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Term 2, Week 3, 2018

NEWSLETTERGUNNEDAH HIGH SCHOOL

THURSDAY, MAY 17 Year 7, 2019 Information Session - 4.30-6pm

TUESDAY, MAY 22 P&C Meeting

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Wellbeing Day – Years 10 and 11

THURSDAY, MAY 24 Biggest Morning Tea

FRIDAY, MAY 25 PWS Awareness Day

MONDAY, MAY 28 Reconcilliation Week

UPCOMING EVENTS

R E S P E C T • R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y • D O I N G Y O U R B E S T

COLOUR RUN FUN

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Gunnedah High was awash with colour on Friday, May 11 as our first ever Colour Run was held. The Colour Run replaced the Cross Country that is held annually.

Competitive runners were the first to tackle the 3.2km run. Rowan Keeler was the first across the finish line. Age group winners will be in the next newsletter.

There were four colour 'stations' around the course, plus all four colours were at the finish line. Students were encouraged to wear white t-shirts as the coloured pow-der shows up better.

The Colour Run was highly

praised by all. A big thank you to the PDHPE faculty for organising the event.

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STUDENTS UNITE OVER GLOBAL AFFAIRSStudents from across the state’s North

West gathered in Gunnedah over the weekend to take part in a model United Nations event.

More than 40 students from areas such as Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and Taree gathered at the Gunnedah Town Hall for the event hosted by the Rotary Club of Gunnedah.

Year 11 students, Maddi Hagan and Lucy Moore, were assigned the nation of Germany.

During the event, students dressed up in outfits to reflect the country they were representing and discussed several important world issues such as econom-ics, trade and immigration.

Rotary Club of Gunnedah president Wendy Marsh said the club had put a lot of effort into hosting the event.

“It was a terrific event, the students were just outstanding,” Ms Marsh said.

“We had successfully nominated to hold the event in September last year and ever since there has been a lot of work and hours go into pulling it all together.”

Ms Marsh said the event followed the structure of a real United Nations meeting very closely.

“So all up we had 44 students and their councilors represent 22 nations,” she said.

“Each team was given allocated reso-

lutions to discuss and the idea was to try and model the meeting as closely to the real thing as possible.

“Of course there was plenty of oppor-tunities for fun and jokes for the kids though.”

The club president said Gunnedah was in line to host the event again next year.

“Normally the event would be held on the coast and this year was our first opportunity to hold it,” she said.

“We have been given the chance to hold it again next year and given how well this year’s event ran it’s fair to say we are really looking forward to it.”

www.nvi.com.au

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Year 12 student Haylee Murrell is officially the 2018 Gunnedah Showgirl.

The 17-year-old was visibly ecstatic when the announcement was made at the opening of the Art and Photography Pavilion on Friday, April 13. She was sashed by 2017 Gunnedah Showgirl Sophie Clift.

Haylee is the daughter of Wendi and Nathan Murrell.The Gunnedah girl is passionate about agriculture,

getting outdoors, fitness, interior design and animals. She entered the competition to "help give back to

my local community, promote women in agriculture, meet a wider bunch of people and help spread the message of the importance and opportunities in ag to today's youth".

Haylee was one of five senior entrants and four jun-ior entrants. Junior entrant Merryn Riley was absent on the night because of a previous commitment.

Fellow Year 12 student, Jessica Moore was named 2018 Junior Showgirl Runner-up.

The entrants were judged on their general knowl-edge, character, speaking ability and knowledge of rural issues. This year’s judges were Caroline Ander-son, Juliana McArthur and Tony Blake.

HAYLEE CLAIMS SHOWGIRL CROWN

SWEET FUNDRAISINGSenior Council members held a cake stall

during Week 3 to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Australia.

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LOOKING TO STUDY MEDICINE/DENTISTRY?

