022 is ‘Dreaming with eyes open’.
Reception N class are encouraged to dress up on Wednesday, 24 August, and all other ELC classes on Thursday, 25 August.
Our Prep students celebrated their 100th day at school on Wednesday, 27 July and students came to classes dressed as if they were 100-years-old. Teachers were very impressed with the creative and thoughtful costumes!
An exciting concert in Berthon Hall then showcased to parents some of the songs the Preps have been learning in choir. All the students enjoyed a special party lunch in the quad and at the end of the day, they went home with a delicious cupcake.
Year 4 leaders were inducted into their leadership roles at a recent Junior School Assembly. Students were made Homeroom Captains, Arts Captains, Sport Captains, House Captains and Social Justice Captains.
Each student received a special badge in acknowledgment of the position they have accepted. These students now have the responsibility to be role models for the School, to assist with assemblies and organise activities for the younger students.
We wish our new leaders every success for Semester 2.
Very Special Kids (VSK) provides holistic palliative care for children and young people across Victoria with life-limiting conditions. This includes emotional, clinical and practical support to improve quality of life and create positive, lasting memories for children and their families.
Haileybury has several families who have been, and continue to be, supported by VSK and the VSK Piggy Bank Appeal is a wonderful way to give back and provide our support.
Newlands is very excited to support the Very Special Kids Foundation once again by hosting a fundraising Carnival Day on Friday, 19 August. Students can wear casual dress for a gold coin donation, buy some of the VSK Big Pig merchandise, enjoy lunchtime carnival games for $1 each, and there will be a delicious BBQ thanks to the HPFK.
We are hoping this will be our biggest VSK Carnival yet and we look forward to seeing smiling faces and raising as much money as we can to support this very charitable cause.
On Thursday, 8 September, Newlands will support R U OK? Day. It’s our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask ‘are you ok?’ More information on how we are supporting this event and raising awareness will be provided later in the term.
As part of Year 5 and 6 Thrive program in Term 3, the students are completing ‘The Brief’.
They must work in a team of five or six to design a new product for 9 to 13-year-old students that could be sold in Kmart. The product could be anything from clothing to camping gear—and customers must want to buy it. Ideas have been big and bold as students compete for glory and prizes.
The students began the unit with a challenge that required each team to build the tallest freestanding tower using only a metre of masking tape, 20 pipe cleaners, a metre of string and a cotton ball.
The aim of the challenge was to see how the newly formed groups worked together and to assist each student to evaluate their different strengths so they can apply these to ‘The Brief’.
In Year 5 Science, students are learning about the solar system and to help them discover many extraordinary facts they have been using the skills they have learned in Drama to create and perform plays for their peers. This develops their own understanding and teaches information to their classmates in an engaging way.
The content presented included the order of the eight planets when travelling from the Sun and identifying and explaining the smallest and largest planets, the hottest planet and the terrestrial planets.
Year 5 Science teacher, Melissa Short, said the plays showcased the students’ creativity, knowledge and humour.
From Monday, 15 August, until Friday, 19 August, our Middle School will be celebrating STEM Week. A variety of interesting lunchtime activities will be on offer for students to participate in around the School.
On Thursday, 18 August, our students will have a guest speaker during Assembly. Eddie Betts, former AFL player for Carlton and Adelaide Football Clubs, will address the important issues of racism and respectful relationships.
We are all looking forward to his presentation.
Mark Harrop
Acting Head of Newlands (Keysborough)
The HPFK AGM will be held at 7.00 pm at the Newlands Resource Centre on Thursday, 18 August. This will be the first meeting held on-site at Newlands for 2022.
These meetings are an opportunity for parents and friends across our ELC, Junior School and Middle School communities to connect, get involved and hear about what’s coming up.
We are excited to meet some new friendly faces, so please come along.
Nominations for the HPFK committee are open.
Please find information regarding the process on myhaileybury and contact Lenice Norris on HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au if you have any questions about the process, or what the various roles entail.
Nominations close on Tuesday, 16 August, at 6.00 pm.
We hope to see many new faces on the committee or as a HPFK volunteer.
We are very excited to support Very Special Kids with a fundraising BBQ on Friday, 19 August. If you would like to volunteer, please email your Year Level rep or HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Save the date! This year the HPFK Fathers Day Stall will be held on Thursday, 1 September.
We did it! We reached 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members!
Our new target is now 1,100. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
The latest Premier’s VCE Awards have brought more outstanding results for Haileybury students!
In total, 16 students from Haileybury have been recognised at the Premier’s VCE Awards for their outstanding achievements in a range of subjects—from sociology and creative and digital media to accounting, music sound production, French and mathematical methods.
The awards recognise top-performing students from across the state who excelled in their VCE studies during 2021. They also pay tribute to the principals, teachers and students’ families who play a key role in supporting the award-winning students during their VCE studies.
Haileybury’s award-winning 2022 Premier’s VCE Awards are:
Congratulations to Annabelle Gow (Year 9), Lucy Gibson (Year 10) and Ravin Rathnayake (Year 10) who recently completed the Bronze Level together with Viduwantha Suraweera (Year 11) who completed the Silver Level of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
2022 Whitsundays, Sea kayaking, hiking and snorkelling expedition
Written by Christian Lam (Year 10) and Chelsea Jarrett (Year 10)
During term two holidays, 10 students, Ms Visick and Mr Davis had the opportunity to escape the freezing Melbourne winter to spend nine days in Queensland. During the trip, we learnt valuable life skills including navigation and tidal patterns. We also formed new friendships by bonding over the incredible experiences that we shared.
On Saturday morning, bright and, honestly, way too early, we met at Melbourne Airport, half asleep but eager for what awaited us. We spent the first day organising our gear and buying enough food for the week. Pushing $1,300 worth of food (mainly snacks) in six massive Coles trollies was definitely a highlight!
The next day, we ventured out on ‘Scamper’, the boat, to Whitehaven Beach where we camped for two nights. While staying at Whitehaven, we kayaked in challenging weather conditions, snorkelled among beautiful coral and swam at the whitest beach in Australia. We even saw a turtle!
Aside from being kept up all night by Ava’s valiant efforts to protect her and Viv’s tent from an army of hungry mice and a ‘murderer’—actually just me, Whitehaven was an amazing first campsite where we were trained in kayaking skills, camp cooking and were exposed to incredible scenery and sunsets.
