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Marrickville

Intensive English Centre

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Newsletter Issue Term 4 2019

Greetings Parents, Guardians, Caregivers and Students, MIEC has had a successful term 4. Our students have excelled academically

and have participated in a range of interactive and engaging learning activities.

The students at MIEC have also enjoyed several excursions including trips to

Taronga Zoo, Sculpture by the Sea and Sydney Jewish Museum.

Our level three students Jannah Aquino, Christie Chu and Ivy Tao proudly

represented MIEC at the annual IEC Oratory Showcase. Their speeches were

powerful, empathetic and thoughtful. Finally well done to our SRC students for

their consistent effort and enthusiasm at fundraising activities through the term.

Our tuition centre continued to operate offering extra academic support to the

students of MIEC throughout the year and MIEC students finished off the year

with our three day overnight camp at the Nepean Adventure Centre. The

students had a wonderful time participating in a wide range of activities such as

the Gorge swing, canoeing, Adventure Ropes, rock climbing, Maxi zips,

archery and fencing. Unfortunately, we are saying goodbye to some 47 students

this term. MIEC wishes them the best of luck as they continue their academic

journey. We are sure that their futures will be filled with happiness and success.

We are expecting 16 new arrivals day one next term, so hello to a new decade!

To all MIEC students and their families,

Happy holidays,

Paul Fitzgerald

mailto:[email protected]

Sue Fan 2B Sherry Shi 3A

Crystal Xiong 2C Kristie Siu 3A

Michid Batkhishig 3A Bella Wu 3A

Jason Chen 3A Christie Chu 3B

Lauren Dam 3A Teresa Hoang 3B

Nam Dang 3A Mandy Munkhbayar 3B

Hung Do 3A Richard Nguyen 3B

Thomas Eilert Cezar 3A Daniel Pei 3B

Nick Hoang 3A Peter Pham 3B

Oscar Munkh-Aldar 3A Kendle Qu 3B

Cindy Qi 3A Kylie Qu 3B

Gabriele Salera 3A Dan Quiabang 3B

Marrickville Intensive

English Centre

Term 4 2019

Graduates

Marrickville Intensive

English Centre

Term 4 2019

Graduates

Ivy Tao 3B Juan Gomez Baquero 3C

Bin Tran 3B Dat Hoang 3C

Irene Tran 3B Daisy Hong 3C

Kai Yan 3B Kris Huynh 3C

Carol Yu 3B Minh Le 3C

Scarlett Zhang 3B Steve Nguyen 3C

Riina Zhu 3B Tanya Nguyen 3C

Anne Aquino 3C John Pham 3C

Jannah Aquino 3C Habiba Velandia Rodriguez 3C

Laurice Bagasbas 3C Amy Vu 3C

Grace Chen 3C Mia Vu 3C

Kien Do 3C

Marrickville Intensive English Centre

Farewell Speech

Farewell Speech By Jannah Aquino, 3C (Unedited)

Good afternoon everyone, I am Jannah Aquino from 3c. Congratulations to all my fellow leaving students

from level 3. I am very glad and honoured to be standing here today and represent all of you to speak in the

last assembly. As they always say, “time flies so fast” and it is true since one term has finished again. I

believe that you must also have lots of words to say.

First of all, I would like to say thank you to all the friendly students who made sure no other student would

feel alone. We all had one goal, to have better knowledge in English. We are all from different countries

and we all have a different language, but this didn’t stop us from communicating with each other. I could

still remember my first day here in MIEC. I was so shy and very nervous to speak. I believe everyone had

this same experience on their first day but as the time passed by, I know that we built our confidence to talk

using the English we learned each day. With our classmates, we created a special bond that will stay

precious in our memories. We studied together, laughed together and became comfortable with each other.

That’s what makes it so precious. We don’t see each other as strangers or as just classmates but as a

second family.

Secondly, I would like to sincerely give my thanks to all the staff and teachers who helped us overcome the

challenges that we faced here. With all your support and courageous acts, we received the best education.

You always pushed us to do better. You always made us realise that we could do better, and that our

abilities don’t just stop there. We appreciate your patience, caring, friendly, helpfulness attitudes toward us.

You never forget to ask us and comfort us every time we don’t feel good. You became our second parents.

We appreciate how you always give efforts and try your best to make the class more interesting and fun to

enhance our learning. To the world you may be just a teacher but for us you are all heroes. We could never

pursue our dreams without your help. You opened our minds, touched our hearts and shaped our future.

