2016 newsletter issue 4

8/17/2019 2016 Newsletter Issue 4

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Principal report:Important Dates

Newsletter Issue 4 201

Week 9

Thur 24th March:Last Day Term 1

Term 2

Week 1

Mon 11th April:Student free day

Wed 13th April:House Chorals

Week 2

Wed 20th April:nformation evening forprospective students andparents

Fri 22nd April:Legacy Service

Fri 22nd - Sun 24th April:Music Camp

Week 3

Mon 25th April:

ANZAC Day Public HolidayThur 28th April:Parent Teacher Interviews

Week 4

Wed 4th May:Parent Teacher Interviews

Week 5

Tues 10th-Thur 12th May:NaplanWed 11th May:Combined School Musical

Other Information:

Intrim Reports; House Chorals; International Womens Day; Careers; Parent AssociationCurtains - Combined schools musical

After months of planning and multiple meetings with the team and Ms Howe,on Wednesday March 16th, the team at FemYouth Melbourne, consisting of 10students from schools across Melbourne, hosted the Women’s Rights Summit atMac.Rob.

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Senior School:The Year 12 Jumpers have arrived and are ready for the very first day of Term 2.We also had a very successful SRC planning day led by Rachel and Margaret, aswell as the Social Service planning day led by Celene and Olivia.

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Our new council met on Tuesday 15th March. Congratulations and thank you tothe parent, community and DET employee members who have put their namesforward to contribute. Thank you to the committee members who have acceptednominations for the positions of office. These positions can be both challengingand rewarding, but all require a commitment of time and dedication to the goodgovernance of the school.

Women’s Rights Sumit at Mac.Rob:

Student Leadership - Term 1As usual, term one has run at a rapid pace for our student leaders and studentsinvolved in the co-curricular program. Preparation for the 79th Annual HouseChorals is well underway, with students rehearsing every day during recess,lunchtime, and after school.

Sport - Term 1The 2016 sports year is off to a terrific start this term with a highly successfulHouse Swimming program at MSAC, the selection of our year level sports reps

and the first of our intermediate and senior sports competitions being held in theBeachside sports competition.

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Principal Reportr new council met on Tuesday 15th March. Congratulations and thank you to the parent, community and DET employmbers who have put their names forward to contribute. Thank you to the committee members who have acceptminations for the positions of office. These positions can be both challenging and rewarding, but all require a commitmetime and dedication to the good governance of the school. Thank you to outgoing School Councilors including Dmber, Mr Simon Maaser, Parent members, Mr Ranjit Gavendra and Mr Victor Singh (Treasurer) and to Communmber and President, Mrs Alison Patrick. Your service to our community is very much appreciated.

e elected office bearers for 2015 - 2016 are:President: Dr Sonja Hood

Vice President: Dr Reza Hoseinnezhad

Vice President: Dr Hans-Gerhard Schneider

Treasurer: Dr Delphine Cassidy

Executive Officer: Dr Toni. E Meath

15 - 2016 Parent members: 2015 - 2016 DET members: 2015 - 2016 Community members:

Delphine Cassidy Ms Margaret Akins Ms Madeline Getson

Sonja Hood Mr Luke Francis Ms Yuliya Mik

Reza Hoseinnezhad Mr Micah Wilkins Ms Margaret Tran Mo Jamal Mr Russell Webber Ms Margaret Webb

r Ramesh Liyanagedera Guest:

r Hans-Gerhard Schneider Ms Rachel Kim

b Committee Chairs include:

Education Sub Committee Chair: Ms Yvette Arnott

Finance Sub Committee Chair: Dr Delphine Cassidy

Buildings and Grounds Sub Committee Chair: Mr Karl Russell

Promotions and Development Sub Committee Chair: Dr Toni Meath


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r synchronous Digital Delivery Day on Thursday 17th March was an opportunity for our students and staff to engagerning whilst the interruption of the Grand Prix was underway. As I walked around the school on this day, I was delight

see teachers sitting with their laptops fully engaged with their 25 students on the other end of the virtual classroom. Tour third day of this type and I look forward to further development in this innovation. Thank you to Mr Micah Wilkileading this day.

e first Mac.Rob PD Day for 2016 was held on Friday 18th March and was an opportunity for our teaching staff to lotward by visiting secondary schools. Our teachers ventured to McKinnon Secondary College, University High Schoert Park College, Prince Hill Secondary College, John Monash Science School, Methodist ladies College, Victorian Colle

the Arts Secondary College and Nossal High School to observe professional practice. We are very appreciative to theools for their generosity of spirit in opening their doors for collaboration. Thank you to Mr Luke Francis for liaising wschools and for the outstanding organisation of the day.

e next pupil free day will be on Monday 11th April, when the annual combined Academic Select Entry Network Conferen

ac.Rob, MHS, Nossal, SCHS) will be held at the Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School.m looking forward to the 78th Annual House Choral Festival will be held on Wednesday 15th April in the recenurbished school hall. Our students have been working hard in their Houses to prepare for this event. Please considpporting this important evening with your attendance.