One of our amazing camp leaders, Lachie, taught us all about tidal patterns and we learned how to use them to our advantage while also remembering that the sea is unpredictable.
On Tuesday, we spent the first part of the day prepping for Scamper. While waiting at the beach we made the most of our downtime and went swimming and played team games where the ‘Macca Pacca’ team were absolutely demolished by ‘Team T’.
When Scamper arrived, we were sad to say goodbye to Whitehaven but we were excited to finally set off for Dugong Beach.
We spent two nights at Dugong Beach, which give us an opportunity to spend a full day exploring mangroves in our kayaks and kayaking to a nearby beach. We also had the chance to go hiking.
On our second day at Dugong, we tried fresh oysters that we found on rocks on the beach. Although we couldn’t snorkel at Dugong, we made the most of the opportunities to kayak and learned about our surroundings and the tides. We ran into a few too many giant goannas and played as much of the card game, Liar, as we possibly could.
On Thursday, unfortunately, due to high wind conditions we couldn’t kayak to the next camp site, so Scamper transported us to our final island camp, South Molle Island. Fortunately, the camp site was filled with grass—sandy sleeping bags would be no more!
After collective teamwork and knowledge of navigation from our camp instructors and teachers, the students were left to plan, brief and lead the whole next day!
On Friday, the challenge was on and the students were in charge. The day began with a hike however, we underestimated our walking speed and this allowed us to take in some more interesting viewing points.
Once we arrived at the abandoned South Molle Island resort, we decided to go snorkelling and saw many tropical fish and corals. We then hiked back to camp and decided to collect litter on the exposed side of the island. There are few feelings better than filling up a whole bag of rubbish. Karma rewarded us as we encountered a turtle shortly afterwards.
Our last night on the islands was spent reflecting on our time away and ended with students receiving friendship bracelets.’
The Haileybury Senior School Outdoor Experience Program offers three expeditions a year during term breaks. They challenge students to explore their full potential and find their purpose, passion and place in the world. These expeditions support the internationally recognised Duke of Edinburgh Award, which is offered to all students from Years 9 to 12.
The final expedition this year will be the iconic Tasmania Overland hike during term four holidays. If students are interested, please click on the link below to express your interest. The expedition is limited to 10 students and closes Thursday, 1 September.
Email Ms Visick if you are interested in starting the DOE award.
As Morgan Freeman said: “Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth”
Expression of Interest: OVERLAND HIKE DEC 2022
Tamsin Visick: Coordinator Compass and DOE Award, House Convenor, Homeroom teacher.
Phone: +61 3 9904 6734
Email: Tamsin.Visick@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Pam Chamberlain
Senior Vice Principal and Head of Haileybury Senior Schools
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
The annual Premier’s VCE Awards recognise students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the VCE, and usually this means students who have achieved a perfect study score of 50 in their nominated subject.
Melanie Nguyen (Year 11 in 2021), received a Premier’s Award for her outstanding result in VCE dance. This is a particularly exceptional achievement as the subject only awards one score of 50 to one talented and hardworking student each year.
To achieve a perfect study score in dance you need to be a skilled technician, a competent and clever choreographer and an accomplished writer. Melanie certainly ticked all those boxes. She worked diligently and methodically and is certainly deserving of her incredible achievement.
We are super proud of you, Mel! Congratulations!
Nick Waxman
Head of Drama and Theatre Studies
There were smiles on the faces of students, parents and staff following the Haileybury Jazz Nights at St Kilda’s MEMO Music Hall last Monday and Tuesday night.
These gigs featured performances by Middle School, Senior School and VCE jazz combos from across all our Melbourne campuses and they were the culmination of months of dedicated rehearsals before school and during lunch.
A huge collective effort was made by the 85 students who starred in 18 jazz combos, by our music staff and by the 300+ guests who attended. The 2022 Jazz Nights have been hailed as the best ever.
I am inspired and humbled by the level of commitment, expertise, artistry and goodwill shown by everyone involved. In particular, I would like to thank Sean McLeod (Head of Percussion and Coordinator of Contemporary Music) for his outstanding work in leading this exceptional multi-campus program.
For our students, the opportunity to perform in such an iconic music venue will be an experience that will long be remembered. In years to come, as these Haileyburians drive past the venue or perhaps see a band there, they will be able to say, ‘I’ve gigged at MEMO’.
Rod Marshall
Director of Performing Arts & Head of Haileybury Music
It’s wonderful to share the journey our students take in building their skills and art practice from the youngest years to the Senior School. Here, we highlight the drawing development of our Years 4 and 8 students.
Jane Pooley’s Year 4 Newlands students have squiggled their way into Term 3 with contour drawing. A contour is the line which defines a form or edge—an outline.
Contour drawing is the place where most beginners start by following the visible edges of a shape. Put simply, a contour line drawing is an ‘outline drawing’ that uses no shading. The artist looks intently at the edges of an object, but rarely looks at the paper while the pencil moves. The goal is to make a line that is true to what you see and to train your hand to copy your eye’s movement.
There are several different types of contour line drawings and the Year 4s explored blind contour drawing and continuous drawing. First, they looked at their hands and, without taking their pencil off the paper, they worked on drawing the contour of their hands and all the creases they observed.
Next, they looked at a friend sitting at the same table and drew their portrait without looking at the paper. Some students also drew the sculptures placed around the art room using the blind drawing technique. The lesson ended by applying colour to the drawings.
Newlands Year 8 artists have been working on their portraiture skills with Felicity Cartwright. This week, they trialed the transfer technique and worked from a black and white photographed image.
They enjoyed using charcoal and experimenting with different blending techniques while using keen observational skills to capture light and shade in their artworks. Some of the enthusiastic members of the class looked like they had been working in chimneys by the time they completed the task, but the results speak for themselves!
Activities like this help students develop their drawing and observational skills and build their knowledge of facial proportions and how to use new materials.
Rachelle Rae
Head of Visual Arts Senior School
The 28 drummers from the Haileybury Pipes & Drums Program put on over 40 outstanding performances at the 2022 Victorian Solo Drumming Championships. The event was hosted at our very own Newlands campus in Keysborough on Saturday, 30 July.
The Pipe Bands Victoria-run competition saw well over 100 performances from contestants across the state. Some grades were so large that heats were organised and contestants had to qualify for the finals where the top three from each heat drummed for the top prize.
