Canterbury Girls High School Newsletter

Student and School Community Achievements

Vale Gayle Gibson

Thank you to all School and Community members for your kind thoughts and condolences at the recent tragic death of Ms Gayle Gibson. Ms Gibson had been Head Teacher Mathematics from 2011 to 2016, and then Principal Support Officer 2018-2019.

Ms Gibson's mother, Enid Davis,  also attended Canterbury Girls High and was Dux in 1934. The family piano sits proudly in our Cantabrian Hall, donated in memory of Enid.

Ms Gibson had a 39 year career with NSW Education, having previously taught at Jannali, Matraville, East Hills Girls, and Strathfield Girls high schools.

Ms Gibson had taught thousands of students Mathematics throughout those 39 years and she is held in high esteem by students, community members and her colleagues. She will be sadly missed. During term 2 there will be a school held memorial in her honour.

Our sincere condolences to her much loved family and her friends.

 

Sue Holden, Principal

Welcome to Year 7 SRC!

 

Maia Emery, Lucy Davies, Scarlett Dawson, Calantha Hopwood-Craig, Zoe McRobert, Mollie Brown are the newly elected student representatives joining the SRC to give voice to the Year 7 student body. Well done to all students who took the brave decision to stand for nomination.

Texstyles HSC Exhibit

 

Xanthia Marinelli's Texstyles exhibit on display at the exhibition where the very best examples of Textiles and Design major Bodies of Work (BoW) are shown. 

SCHOOL MUSICAL - Save the Dates

PERFORMANCES Thursday 30th May, Friday 31st May & Saturday 1st June

Work is currently underway by all the staff in the CAPA department and staff on the production team in readiness for our forthcoming school Musical for 2019 Tribe & Tribulation.   The audition process has successfully concluded and rehearsals have commenced. 

Our latest production is designed to be a vibrant musical which follows the adventures of several young people as they seek adventure and good fortune away from the dreary tedium of their hometown.  The young people have to bond together and reflect upon what is important in their lives in order to understand what they really value.  Throughout the course of their adventure they learn something about themselves and the differences between the ‘tribes’ that may be found in any community.  Ultimately they learn the differences are largely only surface deep and it is the commonalities which are far more relevant.

Each production has differing requirements and varying demands for our young performers.  The auditions allow staff to select students with the appropriate skills but also the match the student to the character and ensure that we have the experience and abilities of our older students transferred to the younger members of the school.   The main cast and some Ensembles have commenced rehearsals with more students to be drawn into the process in the 2019 year.  Students will be asked to sign a commitment contract and a payment is required to help defray the costs involved in this adventure.  We look forward to working with all the students in a range of capacities from technical, musical, dance, drama, artistic and design.  These are the dates of our performances in 2019:

Rehearsals

Thursday after school 3.15- 4.30pm Cantabrian Hall  plus various Ensemble rehearsals at lunchtimes.

Weekend Rehearsals

17th February 9.30am - 3pm Sunday

24th March 9.30am -3pm Sunday

11th May 9.30am -4 pm Saturday

26th May 9.30pm - 4pm Sunday

 

Production Week

Bump-in Friday 24th May & Monday 27th May

In-school rehearsals Tuesday 28th, Wed 29th & Thurs 30th May

 

PERFORMANCES Thursday 30th May, Friday 31st May & Saturday 1st June

 

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

If you can give your time to support the parent teams for catering at one or more performances please contact one of the P&C executive to make your availability known.

DONATIONS of cakes and sweets are called for on each night of the musical performances; these can be delivered direct to the kitchen in the MPC on the night.

Congratulations to:

  • Nell Bryson-Smith of Year 12 for her selection in the NSW Combined High Schools Cricket team and the NSW All Schools Cricket Team, a great honour and recognition of her talent!
  • All student mentors in Years 9 and 10, who have completed peer mentoring workshops with our new Year 7 students as part of their transition to high school.
  • Student leaders who assisted in tours, presentations and activities for Open Night for Year 7 2020 on February 26th and at School in Action tours on March 5th
  • House Captains for their leadership at the Swimming Carnival, and all students selected to compete in Zone and Regional Swimming events. More pictures are in Sport report in Extra-Curricular.
  • Two zone records were broken by Kylani Koloamatangi. She broke the 50m Freestyle and 100m Freestyle records. Well done Kylani. Additionally the 4x50 relay team made it to STATE after  winning swim in the Regional Carnival! See more pics in the Sport section of Extra-curricular on this fantastic swim.