Students in Years 10, 11 and 12 interested in medicine or dentistry will need to sit the compulsory UMAT (examination) when applying for one of the above career choices. On the 20th of May 2018, NIE will be conducting a full day UMAT preparation workshop. All details are available via www.nie.edu.au

UPCOMING CAREERS EVENTSTHURSDAY, JUNE 7

Agriculture Careers Expo TamworthThursday, July 5

Newcastle University Open Day

Due to rain last year, the trip to the Boonalla Aboriginal Area had to be postponed. It was ironic that when the excursion went ahead we picked a 30 plus degree day to walk around look-ing for animal tracks, bush tucker and materials that would have been used by Aboriginal People in the making of tools and weapons.

Students and Kylie Milsom from the Girls Academy climbed the Grade 4 path to the cave, stopping along the way to rest and take in the view. Discussion was held and insightful questions were asked about the impact that this particularly

dry season would have had on food and water sources and when finally reached, the significance of the cave to local Indig-enous groups.

Students enjoyed a barbecue of kanga-roo seasoned with bush spices for lunch, cooked by our very own chefs. After lunch, students looked at suitable mate-rials for making shelter and the search continued for bush tucker sources.

Sommar, our AEO who accompanied us on the excursion nominated the students for a Gunnedah Great, recognising the maturity and participation of students on the day.

BOONALLA BUSH TUCKER EXCURSION

MUM, I’M HUNGRY!Kids always seem to be hungry!

But did you know WHAT they eat can change their general mood, AND worsen depression and anxiety? It’s SO important to keep ‘healthy’ stuff going into our teenagers bodies!

Don’t give up parents : ) it may take six tries of something before a person realises they like a new food.... so keep putting healthy stuff on their plates, keep ‘treats’ as treats, not everyday: chips, chocolate, fizzy, processed foods (yes; Maccas, KFC, chicken nuggets sometimes only!)

Better food going in is good for everyone, even people with depression are helped by eating veggies, fruits and nuts while avoiding fast foods, sweets and fizzy. Check out www.foo-dandmoodcentre.com.au

So think! Choose to make ‘healthy’ your normal.

Tip: Shop on Wednesday mornings at Food Pantry. Very cheap foods; Barber St Seventh Day Adventists’ Hall.

- Sue Ortiger

CHAPLAIN CHAT

PARKING IN HOSPITAL CARPARK GHS has received complaints from

the Gunnedah Hospital about staff, students and parents parking in their carpark across from the school.

Staff, students and parents MUST NOT park there or use it as a drop-off/pick-up zone.

We have been informed that cars will be towed away if it continues. Please see Hospital staff with any enquiries.

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GUNNEDAH YOUTH EXPO

The 2018 Gunnedah Youth Expo was held at the end of Term 1.

It was an opportunity for students to connect with local and regional organisa-tions that provide services for youth (12-25 year olds).

There were lots of fun activities, giveaways and information available.

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Last term students from Years 7-11 took part in a World War 1 ‘Living History’ pres-entation.

The presenter, Shane, drove from the Central Coast to demonstrate weapons and other World War 1 artefacts.

Students had the oppor-tunity to stand in a replica trench from the Western Front while Shane explained the importance of the trenches in keeping our soldiers safe while fighting overseas.

Selected students were given a ‘hands on’ opportunity and tried on real World War I uniforms. Other students han-dled weapons that were used by ANZACS in Egypt while training to fight in the war.

Noah in Year 7 said he liked holding the rifle the most as Shane showed him how to hold it. He also enjoyed learning about the dangers of sniper fire from across the trenches.

Cruze in Year 9 said that his favourite part was putting on the uniform and he was shocked by how much weight our soldiers had to carry while fighting.

Each and every student left the presentation with a deeper understanding of the condi-

WW1 LIVING HISTORY

tions and tools that our ANZAC soldiers used during World War I.

The HSIE Department would like to thank all the students who attended for the respect they showed the presenter. GHS would like to thank Shane for driving to our school to give our students the opportunity to experience Living History.

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Year 7, 2019TRANSITION SCHEDULE

Miss Tash Constable is the Year Advisor for Year 7, 2019.

TERM 2, WEEK 3 Thursday, May 17

Parent information evening

TERM 2, WEEK 8 Wednesday, June 20

Whole day visit

TERM 3, WEEK 7 Wednesday, September 5

Half day visit (schools TBC)

TERM 3, WEEK 9

Wednesday, September 19Half day visit (schools TBC)

TERM 4, WEEK 8

Tuesday, December 4Orientation Day

Please note that Orientation Day is the date as set by the

DoE 2018 Year 6 to Year 7 enrolment procedures.

