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Issue 3, Friday 31st March, 2017

The Kilmore International School

A TKIS Community Publication

Have a wonderful time on camp, enjoy the term break and we’ll see you in Term 2!

Newsletter

ContentDear Parents,

In the last newsletteIn the last newsletter, you may remember that I received a letter from the Austral-ian Mathematical Science Institute asking whether some of our students would like to participate in the national 2017 CHOOSEMATHS AWARDS. Well I am very pleased that two students from Year 9, Eve Simnar and Anna Watson have taken on the challenge. They must produce a short video around this year’s theme “Maths is our future”. I have had a quick chat with both students, and already they have developed some great ideas. Good luck!

Last newsletter’s question was:Level of Difficulty: Medium

Answer:There are three cases for How the triangles are coloured:1. All three sides are the same colour, with 5 possibilities2.2. Two sides are the same and one side is different, with (five colour choices for the first two sides and four choices for the remaining side).3. All three sides are different, so we have five colours for the first side, four col-ours remaining for the second side, and three colours remaining for the third side = . However, the triangles must be different and not reflections or rotations. There are 6 different ways to organise a triangle with three different colours so we must Therefore all together there are This newsletter’s question is:Level of Difficulty: Medium

A super-Fibonacci sequence is a list of whole numbers with the property that, from the third term onward, every term is the sum of all of the previous terms. For example:1, 4, 5, 10, …

How many supeHow many super-Fibonacci sequences starting with 1 involve the number 2016?

Yours Sincerely

Paul SzczurHead of Learning [email protected]

Editor: Georgia [email protected]

Student contributors:

Kriti BhoomlaNicholas De LucaJeremy HowardPortia KentishPortia KentishJonathan LejinsAlycia MeehanIsobel MumbersonElizabeth PickupMarina SatoEve SimnerMarina SmithMarina Smith

Next edition: April 28th, 2017

Message from the Head of Learning Mathematics

The Kilmore International School40 White St, Kilmore Victoria, 3764 AustraliaPhone: +61 3 5782 2211Fax: +61 35782 2525Email: [email protected]: www.kilmore.vic.edu.au

Messages from the Head of Learning Maths

School messages Page 3

Student Activities Page 4

Notice Board Page 20

Mr Hong’s Painting Exhibition

Mr. Pisen Hong has his Duet Painting

Exhibition at Sydney Opera House -

The Utzon Room, on Saturday 10 March 2017. The Title of the Exhibi-

tion is “East meets West”, which was a

great success and earned admiration

from Sydney arts circle, the Chinese community as well as all the tourists.

His oil painting such as “Christmas on

Melbourne street – children’s musical

appeal” and “Morning Lotus” etc. were greatly appreciated by all the visitors.

Hume House This year, Blue House performed a rock version of Viva La Vida for our Acoustic piece, we had a drum-mer, a pianist, a cellist, percussionists, and a total of 7 guitarists, and our entire house singing. For our Interna-

tional piece, we had a whole range of different ages performing the different pieces. We had the Chinese song

‘童年’ performed by all our international students from China; our dancers performed the Thai Song ‘โสด

กระปรบิกระปรอย’, Korean ‘하드캐리’, American Football song ‘Pep Rally’, and ‘Juju on That Beat’. We all

had a really fun time together, it was really exciting period of preparation in the weeks prior to the competition

and we were proud to be able to showcase the final product after all the effort and time put in by everyone, as well as exhibit all of our different cultures and it’s music!

Alycia Meehan, Hume House Music Captain

House Music Competition

Hudson Victorious!

CONGRATULATIONS RED HOUSE!!!! Our performance of 'How Far I'll Go' from Moana and PPAP blew the judges away! Thank you to everyone who was involved and especially to all the leaders of the house. Special thanks to Isobel, Jade, Harbir, Deandra, Yi as well as countless others who helped us painstakingly learn so many different languages for our international piece. It was lovely to see the masses of enthusiasm throughout the whole house during every rehearsal and especially our amazing performance! Jonathan Lejins, Hudson House Music Captain

Mitchell House

I am so so proud of Mitchell House and what we managed to achieve through House Music – although we didn’t win, I think we did a brilliant job and you all should be proud of yourselves!! Thank you so much to everyone who helped out, and an especial shout out to Bonnie and Jeremy who spent countless hours help-ing put our performance together. Elizabeth Pickup, Mitchell House Music Captain