Edie Harris, Year 9, who successfully auditioned for the NSW Public Schools Singers for 2019. The NSW Public Schools Singers will be performing as part of this year’s Combined Schools’ Secondary Choral Concert at Sydney Town Hall in May.

  • Students who were successful in gaining a place in the Talent Advancement Program, Anouk Povaly, Mieke van Wel and Maria Zaccheo all of Year 10.
  • Students successful in gaining selection to the NSW Public Schools Drama Ensembles  - Year 7 Ruby Duggan and Neve Hobbs;  Year 8 - Alyssa Carnt, Amelia Elliott, Elsa Grasselli, Taylor Potten  Year 9  - Zoe Jewell, Alessandra Sackey, Jessica Sanderson, Zoe Trenbath, Ruby Wilkinson Please note we will continue to publish names of students successful in gaining placement with the  Arts Unit  as we receive them.
  • Maggie Pirangi of Year 11 who was seleccted in the Sydney East Girls' Volleyball team which competed in the NSWCHSSA Carnival March 12-14.
  • Co-Captains Kalya Htoo and Eleanor Dunstan who attended the School Leaders Awards Ceremony at Wiley Park Girls HS at the invitation of Tony Burke, MP, and Sophie Cotsis, Member for Canterbury and Jihad Dib, Member for Lakemba. Thank you Ms Fountas for organisation of their attendance.
  • Well done to all Knockout teams and their coaches; since the last newsletter Touch Football and Netball games have been played, as well as students accompanying Ms Delmas to the Sydney East Girls Football carnival.
  • Indigenous students who were accompanied by Ms Reed to the Aboriginal Dance Workshop on March 15 - see further reporting on this in Dance news in the Extra-Curricular section.
  • Ms Kathie Burgess, recently elected to the role of Secretary for the Cantabrians Ex-Students Association.

Thank you to:

  • All Parents  who continue to pay off  both Voluntary and Subject Contributions, the ongoing financial support means we have many projects for improved resources underway for 2019.
  • P & C for great support on Open Night with a parent BBQ run by Mary Jordan, Patrick Todd, Sue Topham, Aina Musaeva, Richard Geering, and Heather Veitch.
  • Cornersmith, Marrickville  for the donations for P&C BBQ.
  • Parents  Paul Martin and  Heather Veitch for speaking at  the Year 6 Open Night.
  • P&C for the recent donation of $18,000 towards Technology Hardware Upgrades across the school.
  • Parent Karen Rodgers who is continuing to manage grant applications for the P&C.
  • Ms Naisbett for her coordination of the Swimming Carnival, and House Patrons for their support on the day for student participation.
  • Ms Fountas, Ms Jenkins and all staff for their efforts at Open Night and the School in Action tours.
  • Ms Connolly-Grieg for her coordination of School Photos day.
  • Ms Connolly-Grieg, Ms Burgess, Ms Jenkins, Ms Humphreys, Ms Wang and Ms Cheung for acompanying Year 7 on their 3 day camp to Milson's Island.
  • Our Schools Police Liason Officer Constable Ann Ferfoyla for delivering cybersafety and crime prevention workshops to year 7-10 in Personal Best time during Term 1.
  • Coco Wang, ex-student Year 12 2018, 2nd in the state in Advanced English, for delivering 3 superb workshops to Years 12, 10 and 9 high-performing English students.
  • SRC students and Ms Jenkins for their coordination of the school's International Women's Day Assembly, see more in the Extra-Curricular section on our school's celebration of #IWD2019.
  • Music students and Ms Wilson and Ms Flannery who accompanied them to Petersham Town Hall to perform in the Inner West Council IWD event. All students were  recognised with  certificates from the Council for their participation.
  • Ms Fountas and Ms Conroy who accompanied Eve Byrne, Nell Bryson Smith and Eleanor Dunstan to the Zonta Club of Western Sydney IWD Breakfast at Bankstown Sports Club.
  • All staff who delivered exciting, enriching and extension learning experiences for students on Field Study Day on March 21st.  See photos in Celebration of Learning in this edition.
  • Thank you to Ms Flannery and Ms Dervenis-Loupos, who coordinated a Quality Teaching Professional Learning Day for CGHS staff and visiting staff from Ashfield Boys HS.