The results were:
Beginner Snare
1st: Christopher Thean (Year 7)
2nd: Ari Singh (Year 5)
Novice Snare
3rd: Cooper Dunn, Top 6 Finalist (Year 6)
4th: Seth Jones, Top 6 Finalist (Year 5)
Novice Tenor
1st: Alison Harris (Year 4)
2nd: Alijah Memic (Year 4)
3rd: Mishka Shah (Year 6)
D Grade Tenor
2nd: Alice Taberner (Year 7)
D Grade Snare
Top 6 Finalist: Johnathan Wheeler (Year 8)
C Grade Snare
2nd: Sofia Carollo (Year 9)
C Grade Bass
1st: William Main (Year 10)
WSDC (World Solo Drumming Championship Tune Requirement Contest) Snare
3rd: Charlie Steen (Year 10)
WSDC (World Solo Drumming Championship Tune Requirement Contest) Bass
1st: William Main (Year 10)
Lincoln Hilton
Director, Pipes & Drums
This Thursday, 11 August is our Haileybury Foundation Giving Day. The funds raised from the Giving Day will have an enormous impact. They will support a Scholarship, to be known as the Haileybury 130 Scholarship that celebrates 130 years of the School. Currently, 22 students are the beneficiaries of Haileybury Foundation Scholarships.
Every dollar of the funds raised on the day will be directed to this scholarship, which will be open to a student in Year 7, 9 or 10 to attend any of Haileybury’s Melbourne campuses.
Please click here to make a donation prior to the day. All donations are important and will help change a student’s life by giving them access to a world-class education.
Thanks to our generous matching donors, all your gifts will be doubled.
All Giving Day donors will be notified of the first scholarship recipient when they are announced in September 2022. The scholarship recipient will begin at Haileybury at the start of the 2023 school year.
For more information on how you can assist, please contact:
Russell Davidson, Director of Development & Alumni Relations at Russell.davidson@haileybury.vic.edu.au
The OHA is saddened by the recent passing of Morris Brown (OH 1956) — Haileybury student 1943 –1956; Haileybury teacher 1957 –1989 and 2004–2020, and Secretary to the APS 1990–2003.
Morris devoted much of his life to Haileybury. He joined here as a student when he was three-and-a-half years of age and went on to become a Prefect and a successful cricketer and footballer at Senior School level. In 1956, he captained the athletics team to its first AGSV Premiership.
In 1957, David Bradshaw appointed Morris as a student teacher at the Junior School at Brighton and Morris went on to a distinguished teaching and administrative career. He taught primary classes and physical education and sport until 1974.
The new Principal, Michael Aikman, then chose to use Morris’s talents to coordinate sports throughout the School, so Morris moved to the Senior School in Keysborough.
Haileybury sport was on an upward spiral from this point and the School’s successive APS Athletics Premierships in the early 1980s were a high point in Morris’s career. The School continued to perform well in all sports during this golden period.
In 1990, Morris left Haileybury to become the full-time APS Secretary. This meant he had jurisdiction over all aspects of the sporting programs of Melbourne’s most prominent private schools. During this testing time, the number of sports increased and the competition was extended to include boys and girls. Morris brought all his skills to bear and, after a successful period in the role, he retired at the end of 2003.
However, then Haileybury Principal Robert Pargetter was looking to bolster the teaching of games and sports and the following year he enticed Morris to return to Haileybury part-time. In particular he wanted Morris to implement the new sporting schedule for girls. At over 80 years of age, he continued to serve Haileybury each week by teaching young children the basics of sports and the importance of fair play.
Morris was a proud Old Haileyburian and regular convenor and attendee of events all over the state involving his peer group. He maintained strong friendships with a large number of former classmates, students and staff.
It’s hard to summarise his long career in a few words, but his qualities stood out like beacons: his deep affection for the students and staff under his care, his calm, analytical and scrupulously fair approach, and his total commitment to every task he undertook. These things underpinned his magnificent contribution to Haileybury.
Our sincere thoughts are with Morris’s wife Joan and their two sons, Stuart (OH 1980) and Alistair (OH 1983) and their families.
Kylie Phillips
Development Office Operations Lead
Kaitlyn Ea (OH 2021), Amy Lawton (OH 2019) and Nathan Ephraums (OH 2018) are representing Australia at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Kaitlyn is representing Australia in badminton, Amy is competing with the Hockeyroos and Nathan made the Australian Men’s Hockey team, the Kookaburras. We wish these Alumni all the very best.
It has been another wonderful period of competition for our Senior School Aerobics girls. The FISAF State Championships have concluded and Haileybury’s results were nothing short of outstanding with many teams competing in a variety of genres. Congratulations to all involved.
Joshua Tribe (OH 2021) has been selected to the South African U23 Baseball team to compete at the World Baseball U23 World Cup in Taiwan in October 2022. It’s a wonderful achievement for Josh. We wish him all the very best.
During the mid-year holidays, five girls from Haileybury were selected to represent Victoria in two state Touch teams. Meg Cooper and Indi Sherritt (both Year 9) have been selected for the U16s team. Christina Roberts (Year 11), Poppy Murdoch (Year 10) and Bella Sherritt (Year 11) have been selected for the U18s team.
They’re all a very exciting prospect for the future!
Rugby at Haileybury will celebrate its 55th year by hosting the 2022 Victorian Schools’ Rugby Union Grand Finals on Saturday, 20 August. The event will see teams across Victoria and The Hutchins School Tasmania travel to Haileybury Keysborough to participate in matches across the Orange and Rendall Ovals. Games begin at 8:00 am and culminate with the 1XV VSRU Grand Final at 12:30 pm.
With the support of Haileybury Rugby’s parent group, food trucks, coffee carts and a sausage sizzle, it will surely be a fantastic day!
Sean Allcock
Director of Haileybury Sport
A significant part of the great education success of Haileybury students is the work of brilliant Haileybury teachers in partnership with the students and supportive families and carers. Sadly, across Australia, the teaching profession itself is under considerable pressure and there are significant teacher workforce shortages emerging.
This Friday, the Federal Education Minister, the Hon Jason Clare MP, is hosting a meeting for nine of Australia’s education ministers to discuss teacher shortages with education experts. I am looking forward to attending the meeting and being a part of the discussion.
