Kana KaresKana Kares Kanahooka High School Email: kanahooka-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

PO Box 302, Dapto NSW 2530 Web: www.kanahooka-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Phone: 4261 4011 Fax: 4261 4700 Term 2 - Week 2 1 May 2015

KANAHOOKA HIGH SCHOOL IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE DAPTO LEARNING COMMUNITY

TAS News Term 2 is shaping up to be an exciting time in our area of learning. Year 12 VET Hospitality students will be introducing ‘Milkshake Mondays’ from week 3 onward. Students from each stage group will be able to purchase milkshakes and ‘Hot Chocolates’ at recess when it is their allocated week. This will be at a cost of $3.00 and continue throughout the year. Hospitality students are also very fortunate to have new uniforms to wear at catering functions and during work placement. We are looking forward to modelling these at upcoming school events. Year 11 VET Construction students are also undertaking their ‘White Card’ training to enable them to safely undertake work placement in an industry setting. This is an essential component of their training and we are fortunate to be able to deliver this course within the school setting. Students in Stages 4 and 5 in the TAS area are also working solidly to continue their design projects leading into the assessment and reporting period of Semester One. Ms B Evitt

Relieving Head Teacher Home Ec/Art

Support News

Since the beginning of the year, Support has been working very hard achieving some great results and having fun with different creative activities. Congratulations to all students in the Unit for their

efforts in class and for doing so well in their

mainstream class electives. We are very proud of

Daniel Mack in Year 9, who did exceptionally well in

his Italian elective and got an outstanding mark in

class.

Years 7 to 10 have been practising a music

performance all year. The classes have been

practising a singing performance of ‘Hey Brother’ by

Avicii. The students chose this song to perform, as

they liked the meaning of the song, ‘being there for

your brother or sister’. The students practised each

lesson and dedicated their time and effort to make

this performance very accomplished. The students

performed for Mrs Jennison, Ms Toohey and other

staff members who had nothing but praise for our

students.

Miss L Christodoulou

UPCOMING EVENTS Monday 4 May Yr 10 Smith Family Financial Literacy Course Wednesday 6 May Yr 10 Smith Family Financial Literacy Course SRC Induction 9:40am Common Room Monday 11 May Yr 11 Marine Studies Boatsmart Training Day Tuesday 12 May Yr 7 & 9 NAPLAN - Language Conventions/

Writing Yr 10, 11 & 12 Careers Expo Wednesday 13 May Yr 7 & 9 NAPLAN - Reading Yr 11 Marine Studies Boatsmart Training Day The Burners Club 2:45 to 4pm P&C Meeting 7pm Common Room

Cross Country Carnival

Kanahooka High School’s Cross Country Carnival was held on the last day of Term 1, Thursday 2 April.

How great was the weather! How great were the kids! How great was the day!

Congratulations to all students who participated at their own level.

A special congratulations to our Age Champions and top 5 in each age group. The fastest girl was Shaina-Lea Johnson, but our fastest competitor and Champion of Champions on the day was Jake Gates in the 17 Years Boys with a time of 19 minutes, 27 seconds.

Girls Boys

12 Years 12 Years 1 Isabella Frame-Ripley - 37.53 1 Tony Krstevski - 25.09 2 Shyanne Organ 2 Jake Reasin 3 Jessica Gorman 3 Aidan McNamara 4 Lily Johnstone 4 Jordain-Rian Lightowlers 5 Imogen Clarke

13 Years 1 Emily Mulqueeney - 27.20 1 James Cheesewright - 22.18 2 Madeline Adams - 27.21 2 Cooper Dittrich 3 Sarah Young 3 Jonathan Gallacher 4 Jennifer Wilson 4 Simon Oliver 5 Jessica Welland

14 Years 1 Georgia Lewington - 33.54 1 Julian Veleski - 22.18 2 Nicole Cadruvi 2 Dain Axtell 3 Jessica Campbell 3 Anthony Rudeski 4 Georgia Watson 4 Bradley Smith 5 Brooke Williams and Skye Grammel 5 Braedon Cole

15 Years 1 Carleah Thurling - 33.15 1 Jamie Powell - 21.18 2 Mollie Clark 2 Alex Kearton 3 Jasmin Murray 3 Kane Oser 4 Kiana Elford 4 Harley Heydon 5 Jessica Barnes 5 Mitchell Garrett

