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On The Waves Banora Point High School

2 Eucalyptus Drive Banora Point NSW 2486 T 07 55131 960 F 07 55 131 220 E [email protected]

Term 1 Week 4A Monday 18 February 2013

REACH FOR THE STARS

On Thursday 14 January, Banora Point High School held its Annual Swimming Carnival. What a way to celebrate the schools 10th event with one of the high-est participant rates in recent times. Our students were exceptional in their behaviour, spirit and enthusiasm for the day and this was reflected in a highly en-joyable day for all staff and students. With comments from the Oasis Pool care-takers such as ‘this is the best swimming carnival I have seen in a while’ it surely cemented itself as a fantastic day. House captains were exceptional in their dress and leadership whilst we also had many records broken. Rachel Presser, Holly Mackie, Lauren Grimwood, Kiana De Van Der Schueren, Nicholas Fairleigh, Giovanni Stewart and Drew Jamieson all set new records in respective races. The final points score saw Bradman (Aqua) in 1st, Freeman (Orange) 2nd, Thorpe (Lime) 3rd and O’Neill (Purple) 4th. Well done to all students and staff and let’s keep up this positive at-titude through-out all sporting endeavours … Mr Nathan Williams

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S W I M M I N G

COMING EVENTS

Tuesday 26 February Vaccinations year 7 and 9 boys Friday 1 March School Clean-up day Year 7 Collaborative learning activity—all day Monday 4 March P&C Annual General Meeting Friday 8 March International Womens Day Youth Leadership Awards Monday 11 March—Tuesday 12 March Year 11 Biology Excursion (overnight)

TERM 1 Break Monday 15 April—29 April Easter Holidays Good Friday March 29 and Easter Monday 1 April

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From the Principal Mr Greg Smith

It continues to be a great start to the 2013 school year, with students settled and classes clearly focused on teaching and learning. Many people have commented on the improved standard of uniform this year and we will con-tinue to reinforce this through assemblies and regular monitoring. We have introduced a range of meetings to start the school year off and inform parents about processes and sup-port at our school. I thank all parents who at-tended these meetings and I believe the great support that our staff gave to these events is indicative of the commitment that teachers at Banora Point High School have to their stu-dents. I would also like to thank our P&C mem-bers for the wonderful support that they gave in providing the barbeque at the Year 7 even-ing and the SRC, TAP and peer support stu-dents for assisting. I attended my first swimming carnival at Bano-ra Point yesterday. It reinforced several things, the first of which is the great school spirit that exists in our school. Many long established schools would be envious of the positive way in which our students respond to events like this. The second thing that was obvious is Banora Point High School students’ ability to have a lot of fun. Our school community in-cluding students and staff came dressed for the event, with whales, octopi, cavemen and a whole assortment of other outfits. The carnival was very well supported and it was a colourful, memorable day for everyone involved. Thanks to our organisers and particularly Mr Williams for such a wonderful event. Some of our 2013 programs have already be-gun. Last week we had a number of students involved in the Ecoman program. They have spent three days in Brisbane working with a variety of leaders in local commerce learning how businesses operate. The feedback was very positive, both from the students who at-tended and the staff who co-ordinated the program. We have recently launched the Girls Academy in the school. This program is a new initiative for Banora Point High and involves

