Dungog High School News Prosperitati Specto : I Strive for Success

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Term 1 Week 5 20th February 2012

Principal SRC and Year 12 show initiative

Congratulations to the year 12 students and all who

assisted them to produce an excellent cake stall at

school on Wednesday. All profits from the sales will

be used to subsidise the special school jackets they

have selected for this year. Each year 12 group is permitted to

choose a jumper or jacket that is special to them – it must be in

school colours and blend into the existing uniform. This year’s group

have selected a jacket that is very smart; it is a little more expensive

than the usual jumper, and so they are working to help everyone

afford the additional cost. Well done to you all!

Congratulations are also due to the SRC for their annual Valentine’s

Day rose presentations. Many roses were delivered to students and

staff on Tuesday the 14th and many tuneful (or not) songs and

verses proclaimed. This is always a fun day that allows the SRC to

do some fundraising for school improvements or donations to

charities. Again, very well done for a smoothly organised and

efficient day that brought smiles to many faces.

Year 9 Laptops

It is always a source of great interest to year 9 students at this time

of the year: “When will we be getting our laptops??” The laptops

have arrived in school and are currently being prepared by Mr Troy

Smith, the Technical support Officer (TSO). It is his job to maintain

the fleet of devices that we now have – around 350 laptops.

Before any student can be given a laptop, parents must sign a

Charter that details each student’s responsibility in using and caring

for the device. It is very important that parents understand why the

laptops are made available, how they should be managed and what

happens if the device is damaged. I will hold a meeting to cover this

and other aspects of laptop use; the Charter will be explained and

distributed to parents at the meeting

The meeting will be held on Wednesday March 7th at 5.00pm in

the school library and should take around one hour.

Parents will also be able to ask questions about the Melbourne

excursion at this meeting.

Trivia Night

A reminder: the Trivia Night to raise funds toward sending a DHS

student to the ANZAC Day ceremony at Gallipoli in 2015 will be held

at the Dungog RSL on Saturday night, February 25th. Join with

friends to make it a great night.

P&C Meeting

Thanks to the parents who attended the first P&C meeting of the

year last Thursday. The P&C is a vital part of the school and allows

parents and staff to share ideas that will help our school and

students. Please consider coming to meetings to give your point of

view on your child’s education.

Maureen Jarvis

Vaccinations This year students in both Year 7 and Year 10 will be offered free

vaccinations. These vaccinations will happen in three rounds, with

Year 7 being immunised on all three days and Year 10 on the first of

these days.

The first of these rounds will occur on Wednesday, 29th February,

2012. Notes and information packs will be sent home this week for

parents to read. The packs will need to be filled out and returned to

Miss Daffy prior to the day if parents wish their children to receive

any of the immunisations.

The immunisations being offered this year are:

Year 7: Chicken pox, Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough

and Hepatitis B for boys and girls and Human papilloma virus for the

girls.

Year 10: Diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough for both boys

and girls

Sports News The sun came out just in time last Thursday and the fields dried

out enough for all of our sports to run ahead as normal. Let’s hope

this Thursday is just as kind to us. Congratulations to the following

students for doing their personal best at sport last week: Joshua

Poole, Amanda Clarke, Jack Ryan-Collins, Jacob Blanch, Jarod

Fordham, Nick Jones, Lauren Snedden, Alanna Peacock, Daniel

Holmes, Kadin Lutton, Ashleigh Thornton and Bryce Lloyd.

Last Thursday also saw our Open Boys volleyball team travel to

Newcastle where they did themselves and DHS proud. The boys

have been training hard at lunchtimes with Mr Francey and Mr

Corcoran and by all accounts they gave the competition a really

good shake.

The Port Stephens Zone swimming carnival was held yesterday at

Tomaree Aquatic Centre and once again our swimmers did

themselves proud. More information on their results in next week’s

newsletter. A big thank you to Jenny Denniss and Peter Maytom for

all their support.

Our Age Champions from the DHS swimming carnival have been

presented on last week’s assembly. Congratulations to the following

swimmers: Laura Inwood (12yr girls), Ellie Wallace, Lara Hayden

(13yr girls), Ian Parsons (13yr boys), Emma Rumbel (14yr girls),

Jordan Long (14yr boys), Aimee Robinson (15yr girls), Corey Smith

(15yr boys), Rhianon Denniss (16yr girls), Joshua Long (16yr boys),

Emily Muddle (17yr girls) and Andrew Muddle (17yr boys). Well

done!

