Newlands Issue 17
A virtual zoo and native birds have intrigued ELC students, Preps are looking forward to a Teddy Bears Picnic and Middle School students solve the problems of the future.
A virtual zoo and native birds have intrigued ELC students, Preps are looking forward to a Teddy Bears Picnic and Middle School students solve the problems of the future.
We wish all our students, families and staff a wonderful break over the holidays. Take time to do some activities away from the screens, enjoy family time and, most importantly, stay safe and healthy.
During the holidays, several staff will be completing the Youth Mental Health First Aid Online Course. This teaches adults how to assist adolescents who are developing a mental health problem, or who are dealing with a mental health crisis.
Staff will learn about adolescent development, the signs and symptoms of common and disabling mental health problems in young people, where and how to get help when a young person is developing a mental illness, what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective and how to provide first aid in a crisis situation.
With the rise of mental health issues among young people during this pandemic, this will be a vital part of our School’s ability to provide much needed support to our students.
As we search for ways to engage our students during the extended lockdown period, students in ELC and Year 6 have been excited to visit Zoos Victoria who are currently offering free digital learning sessions for classrooms.
ELC children explored sessions such as Nature Play the Wurundjeri Way and Wild Explorers: Australian Animals. Students in Year 6 learned how animals adapt and evolve in their natural habitat and how to protect endangered species. Such programs are vital in keeping our students connected to the real world at this time.
Children who are attending the ELC during this period of lockdown can join their classmates at home each day through their lead educators’ live Zoom sessions. The lead educators onsite have access to Swivl technology that enables teaching to occur while remote learners Zoom in to the class.
Swivl allows for interactive learning to maintain connections within class. The technology was introduced to the School last year and enables Haileybury children overseas to join their classmates each day.
Pre-Preps Faye, Vivienne, Eamon, Jayden, Cecelia and Levi | Vivienne and Levi assisting Mrs Candice Karam in delivering the lesson |
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Newlands ELC children have been intrigued by visits to their playground by two rainbow lorikeets which have created a nest in the hollow of an elm tree. The educators have discussed the habitat and diet of the birds as they visit the playground each day, adding to their nest.
The children’s interest has been extended with an introduction to an Australian native birds tally sheet where they have been encouraged to collect data on the birds they observe at the Keysborough campus. The children engaged in home learning also have a tally sheet to use while participating in their daily family walks.
ELC children are looking forward to participating in a very special incursion delivered by Butterfly Adventures. The children have learned about the life cycle of the butterfly and their distinctive features, how they adapt to survive and their natural habitat.
We are expecting the arrival of six mature caterpillars, with a food supply to last until the caterpillars reach the chrysalis stage. The children will be able to feed the caterpillars and watch the butterflies emerge from their chrysalis and will then feed the butterflies.
Children at home have seeds so they can plant a butterfly garden to attract butterflies to their home.
The Prep children at Newlands have been working hard online to prepare for the annual Teddy Bears Picnic. Throughout the week, they have made healthy jelly and fruit cups and tortilla pinwheels.
Everybody knows that, ‘if you go down into the woods, you need to go in disguise...’ so today, the Preps created their best teddy bear disguises ready for their virtual Teddy Bears Picnic on Friday.
Jaden Fang, Elaine Lu and Ricky Meng | Miss Thao Pham’s Prep Week 9 schedule preparing for the Teddy Bears Picnic |
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On Friday, 10 September, Year 3 students enjoyed a Virtual Camp Day. They spent the morning involved in teamwork activities, participating in a trivia quiz and listening to camp stories.
In the afternoon, they cooked and created ‘bush art’ with leaves and flowers from their gardens. The highlight of the day was the Haileybury’s Got Talent show where students displayed their talents and had all their Year 3 friends enthralled.
Later that night, students finished off a fun filled day by eating a delicious dinner together online and then enjoying hot popcorn and a movie.
While the Year 3 students would have obviously enjoyed flying foxes and giant swings, it was still a unique experience and one they will always remember.
Year 3G Virtual Camp with Ms Gillian Gill
The Junior School participated in their Term 3 House event—the Junior School Online Olympics. Students wore their House tops and participated in activities such as The Wall Sit Challenge, Make a Turn and Book Brain. There were many activities and many laughs. Sangwell took first place and the Gold medal.
House Sport Olympics
The Junior School children were delighted when their dads and special friends joined them on Zoom last Thursday to celebrate Fathers Day. The children were grinning from ear to ear as dads joined in with trivia quizzes, Minute To Win It challenges, pizza making, drawing and listening to lots of stories.
Thank you, fathers and special friends. You made our day wonderful!
Year 1 Fathers Day
Prep T
Haileybury students have taken part in the Future Problem Solving Program Australia event that recognises that today’s students are the problem solvers of the future. The program develops critical and creative thinking skills and encourages young people to actively shape their future.
In the qualifying round of the event, students explored human environmental impact and the premise that ‘humans have always impacted the environment’. Over time, these impacts have increased with industrialisation, urbanisation, deforestation, the processing of natural resources, burning of fossil fuels and the introduction of more technologies.
