Issue 11

Haileybury Community Ready for Second Lockdown

Once again, I pay tribute to the Haileybury staff and all families for the manner in which everyone has adjusted quickly to the setback of the second COVID-19 lockdown. We were 'of course' all looking forward to a full return to school for Term 3. That is not the case and staff have moved quickly to prepare for the virtual classroom online environment for Years Prep to 9.

We know that we can deliver academic education outcomes successfully for most students through the virtual classroom online program. But we also know that most students craved the professional interaction with their teachers and the social interaction and engagement with their peers that comes from being in the same physical environment. We also know that the subtle, nuanced human interaction that is so important to successful teamwork and collaboration is best gleaned from a range of learning and co-curricular environments that are a part of physical school models.

In our virtual classroom environment, we will do all we can to provide the widest breadth of experiences for all students during this next phase.

We are pleased that the Years 10–12 students will be back on campus. For our Year 12 students in particular, there have been many challenges this year. While they may not quite realise it yet, the difficulties of the COVID-19 lockdown may contribute to developing their broader capacities and skills and resilience more than if they had been part of a conventional non-pandemic year. They are heading into a rapidly changing post-school study and work environment and the resilience, determination and focus we are asking of them for the rest of the year will stand them in good stead in the years to come.

We are also well aware of the ongoing challenges for families. To be thrust back into managing your own work and family commitments while having your children at home for school is something that we were all hoping we would avoid for a second time. Haileybury staff will work closely with you to support your children during this next phase.

And finally, of course everyone is concerned about the health and safety aspect of schooling. For those students and staff attending school, we have a range of detailed measures to support a healthy, safe environment. It also requires our students to strongly support social distancing where possible. I am confident they will.

Derek Scott
CEO | Principal

Campus News

Welcome Back for Term 3

It is wonderful to welcome all families back from the semester break and, in particular, those new to the Haileybury community. Term 3 commences on Tuesday, 14 July, and as you are aware, students in Prep to Year 9 will return to online learning.

Years 10 to 12 students will attend regular classes on campus, with virtual classes at home on Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. Given the success we had with online learning throughout Term 2, we know that it does work, our students continue to learn and our teachers are amazing.

However, we understand that for some students and families this is a difficult time. We are here to support you, so please reach out via the Homeroom Teacher or directly to Heads of School or myself if you require any assistance.

We will also need to be creative with our events and the fun activities that usually infuse our calendar throughout this term. We will continue to keep you updated via the myHaileybury app.

Early Learning Centre

The ELC will continue to operate throughout lockdown with increased health and safety measures in place.

Reinforcing Sustainable Ways

The environment is an area of interest in the ELC and has guided our educators to weave their intentional teaching of sustainability throughout the daily curriculum.

The children are becoming recycling champions in how to rid their rubbish appropriately to limit landfill, how to save water and how to care for the garden. The reinforcement of these actions intends to embed a sustainable way of being. This supports part of our ELC philosophy—that we believe children should learn about sustainable practices from a young age.

We support ‘recycling, reusing, and reducing’ and encourage any suitable goods that parents discard to be reused within our ELC. This includes things such as wood and material offcuts, old pots and pans, plant pots and cardboard. The list is endless, so please speak to your class educator if you can support this initiative.

ELC Quality Improvement Plan

Our Quality Improvement Plan is a meaningful document which is reviewed every year. It is a wonderful opportunity for educators to reflect and assess their practice against national quality standards. As a team, we identify goals and strategies for quality improvement. We welcome families’ input and hope to share in the decision making about each child’s learning, wellbeing, and quality outcomes.

Junior School

Clean Habits and Routines Continue

It’s funny how little things become a habit, and what we initially think is daunting becomes routine. Many parents loved the ‘return-to-school’ pick-up and drop-off practices that were implemented in Term 2. Children who struggled with the weight of their own bag initially were quickly throwing it confidently over their shoulders!

Singing could be heard as students washed their hands, and sanitiser was the first thing they reached for as they entered their classrooms. We’re proud of our children, and when we are able to return to school we will continue to maintain the healthy habits and routines that they have established.

House Leaders Thanked for their Initiative and Agility

We thank our outgoing Year 4 leaders for their energy and enthusiasm in Term 1 and their resilience in Term 2. Their flexibility in continuing to contribute to our online assemblies and their eagerness to share ideas is to be commended.

We congratulate our Semester 2 House Leaders and look forward to sharing our Induction Assembly with you in the coming weeks. While it isn’t the commencement of their leadership journey we anticipated, we look forward to seeing the creativity and passions passed from our Junior School leaders to our younger students.

Term 3 Inquiry Topics

Prep Central Idea—Our communities are organised to keep us safe.
Key concepts: choice and safety.

