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Lake Illawarra High School Fortnightly Newsletter
173-179 Reddall Parade Lake Illawarra NSW 2528 T 4296 3844 F 4296 3948 E [email protected]
Tuesday, 25 March 2014 Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Issue 27 Term 3 2015 Week 4
At Lake Illawarra High we are working extremely
hard to ensure that everyone understands what our
core values of RESPECT, RESPONSIBLITY and
SAFETY look like in everyday practice. It is so
important that all members of our community are
able to understand the importance of treating each
other as we like to be treated ourselves, taking
ownership of our own actions and behaviour and
ensuring that ourselves and others are safe.
To help support this understanding our school has a
number of initiatives that encourage our community,
especially our students, to see what these values look
like and to put them into practice. Each fortnight we
are focussing on different aspects of our values and
explicitly teaching our students how to put our values
into action. Students who demonstrate these values
will be acknowledged.
The vast majority of our students demonstrate these
values every minute of every day of the week.
However just like learning any new concept, a small
minority of students need extra support in order to
achieve school expectations.
Well done again to all of our students who are
participating in the wide range of extra-curricular
activities that the school offers. Whether you have
done your best on the sporting field, performed in a
music or dance concert, participated in academic
pursuits such as Maths competitions or Tournament
of the Minds, committed to looking after our younger
members of the school through Peer Support,
supported cultural activities like looking after our
recent Japanese students visit or engaging in one of
the many programmes that are run through the
school, congratulations. We are proud of you!
I wish all our Year 12 students good luck in their trial
HSC; the exams are starting this week. It is important
the Year 12 use the remaining 3 weeks of school wisely.
This should be a time to reflect on areas that may need
improving and seeking help from their teachers to make
these changes. It is not a time to wind down and relax
because it is too late to make improvements before the
HSC, because not only do we have 4 weeks of school
after the exams, but there are several weeks after this
until the exams start.
Once Year 12 have finished exams we have a short
break before Year 11 start their Yearly exams in week
nine. It is the end of the preliminary course for Year 11
and it will be time for the move to start the HSC from
term four. Good luck Year 11.
We are continuing to work on getting students into full
school uniform and appreciate your co-operation with
this. It can be more difficult during the cooler months
with clothes taking longer to dry. We do acknowledge a
very high percentage of students come in full uniform
every day and thank the parents for the effort this takes.
The warmer weather is on its way, this should make it
easier to maintain correct school uniform.
The subject selection process is underway for Years 8
into 9 and 10 into 11. It is important that students select
carefully as they are choosing a two year course of
study. There was a good turnout at the subject selection
evening, so hopefully our students are making informed
decisions about their pathways.
Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible
Mrs Powell, Mr Munn and Mrs Campbell
Deputy Principals
Tony Hicks
Principal
Date Title Description Start Time End Time
10/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams For 2 weeks until 21/8/15
10/08/2015 JET program JET program - Yr. 9-12 selected students
10/08/2015 Top Blokes Top Blokes - Pds 3&4 - Common Room
10/08/2015 9 PAS 1 Ten Pin bowling J. Chaseling 8:30:00 10:30:00
11/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
11/08/2015 JET program JET program - Yr. 9-12 selected students
11/08/2015 Yr5 5x5 Challenge Yr5 5x5 Challenge - Sandra Cram
11/08/2015 Yr. 7-12 Girls Rugby
League
J. Chaseling, S. McAndrew
12/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
12/08/2015 Links 2 Learning Links 2 Learning at PCYC - 10 x Year 9 students
12/08/2015 Yr. 9 Commerce to Warilla
Grove
12/08/2015 9 PAS Shellharbour Bowl 9 PAS Shellharbour Bowl -M. Munro 8:30:00 10:30:00
13/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
13/08/2015 Yr. 10 Mock Interviews All day, R. Willingham, English staff assistance
13/08/2015 10 PAS & 11 SLR 10 PAS & 11 SLR - ten Pin bowling, J.
Chaseling, G. Anderson
8:30:00 10:30:00
13/08/2015 AIME - Years 9/10 AIME - Years 9/10 9:00:00 12:00:00
14/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
15/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
16/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
17/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
17/08/2015 JET program JET program - Yr. 9-12 selected students
17/08/2015 Top Blokes Top Blokes - Pds 3&4 - Common Room
18/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
18/08/2015 JET program JET program - Yr. 9-12 selected students
18/08/2015 Yr5 5x5 Challenge Yr5 5x5 Challenge - Sandra Cram
19/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
19/08/2015 Links 2 Learning Links 2 Learning at PCYC - 10 x year 9 students
20/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
20/08/2015 AIME - Years 9/10 AIME - Years 9/10 9:00:00 12:00:00
20/08/2015 In2uni Talk Yr. 12 R. Willingham 10:40:00 11:34:00
20/08/2015 School Captains speech School Captains speech Assembly 13:06:00 14:00:00
21/08/2015 HSC Trial Exams
21/08/2015 9 PAS3 Ten Pin bowling J. Chaseling 13:00:00 14:50:00
24/08/2015 JET program JET program - Yr. 9-12 selected students
24/08/2015 Ski Trip McKinlay, Dyer, Unicomb + 40 Yr. 9 & 10
students.