assisting indigenous girls in successfully com-pleting High School. It is co-ordinated by the Titans. Our school has been selected for a pilot pro-gram called Healthy Schools. It will involve some clinical placements of final year allied health students from local universities within our school. They will come from backgrounds such as speech pathology, occupational thera-py, nursing, and exercise physiology. Students will work with our staff in providing assistance to some of our students. It will also give stu-dents at our school the opportunity to learn first-hand what these occupations involve. Per-mission will be sought from parents prior to the university students commencing. Allied health is one of the chief employment areas in our region and we are hoping that this initia-tive will lead to increased job prospects for stu-dents in the local area. We have two students who have been nomi-nated to be involved in the Lions Youth of the Year. I believe that this is the first time we have had entrants and I would like to wish Laura Kyle and Jackson Myer good luck in the first round of this national event. Our staff continues to implement the online roll marking. Once the final bugs have been sorted out, we will then link the system to SMS messaging. The messages will be sent to mo-bile phones of parents whose children have an unexplained absence on the day. It is planned that these will go out at 10.30am each day. We will continue trials with this prior to the full implementation and we really appreciate the support of parents with this. Our aim is to keep errors to a minimum, to reduce undue stress that can be caused by an incorrect message be-ing sent out.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR to everybody! 2013 has cer-tainly been off to a very busy start with lots of activities underway and upcoming. I am very energised to begin my 2nd year as careers ad-viser with a full diary and lots of student par-ticipation. I would like to point your attention to all of the (listed below) available School-Based Traineeships / Apprenticeships vacant in our local area at the moment. These are a fantastic opportunity for students in Year 10 and 11 to begin their career path-way early and maximise their credentials for the HSC. Please get in contact with me urgent-ly if any of these vacancies are of interest to your child. I am available to discuss any of your children’s needs and goals for the future at any time. Please contact me either through email [email protected] or make an ap-pointment through the front office on 07)55131960. I look forward to hearing from you and meeting you in the near future. NEWS: CONGRATULATIONS to 4 of our year 12

students from 2012 on their graduation from the Titans Beyond To-morrow Program. I was very excited to attend their graduation at Skilled Park on the 19th January earlier this year with Preston Campbell handing our students their grad-uation certificates. Below picture is with 2 students Jessi Bryan (who is currently be-ginning a Mechanics Appenticeship) and Eden Jamieson (who is currently beginning

a diploma in Digital Imaging/Media) I look forward to working with the Titans staff, especially Ms Cathy Dickson, to a successful 2013 with our current participants. This is just one program of many to be set up for Banora Point High School. More details to come.

CONGRATULATIONS to

Ethan Grant (Year 11) who with determination and perseverance, has secured a School-Based Traineeship in Health Services. Ethan worked hard to obtain a work experience placement at the end of year 10 at the St Marthas HealthCare Facili-ty and was so impressive in his short time there, that he has now achieved this very exciting opportunity. Ethan will attend TAFE 1 day a week, and work 1 day a week, as well as accomplishing his HSC. I must rec-ognise the wonderful Lisa from Northern Rivers Group Training who helped make this happen for Ethan. We are so proud of you Ethan, you are well on your way to be-coming a paramedic in the future.


CAREERS NEWS by Jess Dreyer

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CONGRATULATIONS to 3 enthusiastically hard working Year 12 students who have been successful in gaining admission into the Griffith University Business Program; Tamara Lancaster, Dana Bradshaw and Brayden Lee. The goal of this program is to encourage business students to further studies at Grif-fith University including studies in business through linking the curriculum of schools and universities; fostering positive relation-ships between students, teachers and academic staff; and exposing high school students to the ter-tiary environment. Their first workshop will be Friday 22nd February at Griffith University Gold Coast Campus.

CONGRATULATIONS to 5 of our amazing

young female indigenous students who par-ticipated in the Titans 4 Tomorrow Girls Academy launch in Brisbane last Friday 8th February. This is another new exciting pro-ject from the Titans team, which will en-hance the development of young indige-nous girls through both academic and sport-ing opportunites. Miss Spencer accompanied Tahlia Ible, Vanessa Smallwood, Elizabeth Green, Trinity Gannon and Ebony Whitlock for the launch, and the girls met Jessica Mauboy, Preston Campbell and Joel Parkin-son and students from other schools whilst participating in workshops designed to de-velop themselves personally. More work-shops will follow this term.

In 2012 some of our

senior students had the opportunity to partici-pate in “ECOMAN”; a wonderful business ori-entated workshop, where students worked together to run their own business, develop it from the ground up, and make significant profits. 5 students from year 10 had their turn in Week 2 of this Term. They went to Skilled Park and actively interacted in Ecoman for 2 days; Drew Jamieson, James McCann, Kaleb Green and Patricia Commins. A fantastic time was had, and congratulations to Drew and Kaleb who were part of the winning business. And once again thankyou to Miss Spencer for ac-companying the students and to the Titans Team, and Ms Cathy Dickson for assist-ing in providing our students with this unbelievable opportunity.


