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16 December 2019

From the principal’s desk: Welcome to our last week of the term. Lots of happy children last week celebrating the Prefect’s Christmas Week which culminated on Friday by students wearing Christmas mufti and enjoying a sausage sizzle. This week students finish on Wednesday. All students in Years 7, 8 and 9 were given their reports on Friday afternoon – if you have not seen it please check in the bottom of the school bag.

On assembly today we said farewell to some of our teachers who are leaving us at the end of the week. They included Mrs Lois Corfield (Maths) who has been associated with the school both as a teacher and a parent for 30 years. Also farewelled was Mrs Linda Kwan (Maths), Mr Steve Smith (TAS), Mr Musibau Adio (TAS), Mrs Vicki Milne (Languages) and Mr Bony Alex (History). In addition, Mrs Lynne-Adele Treanor is going on extended leave throughout 2020. We wish them all well for their future endeavours and we thank them for their contribution to the school over the years. (Pictures in Baulko News.)

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Cover: Our students enjoying Prefect’s Christmas Week

In this issue:

Baulko News - Farewell and thank you! P & C News Young Justice Program – Law Society Careers News CAPA News Recreational Sport – Term 1, 2020 Open Boys Cricket Grand Final BHHSACU AFX 2019 Cadets “dining in” night CLLA Chinese Language School Notice HillsBus – Updated school travel advice

2020 School Photo information

Issue #10 16 December 2019

Calendar 2019 / 2020 This calendar is subject to change so please check carefully each week for any alterations. A whole year calendar is on the school website at www.baulkhamhillshighschool.com.au

Term 4 Week 10 Monday 16 December - Y10 Camp 16/12 to 18/12 incl - Y7 Recognition Assembly - Y11 English Advanced Assessment Task Part A (Reading) P5/6 Tuesday 17 December - HSC results released - Y11 English Advanced Assessment Task Part B (Speaking) Wednesday 18 December - Last Day of Term for Students - Y11 English Advanced Assessment Task Part B (Speaking) Thursday 19 December - School development day – Pupil Free Day (Staff Only) Friday 20 December - School development day – Pupil Free Day (Staff Only)

Term 1 2020 Week 1 Monday 27 January – Australia Day Public Holiday Tuesday 28 January - Staff Development Day - Pupil Free Day (Staff Only) Wednesday 29 January - Y7 and Y12 return - Peer Support Leaders return (Y10/11) Thursday 30 January - Y8, Y9, Y10 and Y11 return (Peer Support Leaders return Wed) Friday 31 January Saturday 1 February - New enrolments for Cadets opens (Iaconis) Week 2 Monday 3 February - Y7 camp 3/2 to 4/2 incl Tuesday 4 February Wednesday 5 February Thursday 6 February - Cadets First Parade 3.15pm to 5.15pm Friday 7 February - School Swimming Carnival @ Waves Aquatic Week 3 Monday 10 February Tuesday 11 February Wednesday 12 February Thursday 13 February - Y11/12 USyd Presentation Friday 14 February - SRC Valentine’s Day Week 4 Monday 17 February Tuesday 18 February - Y10 Elevate Seminar P1-6 Wednesday 19 February Thursday 20 February - Cadets First Parade 3.15-5.15pm - Presentation Night 7.00pm Friday 21 February

I wish all members of our school community a happy and safe Christmas holiday. I look forward to your return in 2020, refreshed and ready for the challenges of a new year.

Return dates are shown in the calendar and also appear in our new school app. Don’t forget to download our new school app because the old one has been decommissioned.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Jeanne Bathgate Principal

http://www.baulkhamhillshighschool.com.au/


Baulko News

FAREWELL AND THANK YOU !

