Around Our School
Our Final Arty Installations to Cap off the Year..
The last few weeks of term have seen some street art inspired art pieces for the canteen annex created (designs by Mason Anderson Year 10), a custom seat made for the mud hut, Year 8 students created artworks and positive affirmation posters for the back of each of the junior school toilet doors, our totems were installed (thanks Dale and Adam - facilities) and 10 gorgeous wooden stepping logs painted with images of local native birds went into the Senior School grounds! Thank you once more to all of the helping hands involved in making our school grounds a little bit more inspiring.
Ms Georgie Stein, Visual Arts Teacher
James Morrison comes to Frankston High School
On Monday 23 November World famous jazz trumpeter James Morrison came to Frankston High School to provide a workshop and master class for our instrumental music students.
Working with our Junior, Intermediate and Senior Stage Bands James provided our students with a truly stimulating and inspirational three hours, passing on many tips for better performance and working habits. James came along with the James Morrison Academy Big Band and at the end of the session he and the big band gave us a mind blowing performance. A great way to finish an amazing morning.
The previous day, Sunday 22 November, the Senior Stage Band had performed with James at the Long Lazy Lunch, a charity event run by the Proudly Frankston Group. The band performed to over 500 people and sounded truly amazing and working with James was a real buzz for all the students involved.
James’ visit and the Long Lazy Lunch were sponsored by the Proudly Frankston group and we thank them for providing us with this wonderful opportunity. Congratulations to Mr De Bruin who was heavily involved in the organisation of both events.
Mr Peter Sharp
Instrumental Music Director
Skype-a-Thon
On Thursday 4 December 38 amazing Frankston High School students participated in the Microsoft Global Skype-a-Thon. Frankston High School was invited to host a call with Microsoft’s Worldwide Vice President for Education, Anthony Salcito. Anthony’s mission was to stay awake for over 24 hours in order to visit over 30 classrooms from every continent and assist students and teachers from all over the globe to reach the lofty goal of 1,000,000 virtual miles travelled (FYI: We were successful)
Our fantastic students spoke about their passion for technology, coding, 3D modelling and printing, innovation, creation and digital stylus writing and drawing, plus lots more – students dressed up in full AFL and cricket attire, performed musical numbers, presented some native Australian wildlife including a Wallaby, Bearded Dragon and Murray Darling Diamond Python, played ‘hot seat’ with our special guest and generally had a fantastic time sharing the many wonderful things students at Frankston High School do.
Above: A re-creation of a famous monument in Redmond, Washington, made in Minecraft by Frank Hill, Year 10
Looking forward to the 2016 event!
Greg Heale
Director of e-Learning
National Young Leaders Day
Last week, several of Frankston High School’s SLC students were lucky enough to attend the incredible National Young Leaders Day - run by the Halogen Foundation – to listen to some of the country’s most inspirational people. Held at the Exhibition Centre in the city, the annual event was not one to be missed. Speakers included Daniel Flynn, founder of the popular social enterprise Thankyou, Jules Allen, an amazing youth worker with a marvellous ability to help people to accept themselves and Josh Richards, past comedian and military officer and now candidate for the incredible Mars One mission.
The theme of the day revolved around a single quote – “master the little”, which entailed the idea that the small things we do in our everyday lives can have large positive impacts unbeknownst to us. As well as this, there was an initiative called “10,000 ideas”, where the ideas of students from across Australia combine to make our country a better place.
Personally, I found that all the speakers had such different stories, but were all able to relate back to the big idea of “mastering the little”. My favourite speaker would have to have been Josh Richards, who has surpassed over 200,000 applicants and is on route to being one of the first humans on Mars. His achievements made me realise that anything is possible and I especially liked his motto – “the sky is not the limit”. Everyone who attended gained so much from the experience, and it is something that I would recommend for other students in future years.
Stella Cowan, Year 9