Perth Modern School

PERTH MODERN SCHOOL PRESENTS:
THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SCHOOL EDITION 7-10 AUGUST
Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch, Uncle Fester and Grandma are DYING to perform for you! It's going to be electric!
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Well done to our Perth Mod mathematicians. You did us proud in the Numero competition 👏👏👏

THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SNEAK PEEK
Perth Modern School's production of The Addams Family has an amazingly talented ensemble cast, who are playing the Ancestors! Here are our wonderful Years 11 and cast members in full character make-up. Keep an eye out next week to see the main characters!
Featuring:
Megha Aleyas (Chorus Captain)
Jiaying Gu
Sienna Bowden
Chloe Christiansen
Millie Cullender
Anneke Dekkers
Yul Kim
Sophie Nham
Sonia Yeo

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MOD WINS GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE IN THE AUSTRALIAN MATHS OLYMPIAD

As reported by Head of Mathematics, Mr Mark White -
"In Term 2 some of our students were invited to the exclusive and prestigious Australian Maths Olympiad 2024. We have won Gold, Silver and Bronze. This gruelling and challenging Maths Olympiad is only open to those students who have demonstrated great ability in other national maths competitions throughout the previous 12 months and it is an honour to be invited to participate. The Olympiad is run by the Australian Maths Trust in Canberra.

Well done to the following students:
Joel Bariss In Year 12 for winning GOLD.
Ethan Yap in Year 12 for winning GOLD.
Atharva Sathe in Year 12 for winning SILVER.
Rayden Oliveiro in Year 10 for winning SILVER.
Jayden Yip in Year 10 for winning BRONZE.
Beatrice Chong in Year 11 for an HONOURABLE MENTION

Well done also to Angela Huang in Year 9 and Catherine Yu in Year 10 for competing in this Olympiad as well.”

THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SNEAK PEEK

Perth Modern School's production of The Addams Family has an amazingly talented ensemble cast, who are playing the Ancestors! Here are our wonderful Year 10 cast members in full character make-up.
Featuring:
Stella Anthony
Matthew Champness
Caire Champion
Tuppence Cornelius
Grace Dowley
Heath Duggan
Jem McGrath
Rania Phillips
Avash Shakya
Alyssa Soeseno
Tara Vulin
Mihindee Weerasinghe
Gregorius Widjaja
Katrina Yang

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Well done Owen!

Bravo Edith 👏👏👏

THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SNEAK PEAK
Perth Modern School's production of The Addams Family has an amazingly talented ensemble cast, who are playing the Ancestors! Here are our wonderful Year 9 cast members in full character make-up.
Featuring:

Lachlan Belstead
Jovianne B**g
Tuppence Cornelius
Lucia Everitt
Zara Hadingham
Justin Henares
Saskia Kennea
Sophie Litic
Anushree Sathe
Arya Sims
Qiqi Wang

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SNEAK PEAK
Perth Modern School's production of The Addams Family has an amazingly talented ensemble cast, who are playing the Ancestors! Here are our Years 7 and 8 cast members in full character make-up.
Featuring:
Tharundee Weerasinghe
Pedram Eizadi
Yasmeen Labib
Imogen Manfield
Evan Phillips
Suvi Shakya
Ben Suckling
Abigail Sun

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META Exhibition at Gallery Central
There is a considered selection process for the META Exhibition and Perth Modern School had five Visual Arts students selected and displayed - Year 12 students Tony Nguyen, Claire den Hollander, Ashlee Hemy, and Year 11 students Genevieve Kelly and Kat Wilson.

This annual exhibition, hosted by Central Institute of Technology, celebrates the creativity and talent of senior secondary school students in art and design. It aims to recognise and showcase the remarkable achievements and originality of these young artists in their studies.

Claire den Hollander was awarded a Certificate of Acknowledgement for her entry, a sensitive and reflective self-portrait, a painting on mirror titled Love.
Claire said:
"My artwork serves as my way of showing my past self the kindness I wasn’t able to give her in the moment, and to show my current self a sense of love and appreciation for the person she has grown into."

MORE TOP TABLE TENNIS RESULTS
Mod siblings Jasmine Wu in Year 11 and Chelsea Wu in Year 9 have played well beyond their ages and won Silver medals in the Under 21 Womens Teams competition at the Table Tennis Australia National Championships held in Mandurah.

Chelsea continued her winning streak with two more Bronze medals - one in the U15 Girls Doubles and one in the National Tour U15 Girls Singles.