Mrs Corfield Mrs Kwan Mr Adio

Mrs Milne Mr Alex Mrs Treanor


P & C News 2019 has been a great year for the P&C, with many highlights and milestones achieved. The P&C levy collected has enabled the following:

Financial support for the school’s Green Group, with the purchase of eighteen new recycling bins

Funding for the sports shirt for all sports teachers that sacrifices many personal times with early morning practices and weekend competitions

Reserves having been put aside for further science lab refurbishments (six more Science Labs to go)

Reserves having been put aside for the furniture and build-in of the new uniform shop

Financial support for students attending competitions, both sporting and academic

The running of the Year 7 Parent information night in February

The organisation and running of the two working bees

The organisation and running of the Year 12 interview skills workshop

The running of the Uniform Shop, which mainly relies on parent volunteers to continue providing quality uniforms with reasonable prices

The Year 12 Graduation Morning Tea, which was supplied and served by the P&C

Support of the Year 12 English Study Day during the Term 3 holidays, with morning tea and lunch supplied

The running of the P&C information booth that explained P&C roles and activities to new parents on Orientation Day for all incoming students

The organisation and running of the hugely successful Multicultural Food Fair.

Please continue to support the P&C by paying the P&C levy to enable us to keep supporting the school and help our students.

The P&C would like to sincerely thank all parent volunteers who contributed their time to the events listed above. We would like to wish all school staff, students and their families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, as well as peaceful and restful holidays.

We look forward to working with you in 2020.

Sau Wan Liew P&C President


Young Justice Program – Law Society

In Week 9 of Term 4, 5 students from Year 11 (Tina Rota, Rucha Thosar, Tahia Mujtaba, Bob Chen and Bridgette Lee) and 4 students from Year 10 (Sara Wardak, Vahin Ravi, Diya Goswami and Gauri Sharma) took part in the Young Justice Program run by the Young Lawyers division of the Law Society.

Students heard a keynote in the Supreme Court from Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC, Governor of New South Wales, who asked for their viewpoints about current legal issues. They undertook workshops in sentencing/legal literacy in the Law Society building and heard from a panel of lawyers with diverse backgrounds about legal careers.

They were given a case scenario involving sentencing using the skills they had learnt in the morning session, to compete with the other school (Sydney Boys High School) in roles as prosecution and defence in the final session of the day. They received support for unpacking the issues in the case scenario from a lawyer who had previously worked as a prosecutor and presented before a judge (The Hon. Justice Terry Buddin SC).

Congratulations to Bob and Sara for stepping up to speak in front of Justice Buddin! Congratulations to all students who were awarded best team by the Justice (with a Year 10 student from Sydney Boys being awarded best speaker). I was very impressed by your professionalism, answers to questions asked and the teamwork and participation which resulted in a well deserved recognition! Ms Hardy


Careers News

University Speaker Program 2020 – Tues/Thurs lunchtimes for Year 10/11/12 students A list of speakers (dates TBA) has been published on Google Classroom for Terms 1 & 2

Exploring - What does my child have access to for Careers in Year 10? • Weekly Careers Classes including Morrisby Online Career Profiling - please see the Careers page on

the school website for an overview of the Careers Program • Tailored resources on Google Classroom including a Career Competency Checklist to ensure they

are on track going into senior school • Students and parents can access the Study Work Grow Careers Subscription (please ask your child

for the user name and password). A personalised school page is available via the above link (requires log in) which includes important event information

• Online Careers Portfolios can be built via the Study Work Grow website (see info above) • Students have access to hard copy Career Portfolios with the Baulko logo (pick up from Careers

Office) • Subject Selection assistance including UAC’s Steps to Uni for Year 10 Students (online and hard

copies) and new online tool (Subject Compass) • 1 year access to a new resource to explore various careers & undertake virtual work experience –

The Careers Department • 1 year access to the Online Study Hacks Masterclass (taught by Dr Jane Genovese who has

qualifications in Law & Psychology)

Clarifying - What does my child have access to for Careers in Year 11? • Future Planning Session (experienced HR speaker) • Motivational Mapping using the Youth Maps profiling report + optional individual follow up session

with the Careers Advisor • Individual appointments with the Careers Advisor (applying to uni, scholarships, general Careers

advice)