Year 1 Central Idea—Leading a balanced lifestyle keeps us stay healthy.
Key concepts: health and balance.

Year 2 Central Idea—Positive self-esteem helps overcome challenges.
Key concepts: Self-esteem and resilience.

Year 3 Central Idea—Change is a natural and important part of life.
Key concepts: Change and impact.

Year 4 Central Idea—Our body systems work together to keep us alive.
Key concepts: Interdependence and function.

Middle School

Term 2 Gone but not Forgotten

Term 2 was indeed a most unusual period. It was a term that challenged us all, asked hard questions of our community and led to creative and ingenious solutions and strategies. While we weren’t anticipating having to repeat it, we can categorically declare that in our collective time in the teaching profession, we have never seen a greater period of sustained growth in learning and adaptability. This includes not just the students, but the teachers, School staff, parents, and the wider community.

In a recent webinar, Teachers of The Future, Mr Doug Bailey was asked to share his experience of Parent–Teacher Interviews on the Zoom platform. This was a great example of an existing, widely accepted format which was forced to be reimagined, with outstanding results. So much so, that it is hard to imagine ever sitting again in a crowded, noisy hall, anxiously waiting for five minutes with your child’s teacher—If you can find them and if the night is running on time.

This example leads to the point that we must reflect on our recent experiences and consciously decide what it is that we should keep, and what needs be discarded. Understandably, hot lunches at home were a luxury, but delivering courses online, with minimal disruption and immediate feedback to students in multiple venues is something to be considered for the future.

For each family it may be different, but we encourage you all to sit down and have a good wholesome family discussion. In a recent conversation with one of our families, and after some serious reflection, they have decided to spend less time managing the overcrowded schedules of their children and more time enjoying what they love to do together.

We wish our community all the best for the first week back of Term 3 in an online capacity for most students moving forward, and for the lockdown period.

Katrina Manson
Head of Castlefield (Brighton)

Haileybury Parents & Friends Castlefield (HPFC)

Recharged and Ready for Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3! We hope our families and friends enjoyed the mid-year break and are ready for the challenge that Term 3 may present.

Secondhand Uniform Shop

We are looking for a volunteer to run our Secondhand Uniform Shop, with flexible hours. If this is of interest and you would like more details please contact me via email at hpfc.presidentexec@gmail.com.

Ian Green
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Castlefield

Campus News

Welcome Back for Term 3

I hope all our City families had a happy and restful holiday break. During the holidays, I bumped into some of our families enjoying the ‘urban getaway’ on their bikes, scooters and walking around Melbourne. Of course, our Early Learning Centre (ELC) kept running and we are grateful to our fabulous staff who continue to inspire wonderment and spark curiosity every day with our youngest Haileyburians.

COVID-19 Communication on myHaileybury

Things continue to evolve daily, as new information comes to hand. We thank you for your willingness to be agile, responsive, patient and understanding, as we make decisions for the safety and wellbeing of all our students, staff, and families. All communication with our families regarding Term 3 will continue on the myHaileybury app. Please also keep us updated if your address and/or phone details have changed.

At this stage Prep to Year 9 students will have lessons delivered via remote learning in virtual classrooms. There will be no extension of school holidays. Years 10–12 students will attend City campus for regular classes, with remote classes from home on Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon.

Our Early Learning Centre will open as normal and the School will be open for children of essential workers who accessed this service in Term 2.

A special warm welcome to our three new families who join us at City this week. It is a busy term of learning and growth ahead, whether online or onsite and I wish everyone a happy and safe Term 3.

Early Learning Centre

Looking Ahead to Term 3

Welcome back to those who have had enjoyed a mid-year break at home during recent weeks. I thank those who have been in attendance for abiding by our social distancing and hygiene rules. Keeping each other safe is important to us all.

Educators look forward to reconnecting with our whole community and with each other after the term break.

Pre-Prep Literacy and Numeracy Meeting

An Information Session for parents on Pre-Prep and Prep Literacy and Numeracy will be held on Monday 20, July, from 7.00 – 8.00 pm via Zoom. This meeting is being offered to support parents who have demonstrated an interest in learning more about the Early Years teaching concepts and style used at Haileybury City.

An overview of the ELC Take Home Reader Program, which commences the same week, will be part of the presentation. I hope you can join Mrs Sally Robertson and Ms Vanessa Townsend on this evening, as they share their wealth of knowledge in this domain.

Aaron He (Pre-Prep) and Mira Willeumier (Pre-Prep)

Hudson White (Pre-Prep) and Jessie Lai (Pre-Prep)

William Nguyen (Pre-Prep)

Junior School

Exciting Times Ahead

Welcome back to all our Junior School families. We hope you have enjoyed your mid-year break.