To initiate the discussion, the Minister has released an Issues Paper on Teacher Workforce Shortages.
Many elements of the Issues Paper reference the 2021 Quality Initial Teacher Education (QITE) review of which I was a member of the four-person panel. While the QITE review focused on lifting the standards of initial teacher education, many of the findings were relevant for addressing issues of teacher workforce supply.
One of the main issues is the need to raise the status of teaching to improve the attractiveness of the profession to prospective teachers. In research for the QITE review, it was no surprise to learn that high achieving school students are more attracted to study professions they consider prestigious.
As the Minister has noted in his paper, there is a contrast between teacher perceptions and public perceptions of teaching. ‘In a 2019 study, 71% of teachers did not think the Australian public appreciated teachers, while 82% of the public felt teachers were respected.’
Two other issues that are front and centre in discussions on teaching are teacher workloads, particularly growing administrative burdens driven by increasing compliance regulation, and teacher salaries. Graduate salaries are competitive at around $80k, but outstanding classroom teacher salaries after ten years cap out well below other professions.
Teaching is a wonderful, rewarding profession and we need to attract more of our brightest young people to the profession.
We are fortunate at Haileybury that we have a strong three-way relationship between brilliant teachers, great students and supportive families and carers.
It is most important that we all work together in a partnership of mutual respect to keep Haileybury’s brilliant teachers in the profession.
Derek Scott
CEO | Principal
Returning to campus, our students have been extraordinary. They have focused on their learning, enjoyed 100 Days of Prep celebrations, earned leadership badges and received Academic Colours and awards.
These milestones all remind us, as parents, just how quickly the days go by in our children’s lives. At Haileybury, we love to celebrate these moments and invite parents and friends to join us to celebrate together.
I reflected with our Prep students on the many things they have learnt in just 100 days. I was reminded of the poem, Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten! They have learned skills such as sharing, listening respectfully, following instructions, getting along with one another and so much more.
Our 100 Days of Prep Assembly showcased the academic, social and emotional learning that our five-year-olds have mastered. Every student was able to write what they had learned and the best thing about Prep. They filled a page and then confidently read it out to the adoring audience. I am so impressed with all they have learned and with their confidence and literacy skills.
Learning to read is not an easy process and our Explicit Instruction Model is fundamental to our success in Junior School. Timothy Naughton and I could not be prouder of Tracey Cronin and her Prep class.
I look forward to watching their journey as they progress through to the graduating class of Year 12 in 2034!
Our recent parent information session provided families in Pre-Prep with the opportunity to spend time in the Junior School and to hear from our Head of ELC, Rachel Pontikis, and Head of Junior School, Timothy Naughton, about how children are supported to transition to Junior School.
A focus on our Literacy, Numeracy and Social Thinking programs continues to lay the foundations, alongside the ELC’s continued commitment to supporting fine motor skills and language development.
This term will see the commencement of our Buddy Program with our Pre-Prep children building connections with their Year 3 peers. Next year they will be our Year 4 leaders and a known and friendly face for our 2023 Prep students. We look forward to seeing the many benefits this program provides.
The ELC was transformed into a world-class surgery by Dr Halina Mann, ENT, Head and Neck Surgeon, who shared her knowledge and expertise with our Pre-Prep children.
Dr Mann set up stations for the children and taught them how to insert a middle ear ventilation tube or grommet using crocodile forceps and helped them match pictures of organs to their correct function of hearing or smelling.
Another highlight was the opportunity for children to prepare and administer ‘medication’ to a doll through a pretend intravenous drip. Children first checked the medication, the dosage and the patient’s name.
The morning helped children develop fine motor skills, demonstrate their letter and number recognition and it certainly sparked curiosity. We thank Dr Mann for her visit and for the incredible learning opportunity this presented for our children.
We welcome other families to share their skills, passions or interests with the ELC children.
Our Junior School students recently participated in Nude Food Day and were encouraged to think about how they could pack their food for the day without using plastic and disposable waste.
Our Environment Captains, Maxy Biasin (Year 4) and Sammy Ellis (Year 4), explained how all students can play their role in caring for our environment and it was pleasing to see so many students bringing in food in reusable containers and reducing our waste on this day.
Our Year 4 leaders are working towards our 2022 goal of being outward looking and future focused and the rest of our Junior School students are too. Nude Food Day was such a success that we are looking at further ways to promote sustainability and to care for our environment throughout Semester 2.
Our Year 4 students demonstrated their expertise in identifying the properties of circles by learning how to the measure their diameter, radius, and circumference. Students were also introduced to pi and how it relates to a circle’s circumference. The project was a fantastic example of our Explicit Instruction model in action, led superbly by Lizzy Gibney.
Despite a challenging start to Term 3, this year the Middle School has had a strong focus on character, our Haileybury values, and developing and maintaining a culture of respect and kindness.
In the first week of term, we emphasised coming together as a Boys Middle School community, rallying around each other and supporting each other in what will possibly be the most difficult week we will have experienced together due to the sudden loss of respected teacher, Mitchell Williams.
However, one of the things Mitchell demonstrated every day, in everything that he did, was to find and spread the joy.
During discussions with his family and friends, we told them we would keep his memory alive by looking after each other, checking in on our mates and finding the joy in absolutely everything.
We are so grateful that the group of young men and women in our City Middle School were able to engage with a mentor who was so positive, engaging and encouraging.
Our Father’s and Significant Men’s Breakfast will be held at the Flagstaff Bowls Club on Thursday, 1 September, at 8:00 am. Further information about this event will be communicated via the myHaileybury app in coming weeks. We hope to see you all there.
Rehearsals are well underway and everyone is getting very excited! A reminder that the dates of the show are Thursday, 25 August, Friday, 26 August and Saturday, 27 August. Further information regarding ticketing will be released on the myHaileybury app.
Caroline Merrick
Head of City
We hope everyone has settled into school routines and is enjoying participating in the various activities on offer—from sports and music to art, culture and more!
On Monday, 1 August, the HPF Social Representatives and Community Meeting was held. It’s fantastic to see our parents and friends attend and to hear their contributions and suggestions.
During this term, our social representatives will be arranging smaller year level events for you to attend. We hope you take the opportunity to come along.
The HPF City Foundation Scholarship was recently launched. In partnership with the Haileybury Foundation, the purpose of this scholarship is to support a student who otherwise would not have the opportunity to receive a Haileybury City education.
