The Lion's Roar - 23 June 2021

When our students leave St Mark's, their post-school pathways see them travel around the world and achieve in a variety of different ways. We are delighted to share some news from some of our past students who are still St Mark's Stars!

Tamsin Cook (Olympic Silver Medallist)

We were delighted to hear that one of our past students, Tamsin Cook, has again made the Australian Olympic Swimming Team, this time for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics! We are all very proud of what she has achieved, particularly with her resilience in recovering from a big setback. Her attitude and hard work is an inspiration to us all! Tamsin was part of the Class of 2016, but completed her studies in Queensland, as she prepared for her Olympic debut in what would have been her graduating year.

Calan Williams (Class of 2017)

Calan was racing in motor sport long before he was legally allowed to drive on Perth's road! While still at school, Calan was the Champion of Australian Formula 3 Championship with Gilmour Racing. After his graduation from St Mark's, Calan headed to Europe to compete in Euroformula Open Championship with Fortec Motorsport, and in 2020, signed with Jenzer Motorsport for 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship. Last week, Calan achieved his first podium finish in F3 - a major milestone. Congratulations, Calan!

Felicity (Flick) Palmateer (Class of 2009)

Flick is a big wave surfer and artist, but has taken on a whole new challenge this year, competing in the Australian 'Brains vs Brawns' season of Survivor. In 2015, she became the first female surfer to ride the biggest wave at Cow Bombie. Her first solo art exhibition was held in May, in Margaret River. Best of luck, Flick; we look forward to seeing you on the show when it airs this year.

Kelvin Hepburn (Class of 2020)

Kelvin joined 172 other young sailors of the Royal Australian Navy College for their graduation on 18 June. Hosted on the Quarterdeck of HMAS Creswell on the shores of Jervis Bay, the graduation marked the culmination of intensive preparation to join the wider Navy environment. Congratulations, Kelvin, and all the best for your career in the Navy.

The chilly start to St Mark's Day last Thursday was quickly forgotten in the bright sunshine of Mawson Park for the 2021 Secondary Interhouse Carnival. It was a fantastic day out, and we saw some terrific performances from our students. Congratulations to the Year Group Champions and Runners Up!

Individual results of all competitors are available online. Results are recorded by bib number, not name, so you will need to have your child's number to find their results.

Congratulations to the 54 Year 6-12 students who participated in the Northern Schools Rugby Championship Night Carnival on Friday 18 June. Many students were playing their first games of rugby and demonstrated fantastic skill progression and confidence throughout the night.Congratulations to Mackenzie Hedges (Year 6) who was named Most Valuable Player for the Year 6-9 Girls Competition. We now look forward to our home and away fixtures in Term 3, and the Girls Gala Nights!

MORE THAN 70% OF TICKETS NOW SOLD - DON"T MISS OUT!

Date: Saturday 18 September 2021

Time: Doors open 6.30pm, quiz starts at 7pm. Music and dancing to follow!

Tickets: Get them here at just $15pp

Tables will be in groups of six, so get your team together now! This event is for 18+, as alcohol will be available for purchase. You are encouraged to bring your own snacks to share with your table. If you would like to order a bottle of wine for your table in advance, you can do so using this form.

If you have your team of six all planned out, please contact Nirbhay Gupta at fundraising@stmarks.wa.edu.au with the list of names. This will help ensure that tables are set up appropriately. If you are not part of a team as yet, and are happy to be allocated to any table in need of team members, that would be helpful to know as well.

A dying and bankrupt town receives a visit from its most successful and richest émigré 45 years after she left it penniless. Now a jet-setting celebrity, Claire Zachanassian returns in a cloud of publicity, promising a billion dollars to be shared amongst the residents and a solution to all their ills. All Claire wants in return is a small, easily accomplished favour - the murder of her first boyfriend. The town does the right thing. Doesn’t it?

The Year 12 and 11 Drama Students present this curriculum set text by Friedrich Dürrenmatt for your delectation and delight. Re-set in the Australian outback, this tragi-comic parable on justice, revenge and the root of all evil, is fun and thought-provoking. It contains some mature themes and is recommend for Year 9s and up.

Dates: 4, 5 and 6 August

Time: 7pm

Tickets: $13 each, available from mytickets.co

The School's Holiday Workshops are back this July! Bookings are now open, so get in quick before all the spots are gone! Here are some of the activities available:

• Art
• Cooking
• Lego
• Robotics
• Roblox
• Video Game Design
• Digital Photography
• Drama
• Sports Camp
• Public Speaking
• Academic Challenges
• Website and YouTube Design!

The P&F Art Committee is pleased to announce that tickets for this year’s St Mark’s 34^th Annual Art Show Opening Night are now available for purchase here.

Priced at only $20, which includes canapes and drinks, this is a fantastic way to enjoy a social night out and support local WA artists. Some student art will also be on display this year, along with a variety of original paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography, mixed media artworks, glass art, textiles, ceramics, and jewellery. Feature Artist, Lucy Gray, will have her work on display, and there will also be live music, and a raffle for all attendees.

Artist Registrations are still open and further details are available on the website: website

Help us to spread the word by telling your friends to come along for some fun! It’s a great value night out.

General Art Show enquiries can be directed to artshow@stmarks.wa.edu.au.

