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NEXT MEETING Tuesday 9th June
5:30PM Venue: Common Room Everyone Welcome
2015 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President—Mr R Heggie
Vice President—Mrs Honey Ali‐Allen Secretary—Ms Noela Graham
Treasurer—Mrs Michelle Cifuentes
Jasper Street Mareeba PO Box 1079 Mareeba QLD 4880 Telephone 07 4086 2777 Fax 07 4092 3915 E‐mail [email protected] Web h p://mareebashs.eq.edu.au
4th—6th Jun Musical—Performances
4th Jun
Chess Compe on
5th Jun Lake Eacham/Tinaroo Triathlon Year 7&8 Readers Cup Regional Final
8th Jun Public Holiday
9th Jun
P&C Mee ng
12th Jun
Athle cs 1500m Race
16th—19th Jun
Block Exams
22nd—24th Jun
South Passage Excursion
25th—26th Jun
Athle cs Carnival
13th Jul
School Resumes Term 3
14th Jul
P&C Mee ng Year 8 JET Interviews
Year10WORKEXPERIENCEWEEKThank you to all the local businesses who supported our Year 10 Work Experience program—2 Wheels N Wear, Atherton Family Physiothera‐py, B & C Cabinets, Ba s n Electrical, Beaurepaires, Big Cat Green
Island Reef Cruises, Biosecurity Qld, Bryan Stevens Optometrist, Central Veterinary Surgery, Coles Supermarket, Corne 's IGA, CSIRO, Cutz 'n' Curls, Driscoll Carvey Building Design, Essen al Fitness, Fibre Op cs NQ, Floral Magic, FNQ Computers, Ford Hansen, Friends of the Animals TSPCA, Full Bore Carpentry, Gallery of Beauty, Girle's Sign Shop, Graeme Shoe Store, Harvest Mareeba, Heavy Equipment Hire, Heli Service NQ, HMAS Cairns, Indulgence Nails & Beauty, Into Construc ons, Jen‐
nings Electrical, Kuranda & Mareeba Veterinary Services, Laser Electrical Mareeba, LJ Hooker, Mareeba Children and Family Centre, Mareeba Express, Mareeba Hire, Mareeba Hospital, Mareeba Leagues Club, Mareeba Motors, Mareeba RSL, Mareeba Shire Council, Mareeba State Primary School, Mareeba Veterinary Surgery, Melaleuca Crocodile Farm, Michael Ait‐
ken, Mission Avia on Fellowship Mareeba, Mitre 10 Mareeba, Mt Molloy State School, Northern Auto Electrical, Op Shop ADRA Mareeba, Paula's Aerobic & Gym Centre, Performance Motors, Priceline Pharmacy, PT Health Studio, Pumping Irriga‐on and Machinery, Qld Police Service ‐ Mareeba Sta on, QT's Early Learning Cen‐
tre, Russo's Quality Meats, Shane Smith Builder Pty Ltd, Shane Srhoj, Simply Bliss Hair & Beauty, Soncin Electrical, St Thomas's Parish School, Ta‐bleland Veterinary Service, Target Maree‐ba, TGT PTY Hardware, That's my Physio & Tropical Coast Homes.
INDIGENOUSACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Mareeba State High School acknowledges the Traditional
Custodians, the Muluridji people of the country in which this school is located and pays
respect to their Elders past and present.
DATECLAIMERS
P&CASSOCIATION
TERM 2 2015
SHAVEFORACURE
“Building a Be er
NON NOBIS SOLUM
The Year 12 Student Council organised Shave for a Cure on Wednesday 6th May. The aim of the event was to raise money for the Leukaemia Founda on. Seven brave boys shed their locks for this great cause. Bailey Kent, Aus n Pell, Tom Wya , Sam Harris, Kane Midgley, Aiden Lowe‐Brock and Jamie Reichardt.
Prior to the shave these boys raised $1276 . An addi onal $369.50 was raised on the day by students and staff of Mareeba State High School bringing the grand total to $1645.50. (Con nued on next page)
PRINCIPAL’SWORDSWe are half way through Term 2 and it has been especially busy with NAPLAN, Yr 6 transi on and Yr 10 work experience in the last few
weeks. It has also been great to see so many of our young people ge ng involved in the community through ANZAC Day, the wheelbarrow race and the recent Student Council fundraiser “Shave for a Cure”. This is the heart of our mo o “Non nobis solum”.
