Be part of Lyneham High School’s Australian record attempt!
On Thursday 22 September (week 10), Lyneham High School will be making an Australian record attempt as part of World Car Free day and to encourage cleaner modes of transport within our community. To break the record we will need over 600 students to ride to school. There will be novelty events, a free bike maintenance workshop, prizes and free hot chocolates for the participants. It is expected that Win TV will be filming the attempt.
Please encourage your child/children to participate in the event. Parents and carers are also encouraged to ride with their students to show support. Save the date!
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Languages at Lyneham
Indonesian students have the opportunity to participate in one of two upcoming excursions. Firstly, years 9 and 10 will go to the Australian National University on Friday 16 September to learn about opportunities studying Indonesian. Year 7 will go to the zoo in week 3 term 4 to see animals native to Indonesia.
On Thursday 15 September a French Food Festival will be held for year 8s to play games and come and sample French food. We ask parents to fill in and return the associated notes which have been sent home.
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Dr. Gianfranco Conti, a world renowned language teacher and academic, is coming to Lyneham High School on Friday 16 September. He will be teaching year 7 French B as part of a conference he is providing for the French network. This is a wonderful opportunity for our year 7 students.
We’d like to encourage our excellent French and Indonesian students to pursue their language in Elective classes for the full year in years 8, 9 and 10.
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Band News
Year 7 Bands in Concert
The year 7 bands have been busy this term, learning many new pieces in preparation for their parent concert that happened last week. The bands were very excited to welcome a huge audience of family and friends to showcase their skills.
The Year 7 Beginner Concert Band opened the concert with a bang and then played a number of crowd favourites such as "Another One Bites the Dust", followed by some old school "Shepherd’s Hey" by Percy Grainger. The audience then joined in with the lyrics of Tequila – and boy did everyone, including the audience and students join in for that!
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The Year 7 Concert Band then followed playing a number of pop pieces they have been polishing over the past few weeks. There were clapping features in "Cake By the Ocean", an excellent trumpet solo in "What Makes You Beautiful" and some students getting up to show off their shuffling skills in "Party Rock Anthem"! Both bands performed very well, and the conductors are extremely proud of their progress so far!
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Year 7 Concert Band Assembly Performance
The Year 7 Concert Band followed up with a performance at assembly the very next day and demonstrated their discipline and expertise by performing ‘Havana’ and ‘Party Rock Anthem’. The crowd really went off when those shufflers came out again and the band were so energised by this!
Year 7 Tours
Both the Year 7 Concert Band and the Year 7 Beginner Concert Band look forward to their tours to Merimbula and Batemans Bay respectively next term which are shaping up to be a fantastic opportunity. Students will continue to build their repertoire and performance skills for this amazing experience! Please refer to the school calendar for those dates and the band conductors will be in touch shortly with more details.
Year 9 Melbourne Tour
On Sunday 21 August at 6am, 42 bleary eyed but excited students (and parents) arrived at LHS to pack a bus full of luggage and musical equipment for what would be their very first band tour since becoming students of LHS in 2020. We departed right on cue at 7am and had several stops along the way. We arrived at the Big 4 Caravan Park at Coburg at around 4:30pm and quickly dropped our luggage off before heading to the supermarket to do our grocery shopping for the week.
The students were lined up to perform 8 times during our stay in Melbourne but due to the very unpredictable weather, we had to cancel one and a half performances. The students performed at The Old Treasury, Parliament House, Esplanade North, Coburg Primary School, St Fidelis Primary School, and Carlton Primary School. Also of note was the formal performance of the trip at the Victorian Schools Music Festival and they were awarded a Gold for their performance.
It was not all about the performances though, the students were able to participate in some fun activities whilst living it up like a Melbournian. Monday night was Karaoke at K-Box, Wednesday night was mystery night, and the students were incredibly lucky enough to see the Musical Hamilton at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Thursday Night was silver night, and the students went out to have dinner at the Royal Melbourne Hotel. Before we travelled back on Friday, what trip to Melbourne is not complete without a visit to the Queen Victoria Markets.
