The Canobolas Rural Technology

High School

Friday 21st October 2016 Term 4 Issue 15

Icely Road Orange NSW 2800 Ph: 02 6362 1677 Fax: 02 6362 4481

Website: www.canobolas-h@det.nsw.edu.au

♫ MUSIC NOTES ♫ Ellena tours Europe!!

During the school holidays, Ellena Hicks toured Europe as part of the West of the

Divide choir. She performed in amazing concert halls, saw amazing cathedrals

and engaged in workshops led by amazing conductors and composers.

Ellena reflects on this experience below.

“The West of the Divide tour consisted of 178 people in total. There were 88

students from the Central West region. We went to places like Salzburg, which is

the birthplace of Mozart. Whilst there, we attended a workshop with the

capellmeister (music leader) at the Salzburg Cathedral. It is a beautiful

cathedral that featured five pipe organs, all of which Mozart had played. We then gave a performance

in this amazing venue with the capellmeister playing an impromptu introduction on Mozart’s organ.

In Vienna we performed in a church where there was a six second delay between sound made at the

front of the church and the sound reaching the back of the church. This made for interesting lessons in

timing and acoustics.

We also had the chance to enjoy many other cultural highlights during our time away. We saw many

castles and palaces and had a tour of every major city that we visited. We enjoyed local food and culture

through various dinners and lunches at iconic places. Importantly we discovered to always have change

on hand, as the public bathrooms often needed to be paid for to use – but they were clean!

We attended a Mozart and Strauss concert in Vienna, went on a Jazz boat cruise in Prague and my

favourite show was when we saw the Prague National Theatre’s production of Verdi’s opera ‘La Traviata.’

The concert hall was massive and ornate and beautiful and there were subtitles to help us interpret this

famous opera.

This was a fantastic and memorable school

excursion!”

Ellena Hicks Year 11

Ellena performing for VIPs at the

Salzburg Mayor's reception in the

famous baroque Marble Hall in the

Mirabell Castle. This room is steeped

in history as Mozart performed here

on several occasions.

From the

Principal’s Desk Dear Parents and Members of our School Community

It has been a busy start to Term 4, and as we all know things will only continue to get busier as

the end of the year approaches. I am pleased to have returned from leave and am looking

forward to the challenges of relieving as Principal for Term 4. My thanks go to Ms Jude Bertolin

and Mr Stuart Riles for the job they each did as Relieving Principal, and Ms Kirsten Hutchinson

and Mr Matt Scott for relieving at different stages as Deputy Principal.

Minister for Education’s Visit

It was with great pleasure that we welcomed the Minister for Education, Mr Adrian Piccoli, MP

to the school on Monday this week. He was able to visit the Year 7/8 AcTal class in the STEM

Centre to look at the coding work they have been completing, the CHPA students who were

involved in a training circuit, the school canteen and a Year 9 English class. He was very

impressed with all of the students and teachers who he met.

HSC Exams and Grad

The HSC exams have started successfully for our Year 12 students with a week already

completed. These exams will continue for another three weeks, finishing on the 4th November.

The completion of 13 years of schooling will then be celebrated on the 18th November with the

Year 12 Graduation at the Orange Function Centre. Year 12 students and their families are

reminded that tickets are available from the Front Office and cost $60 each.

2017 HSC Commencement

Year 11 students have now commenced the HSC course in all their subjects. Assessment books

for Year 12 were reissued this week after a number of errors were found in the initial copy. I

apologise for this and remind students and families that the correct book has a purple cover.

This book contains all the information related to assessment tasks for the next 12 months. All

Year 11 students have also been given the opportunity to take part in the 10% On Top

program, where they nominate a staff member to mentor and support them through the HSC.

I encourage all students to take advantage of this opportunity. The Senior Study Sessions also

begin this Thursday in the STEM Centre from 3:30-5:00pm, giving students a space to study and

complete assessment tasks with teacher assistance.

2017 School Captains

It is with great pleasure that I announce the new

captains for 2017: Georgia Kiel and Mackenzie Reith-

Snare - Captains, Alicia Ilievski and Matthew Gray -

Vice Captains. The executive staff and I look forward

to working with them in the coming year.

Congratulations.

TCRTHS

Calendar Look at what’s coming up...

Friday 28th October CKC Cup vs Cowra in Orange

Monday 14th November Yr 7-10 Examinations begin

Friday 18th November Yr 12 Graduation

Tuesday 22nd November Schools Spectacular excursion

Wednesday 30th November Yr 10 Crossroads Camp

Wednesday 7th December Presentation Night

Tuesday 13th December Medallion Ceremony

Friday 16th December Last day of term for students

APOLOGY

Madison Ewins was the DUX of Year 12 not Emily Milne as was stated in the

last newsletter. Sincere apologies to Madison and her family.