Lisa Hoang and 9 MacRobbians have travelled to Indonesia this week to participate in the combined MHS/MacRonesian Exchange Program with the SMA IV Denpasar School. Ms Margaret Akins and our 8 MacRobbians have arrively in France and are busy engaging in French life at the Paris and Bordeaux schools. Both groups are in regular contah their families and the school and careful support is always placed around all overseas touring groups to ensupropriate duty of care guidelines are met. Both of these exchanges are centred on homestay arrangements and studen to experience the authentic cuklture. Travel is a great education and I encourage parents to consider supporting th

ughter to take one of these opportunities during their time at Mac.Rob. The offerings for the 2017 Study Tours ahanges will be introduced to the students early in Term 2. I wish all students and staff travelling overseas on thehanges a very safe and happy journey.

ilst on the note of travel, families wishing to travel and for their daughters to take extended leave throughout tdemic year during term time, need to apply for and get the leave approved by me. It is important that parents consid

velling only in holiday periods as a disruption of their daughter’s academic program may have negative impact demic achievement, especially in Years 11 and 12. Please do not book any travel until leave is approved.

we complete our Term 1, I wish all of our community a happy and safe holiday.

urs in learning,

Toni E. Meath

Principal Report


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Women’s Rights Summit at Mac.Rob

After months of planning and multiple meetings with the team and Ms Howe, on Wednesday March 16th, the team aFemYouth Melbourne, consisting of 10 students from schools across Melbourne, hosted the Women’s Rights Summiat Mac.Rob.

Our main aim was to eliminate the stigma surrounding the feminist movement, as it is now in Australia, and hope toanswer the question of why it is such an important and empowering movement to get behind. We mentioned this in

our opening address and want to repeat it here, as we feel this quote from Briohny Doyle encompasses a lot of theanswers to why we should hold an event like this: “We know how to sell to teenagers and we know how to sell themWe don’t quite know how to empower and embolden them, how to grant them agency in regard to their desires, theibodies, or control over their own narratives.” Summits like this aim to empower and embolden us to think criticallyabout how we can make the world, this country, a more equitable place for people of all genders, races, and religions

Throughout the day we had activities and engaging group discussions, as well as presentations from three speakersNabila Farhat, Celeste Liddle, and Joanna Nilson, three inspiring feminist women who all spoke on different aspectsof feminism, including the intersectionality ever-present in any movement, and how feminism is far from redundaneven in countries like Australia, who believe they have achieved gender parity.

Thank you to everyone who came, SRC Mac.Rob and Interact Club of Mac.Rob for sponsoring us, and Ms Howe fo

her constant and unwavering support!

Zenia Vasaiwalla and Ann Baby

Interim Reportsn the last day of Term 1, March 24th, Interim Reports will be available on Compass. These reports are for parents/uardians of students new to the school (including all Year 9 students) and there will also be reports on students if aarent, teacher or co-ordinator has made a request.

hese reports are an indication of how students have settled in to individual classes and whether they are progressings expected. They are intended to let parents know if there are any concerns, so that we can address them early andnsure good study habits for all students.

eports on academic progress will be provided at the end of each Semester. We also have Parent-Teacher Interviews onhursday April 28th/Wednesday May 4th this Semester. You will hear more details about this event after the holidaysarents are most welcome to contact co-ordinators and teachers with questions about student progress.

vette Arnott

irector of Curriculum


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The Mac.Rob Foundation Launchport - Term One Reviewport Captains and Reps

e 2016 sports year is off to a terrific start this term with a highly successful House Swimming program at MSAC, thection of our year level sports reps and the first of our intermediate and senior sports competitions being held in thachside sports competition.

ngratulations to our terrific team of sports reps selected to represent their year levels in 2016.

ar 9: Catherine Huang and Athira Nair Year 11: Faith Lee and Felicia Mitropoulosar 10: Jade Yuen and Kira De Boer Year 12: Maddie Webb, Annie Huang and Janice Au

ese students join the Mac.Rob sports family to support the elected Sports Captains for 2016 – Kavindya De Silva any Cheng - to organise, promote and run sporting events in the school throughout 2016.

eakfast Club

e sports captains, Kavindya and Jenny, have started the fortnightly breakfast club, which encourages students to joearly morning sport and games at school followed by a nutritious breakfast, all taking place before period one evmmences. Overwhelming support from students across all year levels on the day shows how valuable the opportunphysical activity in a social context is for our students. Well done to Kavindya and Jenny for getting this off the groun

erm One Sport

ngratulations to all of the students that participated in term one Beachside division sports – senior and inter softbamate Frisbee, senior and intermediate tennis, senior and intermediate cricket, senior and intermediate volleyball atrict swimming. Of these teams we had great success with senior softball and intermediate volleyball progressinough to a preliminary match against teams from the Kingston district and our two inaugural ultimate Frisbee tea

ogressing through to the state championships. Well done to the coaches of these teams for preparing their teams so wcompetition: Mr Maaser (senior softball), Mr Wilkins (ultimate Frisbee) and Ms Griffin (intermediate volleyball). Go

k in your upcoming competitions in term two.

her than Beachside school sport, Mac.Rob also has a highly successful cheerleading team that competes at nation

ampionships each year. This group is predominantly student initiated and led. Selections are taking place for the grod should be complete by the end of the term.

dents from both Melbourne High and Mac.Rob have begun ballroom dancing classes on a Monday after school. Thesses enjoy the expertise of a dance instructor from Charisma Dance who has had a long standing association with Mac.Ro

erm Two Sport

m two is a busy time for sport at Mac.Rob. All of the remaining senior sports (table tennis, football, netball, basketbckey, badminton and cross country) are held in term two in order to maximise participation in school sport for Vdents and also minimise disruption to their exam preparation in term three. Coaches of these teams will be holding trid selections early in term two. All senior students are welcome to participate in these trials. Notices will be in the stude

letin about times and venues for selections.ermediate sports in term two include netball, football, badminton, soccer and cross country. Coaches for these tea notify students of trials and selections via the student bulletin early in term two.