Applying – What does my child have access to for Careers in Year 12? • Individual appointments with the Careers Advisor (applying to uni, scholarships, general Careers

advice) • Mock interviews for scholarships/medicine • UAC information session (how to apply to uni), panel discussion (uni students) and scholarships

session (experienced HR speaker) • UAC Guides in hard copy and further resources posted in Google Classroom • Year 12 students can use the UAC online tool Course Compass to assist their decisions

Additional resources for parents myfuture parent resource: https://myfuture.edu.au/footer/assist-others

Ms Hardy Careers Adviser

https://www.morrisby.com/

https://baulkham-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/learning-at-our-school/careers.html

https://studyworkgrow.com.au/school/baulkham-hills-high-school/

https://studyworkgrow.com.au/portfolio/

https://www.uac.edu.au/assets/documents/year-10/year-10-booklet-2022.pdf

https://www.uac.edu.au/subject-compass/

https://thecareersdepartment.com/

https://learning-fundamentals.teachable.com/p/study-hacks-masterclass/

https://www.uac.edu.au/course-compass/

https://myfuture.edu.au/footer/assist-others


CAPA NEWS The very last CAPA article for 2020. What a year we have had finishing off with our CAPA Showcase last week which showcased and celebrated the amazing work of all of our students. Please see below for all the excellent results and awards given on the night.

A very special mention to Bradley Howard Year 12 Music student who has been selected to perform at Encore next year as an exemplar HSC Music student selected from may across the state. Also congratulations to Sophie Yu and James Chen who will have their HSC Body of Works on display at the Armory Gallery as part of Art Express 2020.

Please encourage your children to get involved and have a go at the variety of programs we have running in the Creative and Performing Arts faculty to expand and strengthen their skills across all the arts. Interested in joining a CAPA club? Why not join one the following?

Graphics Club Events Team Junior Choir Accapella Group Dance Ensemble ( new in 2020)

If you are interested and not already involved please send your child to the CAPA staffroom to sign up.

We aim for extraordinary results with all of our students in the Creative and Performing Arts Faculty. To assist us developing your sons and daughters, it is essential that each student in our classes has the appropriate equipment for each lesson. Please check with your child to ensure that all students are prepared for each lesson.

Miss Kristy Pugliano

Head Teacher of Creative and Performing Arts


CAPA Showcase 2020


CAPA SHOWCASE AWARDS Creative Arts

Stage awards for Excellence in Visual Arts Stage 4: Year 7 – Yxaak Dino and Chelsea Tong Year 8 – Judy Zhang and Daniel Shin Stage 5: Year 9- William Zheng and Muskan Arora

Year 10 – Chloe Phan, Bowen Xiao, Stage 6 – Bing Rong Jiang and Linda Ye Most improved in Visual Arts: Eric Wang Year 9 Encouragement Award in Visual Arts: Lauren Eagleton Year 10 Stage awards for Excellence in Photography Stage 5: Diya Goswami (Year 10) and Ravindu Herath Mudiyanselage (Year 9) Stage 6: Jennifer Truong (Year 11) and Jack Zhao (Year 11) Most improved in Photography: Alex Horvath Encouragement Award in Photography: Aniket Sinha Stage awards for Excellence in Visual Design Stage 5: Kevin Zhao (Year 9) and Aarya Phansalkar (Year 9) Most improved in Visual Design: Methin Ginige Encouragement Award in Design: Han Su Special Awards BaulkoBald Open Section Winner: Yeshe Wang BaulkoBald Year 8 Portrait Prize Winner: Catherine Zheng Best Overall Photograph: Jasmine Faddis Year 10 Best Overall artwork: Amy Liu P&C Creative Arts Award (Selected by a P&C Representative)- Most impressive photograph- Safwaan Hoque Most impressive artwork- Michael Sadli


