25 September 2015

Editor: Jenny LeSouef
Technology: Alex Mellor

Newsletter Articles

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT:

What an exciting and rewarding day we had on August 26 when the new Stage 1 buildings were opened by the Minister. We had many dignitaries attend and a large number of students demonstrated their outstanding skills across many areas. The Pipe Band, Concert Orchestra and Choir performed and our VET students did us proud both with excellent refreshments and a gift for each attendee. I am delighted and filled with pride to be the leader of Willetton Senior High School.

We have analysed the NAPLAN data for Year 9s and 7s which appears later in this newsletter. They were truly outstanding. Our comparison with like schools and the state continues to show the quality of students and teaching and learning programs in both here and at our contributory primary schools. Like schools are those with a similar socio-economic index (SEI). We are in Band1 along with such schools as Rossmoyne, Shenton and Churchlands.

Analysis of NAPLAN data will in the future be more meaningful as we will have a measure of improvement from Year 7 to 9 for which we will have had the major input, increasing our understanding of their performance from Year 7.

This year, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of our sister school partnership with the High School of the University of Hyogo. Over the years, there have been over 700 students and approximately 50 staff who have participated in the program. Many thanks to all involved in this outstanding opportunity for our students to promote cultural understanding whilst facilitating their language skill development.

The newsletter for our Gifted and Talented program has been incorporated into our school newsletter. We hope you will enjoy reports of their activities.

Our Year 12 students are fast approaching the end of their secondary education. Their final school examinations will be held in the upcoming holidays followed by revision before the ATAR examinations in November. VET students are also performing admirably to finish assessment tasks before they leave. Our message to all is, have perseverance and self-belief and you will achieve the success you deserve.

Chris Booth

BOARD CHAIR REPORT

I would first like to congratulate Year 7 and 9 students and teachers for the most amazing results in the recent NAPLAN tests. Willetton excelled in pretty well all categories. We were ranked either number 1 or 2 in the state (excluding the specialist Modern School) which is incredible. A fantastic effort by our students and the teaching staff.

As you may be aware, our new buildings were officially opened on August 26. The ceremony was attended by a number identities from the political and educational world as well as other guests. There was also a strong media presence with Channels 2, 9 and 10 having articles on the school in their news presentations that night.

We were treated to a great performance from our music students and heard some inspiring speeches from the Minister and Chris Booth. Nathan Harvey was excellent as MC and displayed a cool professional demeanour which was appreciated by all attendees. We were then given a guided tour of the new buildings. The comments received from the touring party were extremely positive. Most said they wanted to come back to school if they could use some of the new facilities Willetton now has. All were then treated to an amazing morning tea provided and served by the hospitality students. Again the comments I heard from the guests were very flattering indeed and I would also like to say I thought the hospitality students did an excellent job. They were very professional in their service and the food was absolutely delicious. I was extremely proud of our students.

Best wishes to our Year 12 students about to sit their mock exams. Now is when they will realise the value of all the work you have done and also may see the need for some extra work before finals. Either way good luck. Before you know it school will be finished for Year 12 students.

Carpe Diem.

Lindsay Holland

HEAD BOY AND GIRL REPORT:

This past few weeks has been jam-packed with exam preparations and the last for our assessments. Thank you to the continued support of the teachers as university applications and scholarships are submitted and marks are finalized. We wish all students sitting mock exams during the September holidays peace, concentration and success.

On August the 26, we were able to attend, along with some councillors from various year groups, the official opening ceremony of our brand new buildings. Accompanied by performances by the Senior Band and School Choir, we took a part in the ceremony opening tour of each of the new rooms in Phase 1. Past and present School Board members, local politicians and Willetton Staff, the Minister of Education, Peter Collier and the project's architects and state government advisors, attended the event. We feel incredibly privileged to have been able to mingle with such guests and be the student body leaders at the final stage of this momentous project. Congratulations and thank you to all those who made the build possible. We look forward to seeing how Willetton Senior High School buildings will continue to improve.

Our Jumper Day collection was a success. We set up a tarpaulin in the quadrangle for students and staff to donate clothes. Please continue to donate shoes, bags, belts, clothes and linen to the bins located next to the Health Centre. This holiday break is a fantastic opportunity to sort out wardrobes!

We hope you will be encouraged by these words: What is hard to endure will be sweet to remember.

Georgina Earl and Jesse Tucek

GENERAL REPORTS

UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS FOR 2016

Eligible Year 12 students who wish to apply for university courses in 2016 need to lodge their online application to the Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC) at www.tisc.edu.au and pay their $27.00 fee by Wednesday September 30. Students have received the TISC guide and assistance with this process through their Competency Education classes. Preferences can be added and changed up until Wednesday January 6 after the results are available on Wednesday December 30.

STATE TRAINING PROVIDER APPLICATIONS FOR 2016

Students who wish to apply for a course at a State Training Provider in 2016 can apply online through www.trainingwa.wa.gov.au and have received information to assist them through their Competency Education classes. Students who have submitted their application and wish the school to forward the necessary evidence to Training Admissions will need to have this ready by Thursday September 24. The deadline for course applications without a folio is Wednesday December 2 in order to be eligible for first round offers.

YEAR 12 GRADUATION CEREMONY 2015

The Year 12 Graduation Ceremony will be held on Friday November 20 at HBF (Challenge) Stadium in Mt Claremont. Tickets for reserved seating for family members are $25 each and are only available from the school Registrar's Office from week 2 of term 4. There is free parking at the stadium and the doors will be open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. The Graduation Ceremony is to farewell ALL students who have completed Year 12 at Willetton SHS. Details about end of year arrangements for the Year 12 students have been sent home.

If you have any questions, please contact Phil Sherwood or Paul Hogg.

YEAR 12 MOCK WACE EXAMINATIONS

Year 12 students enrolled in Stage 2/3 courses have their Mock WACE written examinations scheduled in the second week of the Term 3 break between Monday October 5 and Monday October 12. The timetable and conditions are on the school website and students have received a personalized timetable.

OUR OUTSTANDING NAPLAN RESULTS 2015

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Siobhoin Ialacci has been running the Front of House Team (FOH) at Willetton SHS for the past three years but has been a part of the team since its inception in 2010.

The FOH consists of over fifty five students and was created to ensure the smooth running of open events at the school which, given the large number of students we have, can be an enormous undertaking. As far as I know, it is a unique training program, certainly the only one I've ever heard of, that is focused on creating a positive experience for guests who come into the school for a variety of reasons. The events that are run by the FOH team include basketball awards nights, parent nights (when we can have over 2,000 guests), theatre productions (with allocated retractable seating and over 300 seats), dance and drama presentation evenings, special events with dignitaries and much more.

Siobhoin has supervised the training of all students currently on the team, seeing them through Occupational Health and Safety training with Worksafe SmartMove, a WA Government online training module and Occupational Health and Safety workshops and emergency evacuation procedures. Siobhoin has insisted that the team maintain its high standard of calm, professional customer service and an outstanding level of personal grooming and deportment.

However, as Siobhoin has reached the most challenging years of her school career, she has decided to hand over the reigns of the team to the successor that she has spent this year training. His name is Aaron Chappell and while he is young, he has been taught by the best and is keen to try his hand at steering the team into the future. Aaron is in Year 9 and has recently had first hand knowledge of the theatre after his role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as Jacob, for which he has earned the admiration of staff and students alike. He has a strong sense of customer service and is very organised, which is a credit to any young man.

It is with mixed feelings that we farewell Siobhoin as she focuses all her attention on her schooling and we welcome Aaron to the fore and wish him well in his new role.

So if you are coming into the school for a special event, look out for the students in formal black and white attire who line the walkways and doorways and feel free to ask a question or just say hello.

Hayley Bettermann: Front of House Coordinator

Siobhoin Ialacci and Aaron Chappell

CLASS OF 1995 REUNION

Venue: Fremantle Oval Function Rooms (South Fremantle Football Club)
Date: 24th October 2015
Time: 7:30pm – Late
Cost: $35 includes entry and food.
Drinks can be purchased at the bar.

Partners welcome!

If anyone would like further information then they can contact me on:

0411 132 871
or samandtimlangley@hotmail.com

AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING WEEK EVENT

This evening event was organized by Engineers Australia and held at Scitech.

A number of exhibitors from universities and engineering companies provided a great opportunity for students to obtain information on engineering courses and future career options available for graduate engineers. Students were able to discuss their engineering future with Murdoch University, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Challenger TAFE and the Australian Defense Force.

At Scitech's Planetarium, students were shown a video called Spaced-out Engineering, which is a live tour of WA night sky and solar system which was great to watch. They also had the opportunity to listen to young engineers from Woodside, Department of Defence, Chevron and Wood Kenny Group who presented their career stories.

Potential engineers of the future

Bruce Dopson: Teacher Science & Engineering

FOLLOW THE DREAM VISITS MURDOCH UNIVERSITY

On Wednesday August 18, ten students representing eight schools from the Mount Lawley Follow the Dream Outreach Program attended an Exploring Murdoch day hosted by Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre.

The students toured the campus, starting at Kulbardi and going on to visit the Animal Anatomy labs as part of the Veterinary Science course. These rooms were not for the faint hearted but extremely fascinating.

Students had the opportunity to mingle with current Murdoch students and fellow Follow the Dream students. Thanks to Murdoch Kulbardi Centre for hosting such an inspiring day.