For house music, Rutledge House performed an acoustic version of Happy by Pharrell Williams, Catherine per-

formed a traditional Chinese dance (安九-禮儀之邦) and we finished the performance with Gangnam Style by

Psy. As a house leader, it was great to be able to see both younger and older years working together to achieve something we were proud of. Although we didn’t win, we had so much fun and improved on last year. Thank you to everyone that helped out - Yellow House is very proud! Portia Kentish

Rutledge House

Welcome Ceremony At Government House

The Honourable Linda Dessau AC, Governor of Victoria and Mr Anthony Howard QC invited myself and four of our new International students to a reception at Government House. This is an official welcome to International School Student to Victoria it was held on 15th March 2017. Gayle Morgan Boarding Manager

Duke of Edinburgh Camp

On the 24th of February, 2017, 12 weary eyes set off on an adventure that for some, was one of many, and for others, their first of this kind. Everyone’s hopes were high when we hit the winding cliff-side roads that skirted the coast along the great ocean view. The four day journey was along a good 45-50 km of varying terrain from just out of blanket bay along the great ocean walk to where our buss would meet us. We trekked across gravel roads leading under the trees, dirt paths through the brush, sandy beaches skirting the waterline, and wooden walkways above the environment to keep it pristine and un-touched. The days were occupied with hiking, but new friends were made along the way. Songs were sung to the strum of a slightly out of tune ukulele and the enthusiastically beatboxing of He, and games were played around the campfire. The duke of Edinburg is a great opportunity to gain some extra credit for those that want to experience the great outdoors and enjoy hiking and camping, and the views are simply amazing.

By Nicholas De Luca

The Victorian State Conference is run by UN Youth Australia with the aim of allowing Victorian students to participate in a variety of activities while pursuing their interests. This conference was held from the 10th to the 13th of March, with 13 TKIS students attending from years 10, 11 and 12. This year's theme was "Sustaining Our World", focusing on the three main types of sustainability: social, economic and environmental. Over these four days we participated in a variety of activities such as workshops, General Assembly (GA), and the annual MUN Social. In the workshops we explored the ideas of sustainability and how they affect our communities and our country. The theme of our social was ‘thrift shop’ and, as you can see from the pictures, we took it very seriously. In the GA we each took on the role of a country to debate different topics A highlight of the GA’s was when Iceland sent a beautiful and extensive poem to Bahrain. Here is an extract from that poem:

“Oh Bahrain I beg of you To accept this offer I pose to you. Of unconditional love and cash

(Which I'm sure couldn't beat your stash) As we both know that all your oil,

Stops your economy from being in toil.”

Another highlight from the camp was when Vice Consul Michele from the US Consulate General Melbourne spoke to us and answered any questions we had for her – be it about her life as a diplomat, or the actions of the current US government. For many of us, the end of the camp was bittersweet – being the year 12’s last UN camp as students after having attended for the past three years. Overall, UN Youth State Conference is an amazing experience and we would all encourage anyone consid-ering attending next year to register!! Elizabeth Pickup and Isobel Mumberson, Publications Captains

UN Youth State Conference

Moomba Excursion

Demonstration of multiculturalism from the perspective of an international student

On 13th of March, I had an opportunity to attend a parade which was a part of an event of festival held in Moomba, Melbourne. 19 students from Japan and Japanese ab initio class and two teachers attended to the Japanese parade which was mainly sponsored by JCV (Japan Club of Victoria).

As soon as we arrived at the place where everybody gets ready for the parade, I saw a lot of people wearing

colourful traditional clothes. I saw Hawaiian costumes, Scottish traditional clothes and some little farm girls’ cos-tume representing Australia. It was really eye-opening seeing a lot of people even little kids getting involved initia-tively to the social event like the festival. Some of the students from our school got a chance to communicate with other people at the festival and took some pictures with them.

Our team got to wear Japanese red traditional clothes called Happi which looks a bit like Yukata but has

shorter length with headband. Normally, we wear them at Japanese festival in Japan. What we did at the parade was to carry around Mikoshi, a portable type of shrine which is a carriage for gods. In Japan, there is a culture of gather-ing around the Mikoshi and carry it on people’s shoulders to worship gods. While carrying the Mikoshi, the carriers usually yell “Wasshoi, Wasshoi” in order to get an energy to carry the heavy Mikosi. At the Parade, we walked side to side to let audience see what Japanese Mikoshi looks like. The audience, including some TV programmers seemed enjoying watching the multicultural parade. Behind the Mikoshi, there was a type of little band called Ohayashi-tai to support people in the front also to liven up the atmosphere of festival.