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Northern NSW High Schools Universities

Showcase – is coming to Banora Point High School, Thursday 21st February 2013 9am – 10pm. All local Universities will be in attendance in our school hall at this time, and available for all students to ac-cess to answer all of their university ques-tions. It is imperative that all Year 11 and 12 students attend this exhibition.

Bond University Law Development Day

and Mock Trial Exhibition for Year 12 Le-gal Studies students Thursday 28th Febru-ary.

School Based Apprenticeship / Train-

eeship with Prima Hairdressing at Tweed Centro for an enthusiastic and willing student. Preferred days to work: Tues or Wednesday This is a great opportunity for a student seeking a career in Hair-dressing. Further enquiries to Wendy Marron, Salon Owner on (07) 5599 4833

Wendy would like to meet all prospective applicants, please have students call her to make an appointment, and see me ur gently for the correct paperwork. School Based Traineeship - Cert III in Den-

tal Assisting - available with a busy prac-tice in Tweed Heads. Gavin Mitchell Den-tal - Tweed City Shopping Centre for an interested / suitable student This is a great opportunity for a student seeking a career in the dental /medical/nursing pro-fession. Further enquiries to Gavin Mitchell on (07) 5524 8888, and see me urgently for the correct paperwork.

School Based Traineeship - Cert III Health

Services - St Joseph's Tweed Heads South

(Southern Cross Care) – for any interested students wanting a career in the health industry. See me urgently for the correct paperwork.

School Based Traineeship – Cert II Hospi-

tality – Kathmandu Restaurant Kingscliff – for any interested students wanting work in the Hospitality industry. See me urgently for the correct paperwork.

School Based Traineeship – Cert II Hospi-

tality – Bambi Cafe Tweed Heads – for any interested students wanting work in the Hospitality industry. See me urgently for the correct paperwork.

5 x School Based Traineeships - Certificate

II in Retail - National Brand Franchise take away food employer based in Tweed Heads South. Applicants must be availa-ble to work weekends, holidays and pos-sibly evenings as part of their SbAT re-quirements. Applicants must be reliable, with friendly personalities, be good team players and like working with the public. The employer would like to commence suitable and successful applicants as soon as possible. See me urgently for the cor-rect paperwork.


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UP AND COMING EVENTS

CURRENT VACANCIES

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When: Tuesdays 5.30pm—7.30pm Dates: February 26th-April 2nd 2012 Venue: The Family Centre, 15-17 Rivendell Tweed Heads South Cost: $30 Supporting yourself and your child through adolescence. A 6 week course for the parents of teenagers. It can be difficult to know how to re-spond to challenging behaviours. Knowing more about how to sup-port and communicate with your teenager can assist to get them safe-ly through adolescence. Topics include: the impact of manag-ing tension points and behaviour, and talking through challenging is-sues.

Bookings are essential (07) 5524 8711 Contact the Intake Worker between 9am—12.30pm Mon—Fri Course Fees:Course fees cover part of the cost of refreshments & resources provided for course participants. The Family Centre is committed to provid-ing equal access to all the courses we offer. An inability to pay course fees will not restrict your access to the courses we offer. If you are unable to pay course fees please talk with our intake worker or the course facilitators Run through The Family Centre’s