Without you we wouldn’t achieve our goals and boost our confidence. I want to remind every student never

to forget the teachers when we leave MIEC.

I believe everyone has enjoyed their wonderful time here in MIEC but sadly it has come to an end. I did not

expect that it would be so difficult to say goodbye. Another chapter of our life will begin, and I wish

everyone good luck in high school. As we all know, high school will be extremely difficult for all of us.

That is why we must ensure that we will do our very best. But remember Life is not perfect, we will

sometimes fail and that’s normal. As Mark Zuckerberg says, the greatest success comes from having the

freedom to fail.

Best wishes to all of you and merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you!


KLA Awards

English

Junior Christie Chu 3B

Senior Daisy Hong 3C

HSIE

Junior Ivy Tao 3B

Senior Jannah Aquino 3C

Science

Junior Kai Yan 3B

Senior Kris Huynh 3C

Mathematics

Junior Ivy Tao 3B

Senior Kris Huynh 3C

PD/H/PE

Junior Kristie Siu 3A

Senior Jannah Aquino 3C

Music

Junior Sue Jan 2B

Gold Certificate

Michid Batkhishig 3A

Sue Fan 2B

Juan Gomez Baquero 3C

Nick Hoang 3A

Mandy Munkhbayar 3B

Oscar Munkh-Aldar 3A

Daniel Pei 3A

Gabriele Salera 3A

Tony Yu 2C

Visual Arts

Junior Ivy Tao 3B

Senior Carol Yu 3B

Perfect Attendance Award

Kien Do 3C

Sue Fang 2B

Kris Huynh 3C

Cindy Qi 3A

Carol Yu 3B

Riina Zhu 3B

Computers

Junior Thomas Cezar 3A

Senior Dan Quiabang 3B

English Reader ’s Prize

3B Christie Chu

Dear MIEC family,

These students are our MIEC Student Representative Council (SRC) members for Term 4, 2019. The SRC works together to make MIEC a welcoming and inclusive community for all stu-dents, parents and teachers. Our SRC members did a fantastic job this term in hosting the school assembly and organising fundraising events for the end of year school camp.


Student

Representative Council

Name: Crisanta

Country: Philippines

Hobbies: Watching movies

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Study hard and be nice to others.

Name: Christie Chu

Country: Vietnam

Hobbies: Reading, writing, drawing, listening to DAY6

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Don’t be afraid to speak. Even if you aren’t good, don’t be afraid. It’s okay to be slow!

Name: Buyantugs

Country: Mongolia

Hobbies: Basketball

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Be friendly, don’t judge others.


Student

Representative Council

Name: Amy Jing

Country: China

Hobbies: Singing

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Give them warmth.

Name: Lee

Country: China

Hobbies: Reading books and listening to music

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Don’t be shy. Everyone is friendly.

Name: Bernielyn Cardino

Country: Philippines

Hobbies: Watching Korean and Chinese drama, playing volleyball and dancing

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Don’t be afraid. Be confident, be friendly and study hard. Believe in your strength.

Name: Andrea Hila

Country: Italy

Hobbies: Playing soccer and listening to music

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Speak only English. Do your homework. Make a lot of friends from many different countries.

Name: Lei

Country: China

Hobbies: Listening to music

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Study hard

Name: Agda Rafaella Camilo de Souza

Country: Brazil

Hobbies: Playing old games, singing, painting, reading and looking at social media

What advice would you give to new students at MIEC? Be confident in being yourself.


Sculpture By The Sea

Sculpture by the Sea By Kris, 3C (unedited)

This term we went on an excursion to Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi. During the way to

Bondi Beach, I had a lot of fun with my friends on the bus. We chatted, playing games and

showed each other about the thinking when we arrived there.

Finally, Bondi Beach was in front of my eyes. It was very beautiful with lots of scenery.

The sea was so blue. People were swimming on the beach. There were some women

were doing yoga and the visitors were everywhere.

I got out of the bus and started walking to the destination we had to go. Along the way,

there were a lot of the sculptures were made from a lot of the famous artists in the world.

Although I were very far from the destination, I didn’t feel tired as I were impressed by the

magnificent scenery of the sculptures.

