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Dear Year 11 Parents It has recently come to my attention that an end of Year 11 social event has been organised on Friday 13th September. Please be advised that this is NOT a school organised or sanctioned event. There will be NO staff supervision and I have advised all staff today that their attendance at this event would be a breach of the NSW Department of Education Code of Conduct. A reminder that Friday 13th September is a normal school day and classes will proveed as timetabled, with a focus on prepartation for the Year 11 Yearly Exams which will commence on Monday 14th September. Until next fortnight, Victor Newby Principal Important dates for Term 3 Week 9 and 10 Monday September 16 to Friday September 27th Year 11 Final Preliminary examinations Week 10 Thursday September 26 Year 12 Graduation 6pm Concord High School Hall Week 10 Friday September 27th final day of Term 3.
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Concord High School Keeping In Touch
Respectful Responsible Achieving Term 3 Week 7
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Congratulations to Ben Comer in Year 11 We offer our congratulations to Ben Comer a Year 11 student who recently competed in the 2019 NSW State Age Short Course Championships at Sydney Olympic Park. Ben achieved 10 personal best times from 10 events. In particular Ben won two silver medals for the 100m breaststroke and 200 metre breaststroke and a bronze for the 100m freestyle. Congratulations to Ben.
Walanga Muru The Macquarie University outreach program continued this week for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. This week students discussed role models. In particular conversations about Indigenous role models and the attributes and contributions to community of role models.
Deputy Principal’s Report continued Jody Engisch, Craig Anderson & Danka Milinovic
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Attendance As per Departmental Regulations Concord High School will notify parents and caregivers by an SMS on their mobile phones if a student is absent or late to school without reason. This occurs each day from 10am. Parents are requested to reply to this message via SMS or alternatively send a note explaining the absence/lateness on the student’s return to school. It is a parents’ and caregivers’ responsibility to provide current mobile phone numbers to the school. The return SMS sent by parents is a legally acceptable replacement for a handwritten note and will be kept by the school as part of documentary evidence of parental communication related to attendance. Sickness at school A sick student will be given a note by their class teacher and directed to go to the Sick Bay. The student will be signed into the Sick Bay and allowed to rest for 20 minutes. If the student is not well enough return to class after 20 minutes, then the parent or caregiver is contacted and asked to take the student home. In some instances when a student is obviously very unwell, the parent/caregiver will contacted immediately. Medication If medication needs to be taken at school, Parents must make contact with the school and complete and a ‘Request to administer Medication’ Form before sending the medication to school. Students must leave the medication with the First Aid Officer in the Side Office. Schools are not permitted to supply medication of any kind to students. Early Leaving Students who need to leave school early to attend an appointment must present a note to the Side Office before school on the day required. Students are reminded that attendance at school is compulsory and that appointments should be made outside of school hours wherever possible. Early leavers’ permission notes are to be picked up from the Side Office before leaving the school. Students leaving the school early must be collected and signed out of school by a parent or carer. Please note that the school grounds are governed by the Enclosed Lands Act. Meaning access to the school grounds is at the Principal’s discretion. All visitors must present to the Front Office to sign into the school. It is NOT acceptable practice for any person who is not a staff member or student at the school to enter the school grounds without following the sign in process. This is to protect all members of our school community.
Concord High School News
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Who Do I Contact at Concord High School? Parents and Caregivers may not always be aware who the best person is to contact when they have a concern or need to share information about their child. It is best to ring the school’s number (9745 3777) and the office staff will take a message and send it to the specific person via an email message. Staff are asked to check their emails once a day, which is normally before school. So a message left one day may not be returned until the following day. It is often not possible to meet with parents, who have not booked an appointment. All staff have teaching responsibilities and this is their primary responsibility. Please ring first.
The Issue? Who do I contact? The role of that person Line Manager Question about work or incident in one particular subject
Classroom Teacher • Set, deliver, assess and report class work • Maintain a safe and supportive teaching
environment. • Resolve minor welfare related matters
arising in their classroom.
Head Teacher of the Faculty
Ongoing concerns regarding a particular subject area not previously resolved
Faculty Head Teacher English – Ms Taing Maths – Ms Rose Science – Mr Sloane HSIE – Ms Turner PDHPE – Mr Wynne CAPA – Ms Cesta Languages – Ms Merchant TAS – Mr Basak
• Oversee the curriculum requirements of their subject area.
• Lead and support the teaching staff in the faculty.
• Contact families regarding subject specific concerns.
Deputy Principal
Issue that effects more than one subject or general wellbeing support
Year Advisor Year 7 – Ms Hoy Year 8 – Ms Easterbrook Year 9 – Ms Peoples Year 10 – Mr Mitchell Year 11 – Ms Bekheet Year 12 – Mr Chapplelow
• Communicate information between parent/caregiver and the teachers.
• Deal with any social issues between students, welfare issues or learning concerns across multiple faculties.
• Contact families if there are multiple behaviour concerns across more than one faculty.