Semester 2 Leaders to be Inducted

Our Junior School Leaders play a pivotal role in leading by example, speaking at assemblies, and creating and communicating initiatives related to their position. They relish this opportunity to develop their leadership skills.

Our Semester 1 Captains have done an outstanding job of performing these roles with the added challenge of learning from home. For this reason, we invite our Semester 1 Captains to remain actively involved for the remainder of the year.

In Week 2, we look forward to inducting our Semester 2 Leaders to their positions. We know our Year 4 Leaders will work together closely to be the best Captains possible for our Junior School.

Middle School

Welcome Back to all our Families

Welcome back to all our Middle School families. We trust you enjoyed a wonderful holiday break together.

Accomplishment Award Recipients

At the conclusion of each semester, Homeroom Teachers and Heads of School select two students from each class to receive an Accomplishment Award. It recognises students who:

have strived to be exemplars of the four Gs—Generous with their time, Grateful for their experience, Gung-Ho in taking on challenges, and doing so with a Growth Mindset,
are role models for their fellow Middle School students, and
have showcased the values of a Middle School student: independent learning, care for others, responsibility, a sense of fun, and demonstration of passion.

This award is considered among the most prestigious within our City Middle School—its very nature is to reward those who act without seeking recognition. We would like to congratulate the following award winners and acknowledge the efforts of all Middle School students during what has been an unprecedented period of learning.

Boys Middle School

5.1	Benjamin McCrudden Samyokh Yonzon
6.1	Lucas Tipper James Clutterbuck
7.1	Hugh Bissland Artie Milner
7.2	Alistair Yuen Charlie Barr
8.1	Luc Anders Thomas Bansagi
8.2	Rory Knight Keyaan Bongso

Girls Middle School

5A	Jennifer Ly Ella Darge
6A	Darcy Butler Abigail Turone
7A	Alana Mawal Frankie Varghese
7B	Hannah Chard Audrey Round
8A	Stephanie Singh Isabella Lane
8B	Chloe Fink Zoe Vom

Haileybury Parents & Friends City (HPF City)

Preparing for the Second Half of 2020

The last few weeks of Term 2 were exceptionally busy, whether due to the routine of being back on campus or a lot happening generally—or both. In that time, we got a lot done as an Executive Committee and more widely as a community, so we’re well prepared heading into the second half of 2020.

Dolly Disco a Hit

Haileybury City held its first COVID-19-era whole School event over a few nights towards the end of Term 2, in the form of Dolly’s Disco Trivia Bingo. Hosted by Dolly Adamson, a long-time entertainer who has moved to online events during COVID-19, we dusted off our music trivia knowledge and some of us rediscovered a few disco moves.

A very big thanks to Dolly for hosting, everyone on the Executive Committee who helped organise the three nights of fun, our Parent Reps who put the word out, and, of course, our parent (and child) participants who got their groove on.

Dolly Disco

Beanie There in Trying Times

To celebrate our Year 12 students, who are the first cohort at City campus and mark a wonderful milestone for the Haileybury community, the HPF City Executive Committee decided to give each student a gift. And what’s more useful during Melbourne’s cold winter months than a beanie?

Designed by the students and manufactured by HoMie, an enterprise that gives 100 per cent of its profits to support young people affected by homelessness, the beanies were given to the Year 12 students with a letter noting their great leadership, School spirit, resilience and adaptability during a very difficult time due to COVID-19.

They were encouraged to “wear them with pride, continue being great role models and draw on the experience and resilience you have developed at Haileybury City. It will surely stand you in good stead for many years to come”.

Upcoming Events—Casual Online Catch-up

In the first week of Term 3, we will have a very casual online catch-up evening across Junior and Middle School on Thursday, 16 July, so pop it in the calendar. More details to come.

Nina Brooks and Jane Woolard
Co-Presidents, Haileybury Parents & Friends City

Campus News

Term 3 Begins Following a Well-Deserved Break

I trust you have had an enjoyable break. Even though a return to online learning for students in Prep to Year 9 was not what we were hoping for as we commence Term 3, we will 'of course' do our utmost to ensure the best possible learning experience for everyone.

Last week, I had the pleasure of hosting virtual conversations with families who are interested in sending their children to Haileybury. Even though conducting these conversations via Zoom was different to our regular School Tours and Open Mornings, the interest in our campus and the desire for students to attend Haileybury remains very strong. We look forward to welcoming many new families to Edrington in 2021.