50th Anniversary

In 2017 our school turns 50 and planning is well under way for a range of celebrations,

culminating in a ‘Back to Canobolas’ celebration weekend on the 20th-21st May 2017, including

a dinner at the Orange Function Centre. We are currently trying to make contact with any past

staff members, as well as collect any memorabilia (including old uniforms and photographs)

that people may be willing to donate or lend us. If you are able to help please contact me

either at the school or via email (Katherine.wootten@det.nsw.edu.au).

I hope you have a wonderful fortnight and I look forward to speaking with you in Week 4.

With my warmest regards

Kate Wootten

Relieving Principal

MINISTER’S VISIT

ROTARY DINNER Once again the school’s Hospitality, Food and Beverage staff and students did a fabulous job

hosting the Rotary Club of Orange school dinner. The guests were very impressed with the quality

of the meals and the overall level of professionalism demonstrated by the school’s waiting and

beverage staff.

Congratulations to School Captain, Georgia Kiel and Vice Captain Alicia Ilievski for delivering

two very excellent speeches on the night. As Ms Wootten appropriately pointed out to the

guests, it was their first public speech since commencing their roles as student school leaders.

Well done to them both!

The club’s members enjoyed a very informative and inspiring presentation by Clontarf Director,

James Grant. The talk was followed by a Q&A session which enabled Mr Grant further

opportunity to demonstrate and showcase the successful impact his program is having on both

its participants and the school.

Once again I’d like to thank the Rotary Club of Orange and all its members for their kind and

generous support of our school and its students. We look forward to many more dinners.

Vince Lovecchio

Community Engagement Officer

SCIENCE FACULTY NEWS Quberider – Canobolas in Space!

Stage 4 AcTal have been working on an exciting project in Science over the last term. This

project was all about using computer coding to conduct scientific experiments on board the

International Space Station (ISS). AcTal have learnt how to code a Raspberry Pi computer using

the coding language called Python. The computer program the class has produced will travel

to the ISS via a space shuttle launched on 9th December. It will control ten different sensors that

will collect environmental data from within the ISS for fifteen minutes while it orbits the Earth.

The class will have the opportunity to examine the results once the data is returned to Earth.

Our main coding was completed by six volunteers, Josh Martin, Ayoub Mostafa, Lilly Mitchell,

Kaitlin Parish, Zac Miller and Isabelle Kent who spent two full days writing the code for our

experiment. They showed great problem solving, collaboration and communication skills as they

wrote the code with minimal assistance.

During the Quberider project AcTal has also studied the various roles that are needed to

complete a space mission, from doctors, scientists, engineers and lawyers. We examined the

laws of physics that are needed to ensure a safe delivery of payloads (including the one that

will take our computer code to the ISS). We have also looked into the physical and educational

requirements of the modern astronaut.

Observing Living Things

Year 7 Science have started their new topic of ‘The Living World’ this term. 7 Aria have started

working on their observational skills by collecting some insects from the wide variety that can

be found on the paddock. Aria have then used microscopes to look closely at the features of

our insect collection. They were able to draw and label diagrams of the main body parts of

an insect. They were amazed to discover the beautiful texture of a butterflies wing, the pointy

mouth parts of a bee and the complexity of an insect’s eye.

Senior Physics

After completing Year 11 getting swept away with different theories regarding the formation of

the Universe (just ask them about multiverses), Mr Boardman’s Physics class have begun their

Year 12 studies with the broad topic of ‘Space’ and a study of gravitational potential energy.

We are also lucky to have Destinee from Big Picture joining us this term as she gets a feel for the

stage 6 Science electives.

Friday 28 October

VS Canobolas V Cowra

At Orange

## Notes and money should

be in at the office already!

Extract from Central Western Daily 19-10-16

A representative touch football player and a member of

Royal Hawks’ Orange Netball Association division one grand

final netball side, Naden is now carving up the Aussie Rules

field.

Having only taken part in her first game of AFL last year,

Naden was again picked as a member of the NSW/ACT AFL

Indigenous team to take part in the 2016 Female Diversity

Championship, this year in Shepparton.

Her NSW/ACT kickstart side didn’t win, but Naden was

tremendous, winning the tournament’s Most Valuable Player

award while also earning selection in the Australian

Woomeras preliminary squad.

That squad will be cut next month, but given the sort of form the Canobolas Rural Technology High School

(CRTHS) student produced over the course of the week-long championship, the speedy rover is all but a

given to be named in the Aussie line-up.

“I didn’t think I’d make the team,” the modest Naden said.

“This is only my second year playing, so I didn’t think I’d make it. It’s a pretty good achievement.”

“I was pretty shocked though, I haven’t played a lot before and I don’t know as much as all the other girls

do, and they’re all really good.”

Her selection in the Woomeras squad is a gong Naden, given her nature, is inclined to talk down.

But her efforts on the field were sublime, with this excerpt from the AFL Tasmania website after Naden

helped NSW/ACT knock off the Tassie girls indicative of her influence on the field.

“Erin Naden backed up stunning performances on the first day with another blistering game,” the game

review read, before continuing.

“She showed her class with an outstanding run through the centre of the ground shrugging off a host of

opposition players to send the ball inside 50, helping her team 4 point win.”