R E S P E C T • R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y • D O I N G Y O U R B E S T

Gunnedah High School is a community-based comprehensive High School catering for a wide range of ability and interests.

Gunnedah High School is committed to developing the whole student through academic, sporting and cultural pursuits.

Our three core values are respect, responsibility and doing your best.

We look forward to showing you what Gunnedah High School has to offer.

KEY DATES

Phone: 02 6742 0155 Web: www.gunnedah-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: gunnedah-h.school @det.nsw.edu.au

GUNNEDAH HIGH SCHOOL

Contact Ms Bec Maybury, DP for Transition, with any enquires on 6742 0155

During Term 1 some Year 8 stu-dents have been participating in some cross-curricular classwork.

Students who study Visual Art with Mrs Rose have been making stencils and completing screen prints. While in Mrs Johnston’s class they have been mastering their sewing skills in Textiles.

The students have then com-bined their talents and are now very close to completing hood-ies with screen prints they have proudly produced themselves through patience and persever-ance.

STUDENTS CREATE UNIQUE HOODIES

Senior Constable Steven Jeffery com-pleted a number of seminars recently for students in Years 7, 8 and 9.

The students really responded to the topics explored. They raised issues within the community that they feel they are faced with. Issues including cyberbully-ing, violence, drugs, alcohol, sexting and domestic violence.

Steven addressed all of these issues in the talks and answered student questions thoroughly while ensuring to link these topics to employment, family and outside of school through clips, scenarios and role plays.

Students enjoyed meeting Senior Constable Jeffery with them in the play-ground after the seminars.

POLICE VISIT HELPS TEENS NAVIGATE ISSUES

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Year 7, 2019TRANSITION SCHEDULE

Miss Tash Constable is the Year Advisor for Year 7, 2019.

TERM 2, WEEK 3 Thursday, May 17

Parent information evening

TERM 2, WEEK 8 Wednesday, June 20

Whole day visit

TERM 3, WEEK 7 Wednesday, September 5

Half day visit (schools TBC)

TERM 3, WEEK 9

Wednesday, September 19Half day visit (schools TBC)

TERM 4, WEEK 8

Tuesday, December 4Orientation Day

Please note that Orientation Day is the date as set by the

DoE 2018 Year 6 to Year 7 enrolment procedures.

R E S P E C T • R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y • D O I N G Y O U R B E S T

Gunnedah High School is a community-based comprehensive High School catering for a wide range of ability and interests.

Gunnedah High School is committed to developing the whole student through academic, sporting and cultural pursuits.

Our three core values are respect, responsibility and doing your best.

We look forward to showing you what Gunnedah High School has to offer.

KEY DATES

Phone: 02 6742 0155 Web: www.gunnedah-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: gunnedah-h.school @det.nsw.edu.au

GUNNEDAH HIGH SCHOOL

Contact Ms Bec Maybury, DP for Transition, with any enquires on 6742 0155

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Congratulations to Breanna Dunstan and Layla Withers who won first prize with their chocolate muffins in the Gunnedah Show. Nathan Hunt and Kobe Varcoe also had a successful entry, picking up third place with their chocolate brownies.

Well done to all the students who put entries into the Show and demonstrated the talents that they have to the wider community.

COOKING UP A WIN AT THE SHOW

During Term 1 the MC1 class studied Vietnam as a part of their History unit.

They looked at a number of key events. Some of these include the Vietnam war, top holiday destinations to visit in Viet-nam and Vietnamese cooking.

The students then made sushi and rice paper rolls with the help of their teacher, Miss Doolan.

VIETNAMESE DELIGHTSGunnedah High Agriculture was

rewarded for their hard efforts at the recent Gunnedah Show.

In the lightweight class of the prime lambs we received first and third.

These lambs are Dorpers and are provided via a partnership with Mr Al Delve from Goran Lake.