Every donation is gratefully received. To donate, please click the link below.
Always feel free to reach us at hpfcity@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Nina Brooks & Nadine Bissland
Co-Presidents, HPF City
Last year, Theekshitha Karthik (Year 7) won the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. She is now encouraging students across Australia to take part in this year’s competition. She recently met Prime Minister, Mr Anthony Albanese, and spoke about the importance of learning how to be a competent speller.
Theekshitha, along with many other Edrington students, is excited to be part of this year’s competition and we wish all involved the very best of luck.
Congratulations to all involved in the Year 7/8 play Murder’s in the Heir. It was held over two nights and showcased the wonderful talent of our students. It was incredibly entertaining and the audience loved every minute of it!
Minibeasts have been a topic of lengthy discussions and investigations in our Reception classrooms. Observing minibeasts encourages children to appreciate nature and leads to further inquiry and curiosity about the insects that intrigue them.
In Reception H, an interest in caterpillars and butterflies led to the discovery of their lifecycle and this was supported by reading The Hungry Caterpillar.
Children have also been exploring the idea of symmetry and patterns during their first guided drawing task. This supports the idea of listening, observing and then responding step-by-step to produce a piece of artwork.
The children in Reception M have been on frequent walks to the apiary recently as they delved into the world of bees. They have discovered the basic body parts of a bee and the different kinds of bees that live in a hive, like workers, the queen and drones. They’ve also learned about the roles these bees play in the hive.
This has also led to interesting discussions about the different parts of a flower as children begin to understand how honey is produced.
We would like to congratulate our Semester 2 leaders on their induction on Friday, 22 July. All students were very excited to be inducted as our Junior School leaders and we look forward to seeing their contribution to our Junior School this semester.
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The first three weeks of term have been busy, with students taking part in incursions, performing arts and sport.
Last week, our Year 7 boys participated in their Man Cave incursion and the Year 7 girls had Enlighten Education. Both workshops delivered a ‘wellbeing tool-kit’ that aims to support the students through the ups and downs of becoming a teenager.
Next week, our Year 7s and 8s are off to Keysborough to hear from Eddie Betts about respectful relationships in what is sure to be an invaluable experience for them.
Students involved in dance and aerobics are busily preparing for the Nationals in Queensland on Friday, 19 August, until Sunday, 21 August. Good luck to all teams representing Haileybury at this exciting event.
Winter Sport season has now concluded and Spring Sport begins on Saturday, 20 August.
On Friday in Week 6, students will be recognised at our Academic Awards Assembly and the results will be released soon. We also look forward to parent-teacher interviews the week after that. These are a great opportunity to discuss the progress of your child with their teachers. Bookings open soon through the myHaileybury app.
Jeanette Rawlings
Head of Edrington (Berwick)
Please see some important dates below, follow the links, fill in the forms and add them to your calendars. Come and get involved!
The ELC & JS Fathers Day Stall is coming up. If you are available to assist with sales on the day, please complete this link. It will take place on Monday, 29 August, from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and lunch will be provided
The HPFE are supporting the All-Campus Cross Country on Thursday, 1 September, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm. We will be cooking and handing out sausages to students on completion of the events. Lunch will be provided for those who come and assist. Please complete this link if you are able to help.
After many requests, we are hosting an evening HPFE meeting on Monday, 5 September from 6.00 pm to 7.00 pm with drinks and nibbles provided.
We will also be holding two HPFE meetings this term and would love to see as many of you as we can. We would also really appreciate some input and ideas for upcoming events in Term 4. Please advise if you are able to attend here.
Finally, the Uniform Shop will be open every Wednesday morning from 8.30 am – 10.00 am and every 2nd Friday in Term 3 to coincide with JS assembly. It will be open from 2.45 pm to 4.00 pm.
The Uniform Shop is managed by the HPFE and relies on our community to keep it running. If you are available for a couple of hours a week to help Di, please contact her by email Shus-berwick@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Have a great week!
Kerry Ilic
HPFE President
The Newlands Years 7 and 8 Musical, Into The Woods, is an epic fairytale exploring the consequences of wishes and the choices we make. It is a magical, imaginative adventure filled with unexpected twists, witty dialogue and an enchanting score by Stephen Sondheim.
This musical epitomises the phrase ‘fractured fairy tale’ as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of the beanstalk fame), Rapunzel, and a childless baker and his wife venture into the woods to have their wishes granted, only to discover that real-life seldom works like a fairy tale.
Join us on Wednesday, 24 and Thursday 25, August as the Newlands Years 7 and 8 students bring this show to life on the Berthon Hall stage.
When: 24 and 25 August, 2022.
Where: Berthon Hall, Newlands.
Tickets: $20.00 adults / $15.00 concession via the link below.
Book Week 2022 will run from Saturday, 20 August, to Friday, 26 August.
The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s theme for this year is ‘Dreaming with eyes open’ and it focuses on Australia and our First Nations People.
Students will be able to purchase books during the Lamont Book Fair and engage in activities that promote the joy of literacy.
We are also pleased to announce that the following authors will be visiting Newlands.
Don’t forget to visit the Book Fair held in the library from Monday, 22 to Thursday, 25 August. Books written by our visiting authors will be on sale and students may wish to purchase a book and have it signed by their guest author.
Please be mindful and observe traffic and parking regulations during pick-up and drop-off times. We ask that you do not park in disability car parks unless you have a disability permit on display.
Please note that Friday, 12 August, is a student free day.
Newlands educators have been teaching our students about road safety using the latest evidence-based research. The students have been learning about the personal responsibility of being safe pedestrians, safe cyclists and safe passengers.
To support this, we have booked a Starting Out Safely Road Safety Education Session by Thingle Toodle. This will occur in the Pre-Prep classes on Monday, 8 August. Thingle Toodle is a character sponsored by the Road Traffic Authority to help children learn to become safe and independent road users.
Educators work alongside families to embed road safety in the daily lives of students and useful parent resources may be accessed here.
Each day, educators embed Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the curriculum through play-based experiences.
During the week commencing Monday, 22 August, we celebrate STEM Week with presentations by Marco Cudizio, Head of Pre-Senior Science, and Senior Science Technician, Lisa Langenfelds.
The Pre-Prep students will visit the Pre-Senior Science laboratories to conduct supervised, hands-on experiments and Reception classes will have the Science teachers visit them in the multi-purpose room.