delaide Exchange

16 marks the 65th consecutive exchange between Adelaide High School and Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School. Adelai host the long running Exchange between our schools from 7th August to 10th August. This exchange is predominanports exchange but also showcases talent in chess, debating and theatre sports. Students that have represented tool in Beachside Sport (netball, hockey, basketball, tennis, football, table tennis, badminton, cross country, socctball and volleyball) in 2016 are eligible to be considered for the Adelaide Exchange. Coaches for these teams will hoections for the Adelaide Exchange early in term two. Students selected to participate in the exchange will be notifiweek four of term two so that team uniforms, airline tickets and billeting can be arranged for the traveling party

proximately 80 students and accompanying staff. Good luck to all students that seek selection to join the exchange.

chelle Pride


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School Council Elections 2016Student leadership and co-curricular activities – Term 1

usual, term one has run at a rapid pace for our student leaders and students involved in the co-curricular prograparation for the 79th Annual House Chorals is well underway, with students rehearsing every day during recess, lunchtim

d after school. Our House Captains have been incredible leaders and supporters of their directors, cast, and chorus, anve no doubt this year’s Chorals performance – on Wednesday the 13th of April in the Mac.Rob Hall – will be some of tst Mac.Rob has seen. Don’t forget that tickets are now on sale for $6 each via Trybooking. Check your Compass newsfethe link.

r 2016 Student Clubs have now all been registered and many of the Clubs are already up and running during lunchtimoughout the week. Clubs are a really important part of the co-curricular program - they’re about encouraging anabling students to follow their passions and share them with others, giving students leadership opportunities, anoviding time and space for students to have fun and social time together. Club leaders – who come from all year levele the responsibility of running their Clubs seriously; many plan well ahead for meetings, several have over 40 membed a few run busy, ongoing volunteering programs in the school and wider community. This year’s Clubs include: the Mb Feminist Collective, run by Beatrice Ciblis and Nadia Bevz; the Combined Schools Tabletop Games Club, run by Jenni; the Harry Potter Club, run by Josie Komninos, Sage Agius-Giddings, Linda Xu, Neev Shala, and Clarissa Servinio; ttary Interact Club, with Ashleigh Birch as President and Felicity Huang as Vice President; and Les Pommes De Ter

ench Club), run by Harsha Dilip, Mavitha Weerakody, and Sanduni Jinadasa. In all there are 23 clubs running in 2016st of luck to all the groups and their leaders. Have fun!

other highlight of the term has been the election and appointment of the rest of our 2016 leaders. Throughout the fir weeks of term, there were elections for Middle School Representatives, Year level SRC Executives, Form Captains, a

cial Service Representatives. In addition, many of our portfolio leaders ran applications and interviews at this time cide on their cabinet and committee members. There are always a deluge of applications for each position – testamethe way our students see themselves as leaders and to their desire to contribute and act – and while not every studen be elected or appointed, the process of applying, campaigning, interviewing, and receiving feedback is an invaluabrning experience ¬– for those on both sides! See below for a list of our 2016 student leaders – congratulations to allm.

also been a busy term for our 2016 Girls in Volunteering (GIV) Leaders, Metta Chalapati, Swathy Santhakumar, Christi and Chari Janakantha, and their Executives, Ibtisam Shahbaz and Aayushi Khillan. The group organised for 100 Mabbians to participate in the Red Cross Calling coin collection campaign in the CBD in mid-March, and are still busparing for Mac.Rob’s annual participation in the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. They have around 3c.Robbians signed up to doorknock in the Albert Park area and surrounds on Good Friday – no easy feat to organisvo to our GIV Leaders, and happy volunteering to all the students who come out on Good Friday – here’s hoping we c

n back the title of ‘the school to raise the most money’ on the day!

her leadership and co-curricular events this term have included:

The Annual Combined Schools Leadership Conference, organised and run so ably by our School Captains, Georgn and Monique Nguyen, with the assistance of the MHS Captains. This was a great day that brought together the energssion, and ideas of the senior leaders from the select entry network schools.

Our House Swimming Carnival, which pulsed with energy, House spirit, and good natured competition. Congratulatiothe House Captains on supporting their Houses so beautifully on the day and in the lead up to the event. Lookinward to the Athletics Carnival in Term 3!

Our 2016 SRC President, Margaret Tran, and our 2016 School Vice-Captain, Monique Nguyen, attended the St Petelege (Adelaide) National Leadership Summit in February. They both spoke very highly of the organisation of the eve

d have come back with a lot to share with the other senior leaders about creating a vision and making a change. ThanSt Peters for hosting the event, and to the Captain and Vice-Captain of St Peter’s Girls’ School, Adelaide, and the

milies, for hosting Margo and Mon while they were in town.

The marking of International Women’s Day 2016, with in-school celebrations and attendance at a number of celebrato

akfasts by our student leaders. See the full report by our 2016 SRC Secretary, Ruchika Bilagi, in the newsletter.


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School Council Elections 2016tudent leadership and co-curricular activities – Term 1

The hugely successful Social Service Planning Day, held in early March and run with aplomb by our Social Servptains, Celene Wong and Olivia Jones, and their cabinet. The day brought together the Social Service Representativd the full Social Service Cabinet to discuss and plan this year’s major Social Service events, the first of which will bemed week of activities and ideas sharing about Women’s Rights, to be held in Week 2 of Term 2.