Bridgid Lafferty: Follow the Dream Program Coordinator Mt Lawley Outreach

FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) – 2016

The new FRC year is nearly upon us. Students have a great opportunity to be a part of the First Robotics Competition. Thanks to Curtin University who organize this engineering event through sponsorship, the use of engineering mentors and the universities facilities.

Students will design and build a robot to do a particular task which will not be known until January next year. During week 4 this term robot 5333 was presented to Year 9,10, and 11 assemblies seeking keen and enthusiastic students to participate in the design, construction, programming and system analysis to create a working robot. The project also includes tasks that are not directly linked to engineering. These tasks include the use of different forms multimedia, management of sponsors & sponsorship and the financial management of the project.

Training will begin in a few weeks at Curtin University in computer programming, design concepts, CAD, team building, learning the requirements and use of multimedia during the project, practice of small engineering tasks, intense basic electronics & communication interface and problem solving in engineering projects.

If students are interested in this type of robotic event then please register at the following website or contact Tim Keely from Curtin University:

Tim Keely, BA MBA
Engineering Outreach Coordinator
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Curtin University
Tel | (08) 9266 7884
Mobile | 0401 103 520
Email | t.keely@curtin.edu.au
Web | http://scieng.curtin.edu.au/outreach/

Some of Willetton SHS's experienced FRC students present robot 5333

Bruce Dopson: Teacher Science & Engineering

INTERACT

On September 13 2015, the Interact Club of Willetton Senior High School held our last official fundraiser for the year, the High Tea. The Interact members served over 100 guests a selection of sandwiches, savouries and sweets such as melting moments, and lemon teacake. We had a guest speaker from Médecins Sans Frontières who shared her experiences of volunteering in countries such as Uganda and Sierra Leone, explaining where the raised funds would be going to. Thank you to the following sponsors for their generous support and kind donation of goods and services:

Gill Jones –Nutrimetics, gillsnutrimetics@gmail.com
Gloria Clayton – Naturopath, 0412 888 031
Julie Collins – Tupperware, jules44@iinet.net.au
Muffin Break Southlands
Natasha Waters – Arbonne, www.natashawaters.arbonne.com
Willetton Senior High School Board
Willo Parent Group

With their help, we have raised over $4,000 for Médecins Sans Frontières!

The Interact Club is excited for what next year will bring, and wish our departing Year 12 members all the best for their exams and future aspirations.

Signing off,
Interact President Marcus Wong, and Interact Vice President Genevieve Earl

UNIFORM CONCEPTS - SCHOOL HOLIDAY HOURS

The uniform shop will be closed for the first week of the school holidays (Monday September 28 – Saturday October 3) and will reopen on the second week, Monday 5 October 2015.

Many Thanks
Sarah and Sandy

GIFTED AND TALENTED

GT ENGLISH

ENGLISH GT YEAR 7

Preparation for NAPLAN during semester one made the introduction to English in high school very busy, as we had to prepare for the reading and writing sections of the test as well as completing five assessment tasks for the semester. The students adjusted well to starting life in high school as well as coping with the work demands. Most students have got off to a flying start; a few students still need help and support from school and home to be organised.

The school usually participates in the Young Writers' Competition that was run by the West Australian newspaper but unfortunately this year they cancelled the competition. Students had already started to prepare their entries for the competition so I ran a small competition amongst the students in the both Gifted and Talented classes. The winner of the prose section was Alexsis Talbot and the winner of the poetry section was Aakriti Nandwani. I was impressed with the quality of the entries that were submitted. I would also like to commend Amy Mercer and Jack Killoh for their participation in the WA Debating League competition that Sue Appleton is coordinating this year. They had a very successful season winning a number of their debates.

In Semester 2 students will be creating a multimedia presentation based on their class novel Crow Country, producing their own short story based on an historical event, studying the conventions of drama and producing a play and analysing advertising and persuasive techniques in texts.

Students completed assessment work is kept in portfolios at school. I have informed students that they are free to take these home at any point for parents to see, as long as they remember to bring them back to school.

Shelley Genoni teacher Year 7 English

left circle to right: Ilona Pinto, Sanjana Banerjee, Sharaba Ahsan, Zahra Tilling, Aimos Yong, Jerron Cheng, Alan Thomas, David Petterson

ENGLISH GT YEAR 8

Both Year 8 Gifted and Talented English classes studied formal debating, essay writing and analysing novels. We were assigned the novel Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera to read so that we could analyse and discuss it in class in Term 2. Part of this analysis was to complete an essay on the novel in two sessions. In order to do this, we had to learn about the structure of an essay and what vocabulary and punctuation is suitable when writing one. The essays we wrote explored the ways narrative conventions and language are used to express certain ideas in the novel.

Term 2 also saw us learning about formal debating. The topics were: Judging people by their appearance is a useful human instinct; Individuals should adopt the cultural practices of the country in which they reside; Hardship and suffering makes you stronger and Individual freedom is more important than community safety.

We were then allowed about two weeks to research and prepare our debates in our groups. The aim of a debate is to argue your position successfully to the audience to make them agree, rather than the opposing team's statements. This meant we had to find examples and explanations of what we say and rebuttals for what the opposing teams says.

We finished the term by watching the animated film Animal Farm which was based on the novella by George Orwell, which we studied in Term 1. It was a nice conclusion to the term.

This term we have been studying poetry and learning how to analyse poems. The three poems we have been focusing on are Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens, Wind by Ted Hughes and To be of Use by Marge Piercy. We annotated them and used mind-maps to display the characteristics and meaning of the poems, then shared our mind-maps with each other in groups. We have also had to write our own poems inspired by the three poems we studied. Along with these poems, we have to evaluate our work by writing a paragraph on each poem and explaining how we employed language techniques to explore particular ideas. Below are some of the mind maps created by both classes

Bianca Stevenson Year 8

ENGLISH GT YEAR 10

Year 10 English students have had a busy term writing reports on Australian identity representation in texts of their own choosing and creating websites. Students have also undertaken metacognitive reflection on their approach to these tasks, which will hopefully mean that time management will improve for some in future tasks. Both groups have since also studied novels that have challenged them, provoking questions about individual freedom, existentialism, determinism and how they would respond to a dystopian future.

We are pleased with the maturity and positivity of many students, who are already demonstrating the attitude, skills and understanding of concepts that they will need to be successful in their studies in Literature or English next year.

Julie Hind & Belinda Rowe teachers English

GT HaSS

HaSS GT YEAR 7 - AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION

Earlier this year, students from Years 8, 9 and 10 Gifted and Talented classes challenged their geographical skills and knowledge in the annual Australian Geography Competition.

Our students were amongst 76 000 students Australia wide from over 770 schools taking part in the 2015 competition which has been running for twenty three years. The competition was very challenging and required the completion of a test, which involved skills and general knowledge questions. Students' knowledge of developing countries, environmental issues, geopolitics, maps, current events and physical terrains were tested.

In 2015 the average score in the junior division was 14/30 Australia wide. Year 7 Callum Hutchison achieved the highest score (24/30) and his achievement placed him in the top 0.4% of students in the country. Year 8 Jack Bringans also deserves to be recognized as he achieved the second highest score of 34/40, which placed him in the top 0.4% in the country in the intermediate division.

Year 7 students participated in the competition for the first time in 2015 and deserve special mention as they collectively achieved a total of 22 High Distinctions, which was more than any other participating group at Willetton SHS, a truly remarkable achievement for first timers.

John Maxwell Year 7 Humanities and Social Sciences

HaSS GT YEAR 8

At the beginning of Term 2, Year 8 students were involved in creating model cities that could survive a range of natural disasters such as cyclones, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The models were required to incorporate a range of city design and technological strategies to reduce the potential impact of tectonic movements and extreme weather effects. Some of the students elected to create physical models and others choose to use computer programs to generate 3D disaster-proof cities.

Jenny Chow teacher HaSS

Lara Mathew, Roseate Joji, Lucy McGinn &Bianca Stevenson	William Hor, David Ling, Kayde Smith, Joohun Rhee
Jacob Weller, Thomas Laing-Hughes, Jack Mayers, Ben Inglis	Timur Ibragimov, Mihan De Silva, Jordan Liu, Matthew Lee

Rebecca Wang, Lea Bouska, Draveed Surendran, Nikhil Kannachel, Tendai Jawa	Keerthan P Ganesan, Wei Jie Lee, Amos Choo
Brielle McKinlay, Courtney Johns and Afrah Hammadi

HaSS GT YEAR 10 - NATIONAL HISTORY COMPETITION

Sixty-two of our Year 10 students were selected to participate in the Australian History Competition. This is a national competition and in 2015, 23 000 students from over 350 schools participated in the year 10 section of the competition.

The competition requires students to complete 50 multiple choice questions based on a variety of source material that tests their historical knowledge, skills of interpretation, knowledge of terms and concepts, historical context, chronology and cause and effect.

Congratulations to Isabella Berridge who was the only person at Willetton to achieve a high distinction certificate with a score of 86%.
Wing Yi Chan (74), Jeremy Gilchrist (80), Maryse Green (74), Natasha Hoffmann (74), Mikayla Johns (80), Vanessa Lim (78), Xin Ru Lim (76), Munyaradzi Matema (76), Katelyn Martin (78), Thomas McDonald (74), Jasmine Roberts (80), Manal Shaheen (78), Isobel Staniland (74), Sarah Talbot (78), Andrew Tan (76) and Melissa Weeks (78) all deserve acknowledgement for achieving certificates of distinction, with scores that would be equivalent to an A grade in this learning area.