REALskills high schools programs For up to date info go to

www.thefamilycentre.org.au


Understanding Teenagers

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Young Mums to Be Wednesdays January 30 –March 6, 10am-12:30pm, no cost A group for women aged 21 years or under. The program will provide an information session each week focusing on either pregnancy or parenting. Discussion topics include: healthy relationships, birthing positions, bonding, pregnancy health, physical changes, nutrition and feeding and trusting your body. We will also have time for relaxation, meditation and fun. Family Centre Playgroups All playgroups 9.30-11.30am, no cost Monday – Banora Point Tuesday – Cabarita Wednesday – Murwillumbah Thursday – Banora Point Supporting families to identify and learn creative ways of playing with their children. NSW School term only 123 Magic Wednesdays March 13 – 27, 10am-12pm, $15 3 week course explores a down-to earth, child-friendly and effective discipline approach that encourages good behaviour for children 2-12 yrs. Triple P Group Thursdays February 21 – April 11, 10am-12.30pm, no cost 8 week parenting course (6 group sessions, tele-phone contact plus pre-group interview) for parents of children 2 – 10 years. Assists parents to build positive relationships with their children and create a stable, supportive and harmonious family. The course introduces proven methods to encourage behaviour you would like more of from your children and deal positively and consistently with problem behaviour. Triple P Seminars Tuesdays February 19 – March 5, 6-7.30pm The power of positive parenting: raising confident, competent and resilient children. These informal presentations offer a brief introduction to the Tri-ple P strategies and deal with the most common parenting issues we all face. The seminars take around 90 minutes with time for questions; you can choose to do one or all of them. Bookings pre-

ferred, however new registrations available on the night. Venue: Mount St Patricks Primary School Murwil-lumbah Understanding Teenagers Tuesdays February 26 – April 2, 5.30-7.30pm, $30 6 week course for the parents of teenagers. It can be difficult to know how to respond to challenging behaviours. Knowing more about how to support and communicate with your teenager can assist in supporting them safely through adolescence. Topics include: the impact of brain and hormone develop-ment, stages of child and youth development, par-enting styles, managing tension points and behav-iour, and talking through challenging issues. Women’s Self Esteem Course Thursdays February 21 – April 11, 9.30-11.30am, $40 8 week course covering: personal development, self-awareness, relationships and power, setting and maintaining boundaries, communication and con-flict. Anger: Making it work for you Friday February 1, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 includes lunchWorkshop for men and women content in-cludes: identify what anger is and what it does; what triggers your anger and ways to make it work for you and your relationships. Venue: Murwil-lumbah Community Centre Pathways to change for Men Wednesdays February 6 – March 27, 5-7:30pm, $40 8 week self-awareness & self-development group for men. Designed to assist men with; parenting, maintaining healthy relationships & making positive life choices. Holding Successful Difficult Conversations Saturday February 16, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 includes lunch This 1 day workshop explores steps for handling life’s most difficult and important conversations in valued relationship with partners, family, friends and colleagues. You’ll learn how to prepare for sit-uations and transform anger and hurt feelings into a useful conversation. In this workshop you will learn and practice the skills that can open up a dia-logue about the most difficult topics. Venue: Murwillumbah Community Centre


Term One 2013 Course Program

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The Mindful Art of Stress Reduction Friday February 15, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 includes lunch This one day workshop explores the many avenues that support us to manage the challenges we face in our lives as parents, partners and family mem-bers. It will introduce us to a knowledge and under-standing of stress. We will discuss and explore tech-niques of mindfulness and use creative activities to help develop awareness, supporting us to reduce stress in our lives. Venue: Murwillumbah Community Centre Healthier Relationships: Communication Saturday February 2, 9.30am-3.30pm, $15 includes lunch This one day workshop explores; stresses on healthy relating, roadblocks to communication, listening, assertiveness, managing emotions. Venue: Murwillumbah Community Centre

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL For further information on any of the courses or workshops, call 9.00am—12.30pm Monday to Friday on (07) 5524 8711 or email on: www.thefamilycentre.org.au Child-minding available at South Tweed premises


Term One 2013 Course Program

Safer Driving

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As in previous years, Southern Cross Cultural Exchange is once again seeking volunteer host families to host international exchange students arriving in July 2013 for a stay of one or two semesters. We would be grateful for your support by inserting the following information into your next school newsletter, or pinned to your noticeboard or website. We would appreciate any feedback or a copy of your newsletter if possible. Please “cut and paste” the following text into your newsletter, and we understand that if you operate your own exchange program that this request may not be possible. LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF! As Marcel Proust, a late 19th century novelist wrote: “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”. Volunteer to host an internation-al high school student in July 2013 through Southern Cross Cultural Exchange and pre-pare to be amazed at the way this unique and rewarding opportunity helps your family to become closer, to understand themselves better and to see the world in a new light. Carefully selected students will arrive in July for one or two semesters from France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan, and Spain. They will attend a local secondary school, arrive with their own spending money and comprehensive insurance cover – all arranged by Southern Cross Cultural Exchange. Visit us at our website www.scce.com.au, email [email protected] or call us toll free on 1800 500 501, re-quest our international student profiles, and capture the spirit of family and friendship.