24/08/2015 Book Week Book Week Week 6
24/08/2015 Top Blokes Top Blokes - Pds 3&4 - Common Room
24/08/2015 Green Light Day excursion Port Kembla. R. Willingham
24/08/2015 9 PAS 1 Ten Pin bowling J. Chaseling 8:30:00 10:30:00
Students are welcome to undertake work experience
while they are at school. Year 10 students have the
opportunity to organise this with the Careers Adviser
for week 10 of Term 3. Senior students who are
participating in Vocational Education Training
courses at school or TAFE often have compulsory
placements over the two years, but if they are seeking
extra experience to assist in obtaining jobs or to
increase their resume, they can also organise extra
work experience.
On Tuesday 4
th of August a group of students in Year
10 and 11 were involved in a hands on workshop at
school to help them understand about their personal
social image and learnt about practical ways to
present for interviews. This EDGE workshop
involved a local careers presenter, beautician,
hairdresser and stylist giving expert advice. It was a
fun and informative day where students were inspired
to make a difference and stand out from the crowd
when applying for interviews.
Port Harbour is an interesting and secretive place that
a small group of students were privileged to go and
visit and find out about the different types of
industries and jobs that exist in the area. This
involved jobs in railway, stevedores, pilots on ships
and logistics warehousing. The excursion was an eye
opener to the students about providing future
opportunities. The added bonus was having a bus
tour in secure areas of the park and seeing rows and
rows of hundreds of cars as well as being up close to
watch an enormous ship come through the narrow
harbour.
Students applying to university for next year have
some dates to remember:
Early Admissions to UOW open 3rd
August
UAC applications (compulsory if applying to any
university) open 5th August
UOW Open Day 15th August - which gives a final
chance to make decisions on courses on offer.
Year 10 students have the opportunity to practice
their skills and prepare for future interviews by
taking part in the Mock Interview Day on the 13th
August. Students are expected to have a resume,
portfolio and cover letter prepared for a „pretend‟
employer based on a chosen advertisement.
Preparation for the Mock Interview Day has begun
through all English classes and students will receive
additional interview skills and practice. Thankfully,
various people from the community, including
Employment and Apprenticeship Agencies have
volunteered their time to speak and listen to the
students. This will give all who participate a real life
experience of an interview. Feedback and overall
evaluation of the five-minute impression in these
interviews will be provided to students, which will
assist them in preparing for future interviews when
applying for jobs.
Our schools password is: dolphins
Interested in careers information to help you
understand future pathways? You are welcome to
register on JobJump. You simply go to the website
http://www.jobjump.com.au
Enter the first couple of letters of our school name
and click it into the first white box. Then enter into
the second white box your email address click login
and then answer a couple of quick questions such as
the careers in which you have an interest in. A
password is required to complete the registration and
the password is - dolphins
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Lake‟s MC students have used their colour
knowledge and fabric dying skills to tie-dye calico to
make joey pouches for orphaned joeys at the
International Fund for Animal Welfare. These joeys
need to be kept in a warm and quiet pouch-like
environment while they recover and grow. Carers‟
need a ready supply as pouches are changed regularly
after each feed and up to six pouches can be used per
animal each day! These students hope their
thoughtful and creative donation will help these
unfortunate animals recover comfortably. Stay tuned
as we have written letters to IFAW requesting a
photo of a joey in our pouches, which we will share
in an upcoming newsletter!
We studied life on Norfolk Island as part of our
Geography unit. We learnt life on Norfolk is different
to life in Australia. The original name of the island
was Pitcairn Island. We learnt they speak their own
language (Norfuk). The Norfolk Pine is a symbol on
their flag.
We made coconut loaf which is popular to eat on the
island. Coconut is $8 kg on the island and they get
their supplies shipped over from mainland weekly.
We learnt how to do weaving and we made a
bookmark.
Thankyou
MCC Class
Year 9 Peer support training was run over two days at Windang Bowling club. 25 students successfully participated in the training program and are now eligible to become Peer Leaders for the incoming Year 7 students of 2016. The students displayed and developed many skills over the 2 days such as teamwork, leadership, communication and problem solving. Further training will be provided to these students in Term 4. On behalf of Miss Unicomb, Mrs O'Malley and Mrs Hancock we thank these students for their efforts.