Willetton SHS looks forward to the competition in 2016, when we will strive to improve on our 2015 results.

John Maxwell
Head of HaSS

HaSS GT YEAR 10 - ANZAC PREMIER'S TOUR

Congratulations to Jack Doyle for taking the opportunity to enter the ANZAC Premier's Tour Competition this year. In order to enter, Jack had to write an essay in response to a stimulus question.

How have Western Australian communities responded to wartime pressures? Do they unite or divide?

In order to encapsulate as much of the Year 10 course content as possible, Jack chose topics that included; the role of women, the inclusion of Aboriginal Australians and the internment of some migrant groups as evidence unity and division in Western Australia. Of course the use of quotes and personal stories from the era gave an air of realism to his application.

The end result was an accurate but entertaining balance between fact and opinion and primary sources and secondary information. Jack can be very proud of the maturity and dedication with which he has approached this task and regardless of the result, he should be commended for volunteering to be a part of the process.

Hayley Bettermann teacher HaSS

HaSS GT YEAR 10 - WORLD WAR II BOARD GAMES

At the end of Term 2, Mr Johnson's Year 10GT class was given the opportunity to demonstrate what they had learnt about the causes and course of World War II by creating board games. Students had to show an understand of the events of World War II by having the start square as the declaration of war and the final square a V Day. The intervening squares consisted of events of the war and each event affected the players based on the wartime personality they were playing as. As the pictures show, each group was able to show their understanding of the depth study in class both in the construction and playing of the board games.

David Johnson teacher HaSS

Dylan Tan, Marcus Tan and Thomas McDonald	Daniel Hardy, Kody Smith, Tyler Hares and Jeremy Gilchrist
Samali Pathira Kankanange, Carmel Palan, Isabelle Tan and Hannah Pitts	Kody Smith

GT MATHEMATICS

MATHEMATICS GT YEAR 10 - CLASSPADS

The bittersweet relationship has blossomed between the students and the Classpads. In this unorthodox love story between man and machine, the Classpads helped the Year 10 students solve equations, make spreadsheets and graphs, perform statistical calculations, add notes and programs, and improve efficiency. The only tragedy was the heavy weighting in schoolbags, the expense, mastering of the stylus and learning how to use them.

Jasmine Beck Year 10

GT SCIENCE

SCIENCE GT YEAR 7

Plant Biology

For our Term 2 science course, the Year 7s studied Biology. For the first part of the course, we learned about the classification of plants and animals. As one of our GT projects, we were required to study plant biology. The students created a poster on different species of plants, each belong to a certain category. Angiosperms (Flowering Plants), Gymnosperms, (Pines, Plants producing Cones), Pteridophytes (Ferns) and Bryophytes (Mosses). We were required to identify the type of plant, its use to man and the features that distinguished it from other plants. We finished off the poster by collecting a sample of each plant and attaching it to the project. All of the students had great fun completing this project and it was a great activity.

Balloon Rocket

We have also studied the topic of forces. To start this part of physical sciences, we made balloon rockets. There were multiple areas to measure such as weight, circumference, friction applied to the string and a few others. That was fun because it showed us the effect of these variables on the balloon. It was also fun to see these balloons fly around the room when they weren't attached properly. It was a good and exciting way to start the term.

AQWA

Last term on June 30, all of the Gifted and Talented students embarked on an excursion to the Aquarium of Western Australia. The aim of the excursion was to learn more about classification. We have been learning about biology for the whole term before the excursion. The students were split into three groups, one lead by Mr Hamley, another by Mr Maxwell, and the third by Mrs Atkinson.

On that day we had an unforgettable experience at AQWA. We saw lots of species of sea animals which we wouldn't see here in Perth including sea turtles, grey nurse sharks, many varieties of rays and salt water crocodiles.

Jack, Jit and Kate Year 7

SCIENCE GT YEAR 8 - DON'T DUMP FISH

The Department of Parks and Wildlife ran a competition this term to raise awareness about people dumping unwanted pet fish into our river. Students had to make a 60 second video about the dangers to the ecosystem resulting from the dumping of feral fish.

The competition attracted 72 entries from across the state. Our Year 8 Gifted and Talented class won with an amazing entry from Brielle McKinlay, Courtney Johns, Mihan De Silva, Kelvin Poulraj, Arpit Kulshrestha and Jack Bringans. Jack, whose stage name is Dr Koi Mackerel really stole the show!

Our prize was a three-hour river cruise for the whole class. On the river cruise the students were presented with a framed certificate by the Minister for Fisheries Ken Basdon MLC.

We saw about 25 different bird species and spotted four dolphins on the cruise. Using a dolphin fin identification book that we have been studying we identified the dolphins. The dolphins that we saw belong to an alliance of males and their names are Hii, Bottomslice, Arrow and Blackwall.

Arpit, Jack, Brielle, Courtney, Mihan and Kelvin

SCIENCE GT YEAR 8

This term, in Year 8 GT Science, we have been studying physics, looking at forces, velocity, gravity, acceleration buoyancy and density. The students have been building and testing remote control model submarines. We are currently making brackets with our 3D printer to attach underwater cameras to our submarines.

Darren Hamley teacher Science

Ben Inglis and Nic Foster

Jack Myers, Jae Brieffies and Janice Tan

SCIENCE GT YEAR 10 - CSIRO'S SCIENTIST IN SCHOOL: DR. PAOLA CHIVERS

Aaron Roque, Marcus Tan, Dr Chivers, Minki Kim and Dylan Tan

Our Year 10 Gifted and Talented students have reaped tremendous benefit through their interaction with Dr Paola Chivers who is a Lecturer in Research Methods and Biostatistics at the University of Notre Dame. Furthermore, she is a parent member of the school community as her sons are in our Gifted and Talented Program. Dr Chivers is also an active member of our School Board. For the past few years, Willetton Senior High School has been involved in the CSIRO's Scientist-in-School Program which encourages teacher-scientist partnerships in schools to enhance science education.

Our Year 10 Science students work on investigative research projects over a five week period, at the end of which they have to analyse their experimental data. Students have had an excellent opportunity to learn to analyse and interpret their data by using not only the method of averages, but also other statistical methods such as standard deviation and coefficient of correlation under Dr Chivers' expert guidance. We sincerely appreciate the valuable time that she has spent with our students.

Mita Munshi teacher Year 10 Science

GT SENIOR

SENIOR GIFTED & TALENTED PROGRAM

Our Year 11 and 12 students have been accessing our study group each Thursday after school in F5. We have a number of our high performing Senior Gifted and Talented students, now at university, returning to tutor students in many subjects. Our Year 12s have been keen to ask them questions about university courses and future careers.

We have also started our Year 12 revision program which runs until the end of this term. Students were notified about our sessions: Physics on Wednesday (with Mr Bedwell), Literature on Thursday and Mathematics Specialist on Friday.

We congratulate our students for the work they have done this year and wish them the best for their mock WACE exams during the holidays.

Mrs Hind & Mrs Genoni Senior Gifted & Talented Coordinators

ENGLISH

WITCHES AND WIZARDS AT WILLETTON

On the September 11, various students reported sightings of witches and wizards in and around the Willetton Senior High School grounds. Concerned parents and students will be reassured to know that these magical apparitions were actually members of Miss McCauley's Year 7 English class!

Throughout the term, Miss McCauley's class has been exploring the magic, marvels and mystery that is J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Despite some sceptical students at the beginning of the term, the class undertook their own version of the House Cup. Furious competition ensued as they sought to earn points for the coveted house cup through the daily wordle challenge; and for classwork, homework and behaviour.

Aside from the house competition, students read the novel; they surprised library staff when they arrived for their first official library session already halfway through a book with their teacher in full wizard robes! Once the book was read (and we decided that we couldn't just read the next one and the next one and the next one . . . ) students put their thinking caps on to consider why we really don't like the Dursley's; how many knuts to a sickle; what happened to Dudley's tortoise; and why the characters, Quidditch, Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Castle have made the Harry Potter series one of the most beloved of the 21st century.

Additionally, students brought the world of Hogwarts to life. They created their own flyers explaining the quidditch rules and some of the ways you can cause a quidditch foul: throwing watermelons at the other team members, covering the goal hoops with sheets and even transfiguring the umpire into a mouse. Secondly, they constructed a series of intricately detailed maps of Hogwarts castle; all before accepting the challenge to write an essay on why Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is timeless.

On the September 11, the big day came to announce the winner of Miss McCauley's Hogwarts House Cup. Students parked their brooms next to the bike racks and alohomora-ed their way into the classroom, only to be greeted by none other than Professor McCauley (a less severe version of Professor McGonagall!). During the lesson, students' learned about the stereotypical dress of witches and wizards before they were joined by Professors Munro and Atkinson who helped to award the individual awards and House Cup. Congratulations to Janelle Muir and Tiffany Simpson for earning the Ridiculously Riddle-some Riddle Awards; Lucas Fuentes for his Endless and Earnest Enthusiasm Award; and Christie Mathews who was awarded the Marvellous and Magical Costume Award.

Finally, to use Dumbledore's words, "now, as I understand it, the house cup here needs awarding and the points stand thus:" Ravenclaw on 340 points, Hufflepuff on 330 points, Syltherin on 285 points and Gryffindor on 250 points.

Congratulations Ravenclaw on your excellent work and achievements this term! I extend a heartfelt thank you to all of the students who tried their hardest and put their best foot forward throughout the term. Lastly, thank you to the all the teachers and parents who made this not only possible, but a success.