Each year at Newlands ELC we celebrate The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book Week with a focus on Australian children’s literature. During this time, we have a dress-up day where children can dress as their favourite character from a children’s book.
The Book Week theme for 2022 is ‘Dreaming with eyes open’.
Reception N class are encouraged to dress up on Wednesday, 24 August, and all other ELC classes on Thursday, 25 August.
Our Prep students celebrated their 100th day at school on Wednesday, 27 July and students came to classes dressed as if they were 100-years-old. Teachers were very impressed with the creative and thoughtful costumes!
An exciting concert in Berthon Hall then showcased to parents some of the songs the Preps have been learning in choir. All the students enjoyed a special party lunch in the quad and at the end of the day, they went home with a delicious cupcake.
Year 4 leaders were inducted into their leadership roles at a recent Junior School Assembly. Students were made Homeroom Captains, Arts Captains, Sport Captains, House Captains and Social Justice Captains.
Each student received a special badge in acknowledgment of the position they have accepted. These students now have the responsibility to be role models for the School, to assist with assemblies and organise activities for the younger students.
We wish our new leaders every success for Semester 2.
Very Special Kids (VSK) provides holistic palliative care for children and young people across Victoria with life-limiting conditions. This includes emotional, clinical and practical support to improve quality of life and create positive, lasting memories for children and their families.
Haileybury has several families who have been, and continue to be, supported by VSK and the VSK Piggy Bank Appeal is a wonderful way to give back and provide our support.
Newlands is very excited to support the Very Special Kids Foundation once again by hosting a fundraising Carnival Day on Friday, 19 August. Students can wear casual dress for a gold coin donation, buy some of the VSK Big Pig merchandise, enjoy lunchtime carnival games for $1 each, and there will be a delicious BBQ thanks to the HPFK.
We are hoping this will be our biggest VSK Carnival yet and we look forward to seeing smiling faces and raising as much money as we can to support this very charitable cause.
On Thursday, 8 September, Newlands will support R U OK? Day. It’s our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask ‘are you ok?’ More information on how we are supporting this event and raising awareness will be provided later in the term.
As part of Year 5 and 6 Thrive program in Term 3, the students are completing ‘The Brief’.
They must work in a team of five or six to design a new product for 9 to 13-year-old students that could be sold in Kmart. The product could be anything from clothing to camping gear—and customers must want to buy it. Ideas have been big and bold as students compete for glory and prizes.
The students began the unit with a challenge that required each team to build the tallest freestanding tower using only a metre of masking tape, 20 pipe cleaners, a metre of string and a cotton ball.
The aim of the challenge was to see how the newly formed groups worked together and to assist each student to evaluate their different strengths so they can apply these to ‘The Brief’.
In Year 5 Science, students are learning about the solar system and to help them discover many extraordinary facts they have been using the skills they have learned in Drama to create and perform plays for their peers. This develops their own understanding and teaches information to their classmates in an engaging way.
The content presented included the order of the eight planets when travelling from the Sun and identifying and explaining the smallest and largest planets, the hottest planet and the terrestrial planets.
Year 5 Science teacher, Melissa Short, said the plays showcased the students’ creativity, knowledge and humour.
From Monday, 15 August, until Friday, 19 August, our Middle School will be celebrating STEM Week. A variety of interesting lunchtime activities will be on offer for students to participate in around the School.
On Thursday, 18 August, our students will have a guest speaker during Assembly. Eddie Betts, former AFL player for Carlton and Adelaide Football Clubs, will address the important issues of racism and respectful relationships.
We are all looking forward to his presentation.
Mark Harrop
Acting Head of Newlands (Keysborough)
The HPFK AGM will be held at 7.00 pm at the Newlands Resource Centre on Thursday, 18 August. This will be the first meeting held on-site at Newlands for 2022.
These meetings are an opportunity for parents and friends across our ELC, Junior School and Middle School communities to connect, get involved and hear about what’s coming up.
We are excited to meet some new friendly faces, so please come along.
Nominations for the HPFK committee are open.
Please find information regarding the process on myhaileybury and contact Lenice Norris on HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au if you have any questions about the process, or what the various roles entail.
Nominations close on Tuesday, 16 August, at 6.00 pm.
We hope to see many new faces on the committee or as a HPFK volunteer.
We are very excited to support Very Special Kids with a fundraising BBQ on Friday, 19 August. If you would like to volunteer, please email your Year Level rep or HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Save the date! This year the HPFK Fathers Day Stall will be held on Thursday, 1 September.
We did it! We reached 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members!
Our new target is now 1,100. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
The latest Premier’s VCE Awards have brought more outstanding results for Haileybury students!
In total, 16 students from Haileybury have been recognised at the Premier’s VCE Awards for their outstanding achievements in a range of subjects—from sociology and creative and digital media to accounting, music sound production, French and mathematical methods.
The awards recognise top-performing students from across the state who excelled in their VCE studies during 2021. They also pay tribute to the principals, teachers and students’ families who play a key role in supporting the award-winning students during their VCE studies.
Haileybury’s award-winning 2022 Premier’s VCE Awards are:
Congratulations to Annabelle Gow (Year 9), Lucy Gibson (Year 10) and Ravin Rathnayake (Year 10) who recently completed the Bronze Level together with Viduwantha Suraweera (Year 11) who completed the Silver Level of the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
2022 Whitsundays, Sea kayaking, hiking and snorkelling expedition
Written by Christian Lam (Year 10) and Chelsea Jarrett (Year 10)
During term two holidays, 10 students, Ms Visick and Mr Davis had the opportunity to escape the freezing Melbourne winter to spend nine days in Queensland. During the trip, we learnt valuable life skills including navigation and tidal patterns. We also formed new friendships by bonding over the incredible experiences that we shared.
On Saturday morning, bright and, honestly, way too early, we met at Melbourne Airport, half asleep but eager for what awaited us. We spent the first day organising our gear and buying enough food for the week. Pushing $1,300 worth of food (mainly snacks) in six massive Coles trollies was definitely a highlight!
The next day, we ventured out on ‘Scamper’, the boat, to Whitehaven Beach where we camped for two nights. While staying at Whitehaven, we kayaked in challenging weather conditions, snorkelled among beautiful coral and swam at the whitest beach in Australia. We even saw a turtle!
