East Hills Boys Enrichment Afternoon

On Wednesday 29^th of May, twelve high achieving male students from Stage 3 attended the East Hills Boys’ Technology High School Enrichment Afternoon. The aim of the afternoon was to develop a deep understanding of problem solving strategies. There were 25 teams involved in the program coming from 9 different schools in the South West Sydney region.

The teams competed with each other in Maths and Science to see which team was the smartest in the entire district. Padstow Park had three teams of four students.

Team 1 consisted of Anthony Bao, James Lee, Shuvam Adhikari and their team captain William Tran.

Team 2 included Michael Li, Jason Lim, Saratt Hayavuchanurak and their team captain Voung Pham.

Team 3 had Dylan Huang, Raymond Du, Sajja Hayavuchanurak and their team captain Jadon Yip.

First was the Mathematics where each team was given a series of math problem solving questions, one on each sheet of paper. Once a team had answered a question, the team captain had to walk the answer to their marker and the marker checked their answer. All the questions were very difficult, requiring a high level of both comprehension and problem solving ability.

After that there was a break, where the teams could relax. Then there was the Science round. There was no working out applied, it was all general knowledge. The Padstow Park teams raced through the questions.

Once all the questions were finished, the results were tallied. Finally they got the results and the victor for the East Hills Boys Enrichment Afternoon 2013 was……Padstow Park Team 2!

All of Padstow Park was thrilled with Team 2’s victory and were happy to have been part of the enrichment afternoon. The students in Team 2 received medals and a handshake from the principal of East Hills Boys High School.

All students involved had a great time.  Thank you to Mr Bao and Mrs Du for helping with the transportation to and from the event.

 

By Anthony Bao and William Tran

 

 

 

 

Daryl Melham visits Padstow Park

On Monday 6th May, Daryl Melham, Member for Banks, visited Padstow Park Public School.  He talked to Stage 3 students about his experiences as a politician and answered questions posed by students. Mr Melham also awarded the students who attended Parliament House, with a certificate. 

We appreciate him taking the time to visit our school.

 

 

 

 

 

Leadership Conference by Steph and Christina

LEADERS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW

   

On the 13^th of March 2013, the SRC went to Tower Street Public School to attend a leadership conference called “Leaders of Today and Tomorrow”. The purpose of the conference was for us to learn how to become better leaders. When we got to the conference we were seated in our school group and were given a folder, which contained a booklet about what we were going to do during the day.

We had students from Sir Joseph Banks High School come along to be our mentors. Our mentor was Sir Joseph Banks High School’s Vice-Captain, Mimi Le.

There were five guest speakers. The first speaker was Mr Waser who is the Deputy Principal of Sir Joseph Banks High School. He talked about how we always have to work as a team and not as individuals, to always have a plan and find a way to improve. The second speaker was Kylie Gauci, a Paralympian and Wheelchair Basketballer who played for Australia. Kylie has won three medals; a silver medal in Athens 2004, a bronze medal in Beijing 2008 and a silver medal in London 2012. We got to touch all three of her medals. The London medal was the heaviest. She even won a bronze medal at her first World Championships in 2002. Her goal was to get a gold medal but unfortunately she didn’t reach her goal.

After Kylie left we were given an activity. In our folders we each had a small piece of cardboard with a word on it. The words were respect, trust, effort, persistence, honesty, resilience, confidence and cooperation. We had to write what we thought the words meant.

The next two speakers were Vincent Dinh and Mimi Le, the Vice Captains from Sir Joseph Banks High School. They told us to always have confidence, put in a team effort and give advice to others.

In our next activity we had to answer four different questions. The hardest question was “How can I be a better leader?” Some of the answers were to be a good role model and listen to other people’s questions and ideas.

Lunch was next on the agenda and then we did some team activities. One of the activities was where, as a group, we had to build the highest tower only using newspaper and masking tape.

The last guest speaker was Mrs McKay who is the student Welfare Consultant for East Hills. She talked about how leadership never stops and how you should always talk, listen and think. At the end of the day everyone got a certificate which was presented by Mrs McKay and Mrs Hornung.

Everyone enjoyed the day and we learnt a lot of new things.  We will most definitely become better leaders.

 

BY CHRISTINA ARGIROPOULOS AND STEPHANIE HUNT

 

5/6K Easter Eggs

Happy Easter!!!! From 5/6K

 

 

Leadership Conference

On Wednesday the 13^th of March the SRC and School Captains from many schools in the East Hills/Bankstown District went to a leadership conference called ‘Leaders of Today- and Tomorrow’.

This conference offered a chance for primary school leaders to spend a day learning about leadership and teamwork. There were guest speakers, teamwork and initiative activities and discussion groups led by student leaders from a local high school.

When we arrived we went inside the Tower Street PS schools hall. We then got seated and searched anxiously through our folders. 

We met a famous Paralympian, Kylie Gauci who talked about what being a leader was and how much she liked wheelchair basketball. She showed us how versatile her basketball wheelchair is compared to the normal every-day one. She did tricks and told us about the Paralympics and how she met her idol.

When our 25 minute recess break was over we went back inside and some principals and a welfare officer talked to us about a range of important things, particularly with regard to leadership.

Soon after, we had some outside activities. The first one was to work as a team to get across the “river”.  Unfortunately in our team someone’s legs got eaten off by piranhas!!

The second activity was; we had to carry water balloons with chopsticks. That was easy once we got the hang of it.                                                                                                                           

At 2:30pm all the parents and teachers came to pick us up. We got awarded certificates and the day was then over.

I found this a very worthwhile experience and would encourage future SRC groups to attend.

 

BY NATASHA HARVEY 5/6S

Deer Artwork

Clown Artwork

Take a look at these fabulous clowns produced by students in Stage 3.