PBL: „Positive Behaviour for Learning'
LIHS – Core Values: Respect, Responsibility and
Safety
Over the past week teachers have been awarding
additional VIVO points for treating teachers or peers
with respect and kindness.
Throughout weeks 4, 5 and 6 bonus VIVO points will
be awarded to students for following instructions.
Vivo‟s are regularly awarded in the following
categories:
Academic Merit: improvement, sustained effort and
good results.
MVP: for being a respectful, responsible and safe
learner.
School Representation: representing the school in a
positive way in community, academic, sporting, or
creative and performing arts based.
PBL Focus
Weeks 5 and 6: Follow instructions
The Marshmallow Challenge
In week 2, over 80 Year 8 and Harbour Centre
Students participated in the „Marshmallow
Challenge‟. Students were given the task to build the
tallest tower possible using raw spaghetti, sticky tape
and a marshmallow. The aim of the task was to teach
students the importance of communication,
collaboration and team work. When students faced an
obstacle they used their team mates to overcome the
issue, work together and try again.
The students were supported by teachers from the
HSIE staffroom, as well as Mr Thistlewaite, Colleen,
Ms Jeuring, Mr Chandler, Mr Hicks and a group of
Year 11 student mentors. This challenge is the first
of a series of 5 that will be carried out across Term 3,
with the goal of building positive relationships
between Year 8 students.
School captain elections are upon us again. It is a
pleasure to announce that we have four senior
students addressing the school and informing the
staff and students as to why they would be suitable
representatives for Lake Illawarra High School.
Election speeches will be held during a whole
school assembly in the quad on Thursday the
20th of August at the beginning of fifth period.
Voting will commence directly afterwards in
classrooms.
Elected Captains (2) and Vice Captains (2)
will be announced on Monday the 24th of
August during the morning assembly.
School Captain Nominees 2015
On behalf of the Students Representative Council and
the staff and students of Lake Illawarra High School,
we wish all the candidates every success in their
endeavours! Good luck!
Lake Illawarra High school‟s Tournament of Minds
teams have been working creatively on their Long
Term Projects. Tournament of Minds provided
opportunities for students with a passion for learning
and problem solving to demonstrate their skills and
talents in an exciting, vibrant and public way.
Tournament's aim is to enhance the potential of our
youth by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time
management, and the discipline to work
collaboratively within a challenging and competitive
environment.
This year‟s teams have been individually selected
based on their high academic progress, their astute
Ashley Porter Danielle McDonald
(Year 11) (Year 11)
Lilly Stephenson Logan McMahon
(Year 11) (Year 11)
creative thinking skills and for their positive attitude
and commitment towards their learning. Each team is
very excited to be representing Lake Illawarra High
and we are sure with their motivation and
enthusiasm, they will do our school proud!
ToM teams for 2015
Team 1: Lake
Girls
Team 2: Lake
Boys Natalie McLeish Year
10
Kye Beaton Year 10
Tarea Hodges Year 10 Emre Ozdemir Year 10
Siobhan Forde Year 9 Lachlan Boon Year 9
Hayley Misztl Year 9 Lachlan Kirk Year 9
Brianna Kerr Year 7 Chris Wyatt Year 8
Marina Bellef Year 7 Daniel Kerr Year 7
Amber Britton Year 7 Dylan Davis Year 7
Mrs Garcia, Miss Robinson (ToM facilitators)
Year 7 Technology – Food has been studying our
“Eating for Health” unit. Throughout this term they
have been exploring the design process while at the
same time experiementing and implementing basic
food preparation and cooking methods to produce
food that is healthy and nutritious.
Here are some photo‟s of 7.3 Technology preparing
and making their healthy hamburger.
Mr Bain
TAS Teacher
Hey there! My
name is Sophie
and I‟m the new
School
Chaplain. I‟ve
taken over from
Amy this term
and I‟m really
excited about
working here at
Lake Illawarra
High School and
getting to know
the school
community.
My role will look similar to what Amy was involved
in, being available to support the Learning and
Engagement team in various ways as well as
supporting the students, staff, families and wider
school community.
I have undergraduate degrees in Visual Arts and
Communications and am currently completing a
Masters in Art Therapy which has a foundation in
Counselling practice. I‟m excited to be able to use
these skills and training to support and encourage
students through the struggles of high school life as
well as other things that come up in the school
community. I also hope to run programs and groups
around friendship, self-esteem, self-care and other
topics. These will all be voluntary and if you would
not like your child to participate, you can simply opt
out.
