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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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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]
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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
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More details to follow later in
the term.
*Please note change of venue
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