Term 3 Issue 11
Friday 11th August 2017
PYJAMA DAY FUNDRAISER On Friday 4th August, TCRTHS celebrated our own pyjama day, where staff and students dressed down in their PJ’s to raise money for two fantastic causes. Our school charity, Ronald McDonald House, as well as Jeans 4 Genes Day, will both receive monies raised from our school community. On the day, students were challenged to dress down in their PJs with prizes given for each year group on our morning assembly. Our students really showed their school spirit, with more than half of the school dressing in their pyjamas. Prizes were given to the following students for their phenomenal outfits and school spirit: Adrian Forrester – Year 7 Courtney Harcombe – Year 8 Chantiel Weir and Montana Keough – Year 9 Justin Alexander – Year 10 Chelcey Hancock – Year 11 Matthew Gray – Year 12 Staff were also encouraged to dress down and we were not disappointed, with some fantastic outfits being worn on the day. Amanda Sullivan was lucky enough to win the staff prize with a colour-coordinated, bright pink and blue ensemble. I would like to thank all staff and students who participated in the day and congratulate the school community on raising $300 for our nominated charities. Ms Lisa Doherty SRC Coordinator
Ronald McDonald House Jeans 4 Genes Day
From the Principal’s Desk Dear Parents and Members of the School Community As always it has been a busy two weeks since I last wrote to you, with the staff and students involved in a wide variety of activities both in and outside the classroom.
SCHOOLS SPECTACULAR Once again this year we have been successful in gaining positions for both our choir and dancers in the Schools Spectacular. The theme for this year is ‘Own the Moment’, and students will perform in Sydney at the end of November. The students have already started to participate in a range of fundraising activities to assist with the cost of the excursion and there are many more planned. Please look out for these opportunities and assist the students in achieving this goal.
CHPA RIDE FOR MABEL AND PRADER WILLI SYNDROME From 1pm on Thursday 31st August four teams of riders led by CHPA athletes will ride stationary (spin bikes) for a 24-hour period. Participants will gain sponsorship and have other associated fundraisers to assist raise money for a project that our partner from Phyz X, Justin Johnston, is running within our local community after his daughter was born with Prader Willi Syndrome. More information about how to get involved will be available shortly. We would appreciate any ideas and/or donations to the cause if you have contacts in the Orange community that could help us. Please email mark.skein@det.nsw.edu.au or call the school if you can help with sponsorship.
SUBJECT SELECTIONS Year 8 and Year 10 students have started to complete their subject selections for 2018. Students are reminded to drop their signed selection sheets in to the Front Office once they have been signed. Year 10 students need to make sure they have completed their interview with their mentor and filled in their Senior Student Passport prior to doing their subject selections. If there are any questions please contact Mr Nic Williams at the school.
YEAR 7 EXHIBITIONS Year 7 students will be exhibiting the work from their latest projects on Friday 18 th August in the school hall. All parents are invited to attend and see the work that has been completed by their students. Invitations and more information will be sent home via students shortly. This is a great opportunity to see the interesting activities the students have been involved with over the last ten weeks.
TELL THEM FROM ME SURVEYS Each year we ask our families to complete a survey compiled by the Department of Education asking questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement. The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, ipads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. More information will be forthcoming in the upcoming weeks, but I would encourage you to complete this survey and let us know what you think.
I hope you have a great fortnight and I look forward to speaking with you again in Week 6.
With my warmest regards Kate Wootten
TCRTHS Calendar Look at what’s coming up... Monday 14th August
Trial HSC Examinations continue
Tuesday 15th August
UNSW ICAS Mathematics competition
Friday 18th August
Yr 7 IPL Exhibitions
Friday 18th August
Orange Eisteddfod — Dance
Monday 11th September
Yr 11 Preliminary Yearly Examinations begin
Attendance at Canobolas A new initiative at TCRTHS has been to monitor and mentor specific students in relation to their attendance. As part of a pilot program into raising our students’ attendance, five students in Year 9 were monitored and mentored to reach a specific attendance rate over a four-week period. Each student received an individualised target based on their attendance thus far for the term, as well as the 2017 school year. We are happy to announce that all students reached their attendance target for the fourweek time period and were rewarded with a lunch at the Nile Street Café in Week 10, with our Principal – Ms Kate Wootten and Deputy Principals – Mr Stuart Riles and Mr Nic Williams. It was fantastic to see the students work so hard to improve their attendance at school and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the following students: William Lucas Taylah Leahey Phoebe Jackson Dee-Jay Parsons Teminya Wise
Due to the success of this pilot program, Year Advisers will be working with targeted students in all year groups to assist them with their attendance at TCRTHS. If you are concerned about your child’s attendance at school, please do not hesitate to give the school a call and a dedicated member of staff will be in contact with you.