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by Russ Timbs EMA entertainment are offering one lucky singer-songwriter the opportunity to produce a demo recording of their song, perform it live, and get paid, and have it promoted via social media. Known as the Emerging Artist Grant Program, this is the first time EMA entertainment has the pleasure of announcing this grant. The successful grant applicant will receive assis-tance to the value of $1000 as follows: * 5 hours of artistic and production mentoring * Professional production of a demo recording * Perform your song live – and get paid for it * Have your song professionally promoted via social media All applications must be submitted online at: www.emaentertainment.com.au, along with a website address that contains 2 samples of music and a current photo, by Feb-ruary 28, 2013. The grant is open to all unsigned, emerging singer-songwriters of south-east Queensland and Northern NSW who are willing to travel to Brisbane for mentoring, rehearsal and perfor-mances. For more information please contact Eileen on 0488 774 815. www.emaentertainment.com.au

CONGRATULATIONS to Brandon Stockwell who took part in the Medibank Junior Development Series Ten-nis Tournament on Sunday 10 Feburary. Brandon WON the 12 and Under division after playing 8 full sets of singles—the scores were:

6-1, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0.

What an awesome effort!! He won the Grand Final 6-2

SCHOOL and STUDENT NEWS

$1000 SINGER-SONGWRITER GRANT

TENNIS

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The Back to Basics Schoolwear and Sportswear uniform shop endeavours to supply Banora Point High School with good quality uniforms at the lowest prices. To achieve this we must keep our running costs to a minimum. Please note the opening hours for the the begin-ning of 2013. Back to Basics take cash and EFTPOS/Credit Cards – we do not accept cheques.

The NEW hours for the Uniform Shop for Terms 1 & 4 are:

12.30—3.00pm Every Tuesday

8am—11am

Every Thursday

Tuesday 19 February—FNC Soccer Thursday 21 February—FNC 15’s Touch Friday 22 February—FNC Swimming Monday 25 February—FNC Netball Gala Day Thursday 28 February—FNC Hockey

SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY NEWS

SPORTING COMING EVENTS UNIFORM SHOP HOURS

DRIVING SCHOOL

P & C MEETING

The next P&C Meeting for 2013

will be held on Monday 4 March

at 6.45pm DST

All new parents are most welcome to come along to support your child’s school

and meet other parents!

Our AGM will be held on that night and all committee positions will

be declared vacant.

If you would like to have more of a say in what happens in your school perhaps you

would like to nominate for a position on our committee

We would love to see you!

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Tweed Valley Relay For Life

Have you been looking for a way to get out in the local area and show your support for community events? Or trying to find a way to lift moral and build team spirit?

Relay For Life events have been connecting individuals to communities in their fight against cancer and raising much needed funds for cancer research and support. Participants have been walking or running to inspire HOPE and prove that no-one is alone in the fight against cancer.

Have you been looking for a way to get out in the local area and show your support for community events? Or trying to find a way to lift moral and build team spirit?

WHAT IS RELAY FOR LIFE?

Relay For Life is an event, where teams take turns to walk, jog or run around a track to raise money for Cancer Council NSW’s vital research, prevention and support services. The aim is to have one member on the track at all times during the event.

With entertainment, activities and moving ceremonies through the day, it’s a great chance to come to-gether to fight cancer.

Your local event is the Tweed Valley Relay For Life held on Saturday March 23rd & Sunday March 24th at the Cudgen Leagues Club oval in Kingscliff.

GETTING INVOLVED IS EASY!