16 Years 1 Emily Ryan - 32.26 1 Joel Gladden - 23.40 2 Rachel Hockey 2 William D’Amato 3 Lilli Clark and Chelsea Stepto 3 Ty Wood 5 Shai-Lee Morse 4 Michael Chambers 6 Yasmyn Smith 5 Mustapha Maarbani

17 Years 1 Shaina-Lea Johnson - 27.07 1 Jake Gates - 19.27 2 Izabella Veleski 2 Jayde Cooley-Anderson 3 Ebony-Rose Allan 3 Jayden Dudek 4 Ella Soderlund 4 Kevin Mansell 5 Jennifer Neall 5 Paul Hasiuk

18+ Years 1 Kaitlyn Kelly and 1 Joshua Bell - 22.02 Yemaya Roughley-Hutchison - 36.29 2 Joshua Childs-Earl 3 Victoria Lucas 3 Calvin Perelaer 4 Alicia Charles 4 Brennan Frost 5 Kristie Tancevski 5 Tim Jewell House points were awarded as follows; 1st RED 1019 points 2nd BLUE 932 points 3rd YELLOW 874 points 4th GREEN 793 points I would like to thank all staff who participated or acted as officials on the day. Their enthusiasm and efforts on the day made it the success it was. It was the perfect way to end and celebrate the first Term of 2015. Mrs A Sutherland

Cross Country Co-ordinator

Kanahooka High School After School Tutorial Centre

All welcome and it’s FREE!

Held in the School Library with Teacher supervision.

Refreshments provided.

Every Tuesday & Wednesday from 2.30 to 3.30pm

Come along and get help with your

homework, assignments and assessments.

P&C News The next meeting of the P&C will be held on Wednesday 13 May in the Common Room commencing at 7.00pm. Judy Bertinato P&C President

R u OK? Drawing Competition Congratulations to all

students who entered

the R u OK? Drawing

Competition and

especially to the winner,

Dylan Ahearn-Ramos of

Year 12 who has won an

R u Ok? Bench for our

school.

Sport - Construction Group

Kanahooka High School’s Construction sport group have completed a 12 metre

section of a retaining wall in an effort to redirect the water and debris that has

been damaging an existing school storage shed. The students led by Mr Ivatt,

the schools construction teacher, developed a proposal to retain the identified

area with a timber structure and submitted plans as well as an itemised material

list in preparation for the project . When asked about the progress of the project,

Mr Ivatt said, “I was very impressed by this group of students who all worked

hard and demonstrated great teamwork to complete the project within the

allocated time”. When asked what is the future for the group, Mr Ivatt said, “I

feel the team is capable of completing most projects around the school and that

the group are always keen for new members to be involved in future projects.”

Mr T Ivatt

Dylan’s winning

entry

A student fits a timber sleeper to the

retaining post.

A student adds

aggregate over the

newly installed

agricultural pipe to

ensure drainage.

A student takes on the role of site

supervisor and calculates the

correct amount of fill required for

the retaining wall.

Library News

Ms Lynch and Ms Etheridge went to the Scholastic Book Sale last week and purchased a fantastic array

of new exciting books for students. Ms Lynch is madly cataloguing and processing these books so that

they are available for students as soon as possible.

One of our new purchases included a series by James Phelan called The Last Thirteen. Find it at the

library!

The library has also put some amazing titles on display to

commemorate the centenary of Anzac Day, including some

wonderful picture books by Australian authors. Check them

out!

If you find any books with the Kanahooka High School

barcode on them, it would be greatly appreciated if you

return them to the library.

Ms M Etheridge

Teacher/Librarian

Host Families Wanted

An exciting opportunity to meet someone new and share our Australian lifestyle!

Japanese students will be visiting us in Term 3 and we need host families to take them in.

Please see Mrs Ursino in the HSIE staffroom or contact by phone on 4261 4011 if you are interested.

13 books. 13 nightmares. 1 destiny. I click my fingers and everybody dies. Sam wakes from his nightmare to discover the terrifying reality.

It will come true.

Kidnapped from school and finding out his parents aren't who

he thinks they are, Sam is suddenly running from danger at every turn. Nothing will ever be the same again.

With his life and identity shattered, Sam's salvation is tied to an

ancient prophecy. He is in the final battle to save the world, up

against an enemy plotting to destroy us all.

He alone can find the last thirteen.

Review taken from GoodReads.com

ANZAC Day Ceremony On Friday 24 April the Kanahooka High

School community gathered to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli. Students and staff were invited to plant a poppy around our school memorial. The staff and student body can be proud of the respect they showed throughout the

service. Mr W Carney SRC Adviser