What I really enjoyed and liked about the festival was that I could meet and communicate with new people

who have individual different backgrounds. It was really rice to see that not only Japanese people but also foreign people attended to JCV to learn and experience real Japanese culture. I had a chance to talk to a university student who is from Philippine, interested in Japanese traditional culture. He told me that he is attending many Japanese events to learn Japanese and experience the culture. Then, he spoke to me in Japanese. It was really impressing see-ing people who have passion for learning other language, especially when it is my first language Japanese. I am in the process of learning English so it was really inspiring listening to him how he learns second language. I noticed that there are so many ways to learn language, and experiencing culture is a big part of learning its language.

Personally, I think the point of studying abroad is to be independent and also to get involved in a many

events in order to communicate with a lot of people by learning something new that might influence your future pos-itively. Therefore, I had a wonderful experience in such a short time by being a part of the community and also re-confirmed the important thing, the purpose of studying abroad. I am very grateful to the teachers and the JCV people who gave me such an invaluable opportunity.

Marina Sato, 10 C

I’d like to shout out a loud and heartfelt ‘thank you’ for your continuing support for this local NGO, cementing the partnership we proudly commenced in 2010. This term, students have enjoyed selling –and eating!- ice creams each Friday lunchtime, raising approximately $1000 for our upcoming Mission: Cambodia trip (Mishcam). Such a simple activity that brings joy to our students and works towards an important mission: helping the children of Soksan Village, Cambodia. Also this term, your support on International Day was evident in the success of our 2-hour CKF stall, selling mer-chandise and Sew Good products (handmade by the ladies in Soksan Village). We raised $472 in these two hours and many people walked away with a special purchase knowing it was made with love by people we get to work with on our trips. A humble thank you also to the Lebanese community, who donated $200 to CKF on International Day, money they had made from their stall. Such incredible generosity is much appreciated J As we bring Term 1 fundraising to a close, we are looking ahead to Term 2 activities such as Hot Chocolates and Cup a Soups on Friday lunchtimes, a Film Night to be held in the Language Centre on a Friday night and other sur-prises our students are working on. Stay tuned! The Mission: Cambodia trip 2018 currently has 17 students and 4 adults planning to travel to Soksan Village and other wonderful parts of Cambodia. It looks like it will be the largest group we have ever assembled and is a very exciting opportunity for our students to experience this engaging and interactive trip. Any other students who are interested in joining our group need to see Mrs Krilis in the Language Centre or email as soon as possible to meet booking deadlines. Happy holidays everyone :) Mrs Deanna Krilis [email protected]

A reminder that the school production will be performed in Term 2. Dates: Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June Times: to be confirmed Venue: Kilmore Memorial Hall, main street of KiImore

Students have been working hard in dance and stage rehearsals, costume and stage design, and band practice. We hope to see full houses at both shows; students are from the entire school (grades 3 to 12) so there should be lots of family support for this fun and funny show! Ticket details will be coming in term 2 newsletters and we thank you for your patience :) School Production Team

Thank you from the Cambodian Kids Foundation!

Grease news…….

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Last Friday, the SRC organised a very successful bake sale and sausage sizzle to raise funds for Save the Chil-

dren. The sale of icy poles from ‘the little window’ was also in operation, raising money for the Cambodian Kids

Foundation as well as the school ‘CAS Garden’.

Friday Fundraiser

Multicultural Food Truck Festival

On Friday the 17th of March, the Mitchell Shire held a multicultural food truck festival in which TKIS was lucky enough to be involved. There were various cuisines on offer, including Japanese, South American, Indian, Middle Eastern and Italian. The school performed both musical and dance pieces including a K-Pop dance, Chinese dragon dance and a piano duet. This was alongside an Aboriginal dance crew, African drummers and Polynesian fire twirlers. It was great to see the local community and international community coming together to embrace multiculturalism all while being able to eat good food, of course. I found the experience highly enjoyable and would recommend it if anyone is thinking of attending next year. Report by Portia Kentish

