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School Cross Country

Glen Innes High School

NEWSLETTER Term 2 Week 2 Tuesday 14 May 2019

Edward Street, PO Box 405, Glen Innes 2370 Phone: (02) 6732 1322 Fax: (02) 6732 1972 E-mail: gleninnes-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: https://gleninnes-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlenInnesHIghSchool/

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AGE CHAMPIONS 12 Year Olds

Toby Lamph and Sophie Watt

13 Year Olds Jack Duddy and Maisie Eastwood

14 Year Olds Thomas Walsh and Isabelle Wright

15 Year Olds Ryan McAllister and Hayley Lynn

16 Year Olds Luke Kiehne and Hannah Dunn

17 Year Olds Harry Lynn and Charlie Smith

OVERALL CHAMPION Harry Lynn

KING OF THE CORNER

James Tait

QUEEN OF THE CORNER Charlie Smith

KING OF THE MOUNTAIN

Harry Lynn

QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAIN Maisie Eastwood

Congratulations to all students that competed in the School Cross Country on Wednesday 8 May. A great event and great participation! Special congratulations to our age champions and special award winners!

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Principal’s Report

ANZAC Day I attended Glen Innes’ ANZAC Day activities on Thursday 25 April. It was wonderful to have so many of our students involved. Our school captains Alejandro Crossley and Naomi Eastwood represented Glen Innes High School at the Dawn Service and Commemoration Service and presented “An Oration on the Theme of ANZAC”. In addition to the students that marched with the school, we had students represent many community groups and those that supported from the sidelines.

Our school commemorated ANZAC Day on Tuesday 30 April at a school assembly. Thank you to Mr Ken Michell, President of the Glen Innes Sub-branch for acting as our Guest Speaker and Mrs Helen Millar for her speech. Thank you also to: Year 11 student Alkira Blair-Bain who

acknowledged Country; Ms Genevieve Byrne, the HSIE Faculty, Mrs Kelly

Gaden, the SRC students, the School Leaders Alejandro Crossley, Naomi Eastwood, Evan Byrne, Lachlan Macansh and Tahnee Conroy for organising and running this event;

Tahnee Conroy who performed a brilliant original song that she wrote on war; and

Year 12 students Callista Sheridan, Heidi McCormick, Jennifer Mackenzie who also supplied music.

Celtic Festival Term 2 started at a running pace with the annual Australian Celtic Festival taking place here in Glen Innes last week. I was impressed with the quality of the items presented at the Celtic Festival Schools’ Performances and the Opening Ceremony. All students and staff involved in the performances should be congratulated on their efforts. These events are very popular and always well received.

School Athletics Carnival Our annual School Athletics Carnival will take place on Wednesday 22 May at King George Oval. This is a compulsory activity with all students, including seniors, expected to participate. The School Canteen will be operating from the oval. The school will be closed. Spectators are welcome to come along.

Students are to go directly to King George Oval to commence the day.

AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) Our school is proud to be an AIME Partner School. Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have the opportunity participate in the AIME program as of Week 3. On Monday, 13 May they travelled to the Oorala Aboriginal Centre at the University of New England. For more information, please contact the school office.

Staff Changes In Term 2 we welcome the following staff to Glen Innes High School:

In Term 2 we bid farewell to Drew Bogema, Head Teacher Mathematics and Tegan Morgan, English Teacher.

Year Advisors - Changes Please be advised that there have been some changes to our Year Advisors. Please see the updated list below:

Year 7: Jaclyn Jerome & Carl Yeomans Year 8: Cindy Moor & Johnny Elliott Year 9: Jody Lamph Year 10: Kelly Hammond & Matt Carrig Year 11: Anouk Gillett & Jackie Kiehne Year 12: Adele Chapman-Burgess & Chris Mathews

If you have any concerns or questions please contact the school.

