Kalamunda Senior High School
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12 Cotherstone Road
Kalamunda WA 6076
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English

It has been a busy start to the year in the English Department. We wish Ms Geneve the best on her long service leave and Mrs Fitoussi and Ms Oorschot well as they go on maternity leave. We are sad to see them go, but we are very excited to welcome Ms Pritchard, Ms Gordevich and Mr Hall to our teaching team.

Our Year 11 and 12 ATAR Literature students attended a performance of 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Perth City, which was a part of Perth Festival. The show combined stage and audiovisual performance which was highly engaging and thought provoking. Thank you to Ms Stokes for organizing the excursion, and Ms Stuart and Ms Geneve for taking the students.

Five Year 9 students have joined the Young Writer’s Collective. They attended their first workshop at the Fremantle Literature Centre with author Barry Jonsberg. Some highlights of the workshop were his stories about acting and friendship with Miriam Margolyes, of Harry Potter fame, how not to and how to write effective description, writing short stories and the all-important editing, which is surprisingly his favourite part of the editing process.

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Ms Walker’s 7.01 class held a poetry competition. The students were required to submit an innovation of the poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackeller as part of their poetry unit. Some excellent versions were submitted, and the 3 winners were Esmae Roberts, Evan Dunning and Joshua Green.

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Ms Oorschot has teamed up with Ms Davies from HASS to create the Kalamunda Debate Team. The team has attracted exciting numbers and they are meeting on Mondays at lunch time to enhance their argumentative skills. It is also an opportunity for students to practice their public speaking.

In Year 8 we have been practicing reading and visual comprehension whilst learning about the importance of sustainability and looking after the environment.

Nicolee McNally
English Teacher