International Grammar School’s weekly e-newsletter Term 4, No. 4 • 31 October 2014 COMING EVENTS TERM 4 The IGS It’s Academic team were pumped ready for their first stoush – with the help of some ‘Potter ‘glasses and the odd dictionary YOUNG ‘SWOT’ TEAM HEADS TO IT’S ACADEMIC! The popular television series It’s Academic – is set to make a comeback in 2015 and our own team of clued-up kids is taking part ... co-organiser told In Focus. The IGS students chose a diverse range of special topics including the American Civil War, the Periodic Table and Roald Dahl’s Matilda. It’s Academic – a quiz show to test teams of school students’ general knowledge – has appeared on our screens over the years and the next series is now in the making. “It was a great experience having make-up and being in the spotlight in front of the camera!” - Oscar, Year 6 Seventeen IGS primary school students from Years 5 and 6 who put their hands up to take part in the next series, met over a couple of lunchtimes to compare notes and learn the rules before joining 26 other schools in the competition. “I was quite amazed by how much they know about all sorts of things,” Mrs Michelle Weir, proud Year 6 teacher and Co-organising teacher David Smith (Year 6) fellow primary teachers Barbara Trottmann (Year 6) and Emily Ross (Year 5) also accompanied the team to the Foxtel Television Studios in Macquarie Park. The series will be screened later next year on Channel 7. Unfortunately, due to a confidentiality clause (as the show won’t screen until later in 2015), the team aren’t allowed to report on their results, however, some of the team did give In Focus a snapshot of their exciting first experiences. continued next page ... Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 WEEK 5 Monday 3 November HSC: 9:25am Visual Arts Tuesday 4 November HSC: 9:25am Geography HSC: 1:55pm History Extension Wednesday 5 November HSC: 9:25am French Extension Thursday 6 November Year 5 Outdoor Education Camp Year 6 Outdoor Education Camp European exchange meeting, 5:30pm PTF Thought Leadership Forum - How Do We Keep Children’s Curiosity Alive? 6:00pm Friday 7 November Year 5 Outdoor Education Camp Year 6 Outdoor Education Camp K-6 Life Education WEEK 6 Monday 10 November K-6 Life Education all week Tuesday 11 November Remembrance Day Wednesday 12 November Year 3/4 t20 blast cricket; Timbrell Park, Five Dock Thursday 13 November 6pm Music Showcase Evening Friday 14 November Silver Qualifying Duke of Edinburgh Expedition until Sunday 16th Best wishes Year 12 for your exams! Happy Halloween see Page 3 Editor: Rosemary Pryor 4-8 Kelly Street, Ultimo NSW 2007 Locked Bag 1022, Broadway NSW 2007 Ph: 9219 6700 Fax: 9211 2474 e: [email protected] from Page 1 continued At left: Three of the team – Tatum, Oscar and William – write about their It’s Academic adventure. At right: Principal Shauna Colnan invited the trio into her office ... William Cooper writes: “My special topic is the Chamber of Secrets, the movie. I chose this subject because I have seen the movie lots of times and read the book. And … I actually got a question on my topic [in the first round]. It was: “What did Ron Weasley get from his mother?” Tatum Faber writes: “Being on It’s Academic was great fun and a really good experience. It showed us how television programs are filmed and what goes on behind the scenes. My extra topic was Gone by Michael Grant. I chose this topic because I know a fair amount about it. It is also a book that interests me. Overall, I found that I learnt a lot from the experience and I enjoyed it very much.” Oscar Seifried writes: “My special topic was The Princess Bride, the movie. I chose it because it is my favourite movie. It was a great experience having make-up and being in the spotlight in front of the camera. Below: Still in the Principal’s office, they looked for inspiration in the Learning Journeys book and on the globe. Bottom: More members of the IGS team in the Green (Yellow) Room at Foxtel Studios “I felt really nervous and excited pressing buzzers although they were a bit stiff. All in all, I had a great time at Its Academic. It is an experience I will never forget”. Ed: I’m sure this is going to make very, very good viewing ... In Focus will advise the It’s Academic screening dates next year. Meanwhile, what to do if all that curiosity starts to change? See PTF Thought Forum notice, below. PTF THOUGHT FORUM Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 2 SNAPSHOT OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo-h!! Look out, there’s something spooky going on in the senior library... Getting ready for today’s Halloween, librarian Janice McLachlan is pictured below in the David Baker Learning Centre last week ... with some of her happy Halloween display assistants. PTF NEWS IGS team cycles into Spring Congratulations to all the IGS families who rode the 2014 Spring Cycle with ‘Team IGS’ on Sunday 19 October. It was a beautiful Sydney day and this community cycling event is a wonderful way to enjoy our fabulous harbour city. Many IGS families completed the 15 Km City Ride from North Sydney to Pyrmont and a group of IGS cyclists completed the more challenging 55 Km Classic Ride, which finished at Homebush Olympic Park. Thanks to Y10/12 parent cyclist Donna Bolton who kindly volunteered to accompany individually-registered IGS high school participants on the 55 Km Classic. IGS cyclists were delighted to be greeted at the start and along the way by IGS Head of Primary Music, Michele Ellis, who was a volunteer safety supervisor for the event. Congratulations to all IGS participants for completing the ride safely. Diana Hasche