We all piled on the bus at 12pm for a long but enjoyable trip home. We arrive back at LHS with the sounds of the school song sung by the band. They were bleary eyed and excited to be home to tell their parents and carers of the amazing experiences they had on their first band trip ever.
A massive thank you to all that made this trip possible, Mr Tim Bowyer, Alec Coulson, the amazing LHS music faculty and of course, you the parents.
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Upcoming Events
GWO & 10CB Concert
On Wednesday September 14 the annual Year 10 Concert Band and Ginninderra Wind Orchestra combined concert will occur. This amazing concert will feature both bands performing separate repertoire and then combine to perform a series of pieces as one large ensemble.
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Floriade 2022
Our Year 7 Beginner Concert Band, Year 7 Concert Band and Year 8 Concert Band will be performing at Floriade this year. It will be a great occasion for all our students from the junior school to appreciate the hard work they have all put into their music. The bands will be performing on Stage 88 from 12:15pm to 2:30pm on Thursday October 13 (Thursday of week 11). Permission notes have been sent out to families, if you have yet to receive a permission note and your child is in either the Year 7 Beginner Concert Band, the Year 7 Concert Band or the Year 8 Concert Band, please contact Jason Peters on Jason.peters@ed.act.edu.au asap.
Year 8 Concert Band Tour
We are currently working hard preparing for the Year 8 Concert Band Tour to Sydney. This will be an amazing experience for our students and staff alike. We leave on Tuesday September 20 and expect all the students to arrive at LPAC at 6:30am. If you still have some money owed for this tour, please finalise any payment required asap with the Front Office.
Reminder of Upcoming Tours:
This is just a general reminder that we also have the Year 10 Concert Band Tour payment due at the end of this term so please make sure you finalise that payment by Friday September 23. The notes for the Year 7 Concert Band Tour and the Year 7 Beginner Band Concert Tour will be sent out soon.
We have a few big announcements coming up so please stay tuned to future newsletters to keep up to date.
Thank you
The Music Team
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Student Chromebook Charger Test and Tag
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It’s important to have electrical devices checked regularly.
We care about your safety so offer a swapout service for student Chromebook chargers that have expired test tags or have been damaged.
Please bring your current charger to the Front Office for a replacement.
Questions?
Please contact Phil Meldrum on 02 6142 1183
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School Calendar
Did you know the school’s calendar of events (excursions and the like) are maintained as a Google Calendar which is accessible from the front page of the school’s website (see below)? Events are maintained weekly.
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Yuma!
(Hello – in Ngunnawal language)
Welcome to the August edition of Rights in ACTion. We have had a very busy month getting out and about in the community! Speaking to children and young people is one of my favourite parts of being the ACT Children and Young People Commissioner, and I have been lucky enough to have had a number of chances to do that this month. Some of the events I went to are the CareersXpo, a Raiders game and taking part in story time at a couple of libraries during book week. Check out the photos from some of these events on pages 2 and 4.
We are also now more than half way through our consultation with children and young people on racism in the ACT. Letting children and young people know what we are hearing is an important part of this process, so we will continue to include information about what we are hearing in our newsletters over the next few months. Check out some of the ideas that students at the CareersXpo came up with on page 3.
If you know a child or young person who would like to have their say about racism, the survey is open for another couple of weeks to any child or young person aged 5-24 years who lives, studies, works, or plays sport in the ACT. They can answer the survey by clicking the button below.
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2022 Climate Choices Schools Awards
The annual Climate Choices Schools Awards (previously known as the Actsmart Schools Sustainability Awards) is hosted by the Environment Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate’s Sustainable Schools Program. Schools play an important role in teaching sustainability practices and concepts, and the impact of this teaching spreads beyond the classroom walls to the broader community.
The Climate Choices Schools Awards recognises the people, projects and schools that are making a difference. If this sounds like you or someone you know – a teacher, student, group or school-community member – nominate them for an award. Learn more about the award categories on the Everyday Climate Choices website. Nominate online by 11.59 pm, Monday 31 October 2022.
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