Ron Tedford, Sports Coordinator, at Homebush Boys recently competed in the International World Masters Games held in Sydney, playing basketball. The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind. There have been seven World Masters Games since 1985 and Ron has participated in the last three. The Games has been popular with retired professional athletes and former Olympic competitors, with over 230 past Olympians taking part in the 2009 Games in Sydney. Ron was in the Megabucks team from Sydney that played the Russian Autoqueen side in the final taking out the Silver Medal. The Russian team boasted three members of the 1972 Russian Olympic Team who won the Gold Medal at the Munich Games - the first team to have beaten the USA in an Olympic final in basketball.
Ron Tedford with his Siver medalion being congratulated by Deputy Principal, Bill Hilliard
The International Masters Games Association is the worldwide representative body for Masters sport. Recognised by the International Olympic Committee, the International Masters Games Association aims to support the Olympic movement and promote the sport-for-all philosophy of the Olympic Charter by encouraging all people beyond young adulthood to play sport and to participate in Masters Games with the awareness that competitive sport can continue throughout life and improve personal fitness.
Every year the Visual Arts faculty selects four artworks from different classes for the annual Operation Art exhibition for Westmead Children’s Hospital. This year Henry Liang, Anthony Phan, Edwin Guo and Joseph Zheng had their artwork selected for the annual exhibition, which is held at Penrith Regional Art Gallery.
Homebush BHS has had an excellent record of having student artwork chosen for the permanent exhibition both at the hospital and also for the Art Gallery of NSW. This year Henry Liang of Yr8 had his artwork selected for the prestigious exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, which is a fantastic achievement and an honour as there is only 50 artworks selected from over 700 artworks throughout the state.
Henry Liang with his work displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW
Henry and his proud parents attended the official opening at the gallery where Edmund Capon the Director of the AGNSW and Michael Coutts-Trotter the Director General of Education spoke in glowing terms about the high standard of artistic merit of the students’ artworks that were on display.
This is the fourth year that Homebush Boys' High has nominated students for the prestigious ADF Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork Awards. The Awards program was created to acknowledge the achievements of young people, who have demonstrated outstanding qualities of leadership and teamwork either within our school or in the wider community. Leadership and Teamwork is underpinned by qualities such as supporting others and doing the best you can, which are values the ADF shares with the broader community. The three students nominated have been recognised for their exemplary demonstration of these values. Thomas Stefoulis (Yr12), Dennis Griffin-Couls (Yr 11) and Erkan Altun (Yr 10) were awarded their certificates on a full school assembly.
Dr.Ian Paterson congratulates the ADF Long Tan Awardees on the school assembly
As well as being awarded the ADF Tan Leadership and Teamwork Awards Certificate the students were given cheques of $100, $250 and $500 to assist them in their future studies. Small profiles of the students appear below.
The Australian Chemistry Competition again produced some outstanding results. Year 12 did exceptionally well but are now doing their HSC examinations and were unable to be featutred in the photograph. The Science Department are expecting some very promising results for their Chemistry HSC.
Head Teacher, Alan Everett with some of the Year 8-11 Chemistry Award Winners
High Distinctions:
Ruixiao Sha, Abraham Jack, Zhi Ma, Peter Pak, Tue Truong, Charles Zhang
Distinctions:
Koray Centindag, Manovarman Selvanathan, Yi-Lu Chen, John Wu, Chentduran Amukaran, Ha Eun Song,
Students from Homebush were recognised for their hard study in 2009 when they were awarded certificates recently.
TAFEVET Coordinator Tom Pinkey with Andrew Sorrenti, Thomas Burton and Matthew Iwanczuk
Andrew Sorrenti who attended Granville TAFE picked up three awards in his Construction Course. From Granville College he received the award for the "Top Performing Student in a TVET Course – Construction", from South West Sydney Institute "Course Winner – Regional VET Awards – Construction" and an industry award from ParraSIP (Parramatta Schools Industry Partnership) for "Outstanding Employability Skills"
Thomas Burton, Year 11, who will continue his studies in "Sport and Recreation" at Meadowbank TAFE in 2010, was awarded an "Outstanding Student" certificate and a book voucher for $30 for his outstanding efforts.
Matthew Iwanczuk demonstrated his talents in Computing with an "Excellence Award" in CISCO.
2 unit HSC TAFEVET courses area available to students in Years 11 and 12 while "Taster" courses are available for Year 10 students.
Erkan Altun took part in the Science Experience in 2008 and was invited back in 2009 to act as a Staff Student Assistant during the week. Below is an article written by Erkan on his experience.
Another year has gone by, with another Science Experience. The Science Experience, formerly known as the Siemens Science Experience, is a fun packed three days of science which ran at The University of New South Wales. As part of the organization YSA (Young Scientists of Australia) I had the opportunity to staff the event. In the previous year I was just a student at this event as well.
Erkan carrying out an experiment in front of the class
The Science Experience is run for year nine students over three days. It is packed full of interesting lectures (which are never boring), activities that you will never have the chance to do at school, various workshops and intriguing excursions.
On day one of the event students registered and were given a debrief of the event. The students were separated into groups and assigned their staff. The students examined the salt extraction in mangroves in the first activity which involved high tech equipment. Following the workshop the students moved on to the DNA workshop in one of UNSW’s biology laboratory’s. The students learnt that the DNA in a person, if unwound, can go from earth to the sun six hundred times over. The students also created their own samples of pea DNA which they were allowed to keep. After lunch the students moved on to the STARLAB, an Astrophysics related topic. They experienced a simulation of the universe and the various theories. The students discovered that the light from the stars we see are many years old, with the closest star to earth being four light years away. “Physical structures” was the next activity for the day which involved students building a bridge with limited resources to withstand a certain amount of weight. After the fun physics workshop the students were given a campus tour which gave them an insight of the university.
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