Perth Modern School's excellence in table tennis at the national level is further highlighted with Jethro Chen in Year 9 winning Bronze in the U15 Mixed Doubles and Silver in the National Tour U15 Boys Singles.

Earlier this year, Jasmine, Chelsea, Jethro and Kye Ng won the WA Interschool Table Tennis Cup representing Perth Modern School.

CREEPY, KOOKY, MYSTERIOUS, SPOOKY
Perth Modern School Presents -
The Addams Family: School Edition
August 7-10
This super fun show will showcase the amazing acting and musical talents of our students. It will be electric!
Fun for the whole family
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CONSTELLATIONS TEAM FROM MOD WIN FIRST PLACE FOR CORE VALUES AT THE ASIA PACIFIC OPEN ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 'Constellations' robotics team featuring Paul Hodges, Oceana Oakley, Danny Edwards, Malachi Knight, Alice Tanner and Maddy Maxwell representing Australia (and Mod) has achieved First Place for Core Values at the Asia Pacific Open Championships (APOC)!

The competition was held at Macquarie University over four days from 4-7 July.
The judges said that the team displayed extraordinary enthusiasm and spirit, knows they can accomplish more together than they could as individuals, and showed each other and other teams respect at all times.

APOC is an international, invitation-only 'First' robotics event with 53 teams from 26 different countries competing. The Constellations qualified for the event by winning the national level competition in November last year. The team couldn't have made it this far without the mentorship of Mod Alumni Anna Pederson, who has given so much of her time in supporting the team.

Congratulations to the team on this amazing result!

As part of the lead up to the Paris Olympic Games, the Amis 2024 program run by the Australian Olympic Committee linked Year 8 French classes at Perth Modern via Zoom with equivalent classes on Reunion Island with a view to building lasting cultural and language connections. Our students exchanged letters, school guides, and video interviews, and participated in a lively and informative video class, communicating with their new French friends in both French and English. The students learned a lot about life on Reunion, and we hope to take the opportunity for future interactions between our schools.
It was an amazing experience!

👍👍👍

NEW YEAR 7 STUDENT COUNCILLORS

Congratulations to our new Year 7 Student Councillors who have been elected to the council by their peers - Alex Vanopulos, Abigail Koh, Barbod Mirzadeh Hosseini and Suri Le! They will undoubtedly be amazing additions to the Student Council and fantastic student leaders.

Well done Suri, Barbod, Alex and Abigail!

INTERSCHOOL SQUASH RUNNERS-UP

HPE Teacher Aaron Bell reports - "Squash is not just a vegetable!! Two teams of Year 9 students competed in the 20204 Interschool Squash competition at Squash World Mirrabooka. Well done to our students for conducting themselves so well at the event. The Junior Boys finished in Third place and the Junior Girls fought hard to finish runners-up against some strong State representative players."

Junior Girls Team:
Amindi Elvadura
Renee Tan
Liliana Baldwin

Junior Boys Team:
Jerome Tan
Dhanvin Trakroo
Bob Han-Busi

COMMUNITY DAY FUNDRAISING HELPS CHARITY 'FOSTERING HOPE'

This week, the ladies from registered charity 'Fostering Hope' paid a visit to the school to thank staff and students for the amazing amount of funds raised on Charity Day.

A total of $14,872.13 was raised and donated, an incredible effort!

Fostering Hope Australia’s mission is to support children in “out-of-home” care (foster care and kinship care arrangements). They also support remote WA communities and other charities by:

- Gathering donated goods (clothing, toys, nappies, school bags and more) and providing them to children and families (at no cost)

- Organising child-focused Fostering Joy events for children in care, to promote joy and togetherness

- Providing new suitcases to children in care through our Fostering Journey program.

This amount of money will help a lot of children in out-of-home care. Well done to everybody involved!

UNYOUTH VOICE COMPETITION: MARY, RHEA AND MIA MAKE THE GRAND FINAL

UNYouth Voice is an annual program and is an exciting opportunity for students in Years 7 to 10 to broaden their knowledge of national and international affairs, while developing their presentation and public speaking skills in a unique forum. Students are required to give a prepared speech then respond to impromptu questions from a panel of judges. Congratulations to all the Perth Modern School students who participated this year.

Three students progressed to the Grand Final, held at the State Library: Mia Saranovic and Rhea Kewalram in Year 9 and Mary McCusker in Year 10. Mary McCusker was announced as winner of the Senior division with Rhea as runner-up. Mary (right in photo) and Rhea (left in photo) spoke about how we can improve access to medical services in rural communities.

Students and teachers on the Music Tour to New Zealand are having a ball! Today they visited the Hobbiton Movie Set where the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed.

