SA Channel 9 Young

Achiever’s Award Lachlan

(Y11) won for Innovation.

SADA Debating

Coached by Cooper (Year

10), Year 8/9 Team (Adam,

Annika, Ebanee, Emma,

Sam) is undefeated.

Da Vinci Decathlon

Eight Y9 students took part

in 10 challenges: our

engineers, Sam and

Jordan, were our top

performers.

EXCEL Delegates:

Australian Refugees

Association (ARA):

William (Y10)

Music SA’s Autumn

Jams: Renee (Y11)

TTG Council

Leadership Course:

Enya and Taylor (Y9)

UN Youth State

Conference Power,

Diplomacy & Influence:

Lucca & Renee (Y11)

Youth Environment

Council: Jayden (Y9)

Over 20% of all GGHS

Students have attended

EXCEL’s 16 Clubs and 35

Activities this Semester:

271 of our 1345 students.

World Scholar’s Cup

30 Year 8-12 students won:

9 trophies

36 Gold Medals

59 Silver Medals

for Debating, Persuasive

Writing, the Arts, History,

Human Relationships,

Literature, Social Studies

and Science. All were

invited to a Global Round in

Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or

Melbourne. One Junior

Team and one Senior Team

will attend the WSC Global

Round in Melbourne in

August with WSC

Coordinator, Mrs Lyons,

and Senior Debating

Coach, Mrs Slater.

ANZAC Spirit Prize

Kelly (Y10) wrote a History

essay to win a 2-week tour

to Vietnam with her teacher,

Mrs Grant.

UN Youth VOICE Public

Speaking Competition

Ebanee (Y9) was selected

as a National Finalist and

flew to Brisbane for a week

to represent SA.

Legacy Public Speaking

Competition Olivia (Y9)

presented a speech on

Social Justice: Education

for Girls and was selected

as a State Finalist.

Brain Bee (Neuroscience)

Gabby, Jarvis and Juliette

(Y10) were State Finalists.

Computational and

Algorithmic Thinking

(CAT) Competition

Matthew (Y8), Calvin (Y9),

Curtis and Lachlan (Y11)

won Credit Awards.

ICAS Digital Technologies

Competition Calvin (Y9),

Jordan, Ethan and William

(Y10) won Credit Awards.

Big Science Competition

Laura (Y8) and Ethan (Y10)

won Credit Awards.

EXCEL Success - in a Nutshell

I n s i d e t h i s

i s s u e :

World

Scholar’s

Cup 2

WSC Results 3

SADA

Interschool 5

Da Vinci

Decathlon 6

Legacy Pub-

lic Speaking

Competition 7

UN Youth

VOICE 7

Premier’s

ANZAC Spirit

School Prize 8

Channel 9

Young

Achiever:

Innovation

8

UN Youth

State

Conference 9

Intro to

Tournament

of Minds

9

Forthcoming

Events 10

EXCEL News Extra-curricular Extension Learning Identifying and Catering for our Gifted Students

E d i t o r : S u e L y o n s S e m e s t e r 1 , 2 0 1 8

Success

For All!

P a g e 2

World Scholar’s Cup

This semester thirty Year

8-12 GGHS EXCEL

students competed

alongside 120 students

from seven public and

private schools in the two

-day World Scholar’s Cup

at Scotch College.

In order to prepare for

this competition students

attended an intensive five

-week Training Program

of lunchtime and after-

school workshops.

Our students wish to

thank their tutors on:

History of Diplomacy:

Ms Possingham

Human Relationships:

Mrs McLaren

Science of Memory:

Mrs McLaren

Social Studies:

Mr Dawson

The Arts: Ms Farrier

Literature: Mrs Lyons

Persuasive Writing and

Debating: Mrs Lyons.

Then, in teams of three,

students competed in

four events:

a Team Quiz

an Individual Quiz

a Collaborative

Persuasive Writing

Competition and

a Secret Topic De-

bating Competition,

in which each team

had to debate three

times with only 15

minutes’ preparation

time for each debate.

