Principals Report
Congratulations
2022 Ministers and Secretaries Awards
It was my great pleasure to attend the annual Minister’s and Secretary’s Awards for Excellence at Town Hall on Tuesday 6 September. These prestigious Awards showcase the wonderful people and extraordinary talent across NSW public education.
I was very proud to be there in support of Emma Richard and Peter Tran who were both presented a Minister’s Award for Excellence in Student Achievement by the Hon Sarah Mitchell Minister for Education and Early Learning. The entire school community is so proud of both Emma and Peter.
To make this occasion even more special, Fort Street was invited to provide student representatives to act as ushers for the event. The following students did a fantastic job looking after official guests and welcoming the prize winners and their guests, congratulations and thank you to; Georgia Bailey, Taj Connelly, Andy Bestel, Brandon Do, Ling Xu, Chloe Zheng, Eleanor Alonso Love and Sophie Kilburn.
UBS Young Women’s Leadership Academy
Year 11 student Rose Kenyon has been selected to participate in the UBS Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Sydney this year, recognising her leadership potential and individual achievements. The objective of the academy is to introduce participants to a diverse group of women leaders, demonstrate the possibilities and satisfaction of a career in business and to encourage and develop leadership skills. Rose was selected from a highly competitive field of candidates to participate in this program. Congratulations Rose.
UBS Finance Academy
Year 11 student Owen Lin has been selected to participate in the UBS Finance Academy, recognising his leadership potential and individual achievements to date. The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of financial services and banking for senior secondary school students by giving them examples of success and an understanding of potential future opportunities. The applications for the academy are highly competitive, congratulations Owen.
Robocup NSW State Competition
Congratulations to the Fort Street Robocup team for achieving 3rd place in the recent Robocup Junior competition; Joseph Bell-Leemen, Andy Bestel, Christian Burger, You Wei Chung, Eryk Francis, Riley Hendra, Alexander Hess, Gordan Huang, Max Hutchinson, Minton Huynh, Tymon Lee, Steven Limnios, Caitlyn Lu, Hugh Phan, Benjamin Skrbinsek and Dexter Stewart.
The team has now been invited to attend the national competition to be held in Adelaide. I would also like to extend my gratitude to Mr Patane for organising this event and attending with the student.
Year 7 Zone Gala Day
All year 7 students participated in the zone gala day on Wednesday 31 August. Our year 7 teams performed exceptionally well, and it was wonderful to receive feedback from other schools about what fantastic representatives of our school the Year 10 students were on the day who had volunteered to coach and referee the teams. Enormous thanks must go to Tali Ezekiel HT PDHPE/Sport for organising this day and to the Year 10 student referees; Lucie Atkin Bolton, Jacob Butler, Oskare Deuschle, Amanda Heng, Benedict Ho, Carissa Lam, Kevin Lee, Suri Liu, Henry Martin, Calan O’Dwyer, Chloe O’Keefe, Kevin Pham, Tahlia Proctor, Michael Rodriguez, Keenan Saville Scott, Tsavo Tiro, Christopher Truong .
HSC Visual Art Exhibition and English Extension 2 Showcase
It was a delight to attend both the HSC Visual Arts exhibition and the English extension 2 showcase last week held in the school library. Both of these events were wonderful examples of the enormous talent that exists in our school. Congratulations to all of our Visual Arts and English Extension 2 students for completing these major works to such a high standard. Congratulations and thanks must also go to their teachers Ms Blake and Ms Maddox.
Upcoming events in Term 3:
- Year 11 final exams: week 8 and 9
- Year 9 Camp: week 9 Monday 12 – Wednesday 14 September
- P&C and SRC Fort Fair: Friday 16 September
- Year 12 Picnic: Monday 19 September
- Year 12 Breakfast, FLOP assembly and evening graduation: Wednesday 21 September