BEN AND HEIDI INVITED TO THE 2024 GEOGRAPHY'S BIG WEEK OUT
Congratulations to Ben Bauer and Heidi Gstaettner in Year 11 who have both been invited to attend the 2024 Geography's Big Week Out, which is a week of stimulating, hands-on geography activities in Jindabyne and Canberra. Heidi and Ben were selected as a result of their high achievement in the Australian Geography Competition that was held recently.
Only 16 students from across Australia have been invited to attend, with the top four students from the week of activities being chosen to represent Australia at the International Geography Olympiad being held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2025.

Well done Ben and Heidi!

COMPETITION ALERT!
The 2024 crcCARE High School Essay Competition offers a fantastic opportunity for students to explore pressing environmental issues while competing for cash prizes and an expenses-paid trip to the CleanUp 2024 Conference Gala Dinner in Adelaide.
Students in Years 7 to 12 can participate in two categories:
1. The Dr Roneal Naidu award - How can innovative technologies help clean up emerging contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals and micro-/nano-plastics, to protect human health and the environment? ($1000 prize)
2. The CRC CARE award - How can packaging be redesigned to facilitate a circular economy, and can Indigenous knowledge help guide modern environmental practices? ($500 prize)

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 31 July 2024.
For more details and how to enter see flyer below.



NOTE: this notice is for information purposes only. Perth Modern School does not endorse any competitions, courses or programs.

HOUSE DODGEBALL FUN
During Week 9 the Houses went head-to-head at lunchtime in a series of dodgeball games. The enthusiasm and participation from all year groups was fantastic and it was great to see so many students come down to support their house!

YEAR 10 DRAMA PRESENTS - THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF
Wednesday, 19 and Thursday, 20 June
7.00pm | Casey Drama Theatre
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY - SCHOOL EDITION
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!
Perth Modern School proudly presents ‘The Addams Family’
7-10 August
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Top Mod Violinist and Composer Ellie Malonzo travels the world performing music! 🎻

As Ellie reports, "I have been very fortunate to have several opportunities to perform as a soloist this semester.
In February, I performed Wieniawski’s Polonaise in A Major at Government Ballroom and the Bach Double Concerto alongside world-renowned Ronald Thomas OAM (winner of the Carl Flesch Violin Competition) with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the MetSO Chamber Orchestra.

I was very lucky to be invited to Sydney to premiere one of my own compositions as a soloist with the Mosman Symphony Orchestra in March.

In May, I was invited to perform Dvorak’s Romance with the Wiener Stadtorchester (Vienna City Orchestra) in Austria – we also managed to go to Prague, to see the home of Dvorak which was an amazing experience.

In June, I performed the Debussy Violin Sonata with fantastic pianist Mark Coughlan, and look forward to performing it again, along with the Wieniawski Violin Concerto in Dunsborough in July.

Also in July, I will be attending the Australian Chamber Orchestra Academy in Melbourne, as one of 15 violinists from around Australia, led by Aiko Goto, which I am really looking forward to.
In August, I am excited to perform the Barber Violin Concerto and Arvo Part’s ‘Fratres’ with Mark Coughlan.

I will be performing again as a soloist with the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra in October, in the premiere of another of my concerti for violin and viola (which I will be playing with my teacher Paul Wright), and also in Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto. Additionally, this concert will be the premiere of my fugue for three violins
I also look forward to performing Paganini’s (slightly infamous!) Caprice No. 4 in the Paganini Relay in October.

In December, I will be participating in masterclasses for violin professors in Germany, where I will be performing Bach’s Fugue in G Minor and Paganini’s 4th Caprice. I will also be in the Tagiev Chamber Orchestra’s German tour in Germany, playing in Berlin and Schwerin.

Looking ahead to 2025, I am currently arranging a concert which will be recital of some of my compositions. I am currently composing the main work of the program, which I aspire to use to bring different demographics of musicians together to involve a wider community in Western Australia’s classical music scene. I look forward to working with organist Alessandro Pittorino in this exciting project."

DIYA WINS FIRST PLACE IN THE PERTH SPEECH AND DRAMA FESTIVAL FOR LYRICAL POETRY!

YEAR 10 DRAMA PRESENTS - 'THE GIRL WHO CRIED WOLF'
This gothic inspired production will have you on the edge of your seats! The acting, technical production and direction is all done by our talented Year 10 Drama students.
Dates: Wednesday, 19 June and Thursday, 20 June
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Casey Drama Centre
Tickets: $10
To book - www.trybooking.com/1241770 or scan the QR code on poster below.
SEE YOU THERE!