Haileybury’s creative thinking students have been placed in the top tier of the teams in their division.
Global Issues Problem Solving team:
Year 8 students Harrison Green (LEAP Captain) Timothy Dang (School Captain) Judy Bo (Shum Captain) Vinay Raghavan.
Individual entrant Anay Ashwin (Year 6).
Two students have also been recognised in the Scenario Writing category. They each wrote a 1,500-word story set 50 years in the future.
Anay Ashwin (Year 6) wrote The Voice of Mars.
‘In the year 2067, the terraforming of Mars is well underway. The temperature is rising, the atmosphere is beginning to resemble that of Earth and the pressure has become more bearable. Since the arrival of colonists in 2039, as the first generation, the current generation comprises people born on Mars—known as Mars Indigenous Colony or MIG. Despite its achievements, the thawing of permafrost involved in the terraforming process is overshadowed by environmental issues due to mercury that is released into the atmosphere.’
Grace van Haaster (Year 8) wrote Practice Makes Perfect.
Grace’s story explores the future of youth in competitive e-sports and is set in the future where youth are funded to compete in gaming competitions.
These students will participate in the National Finals on Friday, 15 October, 2021.
Grace van Haaster and Anay Ashwin
Year 8 students Lucas Fennessy, Cyrus Vasuthan, Adithya Naron, Om Gupta, Jayden Jeyaweerasingham and Julian Rowse have progressed from the State to National competition in the Maths Talent Quest.
Their project researched and modelled quantum mechanics and teleportation. Called The Quantum Cake, it specifically looked at teleporting a piece of cake into your mouth! To progress to the Nationals is a fantastic achievement. We wish them all the best.
Jane Gibbs
Head of Newlands (Keysborough)
This year, our target is 900 Haileybury HPFK Facebook Group Members. If you would like to connect with our community, please join our Facebook page by clicking on this link.
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
Some students return to campus to rehearse and talented musicians and performer are given the opportunity to build on their success.
It has been exciting and energising to have the Performing Arts Team at school rehearsing and refining their skills for the VCE examinations.
A big ‘thanks’ to our parents who have taken on board the extra constraints required due to this lockdown and who have helped get our students COVID tested. So far, everything has been going smoothly, with everyone able to find spaces where they can work.
Going back to the old gym with my Theatre Studies class was strangely reassuring after spending so much time there last year. Our students were positively beaming as they worked in the same space and, when it has been taken away from you, you realise how much happens just through proximity.
We are on a steep curve to catch up on our physical preparation but working steadily through the holidays will have everyone ready for action.
In sadder news, the Newlands musical has had to be cancelled after the cast and crew valiantly hung on for as long as they were able. Newlands was going to perform at Aikman Hall but with the stage soon being used for VCE exams, the venue is unavailable.
Plans for memorable moments are being worked on but everything still depends on our students being allowed back to school. We all continue to wait for news on that…
Stewart Bell
Director of Performing Arts
Musicians within the Haileybury community have been busy over the past fortnight.
Three of our String students, Campbell Wilson-Moran (Year 10) Elliot Guo (Year 10) and Abigail Xu (Year 8) were awarded places in the prestigious Melbourne Conservatorium Young Artists Academy (MCYAA) following recent successful auditions.
As part of the MCYAA program, these hardworking students will undertake comprehensive chamber music studies and study new repertoire, attend national and international masterclasses and, hopefully, take part in plenty of face-to-face rehearsals.
Well done to Mr Kieran Casey and Ms Myfanwy Bramble for their exceptional work with these outstanding young musicians.
Last week, one of our senior VCE Music Investigation vocal students, Rhian Aoun (Year 12) was chosen as a finalist in the UNDSCRVD talent competition. The event will be hosted by internationally renowned artists The Veronicas.
The five finalists selected from across Australia will be mentored by The Veronicas in a documentary-style reality show broadcast on TikTok. You can see Rhian’s first post as part of the show at https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSJKepBHh/.
Thanks to Ms Fiona Mastorovic for her outstanding work with Rhian over the years.
Following a recent change in government restrictions, VCE Music students are now able to prepare for their upcoming Music Performance examinations onsite. While the conditions for attending rehearsals are strict, including a weekly COVID test, students were able to finally rehearse with their ensembles on the Aikman Hall stage.
I was so impressed by the amount of work achieved by our young musicians in lockdown— truly amazing and inspiring stuff. Of course, it was particularly special for students to able to see each other and work together once more.
Thank you to the Music staff who rehearsed with students for the Thursday and Saturday programs held over the past fortnight.
As part of the @ Home with Haileybury Program the Music Department recently hosted The Joy of Music. The streamed concert was a 30-minute sample of events from across the 2018 and 2019 concert calendar.
The show featured a Tattoo performance, a performance from the Melbourne Recital Centre concert, several performances in Aikman Hall, the Senior Choir contributing to an Aria Night presentation and a jazz performance held at St Kilda’s MEMO Music Hall.