The Crescendo Kids Choir will be singing in the quadrangle tomorrow morning (Thursday 24 June) between 7.45am and 8.30am (normal rehearsal time). This is a great opportunity to hear the students for yourselves! If you decide to come along, please do not park in the School grounds - please use the St Marks Dr on-street parking.

Earlier this month, we took the Vivo Ritmo Voices choir to sing at Royal Perth Hospital. The group sang to the patients, and to the hospital staff during their lunch break. Our students relished the opportunity to bring some musical cheer to RPH."The Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) Music on the Bridge was launched in November 2015, with an aim to liven the hospital atmosphere and lift the spirits of patients, visitors and staff through the provision of music. Volunteer musicians from the community use their talents and skills to help bring cheer to the hospital, by providing lunchtime concerts on the main bridge over Wellington St; a major thoroughfare of the hospital and a place where people can sit down and connect."

Edith Dircksey Cowan, believed that education was the key to growth, change and improvement. ECU is proud to continue her legacy by actively advancing the role of women in science, technology, engineering and maths through the Girls Programming Network.

ECU’s School of Science would like to invite high school aged girls from Years 7 -12 to come along and code alongside ECU students, alumni and industry partners who are there to guide them through the programming workshops. The tutors will share experiences and discuss STEM career opportunities with you. Join in and meet some other fabulous girls interested in computing, IT, and coding.

ECU hosts four different GPN workshops over the year catering for first time programmers as well as seasoned coders! With women from Perth’s IT community, and students from the Perth’s universities, you will be guided through the creation of your own game or app, meet like-minded people and learn about the tech industry.

Cost: Nil

When: Saturday’s 9:45am to 4:00pm

BYO: Water bottle and lunch

Where: Building 18, Level 2 Computer Labs

Parking: Take Lakeside Drive entrance off Joondalup Drive, through Deakin Drive, over the roundabout and into Red Car park 14 – free on the weekend.

Map: CAMPUS MAP

ECU is proud to be a member of SAGE’s Athena SWAN Australia. This initiative promotes gender equality and encourages opportunities for women in STEM.

Please register via the Try Booking link

Term 3: August 7^th - https://www.trybooking.com/BPWRU

Term 4: October 23^rd - https://www.trybooking.com/BPWSC

For further information contact Dr Michelle Ellis Michelle.Ellis@ecu.edu.au

Follow the Girls Program Network

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GPNPerth/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PerthGpn

The Dragon Boat Festival is a long-standing tradition in China and presented a fantastic learning opportunity for our Year 6 students, as they met up with our sister school’s Year 8 students from Dacheng Yuejiawan shiyan school in HangZhou, Zhejiang Province. During this online lesson, our Year 6 students greeted the Chinese students in Chinese, and students in China responded back in English, so it was a terrific shared learning event. Our students listened to Chinese students’ presentations and learned about the history of the Dragon Boat Festival, activities and food. They also made paper perfume sachets together with the Chinese students. The online interaction was a success and a great experience for all the students.

Senior School Only Fundraiser

Thursday 24 June is a fundraiser for the RSPCA. Students in Years 9-12 only will be able to wear their sport uniform and an item showing their support for all creatures great and small (eg brown hair scrunchy, dog tee shirt, leopard print scarf or socks). To wear sports uniform for the day, students must donate a gold coin during PCG, and all money will go to the RSPCA.

Our students have inspired the Arts Department to celebrate its first Arts Week this week, which includes plenty of activities to showcase Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts around the School.

The Arts Prefects are running a daily Arts Quiz, and there are a number of ways students can get involved - even if they aren't involved in one of the arts areas.

The Visual Arts Team positioned a huge leafy sea dragon in the Busselton Dining Hall (originally made for the Joondalup Twilight Lantern Parade that did not go ahead this year), and students and staff were invited to create and attach one scale on the mythically epic parade puppet. The finished sculpture will be installed in the Floreat Building. This activity will run every lunchtime this week. Don’t forget that Year 6-12 Visual Arts Club runs each Wednesday from 3:30pm-4:30pm in B3 and B4. No art experience necessary and no need to commit to each week.

Miss Tucker guided students through a mass ‘Just Dance’ event in the Pavilion and will be holding a dance for all session tomorrow as well!

The Music Team organised a trio and buskers to perform, the Arts Piano was placed outside of the Busselton Building for students to play a piece if they wanted to (we have some very talented pianists!), Karaoke was held in the SAC today, Bucket Drumming sessions were run in the Quad and the Secondary Choir, Year 2/3 Primary Singers and Year 4/5 Primary Singers all performed outside the Senior Academic Centre to welcome students to school each morning!

Mr Limpitlaw in Media Arts showed some of the Perspectives student films. Each year the very best films created by Year 12 Media Arts students are rewarded a place at this prestigious film festival.

The Drama Team offered a ‘Musical in PAC12’ experience and also taught students how to make puppets.

As part of the Arts celebrations, we also have the Instrumental Intermezzo in the Hall tomorrow evening from 6:30pm-9:30pm for fans of our music ensembles and fine music. You can bring your own food and drink, buy yourself a single ticket or table of 6, and be entertained by students from the Secondary School while enjoying the relaxed atmosphere of this social event. Tickets are still available through www.mytickets.co