Friday 6th April 2018 Term 1 Issue 5

SPACE CAMP USA 2018 Thanks to our reputation as a leading STEM School in NSW, Canobolas was approached by

Northrop Grumman Australia offering to sponsor two students and a staff member to attend

Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States of America. Huntsville is known as

‘Rocket City’, home of the Apollo space program Saturn rockets.

Students were required to submit a 200 word statement or 90 second video explaining why

they would love to go to space camp, what they hope to gain from the experience and how

they will share what they have learned from their peers. Staff were also required to submit an

expression of interest to be selected.

Recently, our Principal Ms Wootten announced Mark Selmes (Year 8) and Ella Draper (Year 7)

as the successful applicants for our two Space Camp positions. Mark and Ella will experience

simulated space missions, astronaut training and team rocket building activities in what will be

a life changing experience during Space Camp. They will be accompanied by Head Teacher

STEM, Mr Scott.

Mark, Ella and Mr Scott will leave for the USA on July 6th, joining students from Japan, South

Korea and the UK thanks to the kind sponsorship from Northrop Grumman Australia.

Congratulations!

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Dear Parents and Members of our School Community

Space Camp

It is with great excitement that I am able to announce that our school has been chosen as one

of two schools in Australia to attend Space Camp in the USA in the July school holidays. This all

expenses paid opportunity has come about through the support of Northrop Grumman and

will involve two students from Year 7 and/or Year 8 and a teacher. Students and staff were

invited to submit an application that outlined why they would like to attend, what they hoped

to get from the experience and how they would share the experience. Ella Draper and Mark

Selmes were the successful student applicants, and Mr Matt Scott was selected as the staff

member to accompany them. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I am sure they will

remember for the rest of their lives.

Parent Teacher Night and Interim Reports

Parent Teacher Night will be held on Wednesday 11th April in our School Hall from 3:45pm to

5:30pm. This is an opportunity for parents from Years 7-12 to speak to teachers about how the

school year has started and any concerns that they have. If you are unable to make this

event please do not hesitate to contact the Front Office to make an appointment with either

your child’s Year Adviser, or a specific teacher.

Years 7, 8 and 11 received their Interim Reports this week. These reports are designed to give

an overview of how the school year has started for your child. If you did not receive your

child’s report, or have any questions about it, please contact the school.

New staff

It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce some changes to the staffing of the

school. Mrs Amanda Hurford has been successful in obtaining the Head Teacher PDHPE

position in a substantive capacity, whilst Ms Amanda Sullivan has become a permanent

teaching member of staff. The Clontarf Academy and Girls Academy have also expanded

their staff, with Tom Goolagong and Kayla Simmonds starting.

As you would be aware, Mr Chad Bliss, has been successful in gaining the position of Principal

of Orange High School after fulfilling the role of Principal School Leadership for the last 18

months. We thank Mr Bliss for the work he has done for our school and wish him well in his new

endeavour. The principal position for our school will be advertised early in Term 2, with the

successful applicant expected to take up the position at the start of Term 3.

Absences

If your child has a day off school can I ask that you provide the school with a note, or a phone

call, to explain the reason for the absence. All absences from school need to be notified

within seven days, and it is important that we are able to accurately record when students

have been away for legitimate reasons. This is particularly important when students are away

when an assessment task is completed in class or due for submission.

Look at what’s coming up...

Wednesday 11th April Year 7-12 Parent Teacher night

Thursday 12th April SRC Trivia Night

Friday 13th April Athletics Carnival

Friday 13th April Last day of Term 1

Wednesday 25th April ANZAC Day march

Monday 30th April Staff Development Day

Tuesday 1st May Students return for Term 2

TCRTHS

CALENDAR

NAPLAN

Year 7 and 9 will be sitting NAPLAN in Weeks 3 and 4 of next term. Further information will be

sent home early in Term 2. For the first time in 2018 all students at our school will be completing

NAPLAN online. There has been a great deal of preparation work done for this by both staff

and students, and all trials have been completed successfully. Completing the assessment this

way will allow the questions to vary in difficulty based on student responses and provide more

information on what skills students possess. If you have any questions about NAPLAN please do

not hesitate to contact Ms Sam Williams or myself at the school.

