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What’s happening at Canterbury Girls with Numeracy in Term 3!

Peer Numeracy for Years 9 and 10

Year 10 mentors were trained in Term 4 last year to support Year 9 with their Numeracy/Maths.

Peer Numeracy is running on Thursday and Friday during DEAR time in A11.

We will recruit Year 8 students this term and Year 7 in Term 4.

Maths Clinic

During Lunch Time on Thursday and Friday in A11, we have Maths Clinic. Everyone is welcome. Bring your lunch and your Maths homework or study materials or Mathspace to do. Maths teachers will be there to help you.

Chit-chat with Ms Yen

RUFTS

RUFTS is our Canterbury GHS Literacy and Numeracy tool to help our students in worded problem solving questions and writing essays.

Students are encouraged to use RUFTS as often as they needed at school as well as at home.

The goals for using RUFTS are:

To improve/slow-down our students’ thinking process when they do any written/problem-solving question across KLAs, years 7-12.
To reduce their ‘silly’ mistakes and increase their confidence

RUFTS Student Champion competition for Term 3

Please join a competition that helps you comprehend worded problem questions and write essays.

It's called RUFTS:

Read the question

Understand the question

Filter or Reform the question

Think of the correct formulas or techniques or evidence from the text

Solve and check or write using PEEL, SETEEL, PETAL.

All you need to do is:

1) Fill out the slip from the box outside of the maths faculty.

2) Fill out the Google form and the link will be sent to your DET email when it's ready.

On the competition slip you need to complete:

Your name, Year group and Subject in which you used RUFTS, Sample of your work with RUFTS: Choose one example from your lesson that used RUFTS, write it on the slip.

There will be a champion for each year group from Years 7 to 12. RUFTS Champions for Term 3 will be announced in week 9 assembly with the prize ($20 gift card from JB-HI-FI) for each Year Champion.

SRC Elections 2020-21

Our school believes that the development of leadership in our young women is highly valued and, that the SRC is one of the formal groups within the school where such engagement takes place.

An effective leader requires opportunity to practice their leadership skill. A total of forty-five students from Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 applied to represent their cohort in the SRC election process in the belief that they each would contribute in a meaningful way.

On Friday, 14 August, these students stood in front of their year group, Year Advisers, and Personal Best teachers explaining their reasons for applying, their passion about our school, and the changes they wish to bring about. For the first time, online voting was used.

The successful six applicants for each Year group will be announced nearer the end of Term 3.

Cathy Jenkins - SRC Coordinator

Prefect Elections for 2021 commencing Week 5

The Prefect elections for 2021 has begun in week 5 this term. As a response to COVID 19, changes have been made this year to allow for online voting to occur. We have a strong group of Year 11 nominees this year and anticipate that the 20 Prefects chosen for the role will do their best to represent and lead the school. We will congratulate all successful school leaders in the final edition of the newsletter for Term 3.

Diega La Grassa – Prefect Coordinator

Duke of Edinburgh

Adventurous Journey

Charlotte Richards Year 9

The Duke of Edinburgh award is a program set to empower young teens about their place in the world. In the award, you have to complete three sections, a physical activity, a new skill, voluntary service and your Adventurous journey.

On the 29th and 30th of July and the 11th and 12th of August, myself and girls from year 9 and 10 went on their adventurous journeys for the duke of ed. We went to Belanglo National Park on the 29th and 30th and to Marramarra National park on the 11th and 12th. Both national parks were very pretty and we all had a great time.

This is what the trip looked like for us. On the first day, we would drive in a minibus together to the park. Once we got there we would plan our routes for the day. We had a map and compass and had to calculate our distance, time and pace for between checkpoints. Each checkpoint was valued differently, the harder it was to get to. We had to visit enough checkpoints which at the end of the day would need to add up to 150 points.

The criteria on the trip to pass included things like leadership- leading the group, setting up a tent, packing and bringing the right things, route planning, etc.

Once we had finished route planning we were off. We had to carry our heavy hiking packs up and down steep hills and through dense bush. It’s much harder and scarier than it looks. The parks were great to connect with nature. We noticed the landscape around us and came to appreciate what we had access to.

On the first day of the second trip, I had my proudest moment of 2020. It hasn’t been that much of an exciting year but this was something I was proud of. My group was climbing up from a gully. We hit a rock face and had to find another way out. The other way was climbing up a rock face. With the help of our guide we all made up but for me at least it was truly a struggle with fear. I overcame this and couldn’t believe that I did it. This is what duke of Ed is all really about. Comparing our group's improvement from the first trip to our one last week, I reflected on so much.

There are three levels to the Duke of Edinburgh Award and our group have just finished Bronze, we will then go on to do our Silver and Gold level.

I can’t recommend Duke of Ed enough. As this is only one component of the award with so many benefits, there is much more to offer. Please consider going to this program. For more information of the DoE Award go to https://dukeofed.com.au

SEA

Well done Olivia Shi in Year 8, awarded as tree-whisperer by School Environment Ambassadors for entries in their competition.

Senior Fundraising

Senior Prefects BBQ fundraising efforts

Library News!

Gardening Club!

Canterbury Girls High School strives towards providing a wide variety of physical activities during our Wednesday sport time. This year we have introduced Gardening as an option summer and winter. At the beginning of the year, students approached an overgrown vegetable garden with no pathways in sight. For months they have been hard at work pulling weeds, transporting mountains of mulch and forming pathways.The group have also taken great initiative beginning new projects in empty planter boxes. This includes a brand new strawberry patch that began flowering this week, as well as a succulent garden among the climbing cactus. Needless to say, the students are exhausted after a long session every week!