Daisy McCauley - teacher English

Professor McCauley and her English Class

Miss McCauley and class in the Library

HaSS

LAW EDUCATION

The Year 10 Legal Studies, and Year 11 and 12 Politics and Law classes recently visited the Francis Burt Law Education Centre in Perth.

The students enjoyed participating in mock trials, learning about the court processes and watching actual cases in different courts. The cases varied from armed robbery to drug trafficking. Some students even managed to make it onto 9 News that evening! They enjoyed lunch at Carillion Food Hall before returning to school life feeling much more informed about the law.

Margaret Hale: Teacher HaSS

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Jack Doyle for taking the opportunity to enter the ANZAC Premier's Tour Competition this year. In order to enter, Jack had to write an essay in response to a stimulus question.

How have Western Australian communities responded to wartime pressures? Do they unite or divide?

In order to encapsulate as much of the year 10 course content as possible, Jack chose topics that included; the role of women, the inclusion of Aboriginal Australians and the internment of some migrant groups as evidence unity and division in Western Australia. Of course the use of quotes and personal stories from the era leant an air of realism to his application.

The end result was an accurate but entertaining balance between fact and opinion and primary sources and secondary information. Jack can be very proud of the maturity and dedication with which he has approached this task and regardless of the result, he should be commended for volunteering to be a part of the process.

Ms Bettermann: HaSS teacher

Jack Doyle

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

CERTIFICATE ll IN SPORTS COACHING – JUNIOR SPORTS CLUB

After attaining their Certificate II in Sport and Recreation in 2014, this class of Year 12s were honing their practical coaching skills in the Certificate II Sport Coaching course. In order to make the experience more industry-specific and also give the junior students some extra curricular sport opportunities, the class made a collective decision to organise a Year 7 and 8 Junior Sports Club. The main aim was to provide a fun, active and educational session.

Di Tuxford teacher HPE

After school sport was a fun activity that was for Years 7 and 8. Some of the fun sports we did every Monday were: little fitness workouts, basketball, netball, soccer and dodge ball.

We made friends with some Year 7s and 8s, all of the Year 12s, and got to give the twelves some positive and negative feed back.

My honest opinion about the after school sport and how good the Year 12s were, was that it was a wonderful, fun experience. Thank you so much for teaching us, I had a great time and I wish it was still going.

Thank you very much Mrs Tuxford for organising this, I had the best time and I'm sure all the others did too.

Georgia Shearer Year 8

Year 12 Students in Action	Year 12 Students in Action
Year 12 Students Coaching	Year 12 Students Coaching

SQUASH STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015

This year, Willetton was invited to the state championships which took place at Mirrabooka Squash Club. Each team consisted of three players and teams were placed in separate round robin draws to determine the finalists.

Despite not having a squash court in the school, we had a huge mount of students sign up for the competition. Of the 24 students who attended this competition, only two students played squash regularly.

In the Year 7 – 9 competiton, the girls teams had to play up in the Year 10 – 12 division since no other school could enter a team. What this meant was that by default they ended up first and second in the state. In the senior girls, we did not progress through to the round robin stages but held our own against some tough competition.

The junior and senior boys divisions were very busy competitions with multiple entries from all schools. Our junior boys team earned the same amount of wins as another team but on count back to points, did not progress. The senior boys were in for an even tougher draw. They came up against teams with three state ranked players in one team and could not advance into the finals.

A huge congratulations to all participants who represented the school with pride. Special mention must be made of Rohan Sanders Year 9 who played some high level squash and Kevin Foo Year 11 who is a former Malaysian district champion.

BOYS

• 7 – Mitchell Bell
• 7 – Umer Mian
• 7 – Suthan Kalidasan
• 7 - Mitchell Anderson
• 9 – Rohan Sanders
• 9 – Himal Pandey
• 9 – Mansoor Khawaja
• 9 – Joel Biju
• 9 – Mabroor Chaudhry
• 9 – Thomas Waterhouse
• 9 – Hudson Herbert
• 10 – Brereton Hegarty
• 10 – Jackson Bennet
• 10 – Caleb Mader
• 11 – Kevin Foo
• 11 – Campbell Fist
• 11 – Tim Lee

GIRLS

• 7 – Tiffany Simpson
• 9 – Astha Malik
• 9 – Sabira Pathan
• 9 – Vishwa Hewage
• 9 – Divya Angusamy
• 9 – Kajanda Ninyette
• 11 – Tiffany Mitchell

Team coach Erik Pretorius

LIGHTNING CARNIVAL

On August 14, the Year 8 lightning carnival girls basketball team competed at Cockburn basketball stadium against Rockingham SHS, Rossmoyne, Applecross and Leeming. The girls went through the day undefeated and brought home the flag.

It was a fun and enjoyable day and we had a game that involved a peg and having to pass it around so whoever ended up with it at the end of the day had to wash all the uniforms. Jasmin ended up with it but Courtney kindly volunteered.

A big thanks to Miss Heard, the best coach ever!

Year 8 Lightning Carnival Girls

Winners are Grinners

Year 8 Boys Basketball Team

YEAR LEVEL ATHLETICS CARNIVALS

The Willetton Senior High School Year Level Athletics Carnivals were held over a three-day period on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday September 1 to the 3.

As this is the very start of spring, we were rather apprehensive about the possibility of rain and storms but were very lucky with three chilly but beautifully sunny days.

The Year 7 and 8 cohorts arrived with great anticipation for their first high school carnival and it was a very busy start to both of the days. Every student participated with enthusiasm and showed support and sportsmanship in their behavior and their athletic achievements.

Willetton operates a house system and the final house scores for Year 7 were very close:

1st Diamond	2779
2nd Sapphire	2669
3rd Emerald	2502
4th Ruby	2479

Although every student worked incredibly hard over the full day, special mention goes to a number of students for outstanding efforts and for setting the first ever records in athletics for year 7 at Willetton Senior High School and to those in Year 8 and Year 9 who broke existing records.

YEAR 7 CARNIVAL

Year 7 record holders by event

Tia Morgan	100m	14.13s
Caitlyn Shaw	400m	1.16
Lisa Hickey	80m Hurdles	15.98s
Vanessa Siew	Discus	17.95m
Chloe Dreyer	High Jump	1.30m
Reena Hwang	Long Jump	3.90m
Ifeoma Anyoku	Shot Put	7.16m
Elis Caldas Pinheiro Eca	Triple Jump	8.20m
Joel Williams	100m	13.13s
Darcy Garlett	400m	1.06
Darcy Garlett	80m Hurdles	13.85
Declan Whisson	Discus	23.00m
David Pettersson/Jett Ng	High Jump	1.47m
Darcy Garlett	Long Jump	5.30m
Darcy Garlett	Shot Put	8.85m
Darcy Garlett	Triple Jump	10.20m

GO YEAR 7s!

Year 7 Champion Boys and Girls

Champion Boy: Darcy Garlett
Champion Girl: Tia Morgan
Runner Up: Roosevelt Williams
Runner Up: Caitlin Shaw

YEAR 8 CARNIVAL

1st Diamond	4500
2nd Sapphire	3965
3rd Emerald	3857
4th Ruby	3848

Year 8 Record breakers by event

Zahli Jolly	100m	13.60s
Zahli Jolly	400m	1.07
Zahli Jolly	High Jump	1.46m
Zahli Jolly	Hurdles	13.77s
Kobe Dees	High Jump	1.51m

Year 8 Champion Boys and Girls

Champion Boy: Kobe Dees
Champion Girl: Zahli Jolly
Runner Up: Raymond Burge
Runner Up: Isabelle Shearer

Year 8 Champion Girl Zahli Jolly

YEAR 9 CARNIVAL

1st Diamond	3488
2nd Sapphire	3435
3rd Emerald	3393
4th Ruby	3197

Year 9 record breakers by event

Ally Holdcroft	Long Jump	4.60m
Chloe Sauzier	Shot Pu	9.50m
Olivia Panzich	Hurdles (90m)	17.38s

Year 9 Champion Boys and Girls

Champion Boy: Isaac Karafilis
Champion Girl: Alexander Holdcroft
Runner up: Sergio Arellano-Rivas
Runner Up: Kajanda Ninyette

Year 9 Novelty Event

Year 9 100m Event

This year, our Year 10 cohort did not undertake a year level carnival of their own but were instead invited to attend the Year 9 carnival on a nomination basis along with the Year 11 and 12 students. This system allowed for those students keen to get involved in athletics the opportunity to participate without interrupting the school day for other students. A number of new records were set in the Year 10 and Year 11 group.

Year 10, 11 and 12 record breakers by event

Mikayla Johns	Yr 10	400m	1.07
Mikayla Johns	Yr 10	Shot Put	10.20m
Kahawa Randall	Yr 10	Triple Jump	9.60m
Kahawa Randall	Yr 10	Hurdles	16.92s
Eleisha Renner	Yr 10	Long Jump	5.10m
Thomas McDonald	Yr 10	Shot Put	13.77s
Thomas McDonald	Yr 10	Discus	40.10m
Nick Spence	Yr 10	Triple Jump	12.60m
Jackson Bennett	Yr 10	400m	57.59s
Emily Wilson	Yr 11	100m	14.06s
Tayalvie Frost-Kelemete	Yr 11	Shot Put	8.95m

The Athletics season continues next term with the Interschool Carnival at the State Athletics Stadium in week two of term four. Willetton is competing in B Division this year and we are all looking forward to the challenge.