At the April P&C I spoke about the school’s recent review and it is good news. The review assesses the school against the Na onal School Improvement Tool and looks at 9 key areas. The review replaces the former Teaching and Learning and Discipline Audits. The work over the last four years to implement be er support for students to come to school every day, to improve student behaviour and to ensure the highest standards of teaching in every class are showing strong success. Our work with parents, families, local schools and business and community organisa ons is also a strength. As always, there is more work to do and the review also contains recommenda ons for further improvement. The review findings are on the school website. I would encourage all parents to read the document and have input into the school’s next strategic plan which will commence next year and con nue un l 2019.
Lastly, the school musical is coming up shortly, “Ha ng Alison Ashley” and I am looking forward to seeing our budding thespians on stage. I hope all families can find me to a end.
Warm regards to all families.
Jo Soothill Principal
WRITINGFORTHEWRITEROn Tuesday 5th May, eager Year 7, 8 and 9 students filed into the library to be greeted by the warm and welcoming smile of author Mr. Barry Jonsberg. Barry Jonsberg was a laugh and a half as he cap vated the students with a humor‐ous and educa onal day. All students worked enthusias cally throughout the sessions, with the excep on of me taken out for a delicious lunch and the informal Book Club mee ng and discussion me with Mr Jonsberg. We learnt many useful wri ng techniques from ‘Show don’t
tell’ to ‘Adverbs must die!’ It was a fantas c day and hopefully every student can take the many brilliant tech‐niques and advice on their wri ng journey. Clayre Girgen —Year 7 Stu‐dent
2015STEMCAMPAPPLICATIONSOPENQUT’s annual Vice‐Chancellor's STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathema cs) camp gives students a taste of the STEM disciplines by engaging in a hands‐on, intensive explora on of a research project in their chosen discipline, such as biology, physics, chemistry, radiography, medical imagine, pharmacy, computa onal mathema cs, aerospace and robo cs.
The 2015 camp will take place in the September school holi‐days and is fully funded by QUT. There is no cost for students to a end and it is open to all high‐achieving Queensland Year 11 students. For more informa on please see Chris na Ellaco or visit the QUT website h ps://
www.qut.edu.au/study/undergraduate‐study/do‐you‐advise‐school‐students/resources‐for‐schools/stem‐for‐schools/vice‐chancellors‐stem‐regional‐camp
GEOGRAPHYEXCURSIONThe Year 11 and 12 Geography classes went on a field trip to Yungaburra to observe the impacts of flooding and erosion on river catchment areas. Students got the opportunity to see firsthand the work that has been done to reduce ero‐sion and pollu on of the Barron River, and are now involved in real life applica on of geography skills.
Kelsey Allen—HOD Senior School/ Year 12 Coordinator
Future Together”
“NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE”
ROSTRUMVOICEOFYOUTHOn Saturday 16th May six students from Mareeba State High School competed in the Rostrum Voice of Youth Public Speaking Compe on.
Mareeba State High School fielded a strong and compe ve team that received much praise from the judges. Mateen La f and Gamuchirai Mako were highly commended on the day.
Chris na Ellaco —Gi ed Educa on Mentor, Senior Teacher
Pictured: Joshua Theakston, Gamuchirai Mako , Aiden Lowe‐Brock, Orla Weaver, Finnian Weaver. Absent: Mateen La f
SHAVEFORACURE
As the boys exceeded the target amount of $1000, Principal Jo Soothill also fell prey to the clippers.
Thank you to the hairdressers Ashleigh from Hair Mania, and Nicolle and Jess from Hairworks Hair and Beauty.
Tim Ralph—Teacher , Student Council Mentor
LEARNTOCANOEStudents wishing to apply for their Tax File Numbers can now do so via an online form. Visit h ps://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Ind/Apply‐for‐a‐TFN‐on‐the‐web/ for more infor‐ma on.
YEAR12AGRICULTURE&HORTICULTUREThe Year 12 Agriculture and Hor culture students are currently providing fresh vegetables to the Mareeba State High School Tuckshop. These include cucumber, tomatoes, le uce and basil. This is part of a business planning and produc on unit. The produc on of these vegetable takes place at the School Hor culture Block where several beds have been provided for the students to produce and harvest these products. Currently there has been great support and feedback from Convenor, Rebecca Mauro and the Tuckshop patrons on the produce that the students provide weekly. We would like to say thank you to them for suppor ng this project.