The inaugural FemRights Conference, the brainchild of Year 11 students Zenia Vasaiwalla and Ann Baby. Zenia an worked with a number of other students from schools across Melbourne to plan and run the event at Mac.Rob odnesday the 16th of March. The day featured workshops, discussions, and guest speakers, including Celeste Liddle, igenous feminist who serves as the current National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Unionstralia, and Nabila Farhat, a 26 year old psychology graduate, writing enthusiast, and women’s advocate. The conferens a huge success, due in no small part to the seamless planning and management of the organising committee, but acause of the genuine interest, curiosity, and participation of the attendees, who came from some 10 cross-sector schoooss Melbourne. Congratulations to Zenia and Ann on an impressive accomplishment.

Howe, Director of Student Leadership and Co-Curricular Activities

House ChoralsThe annual House Chorals competition will take place on Wednesday 13th April2016 in the school hall commencing at 7.00pm and finishing at 10.30pm.

This event is a highlight of the school calendar and enables students, staff,parents and friends to share the musical and dramatic talents possessed by thestudents of this school. The students, and especially the house leaders, have spentconsiderable time preparing for this event, and would appreciate your supportwith your attendance.

Please make your booking early as there is limited seating available to meet thedemands of this popular event. Please ensure that you arrive early to ensure thatthe event begins and finishes on time.

Book on Trybooking by clicking here.

Kind regards,

Russell Webber [House Activities Co-ordinator].

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LEADERSHIP ROLE Student Name

School Captain Georgie Bian BIA0002

School Vice-Captain Monique Nguyen NGU0323

SRC President Margaret Tran TRA0132

SRC Vice-President Rachel Kim KIM0026

SRC Secretary Ruchika Bilagi Sandesh BIL0003

SRC Treasurer Nandini Shah SHA0037

Yr 12 SRC Executive Angela Fan FAN0011

Yr 12 SRC Executive Maneesha GunasekaraKaluarachchige

GUN0015

Yr 11 SRC Executive Anna Anossovitch ANO0007

Yr 11 SRC Executive Demi Tangri TAN0089

Yr 10 SRC Executive Emma Ward WAR0013

Yr 10 SRC Executive Shalinie Navaratne NAV0006

Yr 9 SRC Executive Izza Zahid ZAH0004

Yr 9 SRC Executive Faadhila Ziyad ZIY0002

Social Service Co-Captain Olivia Jones JON0012

Social Service Co-Captain Celene Wong WON0053Social Service Secretary Xialene Chang CHA0096

Social Service Media & Communications

ManagerZenia Vasaiwalla VAS0006

Social Service Senior School Executive Mavitha Weerakkody WEE0012

Social Service Middle School Executive Samantha Lau LAU0016

GIV Leader Christine He HE-0017

GIV Leader Charindya Janakantha JAN0007

GIV Leader Swathy Santhakumar SAN0015

GIV Leader Metta Chalapati CHA0093

GIV Executive Ibtisam Shahbaz SHA0046

GIV Executive Aayushi Khillan KHI0001

Music Co-Captain Amanda Nguyen NGU00320

Music Co-Captain Faith Bui BUI0020

Concert Manager (Orchestra) Michelle Huang HUA0056

Concert Manager (Symphonic Winds) Emma Cui CUI0010

Associate Concert Manager Lillian Poh POH0003

Associate Concert Manager Joanna Zhong ZHO0033

Debating & Public Speaking Co-Captain Emma Fu FU-0004

Debating & Public Speaking Co-Captain Shehani Fernando FER0026

Sport Co-Captain Kavindhya De Silva DES0018

Sport Co-Captain Jenny Cheng CHE0127

Yr 12 Sports Rep Maddie Webb WEB0012

Yr 12 Sports Rep Janice Au AU-0003

Yr 12 Sports Rep Annie Huang HUA0053

Yr 11 Sports Rep Felicia Mitropoulos MIT0006

Yr 11 Sports Rep Faith Lee LEE0078

Yr 10 Sports Rep Kira De Boer DEB0002

Yr 10 Sports Rep Jade Yuen YUE0006

Yr 9 Sports Rep Catherine Huang HUA0079

Yr 9 Sports Rep Athira Nair NAI0006


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Environment Co-Captain Jessie Fa FA-0007