A final thank-you to the HPE staff for your hard work on the Athletics Carnival days and to the more than 100 student helpers over the three days without which the carnivals could not go ahead. Special thanks also to Di Tuxford for her continued support and help with athletics and to Lauren Andrews for organizing our student help.

Jacqueline Bogunovich teacher HPE

LANGUAGES

ADVICE FOR YEAR 12 LANGUAGES EXAMINATIONS

• As part of your EAL/D, French, Italian or Japanese course, all students are required to have their own bilingual dictionary. This is on the booklist.
• During the mock exams these holidays, students will not be able to borrow school dictionaries on the day of exams.
• This is also the case for the WACE exams themselves.
• In an emergency case, where you do not have a suitable dictionary for examination purposes, you must plan ahead and see if you are able to borrow one from your teacher before the holidays.
• In any case, dictionaries should be used sparingly during exams.

Nathan Harvey Head of Languages

TO YEAR 9 EAL/D STUDENTS AND PARENTS

All students would have now received their Year 9 NAPLAN results. It is important to have a good look at these results as a family to observe how students are progressing. As a learning area, we are very pleased with the overall results of our students who have all shown some progress.

To achieve the Western Australian Certificate of Education, all students must demonstrate a standard of literacy and numeracy. Students who achieve Band 8 or above in Year 9 NAPLAN have already met this standard.

Those who have not yet met this standard, this can be met through the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) in Year 10. Students undertaking the OLNA will be required to satisfy both the reading and writing components in order to demonstrate the minimum WACE literacy standard.

While we will be providing students with some support at school, regularly practicing reading and writing at home is essential.

These simple strategies are tried and tested and will help develop stronger literacy skills for EAL/D students:

• Read a wide range of books at home for pleasure – to expand vocabulary and exposure to different text types.
• Write a 1 paragraph summary of the text and 1 paragraph opinion of the text.
• Give yourself time limits for this writing, and aim to become more efficient.
• Reading will also aid with recognizing spelling of unfamiliar words.
• Spend less time on laptops and do not rely on grammar and spell check.
• Practice grammar exercises (possibly in Blue Murphy Grammar in Use or Excel NAPLAN practice test books.
• Watch the news and talk to adults and peers about issues of concern in Australian society. Develop your own opinions with reasoned arguments
• Aim to do these things once a week.

LIONS YOUTH CAMP TO JAPAN

This year, Jesse Tucek, Willetton SHS Head Boy and Year 12 student was selected as the Australian representative for the 34th International Youth Camp in Japan. This is an annual Lions Club international event and it is a great honour to have had a Willetton languages student selected to represent Australia. Jesse writes about his experience below.

On Wednesday July 1, I embarked on one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had. For a month I lived in Japan with a host family. My host father was a Lions member, and together with his wife they owned a nursing care facility in the city called Wakayama (an hour south of Osaka).

When I arrived at Kansai Airport, I was greeted by the Club President, the youth exchange organizer, my host father, and another Lions member who I became close with during my stay, all from the Wakayama Lions Club. They drove me to Wakayama where I met my host mum. Every day, I was taken out by two different members from the Wakayama Lions Club. Every day I did loads of activities, experienced so many new things, met so many new people, made lots of memories and improved my Japanese. Together with the various Lions members I did made Japanese pottery, visited a lot of temple and shrines (which I loved), went yachting, did bowling, climbed mountains, ate insane amounts of delicious food, made speeches, visited schools, dressed up as a samurai, went shopping, and loads of others things.

On July 17, I was driven to Osaka where I attended the 34th International Youth Camp. 25 other students from 25 other different countries also attended. During the 10 days on the camp, we travelled throughout the Kansai region and gave presentations about each of our countries to teach each other about our culture and daily life. We went to Hiroshima Museum, USJ, Tenjin Festival, Shirahama Beach, Koyasan, and many others. I made so many new friends, and now have friends in 25 different countries around the world.

On this trip I learnt so much about countries from around the world, and especially more about the beautiful culture of Japan. I improved my Japanese so much from daily conversations with the Lions Members and my host family. But I have also realised my love for Japan, its culture, its people, and the Japanese language.

Jesse Tucek
Year 12

CONGRATULATIONS TO: Sheyna Sumputh, 2015 Alliance Française Poem Recitation Laureate!

Sheyna Sumputh, Year 8 laureate of the 2015 Alliance Française Poem Recitation Competition

Congratulations to Sheyna Sumputh, who became a laureate for the 2015 Alliance Française Poetry Recitation Competition with her poem Dans le regard d'un enfant by Claude Haller. This year's competition further proved how hard it is to reach the final step and we are really thrilled to have Sheyna on the podium!

We also want to congratulate all our finalists who entered the 2015 Alliance Française Poetry Competition, as well as the language teachers and our assistant, Mr Quentin Hagen, who helped make this competition a tremendous success.

Nathan Harvey Head of Languages

JAPANESE EXCHANGE PROGRAM

At the beginning of August, fifteen students and two teachers from The High School of the University of Hyogo, Japan, visited our school for two weeks. Throughout their time here, the students were billeted out into homestays where they had the opportunity to experience the Australian lifestyle first hand. At school, the students participated in a variety of classes including netball, making Anzac biscuits and taste testing Australia's most traditional foods. They also had excursions to Kings Park, The Hyogo Cultural Centre and Caversham Wildlife Park.

A day at Kings Park

Visit of the Hyogo Cultural Centre

commemorative assembly at Willetton SHS. From left to right: Ms Pam Stewart, Mrs Kerry Bonciani Dr Mike Nahan, Mr Onishi, Ms Satoko Mikuni, Mr Tsuyoshi Takemoto, Mr Chris Booth

This year was particularly notable in that it marked the 20th Anniversary of the sister school relationship between the two schools. On Friday August 14, a commemorative assembly was held to mark the momentous occasion with special guests including the Honourable Dr Mike Nahan MLA, Mr Onishi, the Director of the Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Centre, Pam Stewart from the Department of Education and Mrs Kerry Bonciani, the Teacher-in-Charge of Languages here at Willetton when the program was initiated. Throughout the 20 years, more than 700 students and nearly 50 staff members have participated in the program. This has only been made possible through the outstanding quality of the student ambassadors, the dedicated staff members, the generosity of all the volunteers and of course the wonderful host families without whom this program would cease to exist. Our sincerest thanks to all.

As part of the reciprocal arrangement, 20 of our Year 11 students accompanied by Mr Harvey and Ms Barratt, will soon be heading off to Japan and we wish them a safe journey and look forward to hearing of their travel tales when they return.

Bae Kent Teacher of Japanese

FRENCH MOVIE CLUB

Originally from La Réunion (a French island in the Indian Ocean), I have spent the last six years in Strasburg for English and Translation studies. To further improve my language skills I decided to go abroad and Australia seemed like a nice place.

This is how I came to join Willetton SHS in late January, as part of a language assistant program. This has given me a great opportunity to discover Australian education and get to know the students; teaching them French is a genuine pleasure.

Lately, I have been coaching our students for the Alliance Française poetry competition. Their commitment was truly heartwarming and we actually had our student, Sheyna Sumputh of Year 8, who became a laureate for the 2015 Alliance Française Poem Recitation Competition!

Another project I am running is our French club:

French movie with English subtitles in the lecture theatre

In the great tradition of le goûter, students are offered crêpes, croissants and other gateaux made by ourselves to enjoy in the French classroom before watching a movie (in the Lecture theatre whenever possible). France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its significant contributions. With over more than 30 festivals held in France annually, this tradition has been upheld for years. We have come up with a fine selection of some of the latest releases as well as timeless classics for the students to enjoy.

We are also very excited to share our culture with them and every third week is allocated to French board games, comic strips and music.

Quentin Hagen French Language Assistant

2015 WAATI EXAMINATION YEAR 11 WINNER

Kai Li Shi with her Italian teacher Mrs Petale.

Congratulations to Kai Li (Kelly) Shi for her outstanding achievement in the recent annual WAATI examinations. Kelly's consistent determination and hard work helped her to obtain first place in the Year 11 examinations. Kelly's prize includes a Certificate and monetary prize presented to her at a Presentation Awards Ceremony in September at Mercedes College.

The examinations, administered annually by the WA Association of Teachers of Italian under the auspices of Consulate of Italy in Perth, have provided Kelly with invaluable experience that will keep her in good stead next year in her preparation for her WACE examinations.

Bianca Petale teacher of Italian

IL PROGRAM ASSISTENTE LINGUISTICO/ ITALIAN ASSISTENTI

This year Willetton SHS continued its Assistente Linguistico programme by welcoming Cristina Garulli into our school community.

From left to right - Mrs Petale, Ms Cristina Garulli and Mrs Palermo.

This programme was initiated in WA in 2012 when a partnership was formed between the Università della Cattolica in Milan and WAATI (WA Association of Teachers of Italian). It enables graduates like Cristina to come to our schools and work alongside both teachers and students to help improve our linguistic skills as well as promote the Italian language and culture.

Cristina worked tirelessly and patiently during her time with us in Terms 2 and 3. She supported the students in their oral and writing activities and provided invaluable support to the teachers by developing useful resources. Cristina's expertise was particularly invaluable with the senior school students as they prepared for their formal examinations, and with a small group of Year 9 students who were preparing for the annual Dante Alighieri Speech Competition:

Cristina with the Year 11 students.

Preparing for the annual Dante Alighieri Speech Competition.