Head Teacher Welfare – Ms Milligan
Unresolved issue from previous contact, high level incidents or suspension
Deputy Principal Years 7 & 10 – Ms J Engisch Years 8 & 12 – Mr C Anderson Years 9 & 11 – Ms D Milinovic High Support Students – Ms Payne
• Very complex and includes the general running of the school on a day-to-day basis.
• Responsible for both students and all staff. • Relieving Principal when Principal out of
school. • Responsible for the discipline issues of
significant concern, such as investigating those involving pre-warning of suspensions and suspensions.
• Leading curriculum implementation and supporting Head Teachers
Principal
Ongoing unresolved issues and Appeals
Principal Mr Victor Newby
• Overall management of school operations including curriculum, finance, and staffing.
• Ensures all Department policies and procedures are implemented for compliance requirements.
• Ensure all NSW Educational Standards Authority are met, and evidence is collated to prove as such.
• Oversee the implementation of Discipline policy that includes decisions about suspensions and expulsions.
Director Educational Leadership (DEL)
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Concord High School News
SASS Apreciation Week 2019
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Concord High School News
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Concord High School News
CAREERS AND TRANSITIONS SCHEME (CaTS) The Concord High Year 10 CaTS program won a prestigious Secretary’s Award for an Innovative Program at the 2019 Minister’s and Secretary’s Awards ceremony at the Town Hall. The awards recognise excellence in NSW schools.
L-R Mr Newby, Ms Peoples, Emily Rose McLauchlan, Mrs Payne and The Hon. Sarah Mitchell, MLC, Minister for Education.
With Mark Scott, Secretary for the Department of Education
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Concord High School News CAREERS AND TRANSITIONS SCHEME (CaTS) continued
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Concord High School News
TELL THEM FROM ME 2019
A survey to gauge parent perceptions of Concord High.
Parents and caregivers are encouraged to take part in the 2019 Tell Them From Me survey.
The Tell Them From Me Parent Survey is anonymous, voluntary, and easy-to-use. It is based on a comprehensive questionnaire covering parents’ perceptions of their child’s experiences at home and at school.
Insights into parent and staff communication, activities and practices at home, and parent voice on the school’s support of learning and behaviour all build an accurate and timely picture that Concord High can use for practical improvements.
Accessing the survey is simple. Just go to:
http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/concordhigh2019 So have your say and let us know your thoughts on Concord High!
HSC Minimum Standards Testing Year 10 and Year 11 Year 10 students have now completed the HSC minimum standard tests for the domains of Reading and Numeracy. The next minimum standard online test for 2019 at Concord High School will be conducted on Wednesday 11 September - Week 8 for Writing. All tests will again be offered in term 4 for those students still needing to meet standards or who have missed a test. For even more information, and flyers about the online tests and what they involve, visit the NESA website: educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/HSCminimumstandard
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Maths News
On the 20th of August 2019, Ms Gould took a group of year 7 students from the Robotics
Club: Oliver Drozdz, Jennifer Chen, Annalize Magill, Ben Rotem, Rohan Porter, Marcus
Leiton, Sherry Lin, to the annual Robocup Junior Competition that took place in Sydney
Olympic Park. It is the first time that Concord High School has participated in this
competition. Students have worked hard every day during recess and lunch time for the
few weeks before the competition to get their robots and programming ready. It was a fun
day filled with lots of excitement, intensive learning and problem solving. Students were
happy that they have learnt so much and are already thinking about the possibility of going
to another competition later this year.
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Maths News continued
Year 10 Maths Subject selection. We are currently working with Sydney University research team who are looking into why students choose various Mathematics levels in the senior years. Your child has been given a permission note to participate in the survey. This note needs to be returned before Wednesday week 8. If your chid has lost the note a new one is attached.
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Maths News continued
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Careers News
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Careers News
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Community News
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Community News
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Year 12 2019 Important Information
Dear Year 12 Parent / Caregiver,
As we begin to approach the end of formal lessons for students in Year 12, I would like to take this opportunity to provide you with some important information regarding the schools expectations and upcoming events.
General Expectations
All students and families are reminded that Year 12 are expected to conduct themselves maturely and responsibly over their final weeks at Concord High. Being at the end of formal secondary schooling does not exempt students from the Department of Education’s Suspension and Expulsion procedures. Students who breach the school discipline code, particularly in the areas of damage to school property, disruption to school normal operations, and disrespectful behaviour towards other members of the school community may be asked to complete their HSC examinations at another venue.
Students are also reminded that behaviour over this period of time does not exempt them from the law. This is particularly relevant to the safe operation of motor vehicles, property damage, and violent or aggressive behaviour. Students who engage in illegal or unlawful conduct will be referred to the police by the school.
Formal Lessons
With the completion of the Trial HSC examinations, most students should have now received their results, together with feedback from class teachers. The next 4 weeks is a critical period where ongoing, regular attendance at school is extremely important. Some classes will still be completing content, others will be completing revision, practice exams, refining examination technique and receiving vital feedback from class teachers. Formal lessons will continue up to and including Wednesday 25th September.