Environment Co-Captain Jessie Xue XUE0004

IT Co-Captain Priscilla Lie LIE0012

IT Co-Captain Samantha Lai LAI0011

Drama Co-Captain Holly Bromley BRO0022

Drama Co-Captain Katy Shaw SHA0033

Naiads House Co-Captain Erin Kemp KEM0001

Naiads House Co-Captain Ai-My Huynh HUY0047

Naiads Middle School House Rep Malaika Sujeesh SUJ0001

Naiads Middle School House Rep Yianna Sakabetis SAK0003

Nereids House Co-Captain Nellie Gunathilake GUN0027

Nereids House Co-Captain Nethmi Madawalage MAD0001

Nereids Middle School House Rep Thanushri Shanmuganathan SHA0041

Nereids Middle School House Rep Emily Tsui-Wen Lai LAI0003

Dryads House Co-Captain Thejaani Aran ARA0001

Dryads House Co-Captain Eshaka Fernando FER0027

Dryads Middle School House Rep Sabrina Goh GOH0012

Dryads Middle School House Rep Mina Nguyen NGU0362

Oreads House Co-Captain Ameya Ajay AJA0001

Oreads House Co-Captain Julia Zhu ZHU0018

Oreads Middle School House Rep Jasmine Yip YIP0003

Oreads Middle School House Rep Katrina Phan PHA0109

Pallas Editor Nilma Leelarathne LEE0076

Pallas Editor Karuna Chalapati CHA0095

Stage Manager Olivia Burton BUR0003

Stage Manager Inger Ma MA-0013

Stage Manager Annie Lam LAM0038

Ethos Editor Joanna Zhong ZHO0033

Ethos Editor Christine Vuu VUU0001

Ethos Editor Jennifer Nguyen NGU0355

Ethos Editor Rosie Wei WEI0008

SSAYF Leader Kelly Cvetkova CVE0001

SSAYF Leader Vy Truong TRU0036


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2016 FORM CAPTAINS

A Helia Rim RIM0002

B Sarah Yoon YOO0004

C Lakni Weerasekara WEE0019

D Sanika Shorey SHO0003

E Chelsea Truong TRU0048

F Tanzeem Taiyus TAI0016

G Harhini Sundaram SUN0030H Asvini Ketheeswaran KET0005

I Jenny Tran TRA0203

0A Arshiya Merchant MER0006

0B Teresa Tan TAN0094

0C Jessica Qu QU-0001

0D Jodie Husman HUS0005

0E Jia-Yi Lim LIM0027

0F Saobienz Nguyen NGU0381

0G Kalkhi Jeyaprakash JEY0009 0H Clare Joseph JOS0013

0I Paula Kurniawan KUR0008

0J Chloe Lau LAU0026

1A Melanie Zhang ZHA0082

1B Amy Ouyang OUY0001

1C Sarah Park PAR0034

1D Xiao-Xiao Kingham KIN0007

1E Sanduni Jinadasa JIN0008

1F Michelle Yu YU-0034

1G Sophie Huang HUA0064

1H Andrei Cruz CRU0003

1I Jenny Nguyen-Pham NGU0339

1J Celine Vo VO-0033

2A Esther Khor KHO0006

2B Orissa Dixon DIX0001

2C Ishwari Ramesh RAM0017

2D Samantha Chin CHI0039

2E Sayuri Perera PER0037

2F Khanh Nguyen NGU0307

2G Shelby So SO-0007

2H Jenny He HE-0014

2I Wendy Tran TRA0151

2J Neha Patwardhan PAT0027

2016 SOCIAL SERVICE REPS

9A Mitha Mathavan MAT0014

9B Vi Huynh HUY0056

9C Adhithi Subramanian SUB0007

9D Chitra Malik MAL0013

9E Joyce Que QUE0005

9F Senna Steen STE0015

9G Shalini Muthu MUT0004

9H Jothi Pillay PIL0004

9I Jenny Nguyen NGU0397

10A Annie Jain JAI0012

10B Anusha Yellapragada YEL0001

10C Piyumini Weerakoon

Mudiyanselage

WEE0014

10D Katharine Kenton KEN0010

10E Upeksha Galappaththie GAL0010

10F Michelle Phan PHA010310G Nethmie Wijesingha Abeykoon WIJ0009

10H Sabriya Abdeen ABD0007

10I Chethani Atapattu ATA0003

10J Abbygail Shun SHU0008

11A Jacinta Speer SPE0006

11B Wing Ee Yap YAP0008

11C Tina Zheng ZHE0018

11D Ann Baby BAB0002

11E Zehra Rizvi RIZ0001

11F Zainab Sayeda SAY0005

11G Jessica Tran TRA0156

11H Karen Lu LU-0022

11I Anushka Ranjit Gajendra RAN0022

11J Diya John JOH0018

12A Sarah Leong LEO0006

12B Samantha Ma MA-0012

12C Rhea Iyer IYE0012

12D Hannah Weston WES0001

12E Kalpana Fernando FER0030

12F Sarah Plessa PLE0001

12G Sarah Ngo NGO0021

12H Macy Greene GRE0015

12I Tajriaan Taiyus TAI0009

12J Raveena Mapa MAP0003


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2016 IT COMMITTEEriscilla Lie LIE0012