Performing Arts

Choir Grace CHAROENSRI (Year 7), Vishruthi, GANENDIRAN (Year 7), Enya HUANG-DING (Year 7), Edita IBTISAM (Year 9), Michelle LAM (Year 7), Sarah (Ruohan) LIU (Year 7), Sophia LIU (Year 7), Parami KURUPPU (Year 8), Krishi RAGUPATHI (Year 8), Krithi RAGUPATHI (Year 8), Wethmi RUPASINGHE (Year 8), Ashanthi SENASINGHE (Year 7), Kate YAN (Year 7), Daisy XU (Year 7), Arik AKON (Year 7), Nikhil JATHAN (Year 7), Michael JIANG (Year 9), Martin KIM (Year 8), Schuyler RANGANATHA (Year 8) Accapella Choir Jennifer Tran (Year 11), Thomas Han (Year 11), Samantha Gonzales (Year 10), Ashna Rajasingham (Year 11), Aidan Biju (Year 10), George Haohan Zhang (Year 11) Felicity Ye (Year 10) Mahee Iyer (Year 10), Glenn Stewart (Year 11), Maxwell Han (Year 11)

Stage awards for Excellence in Music- Stage 4: Aditya Patel (Year 8) and Josephine Xi (Year 8) Lauren Lubrano (Year 7) and Wolf Kumaran-Eriksson (Year 7) Stage 5: Robinson Tong (Year 9) and Elin Wei (Year 9) Stage 6: Kevin Jiang (Year 11) and Rachel Shin (Year 11) Most improved in Music: Sid Malhotra (Year 10) Encouragement Award in Music: Thomas Han (Year 11) Stage awards for Excellence in Drama Stage 5: Shaan Goradia (Year 9) and Diya Goswami (Year 10) Most improved in Drama: Jeremiah Jose (Year 9) Encouragement Award in Drama: Timothy Pudun (Year 9) Stage Awards for Support Faculty Visual Arts: Excellence Award in Visual Arts: Taylor Hutchings (Year 8) Excellence Award in Visual Arts: Matthew Chakty Most Improved in Visual Arts: Dee Kenny (Year 7) and Faisal Gomulwal (Year 7) Encouragement award in Visual Arts: Sahil Samant (Year 11) Music: Excellence Award in Music: Aaron Calvi Most Improved in Music: Alyssa Corradi Encouragement award in Music: Negin Vejdani


Visual Arts


SUPPORT 2 Visual Arts This semester Support 2 students ave been enjoying creating amazing artworks while exploring a variety of techniques and media. They have created, to mention a few, lino prints, collotypes, collages, painting and photographic darkroom paper negative designs and prints.

Collotype prints

Lino prints

Cupcake paintings


Photographic darkroom prints Kandinsky inspired abstract collective abstract

Collection of Matisse inspired collages


Feature artist

Year 8 Visual Arts student Catherine Zheng with her amazing Baulkobald entry. She worked with great interest during lunchtimes to complete her impressive teacher portrait.


Music Year 7 Music Performances


Year 8 Music Ensemble Performances


Drama Year 9 Drama have been busily finishing off their Australian Drama performances culminating with two groups selected for the Creative and Performing Arts evening. Meenal Janjua and Shaan Goradia performed a scene from Debra Oswald's play “Dags”, and Aniketh Chennapragada, Jeremiah Jose and Timothy Pudin performed a group devised Australian scene. Both comical performances were an excellent representation of the skills and confidence that year 9 have acquired in their first year of Drama-well done to those performers we are very proud of you! Students also became graphic artists and designed posters to promote their performances as featured in the photos provided. Our Learning Intention for our next unit that carries into 2020 is to produce a Shakespeare performance. Students will gain knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays and their universal qualities whilst drawing on their English studies of Shakespeare from Years 7-9. At the end of Term 1 next year some students will be selected to perform their piece at the Shakespeare Carnival which allows students a performance opportunity in dance, music composition, movement, smart phone film, ensemble performance or duologue performance. This Carnival is open to all students from years 7-12; we are looking forward to another fantastic opportunity to showcase the talented students of Baulkham Hills High School.

Yr10 Drama students have been working on developing their physical theatre skills using techniques from the Frantic Assembly to build their work. Students started their devising process with a description and actions of another person in the class, they then modified their own movements, mirrored each other, included synchronisation and added props to create this engaging performance that was much more powerful than the simple movements they started with.