Dress Up Week
In keeping with Concord High tradition, the final five school days will provide Year 12 students with an opportunity to attend school following a “dress up” theme each day. Normal lessons will continue during this time and attendance is expected from all students whether they take choose to dress up or not. The dress up days are Wednesday 18th September to Tuesday 24th September inclusive.
Student/Staff Soccer Match
On Friday 20th September, the school will host a staff/student soccer game on St Lukes Oval. Normal lessons will be suspended from lunch onwards to allow students and staff to participate and the remainder of the school to spectate.
Farewell Assembly
On Wednesday 25th September all students in Year 12 will return to full school uniform for the school Farewell Assembly. This assembly allows the student body to acknowledge the graduating students on their final day of school attendance.
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Year 12 Important Information
Graduation Ceremony – Families On Thursday 26th September the school will host the Year 12 Graduation Ceremony. This is a major event on the school calendar and will provide the opportunity for staff and families to farewell the Class of 2019. The ceremony will commence at 6:00pm in the Concord High School Hall. All graduates are expected to be in full school uniform.
HSC Exams
The HSC written exams will commence on Thursday 17th October 2019 and conclude on Monday 11th November. All Year 12 students are responsible to ensure they know when their exams are scheduled and that exam rules are followed. More detailed information will be provided closer to the exams.
Sign Out Day
All students in Year 12 are required to complete the sign out process to officially leave school. Sign out day will be Tuesday 12th November from 8:30am – 10am in the Concord High School Hall. All students are to ensure that all school fees are paid and that all school resources are returned on or prior to this date.
Students who fail to complete the sign out process will not be eligible to attend any school supported events including Presentation Day and Year 12 Formal.
Year 12 Formal
The Formal will be held on Tuesday 12th November at Dockside, Darling Harbour from 6pm – 10.30pm. All families are responsible for ensuring that arrangements are in place for supervision of students from 10:30pm on the night.
Concord High Presentation Night
Presentation Night is one of the highlights of the school calendar to be held on Wednesday 12th December. This is our schools opportunity to recognise our high achievers across all areas of school life. Students in Year 12 receiving awards will be acknowledged on this night.
Attached to this letter is a single “Dates to Remember” handout that hopefully all families will find helpful during this busy time of the year.
I would like to take the opportunity to wish all Year 12 students and their families a great finish to Term 3. Remember that the resources of the school (teaching, counselling, wellbeing, health support) remain available to all students over the coming months. I would encourage any families who may be experiencing difficulties over what can a stressful period to contact the school and access our support.
Kind regards, Victor Newby Principal
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* Please note amended dates are in highlight
Year 12 2019
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
18 Sept – 24th Sept 2019 The final five school days will provide Year 12 students with an opportunity to “Dress Up” each day
20 September 2019 Staff/Student Soccer Game on St Lukes Oval
25 September 2019 Formal Lessons will continue with the completion of the Trial HSC examinations up to and including this date
25 September 2019 School Farewell Assembly, full school uniform
26 September 2019 Graduation Ceremony - Families, Concord High School Hall, 6 pm
17 October 2019 HSC written examinations commence. All students to ensure they know when their exams are scheduled
11 November 2019 HSC written examination concludes
12 November 2019 Year 12 Sign Out, 8.30 am – 10 am in the Concord High School Hall. All fees must be paid and school resources returned prior to sign out
12 November 2019 Formal, Dockside, Darling Harbour, 6 pm – 10.30 pm
11 December 2019 Presentation Night
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VARIATIONS TO ROUTINE TERM 3 WEEK 8 9 September , 2019 – 13 September, 2019 WEEK B Monday 9 September o Years 9 and 10 Food Technology o ICAS writing o CATS Coles work experience program
Tuesday 10 September o Year 12 Physics
Wednesday 11 September o Music 1 HSC Practical examination o Year 11 Life Ready B street smart
Thursday 12 September o ICAS Spelling test o Festival of Innovative ideas o Professional Learing Teams o International students excursion
Friday 13 September o Art Smart o Year 8 to Luna Park (Mathematics) o Assembly Senior and Junior Year
meetings o Melanoma awareness day o Year 11 English Studies
Saturday 14 September
Upcoming Dates
A LOOK AHEAD 2019 Term 3 Week 9 & 10
A TERM 3 WEEK 9
Monday 16 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o ICAS English
Tuesday 17 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Term 4 Recreation Sport sign ups
Wednesday 18 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Year 7 Gala day o Year 12 Music 1 Task 3 o Year 9 and 11
Japanese
Thursday 19 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Year 12 Music 1 Task 3
o Year 8 STEM guest speaker
o Year 7 PDH- O,P and B
o Environmental Expo
Friday 20 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Vaccinations Year 7 visit 2
o Year 9 Cafe assessment
o Assembly - Year meetings due to exams
o Year 12 staff vs student soccer match
B TERM 3
WEEK 10
Monday 23 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Year 7 Gala day wet weather day
Tuesday 24 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Year 9 Geography
Wednesday 25 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
Thursday 26 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
Friday 27 September o Year 11 Final
Preliminary examinations
o Assembly- whole school o Final day Term 3