Aside from being kept up all night by Ava’s valiant efforts to protect her and Viv’s tent from an army of hungry mice and a ‘murderer’—actually just me, Whitehaven was an amazing first campsite where we were trained in kayaking skills, camp cooking and were exposed to incredible scenery and sunsets.
One of our amazing camp leaders, Lachie, taught us all about tidal patterns and we learned how to use them to our advantage while also remembering that the sea is unpredictable.
On Tuesday, we spent the first part of the day prepping for Scamper. While waiting at the beach we made the most of our downtime and went swimming and played team games where the ‘Macca Pacca’ team were absolutely demolished by ‘Team T’.
When Scamper arrived, we were sad to say goodbye to Whitehaven but we were excited to finally set off for Dugong Beach.
We spent two nights at Dugong Beach, which give us an opportunity to spend a full day exploring mangroves in our kayaks and kayaking to a nearby beach. We also had the chance to go hiking.
On our second day at Dugong, we tried fresh oysters that we found on rocks on the beach. Although we couldn’t snorkel at Dugong, we made the most of the opportunities to kayak and learned about our surroundings and the tides. We ran into a few too many giant goannas and played as much of the card game, Liar, as we possibly could.
On Thursday, unfortunately, due to high wind conditions we couldn’t kayak to the next camp site, so Scamper transported us to our final island camp, South Molle Island. Fortunately, the camp site was filled with grass—sandy sleeping bags would be no more!
After collective teamwork and knowledge of navigation from our camp instructors and teachers, the students were left to plan, brief and lead the whole next day!
On Friday, the challenge was on and the students were in charge. The day began with a hike however, we underestimated our walking speed and this allowed us to take in some more interesting viewing points.
Once we arrived at the abandoned South Molle Island resort, we decided to go snorkelling and saw many tropical fish and corals. We then hiked back to camp and decided to collect litter on the exposed side of the island. There are few feelings better than filling up a whole bag of rubbish. Karma rewarded us as we encountered a turtle shortly afterwards.
Our last night on the islands was spent reflecting on our time away and ended with students receiving friendship bracelets.’
The Haileybury Senior School Outdoor Experience Program offers three expeditions a year during term breaks. They challenge students to explore their full potential and find their purpose, passion and place in the world. These expeditions support the internationally recognised Duke of Edinburgh Award, which is offered to all students from Years 9 to 12.
The final expedition this year will be the iconic Tasmania Overland hike during term four holidays. If students are interested, please click on the link below to express your interest. The expedition is limited to 10 students and closes Thursday, 1 September.
Email Ms Visick if you are interested in starting the DOE award.
As Morgan Freeman said: “Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth”
Expression of Interest: OVERLAND HIKE DEC 2022
Tamsin Visick: Coordinator Compass and DOE Award, House Convenor, Homeroom teacher.
Phone: +61 3 9904 6734
Email: Tamsin.Visick@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Pam Chamberlain
Senior Vice Principal and Head of Haileybury Senior Schools
This year our target is to reach 1,000 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page.
If you have any queries or would like to contact the HPFK, please email: HPFK@haileybury.vic.edu.au
Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough
The annual Premier’s VCE Awards recognise students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the VCE, and usually this means students who have achieved a perfect study score of 50 in their nominated subject.
Melanie Nguyen (Year 11 in 2021), received a Premier’s Award for her outstanding result in VCE dance. This is a particularly exceptional achievement as the subject only awards one score of 50 to one talented and hardworking student each year.
To achieve a perfect study score in dance you need to be a skilled technician, a competent and clever choreographer and an accomplished writer. Melanie certainly ticked all those boxes. She worked diligently and methodically and is certainly deserving of her incredible achievement.
We are super proud of you, Mel! Congratulations!
Nick Waxman
Head of Drama and Theatre Studies
There were smiles on the faces of students, parents and staff following the Haileybury Jazz Nights at St Kilda’s MEMO Music Hall last Monday and Tuesday night.
These gigs featured performances by Middle School, Senior School and VCE jazz combos from across all our Melbourne campuses and they were the culmination of months of dedicated rehearsals before school and during lunch.
A huge collective effort was made by the 85 students who starred in 18 jazz combos, by our music staff and by the 300+ guests who attended. The 2022 Jazz Nights have been hailed as the best ever.
I am inspired and humbled by the level of commitment, expertise, artistry and goodwill shown by everyone involved. In particular, I would like to thank Sean McLeod (Head of Percussion and Coordinator of Contemporary Music) for his outstanding work in leading this exceptional multi-campus program.
For our students, the opportunity to perform in such an iconic music venue will be an experience that will long be remembered. In years to come, as these Haileyburians drive past the venue or perhaps see a band there, they will be able to say, ‘I’ve gigged at MEMO’.
Rod Marshall
Director of Performing Arts & Head of Haileybury Music
It’s wonderful to share the journey our students take in building their skills and art practice from the youngest years to the Senior School. Here, we highlight the drawing development of our Years 4 and 8 students.
Jane Pooley’s Year 4 Newlands students have squiggled their way into Term 3 with contour drawing. A contour is the line which defines a form or edge—an outline.
Contour drawing is the place where most beginners start by following the visible edges of a shape. Put simply, a contour line drawing is an ‘outline drawing’ that uses no shading. The artist looks intently at the edges of an object, but rarely looks at the paper while the pencil moves. The goal is to make a line that is true to what you see and to train your hand to copy your eye’s movement.
There are several different types of contour line drawings and the Year 4s explored blind contour drawing and continuous drawing. First, they looked at their hands and, without taking their pencil off the paper, they worked on drawing the contour of their hands and all the creases they observed.
Next, they looked at a friend sitting at the same table and drew their portrait without looking at the paper. Some students also drew the sculptures placed around the art room using the blind drawing technique. The lesson ended by applying colour to the drawings.
Newlands Year 8 artists have been working on their portraiture skills with Felicity Cartwright. This week, they trialed the transfer technique and worked from a black and white photographed image.
They enjoyed using charcoal and experimenting with different blending techniques while using keen observational skills to capture light and shade in their artworks. Some of the enthusiastic members of the class looked like they had been working in chimneys by the time they completed the task, but the results speak for themselves!
Activities like this help students develop their drawing and observational skills and build their knowledge of facial proportions and how to use new materials.