F.Fardell (Sports Co-Ordinator)

SRC News The trivia night being organised by the RSL and the SRC to raise

money to send a student to the ANZAC centenary is fast

approaching. It is on this Saturday, 25th February, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

The snack bar will be open and those attending will be able to

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purchase food for dinner. Teams are also welcome to bring along

nibbles for their table. Come along and try to beat both the students

and teachers from Dungog High.

Teams of eight are able to enter at a cost of $100 per team. In

order to book a table, contact Karen Daffy at the high school on

(02)4992 3022 or email karen.daffy1@det.nsw.edu.au. At this stage

we are also seeking assistance in the form of donations that may be

used as prizes or auctioned on the night. If you can assist in this

way, contact Karen Daffy as soon as possible. We would like to

thank those people and businesses that have already made

donations.

In addition to the trivia night the SRC are also participating in the

James Theatre Stakes in March. There will be an SRC team

sponsored by Malcolm McDonald and a Year 12 team, led by Mrs

Wilson, sponsored by the SRC. The event is on Sunday, 4th March,

2012 at Bennett Park. It is a great day for all involved. The students

and teachers participating would appreciate any support they can

get. So come along and support one or both of the high school

teams.

Last week was Valentine’s Day. The SRC successfully delivered

roses, balloons and singing telegrams to many staff and students

throughout the day. This was the first time many of the SRC

representatives were involved in the organisation, so should be

congratulated for all of their efforts.

Careers News CONSTRUCTION INDUCTION COURSE

Year 10 students wishing to actively participate in Work Experience

in the Building and Construction Industry must complete a

Construction Induction Training Course (“White Card”). This is a

legal requirement. Students in Year 11 who are enrolled in

Construction (VET) must also have completed this course.

A course will be run at the School by an approved WorkCover

trainer on Monday 2 April. The cost is $80. A maximum of 20

students can attend. A second course will run in Term 2 only if there

is sufficient demand.

Permission notes are not required. Students are to pay at the Office.

PDHPE-CAPA Dept. Welcome back to 2012! We are looking forward to lots of great

things happening in the PDHPE-CAPA department this year. Events

that are coming up include: Art Excursion to the Picasso Exhibition,

‘The Stones’ performance for all Year 9 and 10 (more information

about that, next term) – funded by the P & C, our Sunsafe

Campaign launch, various music performances, Starstruck auditions

and various inclass activities.

Students need to ensure that they are bringing their laptops (Years

9-12) and workbooks to class, wearing appropriate uniform for

practical PDHPE lessons, being sunsmart when outside and

keeping up to date with all their classwork and assessments.

We have created a PDHPE page and CAPA page on the school

website. If you go to the Subject Information Tab and click on it,

within that are pages relating to the different year groups in PDHPE

and the CAPA areas of Music, Visual Art and Drama. We hope to

provide information relevant to topics being studied, expectations,

assessment tasks, excursions and other useful information

surrounding our subject areas. It is a work in progress, but please

check it out and see what topics we are covering in PDHPE and

when the assessment tasks are coming up. Let us know if you have

any ideas of what would be useful/helpful to have on there.

2012 Sunsafe Initiative

This year we are making sun safety a priority in PDHPE lessons.

Although we have always encouraged the wearing of hats,

sunglasses and sunscreen, we have decided with the support of the

SRC, Executive and P & C to increase the responsibility taken by

students with their own health in relation to sun safety. As well as

learning about risks associated with being out in the sun, in our

outside PDHPE lessons (and possibly sport as well), students will

be given raffle tickets if they are wearing a hat and these will go into

a draw (which will be drawn each fortnight on assembly) for

fantastic prizes.

We always provide sunscreen for students and will be sourcing

some cost effective hats which provide appropriate sun protection,

which students will be able to purchase through the PDHPE Dept. if

they do not have one. As we do not have a hat as part of school

uniform, students are allowed to wear any hat. A hat with a wide

brim is preferred and provides better protection, however, a cap is

better than nothing.

Students should keep an eye out for the poster competition and hat

design competition which will form part of our initiative.

We hope that all students and their families get behind this initiative

in taking charge of their own health, taking preventative action to

reduce the incidence of skin cancer and damage from the sun.

Please take the time to read through the attached SunSmart

Factsheet from the Cancer Council.

Mrs M.Wilson

(HT PDHPE-CAPA)

Receiving Your Newsletter The Newsletter is available on the school website and is also

distributed by email. A paper copy can be obtained on request.

Year 7 students will receive a paper copy of Dungog High School’s

Newsletters issued during February.