As part of this unit the students also a ended a field trip to the Anza wholesale nursery in Mareeba. The class was taken on a guided tour of the facility and was shown a number of machines and explained the processes and procedures that are used to produce seedlings for the region.
Jason Richardson—Teacher
DISTRICTCROSSCOUNTRYYear 9 student, Orla Weaver and Olivia Anderson Year 10 both came 4th in their age groups and have been invited to compete at the Cross Country State Championships early next term. Well done girls.
Anna Newlands—Ac ng HOD Mathema cs
Jasper Street Mareeba PO Box 1079 Mareeba QLD 4880 Telephone 07 4086 2777 Fax 07 4092 3915 E‐mail [email protected] Web h p://mareebashs.eq.edu.au
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives”
Clay P. Bedford
QR mobile phone applica on link to school website
OFFICEHOURSMonday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
8:00am —3:30pm
Tuesday 8:00am—3:15pm
BECOMEAVOLUNTEERHOSTFAMILYTHISJULY!World Educa on Program (WEP) Australia is invi ng you to experience another culture in your own home by becoming a volunteer host family to an interna onal student arriving in July 2015. Our exchange students from Belgium, Denmark, Ecuador, Chile, Italy and the USA are young people like Estelle and Riccardo who look forward to experiencing a different culture and becoming a member of an Australian family soon. Request a full Informa on Pack Now! Contact WEP Australia to request detailed program informa on and student profiles. Sylvia Kelly, www.wep.org.au, [email protected], 1300 884 733
WOULDYOULIKETOHOSTANOVERSEASSTUDENT?Experience another culture, make new friends and improve your language studies at home
Hos ng – An Experience for Life
Student Exchange is looking for host families across Australia to welcome overseas students into their home
www.studentexchange.org.au or 1300 135 331
SCHOOLWATCH
The school has a new answering service to assist in providing a more efficient service to parents. The op ons are: 1. Student Services (Enrolments, Absence, Behaviour, First Aid) 2. Student Payments (Excursions, Resource hire scheme) 3. Administra on (Curriculum, Teachers, Laptops) 4. Accounts payable (External agencies)
5. Other
NEWPHONES
Thank you to everyone that supported the Mareeba State High School Mothers Day Raffle. Congratula ons to the follow‐ing winners ‐
1st Diandra Graham
2nd Danielle Kelly‐White
3rd Tom Braes
P&CMOTHERSDAYRAFFLEWINNERS
ACOMMUNITYSAFETYMESSAGE
Mackay Sugar’s Mossman mill has commenced its 2015 crushing season opera ons on the seven day per week basis, from 11th May, 2015. The season may extend to December. Locomo ve and road transport opera ons are beginning and once the crushing season is underway, there will be a significant increase in locomo ve, road transport and cane harves ng opera ons on highways and roads within the Jula en and Mareeba districts.
As school buses have a high exposure to this sec on of the industry, Mackay Sugar wish to draw your a en on to the start date of the crushing season and the resultant increase in road and rail ac vi es which will occur and ask that Mareeba State High School make students aware of the need to be extremely careful near traffic at all mes.
DISABILITYDATACOLLECTIONMareeba State High School is part of a collec on process to collect data on students who are receiving adjustments due to a disability as defined under the Disability Discrimina on ACT. It is important that data is collected on students receiving assistance due to a disability. Consulta on with parents is important not only for the data collec on but also to ensure you aware of the adjustments being provided to support your child. We will therefore con n‐ue to consult with you. While only data that cannot iden fy your child will be sub‐mi ed outside of the Department, if you do not wish for your child’s details to be included, please let me know. Informa on and fact sheets are available to help you make a decision from the: Department’s website: h p://educa on.qld.gov.au/curriculum/disability‐data‐collec on.html Australian Government Department of Educa on website: h p://educa on.gov.au/na onally‐consistent‐collec on‐data‐school‐students‐disability Alterna vely, if you have any queries about the collec on please contact either Jo Soothill, Principal or Michelle Burgess, Head of Learning Support Michelle Burgess — Head of Special Educa on and Learning Support.
BANKDEPOSITSDear Parents/Carers When making a direct bank deposit in‐to the school bank account for pay‐ments of your child/childrens accounts, please ensure that you include the stu‐dent’s name in the recipient descrip‐on area.