Mr Adam Forrester, Principal

Kimberley Biddle - Learning and Support Teacher

Haylee Bishop - English Teacher

Jeremy Budda-Deen - PDHPE Teacher

Jayne Lovelock - Head Teacher Mathematics

Peter McPhillips - HSIE Teacher

Heather Clark - TAS Teacher Photo

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Tahlia Grob celebrating the

2019 Celtic Festival

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15’s Girls Soccer

A well fought game by our 15’s Girls Soccer Team against Armidale Secondary College on Thursday 2 May. Up 1 nil then 2 contentious disallowed goals only to be defeated 3-1 in the end. All the girls should be commended for their sportsmanship, grit and effort in a close game. Well done.

Representative Rugby League .

David Graham and Jack Grob of GIHS trialled for the Greater Western Rugby League Under 15s side today as part of the North West Team! Congratulations to both of these fine young men on representing at this level! Further congratulations to Jack who made selection at the next level and also received man of the match of the North West side! This is an outstanding achievement and we are all really excited and proud of his success!

Jack Grob and David Graham

GIHS 15’s Girls Soccer Team: Back row: Savannah Irwin, Mia Baker,

Sophie Watt, Charli Lynn, Maisie Eastwood, Emily McAlister, Ashleight Watson

Front row: Charli Elliott, Annaliese Frisby, Chelsey Kemp, Maddison Crawford, Holly

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CHS Touch Football

Congratulations to David Graham who represented the North West in Touch Football on the weekend in Wollongong! A great experience for David and the North West Team!

North West Touch Football Team: David Graham is in the back row, second from

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David Graham in action on the right

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Green Eehrindian Level Achievers

Having reached 200 Sentral PBL points

Year 9: Ellara Duck, Kobi Murdoch

Year 11: Breanna Webel

Orange Eehrindian Level Achievers

Having reached 100 Sentral PBL points

Year 7: Austyn Hansen-Brown, Genevive Brown, Toby Bruce, Amber Bryant, Angus Cameron, Jackson Campbell, Jack Causer, Sativa Collins, Summer Cooper, Jamie Crawford, Brayden Cummins, Danny Daley, Jordan Darnley, Riley de Jong, Leah Doust, Jack Duddy, Maisie Eastwood, Charli Elliott, Isaac Farrugia, Phoenix Francis, Lucas Gaden, Nate Grennan, Diesel Harvey, Samuel Hayes, Mitchell Keegan, Kayla Kelputis, Gemma Kerr,Jayden Kerr, Ella Key, Jordan Knox, Samuel Lockyer, Lottie Marr-Spillman, Braith Martin, Charlotte McHarg, Kassius Mitton, Mason Pritchard, Kasey Roe, Rahni Ruming, Ryan Tudor, Samuel Walsh, Wil Yarnold

Year 9: Tanesha Batten

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

HSC Written Exam Timetable

The timetable for this year’s written HSC exams is available from the following link:

http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/hsc/key-dates-exam-timetables/hsc-written-exam-timetable?fbclid=IwAR3J_VQanZvUbTLFsQhl76L7TtIkr_VJxqQ_2Pipe8b8RppriqsAYS6Zdjw

Year 12 Biology

Year 12 Biology students at Glen Innes High School have enjoyed the recent topic on 'Genetic Change.' Whilst this topic is highly relevant to the future direction of biological research it can be hard for high school students to engage with the modern technologies involved as they are highly technical and expensive. However we were still able to genetically engineer bacteria (E.coli) to host and express a 'glow in the dark' gene naturally present in algae.

This was clearly both interesting and fun and also showed that there is no limit to what our students can do!

Year 12 Biology students: Emily Burton, Lily Coldham, Jessica de Jong, Zari Campbell,

Heidi McCormick, Jennifer Mackenzie

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Featured Artists for CAPERS 2019

We are pleased to announce the results of the auditions for Featured Artists for CAPERS 2019.

Congratulations to the following students on their successful pathway through a rigorous audition process in Term 1. They will be attending a number of workshops throughout the year to thoroughly prepare them for CAPERS in Tamworth in November 2019.

YEAR 7 & 9 NAPLAN 2019

In May all Year 7 and 9 students across Australia will take part in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).

NAPLAN is designed to help parents and teachers better judge how Year 7 and 9 students are performing in relation to nationally-agreed standards.