Meet the Music 2019

20 Music students have attended the last concert of the 2019 Meet the Music Series on Wed 18th Sep. Sydney Symphony Orchestra have performed Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis composed by R. Vaughan Williams, Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto in E minor, and Variations on an Original Theme, Enigma, also by Elgar.


School Spectacular Music and drama students have attended Schools Spectacular held at Qudos Arena.


2019 HSC Encore Encore is NESA’s showcase of outstanding musical performances and compositions by HSC music students. Following the five performance Encore nominations, two additional students have been nominated for their HSC composition. Congratulations to the following students: Bradley Howard (Sax), Aaron Jeng (Piano), Klaus Leung (Violin & Composition), Vicki Shen (Sax), Andrew Suhaili (Piano), Chen Zhao (Composition)

Bradley Howard has been selected to perform one of his Music Extension pieces, Divertimento by Boutry. in 2020. Encore concert will be held at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place on 16th and 17th March. Tickets will soon be available for purchase on https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/

https://www.cityrecitalhall.com/


RECREATIONAL SPORT COSTS Term 1 2020

(8 weeks) for Years 8-11

Payment MUST be made by Friday 14th February

*please collect your sports permission note from sport, signed note must be provided to your sport teacher

Venue Sport Cost

Anytime Fitness

Old Northern Road Baulkham Hills Fitness Gym 26

$64

The Edge Castle Hill

Rock Climbing Rock Climbing 26 $120

Fred Caterson Tennis

Castle Hill Tennis – Recreational 55 $100

Hills Stadium

Fred Caterson, Caste Hill

Basketball Courts 55

(7 weeks 19th Feb no available) $120

AMF Wondabowl

Salisbury Road Castle Hill Ten Pin Bowling 55 $112

Castle Hill Indoor Sports

Anella Avenue Castle Hill Indoor Soccer 26 $132

Baulkham Hills Indoor Sports

Hills Street Baulkham Hills Squash 24 $64

School – UPSTAIRS TLC Tae-Kwon-Do 28 $64

Castle Hill

Cheer Energy TUMBLING & STUNTING 28 $120

Baulkham Hills Area Walking No Charge

Your Recreational Sport selection can only be made online at schoolintersviews.com.au

The code for Term 1 2020 is: dfkqz The site will be open for use Wednesday 5th February at 7:30pm and close Thursday 6th February at 7:30pm. After you have made your selection, your confirmation email will be the invoice for payment. Payments are made online at: http://baulkhamhillshighschool.com.au/ and must be received by Friday 14th February (no student registration number or invoice number is needed for online payments. Select the item ‘sport’ as the payment type). Numbers are limited in all sports apart from walking. This is due to venue restrictions, availability of instructors & bus limitations. Only online registration will get you a place in your chosen sport. Payments made without online registration will not give you a place in that sport. All students doing walking will meet in the shed on Wednesday 12th February at the end of lunch to allocate teachers. Please still register online for walking to help us with understanding our numbers.

http://baulkhamhillshighschool.com.au/


Open Boys Cricket Grand Final Just wanted to share the good news that we have beaten Model Farms High School in the Open Boys Cricket Grade Final. The boys played extremely well and it was an absolute thrashing, and we have now beaten them in the Grade Grand Final two years in a row. We lost the toss, batted first and scored 3/87 in 10 overs (Aathan from Year 9 playing well opening batting) while they struggled against our pace attack consisting of Shaan Goradia, Adithya Ranganath, and Asan C and only managed to score 7/57 in 10 overs. Our fielding was impeccable as well and overall the boys played really well to get a well deserved victory and unbeaten right through the season. The boys should be very proud of their efforts. Congratulations! Mr Alex Cricket Coach