PTF President Alex and Cooper completed the 55km Classic Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 3 ARTWORKS OF THE WEEK ‘Masks’ by Year 9’s Finn Terry and Freja Andersson (masked, above ... and unmasked, far right!) The imposing works, alongside many others, are currently on display in the David Baker Learning Centre. Sophie Lampert, Head of Visual Arts DRAMA AND FILM SPACE More nominations to HSC Drama showcase OnSTAGE! And the Newington College Film Festival ... In addition to the two individual and two group performance nominations (In Focus, 12 September 2014), the following nominations have just come in for Project submissions: • • • The following film submissions from the ADDaM group in Drama Visual Art and Film Studies have been accepted into the Newington College Film Festival: Madeleine Madden for her Video Drama Daisy Elodie Hennessey Trupheme for her Poster Design for the play Falling Petals Madeleine Goodsir for her Critical Analysis Applied Research Project on her chosen subject of Women In Theatre – specifically with the developed hypothesis: There has been “an extreme pendulum shift in theatre” says Lee Lewis. What does this mean for female artists in Australia in 2014?” This makes a total of 12 nominations in a class cohort of 13 – in such a range of diverse categories! The Gadget (Film studies) - Himavaan Chandra Year 10 My Only Enemy is Time (Visual Art HSC) Elly Carantinos ShatterPoint - Naysan Baghai (Year 11 and a passionate film maker from primary school days. Curent drama student) Daisy (Drama HSC) Madeleine Madden Rita Morabito Head of Drama, Art, Design and Media (ADDaM) Elodie with her Falling Petals poster ED: More news from the world of IGS Drama in next week’s In Focus. MATHS SPOT Which shape fits in the missing space to complete the pattern? Last week’s solution: A. B. C. D. Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 SOLUTION Player A won 3 matches. Player B won 3 matches. Player C won 0 matches. Player D won 0 matches. Player E won 1 match. P layer F won 2 matches. Player A will play with players F and B who won 5 matches. Matches with F and B are the most difficult, so Player A has the most difficult matches to play. Jane Martin Head of Mathematics [email protected] 4 ALUMNI CORNER Kesang Choden (IGS Class of ’02) met with her former IGS Mathematics teacher Geoff Bates during his recent travels with his wife in Bhutan. We are lucky to now have Geoff’s daughter Juliette at IGS, teaching in our Languages Department! Julia Glass Alumni Relations Officer HISTORIA - HISTORICAL EVENT OF THE WEEK There will be a Cadbury 200gr Chocolate prize to the first correct answer to the Quiz below. Answers are to be emailed to Mr Tsomis at: [email protected]. edu.au. All welcome to participate. Prizes can be collected from the HSIE/English Staffroom. Shootout at the OK Corral - 26 October 1881 On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the ClantonMcLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshals, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral. On the morning of October 25, Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury came into Tombstone for supplies. Over the next 24 hours, the two men had several violent run-ins with the Earps and their friend Doc Holliday. Around 1:30 p.m. on October 26, Ike’s brother Billy rode into town to join them, along with Frank McLaury and Billy Claiborne. The first person they met in the local saloon was Holliday, who was delighted to inform them that their brothers had both been pistol-whipped by the Earps. Frank and Billy immediately left the saloon, vowing revenge. Around 3 pm., the Earps and Holliday spotted the five members of the ClantonMcLaury gang in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral, at the end of Fremont Street. EVENTS The famous gunfight that ensued lasted all of 30 seconds, and around 30 shots were fired. Though it’s still debated who fired the first shot, most reports say that the shootout began when Virgil Earp pulled out his revolver and shot Billy Clanton point-blank in the chest, while Doc Holliday fired a shotgun blast at Tom McLaury’s chest. Though Wyatt Earp wounded Frank McLaury with a shot in the stomach, Frank managed to get off a few shots before collapsing, as did Billy Clanton. When the dust cleared, Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers were dead, and Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded. Ike Clanton and Claiborne had run for the hills. The shootout has been immortalized in many movies, including Frontier Marshal (1939), Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994). Quiz Question: Which actor played Wyatt Earp in the movie “Gunfight at the OK Corral”? The answer to the last question concerning “the name of the person who gave Al Capone the four inch long scar across his left cheek” was Frank Gallucio. K-2 Speech Day Years 3-12 Speech Night End of Year School Picnic Early Learning Concert Wednesday 26 November Monday 1 December Tuesday 2 December Friday 28 November School Hall State Theatre Parsley Bay* School Hall. 11.00am 49 Market St Sydney Kindergarten - Year 11. 11:00am All K – 2 students are required to wear full school uniform Parking available at nearby parking stations (details to follow for special parking rate) Parents are welcome to join us on the day! This year’s theme is “Once Upon a Story”. This is a compulsory event for all Years 3- 12 students Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 More details to follow later in the term. *Please note change of venue 5 Term 4, No. 4 - 31 October 2014 6
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