1,500 students were captured in this snapshot of life within the Music Department in a normal two-year concert calendar.
Rod Marshall
Head of Haileybury Music
Middle School students are always encouraged to include personal interests in their works. Whether this takes the shape of a hobby or their identity, the students invest and take on great ownership of their final artworks.
We love hearing the stories that accompany these works, especially when they are as meaningful as the example below.
The earring on the artwork represents Zambia, which is where I come from. The ‘red’ stands for the blood that was shed during the British colony, the ‘green’ represents the vegetation and agriculture, the ‘orange’ represents the natural minerals and, lastly, the ‘black’ represents the peoples and tribes. Ultimately, I designed this artwork to recognise and appreciate all the tremendously brave women who have moulded who I am today. To conclude, the message for the viewers of this piece is to be grateful for all the women who are a part of their lives and to never underestimate what a woman is capable of doing. The woman does not necessarily have to be of African origin—it can be any woman of any nationality.
Faith Kauseni Year 8
Year 4 students have been using a range of materials at home in response to their study of artist Alexander Calder. Calder is the inventor of the mobile and is famous for his circus of wire figures that he manipulated to perform.
We’re sure these performers below have brought lots of joy also.
Jaya Brown and Lucy Dunbar Year 4 Castlefield
Karl Sebire
Head of Creative Industries
Justin Davies (Year 12) will join fellow team mates Marcus Windhager and Connor Macdonald (both Year 12) in the 2021 NAB AFL Draft Combine.
Some 90 selected Australian Rules footballers from across the country will participate in the 2021 NAB AFL Draft Combine that will assess each player’s physical strengths through several tests including 20-metre sprint, agility tests and vertical jump. This provides critical data for AFL clubs as they enter the draft in October.
We wish these students all the very best.
Due to the current lockdown and border closures, the TFT DanceStar National Championships are being held as a Cyber Competition. Qualifiers were asked to submit their video footage for judging and sections are being streamed weekly, with results announced at the end of each week.
This week our soloists performed and competed against dance schools and secondary schools across the nation. The results were:
Freya Stills Blott (Year 11) Third—Secondary Senior Hip Hop Amber Section
Michaela Davidson (Year 10) Third—Secondary Senior Soloist Contemporary Amber Section
Emily Peatman (Year 11) Third – Secondary Senior Soloist Jazz Amber Section
Melanie Nguyen (Year 11) Third—Secondary Senior Soloist Lyrical Amber Section
Laura Bellian (Year 11) Second—Secondary Senior Soloist Lyrical Amber Section
Ashlyn Scott (Year 7) Second—Secondary Junior Audition Jazz Section
Chloe Chung (Year 12) First—Secondary Senior Soloist Contemporary Red Section.
Congratulations to all our amazing soloists and their coaches on their outstanding achievements. Many of them filmed their pieces during lockdown and some competed with their VCE Dance solo works that they choreographed themselves. The sections were large and competitive—as were the scores. Well done!
We look forward to seeing how our Primary, Years 7–8 and Senior School Dance Teams go in their sections in the coming weeks.
Sean Allcock
Director of Haileybury Sport
The Haileybury Spark Series continues to explore the lives and fascinating career paths of Old Haileyburians such as Yannee Liu.
The OHA is delighted when alumni give back to their school and this year saw the introduction of the Haileybury Spark Series, developed and run by the Haileybury Careers Department.
OHA members volunteered their time to come back and speak to students about their career paths.
Yannee Liu (OH 2019) recently returned to the School to speak at the Science (Pharmacy, Health Science, Technology) session of the Haileybury Spark Series.
We had the pleasure of getting to know Yannee a little more through the Spark Spotlight Series available on the OHA website. View Article
Why not enjoy more of the Spotlight series while you are there?
Yannee Liu (OH 2019)
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Hayley Denny
Development & Alumni Manager
Two new scholarships have been introduced to support the educational aspirations of young people in Australia’s Afghani community.
The Haileybury Foundation is focused on transforming lives by providing opportunities for deserving students who would otherwise be unable to receive a world-class education at a school such as Haileybury.
Women in Afghanistan have faced many barriers to their education, not least the continued threat of violence and attacks on educational facilities in the country. We are committed to supporting students from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds and we are delighted to be offering the opportunity for two young Australian-Afghani students to join our community and complete their secondary education at Haileybury.
Through the generosity of our Haileybury Foundation donors, applications are now open for two fully funded scholarships for girls from the Australian-Afghani community. They will commence in Year 7 in 2022 at one of our four Melbourne campuses.
The scholarships will cover the students’ full tuition, uniform for all seasons and sports and laptop computer as part of the Haileybury Managed Device Program.
Applications Close: 30 September, 2021
Please visit the Haileybury Foundation Scholarships page for information on how to apply.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at foundation@haileybury.vic.edu.au.
Donations to Haileybury Foundation continue to stream in. Our students are incredibly fortunate to be in receipt of such a high-quality education that would otherwise be out of reach.
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