Register your team and create your online event page. A team can be 2 - 20 people made up of work-mates, friends or family.

Raise funds by asking people to sponsor you. We’ll send promotional posters, fundraising tips and raffle books to help you spread the word and get everyone excited.

Choose your challenge and work out how you want to Relay: Try to have someone from the team on the track at all times. If you think 18 hours is too much, why not do the 12 or 6 hour challenge?

Decide on a fundraising target and go and exceed it! Make a real difference to the lives of those affected by cancer. Work out how much your team wants to raise and tell everyone you know to sponsor you. Every bit counts!

EVENT BENEFITS:

You are contributing to the fight against cancer!

You generate interest and goodwill within the local community.

Relay For Life is a great team building exercise for family, friends, work colleagues, sport clubs, schools and community groups!

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Surfside Bus lines are pres-ently conducting a program encouraging students that do not have a bus pass, to obtain one. If you are eligi-ble, you travel FREE on their buses and this in turn helps

the environment with less fuel emissions, mums and dads time, congestion at school entrances and bus-es run on time with less traffic congestion. Application forms are at the school office so fill one in and see if you are eligible. Surfside also state that if you have a bus pass, then you are also eligi-ble to enter a future completion with a HUGE first prize!!! Details in the coming weeks.

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COMMUNITY NEWS—FREE TAFE COURSES

Work Opportunities for Women and Men Do you w ant to develop your confidence, written communication and computing skills to go onto w ork or further training? Units include:

Internet and email Word processing Job application documents Writing for w ork

1 ½ days per week, Thursdays 12.00pm – 3.00pm, and Fridays 9.00am – 3.00pm for

18 weeks

FREE COURSE Course Related Charges: $25.00

For further information please contact:

Shary n Lane, Head Teacher Education, Employ ment & Support - Kingsclif f Campus

Phone: 0266 747 267 Email: shary n.lane@taf ensw.edu.au

Kingscliff Campus

Cudgen Road, Kingsclif f NSW 2487 Ph: 0266 747 200

Communicating in the Computer Age

This course is for adults w ho want to develop their computer and communication skills for w ork and/or further study. You will learn how to:

Plan f or education and employ ment Access and use the internet Word Processing Document and communicate personal stories on a computer Communicate inf ormation using v isual techniques on a computer

Students are encouraged to learn new technology that can make you current in the age of computers.

2 days per week Mondays and Wednesdays, 9.00am – 3pm for 18 weeks

FREE COURSE Course Related Charges: $25.00

For further information please contact:

Shary n Lane, Head Teacher Education, Employ ment & Support - Kingsclif f Campus

Phone: 0266 747 267 Email: shary n.lane@taf ensw.edu.au

Kingscliff Campus

Cudgen Road, Kingsclif f NSW 2487 Ph: 0266 747 200

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PARENT EMAIL ADDRESS

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER We now endeavour to email our School Newsletter to parents directly to their email address. Our goal is to have our Newsletter a paperless one. We would appreciate it if you would update us with changes to your email address in order for us to keep you in the loop. Please fill in the section below and have your child bring it to the front office. Our fortnight Newsletter is available on our website at www.banorapnt-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Student Name/s: ______________________________________________________Year: ___________________

Email Address School Newsletter to be forwarded to: _____________________________________________

The school is installing a new roll marking/sms network system which requires up to date changes in email addresses and mobile telephone numbers of carers/parents. If you have changed your mobile in the past and feel you may not have informed the school would you please complete this form along with the email address. Student Name ........................................................................................................ Year: ................................... Father’s Mobile No. ........................................................... Mother’s Mobile No. .............................................. Home Telephone No. ........................................................ Emergency Contact No. ......................................... Comments .......................................................................... .................................................................................

CHANGE OF INFORMATION

STUDENT BEHAVIOUR

Focus: Taking responsibility for my actions.

This means: I leave my mobile phone off and out of site I do not bring valuables to school I make sensible choices I accept the consequences of my behaviour. This means that if I do something wrong

and a teacher puts me on detention or asks me to move or pick up papers I do as I have been asked.

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