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thorney road fairfield west nsw 2165 phone 02 9604 3118 www.fairvaleh.schools.nsw.edu.au term 1 week 11 issue 2 monday 2 april 2012 fairvale high school in partnership with fairfield police senior constable allan clapham sergeant young detective breffington and detective saunders recognised the importance of harmony day on wednesday 21 march 2012 to celebrate and in keeping with this years harmony day theme of `sport friendly games of basketball and futsal were played between the fairfield police students and teachers of fairvale high school at the commencement of the event year 7 to 10 students were addressed by the police and school captains where messages of living in harmony were delivered below is a message from sergeant young to the staff and students at fairvale high school thank you for inviting police from the fairfield local area command to fairvale high school on wednesday the 21st of march 2012 to help celebrate harmony day the participation from the school students and staff involved in the sporting contests and the atmosphere from the crowd who supported the event was absolutely fantastic and a positive reflection on the school it was clear to me that the culture existing within the school coincides with the underlying message of harmony day the fairfield local area commander superintendent lennon initiated the we are you project in 2011 superintendent lennon is very keen to engage with the community at all levels and strongly supports positive police engagement with the youth within the fairfield local area command greatly appreciated gary young sergeant fairfield local area command

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picasso exhibition and art express with year 11 visual arts students early in february year 11 visual arts students had the opportunity to see a wide range of original pablo picasso s artworks that were exhibited at the art gallery of new south wales students also viewed the art express exhibition and had a wonderful and a once in a life time learning experience.

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principals report term 1 is drawing to an end and it is pleasing to see so many students enthusiastically participating in their respective courses and extra-curricular activities mid semester examinations have been completed and year 12 students can now look forward to receiving their reports early in term 2 please ensure that the feedback recommended from class teachers is given attention and followed through parents guardians are most welcome to contact the year advisers ms zilic ms foo or the appropriate head teacher to discuss their son s/daughter s progress once again we will be holding holiday school in the library from tuesday 10 april to friday 13 april this school program is for students who may need to improve in their studies and with extra tuition and support if your son daughter is required to attend this holiday school parents/guardians will be contacted by one of the deputy principals please organise family holidays in school holiday periods students who take time off in the school term are disadvantaged in their learning and may not be able to meet the board of studies course requirements the school will not be approving extended holidays for senior studies during the school term it may be that some students will need to repeat a particular year if the learning outcomes of various courses are not achieved because of poor attendance furthermore it is important for all students to attend school everyday and be on time the school day begins at 8.45am it is a good practice to aim to arrive at school no later than 8.30am parents/guardians can assist by first dropping off their high school children and thereafter any primary school children in their families term two is also the time when the winter uniform is worn and students will be wearing either the junior or senior tie ties are available from the front office at cost price as well we would encourage all parents guardians to support our endeavours in ensuring that fairvale students present the laptops for year 9 have arrived and will themselves with pride in the local community shortly be issued to the students this program this can be achieved by the wearing of full is funded by the federal government with the school uniform to and from home infrastructure being supported by the state we trust that you will have a refreshing easter government if your son/daughter is in years break 9 10 11 or 12 the expectation will be for them to bring their laptop to school everyday and be regards responsible for it the students have engaged in an agreement with dec regarding the care mrs k seto and responsibility of this asset we seek your support and partnership in this area please be reminded of the following events at the beginning of term 2 first day back for all students year 11 half yearly examinations anzac day commemoration anzac day holiday naplan for years 7 9 24 april 24 april to 1 may 24 april 25 april 15 ­ 17 may for a full colour version of this newsletter please go to our website www.fairvale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

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year 7 teaming 2012 following the phenomenal success of teaming classes in 2011 which is an extension of national partnerships we are pleased to announce the continuation of this initiative in 2012 deputy principal peter rouse is managing the implementation monitoring and evaluation of the year 7 teaming initiative and seven fvhs teachers have been selected as 2012 year 7 team teachers all teaming teachers were selected by the school s eoi process to teach three or more subjects and effectively support the year 7 s in collaboration with the welfare team and year advisers year 7 teaming is an exciting new initiative that assists and supports year 7 students to transition from primary school to high school with ease it provides an opportunity for all year 7 teachers to collaborate share resources ideas and continue explicit and consistent teaching across the cohort of year 7 the year 7 teaming initiative increases the relationship between students staff and parents/carers through regular communication and parent information sessions on wednesday the 21st march 2012 year 7 teaming held a parent meeting we had a great turn-out with approximately 100 parents in attendance the parents met their child s teaming teacher and went on a tour of the school with special attention to their child s classrooms they also had a very informative session in the library particularly regarding the accelerated reader program we would like to thank the dps peter rouse nada dukic teaming teachers year advisers helen alalikin renae devlin and the clos diana yuvida juliet for their continued support i think that having a teacher for more than one subject is great because we are more comfortable around them having a teaming teacher makes my life easier because i can always ask for help from her without being shy tipper chang 7g 7b has the same teaming teacher for rollcall english mathematics and hsie we have learned many different skills we have learned how to communicate with each other and work as a team our experience with our teaming teacher has made entering year 7 uncomplicated and enjoyable by ivanka nahrain and sami 7b i think that having a teacher for more than one subject is great because we are more comfortable around them having a teaming teacher makes my life easier because i can always ask for help from her without being shy tipper chang 7g learning support teachers ms k iles 7w mr a georges mr n houlayce 7ww top row ms l derrick 7s ms j peroulakis 7b mr j semenov 7y bottom row ms k efthymiades 70 ms j higgins 7g mr b stewart 7p ms s te 7r

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year 7 harry potter excursion finally it was wednesday the 14th of march we were so happy because it was time for the harry potter exhibition excursion 7s and 7p got on a bus so that we could go to the powerhouse museum it was a one hour drive when we arrived we saw harry potter s old magic flying car it looked real and awesome we also saw the steam train a lady who worked there started asking us harry potter questions she asked us a lot and we guessed them all quickly and correctly we then went through the exhibition `the world of harry potter then we were sent to another room and another lady had a sorting hat it looked real the lady asked us who wanted to come up the front to have the sorting hat placed on their head mele put her hand up and she went to the front and the lady put the sorting hat on her head the sorting hat said to mele hufflepuff and then we all clapped ms kalavritinos was placed in ravenclaw harrison was placed in gryffindor and katrina was placed in slytherin after that she took us to another room and we watched a clip of harry potter when we were finished watching a door opened and smoke came out we were kind of frightened by that we then entered the museum of harry potter we saw harry potter s bed magic book wand and his broom stick it was so interesting that we read the information of the clothes and the characters wands kevin s favourite was voldemort s wand we also saw hagrid s house where we saw the fire place and the dragon s egg cracking the great hall was nearly the end of our exhibition where there were displays of the swords and food that were in the second movie overall it was a pretty good day we enjoyed the harry potter exhibition and wished we could have stayed longer by kevin truong and ibrahim kacho 7s

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visual designs excursion to ikea on the 21st february our year 12 visual design students attended an excursion to the new ikea store in tempe as part of their current assessment task students immersed themselves in the ikea experience and gained a strong understanding of the store layout showrooms and products we all had a great day the students have since designed and are now creating their own ikea inspired lamp their innovative designs have been influenced by various structural conventions personal influences and cultural themes i look forward to showing you their finished products next term ms omeros and the visual arts department george daud art express the armoury george daud s hsc major work after o keefe macguire weston and mapplethorpe looks fantastic up on a wall and not just in mrs seto s office he is currently being exhibited at the armory as part of the 2012 art express exhibition it s a wonderful opportunity to see how high the standards are for hsc art students to be recognised at this level georges work glows in its own space a prime spot and it is surrounded by excellence at the opening night on monday 5th of april mrs haberecht and ms wolsely were able to attend along with george and his family to see the exhibition it was a great evening to meet other students artists and see an incredible calibre of work the exhiition runs until the 29th of april and it s a fantastic day out for the family during the school holiday the armory is a great venue located next to part of the parramatta river amazing parklands with a huge playground easy and free parking a restaurant/café and best of all its all free years 9 and 10 harry potter excursion on wednesday the 14th march year 9 film and video and year 10 visual design found platform nine and three quarters and caught the train to hogwarts it was a wonderful experience to see the hallowed halls of the school of witchcraft and wizardry we got sorted into our houses mostly griffindor however miss wolsely proved to be a slytherin the students were able to see and experience the behind the scenes of how they create the look of the much loved films we saw real costumes sets and props used in the harry potter series and gain knowledge about how to create a world of ideas in set props and costume design for film congratulations to the four year 11 students sarah ngo tiffany nguyen vy kieu and solmaz zahrooni who were accepted to participate in the 2012 program of the dobell school at the national art school these four students will have the opportunity to work in a tertiary institution in programs conducted by national art school staff all who are practising artists the intensive four-day drawing workshop held over this coming school holiday will complement and extend the students art studies through a demanding and rewarding experience.

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year 12 news year 12 are busy studying for their mid course examinations at the moment and will enter the easter break determined and focused for term 2 the hard work is continuing as they focus on the nearing goal of the hsc and successful post-school pathways the year 12 committees are up and running the valentine s day committee was resoundingly successful at the beginning of the year in raising funds for this year s year 12 formal formal jersey and disco committee members have also been meeting throughout the term to organise these significant events and mementoes year 12 students are encouraged to continue working hard and use the library senior learning centre after school tuition centre and other school resources to help them in their studies mrs zilic and ms foo

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sports report swimming carnival 27th february 2012 we only had 27 competitors for this year swimming carnival we were extremely lucky with the weather blue skies and sunshine year 11 slr class was asked to attend as officials this year they worked admirably as timekeepers recorders judges competitors were exhausted by lunch time as they were swimming in all races we had 17 students represent fairvale at the zone swimming carnival where we placed 4th.then we had 12 students go on to the regional carnival where one of our relay teams won their respective heat but did not qualify to attend state congratulations to all our swimmers joshua fellew natalija labanc kristina simic rumeysa talay arron huynh macgyver yin nixon bustamante david nguyen dennis nguyen kevin nguyen fadil ramic david butkiewicz 9.2 9.5 9.7 9.8 10 10 10.1 10.5 10.5 10.6 11 11.1 mahmoud el merbani nik gillingham cassandra kershaw aladin mujanovic aleisha needham brendan mcqueen harrison bell raymond mao daniel tran tuan pham adam el merbani catherine lupton 11.2 11.2 11.4 11.6 12.5 7o 7p 7r 7ww 8a 8m 8m year 11 slr officials mazen sako elissar elali daniel sultana osman tan shaun otineru tommy huynh khadija el-mahrbani rodney mom dean mills mike sokpho even arabu saif al timimi congratulations to our senior girls soccer team we were defeated after game one however the girls represented fairvale with exemplary attitude and behaviour zena kacho was thepla ye rofthem at c h congratulations to all well done open girls soccer salinna kith zena kacho jessica martins megan yi ping chen cathy yuan anne-marie dale ananya singh mariam younan carol cui emily khammo rumeysa talay kristina simic jennifer capello kristina ouzaghajian congratulations to our open boys basketball team we made it to the central venue for the first time in many years our team performed extremely well however failed to progress to the next stage tai ong truc le larry nguyen peter vu brian pham vanhsa ly kuol deng jacob te darren khou kevin ven shannon do dean cvetkoski congratualtions to our girls touch team played against east hills girls narrowly losing a cliff hanger annie yuan cathy yuan lina chinn camilla asaua salinna khith dolina tran celina tran kahdejah tuhi alice ear anna ly vivian ngo belinda taing 8t 10.8 11.2 11.1 11.4 11.8 11.8 11.9 12.3 12.5 12.5 12.8

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2012 nsw all schools triathlon championships this year we were able to field 9 teams and 1 individual competitor for the triathlon this can be an individual event where one person does all three events or you may compete as a team that is one swimmer one cyclist and one runner congratulations to all our competitors a special thanks to mr george nissan father of esho a year 7 student mr nissan kindly volunteered to transport our bicycles in his trailer and stayed with us all day thank-you mr nissan swimmer ray cui darren khou david nguyen dennis nguyen joshua fellows natalia labanc carol cui aleisha needham harrison bell cyclist kurtis tor angelo tzaidas arron huynh loi dang yousef kadhim rebecca howard vivian ngo alice ear esho nissan runner roger ngorn axel abdula macgyver yin joshua kouck alan guzman rachel howard jacqueline ma belinda taing brendan macqueen nsw sws touch football tournament the following students participated in the nsw south western sydney touch football tournament on friday 23rd march the spirit that the students exhibited was outstanding targets for each game were exceeded everyone played brilliantly the girls made it to the quarter final this exemplifies the attitude and sportspersonship that we are trying to develop here at fairvale boys team noel aukafolau loi tuan dang vaiusu dempy jordan diverti kelvin hoang captain jimmy huynh michael huynh yousef kadhim kevin nguyen jesse thomas dylan vega macgyver yin joshua kouck class 8n 10.2 8c 11 10.3 10.3 10.3 10.3 10.6 9.7 8n 10.8 10.4 girls team annie yuan zahara almamori sandra du crystal kalolo margrete kavea kirstin kershaw lilly faasau judy duong valentine sauvao cathy yuan belinda taing class 8t 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.3 9.3 9.3 10.2 10.7 10.8 12.8

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cross country carnival 15th march 2012 after weeks of rain the heaven s opened up once again with blue skies and sunshine we had an amazing attendance rate for the day and an excellent participation for this wonderful day the following students have qualified for the zone cross country to be held on thursday 10th may 2012 12 boys 1 edmonds 2 nissan 3 amin 4 tran 5 majok 6 hasnawi 7 connolly 8 tran 9 nguyen 10 hor 13 boys 1 drekovic 2 nguyen 3 aukafolau 4 maidana 5 genua 6 abohamed 7 shepherd 8 yalda 9 hamawi 10 youthean 14 boys 1 le 2 heng 3 chu 4 nguyen 5 el mehbani 6 le 7 vega 8 caporale 9 gramof 10 nguyen nathan esho huzaifah kelvin malual fadil matthew tommy alex calvin 12 girls 1 aloese 2 quintanilla 3 le 4 chhit 5 yako 6 kavea 7 khiek 8 iskander 9 nguyen 10 vuniwawa 13 girls 1 oshana 2 al salman 3 boath 4 im 5 mahfoud 6 skenderija 7 araya 8 le 9 le shonei sarah anh thu michelle jennifer natasha tertia valentina aster chelsea biu nik richard noel mauricio nathan adel martin richard adam you tara iman emily paulina tagread suzana nicole kathy sandra anthony jayden cat tuong david adam daison dylan kristian eric hieu minh 14 girls 1 yuan 2 davies 3 tran 4 samy 5 tran 6 nguyen 7 do 8 tang 9 elhou 10 mariz annie briannon selina regina bich thuy kathy jessica lara janice jennifer ruba

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15 boys 1 irusta 2 khouchaba 3 pham 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 boys 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 17 boys 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 merjan pham morrison hajdukovic glavan lazar siljanovski nathan peter brian emad tam corey daniel jovan orak philip 15 girls 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 girls 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 simic howard labanc nguyen tran doan tran carrizo mu capello younan yuan sok dao ellul shepherd tran makoni webb ho kristina rebecca natalija julie teresa catherine cindy valentina tusi jennifer mariam cathy sandra judy kimberley jenny janne mataifono sharna my ansari bustamante dang ashak yin yari van duong al salman nguyen sahil jose tuan loi ramin macgyver eddie kevin bao minh yousif dennis farrugia saki kopanja majok yousef amin popovic mataia ly nguyen ben mazen dusko kog rivan bilal peter rhakim kenny peter 17 girls 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 la mantia ma ly taing vega pham lim huynh le mai cindy jacqueline anna may belinda alejandra bich sarah kim alison trinh nancy rachelle maggie jenny mikal mariana karriza sara tedda anne florey 802 18 boys 1 orahem 2 tzaidas 3 khou 4 truong 5 pham 6 abdala 7 nguyen 8 tran betel angelo darren tony peter axel michael jimmy 18 girls 1 howard 2 yin 3 nguy 4 sadik 5 daoud 6 rial 7 shinko 8 pou 9 le team scores newling 437 greenway 624 wright 636

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fairvale in the news fairvale in the news f the student voice fairvale high school fairvale high school held a talent quest this week to recruit performers for the school s performance at the bring it on festival in april the school took out first place in last year s competition and put the prize money towards an electric drum kit the champion asked students in the newly formed band what they liked about getting up on stage and performing chanel lea performing is just a lot of fun you work from the vibe from the audience and it s good to just get up and give it a go peter pigadas the buzz you get when you get up on stage it s just a good feeling all round i m looking forward to putting on a good show at bring it on like i always do cindy la mantia i think it is about inspiring others to give it a go showing the world and expressing yourself through music it s great to involve the crowd if you see people having a good time emphasise their joy daniel phung i love performing for people and that feeling you get when you re up on stage you just have to be yourself and try not to get nervous richard nguyen i like express rather than impress i watch people break dancing and i learn from them i like the challenge and having to put the effort in taylor gavanas it s exciting and it gets your heart pumping it is such a good experience especially in high school because we might not get this opportunity again outside of school featured in fairfield champion page 9 14 march 2012 tech-smart teacher shares her tips by tamara gasser innovate transforming learning in the digital classroom conference at anz stadium it is a conference where teachers showcase the different ict [information and communication technologies techniques they have incorporated into their lessons she said i find that using the software in the laptops makes it a lot easier for the students to relate to the theory because they are going through the work interactively and feel like they are actually doing something ms nievas 25 the youngest speaker at the conference will present a workshop on incorporating adobe flash in a lesson when the first round of government-funded laptops one of the examples i have used in class is to have were rolled out at fairvale high school in 2009 the students create an animation that moves across teacher pamela nievas was just starting out the screen and they have to incorporate literacy to ours was the first school in the country to get the build characters and create a story she said laptops and that was my first year as a teacher ms the conference will allow teachers to learn strategies nievas said they just sort of gave them out so to help the school adjust to a digital classroom for teachers didn t really know what to do with them at instance they ll give you some material about how to first integrate a smartboard into a pe lesson and you can the computing and design and technology teacher met the challenge of integrating the laptops into the classroom head on and next month will present some of her techniques to educators at the inspire take that back and encourage your school to give it a go ms nievas said featured in fairfield champion page 9 29 february 2012

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fairvale in the news fairvale in the news photographer s style clicks by tamara gasser fairvale high school graduate george daud didn t expect for his artwork to be chosen for the largest metropolitan artexpress exhibition of 2012 but he is quick to admit that when he got the letter he could not have been happier when i received the nomination i thought that s it that is enough for me to get nominated for something like artexpress mr daud said but when the letter came that i was accepted i was almost in tears and i couldn t wait to let my teachers know the exhibition at sydney olympic park s armory gallery will showcase the major works of 69 2011 hsc visual arts students from across the state the 18-year-old was the only student from fairfield whose artwork was chosen for the exhibition my artwork explores feminity and the sexual connotations of flowers mr daud said of his body of work my photographs pay homage to artists who have looked at similar themes that i could draw inspiration from i d been drawn to this idea for two years and was always inspired by artists like georgia o keefe and tim maguire who both paint representations of flowers the works featured in this year s artexpress at the armory exhibition are linked by the theme tracing the landscape impact and habitation mr daud was able to show flowers subliminally reflect human sensuality and sexuality after graduating from school last year mr daud is currently studying photo imaging at campbelltown tafe and plans on becoming a photographer as much as i love photographing flowers and nature i also like fashion photography and would love to do something with that he said the artexpress exhibition opens at sydney olympic park s armory gallery on tuesday march 6 it is free and runs daily from 10am to 4pm until sunday april 29 featured in fairfield champion page 20 7 march 2012 fairvale high s after school tuition access free support and guidance in literacy numeracy homework class work and assessment tasks all students are welcome every wednesday and thursday afternoon from 3:15pm to 4:30pm don t let schoolwork tie you down pay us a visit and let us help where fairvale high school s library contact ms soto in learning support 9604 3118 ext 136 teachers supporting ms soto learning support ms petroulakis learning support ms odisho learning support ms weathersten learning support ms wolsely visual arts ms kaduthodil science mr mak maths you ms zilic hsie ms derrick english ms barnier librarian ms jenkins pdhpe mr hull pdhpe ms hull pdhpe mr radford pdhpe ms caetano pdhpe

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fairvale high school p c committee we would like to extend a warm invitation to all parents and caregivers of our students to consider attending fairvale high school s p&c meetings the meetings start at 9.30am and run for approximately an hour and are invaluable for keeping parents and caregivers up to date with school commitments and to gain a deeper insight into the operation of the school the p&c encourages parents and caregivers to come along and have a say in these meetings as your involvement is valued and appreciated p&c meetings 2012 term 2 7 may 2012 4 june 2012 term 3 6 august 2012 3 september 2012 term 4 8 october 2012 5 november 2012 3 december 2012 all parents and caregivers are welcome

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who is eligible if your teenager is aged between 12-17 years eligible for medicare and receives certain government payments individually or as part of a family ­ they may be entitled to the teen dental voucher the vouchers will be sent out to teens families carers or guardians whoever is receiving the government payment if you think your teenager may be eligible but haven t received a voucher contact your local medicare service centre or call medicare on 132 011 teen dental voucher 2012 good oral hygiene helps maintain general health regular dental checks are important to make sure problems are caught early a teen dental voucher worth up to $163.05 is available for eligible teenagers to help kick start a lifetime habit of regular dental checks.

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