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2912th August 2011 Week 4 Term 3

COOTAMUNDRA HIGH SCHOOL

 

Congratulations to the Year 9 Drama group and Year 12 Music students who performed at the Education Week concert on Friday lunchtime. Your talent, enthusiasm and commitment to your play and music was exemplary. Those involved were: Lauren Kelly, Tegan Sheedy, Kathleen Gould, Joel Fuller, Kaitlyn Adair, Ariah Holmes, Kieran Betts-Smith, Rebecca Nicholson, Melissa Smith, Braden Lambert and Cassie Giles.

On Friday the school hosted Mr. Colin Parker, The Riverina Regional Director of Education for a short visit. During his time at school we were able to showcase many of our successful students, who explained their success. These included: Bree Hummelesteed and Jade Wilson (Yr 10 Aspire Program), Bevan Collins and Brad Ingham (Brick and Block), Sam Lynch (Yr 12 Industrial Technology-Timber), Sarah Godman (Geography) and our school captains (Christa Chapman, Lauren Kelly, Ben Masters and Bobby Hughes). Mr Parker was also able to see the concert at the post office. He was extremely impressed with all that he saw and certainly wanted me to pass on his congratulations to everyone involved. Thank you for those who participated.

On Friday a small team of Coota High Students travelled to Albury for the Regional Athletics Carnival and once again came away with some great success. Sarah Douglas of Year 11 won the Open Girls 100m (12.18 seconds) and the 200m (25.14 sec) a new race record on both event. The boys relay team of Ryan Miller, Dylan McDermott, Alex Jones and Jordan Ballard won their event also. All of these students will be off to Sydney in September for the

Combined High Schools Athletics Carnival. We wish them well.

On Friday 12th of August Coota High will be hosting a visit of the Melbourne Cup. With students from EA Southee and Elouera also attending. A very exciting presentation will be delivered by John Letts (a Melbourne Cup Wining Jockey) and Dr Newman (Racing Historian). I am certain that everyone will enjoy this presentation.

Friday will also be the annual Jeans for Genes Day, raising much needed funds for research into childhood disease. I am certain that once again Coota High will really support this great cause.

During the past two weeks lessons have been conducted to explicitly teach our Values (RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY AND EXCELLENCE) the involvement of the students and staff has been exceptional. Many, many students are really living these values in all school activities. Well done. Congratulations to Ricki-Lee Atkinson for her great posters throughout the school.

The Big Ski Trip is on Monday August 22 and already there is a waiting list. Thanks to Mr Jacobs for organising this and everyone is certainly looking forward to the day. Hope the snow lasts!!

Garry Mason

Principal

PRINCIPAL: Mr Garry Mason DEPUTY PRINCIPAL: Mrs Janine Nelson

Inside this issue

Principal's Report 1

Deputy’s Desk Calender of Events Awards

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School News 3

Community Notices 4

Canberra Visit—University Experience

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Woolworths Earn and Learn Community Program

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Principal’s Report

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Awards

Calendar of Events Term 3 2011

Wk 5

Mon 15 Aug Yr 9 2012 Elective Info afternoon

Wk 6 Mon 22 Aug Tue 23 Aug Thu 25 Aug

Ski trip Yr 7 2012 Parent info evening Yr 9 2012 Elective choices due Bright Star Coffee Shop open

Wk 7 Tue 30 Aug P & C meeting

Year meetings were recently held with students to discuss expectations and events targeted for each in-dividual year group. The ongoing implementation of our program “Positive Behaviour for Learning” was discussed and students were reminded of the rewards system that has been introduced when students ex-hibit positive behaviours. I was particularly pleased to have a number of students approach me with ideas on improving our school and welcome any further recommendations.

Our Ski trip will hit the slopes in a week’s time. Stu-dents have been eager to participate. Meetings have been held by coordinating teacher Mr Jacobs to in-form students about sun safety in the snow and all requirements for the day.

Students wore their jeans to support Jeans for Genes Day fundraising on Friday 12th. SRC students are busy planning the next School Social and events for the remainder of the year.

