Menai High School

Is your child growing out of their winter uniforms? Have you got a child starting high school next year and their sibling's hand me downs seen better days?

Then the Daylight school wear uniform shop has got your covered. Trading hours for December and January have been finalised as well as updated uniform price lists, Orientation Day opening hours and standard trading hours.

The fifth issue of the Menai High School's Parent Newsletter for 2024 is out. Check out all the great things that have been happening this term.

The Sydney Morning Herald has been recently analysing HSC results across different school sectors and, as we've come to see over the past decade, Menai High School has placed very strongly in the core areas of Advanced Mathematics and Advanced English. We are extremely proud of our students and staff, and stand by our philosophy of promoting the more challenging, 'high level' subjects amongst our students to ensure that they achieve their best and challenge themselves.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-the-state-s-top-schools-for-hsc-english-maths-and-science-20240805-p5jzmg.html

P&C is on tonight at 6:30 in the Common room. On the agenda tonight, will be a Deputy Principal update on the new behaviour policy and Head Teacher reports on Learning Support and Wellbeing.

Sporting News!
Lachlan Leung recently competed at the National Table Tennis Championships in WA. His achievements are:

1. Gold Medal at the Australian Table Tennis Tour in WA
2. Gold Medal for Team NSW at the National Table Tennis Championships in WA

Well done Lachlan!

BLAK LOUD & PROUD

Menai High has been keeping the fire burning for NAIDOC Week 🔥

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Sports news!
Maximos is back from Western Australia with the silver medal for Team NSW! And appreciative for all the encouragement and pointers given from the amazing other players and top coaches in the country that welcomed Maximos at his first national table tennis championship.

LDC Parent Talk - Behaviour Support & Parenting Tips for Kids with ADHD and Learning Difficulties

Two Menai HS teams played in the U14’s regional futsal championships today. Both teams showed sportsmanship throughout the day. One of the teams made the quarterfinals, however, lost in a close one.

All students, years 7-12, will return to school on Tuesday 23rd July. We look forward to seeing you all back, ready to learn and in full school uniform.

It’s been a busy term for the Creative and Performing Arts Department. Junior and SeniorDance Ensembles recently performed at Spotlight Dance Festival at the Seymour Centre, followed up with our very successful Drama Production “One Bad Apple” last week.

Well, we’ve got one more event - “Ignite 2024” is our annual Ensembles Showcase. Come and hear what our Music Ensembles have been up to so far this year.
School Hall, this Thursday 4th July 7-8pm with refreshments from 6:30pm.

Concert Band
Senior Stage Band
all three Contemporary Ensembles Yrs 7-10
Vocal Ensemble
Acoustic Ensemble
Yr 11 Drama
Yr 12 Drama
Yr 10 & 11 Visual Arts exhibition

Entry is free.
Look forward to seeing you there.

Dance news!💃
Recently both our Junior and Senior Dance ensembles represented Menai at the Into the Spotlight Dance Festival. Performances at this Festival display the passion, skill and creativity of students from all across Sydney, and our students were no exception!

One more sleep until "One Bad Apple" - 2024 Drama Production Menai High opens. Some photos from dress rehearsals over the past week.

There’s still time to purchase tickets.

Two nights only Thurs 27TH and Fri 28TH June
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CSFUX
Canteen, coffee cart and treats from 6:30pm

Our students have been hard at work rehearsing on the weekend and all this week for our Drama Production of ‘One Bad Apple’. Book your tickets before they sell out.

Two nights only Thurs 27TH and Fri 28TH June
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CSFUX

Athletics news!🏃‍♂️
Maximos was down at Nowra on the weekend competing at the NSW Cross Country Championships. Now off to Tasmania for the National Cross Country Championships!

Today we had a small taster scene during Formal Awards Assembly from our Drama Production which shows next week. By late this afternoon the sets were finished and bumped in. We’re very excited.
"One Bad Apple" - 2024 Drama Production Menai High
Two nights only Thurs 27TH and Fri 28TH June
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CSFUX

Sutherland Shire Council is providing a free online workshop for parents and supervisors of learner drivers, offering practical advice on how to help learner drivers become safer drivers.