Ms Lisa Doherty – Learning & Support Teacher
SCIENCE FACULTY NEWS This term Year 9 are studying Natural Disasters. Students were given the task of constructing a three-story structure capable of withstanding an earthquake. They were given a jelly base (the unstable crust) and 16 marshmallows and were able to choose between either 36 pieces of spaghetti or 16 straws. All students complete the task with varying degrees of success. Initially some groups thought the straws would be the best support structure. However, they soon discovered spaghetti was far superior in its rigidity. The students displayed outstanding problem-solving skills when completing the task. These skills where highlighted in the group who persevered in building their structure out of straws. Overall an enjoyable lesson with impressive results.
Year 9 have been studying volcanic movement. Here are some photos of their papiermache model volcanos.
Year 8 have studying the chemical reactions. The students heated malachite (which is primarily Copper carbonate) to form copper oxide. The copper oxide is then reduced to copper metal using the charcoal as a carbon reducing agent.
Mr T Milson - Science Teacher
TAS FACULTY NEWS Year 7 Technology 5 have been working hard this term completing their rotation in food technology. This morning they made delicious healthy smoothies that they each designed as an alternative healthy breakfast. Well done 7 Technology 5. You all did an amazing job! Ms M Lynch - TAS teacher
Year 8 Technology Marque have been completing their textile rotation this term. The boys have been working hard designing and producing monster soft toys. They used the sewing machine to piece together their monster parts, stuffed them with filling and designed their faces from felt. The results have been fantastic with all boys completing their projects to a high standard. Great job boys!
♍ MUSIC NOTES ♍ On Sunday 6th August, Canobolas Music students delighted in performing a concert on the stage at the Orange Regional Conservatorium. Ellena's Extension Recital - was an hour-long celebration of Canobolas talent. Ellena Hicks (Year 12) presented her full performance program for her Music 2 and Extension Performance HSC. She performed a variety of pieces from the 'classical' and contemporary vocal repertoire. The audience was in awe and delighted by her high-quality performances. We wish her luck for the upcoming Trial HSC examinations, and the HSC Practical examinations later this term. Canobolas Choir and brave, talented junior music students performed songs as part of the concert. The choir enveloped the audience with singing sounds, starting their first performance from within the seating sections. They then performed rounds and other songs on the stage. Jace Bishop (Year 9) wowed the audience with his own composition that he performed on the conservatorium's grand piano. Imogen Dunn and Chloe Harshman (Year 8) sang Georgia by Vance Joy, and Isabelle Kent (Year 8) playing the ukulele, led the closing cast performance of Vance Joy's RipTide - including an audience singalong. It was a wonderful supportive celebration of the talents of our creative Canobolas Music students. Thank you to those who came to support our students by being in the audience, and particularly for your generous donations to raise money for our students performing at Schools Spectacular.
Canobolas Choir Our school choir is preparing to perform in the Wellington Eisteddfod on 17th August and the Orange Eisteddfod on 31st August. A Chocolate Fundraiser is about to kick off to support the choir and dance students performing in NSW Schools Spectacular. We ask for family and community support in these fundraisers - as the chocolates cannot be sold at school. Miss L Aldrick - Music Teacher
On Friday 28th July, the Canobolas High Athletics Squad made their way to Dubbo to compete at the Western Athletics Carnival. It was an early start for the students as they piled onto the bus at 6.30am in the rain ready for a big day of competition. 40 students had qualified for the carnival in a variety of tack and field events. Every single student who participated in the carnival were fantastic representatives for our school and all gave everything they had in their respective events. The Canobolas High students recorded some fantastic results over the course of the day, with five students qualifying for the State Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Erin Naden, Ebony Hay, Montana McIlwain-Browne, Kane Mitchell and Jack Connors, we wish you all the very best at the State Athletics carnival later on this term. A big thankyou to Miss Somers, Miss Morrissey, Mrs Dederer and Mr Gibbs for looking after the students over the course of the day.