Thank you to the students who helped out on the Saturday morning. - Connor Gallagher, Tiffany Alderson and Haylee Murrell. – Mrs Dwyer

PRIME LAMBS AWARDED

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Gunnedah High's Open Girls Soccer team played against Coonabarabran on Tues-day, April 3 and won 3-nil. The team will move onto the next round of the CHS knockout competition. Well done, girls!

Congratulations to Year 11 student, Piper Rankmore on her weekend of rugby at the NSW Country Champi-onships. After only one day of playing, Piper was selected in the Central North Under 17s squad to play 15s in the Country Champs. Piper scored seven tries over the weekend, leading to her selection in the NSW Country team and was awarded U17 Best Back of the tournament. Well done Piper!

City vs Country will be held in Tam-worth in August.

RUGBY SELECTION

In the last minute of a tough match against Narrabri High School, our Open Girls Touch team scored to win the game 6-5.

The team progresses to the North West semi-finals. Great job, girls!

SOCCER

GIRLS' TOUCH THROUGH TO SEMI-FINALS

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NOTIFICATION FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

All Government and non-Government schools across Australia are required to participate annually in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD).

All Australian schools will collect data on their students who are receiving adjustments to meet additional learning and support needs in accordance with their obligations under the Disability Dis-crimination Act 1992 and Disability Stand-ards for Education 2005. This data will be provided to the Australian Government to assist in the development of a consistent, national picture of the education needs of students with disability.

The data provided to the Australian Government by the NSW Department of Education is provided in such a way that it cannot be used to identify any individual student or school.

General information about the national data collection can be found on the Aus-

tralian Government Department of Edu-cation and Training website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-national-ly-consistent-collection-data-school-stu-dents-disability

PRIVACY PROTECTION

The NSW Department of Education fol-lows the requirements of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. Schools will collect, record, store and use data about individ-ual students in line with these require-ments. Data security and protection is a priority and students’ personal details will be kept confidential.

Under Clause 52 of the Commonwealth Australian Education Regulation 2013, data collected by the NSW Department of Education for the NCCD must be provided to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This includes the number of students at each level of education, the number

in each category of disability and the number at each level of adjustment. The information is provided to the Common-wealth as a series of number sets that cannot be used to identify any individual student or school.

The Australian Government Depart-ment of Education and Training follows the requirements of the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 when handling any data provided by NSW Department of Educa-tion in connection with the national data collection. A public information notice has been developed to by the Australian Gov-ernment to provide students, parents and carers with important privacy information in relation to the data collection. This notice is available on the department’s website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-nationally-consistent-collec-tion-data-school-students-disability

If you have any questions about the data collection please do not hesitate to contact Emily McInerney on 02 67420155.

NATIONALLY CONSISTENT COLLECTION OF DATA ON SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY

NEW ROOF FOR 'I BLOCK'Due to Government funding, the old

leaky roof that was on I Block has been replaced. While there was minimal disruption to classes, the work being undertaken provided a teaching opportu-nity. WH&S requirements and vocational aptitude for undertaking this work was discussed by Mr Vaughan and Mr Gough with classes. Many students identified that working out in the sun would be tough and being bent over replacing tin would be pretty hard on the back.

The work is now complete and students eagerly returned to the workshop with a greater appreciation of construction industry requirements and a roof that should stand up to the next lot of rain.

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Gunnedah High School was well represented at local Anzac Day marches. The photos below are from the Gunnedah march.

Captains Jessica Moore and Jacob Bush laid a wreath on behalf of GHS, and Marlie Thomas and Izabela Chelaru laid a wreath for the Girls Academy.

Thank you to all staff and students for attending.

ANZAC DAY MARCH

Year 11 Primary Industries students have been offered an amazing opportunity to gain qualifications towards their Certificate II in Agri-culture in Operate Quad-bikes and Operate Tractors.

The course is run by instructors from Tocal at their Tamworth campus

and it is held over three days for each of the groups in Weeks 3 and 4.

If your child is in the Year 11 Primary Industries class and you would like more information please contact the front office on 6742 0155 and ask for Mrs Nicole Dwyer.

TRACTOR AND QUAD BIKE QUALIFICATIONS FOR P.I. STUDENTS

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The Year 11 and 12 Primary Industries classes had the opportunity to visit Gary Humphries farm to drench about 300 head of sheep last Friday, May 11.