amantha Lai LAI0011

atherine Bui BUI0027

ennifer Bui BUI0022

ennifer Chen CHE0153

amantha Congdon CON0017

tella Han HAN0019 tephanie Nguyen NGU0358

ina Nguyen NGU0314

isaka Rohatgi ROH0004

larissa Servinio SER0004

imran Monga MON0003

im Vo VO-0032

Melba Wu WU-0028

essica Xu XU-0024

nna Zachariah ZAC0004

2016 PALLAS COMMITTEENilma Leelarathne LEE0076

Karuna Chalapati CHA0095

Monique Nguyen NGU0323

Piara Wanniarachige WAN0105

Aayushi Khillan KHI0001

Aiko Ridwan RID0005

Rosie Wei WEI0008

Metta Chalapati CHA0093

Shirmen Luong LUO0020

Faadhila Ziyad ZIY0002

Aditi Venkatesh VEN0002

Thanushri

Shanmuganathan

SHA0041

Sona Subramanian SUB0006

Briana Trang TRA0198

Tashana Abeykoon ABE0006Nicole To TO-0007

Stella Han HAN0019

Chloe Lay LAY0015

2016 STUDENT MUSIC

COMMITTEE (SMC)manda Nguyen NGU0320

aith Bui BUI0020

Michelle Huang HUA0056

mma Cui CUI0010

illian Poh POH0003

oan Zhong ZHO0033 nn Baby BAB0002

mily Yang YAN0047

ngeline Gonzales GON0091

Melissa Ta TA-0004

isa Tang TAN0086

nna Bartels BAR0023

Oneli Sanadanayake SAN0018

2016 ENVIRO COMMITTEEJessie Xue XUE0004

Jessie Fa FA-0007 Tharushi Liyanaarachchi LIY0003

Cathey Saha SAH0003

Natalie Trang TRA0130

Anika Hettipathirana HET0004

Sanskriti Mehta MEH0004

Radhika Gunda GUN0018

Hailey Pham PHA0085

Britney Trang TRA0160

Christine Vuu VUU0001

Serena Lieu LIE0014

Nivida Dixit DIX0003

Raagini Mehra MEH0007

Ruby Craven CRA0002

Karlie Jiaxi Huang HUA0070

Alyssa Ng NG-0031

Tashana Abeykoon ABE0006

Victoria Mok MOK0001

Caitlin Leong LEO0011

Cindy Do DO-0017

2016 STUDENT ACTION TEAM (SAT)ina Jiang JIA0031

ozanna Kelly-Gerreyn KEL0002

iara Wannniarachchige WAN0105

icole To TO-0007

arsha Dilip DIL0005

aitlin Fleming FLE0002

arushi Kaul KAU0016

reya PermezelPER0041

abrina Fu FU-0003

henpaha Ganesan GAN0015


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2016 FAM (peer support) Cynthia Nguyen NGU305

Emily Yang YAN0047

Joy Hsieh HSI0001

Ai-My Huynh HUY0047

Alison Huynh HUY0044

Anaya Anoop ANO0001

Saumyaa Balakanthan BAL0025 Gloria To TO-0006

Himasha Panagoda PAN0024

Katherine Chen CHE0128

Katrina Chia CHI0043

Lily Liu LIU0048

Natasha Rasaratnam RAS0007

Olivia Jones JON0012

Sherene Antony ANT0002 Annie Lin LIN0038

vy Cui CUI0006

Jessie Xue XUE0004

Melissa Ta TA-0004

Carol Wu WU0031

2016 ETHOS COMMITTEEJoan Zhong ZHO0033

Jennifer Nguyen NGU0355

Rose Wei WEI0008

Christine Vuu VUU0001

Upeksha Galappaththie GAL0010

Ranuli Illankone ILL0001 Shreya Jain JAI0016

Catherine Le LE-0079

Nilma Lee LEE0076

Yu Xuan Peh PEH0001

Hailey Pham PHA0085

Yianna Sakabetis SAK0003

Shelby So SO-0007

Demi Tangri TAN0089

Kimberley Li Yan Teoh TEO0019

Britney Trang TRA0160

Kelley Anne Trinh TRI0026

Piara Wanniarachchige WAN0105

Klementine Young YOU0014

Faadhila Ziyad ZIY0002

2016 PRC CAPTAINS (Premier’s reading challenge)

9AHelene Nguyen NGU0413

Nithya Sathyamurthy SAT0003

9BFiona Lee LEE0097

Sarah Zijlstra ZIJ0002

9CGeena Chan CHA0110

Jacqueline Kwon KWO0013

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International Women’s Day Breakfasts

ery year, Mac.Rob’s senior student leaders attend three different breakfasts which celebrate International Women’s Dhe UN Women’s breakfast, the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia breakfast, and the Women in Rotary breakfast. Aee of this year’s celebrations had fabulous guest speakers, inspiring stories, and powerful messages for our students

ng home about women in 2015 around the world. Thanks to Ms Akins, Ms Dean, and Dr Meath who accompanied tdents to the events this year. Below is a report on the Women in Rotary breakfast from Ruchika Bilagi, our 2016 SRcretary.

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the 11th Of March, 10 Mac.Robbians, accompanied by Ms Akins, attended the Women in Rotary International Womey Breakfast. It was truly a thought-provoking event.

e morning consisted firstly of two notable speakers, Michelle Gallaher and Michael Avery, a married couple who brougw perspective. They spoke together about how Michael looked after the family while Michelle progressed in her careey talked about their relationship and how they support each other.

e main element of breakfast was the panel consisting of very reputable figures – including Tom Gleisner, Maxine McKemed Fahour, Marie Turner, and Sally Warhaft – deliberating the theme for the day: “the ascent of a woman”. The pancussed where Australia stands in the path to achieving wage equality. It is safe to say that we still have a long way to n some industries, women are payed 30% less than men in the exact same job. One of the panellists made a commeat summarised the reality of our situation: “I might as well start paying my daughter less pocket money than her twother, that way it won’t shock her when she’s older.” It goes to show – it is up to us and the future generations to chane situation we are facing. We are capable of anything but it is important that we stand united and support each othreach new possibilities.

e breakfast was an inspiring event. There were so many incredible individuals in the room and each of us knew one dwould like to be the change that further supports so many talented women to reach new limits.


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Senior School Report

Back to Pag

e Year 12 Jumpers have arrived and are ready for the very first day of Term 2. We also had a very successful SRC planniy led by Rachel and Margaret, as well as the Social Service planning day led by Celene and Olivia.

other exciting news, five year 12s departed on the French Exchange last weekend: Holly Bromley, Erin Kemp, Sara Lreena Yam and Jenny Cheng led by Ms Akins. There were some last-minute clearances by the department and wnaged to sort that out just before the departure.

are very excited about having another DDD (Digital Delivery Day) last Thursday. It has been an extremely busy terd I hope that all VCE students handled their very first SACs for the year. It is important for them to take some time ring the break to recharge.

e have an important announcement regarding Compass usage for parents. It came to our attention that some parents at aware of their daughter’s absence or lateness to school. The current Compass parents’ approval system allows anyoo has login details to tick the box to approve the absences. As clearly stated in the school attendance policy, the scho

a senior learning environment in which all students are expected to understand and appreciate their responsibilitwards maximising their own learning and supporting the rights of other individuals to be able to maximise their learniperience. Attendance at school and in all lessons is one of the fundamentals for successful learning.

this reason, the school will remove ability to log on to the Compass system and authorise students’ absence directly

the system.