As a chaplain, my role is to care for the emotional,
social and spiritual wellbeing of students and the
school community, through pastoral care regardless
of faith or beliefs. I believe it is important for young
people to think through ideas of faith and spirituality
and I‟m happy to chat through anything! As a
Christian in this faith-based Chaplain role, I am very
respectful of the guidelines that prohibit me from
proselytising and evangelising, however I hope to be
a help for anyone who is exploring any spirituality.
I will be around Tuesdays and Thursdays and I‟m
always available to talk about anything related to my
role. I can be contacted by the school phone number,
or found in the Library.
Kind Regards,
Sophie Harris
Justified reasons
Doctor’s/Dentist
appointment – must provide
evidence, such as a Doctor’s/Dentist
certificate or letter
Appointment with other health
care professional or similar service – must provide
evidence, such as an appointment card or letter
Special family
circumstances – note/verbal explanation must
be provided
Bus delayed –
school will check to verify
Interview with
Principal, Deputy/Assistant Principal,
Counsellor or other school personnel – staff
involved must inform the front office
Unjustified reasons
Sleeping in/
alarm not going off
Missed the
bus
Traffic/ road
works
Walked to school
Waiting for parent
Minding
sibling
Shopping
Other similar
reasons
Please note: A note from a parent or verbal explanation from parent who
drops student at school for any reasons listed above as ‘unjustified’
DOES NOT make the reason ‘justified’.
Payments can be made using either a Visa or
MasterCard credit or debit card. The payment page is
accessed from the front page of the schools website
by selecting $ Make a payment Items that can be paid include voluntary school
contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales
to students and creative and practical arts activities
(these include band, drama and dance). There is also
a category called other this to cover items not
covered in the previous headings, other can be used
to make a complete payment of a school invoice.
When you access the $ Make a payment you must
enter:
the students name, and
class and reference number OR
the students name, and
Date of birth.
These details are entered each time you make a
payment as student information is not held within the
payment system. There is also the option to enter the
Student Registration Number and Invoice number if
you are aware of them, these are optional fields.
This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac
to ensure that your credit/debit card details are
captured in a secure manner, these details are not
passed back to the school.
You have the ability to check and change any details
of the payment before the payment is processed.
Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.
Details of the payments are passed daily to the school
where they will be receipted against your child‟s
account. As a receipt has been issued from the
payment page a further receipt will not be issued by
the school.
For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment
process please contact the School Administration
Office.
Thanks
Ria Douglas
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Our school is currently looking for parents, grandparents or caregivers who are available to assist in a reading program for Year 7 students.
Anyone who is interested in being involved please contact Tony Hicks or the Learning
Support Team on 4296 3844.
If you would like to place an ad for
your business in our newsletter please
phone the school on 4296 3844 for
more information.
COMMUNITY NOTICES Lake Illawarra High School does not receive or accept any paid advertising for Community Notices. Also, we have no way of checking the bona fides of any information
received. We encourage parents/caregivers to make all necessary checks prior to involving their children in activities listed
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AGE: 13 – 16 years
Thursday Afternoon
Croome Road – Albion Park Rail
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FREE LEARNER DRIVER LOG BOOK RUN for learner drivers and their parents/supervisors
The Learner Log Book Run is a practical course for learner drivers who have completed a minimum of 40 log book hours.
The program provides learner drivers and their supervisors the opportunity to participate in a planned drive which follows a route in the Wollongong region including a range of driving experiences.
Participants will also experience a Random Breath Test (RBT) and Driver Reviver rest stop which informs them how to deal with fatigue.
The program is delivered in partnership with Wollongong City Council, Bulli Police & Community Youth Club and Volunteers in Policing to help learner drivers complete the compulsory 120 hours of driving experience required.
The Learner Driver Log Book Run program reinforces the importance of educating young people early in their driving life about behavioural issues that could one day save their lives.
The next Learner Log Book Run will be held:
Date: Sunday 30th
August 2015
Time: 9:30am – 12noon
Location: Bulli PCYC
Cost: FREE (including driver reviver stop snacks and lunch on completion)
Bookings are essential as places are limited and can be made by contacting Wollongong City Council on 4227 7111
FREE WORKSHOP for parents and supervisors of learner drivers
Helping Learner Drivers Become Safer Drivers workshop for supervisors of learner drivers
Supervisors of learner drivers are encouraged to attend this workshop to increase their knowledge and confidence in
helping their learner become a safer driver.
Participants will gain practical advice on:
Supervising a learner driver
The Learner Driver Log Book
L& P Plate licence regulations
How to encourage safe driving behaviours
A light supper will be provided. Accompanied learners also welcome.
The next Learn Safe workshop will be held:
When: Tuesday 8th
September 2015, 6 pm – 8 pm
Where: Wollongong City Council, Level 9 Function Room
Cost: FREE (including a light supper)
Bookings are essential and can be made by contacting Wollongong City Council on 4227 7111 or e-mail