Term 1 was a great start to the year for the SRC. We began the first SRC meeting of this year with some simple group discussions on the fundamental values expressed by a leader and any concerns around that we thought we could tackle this year. Everyone offered some great suggestions such as being responsible, being approachable and setting an example for the rest of your cohort and school – in and outside of school. It was great as a year 12 to get key issues and suggestions raised from younger year levels about how the SRC could improve the school. An important event for the whole SRC as well as everyone else in the school this term was the school’s open day or Interna-tional Day. The SRC played a key role in the event as we were welcoming many newcomers to the school who were interest-ed in future enrolments. We had a great representation of our captains all the way from our primary captains in year 6 up to our various captains in year 12 to give comprehensive tours of the school. We were really happy with the effort that the rest of the SRC put in to represent the school and it gave a perfect example of the level of dedication and maturity that our cap-tains express towards important events. We’ve also been communicating with Ms Cheung to work on organising the Semester 1 talent show. It will be held on the 18th of May. All are welcome to come along and witness some of the school’s brilliant acts! On the 24th of March, the SRC held a casual clothes day for a gold coin donation, along with a bake sale and barbeque. Be-sides providing the students with some delicious sweet treats and a hot lunch, we raised a total of almost $1000 for the charity Save the Children. This money will be used to provide education to children across the globe as well as improving and main-taining their health and general wellbeing. As senior members of the school, we were very proud of the immense amount of hard work and enthusiasm which was evident from all student leaders on this day. We’d like to say a huge thankyou to all the staff and students who donated food to the bake-sale and also to the kitchen staff for preparing an excellent barbeque. Thanks also to those who helped cook at the barbeque, and of course everyone who bought some of the goods for supporting such a worthy cause! Besides planning the casual clothes day, SRC has also been busy with the planning for the School Social on the 21st of April- the first Friday of Term 2. The School Social this year has been split into 3 parts in order to accommodate for the different year levels within the school- years 3-6, 7-8, and 9-12 will all have different times for their socials (all of which are detailed on the permission slips for parents). We’re looking forward to seeing all of you there, and welcome any suggestions made to your year level captains in regards to specific music or decoration requests for the night. Another project which the SRC has taken on is addressing the number of recycling bins which are accessible from the majori-ty of classrooms. In order to approach this problem, we are hoping to have a recycling bin placed in the vicinity of each block of buildings, which should allow for more of the school waste to be recycled. We look forward to progressing as a team into the rest of the year and mentoring younger captains along the way. Jeremy Howard and Marina Smith, School Captains

SRC Report

Sports News

Year 3-6 Regional Swimming Lucy Beaton and Ryan Knight in grade 5 competed in the Northern Metropolitan Swimming Championships at Northcote Aquatic and Recreation Centre on Wednesday 15th March. The results are below: Ryan Knight: 19th in the 11 Boys 50m Freestyle Lucy Beaton: 11th in the 11 Girls 50m Freestyle 11th in the 11 Girls 50m Butterfly. Well done to both swimmers! Year 7-12 Round Robin All results are not known at this stage, however we do know that our: Senior Boys Soccer team won and will now compete at Region level on the 15th August in Shepparton (team consisted of He Ng, Jacob Knight, Taner Alinc, Jaiden Ciantar, Sean Maher, Wilson Tautkus, Jonathan Krietemeyer, Arpan Mann, Jack Heanly, Manraj Singh, Abdul Sakr, Jamil Obeid and David Popa) Senior Boys Tennis and Intermediate Girls Tennis teams won and will now compete at Region level on 27th April in Wangaratta (team consisting of Matt Knox, Erik Franks, David Simonelli, Jade Morgan, Gemma Comrie Wilson, Ebony Eden, Marina Sato, Ruiyuan Lu and Kriti Bhoomla). Tennis Round Robin On Thursday the 16th of March, five year 10 girls had the opportunity to participate in the tennis round robin held at the Euroa Tennis Club. These girls competed against other schools like Broadford Secondary, Mansfield, St Mary’s Secondary College and Seymour College, winning all the matches and making it to the regionals in Wangaratta which are held early next term. The matches were easily won by Kilmore as they won 6-1, 6-2, 6-0 and 6-3 in all the matches. The girls have been practising really hard on the school tennis courts nearly every lunch time to make our school proud and hopefully we will see them come back with victory after the regionals. Kriti Bhoomla

Volleyball

On Thursday the 16th of March, a team of 7 girls from year 11 and 12 went to Benalla to participate in the Volleyball Round Robin. It was an opportunity for us to work as a team, allowing us to deepen the bonds between some year 11 and 12 stu-dents, everyone was really encouraging and supportive. It was also a really great change of pace from our IB studies. Togeth-er we participated in 4 matches, competing against Benalla, Yea and FCJ, and despite having no practice, had a great day! Special thanks to Ms Santarossa for accompanying us to Benalla, and to Ms Dalton for driving the bus.