Parents will be able to log on to the system and monitor attendance daily for each scheduled period. If their daughbsent, they can follow the process of:

contacting the Student Absence Line (Ph: 9864 7759)and leaving a recorded message including the Family ID Com the Compass System card provided

emailing Student Absence and leaving a message ([email protected]) – please include the studenme and Family ID Code from the Compass System card provided

writing a note for their daughter to return to school the following day – please provide the Family I D Code from tmpass System card provided

parents are asked to regularly log on to the system and make sure their daughter’s recorded absences match their diatheir daughter’s absence. Every note written by parents will be scanned and attached in the compass Chronicles.

ase do not hesitate to contact me with any questions regarding this matter.

Sawaki

ector of Senior School


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Careersaugural Biomedical Circle

the afternoon of Wednesday March 16th, 90 students attended this event. Followingintroduction from one of the convenors of the circle, Dr Que Lam, they broke intoall groups for three twenty minute sessions with the speakers. They heard about lifea medical student at both Monash and The University of Melbourne from ex-studentsv Gaddam, Tharusha Dadallage, Priyanka Kanumuri, Melinda Fernando and Nicola Jing.

Shoshana Sztal-Mazer, Dr Jennifer Wong, Dr Perri Dyson, Dr Jennifer Wong , Dr Quem and Dr Clea Alexander who are all ex-students, also gave presentations to the variousoups. Students were informed about a range of medical specialties including pathology,docrinology, diabetes, obstetrics and gynaecology plus general practice. Everyone thenourned to the function room for a more informal afternoon tea.

ecial thanks to Palladians Sharann Johnson, Dr Que Lam and Rav Gaddam for organising the event.

ngratulations to alumnae Angela Pan and Alexandra Phan who were awarded Melbourne National Scholarships. Theails a tuition fee exempt Commonwealth Supported Place and a $15000 allowance over the course of an undergradua

gree. To be eligible students must have achieved an ATAR of 99.90 or above.

ear 10 Parentsur daughter’s Morrisby Profile is now available to you on the Reports section of Compass. The profile used a range -line psychometric assessments to test abilities and interests of the student to assist them in making informed decisioout their future education and career options. The interactive career planning tool allows the student to drill down aplore the different options available. If the students’ interests and aspirations change over the next few years they cdate their data on the Morrisby to reflect these changes.

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Parents Associatione Parents’ Association held a very successful Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser on Sunday 6 March, raising over $1500 for thool community. A big thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to make this event so successful. The mon

sed will go toward grants for student-led activities.

e Parents Association will be serving refreshments at the House Chorals on Wednesday 13 April.

ernational Ball - Saturday 7 May

e Parents’ Association is again holding the International Ball at the majestic St Kilda Town Hall on Saturday 7 Marting at 6pm. It’s a chance to break out your finery, feast on fine food and dance like nobody is watching.

kets are $60 each, however, this year we have an early bird ticket price of $55 available until April 13, so get in quickkets can be purchased at trybooking.com/183261. We will also be selling tickets during the PTS interviews on ThursdApril & Wednesday 4 May

e Parents’ Association are also seeking donations for our raffle prizes to be drawn on the night.

ou are able to donate items or vouchers for the International Ball raffle please email [email protected] prizes directly to Karl Russell at the school. Prize donations in the past have included: gift vouchers, movie passn care products, homewares, driving lessons, gardening packs, small electrical appliances.

ertainment Books

e 2016 Entertainment Books are now available for pre-order at https://www.entertainmentbook.com.a

derbooks/1850w65 .

ou would like to receive emails regarding events and activities run by the Parents’ Association please contact Madelitson on [email protected] or phone 0412 015 911.


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In 1950s Boston, the extremely untalented

leading lady of the crically panned new

musical Robbin’ Hood of the Old West is

murdered on opening night. Enter Detecve

Frank Cio, star of the Boston Homicide

Department and huge musical theatre fan, who

swily realises that the murderer must be one

of the cast or crew – who all seem strangely

keen for the show to close.

Was it the hard-bien producer, the amboyant

director, the tempestuous choreographer, the

newly-promoted leading lady, or one of the

other resenul characters now conned to the

theatre, including the prey and suspiciously

naïve understudy who catches Cio’s eye…?

Can he solve the murder, save the show from

bad reviews and get the girl, without falling

vicm to the killer himself?

John Kander and Fred Ebb’s last ever musical

is a hilarious send-up of backstage murder-

mystery plots, fusing classic musicals like

Kiss Me Kate and Oklahoma with shows like

Midsomer Murders and Poirot. It is full of

fantascally wiy lyrics and memorable show-tunes from the golden age of musical theatre,

by arguably one of the best musical-wring

teams of all me.

THE SUSPECTS

T H E C H O R E O G RA P H E R T HE C OMP OS E R T H E P RO D U C E R

T H E I N V E S T O R THE STAGE MANAGER T H E D I R E C T O R

THE RE VIE WER T H E LE AD I N G LAD Y T H E U N D E RS T U D Y

MAC.ROBERTSON GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL & MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL

“Curtains” is presented by arrangement with Origin™ Theatrical on behalf of Theatrical Rights Worldwide, New York

Bookings open online in mid-April:

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MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL • MEMORIAL HALL

11 – 14 MAY 2016


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Issue 4/2016: March 16, 2016

Subject choice and the gender pay gap: Girls locked out of high-paying careers beforethey even leave high school

A report by the University of Melbourne has found that the seeds of the gender pay gap aresown in high school when girls choose not to study the subjects needed to pursue high-paying careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The authors of

Gendered selection of STEM subjects for matriculation, Professor Moshe Justman and DrSusan Mendez, found that girls are much less likely to choose physics and informationtechnology (IT) in the senior years of high school than boys of exactly the same academicability. By opting out of these subjects, however, girls are limiting their options and effectively

locking themselves out of high-paying STEM careers before they even leave school.