Rachelle Rae
Head of Visual Arts Senior School
The 28 drummers from the Haileybury Pipes & Drums Program put on over 40 outstanding performances at the 2022 Victorian Solo Drumming Championships. The event was hosted at our very own Newlands campus in Keysborough on Saturday, 30 July.
The Pipe Bands Victoria-run competition saw well over 100 performances from contestants across the state. Some grades were so large that heats were organised and contestants had to qualify for the finals where the top three from each heat drummed for the top prize.
The results were:
Beginner Snare
1st: Christopher Thean (Year 7)
2nd: Ari Singh (Year 5)
Novice Snare
3rd: Cooper Dunn, Top 6 Finalist (Year 6)
4th: Seth Jones, Top 6 Finalist (Year 5)
Novice Tenor
1st: Alison Harris (Year 4)
2nd: Alijah Memic (Year 4)
3rd: Mishka Shah (Year 6)
D Grade Tenor
2nd: Alice Taberner (Year 7)
D Grade Snare
Top 6 Finalist: Johnathan Wheeler (Year 8)
C Grade Snare
2nd: Sofia Carollo (Year 9)
C Grade Bass
1st: William Main (Year 10)
WSDC (World Solo Drumming Championship Tune Requirement Contest) Snare
3rd: Charlie Steen (Year 10)
WSDC (World Solo Drumming Championship Tune Requirement Contest) Bass
1st: William Main (Year 10)
Lincoln Hilton
Director, Pipes & Drums
This Thursday, 11 August is our Haileybury Foundation Giving Day. The funds raised from the Giving Day will have an enormous impact. They will support a Scholarship, to be known as the Haileybury 130 Scholarship that celebrates 130 years of the School. Currently, 22 students are the beneficiaries of Haileybury Foundation Scholarships.
Every dollar of the funds raised on the day will be directed to this scholarship, which will be open to a student in Year 7, 9 or 10 to attend any of Haileybury’s Melbourne campuses.
Please click here to make a donation prior to the day. All donations are important and will help change a student’s life by giving them access to a world-class education.
Thanks to our generous matching donors, all your gifts will be doubled.
All Giving Day donors will be notified of the first scholarship recipient when they are announced in September 2022. The scholarship recipient will begin at Haileybury at the start of the 2023 school year.
For more information on how you can assist, please contact:
Russell Davidson, Director of Development & Alumni Relations at Russell.davidson@haileybury.vic.edu.au
The OHA is saddened by the recent passing of Morris Brown (OH 1956) — Haileybury student 1943 –1956; Haileybury teacher 1957 –1989 and 2004–2020, and Secretary to the APS 1990–2003.
Morris devoted much of his life to Haileybury. He joined here as a student when he was three-and-a-half years of age and went on to become a Prefect and a successful cricketer and footballer at Senior School level. In 1956, he captained the athletics team to its first AGSV Premiership.
In 1957, David Bradshaw appointed Morris as a student teacher at the Junior School at Brighton and Morris went on to a distinguished teaching and administrative career. He taught primary classes and physical education and sport until 1974.
The new Principal, Michael Aikman, then chose to use Morris’s talents to coordinate sports throughout the School, so Morris moved to the Senior School in Keysborough.
Haileybury sport was on an upward spiral from this point and the School’s successive APS Athletics Premierships in the early 1980s were a high point in Morris’s career. The School continued to perform well in all sports during this golden period.
In 1990, Morris left Haileybury to become the full-time APS Secretary. This meant he had jurisdiction over all aspects of the sporting programs of Melbourne’s most prominent private schools. During this testing time, the number of sports increased and the competition was extended to include boys and girls. Morris brought all his skills to bear and, after a successful period in the role, he retired at the end of 2003.
However, then Haileybury Principal Robert Pargetter was looking to bolster the teaching of games and sports and the following year he enticed Morris to return to Haileybury part-time. In particular he wanted Morris to implement the new sporting schedule for girls. At over 80 years of age, he continued to serve Haileybury each week by teaching young children the basics of sports and the importance of fair play.
Morris was a proud Old Haileyburian and regular convenor and attendee of events all over the state involving his peer group. He maintained strong friendships with a large number of former classmates, students and staff.
It’s hard to summarise his long career in a few words, but his qualities stood out like beacons: his deep affection for the students and staff under his care, his calm, analytical and scrupulously fair approach, and his total commitment to every task he undertook. These things underpinned his magnificent contribution to Haileybury.
Our sincere thoughts are with Morris’s wife Joan and their two sons, Stuart (OH 1980) and Alistair (OH 1983) and their families.
Kylie Phillips
Development Office Operations Lead
Kaitlyn Ea (OH 2021), Amy Lawton (OH 2019) and Nathan Ephraums (OH 2018) are representing Australia at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Kaitlyn is representing Australia in badminton, Amy is competing with the Hockeyroos and Nathan made the Australian Men’s Hockey team, the Kookaburras. We wish these Alumni all the very best.
It has been another wonderful period of competition for our Senior School Aerobics girls. The FISAF State Championships have concluded and Haileybury’s results were nothing short of outstanding with many teams competing in a variety of genres. Congratulations to all involved.
Joshua Tribe (OH 2021) has been selected to the South African U23 Baseball team to compete at the World Baseball U23 World Cup in Taiwan in October 2022. It’s a wonderful achievement for Josh. We wish him all the very best.
During the mid-year holidays, five girls from Haileybury were selected to represent Victoria in two state Touch teams. Meg Cooper and Indi Sherritt (both Year 9) have been selected for the U16s team. Christina Roberts (Year 11), Poppy Murdoch (Year 10) and Bella Sherritt (Year 11) have been selected for the U18s team.
They’re all a very exciting prospect for the future!
Rugby at Haileybury will celebrate its 55th year by hosting the 2022 Victorian Schools’ Rugby Union Grand Finals on Saturday, 20 August. The event will see teams across Victoria and The Hutchins School Tasmania travel to Haileybury Keysborough to participate in matches across the Orange and Rendall Ovals. Games begin at 8:00 am and culminate with the 1XV VSRU Grand Final at 12:30 pm.
With the support of Haileybury Rugby’s parent group, food trucks, coffee carts and a sausage sizzle, it will surely be a fantastic day!
Sean Allcock
Director of Haileybury Sport
In the spirit of reconciliation, Haileybury acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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