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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 18TH NOVEMBER 2011 ISSUE 12 Dear Parents & Community Last Saturday, officially ended thirteen years of schooling for our Year 12 students. A great night of memories, laughter and tears was shared by students, staff and parents at Nambucca Heads RSL club. Academic and Special Awards were handed out to Year 12 on the night. Many thanks to Pat Nichols and Matt Gilbert, the Year 12 Advisors of 6 years, who did a great job over that time and organising the night for Year 12. The school’s excellence in creative arts continues with Rachel Hall’s wonderful paintings of her self portrait and friends, the portraits have been nominated for Art Express. I cannot remember a year where this school has not had representation at the elite HSC level for our creative arts students. A wonderful achievement. School finishes for all students on Friday 16th December and students will return on Monday 30th January. Congratulations to our Junior Debating North Coast Champions who are now off to the state finals. A great achievement from the students and their mentor, Mr Richardson. Remember there are only 4 weeks to the Christmas Holidays. Enjoy! Hilton Humphries Top NAMBUCCA HEADS HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING SUCCESS The parents of Nambucca Heads High students Hope Eadie, Zahira Gora, Connor Hoban and Jayde Hill may have long suspected their children are too good at arguing, but they now have proof. These four students have combined to win the North Coast Championship in the Premiers Debating Competition for students in Years 7 & 8, defeating Banora Point High School in the Final. Their campaign began with a narrow loss to Macksville High’s Year 7 team, but after defeating Nambucca’s Year 7 and Macksville’s Year 8 teams the Nambucca students returned to Macksville for the Zone Final where they turned the tables on the first opponents in what was probably the best debate of their campaign. After winning their Zone the team then went on to face Coffs Harbour High School, where they were again victorious, before travelling to Taree to take on Chatham High in the Lower North Coast Semi-Final. With a well-deserved win at that level the team waited to hear who their opponents would be in the Final, soon finding out they were to face Banora Point. Distance and time combined as a problem for both teams, but in the end it was decided to do the debate as a Video-Conference, with both teams speaking at their own school and Lloyd Cameron, the Department’s Debating Co-ordinator adjudicating. With the affirmative side of the topic ‘We should accept more migrants’ Jayde, as First Speaker, established a clear definition and argument to get the ball rolling, and when Zahira and Connor reinforced the case and rebutted effectively their opponents’ case the Nambucca Heads team had clearly taken out the debate. Given that this Competition started with 369 teams and the Nambucca team are now one of only ten teams left this is a great effort and they will now travel to Sydney in early December to compete in the State Championships. Bill Richardson ð Principal’s Report ð Debating Success ð NHHS Archibald Prize ð WRALS ð World Book Web ð HSC Art ð Sabrina’s Art ð Christmas Party ð Sushi Train ð Stormwater Turtle ð Basketball ð TAFE Open Day ð School Website
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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 18TH NOVEMBER 2011 ISSUE 12 Dear Parents & Community Last Saturday, officially ended thirteen years of schooling for our Year 12 students. A great night of memories, laughter and tears was shared by students, staff and parents at Nambucca Heads RSL club. Academic and Special Awards were handed out to Year 12 on the night. Many thanks to Pat Nichols and Matt Gilbert, the Year 12 Advisors of 6 years, who did a great job over that time and organising the night for Year 12. The school’s excellence in creative arts continues with Rachel Hall’s wonderful paintings of her self portrait and friends, the portraits have been nominated for Art Express. I cannot remember a year where this school has not had representation at the elite HSC level for our creative arts students. A wonderful achievement. School finishes for all students on Friday 16th December and students will return on Monday 30th January. Congratulations to our Junior Debating North Coast Champions who are now off to the state finals. A great achievement from the students and their mentor, Mr Richardson. Remember there are only 4 weeks to the Christmas Holidays. Enjoy! Hilton Humphries
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NAMBUCCA HEADS HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING SUCCESS
The parents of Nambucca Heads High students Hope Eadie, Zahira Gora, Connor Hoban and Jayde Hill may have long suspected their children are too good at arguing, but they now have proof. These four students have combined to win the North Coast Championship in the Premiers Debating Competition for students in Years 7 & 8, defeating Banora Point High School in the Final. Their campaign began with a narrow loss to Macksville High’s Year 7 team, but after defeating Nambucca’s Year 7 and Macksville’s Year 8 teams the Nambucca students returned to Macksville for the Zone Final where they turned the tables on the first opponents in what was probably the best debate of their campaign. After winning their Zone the team then went on to face Coffs Harbour High School, where they were again victorious, before travelling to Taree to take on Chatham High in the Lower North Coast Semi-Final. With a well-deserved win at that level the team waited to hear who their opponents would be in the Final, soon finding out they were to face Banora Point. Distance and time combined as a problem for both teams, but in the end it was decided to do the debate as a Video-Conference, with both teams speaking at their own school and Lloyd Cameron, the Department’s Debating Co-ordinator adjudicating. With the affirmative side of the topic ‘We should accept more migrants’ Jayde, as First Speaker, established a clear definition and argument to get the ball rolling, and when Zahira and Connor reinforced the case and rebutted effectively their opponents’ case the Nambucca Heads team had clearly taken out the debate. Given that this Competition started with 369 teams and the Nambucca team are now one of only ten teams left this is a great effort and they will now travel to Sydney in early December to compete in the State Championships. Bill Richardson
ð Principal’s Report
ð Debating Success
ð NHHS Archibald Prize
ð WRALS
ð World Book Web
ð HSC Art
ð Sabrina’s Art
ð Christmas Party
ð Sushi Train
ð Stormwater Turtle
ð Basketball
ð TAFE Open Day
ð School Website
Debating champions - Zahira Gora, Hope Eadie, Jayde Hill and Connor Hoban
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NHHS ARCHIBALD PRIZE WINNERS
Odin Franklin - Senior Prize
Erin Wattison – Junior Prize
Iyesha Paull – Packers Prize
Ly Xian Teh – Peoples Choice
Congratulations go to the many creative students who entered the annual NHHS Archibald Prize which has been on display in the foyer of the school since the end of last term. The winners for 2011 are Odin Franklin – Senior Prize, Erin Wattison – Junior Prize, Iyesha Paul – Packers Prize and Ly Xian Teh – Peoples Choice. Encouragement Awards go to - Kim Cox, Kireen Boag, Zac Gregory, Sabrina Ferrari, Rebecca Mackney, Trent Urquhart and Michaela Bush.
