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Pictures from the Classroom!
Gardening
Below are some images of students in the Gardening Club. There is also images of our garden including one of Warrigal Greens, bush tucker grown in our own vegetable garden at school. Also known as New Zealand Spinach or Botany Bay Greens.
Year 7 French
Everyone has a birthday and we all love celebrating one. Students in Year 7 French showed great originality and resourcefulness when, working from home, they were asked to create a story board for a cartoon where they celebrated a birthday at a special breakfast. Below are some samples of the artwork.
Students announce whose birthday it is and then proceed to tell the story about a special birthday breakfast they make.
CAPA
The Music Department
It's exciting to be back into practical lessons in Music. It's been a busy 3 weeks of reacquainting ourselves with the challenges of ensemble repertoire and developing pieces for assessment. It shouldn't be too long before we can start planning for performances again. On that note, we have begun writing the 2021 Musical Production, CLUE The Musical (working title). This will be a student driven One Act show that will incorporate students from elective CAPA classes in the form of script writers, composers, lyricists, arrangers and art/set designers. We are also extremely happy to welcome back our Private tutors. Thank you to the girls who continued lessons online and to the tutors who made it work.
Textiles Technology
Year 7
Year 9
Year 9 Textiles Technology Elective Class working on their re-invented school skirts. These students are gaining collaborative skills and learning to identify how a skirt is made. Their completed skirts will be included in the next newsletter.
Year 10
Hand embroidering "ISO-Dolls" small hand and machine-sewn dolls to conclude a unit on Costume Design. Students are currently embroidering facial features and once assembled, students will devise a simple costume for their completed doll.
9 PDM – PHOTOGRAMS
Year 9 Photography and Digital Media have been busy learning about the Darkroom. Their introduction has begun with the processes of making test strips to ascertain the correct exposure time and aperture setting to produce successful Photograms. Students had fun selecting a range of objects and textures to design their pieces. It’s always a joy to see the wonder in their expressions as they watch the image reveal itself in the developer.
NEWS FROM THE SHELVES…
Welcome back everyone after some interesting experiences with remote learning – it’s good to see your smiling faces again!
It’s also really good that many of you are now returning overdue books.
We’ve made a determined effort to chase up those students ( & staff ) with long-overdue items and are delighted to see them coming back.
In particular if you borrowed a biography or memoir for your PDHPE assessment in Year 9 and have not yet returned it, PLEASE do so – we need those books to use with the next Year 9 cohort.
On a more positive note we have been buying more resources for the Library, including up-to-date Fiction, Renaissance Reading books and curriculum relevant Non Fiction – check the OLIVER Library Catalogue for New Items and the New Books display for the latest additions. The following are some highlights:
Feel like another Book Quiz? Try out - Which children’s book character are you?
( I turned out to be Matilda from the Roald Dahl book of the same name )
Until next time – keep healthy and keep reading.
Ms Manton
Reducing Anxiety in Maths
A maths test is making everyone nervous, anxious and scared…but I’m here to say, that is natural and normal. We all have those feelings. How do you do better at maths?
- Have a detailed daily study plan for maths: please come and see Ms Yen if you need help with your study plan.
- Do your maths homework every day.
- Do maths study regularly, even one simple question per day: too busy? Take a photo and think about it by looking at it as often as possible.
- Focus on not making ‘careless’ mistakes by mastering simple questions: often focusing on mastering easy 1-mark questions will help you get better results.
- Have a practical and achievable goal: if your last result was 50%, please don’t aim for 90% for the next test but 60% or a bit more, and improve slowly.
- TEACHING other students is the best way to remember for a long time so when others ask you for help in maths class, please help and work together.
- Ask 2-3 people before asking your maths teacher: you will learn at least 3-4 ways of solving one problem.
- Memorise formulas as often as you can.
- Challenge yourself by solving harder questions by yourself: struggle for as long as you can and as often as you can, it helps you to build confidence in maths.
- Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities.
The Peer Numeracy Program has had a strong start. Teaching someone is the best way to learn. It’s run by Ms Wang and Ms Yen on Thursdays and Fridays at DEAR time in A11. Yr 10 mentors are teaching Yr 9 mentees with their maths.
Please visit:
Chit-chat with Ms. Yen | Day 9: Putting me-myself-I first: First Aid for self-respect.
Chit-chat with Ms.Yen | Day 10: Self-improvement (Is ‘be-yourself’ overrated?)
Chit-chat with Ms.Yen | Day 11: What do you really want?
WoodiWild Tree Planting Project
What is the project?
Here at Canterbury Girls High School we have many passionate students who are working on conserving the environment. The Murray Darling-Basin is an area in Australia that has been greatly impacted by climate change and human impacts. The fish kills of 2018-2019 are just some examples of devastating impacts that humans are having on the environment. WoodiWild is a not-for-profit registered charity that whose objective is to plant 1 million trees over a 10-year period on private land right across the Murray Darling Basin. Our school is supporting this initiative, and have set a target of 500 trees, 95 of which have already been purchased toward the end of last year.
How do I buy a tree?
To buy a tree, go to https://woodiwild.org/canterbury-girls-high-school/ . Each donation is $10, and will fund the planting of a tree, and you will also receive a GPS location of where your tree has been planted. The WoodiWild website has more information on the areas where the trees will be planted, what types of trees will be planted, and the benefits of supporting this project. Please support this fundraiser to help protect the Australian environment we know and love, and to help native plant and animal species get back on their feet.
Thank you for helping us protect our precious environment, Mae Mitsak, Ella Davis, Polly Jennings and Sophia Carlson, Year 10 S.E.A.
After School Homework Centre
Well Being Resources
Check out the flyers below
Below are some link to well being resources: