YEAR 9 PASS Games- Staff v Students Basketball Game

Another exciting 9PASS game took place on Wednesday, 30th of August (week 7)! The competition was an enticing battle between the teachers and students, in a fast paced game of basketball. It lasted the entirety of lunch, and the majority of the student (and some of the staff!) body gathered to cheer on the two teams. The game was intense, but both teams put on a great performance. Unfortunately, the student team was overpowered by the teachers, with the final score adding up to 22-8 (the students probably let them win…)

Overall, the competition proved to be one of the most entertaining events that occurred during week 7, providing a distraction from the stress of exams, and boosting school spirit, morale, and overall awareness for the importance of physical activity in students’ and teachers’ lives. Basketball is a game people of all ages can enjoy, and we hope to have displayed to everyone playing in the match and observing that physical activity can be fun, and we hope everyone is feeling a little bit more inspired to get a bit more active!

Amber McLean, Dhaarani Loganathan, Elaine Liu, Ozanna Chan, Pahanya Jayasinghe 9PASS2

year 12 Library monitors farewell

On Friday, library staff farewelled a wonderful group of Year 12 Library Monitors who faithfully assisted students at the circulation desk over their years at HGHS. We are very appreciative of your helpful, friendly diligence and the excellent role model that you provided for other students. Our heartfelt thanks to Rosemary Ai, Lyla Coffey, Aleyna Cam, students. Our heartfelt thanks to Rosemary Ai, Lyla Coffey, Aleyna Cam, Hasara Colonne, Lucinda Eldridge, Zixi Han, Abigail Madayag, Christine Ng, Allyson Nguyen, Isabel Szatmary Sullivan, Cathy Yan, Leyi You and Kristy Zhang. A special mention to Kristy and Allyson who have been helping since Year 7 and Isabel since Year 8.

We will miss you and wish you all the very best for the HSC and more importantly, for your future after school.

HGHS Library Staff

PDHPE and Sport in Term 4

As the days warm up, we would like to remind students to bring their hat, water bottle and sunscreen to ALL practical lessons. At all times, the PE staff take the conditions into account and plan for adequate water and shade breaks during lessons.

Year 8 Aquatics Program

All Year 8 students will participate in a swimming program in week ten of Term 4. The program will be conducted over three days at Barker College Aquatic Centre. Students will be grouped according to their swimming ability. Beginner swimmers will develop water confidence and be provided with basic skills in water safety and survival. Intermediate and advanced swimmers will focus on swimming technique, together with more advanced water safety and survival skills. Further details and consent forms willbe sent out in Term 4.

PDHPE staff

YEAR 9 PASS Games Student v Staff Netball Game

On the 1st of September, we held a student vs staff netball game as part of our 9PASS Lunchtime activity initiative. This aimed to promote active lifestyles amongst students and people of all ages in order to remain healthy. It was an enjoyable event, whether you were a player on the court or a spectator watching some of your favourite teachers and friends battle it out. There was much enthusiasm and a little competitiveness from both sides.

It was wonderful to see so many people take interest in participating and turning up. The crowds really created an encouraging atmosphere with support for their favourite teams along with the motivating music and commentary. The match was greatly successful in getting many players active and the audience invested in physical activity. Congratulations to the teachers with a win of 4-3!

Sidhi Saxena, Elise Reynolds, Rashi Shree and Katia Castrisos

YEAR 10 Food Technology Pop up Restaurant

The Year 10 Food Technology students recently held a pop up restaurant experience for HGHS students. As part of their studies in Food service and Catering the students had to design, create ,cost a range of menu items for their restaurant and carry out risk assessment.The also designed a social media campaign to promote the restaurant .The menu items included Steamed Bao buns, Onigiri, Tteok, Egg tarts,Brownies and Matcha cookies.The pop up restaurant was hugely successful and after costs the students raised $859. All of these proceeds were donated to the Sydney Women’s fund who support women in the local community in a range of different projects.

Mrs Dianne McGuire - TAS Teacher

YEAR 7 TARONGA ZOO EXCURSION

Year 7 students share their Taronga Zoo Excursion experiences.

I liked watching the giraffes eat their food, as you can see their long neck coming to use. The giraffe’s neck and height enable them to reach food resources that are out of reach for other animals. An animal behaviour I found interesting was the seals. They mostly listened to their trainer but sometimes were cheeky and just wanted to relax and play around. An interesting fact I learned during the seal presentation was that their front flipper’s bone structure was the same as human hands. - Leila Zheng 7K

The Taronga Zoo excursion was an enjoyable and useful experience. It enhanced our understanding of adaptations and classifications. Walking past the enclosures allowed us to witness and learn how the animals behaved. For example, our team learned that koalas sleep for approximately 20 hours a day! We also attended the seal show which was extremely entertaining. The crowd laughed away, whilst the animal keepers and the seals were demonstrating astonishing tricks and turns. I especially find Pepper, the Californian seal very amusing. I was shocked when the keeper explained how the seals’ front flippers have a very similar structure to our hands. All in all, this was an enlightening and valuable trip. - Isha Balaji 7X

When we went to Taronga Zoo I learnt about how there are several different adaptations that an animal can have, for example, a giraffe has a long tongue to bend back thorns on branches to enable them to eat leaves, but they also have a long neck that allows them to reach the fresher leaves in the tops of savannah trees. It was also interesting to see the animals using their brains to work out how to obtain treats hidden in barrels by rolling or pushing them. - Yeha Kim 7T

The entrance of the Sumatran Tigers Enclosure was an aeroplane, where the journey to Sumatra took place. On the plane, a wildlife conservationist was on the screen, explaining how endangered these majestic creatures were and how their habitats were being logged, ending in extinction, etc. Along with that, the aviaries which held a variety of colourful and venust aves were enticing to see. It was also a challenge to distinguish and find the birds there. - Zinat Abdullah 7K

year 12 food technology

Thank you to our teachers!!

CHS State Athletics Carnival

Amazing results from the CHS State Athletics Carnival.

Aniela Knight of Year 8 came 1st in the U14s 800m. She also competed in the U14s 1500m placing 2nd.

Amber Jobson of Year 9 competed in the U15s long jump placing in the top five and jumping 4.65m.

Arabella Lewis of Year 8 competed in the 100m where she placed 4th.

Our U14s relay team of Sophie Chen, Summer Choi, Aniela Knight and Roselina Zheng placed 11th.

Fantastic results from our students.

Year 9 Grade sport 2023

Congratulations to our Year 9s who trialled and went on to represent our school in Grade sport this year. During Terms 2 and 3, 60 students played oztag, netball or soccer against the other schools in our Zone. They played well in a tough competition and as always, it was a pleasure to be in charge of our amazing student representatives. The team members were:

Tracey Sheppard - Sport Organiser

Operation Art Winner 2023 Armory Gallery

Every year schools across New South Wales are invited to participate in Operation Art, an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. This year 738 artworks from schools around the state were submitted. There were ten judges this year and one being Archibald winner 2022 the amazing Indigenous artist Blak Douglas.

Four students’ artworks were nominated to participate this year, including, Simran Pandey “Abstract Architectural Composition” pencil drawing, Faith Lai “European Autumn” watercolour painting, Merrian Liu “Halcyon Garden” watercolour painting and Violet Cho “French Horn” pastel on kraft.

Simran Pandey is to be congratulated for her work, as it was the best in the state for 2023 and deemed the overall winner. The artwork also will feature in the top 50 and will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW early next year. It will then go on tour around NSW regional galleries later in 2024 and will eventually be part of the permanent collection at Children's Hospital at Westmead. The all artworks are currently being exhibited at the Newington Armory, Homebush, 16 September – 29 October 2023.

Hundreds of people attended the official opening and awards ceremony on Saturday16 September 2023 at the Armory – there was even the NSW Public Schools Millennial marching band playing. Here, Hornsby Girls was officially acknowledged for our continued outstanding participation in Operation Art over several years. Unfortunately, Simran was unable to attend this ceremony due to her little brother’s birthday – a wonderful celebration in itself.

I Pozzolungo - Head Teacher CAPA

Sydney North Cricket Trials 2023

An experienced group of HGHS cricketers that included Kingkini Mazumdar and Thanmaya Santhosh (Year 7), Keya Patel and Janani Vijaya Raghavan (Year 8) attended the SN Cricket Trials in Week 9 of this term. Huge congratulations, especially to Janani who has been selected in the SN team - a fantastic achievement in Year 8!

year 11 first aid

Nagoya Sister City Art Exchange

The Nagoya Sister City Art Exchange is held annually in November. This is the 45th year of this event. Artworks from NSW have been selected every year to be exhibited in this international exhibition alongside artworks by students from Nagoya (Japan), Los Angeles (USA), Mexico City (Mexico), Reims (France), Nanjing (China), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Turin (Italy). The opportunity to participate in this exhibition helps to build international relationships and cultural understanding.

This year hundreds of artwork nominations were submitted to the Arts Unit, including our students – Alice Yang, Jessica Zhao, Shrya Sungala and Wendy Cai. 50 were selected to be part of the Nagoya exhibition.

Congratulations to Alice Yang who will have her artwork “College Still life” sent to Japan for display in the at the Nagoya City Museum from Tuesday 21 November to Sunday 3 December 2023.

In keeping with the message of sharing and exchanging ideas through their artworks, in 2023 Sydney will be hosting the very first Nagoya-Sydney exhibition. This will be made up of artworks sent to us from Japan as part of the exchange, alongside selected NSW public school student artworks. The exhibition will be showcased at SpecFest as part of Schools Spectacular on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 November 2023.

Congratulations to Jessica Zhao who will have her artwork “Tiger” displayed in the Nagoya–Sydney exhibition.

Ms Pozzolungo -Head Teacher Creative and Performing Arts

HARMONY DAY POSTER COMPETITION

The Harmony Day Poster Competition is open to school students in all schools in Australia. This year’s theme was: “Living in Harmony”.

Sisters, Kirsty Kang (Year 8) and Riah Kang (Year 10), entered this year’s competition. It was a hotly contested competition with over 4000 entries. Congratulations must go to Kirsty who was regional runner up. Both artworks demonstrate Kirsty and Riah’s amazing creative abilities and skills in illustration and composition. A ceremony was held at NSW Parliament House, but unfortunately the kang sisters were unable to attend.

USYDs School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Experience Program

From September 11th to 13th, I was accepted and given the opportunity to be part of the USYDs School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Experience Program that was open to all Year 10 students in NSW.

On the first day, we were given a tour around the beautiful campus which was then followed by our first experiment on forward osmosis membranes for low energy and water separation applications. The following day, I had the opportunity to work with renowned scientists, including Professor PJ Cullen, on an experiment assessing the suitability of a plasma water reactor for effectively degrading dye. This was succeeded by an experiment applying the concept of product reverse engineering (teardown) to assess a product's circular economy suitability. Finally, in the last experiment, we learned about Green Hydrogen production and applied our knowledge to construct a functional Hydrogen fuel cell car.

I am profoundly grateful for this experience and for the chance to collaborate with 14 students from across NSW and amazing professors from the University of Sydney.

I highly encourage next year’s Year 10 students to apply for this program. It was definitely an experience of a lifetime that I will cherish forever.

Maya Okada - Year 10

Year 11 Monologues

Year 11 Drama students performed their assessment monologues for a large and enthusiastic audience of 7-12 students this week. We were dazzled by their control of satire, surrealism, absurdism and comedy. Thank you to the performers, Susani, Rachel, Helen and Hiru for putting on a wonderful show.

Ms Mackenzie Carroll – Drama Teacher

YOUTH PARLIAMENT

Earlier in July, I was fortunate enough to represent my electorate as the Y NSW Youth Parliamentarian for Hornsby at the Youth Parliament Sitting Week. Youth Parliament is a program that facilitates over 80 students from a diverse range of NSW electorates, including young people flying in from Wagga Wagga and Tweed.

Over the past 5 months, I worked remotely within the Aboriginal Affairs committee to draft a bill named the Bayala, Ngara Wingara (To Speak, Listen and Think) Bill. The primary recommendation was to implement a First Nations Voice to NSW Parliament. We debated this bill in Parliament House along with bills created by 9 other committees.

Our committee had the largest bill in the program, with 64 clauses detailing functions of the Voice, Annual Engagement Hearings with administrative units, composition of the Voice, Advisory Committees and gender representation.

I was lucky enough to be selected as Lead Refuter for a debate on the Bill of Human Rights. I also spoke for the Women’s Affairs Committee on supporting mothers in the workforce, chaired by the Hon. Jodie Harrison MP. Our cohort was excited to have morning tea with the NSW Governor at Government House and were grateful to learn so much about parliament!

Annabelle Zhang - Year 11

DOVES Student Forum

Two of our SRC representatives, Amaaya Chowdhury and Roselina Zheng, recently had the incredible opportunity to participate in an online Zoom forum organised by the Metro North division of the Department of Student Voices in Education and Schools (DOVES). Their participation allowed them to lend their voices to and raise student concerns with other student advocates in the local district.

The Minister's Student Council, also known as DOVES, was created in 2021, following a request from the NSW Government to develop a formal structure to access student views.

The forum provided a valuable platform for these two students to express their concerns and advocate for positive change within the NSW education system. It also allowed them to interact with students from diverse backgrounds and hear their perspectives on pressing issues. Through this experience, they not only represented our school but also gained a broader understanding of the educational landscape in our state.

Thank you Amaaya and Roselina

Ms Mackenzie Carroll

National Titration Competition

Gabby Wongso, Bonnie Wang and Hea Singh gathered to compete in the National Titration Competition at UNSW. The competition is divided into two parts. In the first part, the team must individually perform a titration experiment in the lab. The students are given an unknown solution and must determine its concentration by titrating it with a known solution using appropriate laboratory techniques they have practised in the school laboratory. In the second part, the team must perform the calculations necessary to determine the unknown concentration of their sample.

The team have been preparing for this competition in the weeks leading to this on top of preparing for their HSC Trial Examinations. The competition is a day to celebrate their love of Chemistry and to showcase their talents. The competition is also a great opportunity for students to learn from each other and to make new friends. At the end of the day, Gabby Wongso received a gold medal for her outstanding individual performance. Bonnie Wang and Hea Singh also received silver medals. Job well done!

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