HSC Showcase 2025
On the evening of 2 September, our school community gathered to witness the exceptional talents of our Year 12 students during the annual HSC Showcase. The event celebrated outstanding works from Design and Technology, Visual Arts, and English Extension 2, offering a glimpse into the dedication, creativity, and hard work that our students have put into their final projects.
The event was a resounding success, leaving everyone in attendance inspired by the exceptional talent and hard work of our Year 12 students. The showcase provided not only a celebration of artistic and academic achievement but also a platform for students to share their creative journeys with the broader community.
We extend a heartfelt thank you to the teachers, staff, and families who supported our students throughout the year, and we wish our Year 12 students all the best in their upcoming HSC exams and future endeavours.
Thank you also to our Hospitality students who served a fabulous supper on the evening. Thank you also to all the families and friends who attended this special evening.
Photos of our wonderful students’ BOWs will be published once NESA HSC marking has finished.
Extension English 2 Project Descriptions
Heard Mentality: The Media’s Echo Chamber on Youth Climate Protest – Elodie A
My long-form article discusses the unjust perceptions of youth climate activists fostered by their generally negative and undiversified representation in mainstream media. You may have noticed when you watch the news or scroll social media that there seems to be one lens the media adopts when covering climate activism, and it usually hyperfixates on the disruption that the activists cause, rather than their reasons or intentions. My piece delves into why that might be, but also reveals the limitations of mainstream media.
The creative nonfiction subgenre allowed me to write a meta-textual, discursive article that, at times, ironically criticises the media through their own writing style, amplifying
a sense of injustice. I also acknowledge the impact activists have on their own reputation, through disruptive actions platformed due their ‘newsworthiness’ rather than their intentions to denounce those who contribute directly to the climate crisis.
My composition endeavours to challenge my audience to reevaluate their perspectives on youth climate activists who are selectively represented in news media. Here is an extract from my piece.
Glamour and Gore: The Contemporary Power of Film’s Multimodality – Katherine N
Being one of the most popular modern forms of entertainment (and my favourite), film has earned its spot in daily life as an influential force on the understanding of the world and ourselves. The intention of my critical response is to persuade readers to view film as an intellectual contemporary art medium that deserves its place in the canon just as much as literature does for its precision and ability to engage audiences through audiovisual composition and capacity to articulate a director’s core message in a way literature cannot. My intention is also to praise the elements of multiple mediums in film so as to engage audiences to grasp the director’s core message. Film as a medium has a greater capacity for entertainment and substance than literature as a result of its multimodality. It is also a more contemporary artform which is able to more accessibly engage younger audiences through its range of methods of entertainment and communication, especially the excitement of horror and camp.
An Argument For The Perception Correction Cycle – Mimi M
My Creative Nonfiction piece, titled An Argument For The Perception Correction Cycle, explores the ways in which neurodivergent characters are represented in films and proposes a theory — ‘The Perception Correction Cycle’ — which details a specific type of representation that intends to shift individuals’ negative biases towards neurodivergent people. My aim is to provoke those working in the media to create works that follow this Cycle, in an attempt to have a widespread impact on individuals’ perceptions and the subsequent treatment of neurodivergent people everyday.
Amphitrite – Sophia N
“We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.” – Euripides, Medea
My allegorical fiction piece, Amphitrite, aims to express the culturally confining aspects of traditional societies by closely examining the vulnerabilities of both genders in experiencing mental distress and misunderstanding of their identity. My narrative reveals how the fundamental ideals of Greek culture are strongly maintained through time in Greece and reverberate into the diaspora of Greek culture. Specifically, the discussion of our innate desires arising from a sense of intuition or knowing triggers a chronic crisis for an individual. Thus, my work explores the depression experienced by a woman who is conflicted between the ideals of femininity and her ability to seek agency and connection to adhere to her true identity. On the whole, my piece exposes the continuation of isolation experienced by men and women across time, highlighting the disparity between the ability to adhere to societal expectations amidst experiencing a decayed sense of self.
Ms Stephanie Ricciuti, Acting TAS Coordinator/Ms Olivia Daidone, Visual Arts & PDM Teacher/Ms Felicity Freckmann, English Teacher