I saw a lot of sculptures with weird shape, some of them were also made from our usual

material like steel, wood, bamboo. I was impressed by two things. The first one was the

Viewfinder, this was a giant ‘periscope’ like the ones used for submarine. The second was

the Angry Boy, this was an angry baby, his face looked very silly and funny and was made

from polyester.

One-and-a-half-hour past, I finally got to the destination, it was on Tamarama Beach. I

had lunch at the park behind that beach for an hour. I chatted with my friends about what I

had seen in the way to Tamarama Beach, we took pictures and shared food with each

other.

After lunch time with my friend, my teacher called us for roll call, and we move to the tent

next to the place we had lunch. In the white tent, we were taught about how to make a

sculpture. We had taught how to make an illusion, it like a tunnel but when I looked at it,

that illusion tunnel made me very confused about the size of thing that I had put into the

tunnel.

I had a lot of fun and I made my ‘Little man’, it was cute, small and this was my first

sculpture I had made in my life. I came out of the tent, took a lot of photos with the artist

and my friends. I had been invited for an orange juice. My friends and I said thank you to

all the people who helped us made our sculpture.

I went to the bus with my friends, we chatted and shared each other about our sculpture. It was a fun day for me, I had remembered this excursion until now. I hope I will continuously partake to a lot of excursion like the sculpture by the sea.







Sculpture by the Sea By Steve Nguyen, 3C (unedited)

It was a perfect day on the wonderful Bondi beach. My friends and I had been

visiting artworks that stretch along the coast with our art teachers. Nothing was better

than hearing the waves hitting the shore and admiring artworks from around the

world. Each statue has its own meaning inside, and some statues were so funny like

the Pink Tank in the park or the binoculars overlooking the ocean. The exhibition

area has been divided into three zones. That was the Bondi Beach, the big park and

the small beach. While visiting ,we had a break for breakfast to energise the body or

looking around.

Later, we moved to our destination, took some group photos with the big

balloon bunny and enjoyed lunch with each other near the beach. I really wanted to

swim but my teacher said we had not to touch to the water. My lunch was not very

healthy because I brought all the snacks, popcorn and chocolates biscuits. Luckily, I

had some fresh cucumbers and carrots from my teacher.

When lunch was over, we were welcomed to a special art class by the Greek

artist; Dani. I was excited to learn to do one of the artworks on display at this year's

exhibition. It was always hard at first time, but we all had our own work at the end.

Every single art work was fabulous because it was all the ideas and efforts of us.

Finally, when it was almost over, we were given bottles of organic juice from the

artist to regain the energy that had been lost for a long day.

We thanked the artist and walked back to the bus stop. It was an amazing

excursion!


Taronga Zoo


Taronga Zoo

This term, MIEC students have been

learning about animals and their

habitats in their Science class. Our

students were able to apply their

knowledge of animals by visiting The

Taronga Zoo and meeting some of

our native Australian animals in the

education centre. Students were

given time to explore the zoo and

read about the various animals that

were in the zoo. The highlight of the

day were seeing the seal show and

bird show. This was a fantastic

excursion for our students to meet

and greet some of the animals they

have been studying in the Science

class.


Sydney Jewish Museum


Sydney Jewish Museum

MY EXCURSION TO SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM Daisy, 3C

On Wednesday, we went on an excursion to The Sydney Jewish Museum with my classmates and HSIE

teachers. It was a very meaningful experience.

Before the excursion, I had learnt about the Holocaust for the whole term so that everything was not

very strange. The museum amazed me a lot. It was completely different from the other museums in my

country.

While we were waiting for the survivor; Lucy, who was going to tell us her story. We were shown a

short video of the background where the Holocaust occurred with a vocabulary sheet. The staff was very

caring when she kept asking us if we understood this word or not and gave us the vocabulary with the

proper meaning.

Lucy was a kind woman with a friendly face. She made me feel comfortable at the first sight. She told

us about her story. Her story was a brand new experience for me. Meeting a real survivor was better than

just watching videos about the Holocaust. Thanks to Lucy, I could know more about the true story about

the Holocaust. What happened to their family? Where did they live? How could they survive? All of my

questions were answered. We all knew that her past was the most terrifying time in her entire life but

Lucy still bravely told us every detail of it.

At the end of the meeting, one of the MIEC students asked her if the world was a better place or not.

Her answer impressed me a lot.

“Unfortunately, it’s not. This is the reason why you guys are going to make it better. The future is in

your hands,” she answered.

