Extra Curricular & Wellbeing

Winner Reconciliation Week Colouring Competition

SRC Parent Teacher Night

The SRC was out in force running the Canteen for Years 8, 9 and 10 Parent Teacher Evening. It felt great to be back to our pre-COVID activities making tea and coffee for thirsty staff as well as selling baked goodies to hungry but generous parents. Thanks to all who supported us on Tuesday - we will be doing it all again on Tuesday 13 July for Years 7, 11 and 12.

Reconciliation Week Colouring Competition

To celebrate reconciliation week 27th of May to the 3rd of June , Canterbury Girls High School students engaged in some learning about reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history. To celebrate the 2021 theme "More than a Word. Reconciliation takes action" the students were encouraged to take part in a colouring competition, an artwork called "Action" by Jessica Johnson. The Indigenous Leadership Group enjoyed going through all the entries and unanimously decided on the top 3.

The winners of the reconciliation week colouring competition are:

1st Nicky Sanchez, year 7

2nd Laila Duval, year 9

3rd Ruby Krawitz, year 8

Gardeners

Ms Jesse captured a picture of a cockatoo in the garden and some pavement art done by a student.

Sporty Gardeners

Premiers Sporting Challenge

Year 7 to 10 students only have a few weeks left of the Premier's Sporting Challenge. Don't forget to keep recording your entries in your PSC web app. The challenge ends on Saturday 26th June (the end of this term).

Ms Battaglia & Mrs Cooper

Term 2 RUFTS Quiz Winners

(by Ms. Yen)

What a great term it has been for the 3-week Challenge - RUFTS Quiz winners!!!

Each winner received a $20 gift card from Officeworks.

Canterbury GHS started a RUFTS Quiz each term in Term 3 last year and it has been a great way of creating new brain cells for us. We’ve had an average of 40-50 entries for each week.

I thank all the participants for this LAST challenge for RUFTS. This term was our last term for promoting RUFTS. The aim of the RUFTS program is to assist our students to stop and think (using prompts) about what they are thinking when problem-solving.

We have used RUFTS with other strategies such as growth mindset (using mistakes as a learning opportunity to have a go) to help students improve in numeracy, and our school numeracy skills in Year 10 HSC Minimum Standard have improved significantly (35% increase since 2018).

Please continue to use RUFTS as often as you can and learn to master your problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

RUFTS

1. Read the Question

2. Understand the Question (Look at Task words: doing words)

3. Filter the Question (Collect Keywords: information)

4. Think about the correct Formulas / Techniques

5. Solve and Check / Start writing with ALARM, PEEL, etc.

Why do we need to learn Problem-Solving skills?

When you learn problem-solving skills, it will help you to:*be better with people in general, like having positive relationships*avoid conflicts*strengthen your empathy skills *help you to learn more positive things about another person's intentions.

This is why it is crucial to learn and practise the problem-solving skills now!

Thank you for enjoying this fun event and thanks to all the RUFTS teachers:

Ms. R. Andrews (Deputy Principal)

Ms. L. Humphreys (English)

Ms. M. Cheung (Science, Yr7 YA)

Mr. D. Nolan (HSIE, Yr7 YA)

Mr. Q. Nguyen (Maths)

Ms. A. Magoffin (EAL/D)

Ms. E. O’Sullivan (LaST)

Ms. H. Wang (Maths)

Ms. A. Jwamer (L & N Support Teacher)

Ms. E. Chiara (HT Teaching & Learning)

Ms. C. Jenkins (TAS)

Ms. K. Wilson (Music)

Ms. Q. Liu (Chinese)

Ms. M. Salakas (HSIE)

Ms. I. Yen (HT Mathematics)

Mr. D. Trinh (Maths)

and last but not least Ms. Conway, our principal, who has been a great supporter of this competition.

HAPPY WINNERS!

SAS Staff: Ms. Daniella Antunes, Ms. Brigid Dwyer, Ms. Bahieh Chami and Ms. Nursu Gurmen.

Teaching-Staff: Ms. J Cooper, Mrs. H Connolly-Greig and Ms. H Wang.

Students: Kico Imai-Arnold (12), Antonina Scheer (12), Imogen MacBeath (12), Trapeta Sen (11), Bhavna Alagiri (11), Jeevna Alagiri (11), Caitlin Grabham (10), Amelia Elliott (10), Afsana Kazi (9), Neave Sharp (9), Afroza Kazi (8), Hitomi Nogawa-Lewy (8), Han Nguyen (7), Jasmine Wang (7)

Thank you so much for all your support and please keep using RUFTS.

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Workshops

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