Play NRL hosted the inaugural Tilly Power Shield on Tuesday 25th July at Carrington Park in Bathurst. This was the very first Rugby League 9s carnival for girls to be held in this region. The day started with a coaching clinic which was very beneficial for the girls who picked up some pointers on how to tackle safely. For the majority of the girls in the team this wasn’t their first tackle experience so they were ready to get into the action. Canbololas’ first game of the day was against Orange High, the girls started a little slow with Orange high first to put points on the board. But this sparked the girls into action and they then posted 20 unanswered points to run out winners 20-6. This was a fantastic effort for their first game playing together as a team.
The girls then faced Molong Central School, this time the girls were composed from the opening whistle. Strong runs and hard tackles in defence from Courtney Munday and Caitlin White gave the girls fantastic field position which allowed Erin Naden and Taneshia Burns to run all over their opponents. The girls recorded another strong win 22-4 over Molong Central School. The girls two performances placed them in the top position in the Semi finals, where they again faced 4th placed Molong Central School. The girls knew their game play and what they needed to do having already faced Molong earlier in the day. The girls really gelled in this game and never gave Molong a look-in, running out 16-0 winners. The mighty Canobolas High team faced cross-town rivals Orange High in the final. It was a tight game from start to finish, unfortunately the girls winning streak came to an end going down 12-10. Only one goal separated the two teams. Every single player gave 110% all day and were a pleasure to coach. Best Forward - Courtney Munday Best Back—Taneisha Burns Best and Fairest– Erin Naden
Congratulations to Harmity-Rose Munday who competed in the NSW CHS Gymnastics Championships at Hunter Sports Stadium in Newcastle 1st—3rd August. Harmity was a member of the Western Team who were very competitive in their first year back in the competition for some time.
Stay tuned for lots of photos and a full report of the snow action!
Sport has changed this year at Canobolas High, each year group will have a different sports day. Students are able to wear their sport uniforms on the following days:
Year 10– Mondays Year 9—Wednesdays Year 8—Thursdays Year 7—Wednesdays
Rep Shorts and Socks!!! School sport representative shorts $40 and socks $10 are available for purchase for through the school office and PDHPE. Payments can also be made online.
PDHPE Assessment Reminders Many of the PDHPE classes across the years are currently working on assessable items both in class and at home. A reminder that if your child does not complete an assessment task and hand it in on time for marking, it will affect the overall grade they are awarded for PDHPE. This grade also has a practical effort, attitude and participation mark for lessons where students participate in practical games, sports and various physical activities. Please note that this component of the course is compulsory and students may only be excused from these classes with a medical note during the time of injury recovery.
Year 8- Lifestyle Diseases- Week 4
Year 9- RESPECT Relationships- Week 8
Year 10- Road Safety Exam– Due now
9 PASS – Event Management – Week 10
10 PASS – Sports Media- Week 9
9 Dance – Great Debate- Week 9
10 Dance – Stimulus Response Week 8
Prelim Dance- Performance and Composition Week 6 AND Appreciation Exam (Week 9/10)
Year 11 SLR- Research Task- Week 6 Prelim Exam (Week 9/10)
Prelim Yr. 11 PDHPE- Prelim Exam (Week 9/10)
HSC PDHPE- HSC Trial Exam (Week 4/5)
HSC SLR- HSC Trial Exam (Week 4/5)
Mark Skein- HT PDHPE
Calling for applicants for the Canobolas High Performance Athletes (CHPA) program
Designed to holistically support and develop students who excel in sports, dance or athletic domains. Students who apply for a CHPA program placement must be able to demonstrate preelite representative ability (higher than club or school level) in particular sport/s and demonstrate positive attitudes, highly developed work habits, and respectful and responsible behaviour.
Further information and CHPA program applications can be accessed via our school website www.canobolas-h.schools.nsw.edu.au or by emailing Mark Skein HT PDHPE / CHPA Director mark.skein@det.nsw.edu.au.