Our ten teams won a

total of 104 awards:

9 trophies

36 Gold Medals

59 Silver Medals!

WORLD SCHOLAR’S

CUP GLOBAL ROUND

As a result, all ten teams

were invited to participate

in a Global Round of the

World Scholar’s Cup in

either Barcelona, Kuala

Lumpur or Melbourne.

Our school decided to

attend the Global Round

in Melbourne.

Congratulations to the

following students, who

have been selected to

represent GGHS:

Junior GLOBAL Team:

Adam (Year 9)

Sam (Year 9)

Sophie (Year 8)

Senior GLOBAL Team:

Eric (Year 10)

Jordan (Year 9)

Renee (Year 10)

We wish them all luck as

they compete against

WSC Top Scholars from

all over the world in

Melbourne from August

15-22.

They will be accompa-

nied by our EXCEL

Leader, Mrs Lyons, and

Senior Debating Coach,

Mrs Slater.

Sue Lyons

E X C E L N e w s

2018 World Scholars’ Cup Awards Won by our Junior Teams All qualified for a 2018 WSC Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

JUNIOR Team 1 Year Junior Team Awards Individual Medals Global Rounds

Olivia 9

TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Team (2nd overall) TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team (2nd) Gold Medal – Champion Debating Team (4th)

Gold Medal – Champion Scholar (11th) Gold Medal – Debating Champion (8th) Silver Medal – Arts Challenge Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

All qualified for a 2018 WSC

Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

Jordan is attending the WSC Global

Round in Melbourne

2018.

Jordan 9

Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – Social Studies Challenge Silver Medal – Science Challenge Silver Medal – Human Relationships Silver Medal – Challenge Champion Silver Medal – Debating Champion Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

Enya 9 Gold Medal – Science Challenge (5th) Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – Debating Champion

JUNIOR Team 2

Sam 9 TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Team (4th overall) TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team (1st)

Gold Medal – School’s Top Scholar (Jr) Gold Medal – Champion Scholar (10th) Gold Medal – Debating Champion (9th) Gold Medal – Persuasive Writing (12th) Silver Medal – Science Challenge

Sam and Adam are attending

the WSC Global Round in

Melbourne 2018.

(Abi attended the 2017 WSC Global Round

in Hanoi.)

Adam 9 Gold Medal – History Challenge (3rd) Silver Medal – Literature Challenge

Abi 9

Gold Medal – Arts Challenge (5th) Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – History Challenge Silver Medal – Debating Champion Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

JUNIOR Team 3

Mary 8

Gold Medal – Champion Scholars’ Team (9th overall) Gold Medal – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team (4th) Silver Medal – Champion Persuasive Writing Team

Gold – Human Relationships (2nd) Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – History Challenge Silver Medal – Debating Champion Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

All qualified for a 2018 WSC

Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

Annika 8 Silver Medal – Arts Challenge Silver Medal – Literature Challenge

Maddy 8 Silver Medal – Arts Challenge Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

JUNIOR Team 4

Matthew 8

TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team (3rd) Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Team (overall)

Gold Medal - Literature Challenge (3rd) Gold Medal – Arts Challenge (4th) Gold Medal – Challenge Champ. (5th) Silver Medal – Social Studies Challenge

All qualified for a 2018 WSC

Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

Angelina 8 Gold – Human Relationships (3rd)

William 8 Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

JUNIOR Team 5

Tia 8

Gold Medal – Champion Scholar (20th) Gold Medal – Debating Champ. (10th)

Sophie is attending WSC Global Round in Melbourne.

Sophie 8 Gold Medal – Da Vinci Scholar

Korbin 8 Gold Medal – Da Vinci Scholar

Our JUNIOR TEAMS won 54 AWARDS (5 Trophies, 21 Gold Medals and 28 Silver Medals), as follows: 10 TEAM

AWARDS (5 Trophies, 3 Gold and 2 Silver Medals) and 44 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS (18 Gold and 26 Silver Medals).