Eg: Citizen James or Citizen J When a deposit is made with no name it is impossible for us to allocate that payment to the correct student ac‐count. Thanking you in advance. Pam Evans—Business Service Manager
DEBUTANTEBALL
“Building a Be er
NON NOBIS SOLUM
Mareeba State High School students stepped out in style at the recent Mareeba Debutante Ball.
The debutantes from le to right are:
Emily Barne , Gabrielle Fitzgerald, Sarah Booth, Amy Mehmet, Jasmine Cleall and Tayla Hughes.
BARRONRIVERCHALLENGEThe Barron River Challenge schools division was won by Ma hew Lep for the third year in a row in a record me of 57:02 Minutes. Ma hew also won the Open Kayak sec on of the BRC50 the next day.
The Brown brothers‐ Jackson and Dylan showed they are just as good in a canoe as they are pushing a wheelbarrow when they won the TC2‐ Touring Canadian division. Dynamic paddling duo Carla Newlands and Orla Weaver became the female champions just in front of solo kayak paddler – Tayla Hughes.
The Tinaroo Canoe Club thanks all school compe tors for making their 5th Barron River Challenge a success. Special thanks to junior race sponsors TJM for their generous cash prizes and to our Mareeba Shire Council for their BRC event sponsorship.
Any students interested in learning to canoe/kayak, sessions are on the river Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4.30pm, for more informa on please see Jamie Gardiner — Teacher
RESULTS
Ma hew Lep Junior Male ‐ K1 0:57:02 1 1st Overall Junior/1st Junior Male K1
J Brown/D Brown Junior Male ‐ TC2 1:10:06 2 2nd Overall Junior/1st Junior TC2/1st Junior Male TC2
D Waterman/S Harris Junior Male ‐ TC2 1:11:57 3 3rd Overall Junior/2nd Junior TC2/2nd Junior Male TC2
O Weaver/C New‐lands
Junior Female ‐ TC2 1:13:23 4 3rd Junior TC2/1st Junior Female TC2
Tayla Hughes Junior Female ‐ Plas c 1:16:18 5 1st Junior Plas c/1st Junior Female Plas c
J Tomerini/T Gargan Junior Male ‐ TC2 1:16:20 6 3rd Junior Male TC2
Maeghan Bewick Junior Female ‐ Plas c 1:17:01 7 2nd Junior Plas c/2nd Junior Female Plas c
A Barbir/J Anderson Junior Female ‐ TC2 1:25:26 8 2nd Junior Female TC2
T Smith/E Phillo Junior Female ‐ TC2 1:26:01 9 3rd Junior Female TC2
Ma hew Crane Junior Male ‐ Plas c 1:28:54 10 3rd Junior Plas c/1st Junior Male Plas c
Nathan Torrisi Junior Male ‐ Plas c 1:29:33 11 2nd Junior Male Plas c
K Lane/E Price Junior Female ‐ TC2 1:31:42 12 4th Junior Female TC2
M Paton/A Jenkins Junior Female ‐ TC2 1:33:39 13 5th Junior Female TC2
Mareeba State High School has a new alterna ve method for parents to pay your school invoices. This op on is replacing the exis ng BPay system.
BPOINT is an internet web link you can use as a method of paying school invoices se‐curely from your own computer.
BPOINT offers several payment op ons as below:
Internet Payment (single payment) via Web Link www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete this link is on the School Webpage under Quicklinks
Re‐occurring direct debit (payment plan) ‐ Authorise to have your credit or debit card in a secure environment for approved payment plans (e.g. text book, school fees, etc.)
Please contact Student Services office if you wish to arrange a re‐occurring payment.
Internet Payment via BPoint Web Link
Enter the CRN provided on the school invoice (this is the same ref number as BPay)
Enter the Invoice Number
Enter the Student Name
Enter amount and select Visa or Master Card
SCHOOLACCOUNTS
Future Together”
“NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE”
RURALTRAININGQLDStudents that have enrolled
with Rural Training Queensland in 2015 have commenced comple ng a Cer ficate II in Rural Opera ons at the Mareeba Trade Training Centre and have made a successful start to date. Both the Automo ve and Fabrica on groups have completed the mandatory Occupa onal Health and Safety unit, with the automo ve group now concentra ng on carrying out servicing opera ons within the automo ve sec on u lising the four post hoist and tools available. The fabrica on group is concentra ng on how to safely and competently use a gas metal arc welder and a manual metal arc welder (MIG and S ck). All correct safety gear is being worn at all mes with workshop rules followed.