Year 12 students studying courses requiring major

Deputy’s Desk

Bronze: Alish Ballard, Alec Betts, Michael Blundell, Aiden Brown, Joel Brown, Sahnnon Caldwell, Karney Chester, Jordan Douglas, Sarah Godman, Nicola Hargraves, Jordan Laidlaw, Clare Loiterton, Emma Liu, Adam Martin, Jacalyn McEnally, Aden Newman, Chris Nicholson, Jacob O’mara, Ross Raffaele, Brendan Schade, Ryan Schade, Alicia Schneider, Rachael Sullivan, Grace Thompson, Emily Webb and Ashleigh Willoughby.

Silver: Alec Betts, Michael Blundell, Jayme Boxall, Aiden Brown, Joel Brown, Sahnnon Caldwell, Karney Chester, Jordan Douglas, Nicola Hargraves, Jordan Laidlaw, Clare Loiterton, Adam Martin, Dakota Medhurst, Aden Newman, Brendan Schade, Alicia Schneider, Grace Thompson, Emily Webb and Ashleigh Willoughby.

Gold: Matthew Angel, Asleigh Dean, Abby Gordaon, Ben Jackson, Aden Newman, Adam Peddie, Brendan Schade and Emily Webb.

Cootamundra High School Award: Blake Caldwell

Congratulations to all these students. Keep up the tremendous effort!

works and special Projects have been extremely busy this week putting their finishing touches to-gether so these projects are ready for early Septem-ber marking.

We look forward to our Year 7 2012 students visit-ing our school in coming weeks. Many activities have been planned to introduce Year 6 students to our school and to learn about the routines they will experience next year.

Mrs Janine Nelson

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School News

Clothing pool items required Any school uniform items surplus to your

needs, especially winter items, are greatly appreciated.

Drop them into the school office. Thankyou.

Bill Turner Trophy The junior girls soccer team were defeated by Marian College Griffith after a very hard fought match. Cootamundra were leading with five minutes to go when Marian College were awarded a controversial goal. The sides were still deadlocked after extra time and the game went to a penalty shoot out in which we were unsuccessful.

Throughout the competi-tion the team's conduct was exemplary.

It is indicative of the high regard in which Cootamundra is held that Mr Bill Turner, the founder of the competition telephoned the school the next day to say how sorry he was that Cootamundra had lost and to reminisce about his fond memories of Cootamundra players from several years ago when he had the pleasure of meeting Cootamundra players at the finals of the competition.

Martin McCarthy (Coach) Above: Deputy Principal - Janine Nelson, Bobby Hughes, Historian - Dr Newman , Ben Masters, Two time Melbourne Cup jockey winner - John Letts, Christa Chapman and Lauren Kelly.

Above: Some of our students pictured with jockey John Letts and the Melbourne Cup.

Right: Students from Coota High, EA Southee and Elourea attending Melbourne Cup Tour.

Melbourne Cup Tour

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Community Notices

Cootamundra Sports Stadium

Fully Supervised Disco

When: 12th August 2011 6:00pm – 8:00 pm

Entry: $5.00 Kindergarten – Year 8

Games, Lucky Door Prizes, Kiosk will be open

Confirmation Classes at the Anglican Church

Classes to prepare children from age 11 up and adults for confirmation by Bishop Stuart in No-vember will begin at Christ Church (Bourke St) in mid August. Candidates names can be submitted by telephoning 6942 4995 (Church Office) or 6942 6006 (Carol Willis).

ZUMBA CLASSES

GETTING FIT WITH FUN

$10 PER NIGHT

TUESDAY NIGHT - 6 PM

RSL CLUB AUDITORIUM

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Hey Dad!

Centrecare is running a short course for separated fathers who are looking for ways to

best manage their situation.

The course starts August 23rd

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Woolworths Earn and Learn Community Program

Our school is taking part in Woolworths Earn & Learn community program. All docket points are tallied and the points are used to collect educational rewards for our school. This promo-tion only runs for a limited time. (From July 18th to September 18th 2011). Please could all parents send in their shopping dockets with their children. (You do not need to send in whole docket if you do not wish. We only need the section at the bottom that displays points earned.) Woolworths will give you one Earn & Learn point for every $10 you spend in store (excluding the purchase of cigarettes, alcohol and gift cards). Points will automati-cally appear on your shop-ping dockets. All you need to do is save those dockets and bring them to school. At the end of the 9-week program, we can redeem our collection of points against a choice of more than 7,000 educational resources. The list is extensive and in-cludes library books, class-room equipment, art & craft materials and much, much more...