2018 World Scholars’ Cup Awards Won by our Senior Teams All qualified for a 2018 WSC Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

SENIOR Team 1 Year Team Awards Individual Medals Global Rounds

Renee 10 TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Team (3rd overall) TROPHY – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team (1st) TROPHY – Champion Challenge Team (3rd)

Gold Medal-Human Relationships (4th) Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – Challenge Champion Silver Medal – Debating Champion

Renee is attending the WSC Global

Round in Melbourne

2018. (Cooper and Ebanee went to the 2017

Global Round in Hanoi.)

Cooper 10 Gold Medal – Social Studies (1st) Silver Medal – Challenge Champion Silver Medal – Debating Champion

Ebanee 9

Gold Medal – Literature (2nd) Gold Medal - Challenge Champion (4th) Silver Medal – Arts Challenge Silver Medal – Science Challenge

SENIOR Team 2

Amber 12

Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Team (6th overall) Silver Medal – Champion Debating Team Silver Medal – Champion Persuasive Writing Team Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team

Gold Medal – School’s Top Scholar (Sr) Gold Medal – Champion Scholar (7th) Gold Medal – Debating Champion (3rd) Silver Medal – Human Relationships Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

All qualified for a 2018 WSC

Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

Mitchell 12

Gold Medal – History Challenge (1st) Gold Medal – Persuasive Writing (9th)

Lucca

11 Silver Medal – Literature Challenge Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

SENIOR Team 3

Tahlia 10

Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Team (7th overall) Silver Medal – Champion Debating Team Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Bowl Quiz Team

Gold Medal – Champion Scholar (8th) Gold Medal – History Challenge (2nd) Gold Medal – Debating Champion (7th) Silver Medal – Challenge Champion Silver Medal – Literature Challenge Silver Medal – Social Studies Challenge

(Tahlia and Hannah

attended the 2017 WSC

Global Round in Hanoi.) Hannah 10

Silver Medal – Persuasive Writing

Ethan 10

SENIOR Team 4

Angus 10 TROPHY – Champion Debating Team (3rd) Silver Medal – Champion Scholars’ Team (10th overall)

Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – History Challenge Silver Medal – Science Challenge Silver Medal – Debating Champion

(Angus and Chloe attended the 2017 WSC Global Round

in Hanoi.) Chloe 10

Gold Medal – Arts Challenge (4th) Silver Medal – Champion Scholar Silver Medal – Debating Champion

Gabby 10 Gold Medal- Debating Champion (10th)

SENIOR Team 5

Jarvis 10

Silver Medal – History Challenge

All qualified for a 2018 WSC

Global Round in Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur or Melbourne.

Zachary 10

Silver Medal – Arts Challenge

Bailey 10

Gold Medal – Da Vinci Scholar

Our SENIOR TEAMS won 50 AWARDS (4 Trophies, 15 Gold Medals and 31 Silver Medals), as follows: 12 TEAM

AWARDS (4 Trophies and 8 Silver Medals) and 38 INDIVIDUAL AWARDS (15 Gold and 23 Silver Medals).

SADA Interschool Debating

P a g e 5 S e m e s t e r 1 , 2 0 1 8

GGHS Debating Training

We began the year with an

Intro to Debating Training

Day, run by Mrs Lyons in

Thiele Library for 29 students.

Our WSC Debating Teams

Following this, our greatest

success in the World

Scholar’s Cup was in

Debating.

Our debaters won:

A 3rd Place Team Trophy

1 Team Gold Medal

2 Team Silver Medals

8 Individual Gold Medals

5 Individual Silver Medals.

SADA Debating Training

Keen debaters then attended

evening Training Workshops

run by the SA Debating

Association at Adelaide

University:

New Debaters’ Evening

Rebuttal Masterclass

Secret Topic Debating

Points of Information.

Our SADA Debating Teams

This year GGHS has entered

four teams in the SADA

Interschool Debating

Competition. Debates are

held every three weeks in

Terms 2 and 3 at various

schools in the evenings, and

teams meet weekly at

lunchtime Debating Club

meetings to prepare for them.