Early Learning Centre

Out and About at Edrington ELC

On Tuesday 14 July, we welcome our ELC children back to face-to-face learning and look forward to them continuing to build positive connections with both peers and educators. Please remember to send back gumboots and warm jackets for the children to wear as we play outside, and for our adventures around the School. The children in Reception and Pre-Prep delight in exploring different areas on the Haileybury grounds and enjoy having the opportunity to connect with the wider School community.

“A child, more than anyone else, is a spontaneous observer of nature.” —Maria Montessori

Exploring and Learning Outdoors

Being outdoors and allowing children the ability to explore their natural environment is so important in early childhood. It provides the opportunity for children to problem solve, develop creativity and imagination, and develop social/interactive play situations.

Exploring the outdoors and being surrounded by nature allows children to experience how their physical environment changes from one day to the next and provides opportunities to stimulate all the senses through hands-on experiences.

“Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.” —Benjamin Franklin.

Junior School

Semester 2 Leaders to be Inducted Online

Our Semester 2 Captains will be inducted into their leadership roles at 8.45 am on Friday, 17 July, in an online assembly.

We congratulate them on being elected as Junior School Captains and look forward to acknowledging this achievement on Friday.

Junior School Captains

Logan Mann (Year 4)

Molly Petersen (Year 4)

Anderson House Captains

Ohin Nihal (Year 4)

Cindy Li (Year 4)

Campbell House Captains

James Henderson (Year 4)

Leah Fazlaan (Year 4)

Reynolds House Captains

Aran Mishra (Year 4)

Sathisha Silva (Year 4)

Thompson House Captains

Nicholas Tomah (Year 4)

Angel Purdhani (Year 4)

Assembly House Captain

Peri Mankotia (Year 4)

Middle School

Refreshed and Rested for Semester 2

We hope that all Middle School students enjoyed their break and had an opportunity to catch up with friends and family. On Tuesday, 14 July, we return to online learning and we know our students are very capable of this. They now know how they best learn in this forum, what distracts them and what assists them. We are confident that, like always, our students will make the best of this second stint of online learning.

We warmly welcome Mrs Stephanie Michalopoulos, who will be replacing Mrs Melissa Kriv, who is on maternity leave for the remainder of the year.

Term 3 marks the beginning of Semester 2 for our Years 5, 6 and 7 students. Year 8 students have already begun their Semester 2 program. Term 3 is also a busy term for many co-curricular activities. The nature of how these will be recommenced will be communicated to students when we have all relevant information.

Jeanette Rawlings
Head of Edrington (Berwick)

Haileybury Parents & Friends Edrington (HPFE)

Haileybury Community Shines in this Unusual Year

This year has been a very unusual one so far for all members of our community. We would like to acknowledge, and thank, all parents, teachers, facilities, and administration staff for their efforts over the past six months and look forward to welcoming everyone back for Term 3.

Uniform Shop Latest

Please keep an eye on the myHaileybury app for further information about the Uniform Shop. We may continue to book phone appointments going forward until further restrictions are eased.

The HPFE also looks forward to being able to host community online functions soon.

Linda Rabot
Haileybury Parents & Friends Edrington President

hpfe@haileybury.vic.edu.au

Campus News

Term 3 Arrangements

As we commence Term 3 on Tuesday, 14 July, we will temporarily return to our virtual online program for Prep to Year 9 students due to the latest COVID-19 restrictions. We will continue to deliver the curriculum for your child at home until such a time as we are able to return to the campus again.

While we know this is disappointing for everyone, the safety of our community is very important and we know we can do this well! Staff have been working very hard to prepare for a seamless online curriculum delivery.

As for the previous lockdown, children of essential workers can be supervised onsite during this period and our Early Learning Centre will remain open.

Thank you for your cooperation and support of the School. Updates will be provided as they come to hand on the myHaileybury app. Keep safe and well during this challenging time in the world.

Finding Calm Amid the Chaos

I recently attended a ‘webinar’ called Accessing Calm in the Chaos, which was presented by Leadership Consultant Megumi Miki.

Megumi is the Founder of the Quietly Powerful Movement (QP) and her book, Quietly Powerful: How your quiet nature is your hidden leadership strength, was released in November 2019. In this rapidly changing and chaotic environment of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all needed to access our quiet superpowers, such as inner calm and inclusive leadership, to remain resourceful and to adapt creatively.

The ability to be calm in the chaos is a skill that may get overlooked when things are going smoothly, but when things become chaotic and uncertain, it is a critical skill. Inner calm is one of the quiet superpowers which allows us to be creative in our responses to challenging situations, rather than being reactive.

Megumi outlined four strategies to overcome feeling overwhelmed: Accept, Pause, Reframe and Adapt. She also she spoke about the importance of perspective, risk management, humour, gratitude and opportunity in times of chaos. I gained great insight from the webinar and look forward to reading her book.