Sincere thanks and appreciation to the Drew and Johnson families for accepting Cristina into their homes and for making her feel welcome. Without the generous hospitality of these families these programmes would not exist.

Bianca Petale teacher of Italian

2015 DANTE ALIGHIERI SPEECH COMPETITION: The Seven Italian Arts

On Saturday August 29, Mahima Balaji, Claudia Goh and Josephine Santoso of Year 9 showed their passion and enthusiasm for the Italian language and culture at the annual Dante Alighieri Speech Competition. Each girl presented a unique and personal interpretation of this year's topic, The Seven Italian Arts, based on their own individual interests. All the girls devoted many hours preparing and rehearsing their speeches, with the guidance and help of the Italian assistenti Cristina Garulli and Eleonora Duso. As a result, the organizers of the competition praised all the contestants on the excellent standard demonstrated on the day.

A very special mention and congratulations must go to Mahima Balaji who won first prize in the Year 9 category on her splendid interpretation of Le fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome).

YEAR 7 DISCO NIGHT - The Best Party Ever!!!

It is so nice to finally be able to stand back and say – what an awesome event! The Year 7 Disco Night organised by Mrs Atkinson and her students was a huge hit and promises to have a long and exciting future, not only because everybody really came to the table with excellent energy and intent, but also because everyone came out dressed in their hippie attire and all seemed to really get into the spirit of the evening. It was amazing to see so many Year 7 students involved in this project, and on behalf of the Languages department, I would like to thank Mrs Atkinson for her invitation. It was a great opportunity for us to connect with the Year 7 cohort and to learn some really good moves from them!

Matthieu Heimel teacher of French

KOREAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL AT UWA CAMPUS

안녕하새요! Hello!

On Wednesday August 19 the Year 7s and 8s from Willetton Senior High studying the Korean language course went on an excursion to University of Western Australia (UWA). We went there for the 한국문화원 Korean Cultural Centre Festival with two other schools. When we first arrived the was an opening ceremony where the Korean studies of UWA was introduced. There was a K-Pop dance performance, a Korean traditional music and dance performance. After the introduction we went around doing workshops experiencing the Korean culture.

There was Korean Calligraphy were you could write anything in Korean with a special writing brush and black ink. We made bookmarks out of stamps with different patterns and pictures. We did hands on cooking, making 김밥 gimbab which is a Korean sushi. We got to play some traditional Korean games such as, 제 기차기 jegichagi, 윤노리 yunnori, 공기gonggi and 투호tuho. Jegi is made with paper and coins or a small rock which looks similar to a shuttlecock. You kick the shuttlecock with your feet and try to keep it off the ground as long as possible. Yunnori is played with four wooden sticks and are thrown around a board. The aim is to travel from the start to the finish using the sticks to depend on your travel. Gonggi is played with five small sized pebbles, which are thrown into the air one at a time and trying to grab as many other pebbles before catching it. Tuho is also known as pitch-pot, it is played with arrows on a pot with four other rings around it. The aim is to try and get as many arrows into the pot. We learnt to play with the traditional Korean drums and also got to try on the Korean traditional clothing, the 한복 hanbok.

At the festival we won many prizes as well by collecting stamps on our certificates by trying the Korean cultural workshops. We had an amazing time. It was very educational and beneficial in understanding the Korean culture and traditions. On behalf of the Year 7s and 8s, we would like to thank our teacher Kim 선생님 and the Head of the Language department Mr. Harvey for organising this trip.

감사합니다! Thank you!

by Erin Boey 에린 Year 8

INTRODUCING AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL LIFE TO WILLETTON'S JAPANESE VISITORS

On Thursday August 13, I was fortunate to visit Caversham Wildlife Park with Takemoto Sensei, Mikuni Sensei and 15 students from Hyogo. It was an adventure in many ways. The students were able to gain some understanding of Australian farm life with demonstration of whip cracking as well as clever and intuitive kelpie dogs rounding up sheep for the shearing. Volunteering to bottle feed baby lambs and milk a cow added to the experience. Highlights of our day include time spent feeding very lazy and relaxed kangaroos, numbering up to about 50 in an open grassed area and touching koalas, in the correct way with the back of the hand along their back. An opportunity was created also to get up close and personal with possums, snakes, lizards and a wombat. Our day was a mix of laughter, smiles, anticipation, excitement and much chatter…… what more could one ask for: learning and laughter!

Ruth Barratt teacher HaSS

MATHEMATICS

AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION (AMC) 2015

Willetton Senior High School has once again excelled in the Australian Mathematics Competitions which was held on Thursday July 31. The competition consisted of three divisions, Junior Years 7 and 8, Intermediate Years 9 and 10 and Senior Years 11 and 12, each with 30 gruelling questions which had to be completed in 75 minutes without a calculator. Three hundred and two of our students entered the competition this year.

We received five prizes, 22 high distinctions and 100 distinctions. These results are a credit to all our students and their maths teachers.

The outstanding performances were recorded by the following prize winners as their results were in the top 0.3% of all students in the state. Congratulations to all on this excellent achievement.

PRIZE WINNERS

Year 7

Jonathan Chivers

Year 9

Christopher Chivers
Andrew Lee

Year 10

Julian Harrison

Year 12

Jeffrey Wong

Special congratulations also to the following students who were awarded high distinction and distinction and too many others who gained a credit award for their efforts.

HIGH DISTINCTIONS (In the top 2% of their year group in the State)

Year 7	Year 9	Year 11
Aaron Teng	Dhruv Jobanputra	(In the top 5% of their year group in the State)
Will Ho	Sean Chionh	Shrenik Jobanputra
	Mubashshira Ahmed	Alex Lugovskoy
Year 8	Roshan Prashant	Christopher Jong
Kelvin Lim	Kaylee Wong	Jianyu Yang
Celestine Christo	Karmel Gandahusada
Thomas Laing-Hughes		Year 12
Wei Jie Brian Lee	Year 10	Ryan Sam
Kayde Smith	Marcus Tan	Jacob Baron
Jae Brieffies		Jason Ting

DISTINCTION (In the top 15% of their year group in the State)

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
Aaron Lee	Jamie Beamsley	Jacob Head
Aimos Yong	Timur Ibragimov	David Jiang
Dorothy Jong	Mihan De Silva	Himal Pandey
Jack Killoh	Joohun Rhee	Nancy Shi
Daichi Shearsby	Leesha Samaraweera	Gabriel Boon
Esther Chang	Zakhar Pugachev	Ryley Joynson
Dimitrije Komnenovic	Nikhil Kannachel	Zachary Browne
Ariff Zulfikree Mazlee	Safiyya Aljunied	Claudia Goh
Justin Moro	Sep Kimiaei	Chaitany Goyal
Jerron Cheng	William Hor	Aditya Gupta
Callum Hutchison	Jordan Liu	Leopold Ngu
Aryan Chugh	Jack Bringans	Ashley Yao
Mattheson Meerwald	Lucy McGinn	Ujvala Vemuru
Jit Singh	Araan Kousari	Jayden Bradshaw
Claudia Tirta	David Ling	Kaitlyn Ng
Louis Jones	Jeevanpreet Singh	Krystal Nguyen
Ethan Lim	Jarrod Fong
Jordan Sheng	Brielle Mckinlay
Sarah Raphael	Crystal Teh
Lana Christie	Edwin Tho
	Char Min Ng
	Bianca Stevenson
	Junjie Siow

Year 10	Year 11
Ben Martini	(In the top 25% of their year group in the state)
Yi Shien Lew	Robert Gadeke
Thomas McDonald	Jing Luo
Kelum De-Silva	Wei-Cheng-Michael Lee
Matthew Grady	Karan Desai
Lachlan Jackson	Namitha Sara John
Xin Ru Lim	Dulasi Amarasingha
Minki Kim	Harsh Sharma
Andrew Tan	Shiya Huang
Samali Pathira Kankanange	Hongchen Pan
Tate Hagan	Eda Pui
Aparna Pramod Kumar	Ebony Bernard
Lingzhi Ye	Joshua How-Son
Keshone Mahesvaran
Claire Tho	Year 12
Raisa Biswas	Stephen Siswanto
Mathieu Chong	Jiahe Li
Lucy Jiang	Hur Fong Chia
Munyaradzi Matema	Vishnuram Arumugam
Jane Mathews	Matthew Rose
Keegan Rivers	Melvyn Siaw
Niklesh Warrier	Nicholas Tang

The Prudence Award winner is Thomas Laing-Hughes (Year 8). This is awarded to the student with the highest number of consecutive correct responses starting from question one. Well done, Thomas.

The prize winners have now progressed to the Maths Olympiad Intermediate Division. This was a four hour problem solving examination. We await the results with eager anticipation.

Marie Law: teacher Mathematics Competition Coordinator

Christopher Chivers, Andrew Lee, Julian Harrison, Jeffrey Wong, Jonathon Chivers

HAVE SUM FUN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION

The Have Sum Fun Mathematics competition is run by the Mathematics Association of WA and it took place on the March 13 at Trinity College. Thirty seven senior school teams competed on that night. The students raced against the clock to work on some challenging problem solving questions over fourintense rounds of eight questions.

Willetton Senior High School team won the gold plaque for the first highest score followed by Rossmoyne Senior High School and All Saints College.

The winners of the 2015 Have Sum Fun Mathematics competition are:

Year 11

Alex Lugovskoy
Loron Wong
Christopher Jong

Year 12

Jeffrey Wong
Ryan Sam
Jason Ting

Congratulations on this fantastic achievement.