Our Year 8/9 teams wish to

thank their Year 10 coaches -

Chloe, Cooper and Jayden -

and Mrs Lyons. Our Senior A

Grade team wish to thank

their coach, Mrs Slater.

Hosting Round 1

GGHS (Mrs Lyons, Mrs

Grant and Year 11

debater, Lucca) hosted a

night of 13 debates for

300 debaters, families,

coaches and SADA

adjudicators.

Our Topics

So far our Year 8/9 teams

have debated:

That Snapchat does

more harm than good

That schools should

have to offer gender-

neutral uniforms

That politicians should

be entitled to private

lives.

Our Senior A Grade Team

has debated:

That hybrid TV news/

entertainment shows

are good for society.

That developing

countries should not

be held to the same

environmental

standards as

developed countries.

That Trump’s

presidency is good for

democracy.

All debaters are

developing their

speechwriting, critical

thinking and public

speaking skills well. So

far our most successful

team is Cooper’s team of

Adam, Annika, Ebanee,

Emma and Sam, who are

currently undefeated

halfway through the

season.

(Left to Right) Emma, Ebanee, Sam, Adam

(Left to Right) Korbin, Mary, Abi, Jordan

(L to R) William, Angelina, Sophie, Jacob, Matthew

P a g e 6 Team Competitions:

This year, for the first time,

GGHS entered a team of

eight Year 9 EXCEL

students in the da Vinci

Decathlon, which is held

annually at St Peter’s

Girls’ School.

Our representatives

(Photo: Lto R) were: Ben,

Sam, Adam, Emma,

Olivia, Victoria, Ebanee

and Jordan. They joined

teams from 21 other public

and private schools.

They took part in 10 team

competitions, covering:

Art and Poetry

Cartography

Code-breaking

Creative Producers

(Dramatic

Improvisation)

Engineering

English

General Knowledge

Ideation (Design)

Mathematics

Science.

I congratulate all of these

students on taking on these

highly-interactive intellectual

challenges and developing

their teamwork skills.

Our top performers were

Engineers - Sam and Jordan.

Sue Lyons, EXCEL Leader

E X C E L N e w s

The Da Vinci Decathlon

Da Vinci Decathlon Team (Left to Right): Ben, Sam, Adam, Emma, Olivia, Victoria, Ebanee, Jordan

P a g e 7 S e m e s t e r 1 , 2 0 1 8

Each student had to present

a 5-minute prepared speech

on an ideal of Legacy.

Then they had to prepare a

2-minute impromptu speech

after only five minutes’

preparation time.

We congratulate Olivia for

becoming a State Finalist,

giving a speech, in verse, on:

Social Justice:

Education for Girls.

The State final will be held

on Friday 3rd August 2018

at 6.30pm at Legacy House

(102 Franklin St, Adelaide)

and everyone is most

welcome to attend.

Legacy Junior Public

Speaking Competition

This public speaking

competition aims to enhance

students’ oral communication

skills and to help people

appreciate the ideals of

Legacy, which are:

voluntary service

social justice

caring

personal sacrifice

mateship.

On the evening of Friday

25th May, four Year 9 Public

Speaking Club members -

Ebanee, Jade, Olivia and

Enya - took part in this

competition at Legacy House

in the city.

United

Nations

Youth

VOICE

National

Final

Voice is a unique program

that challenges young

people to analyse some

of the world’s greatest

conflicts and problems,

and to develop creative

pitches to resolve them.

Over 1000 Year 7-10

students participate in this

competition nationwide.

Public Speaking Competitions

Legacy Public Speaking Competition (Left to Right): Ebanee, Jade, Olivia, Enya

Only 60 were chosen to

attend the week-long

Voice National Final in

Brisbane in the April

school Holidays.

We congratulate Ebanee

(Year 9 - pictured above)

on being selected to

represent SA.

The issues Ebanee

spoke on were:

How can we

increase access to

medicines in

developing countries?