Early Learning Centre

Social Justice Fundraiser for Children’s Ground

During Term 3 the Newlands ELC children will raise funds for Children’s Ground, an organisation that supports Aboriginal children within the community in which they live, with a focus on first language and culture while incorporating western literacy and numeracy.

The ELC children belong to a community at Haileybury which values the importance of social justice. Educators will work with the children to help them to understand the significance of giving to those in need within our community, and the way in which their contribution will make a difference.

Fundamental to the Australian Early Years Learning Framework is the notion that “all children should become active and involved citizens”. It is through social justice projects that we can build on and develop children’s sense of compassion and empathy, and responsibility for others in the community.

Funds donated to Children’s Ground will be used to support the teaching of young Aboriginal children about their country in their first language. Watch here.

Keeping Calm with the Zones of Regulation

The Zones of Regulation is a social thinking curriculum embedded within the ELC children’s daily program. They are explicitly taught how to identify their feelings according to colour zones and self-regulate their emotions to optimise their learning.

Reception and Pre-Prep classes are using phases such as ‘rock brain’ and ‘super flex’ as they learn how to practice strategies to help them feel, among other things, calm and focused. The children are taught how to identify the size of a problem and act accordingly, leading to an independent ability to solve problems.

Junior School

Tynker App a Success

Years 2 and Year 3 students have been working through an app program called Tynker in CDT. This program allows students to develop their coding skills, as they move through different levels and stories. The students have done a wonderful job using code to animate their stories. Year 4 students have also been developing their programming skills using the Tynker app and website.

The Importance of Physical Activity

We know that it is vital to keep our students physically active as we temporarily re-commence virtual online learning. Regular breaks have been incorporated into the shape of the day and students are encouraged to go for bike rides, shoot some baskets and keep daily exercise a part of their routine.

Previously in lockdown, students were able to try new activities like HIIT circuits, Yoga, Boxing and Kickboxing, as well as learn some moves from dances that have gone ‘viral’ during our Dance unit. Year 4 students have also been working on their skipping in PE, trying to improve how many skips they can do in a row, while learning some new tricks.

Year 4 students work on improving their skipping skills

Middle School

End-of-Semester 1 Reports and Academic Awards

Parents can now access their child’s Semester 1 report via Canvas to see how they have been tracking through the school year. As is custom, we will award the top 15 per cent of each cohort Academic Colours and the next 15 per cent a certificate of Merit. Boys and girls at each campus are treated as separate cohorts.

Early in Term 3, students will be notified if they are receiving one of these prestigious awards.

Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT)

Computational thinking is becoming part of our everyday world. It is the basis of all computer programming and has led to platforms such as Facebook and Google.

Put simply, computational thinking is a problem solving method that we draw on when solving complex problems with computers.

When thinking computationally, we draw on logical reasoning, algorithms, decomposition, abstraction and patterns and generalisations. This can foster lateral thinking and pragmatic problem solving to unearth future talent in computer programming—something students might not normally have an opportunity to demonstrate.

Congratulations to the following Year 8 boys who were among thousands of students who entered The Australian Maths Trust Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition for 2020.

Joshua Ong (Year 8)—Distinction (Top 13%)

William Shen (Year 8)—Distinction (Top 13%)

Locklyn Luu (Year 8)—Distinction (Top 15%)

Joshua Ong (Year 8) William Shen (Year 8) and Locklyn Luu (Year 8) all received Distinctions in the 2020 CAT competition, placing them in the top tier of results

Enjoying the Little Things in Science

Late last term, Middle School students enjoyed mixing up the learning experience with stimulating tasks and hands-on experiences. From looking at specimens under the microscope, to building playdough animal and plant cells, Year 8 Science students’ curiosity was enhanced during this unit of work.

As students move on from understanding human systems on a cellular level, we look forward to hearing about their progression next term to a molecular level when they study Chemistry.

Cell slides created in the lab by Ally McInnes (Year 8)

APS Sport Postponed

Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions the 2020 APS Winter Sport season has been postponed until further notice.

Any changes will be communicated to families via the myHaileybury app.

Jane Gibbs
Head of Newlands (Keysborough)

Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough (HPFK)

Secondhand Uniform Shop Closed

Our Uniform Shop is currently closed. We will announce on our Facebook page and via myHaileybury when we are able to open.

If you have any uniform requirements please email the HPFK (hpfk@haileybury.vic.edu.au) with your request and your phone number, and we will contact you about whether your requirements are in stock and how to purchase the item(s) online.