The returning two groups con nuing on from 2014 are also back at the trade centre with the automo ve group learning and comple ng a unit involving brakes and the fabrica on group are working on a project as a group following
drawings and work plans. Rudi Schincariol – Rural Training Queensland Instructor
UNIQUESTUDENTIDENTIFIER(USI)DO YOU HAVE A USI? DO YOU NEED ONE? IF
YOU DO A CERTIFICATE OF ANY KIND THE ANSWER IS YES From 1st January 2015 all students (of any age) doing na onally recognised training need to have a Unique Student Iden fier (USI). This combina on of le ers and numbers aim to link all of a student’s Voca onal Educa on and Training informa on in a safe, secure, accessible, online way regardless of where they have done their training or with whom. Keeping this informa on together will make it easier to access copies of their cer ficates; make it easier to prove your qualifica ons to poten al employers and to access op ons for Recogni on of Prior Learning (RPL). This is a FREE and QUICK process and essen al if you wish to receive the cer ficate you are studying hard for. Log on to www.usi.gov.au and select “Student Entry” then “Create a USI”. You will need to prove your iden ty with one of these op ons:
Driver’s Licence Medicare Card
Australian Passport Visa (with Non‐Australian Passport) for interna onal students
Birth Cer ficate (Australian) *please note a Birth Cer ficate extract is not sufficient
Cer ficate Of Registra on By Descent
Ci zenship Cer ficate
ImmiCard
For more informa on please see
Sally Bishop—Youth Support Coordinator
THEGREATWHEELBARROW
RACE“Demolishers”— Year 10 students Kristy Lane, Levi Lilly, Emily Price, Alison Rizze o, Emma Vecchio Ruggeri, Lachlan Ford, Casey grogan Howle , Giovan Spena, Isabella Tognola (photographer).
Year 12 Students, Ka a Spena, Joanna Saker, Jade Lankester, Danicka Fega lli, Carla Newlands, Sabrina Rofe and Krystal Gava made up part of the “Pullin” Team.
Year 11 students, Dale Parker, Lee Jonsson, Bre Girgen , Tyson Ta , Erin Phillo , Rachael Feltrin and Shaquille Fega lli made up part of the “99er’s Remix” team.
THEGREATWHEELBARROWRACENumerous Mareeba State High School students par cipated in this years Great Wheelbarrow Race. The gruelling 140klm run from Mareeba to Dimbulah to Almaden and to the finish line in Chillagoe is not for the faint hearted. Well done to all those who took part.
Results included
Charity fundraisers: winner – Wheelie Mad Women $72,000
Best theme: winner – Cowboy Ducks
Talent Quest: winner – Bad Boys
Ladies teams: winner – Easier said Than Run
Mixed teams: winner – Racing for Freedom
Men’s teams: winner – Bad Boys
Over 40s: winner – 72 Models
High Schools: winner – Nudgee College
Services: winner – Termites (Army)
Duo: winner – 2 Lone Bucks
Solo male: winner – Joshua Priestly
Overall winning team: winner – The Bad Boys
Great sportsmanship was displayed and friendships forged as this le er from Mark Ellison, Director of Jus ce and Peace of St Joseph's Nudgee College to Principal, Jo Soothill indicates.
“Good a ernoon, I just wanted to pass on my praise and admira on for the young men of the "Bad Boys" who won the Great Wheelbarrow Race this weekend. Not only were they amazing runners, but their sportsmanship, teamwork, and support for other teams, and then the way the captain spoke at the awards ceremony, and to see the boys donate their prize money to the Indie charity was simply amazing and a great inspira on to our students and myself. Our boys had a fantas c trip up to Mareeba and Chillagoe and the friendly rivalry between our teams made it that much be er. Please pass on our thanks and congratula ons to all involved.”
Bad Boys set new race record—Nicholas Turner Yr12, Jackson Brown Yr12, Dylan Brown Yr11, Omar Myrteza Yr11, Zachary Adams Yr12, Quang Truong Yr12, Trung Truong Yr12, Jonathan Meyer Yr12, Joshua Musumeci Yr12, Ricaydan Wason Yr11.