There’s no limit to the number of points we can collect, so your participation will really make a difference. The more points we earn, the more resources we can order!

Our school tally as of Friday 12th August is 5099 points!!!

We need to earn more points in order to claim the great rewards on offer. Our aim is to earn 20,000 points!!!!!

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Canberra Visit - University Experience

On Tuesday 26th July a group of ten Yr 10 stu-dents accompanied by Mrs Green travelled to Canberra for 3 days of fun, laughter and learning. We were joined by 32 other students from Coleambally High, Cowra High, Deniliquin High and Lockhart Central. The visit was organised by Mrs. Alderman and fully funded by the Country Education Founda-tion of Australia (CEFA). The CEFA University Experience program aims to provide country stu-dents with the opportunity to visit a university and experience life on campus. We visited ANU (Australian National Univer-sity), the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) and CU (Canberra University). Our tour guide and CEFA organiser was Annabel Gay who did a marvellous job of making us all feel very wel-come and sharing in all the activities. The students participating in the excursion were Jade Wilson, Tara Kelly, Samantha Lambing, Joel Brown, Sarah Walsh, Aaron Hines, Bree Hummelstad, Amy Bell, Grace Thompson and Ailish Ballard. “I really enjoyed the drama skit on our last night. I thought it was so much fun and great for laughs. The whole experience was really great and I did-n’t want to leave all the new friends I made. I would strongly recommend this trip to anyone chosen”. Grace Thompson “I greatly enjoyed the Mock trial and the interac-tive section of the AIS. I think this excursion was very good and I would recommend every other student to take part if given a chance. I thank all the lecturers, teachers, ambassadors and espe-cially Annabel for making it all possible”. Joel Brown “I really enjoyed Canberra, but going to the AIS was the most exciting. We got to have a look around and met some athletes from different sports. Canberra was an amazing experience and shouldn’t be missed”. Tara Kelly

Group photo outside Canberra University

Back table: Tara Kelly

Paper Aeroplane Contest

Law Lecture

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Canberra University Experience Visit

Continued ........ Continued .... “I really enjoyed the Canberra University Experi-ence program and I learnt a lot about Uni life. I had lots of fun at ice skating on the first night and meeting new people. I found the drug testing really interesting and so was the Mock Trial. I liked learning how a real court case would work. My highlight of the trip would be the drama ac-tivities on the last night as it was fun to see what everyone else did. The trip was an amazing ex-perience that I will never forget”. Samantha Lambing “I really enjoyed the drama skit we did on our final night there, and making new friends. Seeing what the Uni’s were like and what they have to offer was really good too. I had a heap of fun and didn’t want to leave”. Ailish Ballard. “I really enjoyed the Canberra University Experi-ence program run by the Country Education Foundation of Australia (CEFA) because it showed us what Uni life can be like even if you come from the country. It was also good to meet other people from country towns. The part I liked most was the visit to the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport). This was because we had time to play games amongst our-selves as well as a training activity run by four young fe-male basketball players. We also had a tour around the AIS and spent some time in the interactive learning centre which was full of games”. Bree Hummelstad Continued...

Aaron Hines, Joel Brown and Mrs Green

Advertising Lecture 3D

All students and staff on the last

night.

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Canberra University Experience Visit

Continued.... “The whole thing really was spectacular. Annabel did an amazing job organising the trip. I think the best part was meeting new people for the most part. I wanted to stay just to keep hanging out with them. The ice skating was also quite fun and enjoyable. Our own Grace showing us all up by texting and skating at the same time! The AIS arena activities were very good and satisfying to me. Touring the place was quite informative and I found out some interesting facts and informa-tion about the training of the athletes. The ANU tour was in my opinion better than the CU one. The tour of Bruce Hall and seeing one of the dorms made me seriously consider on-campus accommodation. To say the least, the trip was amazing - very informative and a truck load of fun”. Aaron Hines I would like to congratulate our students for their wonderful participation in this event. They were great representatives of Cootamundra High. Many thanks to Mrs. Alderman, Annabel and the many staff and students at ANU, CU and AIS who gave of their time and information.

Sandra Green (TAS / Year Advisor)

Australian Institute of Sport Stadium

Australian Institute of Sport (interactive section—mirror)

Jade Wilson

Ice Skating

Cootamundra students participation in Skit Night