Competition Coordinator: Marie Law

L to R Ryan Sam, Jason Ting, Jeffrey Wong, Marie Law (Co-ordinator), Chris Booth (Principal), Zoe Tay (HOLA), Loron Wong, Alex Lugovsky and Christopher Jong.

SCIENCE

YEAR 11 BIOLOGY – Fish Gills Dissection

Students investigated gas exchange by dissecting the gills of a fish. Looking at the characteristics of the structures of the fish gills they were able to relate them to the gill's functions.

Thanks to Seafresh Myaree for kindly donating 15 stripey snapper fish heads for our students to carry out this investigation.

Gloria Wynhorst Year 11 Biology Teacher

Year 11 BIOLOGY – Living Eggs

As part of the syllabus, students were treated to seeing chicks hatch from incubated eggs.

Students were assigned to a chicken and observed their independent behaviours and innate reflexes such as being able to perch and forage for food. Students realized the importance of this independence as there was no parental care as well as the ethical practices of handling animals.

The chicks' mass was measured and monitored to show how quickly they grew.

Reflections:

It was amazing how quickly they grew and even more amazing how much cuter they became each day! Hilda Chan

The best part with working with the chickens is working with them all around the cluck! Lewis Haines

It was a great experience to take care of the chicks and watch them grow and learn. Molly Brann

It was an amazing experience to learn about chickens as well as learning how to care for them. We're really going to miss them. Rhianna Jones

I love chicken and now chicken loves me. Laura Maidment

Gloria Wynhorst teacher Year 11 Biology

TECHNOLOGIES

THE ARTS

The Young Originals Exhibition

This exhibition is held each year at the Spectrum Art Gallery, ECU Mount Lawley. Each government school in the state can select up to eight works, from Years 7 to 12. The Exhibition selection panel chose 60 works from over 150 entries.

Willetton Senior High School had seven works selected - 3 works by Year 10s and 4 works by Year 12s.

Anubhav Khandelwal Artwork

Cynthia Toh and Aashka Bhavsar Artwork

Joanna Husin Artwork

Jack Noonan Artwork

Jack Noonan Artwork

VOCATION AND EDUCATIONAL TRAINING

WE FAREWELL SALLY WHITAKER FROM THE WILLETTON CHILD CARE CENTRE

Students at Willetton SHS have been very fortunate to access the opportunities to work at the Willetton Childcare Centre over many years. The work experience has created a foundation for students to test drive careers and confirm their future career directions.

Former manager, Sally Whitaker has always been very supportive of the Willetton SHS VET department and the Work Experience programme, affording work placements for Years 10, 11 and 12 students including students completing Certificates in Community Services. Our students have been able to learn the different skills needed when working with young infants and then older 3 or 4 year old children from the professionals at the centre. Our students found each day, under the supervision and guidance of Sally's team, a potential career learning experience and sometimes a life lesson.

Sally's efficiency and thoughtful consideration of situations, her professionalism and intuitive awareness of people have been indicators of the support our teachers and students have received. In such a busy, and at times, pressured working environment, nothing was too much trouble for Sally and there was always time to carefully and calmly discuss the progress of our students or resolve possibilities for work experience.

We wish Sally every success in her new position at the Leederville Childcare Centre.

Ruth Barratt Teacher in Charge: Career and Enterprise

Sally Whitaker

WORK EXPERIENCE

It is always an inspiration to work with students who undertake work experience of their own volition, especially during a normal holiday period. Students Cian Smith and Emily Jarrett were proactive in their personal career management.

Emily, an accomplished and successful VET student in Certificate II in Hospitality worked at the Dome Canningvale. She was keen to gain different experiences in a busy kitchen and was recognised for her capacity to work well under pressure.

Cian Smith took a totally different pathway to work in heavy duty mechanics at Bob Wade Fleet Maintenance in Forrestfield. The extra challenge for Cian was to organise public transport to the work place – expectations for any employee. To work on semitrailer engines, to pull down a gear box and shadow the tradesman was a step away from the class room. He was able to gain some thoughts for his own personal career management with the business supervisor, Andrew Wade recognising the need for young workers to be tech savvy in the occupation. For both students it was a productive and useful time. Best wishes in the pursuit of their first careers.

Ruth Barratt teacher VET

Cian Smith

Emily Jarrett

WORKPLACE LEARNING

The Year 11 Flexible Learning students have been busy all year completing their minimum 110 hours of work experience in a work placement. All the FLiS students attend school three days a week, a State Training Provider one day a week in their selected industry area, and the other day of the week, at a work placement relevant to their STP course.

Students are currently attending various work placements across the metropolitan area and have to organise travel to and from these work placements themselves. Willetton Senior High School has Year 11 students in plumbing, electrical, nursing, heavy and light automotive, business, fitting and machining, computing and IT, veterinary, hairdressing, auto electrical, retail and hospitality.

At times we find it difficult to place our students in an industry workplace. The VET Department at the school are keen to hear from any parent who could offer our students a work placement in any of the industry areas above. In particular, we often struggle to find placements in IT, electrical, business and working with animals.

If you think you would be able to help us out with placing a WSHS student early in 2016, we would appreciate it if you could contact a staff member in the VET office on 9334 7239. The Education Department provide full insurance through Riskcover and the only requirement employers need to meet is having a minimum of $20 million in Public Liability.

Natalie Greenham Workplace Learning Coordinator

Brodie Bosito	Matt Bruder
Jason Lai	Mitchell Stanbury
Harrison Shepperd	Nicole Kuser
Caitlin Garrett	Tamika Canny

Justin Giddings

Tiffany Mitchell

Kade Dillon

YEAR 12 CAREER AND ENTERPRISE SMALL BUSINESS

In weeks 3, 4 and 5 of Term 3, forty year 12 students were involved in running a small business as part of a course task. Most students selected the industry area of hospitality in which to conduct their small businesses in and were given a float, which was required to be repaid, to spend on creating this business.

Students were randomly placed into groups of 3 or 4 by their class teacher and had to plan, organise and run their small business over two school breaks, generally a recess and a lunch break. They were required to come up with an idea, promote this through posters and the school bulletin, budget for the activity and purchase and prepare their items for sale. Ideas ranged from tasty tacos to cupcakes, brownies and hot chocolate drinks. The students were responsible for shopping and baking all their goodies, as well as pricing their goods so to make a profit for their business.

The students reflected on their achievements, analysing and determining where they personally could have improved their contribution or how the team could have improved their business success. These were all potential good lessons for their future workplaces.

All student groups were very successful in the running of their businesses and all achieved wonderful profits. Overall the year 12 students were able to raise a total of $1688.25. All proceeds have been donated to charities carefully selected by the students.

Cancer Support, Guide Dogs WA, World Vision, Red Kite, and The Weekend to End Women's Cancer have been the beneficiaries this year. Everyone is a winner!

Natalie Greenham and Sally Russell teachers Career and Enterprise

YEAR GROUP REPORTS

YEAR 7

Last newsletter we were all getting very excited about the upcoming Boho disco. What a great night it was. The members of the Social Committee worked their socks off all night and still managed to have a fantastic time. Everyone looked fabulous and the DJ was overwhelmed by their enthusiasm and commented that he hadn't had a crowd like that for a long time! A big shout out to DJ Degraaf who did an amazing job.

Another high was the Athletics Carnival, the first one at the high school for Year 7. Due to this all the Year 7 records are held by the cohort of 2015 and I think many of them will be hard to beat!

YEAR 7 RECORD HOLDERS

The inaugural Champion boys and girls were:

Boys

Champion - DARCY GARTLETT
Runner up - ROOSEVELT WILLIAMS

Girls

Champion - TIA MORGAN
Runner Up - CAILTLIN SHAW

Congratulations must go to all students on a wonderful day and for the amazing attendance and participation rate that we had. Yet again the Year 7s have shown what a committed and fun loving bunch they are and let's hope we can have the lowest recorded absentee rate at a carnival (another record) next year.

Earlier in the term, I had the privilege of seeing some of our amazing talent on the school stage during the drama production of Joseph and his Technicolored Dream coat. The auditions began early in the year and rehearsals for the production were relentless. What was performed was an amazing adaptation of this great show and I was so proud to see our Year 7 students full of confidence giving it their all on the stage. Well done!

YEAR 7 JOSEPH CAST

Many of the students have been involved in finals at the end of term 3 for their winter sports. I was lucky enough to be at Basketball WA where there were five teams playing all with members of our cohort taking part. Congratulations on getting to the pinnacle of your competition and to the U14 Willetton girls for winning their competition. Also to the number of boys who played in the Willetton football side against Applecross-next year boys!

At the moment I am calling for the leaders and organisers to sign up and nominate to be a Year 8 councillor. Usually the councillor positions open for Year 9 and it is a yearlong position. This year for the 8s it will be a semester position to make sure that as many people as possible that are interested can give it ago. I look forward to announcing the approximately 14 students who will be our Semester 1 councillors of 2016 later in Term 4.

Kimberley Atkinson Year 7 Coordinator

YEAR 8

Term three has flown by, mostly without me! I am glad to say that I am back at school now and my eye has been given the all clear. I would like to thank Mr Andrew Stephen, Ms Lana Warner Gillon, Ms Charmaine Smith and the Student Services team for looking after the Year 8s in my absence.