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WRALS WRALS – Work Readiness and Living Skills is a program devised to address the chronic absenteeism that Year 10 students develop immediately after the completion of the School Certificate Reference Tests. The Program is designed to marry the objectives of the School to Work Program with experiences with local organisations and employers, the opportunity to gain credentials that should make students more employable, and as individuals, more capable of making a contribution to a better community. These are values and employment skills gained from the program.
The Nambucca Valley Dune Care team took eight students to Mission Park at Swimming Creek for an education in helping the environment. Students were shown how to identify native plants and noxious weeds, the safe use of equipment, also the importance of rubbish removal from the natural environment. Photo shows – Steve Dibben, Kara Smith, Jun Waters, Paige Anderson, Jasmine Banfield, Maddison Smith, Gabriella Marriot, Jacob Savage, Rebecca Mackney and Richard Ellis. Matilda Sutherland is absent from photo. Nambucca Valley Dune Care meet the first Sunday of every month at a location in the valley. If you are interested in joining the team for a day or longer, please call Steve Dibbens or Kara Smith on 0403 436 552
Bronte Murphy, with Tracey Ormandy from Cafe Au Lait, who introduced the students, to the fine art of coffee making.
A new mural is in progress at the Nambucca Valley Rugby League Football Club. Shane O’Sullivan, Toni Cross-Rumble, Eva Cleal, Jacob Scott and Nathan Parkins assisted Trevor Keast in the painting of the mural.
Jay Vallance tending to a mock accident victim during the First Aid course offered by the WRALS program.
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WORLD BOOK WEB Good news! Our library now subscribes to the World Book Web Our World Book subscription allows us to give you and your family access to this valuable reference source at school and on your home computers 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
To access the World Book Web, follow these simple steps:
Go to www.worldbookonline.com Enter Username nambuccahigh Enter Password pelican
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HSC ART
Regan Benson
Emma Edwards
Haydn Lock
Victoria Grace
Courtney Johnson
Cara Spear
Matt Rumsey
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SABRINA’S ART FOR HOSPITAL A collaborative effort between the Education Dept. And Westmead Hospital has culminated in the initiative named ‘Operation Art’. Visual Arts students from around NSW entered artworks to be considered worthy of hanging in the corridors of regional hospitals. Sabrina Ferrari-Leavitt entered one of her watercolour paintings in the competition and was happy to receive the news that her work was one of the winners, and will be displayed in a NSW regional hospital. Left - Sabrina Ferrari-Leavitt after received her congratulatory certificates at the latest school assembly.
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NAMBUCCA HEADS CHRISTMAS PARTY!!
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SUSHI TRAIN The Japanese elective students from Yr.10, had a delicious excursion recently. They feasted on all kinds of Japanese cuisine at the 'Oishii Sushi Rail' at the Jetty. It was then onto the 'Cold Rock' for some very unusual ice-cream treats. Lastly the students cruised down for a leisurely stroll to see the fishing boats and yachts along the wharf to walk off all those yummy calories!.
Year 10 Japanese students at the Oishii Sushi Rail restaurant, Coffs Harbour
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STORMWATER TURTLE FIELD DAY
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BASKETBALL ATTENDANCE PROGRAM
The involvement of 15 NHHS students in the Basketball Attendance program has brought them great rewards. The group, comprising students from Yrs 9 and 11, topped the school attendance program with South Grafton High School. The basketball teams from both schools will verse each other this Saturday 19th November on the Gold Coast. After their match they will get to watch a Gold Coast Blaze game and meet the Blaze stars after the game. Good Luck! Top
TAFE OPEN DAY
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SCHOOL WEBSITE
Please go to our school website for information updates, events, school calendar and more photos at www.nambuccahd-h.schools. nsw.edu.au/ top
Macksville TAFE Open Day Including
Art Exhibition 10am – 1pm Wednesday 30 November 2011
Course Information, Career Advice, Art Exhibition, Displays, Interactive Activities and FREE BBQ.!
Come and see what’s available at your local campus! Staff will be on hand to discuss career options and support services – Counselling, Disability Support, Library, Aboriginal Learning Liaison Officer and Student Association. These services are available to assist you with your plans for future education and training.
10am – 12pm: Campus Exhibition and Activities 11am – 1pm: Free BBQ Administration, Engineering (Welding), Fine Arts, Construction, General Education, Horticulture and Information Technology. The Art Exhibition will also be on Thursday 1 December