Please indicate on the form at the end of this Newsletter how you

would prefer to receive the Newsletter, if you have not already done

so. There is also a form on page 26 of the year 7 student handbook.

This form is also available on our website – Our School / Forms.

This form will need to be returned to the school office by 29th

February 2012.

Coming events Feb

20-24 Yr12 Retail and Construction Work Placement

20 Y10 Hist/Geog Site Study

Port Stephens Zone Swimming Carnival

21 Uniform Shop Open Closed due to unforeseen circumstances

Yr9, 10, 11 Art to Sydney Art Gallery

25 Trivia Night, RSL Dungog

27 Canteen Committee Meeting, 3.45pm Canteen

28 Uniform Shop Open

29 Yr 7 and Yr 10 Vaccinations

Mar

5-9 Yr12 Business Services Work Placement

7 Meeting re Yr 9 Laptops, 5pm School Library

13 Y11 Biology Field Study

Uniform Shop open

19-23 Yr 12 Hospitality Work Placement

19-21 Yr 7 Camp

21 Parent/Teacher Night, 5-7pm

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DUNGOG HIGH SCHOOL CANTEEN Roster

Week 5 : 20th to 24th February

Mon L Lovegrove, J Chant, M Chen

Tues R Arkinstall, T Cushway, M Pritchard

Wed L Wand

Thurs S Murray, L Tull

Fri R Warland, S Crouch, C Easdown, R Kirkby

Week 6 : 27th February to 2nd March

Mon K McDonald, N Turner, R Taylor, S Hitchens

Tues J Kellner, B Reeves, R Wevers

Wed M Milburn, L Morris, K McDermott, K Edwards

Thurs M Muddle, M Hughes, R Wysall, K Bollard

Fri D Marquet, L Dries, L McInnes, M Townsend

Canteen Committee

A Canteen meeting will be held on Monday 27th February in the

Canteen, commencing at 3.45pm

The Canteen plays an important role in fundraising for our school.

Meetings are brief and only held four or five times a year.

New faces would be an extremely welcome addition to meetings.

Please support the Canteen and all the benefits it brings to our

students by attending if possible.

Dungog & District Netball Association will be holding final

selections for 2012 representatives’ teams - Under 17' and Open on

Thursday 23rd February at 6.00pm to be held at Dungog Netball

Courts.

Nominations are still available for any players that were not

registered with Dungog & District Netball Association in 2011.

For further information please contact Jess Murray on 49922128 or

0438828589.

Saturday Competition- Registration days will be held Wednesday

22nd February between 4- 5.30pm.at Dungog Netball courts Port Stephens Teams 11 years & over Competition starts on Saturday 21st April 2012 Fees Junior player (11-17 yrs) $95 Junior player in senior team $105 Senior player $125 Coach/manager $35 Dungog 4 to 10 years Competition starts on Saturday 28th April 2012 Fees 7 years & under $50 8 to 10 years $65 All players wishing to choose a gift to receive at presentation will also be required to pay a presentation levy of $20-00. These gifts include club shirt, hoodie, bag, track suit, towel etc The association is unable to continue providing gifts without subsidy from each player. For further information please contact Katrina Watson 49923397, Sam Rumbel 49953293 / 0407 953293 or Lyn Forbes 49921203

Dungog Schoolboys Rugby League is currently taking

registrations for junior teams from 6years of age to 16years of age. We are the only junior league club within Dungog Shire and welcome players from all communities within the shire. Girls are also welcome to play in the younger age groups.

All coaches and trainers are accredited and we play and coach within the “ SAFE PLAY CODE” as formulated by Country Rugby League. We conducted a registration day at Dungog on 4th February and also at Stroud on 16th February which were successful. We are holding a registration session at Clarence Town Oval next Tuesday 21st February from 4.30pm Further registration sessions are scheduled for Dungog and we can travel to your area if required. For further information please contact; Barry Allen – 0414577727 Lenny Argent- 0403395696 James Fisher- 0249953252

CLARENCE TOWN FC SOCCER REGISTRATIONS 2012 All players are invited to register for the

upcoming 2012 soccer season by going online

at: myfootballclub.com.au

Register and pay online or come to the

registration day: � Sunday 26th Feb (9am – 11am) at Reg Ford Oval

New players need to bring a copy of their birth certificate to one of

the registration days. Grassroots players (6, 7 years) receive a free

training ball and shinpads.

For more information phone Scott the registrar on 0430880076.

See you on the soccer fields!!!!

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