BHHSACU AFX 2019 For 5 days, the Baulkham Hills High School Cadet Unit went on their annual field exercise, codenamed “Endgame” to Cataract Scout Park from the 15th to 19th of November. The cadets were split into two main platoons; Alpha and Bravo, which competed against each other by completing various tasks to see which platoon could get the most points by the end of the camp whilst the seniors were put in Charlie or “Thanos” Platoon to try and sabotage the other two platoons. Some unique activities that take place at the camp include codebreaking, navigation exercises, hootchie (a type of tent) building and intense adaptations of capture the flag. These activities occur on the first 3 days of the camp and challenge the cadets in all departments such as their team work, knowledge and skill. Furthermore, it enables them to truly demonstrate and ‘flex’ all that they have learnt throughout the year in cadets. Activities can range from individual competitions to entire platoons against each other. A personal favourite activity was the navigational relay in which the cadets had to try navigate in their sections around the campsite. I must admit, it was hilarious to watch the sections get the wrong coordinates or have their compasses flipped and wander through the opposite side of the campsite. An example of one of the platoon challenges was the “Biggest Hootchie Competition” between Alpha and Bravo which was one of the most hectic team building exercises in which the cadets banded together to try construct a larger hootchie than the opposing platoon. Watching the cadets frantically dash around in order to finish within the very constrictive time limit and hearing their never-ending but enthusiastic shouts proved that they truly enjoyed the activity. The capture the flag scenarios consisted of an attacking party who would try to reach the opposing “flag” whilst the defending sections hid in the foliage as a surprise party, tasked with intercepting the attacking parties. One extraordinary section impressed everyone by sneaking past all of the opposing defending sections with mind-blowing tactics concocted by themselves and capturing the flag in record time! There was never a boring moment even when the activities finished and the spontaneous mini challenges were there to make sure of it. Brightly-coloured canisters were hidden around the campsite, giving the cadets an opportunity to turn the entire game around- but only if they were lucky enough to find them. Be warned: they may be bright but the seniors spared no mercy. Cadets were determined to find them and would spend at least an hour looking which made it all the more rewarding when found. The fourth day was a fun day for cadets to bond with their friends and NCOs, filled with third party camp activities like the flying fox, abseiling and the new addition of caving which many cadets found interesting. In past annuals, mud run, archery and kayaking were also available.


The nights were no less lively than the day. Most nights would have activities organised such as a cadet favourite: lantern stalk where one person held a glow stick in a large field whilst the entire cadet cohort would race to touch it first. Sounds easy but the cadets must remain undetected and dead silent. But let us not forget the memories we made in the middle of the night while on picquet. Every night, as the other cadets slept, some nominated themselves to be on picquet, essentially a group of sentries staying up for an hour each, who would keep watch in case Charlie platoon tried to steal the hard-earned canisters. Moreover, every platoon was granted the opportunity to sleep in tents or cabins. When the final day arrived, the cadets still upheld bright faces, despite being thoroughly worn out from their exhilarating week which proved the success of AFX 2019.

By CDTLCPL XIAN and CDTCPL LIAN


BHHSACU DINING IN NIGHT On Friday 13th December, the BHHSACU held its annual Dining In Night. This is a formal occasion where the cadet unit celebrates a year of achievements and recognises the accomplishments of several cadets. It is also the time when recruits advance to cadets. It was a great night, with great food, music and dancing.

On behalf of the school, I would like to thank CPT (AAC) Charlton and the ACS and every cadet for your support and active participation in the BHHSACU. Thank you also to Mr N Vasrem who has been the Cadet Liaison Officer for many years, who officially steps down from the role this year. He has been a valuable link between the school and the Cadet Unit and will be missed.


Congratulations to the following cadets received who received awards as follows:

Best Dress and Bearing – CDTLCPL Busuttil, E Best Drill – CDTLCPL Teng, J Most Outstanding Cadet – CDT Zou, K Most Improved Cadet – CDT Varathan, T Best Shot 2018 and 2019 – CDTLCPL Lin, J CSM Award – WO2 Hargun, N and WO2 Ravi, V CUO Achievement – CUO Guo, L and CUO Su, C Best Recruit – CDTREC Vidyaratne, K Cadet of the Year – CDTCPL Lian, S

2LT (AAC) Iaconis, BHHSACU


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