NAPLAN Assessments will be conducted in Writing, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation), Reading and Numeracy.

Click on the link for further information in the brochure titled 2019 NAPLAN Information for Parents and Carers:

https://nap.edu.au/docs/default-source/default-document-library/naplan-on-paper-information-brochure-for-parents-and-carers.pdf?sfvrsn=2

The NAPLAN assessments will take place during normal school time in the week commencing 13 May (Week 3, Term 2).

Students absent on the assessment day/s will be provided with an opportunity to do the assessment later in that week. Withdrawal and Exemption, and Access to Disability Adjustments forms can be accessed by contacting the school.

NAPLAN Test Dates 2019

Test dates for NAPLAN 2019 for Year 7 and Year 9 students are:

Teachers are preparing students for the tests in accordance to NAPLAN guidelines and protocols. All students sitting the NAPLAN tests at school will be doing the paper version of NAPLAN tests.

Further information for parents and carers is available on the link below. It is a very comprehensive site and provides examples of tests and a section on frequently asked questions:

http://www.nap.edu.au/

DATE TEST TEST

14 May Language Conventions Writing

15 May Reading

16 May Numeracy

17 May Catch-up day

Taylah Kathyrn Ryan Alexandra Aubani Nia Grob Luxford McAllister Millar Teece Teece Year 11 Year 11 Year 9 Year 11 Year 10 Year 8

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ANZAC Day 2019

Thank you to all our students who took time out of their school holidays to represent Glen Innes High School in this year’s ANZAC Day March.

Photographs by Steven Earl

Senior Dance Workshops

Year 11 students Brooke Burgis and Tegan Craig attended the NSW Public Senior Dance Workshops in Week 1, Term 2 at Sydney Olympic Park. These workshops, held over three days for students in Years 9 & 10, are an excellent opportunity for students to be involved in a challenging and stimulating dance education program. Students experienced a variety of dance styles including: contemporary, theatre jazz, Bollywood, jazz, composition, hip hop and samba jazz fusion. Tuition was provided by industry trained tutors: Evie Morris, Hannah Russell, Shyamla Eswaran, Josh Arkey, Pete Evans, Omer Buckley-Astrachan, Bec Condino and Jordan Grant.

Brooke Burgis and Tegan Craig with some of their dance tutors

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Eehrindian 2019

Don’t miss your chance to save on this year’s school yearbook!

The $25 early-bird rate is valid until 27 September 2019 (Week 10, Term 3) and then the price increases to $30.

Payments can be made at the school office.

Clothing Pool

If your child has outgrown any uniform items, please consider donating them to our Clothing Pool.

With the cooler weather we are especially in need of jumpers and jackets.

Donations can be left at the school office.

Woolworths Earn & Learn

Glen Innes High School will be taking part in the 2019 Woolworths Earn & Learn program.

From now until June 25th 2019, for every $10 you spend at Woolworths you will receive a sticker. Pop the stickers as they are or on a sticker sheet into either the collection box at the Glen Innes Woolworths store or in the school office.

The more points we earn, the more we can redeem from a choice of over 10,000 educational resources including mathematics and English resources, art & crafts materials and much, much more!

We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program.

Property Planning Day

High school agriculture students from across the Northern Tablelands, including from Glen Innes High School, participated in the 2019 Schools Property Planning Competition at a field day at Bald Blair, Guyra on Thursday 2 May.

The Schools Property Planning Competition assists teachers in the delivery of property planning and sustainable farm management practices and principles to their agricultural students. Participating either individually or in small groups, students are given the scenario that they are consultants contracted by the landholder to prepare a property plan to ensure profitability and sustainability of the farm business.

The learning outcomes link to the Agriculture Stage 6 Subject ’Farm Case Study’ and the competition is targeted at students in Year 11.

The Schools Property Planning Competition Manual: Bald Blair (PDF 4.4MB) provides all of the background information and resources required to complete the property plan.

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School Canteen

There have been some price changes and new items added to the School Canteen’s menu.

The updated menu can be accessed online via the school’s website: https://gleninnes-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/g/gleninnes-h/gallery/2019_Canteen_Menu.pdf.

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