Lucy kept repeating “the future is in your hands” what showed me how much she was looking

forward to the young generation. “Learn about history to never do it again” was always one of our points

in every argument at school. At that moment, I strongly felt the importance of it. Our past was full of

crime, hate and death. We could never let it happen again.

Besides Lucy, there were some other survivors who guided us around the museum and told us more

stories about the Holocaust. My guide’s husband even had a picture attached on some documents which

was displaying inside the cabinet.

We could not feel or heal the Jews’ pain thoroughly. However, those courageous survivors still came

forward and showed us their scars. We greatly appreciated that. Going to the museum and meeting the

survivors were one of the most unforgettable memories in my life. I was luckier than many of my friends

who could not go there and witness the real stories. Thanks to all of my teachers for organising such an

amazing and meaningful excursion.


Public Speaking

The Ninth Oratory Showcase By Kai Yan, 3B (Unedited)

It was a Thursday and the weather was cool and cloudy. The students in 3B including me, everyone

seemed jubilant and excited to attend the public speaking excursion which was the ninth IEC oratory

showcase. After about twenty minutes of driving, we finally arrived at the Bankstown College and

started an exciting speaking day.

When I got into the hall, I suddenly realised that there were a lot of international students from

different countries. I felt surprised and happy about that. In a few minutes, the host began to

introduce the showcase and he started the speech. Our school was sitting at the left-side back of the

hall, we all enjoyed there and we

could hear the speeches clearly. After

listening to a few speeches, I found

that every student and every IEC had

their own style to speak and the in-

formation of every speech was very

interesting. Although the weather

was hot and the heat surrounded us,

we all showed our polite behavior

and respected each other.

During lunch time, I had a chicken wrap with my classmates. Actually, I liked the chicken wrap a

lot and we all enjoyed the time. After finishing eating, we came back to the hall and watched the vid-

eo of Romeo and Juliet from the Bankstown College.

In the afternoon, it was our school, MIEC’s turn. Ivy, Christie and Jannah represented our school

and the classes to give speeches in public. The first one was Ivy, I was so impressed by her topic

“Epitaphs”, because one of the epitaphs at the end of the speech “No idea!” was written by me. I was

glad to hear that. Following Ivy were Christie and Jannah. They spoke fluently and clearly. Also they

had a very good teamwork. I liked their conversation. Everyone on the seats from MIEC was focus on

their speeches and listened to them carefully.

After the exciting speeches, I was really proud of Ivy, Christie and Jannah, also I was proud that I

was a member of 3B, MIEC. I loved the experience of speaking and listening, this activity made me

have a new target for studying which was speaking English fluently. Be proud for 3B! Be proud for all!


MIEC 2019 CAMP

MIEC 2019 Camp “The best camp I’ve ever been on!”. At the end of last term, we went on a 3 day school camp.

All MIEC students arrived at school at normal school time. We were all excited about the camp. Some students bought extra large suitcases. They must of packed for a month! Once we got in-to camp, we found our rooms and began our first activity. My group started with high ropes. It was so scary but fun. You had to wear a special rope that tied you to a safety rope so you did-

n’t fall and a special hat. Once you put it on, you had to climb up a tall pole. You could see very far from the top! It was amazing. By lunch time my friends and I were so hungry.

The second day was the best. We got to go canoeing down a river and we played fencing. By dinner time I was exhausted. That night, we played another game. This time we played archery

and we got to verse the teachers. That was fun! That night we were so tired that I fell asleep straight away.

The last day of camp went by very fast. We had to wake up very early to pack our bags in the mornings before having breakfast. After breakfast, we washed our plates and forks and

packed it in our bags. We carried it to the bus. For my last activity, it was the giant swing. That was terrifying! We sat on a chair and the teacher pulled us high into the air. Everyone counted

down from 3 and I had to pull the rope to release the swing. It was so scary but so fun! I went on it 4 times.

Sadly we had to say goodbye after lunch and we went onto the bus to go back to school. It was the best camp I’ve ever been on and I’m glad I got to spend it with my friends. I will definitely

miss all my MIEC friends and teachers.


MIEC 2019 CAMP Day 1


Students’ Artwork

This term in Visual Arts, Level 3

students were given a task to create

either a Utopian or Dystopian

environment. MIEC students have

done a fantastic job in

brainstorming, drafting and creating

their masterpieces! We are all

extremely proud of their artwork

and achievement this term. Well

done MIEC!


Students’ Artwork

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