Haileybury HPFK Facebook Page

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Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough

Campus News

Term 3 Arrangements

We are all disappointed that Victoria has had to return to more drastic measures to counter the spread of COVID-19. However, I am pleased that students studying the VCE are expected to attend face-to-face classes. While this will be the case for most of this week, our cross-campus, Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon classes will be zoomed in Week 1, to avoid travel between the campuses.

We ask parents and carers to remind their sons and daughters about the protocols in place while on campus. They must have their temperatures checked, watch their social distancing and use hand sanitiser regularly.

Senior students will Zoom from home on Tuesday morning and there will be no sport on Tuesday afternoon.

On Thursday afternoon, students will be able to sign out from their home campus if they wish to travel home to Zoom for periods 7 and 8. Students can remain on their home campus to Zoom if they wish. Buses from Keysborough will run at 12.30 pm and at 4.00 pm if students wish to use them. No late buses will run on Thursday, 16 July.

As our ELC students, children of essential workers and Senior School students in Years 10 to 12 return to school this week, we have instigated the following measures to help protect the health of our students and the staff who will care for them.

All students will have their temperature checked at the start of each day. Any elevated temperature of 37.5° Celsius or above will see the individual quarantined and then returned to their home.
All students will be expected to sanitise their hands as they enter school and as they move into each class.
All staff will have their temperature checked as they enter School each morning.
A review of health and hygiene practice, including foot traffic flow, classroom set up and social distancing has been conducted.
Senior School Staff, with Senior School Student Leaders, will continue to reinforce social distancing expectations for all students at school.
The frequency of cleaning of Senior Schools has been increased.
Students who catch school buses and public transport will be strongly encouraged to wear face masks.
We will maintain ventilation of fresh air in each classroom.
We will assess recreation spaces and recess and lunchtime activities.

Further information about the remainder of Term 3 will be provided later this week. Rest assured we have our students’ wellbeing and academic interests foremost in our thinking and we will continue to provide all that we are able to in these difficult times.

Term 3 is always a time for hard work and consolidation of pre-existing knowledge, as students move towards the completion of the curriculum in each of their subjects. The VCE trial examinations will be in Week 9, starting Thursday, 10 September until Wednesday, 16 September.

All School Assessed Coursework (SACs) for Units 3 and 4 studies will be completed by Week 8. This then allows teachers and students to focus on revision and examination practice throughout the September break and the early weeks of Term 4.

Education Perfect Awards

Congratulations to William Lim (Year 10) on receiving the Education Perfect English Championships 2020 Silver Award and Michael Sun (Year 10) on receiving the Education Perfect Languages Championships 2020 Elite Award. Education Perfect offers worldwide competitions which gives students the opportunity to compete with other students around the globe.

Pam Chamberlain
Senior Vice-Principal
Head of Senior Schools

Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough (HPFK)

Parents Thank Staff with Cookies

On behalf of Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough, we would like to celebrate our amazing teaching staff at Newlands and Senior School Keysborough campus. We have been overwhelmed by the dedication, professionalism and resilience you all demonstrated during online learning and would like you to please enjoy a 'Thank you! Cookie' when we see you next.

We want you to know that you are all greatly appreciated by the parent community.

Lenice Norris
President, Haileybury Parents & Friends Keysborough

Campus News

Athletics Carnival Inspires House Spirit

Haileybury Rendall School recently held its House Athletics Carnival for Middle and Senior School students amid much fanfare. The day was highly anticipated by all students, who arrived in their House colours full of energy and excitement.

The students from Nganabaru displayed fantastic House spirit to take an early lead after winning the House chant competition. Students displayed excellent sportsmanship throughout the entire day, while still competing furiously. The day had numerous individual standout competitors, including Clay Shadforth (Year 9) Benjamin Barnard (Year 7) and Elsie Harden (Year 8) who excelled in all areas.

Although staff were extremely busy on the day, for which we thank them, they also had to prove what they could do on the track. The challenge was set, and a relay team from each House took on two staff relay teams. Needless to say, staff had a glorious victory!

After a long and hard-fought day by all students, the result came down to relay races that finished the program. In the end it was Nganabaru that came out victorious on the day, winning by the very small margin of seven points.

CONGRATUALTIONS NGANABARU!

Thank you to all staff and students for a fantastic day!

Duke of Edinburgh’s RSPCA Fundraiser

Students involved in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award program recently ran a BBQ at the Junior School Athletics Carnival to raise money for animal charity the RSPCA. The Year 9 students planned, set up, cooked and ran the BBQ on the day, displaying organisation and dedication to a charity funded entirely by donations and fundraising activities.

Thanks to the support of more than 300 hungry Junior School students, we raised $624 for the RSPCA. It will go towards providing comfort and shelter to animals who have been lost, abandoned or neglected.

Thank you to everyone who supported the BBQ, especially head chef Ms Lisa Cadd, and congratulations to the students for their ongoing fundraising efforts.