Isobel Mumberson, Publication’s Captain

Year 5-6 Round Robin

O the 30th of March, our Year 5 and 6 students competed in the Rounders and Basketball Round Robin. The students enjoyed themselves and played with good spirit, sportsmanship and fair play. A big thank you to Julie Daniels, Georgie Garner, Jen Ling and Sarah Dalton who all accompanied teams for the day. One of our Rounders team won the competition. Team members consisted of: Arjun Sharma, Ibrahim Obeid, Kellan Ireland, Ethan Leslie, Michael Dimovski, Anika Edmonds, Max Ryan, Amelia Knight and Amber Meuwissen. Our basketball teams tried hard and were up against some very good players. Thank you to the teachers who allowed the Yearr 11 boys (Jack Heanly, Jonathan Krietemeyer, Taner Alinc, Wilson Tautkus, Jacob Knight and Jaiden Ciantar) to be out of school for the day. They refereed and scored all games, all day which is not an easy job but they were fantastic.

Important Information from Sickbay

Urgent EpiPen Recall

Four batches of EpiPens have been recalled because they may not activate or need extra force to acti-vate. If you have any EpiPens 300mcg with batch numbers: 5FA665, 5FA6651, 5FA6652 or 5FA6653, please visit your local pharmacy ASAP for replacements. Our nursing staff are in the process of replacing our supply of the EpiPens mentioned above.

Medication Administration Reminder A reminder to Parents that all regular & prescribed medications MUST be administered by the School Nurse only At no time are medications to be self-administered unless under the guidance of the School Nurse All medications must be handed into Sickbay / Reception, be presented in the pharmacy labelled container & a signed Parental Consent Form be submitted with the medication to be administered Medication Consent Forms can be emailed on request to make their completion & return easier Your assistance in adhering to school policy would be greatly appreciated

2017 Immunisation Program Year 7 Immunisations: Please note that the Year 7 Immunisations will take place on the following dates: March 27th, May 29th & October 16th Could parents please advise the school if their child is to be absent on this day Year 9 – 12 Immunisation Initiative: It has recently been announced that Mitchell Shire Council will be offering students aged 15-19 free Meningococcal W vaccine commencing 2nd Term this year. Due to the recent an-nouncement we currently have little information available to us however we shall keep you in-formed & will be distributing Immunisation cards to those eligible students once they are re-ceived. Please find below the link regarding this initiative: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/meningococcal-vaccine-offered-to-victorian-teens/8250358

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ASSUMPTION BUS WILL BE RUNNING AS A REDUCED SERVICE ON TUESDAY THE

18TH OF APRIL, 2017.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/meningococcal-vaccine-offered-to-victorian-teens/8250358

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-08/meningococcal-vaccine-offered-to-victorian-teens/8250358

TKIS has entered this very popular national competition for the past three years and each year our students have received commendations from the judges. In a competition that attracts ten thousand entries, this is a wonderful result and shows the talent we have within our school. We hope we receive some excellent entries this year! So, if you wish to enter please e-mail your poem to Ms. Gower ([email protected]) Commended and Highly Commended Students 2014-2016

2016 Eve Simner (Year 8) commended for her poem ‘My Country’. Eddie Spicer (Year 11) highly commended for his poem ‘Mrs God’

2015 Indika Egan (Year 7) commended for her poem ‘Mermaids’. Nicholas De Luca (Year 8) highly commended for his poem ‘I Come From’

2014 Irene Park (Year 11) highly commended for her poem ‘Paper Ships’. Benjamin Knowles (Year 7) commended for his poem ‘Dragon’

Award Categories and Prizes Lower Primary (Years K – 3)Winner: $300, trophy and prize pack. Runner-up: $150 and prize pack Upper Primary (Years 4 – 6) Winner: $400, trophy and prize pack. Runner-up: $200 and prize pack Junior Secondary (Years 7 – 9) Winner: $500, trophy and prize pack. Runner-up: $300 and prize pack Senior Secondary (Years 10 – 12) Winner: $500, trophy and prize pack. Runner-up: $300 and prize pack

You can write on any topic or you can use the suggested theme of “All around the

World” to inspire you!

Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Competition

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