The students drenched the sheep during periods one to three and then participated in the Colour Run.

STUDENTS GAIN HANDS-ON SHEEP SKILLS

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Four Gunnedah High School students traveled to Melbourne with the Gunnedah Shire Band to participate at the 2018 National Band Championships over Easter.

The four students participated in the Junior A Grade Championship are Sam Luzuriaga (Year 8 - Tuba), Jacob Bush (Year 12 - Percussion), Amity Cleal - (Year 9 - Cornet) and Josh Green - (Year 10 -Baritone). The Band performed 4 pieces of music in the competition being a Hymn - "Nicea" by William Himes, Test Piece - "Platform to the Heavens" by Paul Lovatt-Cooper, Own Choice - "The Dark side of the Moon" by Paul Lovall-Cooper and Stage March - "Slaidburn" by William Rimmer. The band scored a total of 528 points and continues the success of the band winning the contest for the last 15 years.

Amity Cleal competed in the Junior Cornet section (Under 19s) of the solo section of the National Championships. Amity played "Conversation" by Clare Grundman. Amity finished first in her sec-tion scoring 97 points competing against other competitors much older then her.

Josh Green competed in the Junior Baritone section (Under 19s) of the solo section of the National Championships. Josh played "Zelda" by Percy Code. Josh finished first in his section with a mark of 92. Josh also competed in the Open Bari-tone section of the solo's contest.

By winning the Junior sections they competed in the Champion of Champi-ons were each section winner competes against other section winners. Both per-formed to an excellent standard.

2018 NATIONAL BAND CHAMPIONSHIPS

WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY 2018 5:30-7:00PM

ENTRY TO MEDICAL SCHOOL WORKSHOP: Hear from:

Senior Medicine and Critical Care lecturers

Medical students on Rural Clinical Placements

Topics covered:

Medical school entry processes & programs

RSVP to your school Careers Advisor or

Contact: 6755 3507 or beth.lang@newcastle.edu.au

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AUSTRALIAN YOUTH AEROSPACE FORUM JULY 9TH – 13TH BRISBANE 2018

The Australian Youth Aerospace Forum is five days of exclusive access to aerospace industry opportunities for senior high school students. Visit key companies in Australian aviation and learn about opportunities in aerospace engineering, aerospace trades, military aerospace and pilot training.

INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN

AEROSPACE or

Aviation? To find out more or to register:

www.ayaa.com.au/AYAF-Bris/

Applications Open: 26th March 2018 Applications Close: 22nd April 2018

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PHONE 6742 0155WEBSITE www.gunnedah-h.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL gunnedah-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

GUNNEDAH HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Shane Kelly Principal

ents with schools, all working together. If issues arise these need to be worked through with a view of resolution and moving forward. Social media commen-tary about schools and staff are counter productive to achieving this goal.

I wish Gunnedah High and the Gunnedah learning community well for the next few terms.

Mr Ken White has been appointed as the Relieving Principal of Gunnedah High School for the next two terms.

As many of you would now be aware after I announced it to the school during Week 2, I have been temporarily re-assigned to another position in the Department of Education and will be working out of Tamworth District Office for Terms 2 and 3 assisting schools in managing staffing and budgetary issues.

This came at short notice during the second week of the recent holidays. As a result, Director Mark Young formed a panel which consisted of a P&C, AECG and staff representative. An advertise-ment was put out for the position and the successful candidate the panel selected through the process to relieve in my position was the Principal of Binnaway Central School, Mr Ken White.

Mr White is an experienced educational leader. He has been a Deputy Principal at Warners Bay High in Newcastle, an extremely high performing school that have successfully implemented Visible Learning. He has also held leadership positions in several rural schools and brings a balance of experience which will stand him in good stead in his new role as relieving Principal of Gunnedah High.

As I step out for a couple of terms I put to the Gunnedah community the impor-tance of working with the school. I have always maintained the strength of towns such as Gunnedah is the community atmosphere, primary schools with the high school, students with teachers, par-

Dear Parents/Caregivers,