How can we improve

the juvenile justice

system in Australia?

Well done, Ebanee!

P a g e 8

Channel 9 Young Achiever: Innovation

Historical Research Competition:

Premier’s ANZAC Spirit School Prize The Premier’s ANZAC

Spirit School Prize for

Year 9 and 10 students

aims to:

recognize, connect

and maintain the

ANZAC Spirit

build on the Year 9

History Curriculum’s

World War 1 Depth

Study.

provide the chance

for students to

participate in an

original and authentic

history research

project.

This year our Year 10

student, Kelly, wrote a

winning essay about the

ANZAC Spirit of

Australian servicemen

and women during World

War 1.

Congratulations to both

Kelly, and her History

Teacher, Mrs Grant, on

being selected among

the fourteen students and

two teachers to attend a

fully-funded 14-day study

tour to Vietnam during

October 2018!

encourages children’s

physical activity and has an

emergency notification

system connected to their

parent’s phone for use if the

child believes they are in

danger.

In May Lachlan won a

Channel 9 Young Achiever

Award for Innovation,

beating his three co-finalists

who were at least 10 years

his senior! Well done,

Lachlan!

Sue Lyons

EXCEL Leader

For some years, 16-year-

old, Lachlan (Year 11) has

been passionate about

computer programming

and coding.

He was a guest speaker at

the 2017 Global

Collaboration Conference

and the Open State

workshopping seminar.

At the 2017 Startup

Weekend, Lachlan won an

award and grant to

develop his product

GetMoova, an electronic

smart wrist device for

children. GetMoova both

E X C E L N e w s

ANZAC Spirit

School Prize

Winner

Kelly (Year 10)

Channel 9 Young Achiever

Innovation Award Winner

Lachlan (Year 11)

United Nations Youth State Conference:

Power, Diplomacy and Influence

P a g e 9 S e m e s t e r 1 , 2 0 1 8

Last year two Year 10

EXCEL students, Lucca

and Renee, represented

GGHS at the annual UN

Youth State Conference.

They enjoyed it so much

that this year they

decided to go again!

The UN Youth State

Conference is a 3-day

residential weekend event

held at the Nunyara

Conference Centre, Belair,

that is open to all students

from Years 10 to 12.

It is run entirely by young

people for young people.

The theme of this year’s

conference was: Power,

Diplomacy and Influence.

The conference allowed

students to delve into the role

of diplomats, as well as

learning how influence takes

place, from grassroots activism

to the halls of the United

Nations through:

engaging workshops

interactive problem solving activities

an array of social activities

a day of Model United Nations Debate

Well done, Lucca and Renee!

Introduction

to

Tournament

of Minds

Photo (Left to Right) :

Sophie, Abbey, Jarvis and Tia

practise a TOM performance.

If you would like to find out more about any of these events, please email the EXCEL Leader,

Sue Lyons on: Sue.Lyons290@schools.sa.edu.au or telephone 8282 6400.

Forthcoming EXCEL Events: Term 3

Legacy

Junior Public Speaking Competition State Final

6.30pm

Friday 3 August Legacy House 102 Franklin St

Adelaide ALL VIEWERS WELCOME!

(Free)

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Wed 15 - Wed 22 August

Evatt SA Diplomacy

Competition Sunday

Year 9-12 Students University of Adelaide Sunday 19 August

8.30am-3.10pm (In teams of 2:

$35 per person)

Intermediate B Grade Debating Quarter-Final Prince Alfred College Tuesday 4 September

23 Dequetteville Terrace Kent Town

ALL VIEWERS WELCOME! (Free)

PHILOSOTHON:

1. Do people have the right to do with their own body whatever they want?

2. Is civil disobedience ever morally justified, and, if so, under what conditions?

Year 8-12 Students

5.00-8.00pm Wed 5 September Seymour College 546 Portrush Rd

Glen Osmond

Year 8-10 Students Sunday September 9 Flinders University

Sturt Road Bedford Park

ALL VIEWERS WELCOME! ($2 per visitor)