Jigsaw Semester 1 2012 - International Grammar School

Drama
spotlight
IGS is very proud of the Senior
Theatresports team of James
Mitchell, Jack Colquhoun, Harry
McGee, Pip Goold and Daniel
Sava O’Leary (pictured above)
who were just pipped at the post
for a spot in the state finals for the
Interschool Theatresports
competition in June. They were
awarded ‘scene of the night’ at the
semi-finals.
The Intermediate team (pictured
centre) also performed well.
And our young bards (pictured
at bottom) performed in June at
Bardfest
Building resilience
Duke of Edinburgh
Scheme
Several IGS students are striving for
their Bronze and Silver Duke of
Edinburgh awards. The scheme
requires participants to complete
outdoors fitness and community
service tasks.
Guest speaker brings true vision
35-year-old Aviva Mushin lost her sight only three years ago. As a volunteer
educator with Vision Australia, she spoke to a captivated senior school
assembly audience in June about her experience of learning to cope with the
changes to her mobility and life. The students asked candid questions about
Aviva’s condition and she answered openly, describing her will “to push
through” when she realised she was going blind and how she now ‘sees’
the world as a blind person does, rather than in the way she used to
when sighted.
Nicholas Gleeson, a former colleague from Vision Australia, joined Aviva for her
visit to the School. Aviva was accompanied by her Seeing Eye Dog (SED)
Warwick and Nicholas’s SED is named ‘Unity’—fitting in perfectly with our
IGS motto!
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Nicholas and Aviva are greeted by
Assistant Principal Anthony Dennehy