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Japanese Speech<br />
Contest of SA<br />
<strong>The</strong> annual Japanese Speech Contest of SA took<br />
place on Saturday 7 September at the Education<br />
Development Centre in Hindmarsh.<br />
Three of our students, Yijjia (Year 12, left), Ai<br />
Linh (Year 11, middle), and Renyun (Year 12, right)<br />
participated in the High School Division, and two<br />
of our old scholars Alfred Tay (left) and Amrit<br />
Kumbhar(right) participated in Open Division.<br />
Renyun was awarded the 2nd prize and Ai Linh was<br />
awarded the 3rd prize.<br />
Old scholar, Amrit, won 1st prize in the Open Division<br />
and will be competing in the national competition in<br />
Sydney in October.<br />
Renyun will also participate in the National<br />
Japanese Speech contest in Sydney as the state<br />
first place winner is ineligible to participate due to<br />
her Japanese background. Renyun will attend the<br />
reception of the 50 year anniversary of Japanese<br />
Speech Contest on Friday 11 October and compete<br />
in the contest on Saturday 12 October in Sydney. This<br />
is a fantastic achievement for someone who has<br />
been learning Japanese for only 20 months!<br />
<strong>The</strong> school warmly congratulates the prize<br />
winners and the participants for their amazing<br />
achievements!<br />
We wish Renyun and Amrit all the best of luck in the<br />
national competition and look forward to hearing of<br />
their achievements!<br />
Satomi Glenn<br />
Japanese Teacher<br />
Reconciliation SA<br />
During the beginning of Term 3 a group of 10<br />
students took part in a Reconciliation SA workshop.<br />
This was held at Glenunga International High<br />
School and was presented by the ActNow <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Company. <strong>The</strong> theme for the day was ‘Responding<br />
to Racism’ whereby the theatre actors immersed<br />
themselves into their characters. <strong>The</strong>se characters<br />
were from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds<br />
and it followed them through an average day in<br />
their life. <strong>The</strong> style of theatre that ActNow employs<br />
is forum theatre, which means the audience can<br />
effectively change the course of the play. Whenever<br />
the characters are being targeted due to their<br />
ethnicity the students were encouraged to shout<br />
“STOP!” A student then walks on stage and acts out<br />
how to properly respond to racism. <strong>The</strong> techniques<br />
on how to correctly respond were developed during<br />
the first session of the day in what were confronting,<br />
but well informed, conversations for students and<br />
teachers alike.<br />
It was eye-opening for the students to discern the<br />
prevalence of systemic racism within our society<br />
with many students realising that they are able to<br />
create change. <strong>The</strong> workshop gave them tools on<br />
how to not only respond to racism but also to create<br />
awareness as well as how to have these difficult<br />
conversations with peers. It will be great for more<br />
students to attend this workshop so that more and<br />
more students have the skills to respond and negate<br />
racism.<br />
Henry Johnson<br />
Science Teacher
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