Important Dates 2014
Basketball Marathon - Thursday 31 July--Friday 1 August
Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews - Tuesday 2 September
Some useful links
Dear all, welcome to week 2 Term 3.
This week we celebrated our College value of a "Safe and Secure Environment." At Forest Hill College we understand that every now and then relationships between students can become frayed. We work hard at these times to restore these relationships so that we can all operate in a harmonious environment.
It is difficult when around us, world leaders and key role models speak with aggression and hatred and seek vengeance and retaliation following traumatic events.
We hope sincerely our world leaders operate with dignity and statesman like diplomacy to seek harmonious solutions to the violence in war torn countries. It is not the time for grandstanding and strong language. It is hard to teach students to do this when they see world leaders behaving aggressively and seeking payback.
Unfortunately there are times when at school, peer relationships break down. This is a reality in all organisations.Through the use of restorative processes is how we like to work at repairing relationships when they do become fractured. We believe all students have a talent and a strength, and we work to bring this out of all students in an environment that is safe and secure. This takes considerable skill, time and effort. Most of the time we enjoy a harmonious, orderly and productive culture. We are very proud of this. As I have walked our classrooms this week I must congratulate our staff and students on the outstanding learning culture that exists. I am very excited at the quality of learning happening in our classrooms.
Year 8 Locker Bay Project
For the last couple of weeks in term 2, Mr McKinnon and Ms Robinson's Year 8 classes combined to talk about some of the issues we have in our locker bays. For example personal hygiene, keeping the area clean, and things like that. We needed to split into groups of about 3 or 4 (in some cases, more people). The groups each got given a specific topic to research or come up with some ideas to solve the problem. Crystal (8B) and myself, Olivia, were the event managers, and our jobs were to make sure everyone was getting their work done and we helped give them ideas or helped them with things they needed.
On Tuesday 24 June 2014 we had an action day, we grabbed our mops, buckets and clothes and we scrubbed the lockers and floor of our Year 8 locker bay until they were clean. We then put up posters that the groups had made, we are hoping that our lockers will remain clean and that our hard work paid off.
Olivia N 8C.
On Tuesday evening the VCE Theatre Studies class went to see
Sondheim’s musical ‘Into the Woods’ at the Arts Centre.
VCE Theatre Studies requires Unit 3&4 students to see
two plays from the prescribed playlist published by VCAA and write a
performance analysis for their outcome. Students are also required to answer
questions on the interpretation during the end of year exam.
The performance centred around well-known fairytales, staged
by Victoria Opera, focused heavily on the music and singing. There were some
excellent characterisations, including some dramatic character transformation.
The costumes were brightly coloured and reminiscent of a child’s storybook.
As part of the Wenzhou No 8 High School exchange students
and teachers visited the College Library to learn how our library services
support students and staff. Visiting students enthusiastically completed an
orientation quiz which guided them around the library and our collection.
Wenzhou High School does not have a school library with students having to find
information from other sources. Math teacher Yinsheng Wu viewed our staff
support materials whilst Wenzhou School Principal Xiaoqin Zheng observed how
her students worked independently and collaboratively to complete the quiz.
Early in term two, sixteen students from Year 7-10 Mathematics entered
the Mathematics challenge Stage. The purpose of the Maths Challenge Stage is to
encourage and foster:
- a greater interest and awareness of the power of mathematics
- a desire to succeed in solving stimulating mathematics problems individually and in groups
- a discovery of the joy of problem solving in mathematics
- the identification of talented young Australians, recognizing their achievements nationally and providing support that will enable them to reach their own levels of excellence.
Our students should be congratulated for their fine efforts. The
Challenge ran over three weeks and the students had to keep up with all their
other Mathematics work while completing the Challenge.
The results are as follows:
Distinction
Zoe H (yr8), Dominic O (yr9), Jupinder G (yr10), Matthew W (yr10)
Credit
Chloe T (yr8), Holly T (yr8), Crystal T (yr8), Ricky L (yr9),
Niky T (yr10), Petar T (yr10), James B (yr10), Jack B (yr10),
Lukas S (yr10)
Participation
Caleb O (yr7), Jacob N (yr7), Navindu D (yr8)
Debaters Association Round 5
Round 5 of the
Debaters Association of Victoria took place on Thursday. Our A grade
team, Ben S., Paul K., and Maddy T., argued against Wesley College in the
negative 'That doctors should be allowed to override the wishes of family
wishes where the patient is unable to communicate their wishes'. Ben S. was
awarded best speaker of the debate, but the team lost by a very narrow margin
of one point. Our C grade team, which consisted of Noah d., James
B., and Jack B., successfully argued in the negative against Wesley College
'That we should abolish the minimum wage' scoring a decisive three point win,
with James awarded best speaker in the debate. Our D grade team, Alysha R.,
Ayen G., Jesse d., with Tea D., acting as chairperson argued against Glen
Waverley Secondary College that 'We should abolish exams in schools'. The
team lost by two points but Alysha was awarded equal best speaker with the
first speaker for the affirmative. Alice Romanis.
Forest Hill College Students Participate in Art Competition
Forest Hill
Rotary Club asked our school if we would like to support the publication of a
children's book by contributing illustrations. Last year, art students were
invited to submit entries. To prepare for the task ahead, we heard from Jacki Moss, a local children's
book illustrator, about how to create successful illustrations. The text was
given to students and drawings completed. We were then faced with the difficult
decision judging the best entry.
It has been a
privilege to collaborate with the Blackburn Lake Education Project and Forest Hill
Rotary Club. We look forward to this relationship continuing.
Mr Bill
Marsh, President of Forest Hill Rotary Club presented a gift voucher to Zena
Z as the successful illustrator in the Art Competition.
Deaf Sports Day
On
Thursday, our Deaf and Hard of Hearing students headed into MSAC to represent Forest
Hill College in the annual Secondary Schools Deaf Sports Day. As usual, Forest
Hill College students were particularly strong competitors in the basketball
but were also well represented in netball, soccer, table tennis and badminton.
By far the greatest highlight was the opportunity to catch up with other DHH
students from all over the state including Mildura, in particular old friends
from primary school. We had the pleasure of past students from FHC attend this
highly popular community event, providing a fun way of establishing new
friendships and reconnecting with past friends.Amanda Purcell
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