Adding Some Sparkle to the World’s Greatest Shave

Our much-anticipated World’s Greatest Shave event raised more than $14,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation. The School community embraced the day with free dress and many fabulous versions of the theme, ‘A Touch of Sparkle’. Students enjoyed a range of options to decorate their hair and purchase food and treats to help raise money for the cause.

In donations alone, students and staff have raised more than $14,000, which will, no doubt, grow significantly after the funds from stalls are added. The work behind the scenes to ensure the event’s success is enormous, and I thank Ms Lisa Cadd and student leaders for their efforts.

Congratulations to everyone who raised or donated money. What an amazing achievement for a worthwhile cause!

Craig Glass
Principal, Haileybury Rendall School

Campus News

End-of-Semester Examinations and Celebrations

The end of the school year has finally arrived at HIST. Semester 2 has brought many challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the whole school came together to face these challenges and work collaboratively to ensure that all our students completed their year in a safe and rewarding manner.

The last few weeks saw all sub-schools prepare students for their final examinations.

This involved preparing those that were at the School, as well as students who were learning online from home. Examinations were thus held both at school and online.

It was good to see all the students who are working from home take their examinations seriously and follow all the complex processes that were set in place by their teachers. Gaokao students had a wonderful last day saying goodbye to their teachers before they ventured off to sit the National Gaokao Examination. We wish them success.

The last few days of the semester involved professional learning and development by all the staff. This involved a mixture of preparation for the next academic year, including analysis of student data, and in-depth handover into the next year for each of the students.

All departments across the School finished their year by holding department meetings, where staff gave feedback on strategies to improve for next year. All first-year teachers presented to the staff their reflections and what they had learned. Departments also celebrated by going to lunch.

For Senior School it was also a chance to acknowledge five staff that have been at HIST for more than six years. Congratulations to Ms Jacqueline Cui, Ms Helen Zhang, Mr Jack Sun, Ms Amelie Li and Ms Orna Zhou.

Senior School also farewelled the following staff: Mr Jonathan Lake, Mr Shayne Kennedy, Mr Paul Perversi, Ms Maria Cowman, Mr Charles Leung, Ms Charlene Pereira and Ms Alice Wang. We thank them for their strong contribution to HIST and wish them all the best for the future.

Yanni Galanis
International Principal, HIST

Performing & Visual Arts

The Magic of Having an Audience

As we come to the business end of the year, the focus shifts to solo works for our VCE senior students in Drama, Dance and Theatre Studies. Over the break they have been narrowing their choices down before committing to a final choice in the first week of school. It is a time of great anticipation as for many it will be their first external performance assessment.

The last week of Term 2 saw the senior Drama class perform for an audience in the gymnasium. In a very disrupted term, with all its restrictions, the chance to actually have an audience seemed highly unlikely.

The class had filmed a previously rehearsed performance and used it to refine the script, so the students were ready to give their best presentation. Some fortunate timetabling meant two classes and some special guests could socially distance and enjoy the show. If there is one lesson performers can take from this time, it is how important the actor-audience relationship is. We need each other for the magic to occur.

Stewart Bell
Director of Performing and Visual Arts

Music

Streaming Online Concerts to the Haileybury Community

Musicians and actors across the world are desperate to perform to live audiences. As musicians, the anticipation and excitement of performing to ‘wow’ an audience drives us to be the best artists we can be. The recent news regarding a return to lockdown restrictions, while certainly disappointing, will see artists continue to be innovative and connect with each other in various online spaces.

For experienced musicians, the prolonged lockdown and lack of live performance opportunities has been used as time to work independently on refining skills, writing new material, or engaging in online projects.

For younger musicians, who perhaps have yet to develop the benefit of a long-view, Music teachers worldwide are increasingly concerned that enthusiasm for artistic development might wane, without the regular opportunity to collaboratively rehearse, perform and socialise with other musicians.

In Term 3, the Haileybury Music Department will continue to find new ways for our young musicians to connect virtually. While virtual performances will 'no doubt' be enjoyed by parents, crucially, the Department intends to use these activities to support and foster our young musicians by reaffirming their connection and membership within the Arts community.

Rest assured, in due course we will be back performing large-scale concerts, holding jazz nights at MEMO Hall, experiencing School musicals, hosting chapel/chamber concerts and, eventually, a Haileybury Tattoo and Melbourne Recital Centre concert.

To our young musicians and parents, hang in there! All the work that has been achieved practising and taking lessons over the last few months will pay off when we get to ‘wow’ audiences again, whether that be in a virtual or live format.