Term three was very busy. Most school events had significant Year 8 involvement. The school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the Year 8 Lightning Carnival and Athletics Carnival and the Willo All Stars Competition to name a few. Congratulations to our Year 8 Athletics Champions Zahli Jolly and Kobe Dees and runners up Isabelle Shearer and Raymond Burge. There were many excellent performances and records broken and I look forward to seeing the Year 8s compete in the interschool carnival next term.

Year 8 Interschool Athletics Team 2015

Tiffany Toh	Jessica Spence	Dean Waterhouse
Jesni Cooper	Wes Brown	Raymond Burge
Katemba Njamba	Joohun Rhee	Wilson Gilbert
Zahli Jolly	Chun Ping Chong	Sam Leggett
Simone Male	Jordyn Moses Montague	Kobe Dees
Courtney Stothard	Araan Kousari	Caeden Harris
Isabelle Shearer	Jamie Baleu	William Hor
Abbey Cilia	Luke Jackson

The Willo All Stars competition showcased the talents of dancers Hannah Gibson, Sowbagya Nagendran & Bailey Weir and the musical duo, Kobe Herbert and Kobe Dees. Eleven Year 8 drama club students participated in the Youth On Health drama festival during week 7. Well done to the following students:

Jade Choong	Isaac Bassett-Scarfe
Anisha Chowdery	Sowbhagya Nagendran
Caroline Muru	Dylan Munkelt
Brodie Hood	Gopika Chelakkara
Jae Brieffies	Todd Billett
Jessica Banks

Year 8s have continued to have success in out of school activities. Congratulations to Shane Lim who was selected in the Australian Girls Choir International Tour and travels to cities across the USA this month. Good luck and well done!

In the final week of this term Year 8s have the opportunity to apply for a Year 9 student councillor position for 2016. In the first phase students will complete a written application and the councillor team will be announced during term four. Applications close at the end of the term but next year there is also an opportunity for students to become peer leaders. Student involvement in the school and the activities of the year group is very important and I look forward to reading the councillor applications over the school break.

Unfortunately we have not been able to have a social this term but we are hoping to have an event about week 4 in Term 4.

I wish all Year 8s a happy and safe school holiday break.

Andrea Wheeler Year 8 Coordinator

Year 11

The school year is fast coming to an end for Year 11 Students. With end of year examinations looming ATAR students are doing well to keep their heads above water. A number of our FLiS students have completed their work placements and Certificate Courses at various State Training Providers. As the year has progressed, some students have also taken the option to leave school for apprenticeships and traineeships. It is always sad to see students go but we wish everyone all the best with their future careers.

No matter what course Year 11 students have studied, it has been a busy term for everyone academically. Plenty has been happening on an extra-curricular level too. Congratulations are in order for a number of talented individuals; Bo Davie and Jarin Gibbons for representing Willetton SHS and becoming state champions in Rogaining, Chan Park for his success at auditions on the X Factor, Zane Kelly for winning All Stars and Harry Muir with his solo performance at Senior School Awards ceremony.

The Student Councillors have been gearing up for the 2016 ball. Everything is in place for our big night at the Hyatt Regency on February 26 next year. Students are urged to get themselves organised for transport and dress in the coming weeks. A big thank you to Rhianna Jones and Nikita Wynne for creating amazing artwork and designs for ball invitations and tickets. Making the stationery has been a team effort with a number of Year 11 volunteers taking over Student Services once a week for production meetings.

All the best to students preparing for exams mid next term. I wish everyone a fun break. Get lots of rest and enjoy yourselves and see you back in Term 4 refreshed and ready for your final weeks of Year 11.

Judy Gauci
Year 11 Coordinator

School Championships 2015 Rogaining Jarin Gibbons and Bo Davie

SCHOOL BOARD NEWS

SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS

School Board meetings are held three times per term at 5.30pm in the school conference room. The next Board meeting will be held on Thursday October 29. All are welcome.

FUNDING SUBMISSIONS

At the last Board meeting, further funding submissions from various departments were presented and reviewed, and we were very pleased to assist with funding the following projects:

Approved Submissions

Student prizes for Willo All Stars Year 9 Peer Leading Day Drama Club Resource Unit – Training Equipment Semester 2 Movie Tickets Reward System Lower School Merit Badges Lower School Merit Excursion Resource Unit – Printing schools for a school project Technology & Enterprise- 3D Printer Interact Club Year 12 Graduation Senior Status Badges Health & Physical Education – audio equipment for the gymnasium and weights room

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS COMMITTEE

The Partnerships Committee of the School Board supports teachers to enhance outcomes for students by providing and fostering links to community agencies and businesses and further education resources.

The Committee met on Friday September 11 for a presentation of projects by Science teacher Darren Hamley, and will be exploring the partnership opportunities with a not for profit organisation supporting disadvantaged students.

SECOND HAND BOOKSHOP

The second hand bookshop has a range of study guides and past exam papers for various subjects, beneficial for Year 12 students. For information on what is available, please contact the bookshop on 9334 7282 on Wednesdays 9.00am to 11.30am.

Year 11 and Year 12 students - would you like to sell your textbooks when you have completed your end of year exams? The School Board will accept for sale on your behalf the following items:

• Second hand or new textbooks
• Calculators and class pads
• Study guides
• Dance shoes
• Language dictionaries

Items for sale must be placed in a bag together with the completed bookshop form and dropped off at the school front desk, bookshop or School Board office. Copies of the bookshop form may be obtained from the front office, bookshop or School Board office. All items are received on consignment, and priced at approximately half to two thirds the cost of new items, based on their condition. When items are sold, a 20% commission is taken by the School Board, which is used to fund projects around the school.

Current Year 10 students are also invited to visit the second hand bookshop to purchase your booklist requirements for 2016. Many of the textbooks are half to two thirds the price of new textbooks. Please note that due to the new WACE requirements introduced in 2015, a limited range of Year 12 books will be available.

The 2016 Year 11 and Year 12 booklists will be available from late November.

DISCOUNTED HOYTS MOVIE TICKETS

Discounted Hoyts movie tickets are available for purchase through the School Board. The tickets are valid for use at any Hoyts cinema, Australia wide. Profits from the sale of these tickets go towards funding projects around the school, which enhance our students' learning outcomes. Now is a great time to stock up in time for the school holidays. Lengthy expiry dates on all current stocks.

Pricing as follows:

TYPE	SINGLE TICKETS	BOOK OF 10
Child/Senior (restricted – not valid Saturdays after 5pm)	$10	$95
Child/Senior (unrestricted)	$13	$120
Student (unrestricted)	$13	$125
Adult (restricted – valid Monday to Thursday only)	$12	$110
Adult (unrestricted)	$16	$150
Family Book (6 child/senior + 4 adult - restricted)	$100/book
Family Book (6 child/senior + 4 adult – unrestricted)	$132/book
La Premiere –single pass	$34	N/A

Tickets may be purchased from the bookshop on Wednesday mornings during term, or by arrangement with the School Board office. Order forms are available from the School Board office or can be found on the school website www.willettonshs.wa.edu.au , then following these steps:

1. Click on the Information tab.
2. Then click on Willetton Senior High School Board. This will take you to School Board page, where you then click on the link http://willettonshsc.org/
3. From here, click on the Movie Tickets tab.

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP – DONATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED

The second hand uniform shop is very low on stocks and urgently need your donation of old, outgrown school uniforms. Items can be dropped off at the front desk during office hours, or at the second hand uniform shop during trade on Wednesday mornings. Thank you for your support.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

From time to time, we are in need of volunteers to assist in various parts of the school such as the bookshop, canteen, second hand uniform shop or Willo parent events. If you would like to put your name on a Volunteers' List, or have a special skill you would like to offer to the school, please leave your details with the School Board office.

HOW TO CONTACT THE SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE

To find out more about the School Board or how you might get involved, please contact Helen Wong, School Board Executive Officer at helen.s.wong@education.wa.edu.au or 9334 7217.

WILLO PARENT GROUP NEWS

WILLO PARENT GROUP MEETINGS

The Willo Parent Group meets regularly each term, coming together for parent information sessions or meeting socially over morning tea. This is a great way to meet with members of the school community and find out what is happening around the school. Suggestions for meetings are always welcome. Details of Willo Parent Group events can be found on the school website, or by contacting helen.s.wong@education.wa.edu.au

EMERGENCY MEAL ROSTER TEAM

From time to time, a school family or staff member may face an unexpected crisis such as a medical emergency or death of a loved one. We have a team of kind parents who are on a meal roster, ready to provide delicious home cooked meals during a time when a little extra support could make a world of difference. If you would like to assist by being on this roster, or simply get more information, please contact Sharon at smclarennz@gmail.com The more people that are on the roster, the lighter the load for everyone. Thank you for your consideration.

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

Over the years, the Willo Parent Group has assisted the chaplains at this school with Operation Christmas Child, a worthy project that can make a difference in the lives of many young people. It is now time to start bringing in your donations of gifts to fill the Christmas shoe boxes. Items needed include soft toys, toys, colouring pencils, crayons, puzzle books, toiletries and clothing. All items need to be new. Please drop off your items at the chaplain's office, located in the demountable at the front of the school. More details on this project can be found on www.samaritanspurse.org.au Volunteers are also needed to assist with wrapping and packing the shoe boxes. If you are able to assist, please contact Heather Gare in the chaplains' office on 9334 7242 (Tuesdays and Wednesdays).

PARENT E-NEWS

If you would like to be included on a parent email distribution list to be kept informed of Willo parent activities and sent information relevant to parents, please provide your details to helen.s.wong@education.wa.edu.au You may request for your details to be removed from the list at any time.