State Volleyball Winners
State Volleyball
On Wednesday 9th November, the Year 8 boys volleyball team came runner up in the State Volleyball finals. They worked hard to get to state and were so close to taking out the title! We are so proud of every single one of you and the teamwork and sportsmanship you showed on the day!
VET Cookery Students
After the final whole school assembly on Monday 17th October, our year 12 students and their families were invited to the Freeman building where they received their 'Class of 2022' cookies, made by our very own VET students! Michelle Chhoung, Kayla Priestley, Ashley Siupolu and Jai Tran put in a massive 6.5 hours making and decorating over 200 cookies for our students!
Amazing work from these students, well done!
SBAT Parks and Gardens
On Thursday 20th October, our Student Based Apprenticeship and Training (SBAT) students finished their landscaping project outside our doctors clinic here at HPSC, using all native Australian plants!
This is a fantastic effort from our students, who have spent the last few months preparing plans, budgets, making presentations to the school leadership team, researching plants and soils and now we can see the final result of all their hard work. Congratulations!
News from the Art Room – HPSC at Bunjil Place
Emergent Exhibition
Next year, Emergent 2022: Graduate Showcase will celebrate the creative achievements and outstanding talent of 2022 graduate VCE and VET visual art, design and performing arts students within the City of Casey.
This year for the first time, Casey council invited secondary colleges to nominate a Year 11 student for Co-curator positions in the production of this exhibition.
It is wonderful to announce, that through a nomination and application process, Aneesah Shamim, one of our VCE Studio Arts students has been successful in being offered a role to co-curate Emergent 2022. Her work on developing this exhibition, alongside industry professionals and other student co-curators begins this week as they prepare for the Emergent 2022 in the Bunjil Place gallery space next year.
Casey Creations Art Competition and Exhibition
Two of our visual arts students have recently been successful in the Casey Creations Art Competition. Aneesah Shamim of Year 11 and Jordan Haywood of Year 10 have been acknowledged for their entries with a Merit and Encouragement Award respectively. They will be presented with these at an evening awards ceremony at Bunjil Place on 17th November.
Each entered a drawing and needed to explain their artistic intent as part of the application process.
Annesah Shamim:
Title: Acceptance
Rationale: People feel the need to help whoever they can reach but sometimes don't recognise that some circumstances are predestined (seen in the artwork by people attempting to save a cat from death even when the cat is visibly comfortable journeying towards its fate). Some events cannot be swayed just like a cat cannot be called upon when it does not desire to.
Jordan Haywood:
Title: The Conquest of the Banana
Rationale: After the book “The Conquest of Bread” by Peter Kropotkin, my drawing could represent false promises of a dictatorship where the eye watches over the ants, promises the good nutrition of a banana when there is no banana, only a strange hybrid banana table.
Congratulations to Aneesah and Jordan!
The Suitcase Project
Throughout term three, Miss Dimitriou and Miss Lingard had mentioned the Malthouse theatres suitcase project and how great an opportunity it would be. We would be going to the city and performing our play at the Malthouse Theatre for many other schools to see. Although it sounded exciting, it felt like it was so far away. That feeling stayed the same even while we were reading the script that was given to us by the Malthouse. It was titled ‘Atlantis’. We had to sit in front of the screen almost every lesson to read the script and it wasn’t exactly the most exciting thing to do. Even though the original ‘Atlantis’ script was a well written and engaging story about three characters that showcased the effects of climate change and other serious topics, it didn’t feel like us. However, the Suitcase project started getting more exciting and real when we were writing our own ‘Atlantis’.
To brainstorm ideas for what our version of the play would look like, we were put into small groups. In these groups, we chose what topics we wanted to cover as well as what some scenes could look like. Each group then had to share at least one idea that we were going to use in our final play. We had many creative and outgoing ideas such as a court room scene where climate change’s trial takes place, a beach party that goes terribly wrong, community service with a turtle, a mission to save the world, and even a rap. Although these were all great ideas, we had one problem. They had nothing in common. How could we possibly string all these scenes together? Luckily for us, Miss Lingard had her ways.
The next step was rehearsing (which almost drove Miss Lingard insane!!). Some scenes were more challenging than others but after a couple weeks of rehearsing, we were fairly familiar with all of the scenes, transitions, and stage directions. Although we were pretty good at this point, the performance day was getting closer and closer until it was only a week away.
A lot of us were doubting if we could pull it together by then and we were all nervous and stressed. Most of us didn’t think it would turn out like we wanted.
Then it was finally the day. We had a lot of mixed emotions which included stress, excitement and nerves. The day was full of unexpected twists and turns which caused us to get to the city two or three hours later than we were supposed to. Eventually, we showed up fashionably late to the Malthouse theatre which was swarming with other schools and actors. We arrived during a break, so we had time to gather ourselves and have a little rest until it was time to perform.
One of the first things we did was see the stage that we would be performing on. It was a lot smaller than we all expected so that calmed some of our nerves. The layout, however, was a bit different but we adapted to it and made it work.
After the break was over, we all took our seats and prepared to watch the other schools. There were going to be three other performances before it was our turn.
While the other schools performed, we couldn’t help but compare our play to theirs. They all had costumes and props that brought their play to life, but we liked our storyline better. After each school went, our nerves got bigger and bigger. We were starting to panic.
Finally, it was our turn. This was the moment that we were waiting for, for two whole terms. The lights went down, and we were all getting into our positions. When the lights came up at first, we were still getting used to having all of these eyes on us but the longer we were up there, we got used to it and enjoyed ourselves instead of being drowned in fear. Although we made some small mistakes here and there, the audience seemed to have like it and we had a great time on stage.
Overall, we had a great experience and had lots of fun. The suitcase project was an amazing opportunity that was given to us by Miss Dimitriou and Miss Lingard that we all enjoyed being a part of.
-Nethasa Patikiriachchige
Commercial Cookery Apprenticeship
Allen, a year 12 student here at HPSC has started a Commercial Cookery Apprenticeship with Lanterns Berwick! Congratulations Allen, we can't wait to see what you'll achieve!
Through our partnership with Headstart Victoria, we have been able to offer various apprenticeships and traineeship to HPSC students throughout the year. For more information about the Headstart Program and apprenticeships, speak to our friendly careers team!
Instrumental Music Concert
On Friday 25th November, HPSC will be holding an Instrumental Music Concert! The concert will be held in the River Gum Performing Arts Centre and will showcase some of the many talented performers here at HPSC.
We hope to see you there!
Grow, Cook, Eat!
At the beginning of the year, our Grow, Cook, Eat students planted fruits, veggies, herbs and spices in wicking beds donated from a local company. Today, the garden is thriving! Strawberries, peas, rainbow chard, gandana and beetroot are just some of the fruits and veggies that our students have successfully grown! Throughout the year they have used the produce they have grown in recipes for theit Cook, Grow, Eat class!
Well done to our Cook, Grow, Eat students for their fantastic efforts in planting, growing and maintaining their wonderful produce!