Naden was also captain of the NSW/ACT side at the championships, one involving 200 participants from

Indigenous and Multicultural backgrounds come together and compete.

She says her speed was her biggest asset on the field.

It has been a busy start to Term 4 in the Girri Girri

Academy. The girls recently participated in the

Primary School Olympics day that was held at the

PCYC and run by Orange City Council. The

academy volunteered their services to help with the running and organisation of the event that

included primary school students from Orange East Public School and Bowen Public School.

This week the girls will also participate in a Domestic Violence day. The day will focus on raising

awareness and educating the girls on the current statistics and trends.

Our end of term reward trip is also coming up later on in the term, so students are reminded that

they must have full attendance to attend.

The touch teams played on Wednesday in Bathurst with the boys team played hard all day and

only had two subs, going down in each of their four games.

The girls defeated Mudgee High and Le Salle of Lithgow, but were beaten by St Mary’s of

Wellington and were then defeated in qualifying final by Mudgee. It was a great day.

PDHPE TOPICS

This term most PDHPE year will be commencing a new topic, most years will have an assessment

task associated with the topic. To support your child in the completion of the classwork and the

assessments please check over their bookwork and discuss the tasks or revision for tests that they

require.

Year 7 ‘Eat Right Be Bright’ Healthy Lifestyle and ‘Friends For Life’- Respectful Relationships

Year 8 ‘Look at Me it’s Puberty’ continued and ‘It’s my Body, It’s My Call’– Relationships

Year 9 ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ -Choices and Consequences and ‘Work Means Money’

Year 10 ‘Learn and Earn’ - Careers

** Year 11 ‘Commence HSC Course

At CRTHS we get o

ur notes and

money for e

xcursions and activities in

on time to

make it

easier for o

ur

coaches and

office staff!

Mark Skein

Head Teacher PDHPE

CURRENT TASKS TO BE COMPLETED IN PDHPE SUBJECTS

Year 7- Eat Right Be Bright- Due End Week 4

Year 8- Puberty Test- By end Week 5

Year 9- Complete

Year 10- Final Exam During Week 6

9 PASS – Coaching Template Tuesday Week 7

10 PASS – Completed

9 Dance –

10 Dance –

HSC PDHPE- Core 1 Task Due Week 10

STEM CENTRE NEWS Year 9 iSTEM

Laurie from the Confederation of Australian Motor

Sport (CAMS) called in to talk to Year 9 iSTEM

about race car design and aerodynamics last

week. He spent time explaining the history of the

technology in F1 racing, and why aerodynamics is

so beneficial for modern racing cars. Laurie

explained how some manufacturers bent the rules

to get an advantage of speed, cornering and grip

in races and he shared stories about his role in

CAMS and testing future race drivers for their

CAMS racing licence. Thanks for making the day

trip from Sydney, Laurie!

Following our successes with our hand

crafted CO2 powered dragsters and with

fresh knowledge of racing car design

from Laurie, 9iSTEM have moved on to

creating a computer aided design (CAD)

drawing for a CO2 powered F1 car.

Students are working through a series of

practical tasks using Autodesk Inventor.

Here is a screen shot of an F1 car body,

prior to the CO2 canister being added

along with the Aerodynamic spoiler.

Quberider Space Project

Did you catch our STEM Girls on WIN News Central

West last week? If not, head over to the School

Facebook page and watch the video about how

our coding experiment is being sent into space!

You may have also heard me talking about the

project on Tuesday with Melanie Pearce on ABC

Central West and Western Plains as part of our

monthly STEM spot.

STEM Action Schools mentoring begins next week

Next Thursday, 32 teachers from ten high schools as far away

as Armidale, West Wyalong and Mudgee will be visiting

Canobolas as part of the STEM mentoring group. These

schools would like to start their own STEM projects or classes,

and we will be mentoring them throughout the next twelve

months.

CREATIVE ARTS NEWS FILM WORKSHOP @ ORANGE REGIONAL GALLERY

On the 18th & 19th of October, 13 students from Years 8 to 11 attended an awesome workshop

about animation (stop motion) and manipulating time through short film. They all developed

their skills in film production and editing as they created several fantastic short films and

animations. Well done to the following students for their professionalism and engagement

throughout the two days.

Lilly Mitchell, Isabelle Kent, Andrew Carter, Angela Haynes, Russell Jamieson, Lochy Kelly, Jaime

Macdouall, Joshua Martin, Zachary Miller, Kelson Freedman, Jesse Kelly, Kane Mitchell and

Cody Wright.

Mr Caulfield

SCHOOL NOTICES

NB: The Canterbury shorts that we sell are only for representative sports not daily wear.

UNIFORM DONATIONS: If you have any uniforms items that no longer fit your child, please

consider donating them to the school. Please deliver them to the Front Office. Also please

remember to clearly label all items of your child’s school uniform as replacement can be very

expensive.

YEAR 7 2017

A reminder to parents of students in Year 6 that are coming to our

school next year to return their enrolment forms to our Front Office as

soon as possible.

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