The plan for the upcoming term is to video record a series of online performances. These performances will hopefully be recorded during the school day late in Term 3. After recordings are completed, our talented Ausio-Visual Department will edit performances into various concert programs.

These programs will then be streamed as evening concerts that families and friends will be able to enjoy in the comfort of their own homes. More news regarding these concerts will be published in coming weeks.

End-of-Term Celebration Concert

On the last day of term, Haileybury Senior School Keysborough held an outdoor concert event to raise awareness of and support for the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation. The event was also a celebration of Term 2. As is so often the case at Haileybury, the event was such a success that planning has already started for similar events later in the year if possible.

The collaborative work achieved on the day was outstanding. Inspired by the vision of Head of Girls Ms Helen Wadden, and Head of Boys Mr Graham Leys, the music production element was coordinated and led by Ms Erica D’Angelo. With the VET Music team and Mr Matthew Sanderson, Ms D’Angelo did a truly amazing job of building a stage and producing a professional sound for students and staff to enjoy on the last lunch break of term.

Thank you to everyone who worked on this collaborative project.

Ethan Nash (Year 12) and Kim May

Malith Jayathillake (Year 12), Sid Zhang (Year 12) and Kim May

Rhian Aoun (Year 11), Kim May, Oscar Brown (Year 12) and Tim Peatman (Year 11)

Senior girls singing

Sound mixing the concert

Tim Peatman (Year 11), Oscar Brown (Year 12) and Kim May

VET music set up

Rod Marshall
Head of Haileybury Music

Visual Art and Design

The State of the Arts

While discussing with a friend the recent arts funding package offered by the Government, we found ourselves in a broader discussion about the importance of the Arts and, by extension, the evolution and future of Arts education.

In recent times students have been making some important subject selection decisions.

Against this background, it seems pertinent to articulate Haileybury’s Creative Arts focus, how these subjects are central to a well-rounded education and how the Arts can transform the future of our students in relation to their future study, employment and way of life.

Educating young people in the creative subjects does not focus on product, even though this is often the most obviously visible and celebrated component. The Haileybury Creative Arts Program focuses on giving students the tools to analyse and critique the world and, through the exploration of arts methods and processes, equips them to express themselves within it.

As we refine, iterate, and build our programs for junior levels, we have focused on a thematic approach to explore great works across a range of movements and periods. Our Middle School students continue this approach but with more independence when it comes to developing and exploring their style.

This will become ever-more important as we introduce our new subjects in 2021. As we move into our senior years, we are directed by the Expectations of VCE study designs, while ensuring our students have access to the broadest range of experiences, practices and experts throughout their creative journey.

We don’t want every student to leave their Senior Visual Art and Design classroom to become an artist, filmmaker, graphic designer or cabinet maker. We want our students entering data science to interpret the information in front of them critically and we want our next business analysts to come up with creative ways to reinterpret and present information, inspiring new thought processes that underpin sociological, technological and economic developments.

We hope our next pharmacologists will present their developments with clarity, and our next wave of business managers approach interactions with empathy and a depth of emotional intelligence that makes their ideas accessible. All these qualities are hallmarks of a well-rounded Art education.

Think back beyond the artworks and consider what you learned in your Art classes. How have they shaped you and your experience?

Sam Lucas
Head of Visual Art and Design

Haileybury Foundation Scholarships 2021

Haileybury Foundation Scholarship applications for students commencing Years 7 and 9 in 2021 are open but close soon on Wednesday, 15 July.

We are delighted to share that the Haileybury Parents & Friends Castlefield will provide a generous donation to support a new HPFC Scholarship in 2021. HPFC has been supporting Year 12 student Tyrone Foster on a Foundation scholarship and Tyrone will graduate at the end of 2020. This means there is an opportunity for a new Scholarship student to experience the world-class education that Haileybury offers.

We would like to acknowledge and thank HPFC President Ian Green, the HPFC Committee and all the dedicated Castlefield volunteers who have made this new 2021 Scholarship possible.

Interested families can download and complete a Haileybury Foundation Scholarship application form here.

Scholarship Program Changes Lives Forever

The Haileybury Foundation Scholarship Program enables our School to remain accessible for students and families for whom it would otherwise not be possible to attend. In times such as the present, Haileybury has led the way, setting an academic benchmark by pivoting to successful virtual learning programs while supporting our students during what must be one of the most challenging years they and teaching staff will have experienced.

This is a sentiment affirmed by scholarship student Kayla Salmons (Year 12) in her Semester 1 update…

“During the pandemic I have come to realise just how fortunate I am to be a student at Haileybury. Without the School’s commitment and dedication to its students, I wouldn’t be in such a great position heading towards my final exams, feeling confident and capable of completing Year 12 as best I possibly can.”