After analysing data from 58,000 Victorian students who entered Year 7 in 2008 andgraduated from high school in 2013, Professor Justman and Dr Mendez found that “girlssimply aren’t doing the subjects required in order to launch a career in the highly paidengineering or IT industries”. Instead, as soon as they are given the opportunity, girls choosesubjects in the life sciences like biology and human development rather than physics, IT andadvanced mathematics.

As a result, although women are equally likely as men to enrol in a STEM degree atuniversity, only 10% of computer science and 13% of engineering graduates in Australia arefemale. In New Zealand women make up 64% of bachelor degree enrolments in science, butcomprise less than 25% of engineering and about 30% of IT graduates. And while it is true

that girls often choose to pursue high-paying STEM careers in medicine, dentistry andoptometry, much larger numbers of girls pursue lower-paid STEM careers in fields includingpsychology, biological sciences and pharmacy.

Dr Mendez told The Guardian that there is a “misconception that boys are better at numeracyand that’s why they’re entering these subjects” but their study showed that “this is not thecase”. Girls who scored exactly the same on Year 9 numeracy tests as boys were much lesslikely to choose physics and IT (and to a lesser extent, advanced mathematics) in the senior

years, therefore “it is not mathematical ability driving the gender selection of STEM subjects”.Even girls who are high achievers in mathematics failed to choose the subjects needed topursue high-paying STEM careers. Yet girls who did choose to take physics and IT subjects“actually performed better on average than boys”. Dr Mendez believes that “many girls whothink they are not good enough at mathematics to study physics and information technology

could succeed at these subjects and should be encouraged to try”.

A study by Australia’s National Centre for Equity in Higher Education has also found STEM jobs pay well — but only for male graduates. Women made up 62% of the study’s STEMgraduate sample but were “much less likely to have good jobs and earned substantially less”.These results reinforce the Melbourne University finding that while women are equally aslikely to work in STEM as men, they are clustered in lower-paying STEM jobs and notpursuing highly-paid careers in fields like engineering and IT. Indeed, commenting on theissue in The Australian, Andrew Norton from the Grattan Institute said that engineering and

technology graduates have healthy career prospects, but “the general sciences are high-riskand this message gets lost in the claims about future needs for STEM”.


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While studies show that girls attending girls’ schools are significantly more likely to studyphysics and advanced mathematics than girls attending co-educational schools, more workremains to be done. A recent report by the Foundation for Young Australians found that morethan 90% of Australia’s current workforce will need digital skills to perform their roles in thenext 2-5 years, 75% will require STEM skills, and at least 50% will need advanced IT skills toconfigure and build systems. In combination with the release of the latest statistics showingthat the full-time gender pay gap in Australia is 17.3%, meaning women earn $277.70 lessper week than men, there is good reason to examine the impact of girls’ subject choices.

Promoting STEM skills and careers is a high priority for the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia which recently awarded its 2016 Research Grant to Helen Forgasz, Professor of

Education, Monash University and Gilah Leder, Adjunct Professor of Education, MonashUniversity. Their research will investigate STEM participation rates at school level andbeyond, as well as career and life trajectories for females who attend single-sex and co-educational schools in Australia and New Zealand. The research project is due to becompleted in 2017 and will form an important part of the conversation in girls’ schools on howwe can empower girls to compete in their careers and life on an equal footing with boys. Thisincludes ensuring that they are aware of the opportunities that studying STEM subjects —particularly physics, information technology and advanced mathematics — can present.

References

Davey, M. (2016, March 9). Gender pay gap has roots in schools years, when girls opt out of STEMsubjects. The Guardian. Retrieved from: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/09/gender-pay-gap-has-roots-in-school-years-when-girls-opt-out-of-stem-subjects

Hare, J. & Ross, J. (2016, March 9). Women lag in science jobs, pay. The Australian. Retrieved from:http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/education

Ministry of Education. (2009). Trends in fields of study of bachelors degree graduates in New Zealand.Education Counts. Retrieved from:https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/80898/41801/3

National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women. (n.d.). Women in innovation.Women@Work. Retrieved from: http://womenatwork.org.nz/work-programme/women-in-the-innovation-sector/

National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education. (2016, March 8). Background no barrier tofinding jobs. Curtin University. Retrieved from: https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/background-no-barrier-to-finding-jobs/

Pope, J., & Mutch, R. (2015, November). Report card 2015: How are young people fairing in thetransition from school to work? Foundation for Young Australians. Retrieved from:http://unlimitedpotential.fya.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/How-young-people-are-faring-report-card-2015-FINAL.pdf

University of Melbourne. (2016, March 9). Wage gap linked to high school subject choices. TheMelbourne Newsroom, University of Melbourne. Retrieved from:http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/wage-gap-linked-high-school-subject-choices

Workplace Gender Equality Agency. (2016, March). Gender pay gap statistics. Workplace GenderEquality Agency. Retrieved from:https://www.wgea.gov.au/sites/default/files/Gender_Pay_Gap_Factsheet.pdf

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