This virtual workshop will provide practical advice and information including:

• Understanding the Graduated Licensing Scheme and the current laws of L and P licence holders
• Completing the Learner driver log book and app
• Understanding the benefits of supervised on-road driving experience
• Supervising learner drivers
• Young Driver Issues
• The Safer Drivers Course
• Lots of tips to help the supervising driver and learner.

Click on the link below for more information:
https://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/living-here/roads,-traffic-and-parking/parents-of-learner-driver-workshops

Sporting News!🥇🏓

Lachlan Leung (Year 10) has won the Table Tennis Australia Canberra Tour Under 17 Boys Singles event held at ACT.

Congratulations Lachlan!

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Yesterday’s hockey double header against Cronulla HS saw our girls win in a nail biting match winning 3-2 in extra time, but unfortunately our boys went down 4 nil.

Good luck to our girls team who have now made it to the top 16 in the state 🥳

Just over two weeks to go until our 2024 Winter Production at Menai High School - “One Bad Apple”. Students are rehearsing everyday, and now the set is taking shape we’re starting to get excited. Check out the real in this post.

Two evening performances only - Thursday 27TH June and Friday 28TH June.

Tickets at Trybooking.com - https://www.try booking.com/CSFUX
Or use the QRCode.

We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone at the show.

Farm News! 🐑

We're expecting!

Agriculture students participated in an incursion this week with the vet to confirm ewe pregnancies and look at the development of our prospective lambs!

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Today our students braved the ice cold winds and ankle deep mud to tackle the Sydney East X Country Championships.
Well done to all 31 students who competed today!

A further congratulations to these 8 students who will be representing MHS at STATE COUNTRY:

- Grace Delander
- Koby Hellyer
- Maximos Papaconstantinou
- Akira Saliba
- Joanna Yu
- Lily Thompson
- Thomas Marshall

And last but not least Oliver Krause who also finished as Age Champion today 🥳

Menai's Got Talent has a new band rockin' the house!

On Tuesday night our Junior and Senior Dance Ensembles had their first performances of the year, at the Sutherland Dance Festival. All students involved represented Menai with maturity and professionalism, with stunning performances. For some, this was their first experience dancing on stage for an audience!

📕📗LIBRARY NEWS📘📙

Year 7 have been having library lessons to learn how to access our Britannica and ClickView databases. They can access these through their student portal both at school and at home.

Britannica is an excellent source of information with articles written by experts in their fields. Content is continuously reviewed and updated and vetted by fact-checkers, thus students can know that the information is accurate. There are three levels of learning catering to all student interests and abilities. In addition to articles, Britannica also provides images, videos and additional useful authoritative websites on a huge range of subjects.

Students can email articles to themselves or others, translate the article into another language, have the article read to them and uniquely have the citation displayed ready for their bibliography. Britannica is an excellent source of information for our students.

To access Britannica ask your child to log on to their student portal and select Britannica.

ClickView is an educational video resource library that your child can access both at school and at home. It comprises thousands of videos and educational resources for all subjects. This Australian platform hosts a wide range of classroom friendly video content, from popular films to documentaries and Australian made educational videos. The educational content is aligned and designed to give Australian students a deeper understanding of topics and concepts. Students can also access movies and tv.

To access ClickView ask your child to log on to their student portal and select ClickView.

From the 5th-28th of June the Push Up Mental Health Challenge takes place. The challenge is to raise awareness for su***de and mental health in Australia. The target is 3,249 or 1625 push ups/ alternative exercises over the 24 days, 1 for every su***de in Australia during 2022. On the 21st of June, Mr Carpenter will be running a teacher vs student push up challenge during assembly to again show the dominance of teachers in every sporting/physical challenge vs students.
Follow the link if you would like to be involved or to donate:
https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/MHS

www.thepushupchallenge.com.au