Positive Behaviour Learning News
Congratulations to the following PBL draw winners who have each won a $5.00 voucher to spend at the school canteen Week 2 & 3 winners Kyara Tillman Harry Betts Kyah Moore Jay Bragg Teminya Wise Courtney Harcombe Chelcey Hancock HAVE YOU BEEN CAUGHT SPEAKING WELL? DON’T FORGET TO PUT YOUR TICKETS IN THE COLLECTION BOXES LOCATED IN EACH BLOCK
PSYCHOLOGIST’S COLUMN
Cyber safety is becoming more and more of an issue for families and schools. Internet safety tips for parents Do not let potential problems stop you from letting your child use technology for their education and personal interests. Put computers in a communal area of the house and try to limit portable devices (mobiles, laptops, tablets) in bedrooms. Consider using a USB charging station that can charge numerous devices at once thus, your child will need to bring their device to that station to charge at night. Alternatively, charges could be put in hallways or the kitchen at night to help limit usage during sleep time. Consider installing filters on home computers. Try to find out what your child is doing online. Talk to them regularly about websites they visit or who they are following on Instagram and snapchat. Encourage your child to tell you if they ever have a problem on the internet or if they are unsure of anything. Reassure them that you will not take away their connection to the internet if issues occur that they want to discuss. Remind your child to keep personal information private. YAPPY is a useful acronym to remind students of the personal information they should not share on public online spaces. Your full name, Address, Phone number, Passwords, Your plans Remind your child that not everything on the internet is true and not all internet users tell the truth. Make sure your child sets up their online accounts to private to limit access to people they know well. Consider age restrictions on sites such as 13+ Try and encourage your child to balance their leisure time
Create internet and usage rules for your house. Explore government resources for parents and students such as the cyber smart website. There is also a quick, fun quiz for students: https:// www. esafety.gov.au/kids-quiz/
SCHOOL NOTICES
UNIFORM DONATIONS If you are spring cleaning your cupboards soon please consider donating any unwanted items of school uniform to our school. Donations can be dropped off at the Front Office.
PLEASE SAVE YOUR WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN TOKENS AND DROP THEM INTO THE BOX LOCATED IN THE FRONT FOYER OF THE SCHOOL.
Cavaliers Cricket Club 2016/17 PREMIERS IN 1ST Grade, Centenary Shield & Runners Up UNDER 16’s, Centenary Cup T20, Semi-Finalists 2nd Grade and T20 & Centenary Cup Cavaliers place great importance on developing players – Ability, Skill, Spirit and Values through our junior programme in readiness for senior cricket and representative pathways and we also know that forming teams in sport develop long term friendships in the subsequent years. Registrations are now open so get down to Riawena Oval on Sunday, 3rd September 2017 (1pm – 3.00pm) to sign on for Cavaliers Cricket Club. Alternatively, for those who would like to register securely online this can be done at www.playcricket.com.au by simply entering your post code i.e. 2800, select Cavaliers Cricket Club then choose the competition by selecting either T20 Blast OR Junior register tab and following the prompts. For any girls that are interested, there will be separate u13 (7 a side) and u17 (9 a side) competitions - held this year on a Tuesday night, and starting on 17th October (NB - the girls can still play with the boys on a Saturday if they like) one fee only for each player. There is a form of cricket for all school ages, boys and girls so play with your mates and have a go!! 2017/18 Fees
Shirts and caps (cost included in the fees) will only be provided to new players. If a player from last season needs a new shirt or cap, that cost will need to be met on top of the fee. The fees include insurance and there are no additional match day fees, so in comparison to other sports, we believe that we continue to offer very good value for money.
Milo T20 Blast & Blast+ (post-Christmas) Under 11’s to Under 16’s Girls Under 13’s or Under 17’s Seniors & Centenary Cup – 13 to 18 years registration)
$120.00 (12-week programme as set by Cricket Australia) $120.00 $120.00 $180.00 (eligible school age players only and includes junior
Centenary Cup is open to both adults and juniors (subject to assessment with the younger ages) and provides a pathway to senior cricket for juniors with the help and experience of more senior experienced player engagement in a game environment through ongoing skill development and game knowledge. For more information and a registration form, please contact Stuart Middleton (0404692340) or Jon Harris (0407013053) or orange.cavaliers@gmail.com