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Exceptional schooling. Exceptional students. Exception 10 National Youth Science Forum – International Program Congratulations are extended to Ashley Ellis (Year 12) who has gained a place at this year’s June – July Russian Scientific Study Tour which is part of the International Program of the NYSF. The Russian Study Tour was created especially for the NYSF by the All-Russian Youth Aerospace Society, ‘Soyuz’. In this tour, six students are hosted by a Russian family and visit a wide range of institutions in Moscow and St Petersburg. The Tour has an aerospace and engineering flavour and features visits to some famous but restricted facilities including Star City, the home of Russia’s Cosmonaut training program. Applications for this Scholarship were restricted to students who had earlier attended the NYSF Summer Schools. Ashley was one of 26 students to represent WA at the ANU Canberra Summer School for two weeks in January 2011. During her time in Canberra, Ashley attended lectures given by leading Scientists, visited scientific institutions and enjoyed the many organised social activities. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience and has offered to encourage current Year 11 students to apply to attend the next Summer School. Application details for the Australian NYSF Summer Schools can be found at www.nysf.edu.au/application with applications closing Monday 30 May 2011. Have Sum Fun Mathematics Quiz On the evening of 18 March, 56 tables of students from around the metropolitan area met at St Hilda’s to compete in a Maths Quiz Night. Perth Modern School entered two teams in both the Senior and Junior divisions. The competition was intense but lots of fun (and sugar) was had by all our students. The Quiz consisted of four rounds of eight questions to be completed in 20 minutes with a tie breaker round to help place the teams. The questions ranged in degree but were quite difficult. Both Senior teams worked hard and were well placed throughout the night. At the end of the evening the places were awarded. First was St Hilda’s with a score of 27 and a win in the tie breaker. Second place went to Hale School which led the competition for most of the evening. Perth Modern School Team 1 comprising Stuart Gould, Wilson Ng, Silas Otto, Yongzi Lau, Kimberley Krish and Aditya Banerjee came third with a score of 25. Congratulations go to all participants who represented our school with dignity. Have Sum Fun On Friday evening, 25 March, 12 students from Perth Modern School attended the Have Sum Fun Junior Mathematics Competition organised by the Mathematics Association of Western Australia (MAWA). They formed two teams, each comprising of two Year 8 students, two Year 9 students and two Year 10 students. Students in Team 1 were Jet-Kye Chong, Chelsea Xu, Zhixian Wu, Seamus Carey, Audrey Lee and Jacky Lin. Students in Team 2 were James Arcus, Theo Vickery, Henri Do Van, Satthya Krishnasivam, Conway Li and Daryl Chung-Wah-Cheong. It was a fun filled evening in which approximately 50 teams from dozens of WA Schools competed in a quiz format, completing four 20 minute rounds of 8 questions each. Our teams did very well on the night, with Teams 1 and 2 taking out third and fourth place respectively. Perth Modern School > NEWS April 2011
al schooling. Exceptional students. Beware – Pirates in the Library! Ahoy there! Cap’n Barr and the library crew welcomed Year 8s aboard for their Pirate Library Orientation this term. The budding buccaneers worked their way around 10 stations solving piratical puzzles and searching for clues to the whereabouts of the hidden treasure. During their hunt they learned all about the wide range of library facilities which will enhance both their academic research and personal reading. Science students across the year groups were introduced to the two online databases to which the school subscribes – EBSCO and World Book online – through the new Database quiz. This gave each student the opportunity to explore the databases, set up their own personal accounts within them and discover some of the features which will help them locate and use quality online resources. Tony Buzan’s ranking of the ‘Greatest Geniuses of All Time’ is proving to be a useful starting point for Year 8 Social Studies classes and their ‘Beautiful Minds’ research. Library staff are currently targeting research tools in their introductions to the research process including the location of high quality resources and the Harvard Referencing System to accurately record resource details. These class introductions are being supplemented by displays on the Habits of Mind, Biographies and the Buzan rankings. The Our School in History Project is an initiative of the State Library of Western Australia Foundation. Selected Year 9 Society and Environment students have been invited to participate. This involves their registering on the Our Page in History Website and creating a link to the Perth Modern School Page. They then choose an aspect of the school to research and write an article about. This is then up-loaded with some appropriate pictures and becomes part of the School’s contribution. As registered users, individuals may also post personal histories about their families or their suburb on their own personal pages. If you would like to view the current (or future) entries (as time progresses) visit www.ourpageinhistory.org. Click on Explore Themes then click on View Theme Groups and then on Perth Modern School. It is hoped that we will eventually have at least 50 vignettes prepared and posted by students. Current Event displays this term have included: ‘Cybersafety’ to coincide with Safer Internet Day in February, ‘Chinese Year of the Rabbit’ and ‘Maths Day’ (2 March). ‘To read is to know’, ‘The Guardians of Ga’Hoole’ book series and ‘Beware of Pirates’ were the emphasis for literature promotion displays. Photographs of students are also featured in the ‘2010 in Review’ and ‘Year 8 Beware of Pirates’ displays. Perth Modern School > NEWS April 2011 11
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