Coburg High School Newsletter

Principal's Report

2019 in Review and our 2020 Vision

Vale John Pope and Vale Sam Ozdemir

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of two parents within our community this week: John Pope and Sam Ozdemir. Sam and John are fathers of students at Coburg High School and both have been battling cancer for the past year. Our sincere condolences are extended to Emma, Emilie and Joshua Pope and to Jansai and Ozen Ozdemir for their tragic loss.

 

Student Excellence

As the school year draws to a close, it is important to reflect on the achievements of students across the course of the year. At our final assembly for students in Years 7 to 9, the following awards were presented to students based on our four core values of Excellence, Curiosity, Integrity and Community:

  • Overall ‘Community’ Award: Lock Morton
  • Writing competition award recipients: Billy Barden, Gerard Todd, Paramita Sharma.
  • Principal’s writing prize: Paramita Sharma
  • Green Compass Entry Awards:
  1. Community—Lily Moloney & Emma Giles 
  2. Curiosity—Ronin McIntosh & Liam Brett-Hampton;
  3. Excellence—Brandon Briant & Gialoren D’Oca
  4. Integrity—Namira Sciglitano & Viki Bryn Vi Arridzkia

 

Subject Awards:

  • Spanish: Year 7 Giselle Surace; Year 8 Reym Url Kanindot; Year 9 Jess Giuliani
  • Chinese Mandarin: Year 7 Ella Wright
  • Humanities: Year 7 Aidan Cashin; Year 8 Lucy Christou; Year 9 Owen Cashin & Zoe Beaumont
  • Performing Arts: Year 7 Dance / Drama Isabella Baker; Year 8 Dance Alice Boyd; Year 8 Drama Monique Coluccio; Year 9 Drama Oskarn Olsson; Year 9 Dance Georgia Efstathiou
  • Health: Year 8 Gialoren D’Oca; Year 9 Xavier Freeman
  • Physical Education: Year 7 Carter Sandilands; Year 8 Lilli Bermes; Year 9 Francis Guntur / Tali Coleman / Jess Giuliani / Mia Haas / Sarah Warren
  • Visual Arts: Year 9 Sophie Carter / Ashley Myint / Sarah Warren / Mia Herreen / Owen Cashin
  • English: Year 7 Sienna Freeman; Year 8 Chloe Brownjohn; Year 9 Sarah Warren
  • Mathematics: Year 7 Jonah Day; Year 8 Alice Quach; Year 9 Jess Giuliani / Alec Hatzihalkias
  • Science: Year 7 Aidan Cashin; Year 8 Lucy Christou; Year 9 Eva Papadopoulou / Nicholas Cotugno Morrison

 

In addition, congratulations to Paramita Sharma of Year 10 on being accepted into the University of Melbourne Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars program (as part of the Class of 2021). This is a wonderful achievement and a credit to Paramita’s dedication to her studies and her ongoing contributions to the school.

 

This year there have been many students involved in our new ‘Extension and Enrichment Program’. Those students have set themselves ambitious goals and with support of teaching staff have tracked their own progress towards those goals throughout the year. They have achieved some amazing things. Based on the success of this first year of the initiative, we intend to significantly expand our extension and enrichment program in 2020. Further into this final edition of the newsletter, there is an update on the end-of-year celebration for those students to acknowledge their talents and hard work. 

 

CHS Art Exhibition

Recently our annual art exhibition was held in our new library, and this was a wonderful showcase of the original artwork of students from a wide range of studio arts, design and media classes at Coburg High School.

 

Congratulations to the following students on the awards they received for their creative artwork at our opening night:

 

Principal's Prize: Celeste Elliott

 

Young Archies Award: Finn McRae

 

Best Effort and Achievement in Visual Arts 2019 (Year Levels):

Year 7: Amelia Glover-Swaine

Year 8: William Kay

Year 9: Sara Toure

Year 9: Evie McDonagh

Year 11: Nina Lord and Charlotte Wade

 

Best Effort and Achievement across the Visual Arts at Coburg High School 2019:

Media: Jay Lentini

Visual Arts: Casey Williams

Visual Communication Design: Ella Dennis

 

 

CHS Writing Competition

Thank you to all students who contributed their writing to the annual CHS Writing Competition. There were many wonderful entries to this year's competition, with the theme 'It's a Conspiracy!'

 

Congratulations to Paramita Sharma who has been awarded the principal's prize for this year's writing competition. Her poem is impressive in terms of the imagery it evokes and its cadence and rhythm and the sophistication of its structure. Poetry is truly a form of art and Paramita's poem