I hope you have a great school holiday period and I look forward to speaking with you early in

Term 2.

With my warmest regards

Kate Wootten

We celebrated Bullying No Way! Day on Friday 16th March at TCRTHS. As part of our day,

individual students delivered small speeches to the student assembly, which inspired one of our

parents to pen the following piece on the effects of bullying:

With the fantastic support of former student Sam Rodwell, our whole school participated in an

activity where all staff and students spelled out the Bullying No Way! message on the paddock,

with Sam catching amazing images with his drone. This footage will be used to develop a

Canobolas student multimedia clip on bullying and its effects that will be screened later in the

year.

Students were also invited to dress up in the colours of the rainbow to show their support for this

message and staff and students were able to have their photos taken in our pop-up photo

booth. These photos will also form our posters for the school to continue the Bullying No Way!

message throughout the year.

The whole school enjoyed a BBQ lunch, with students signing our Bullying No Way! Day sign as a

pledge against bullying. This will be displayed in the C-Block common area as a reminder to all

students that bullying is not accepted at TCRTHS.

I would like to thank all students for their involvement in the day and look forward to developing

our multimedia message on bullying.

Lisa Doherty – SRC Coordinator

“Bullying and harassment is the act or behaviour that makes someone feel threatened, intimi-dated, degraded, humiliated or offended. Sometimes it is not always obvious or apparent to oth-ers. We can feel:

Guilty— like it’s your own fault

Hopeless – a situation with no way out

Alone – no one for support

Don’t fit in with groups of people

Depressed and rejected or ashamed of something

Unsafe

Confused and stressed

Bullying can be direct (physical or vocal) or indirect (cyberbullying, Facebook, texting or ru-mours). People who threaten or intimidate are sometimes acting out their own life or find it’s the only way people take them seriously. We all have the right to education and feeling safe.”

Parent of a Year 11 Student at TCRTHS

Bullying No Way! Day 2018

Bullying No Way!

Day

CLONTARF EMPLOYMENT VISIT

MSM Milling Employment visit

Year 10 and 11 Clontarf boys had a great visit to the

MSM milling plant in Manildra. This opportunity was

kindly made to us by owners and directors, Pete and

Bob MacSmith, both who have had several visits to

and from Clontarf on site and in the academy room.

Genya Miller, who is their communications manager

has been very helpful in dealing with Clontarf and

ensures our visits run smoothly.

We had a total of 10 boys keen and interested in

taking the trip out to the plant and all made sure they

were ready to go at 9.00am. Many of the boys had no

knowledge of what they do and where the plant was

located, so it was a good adventure to somewhere

and something they have never done before.

The factory manager met us at the front office

and took the boys on an extensive tour of the

plant, explaining the process of how the canola oil

is extracted. It was a process of paddock to plate

process. (Picture shows Will Lucas looking at the

first step of the oil extraction)

Boys getting further understanding of

the oil extraction process.

Along with the production of the oil and by-products,

which is sold as stock feed, the other major operation at

the plant is the bottling and packaging of the oil.

The boy got to see the container manufacturing process,

which included all size drums and containers.

We discussed the various containers they are sent out in

from 600ml to semi-trailers tankers full.

The final activity of the tour was to watch the company

presentation which again described the process from

paddock to delivery dock. This is where the boys were

enlightened on the various employment opportunities that

exist and got the chance to hear what they would need to

do education-wise, to gain employment at MSM. Anthony

Ward, the plant manager explained what he looks for in an

employee. They are very similar what we look for in a good

Clontarf man:

Work within a team

Respect of your work and fellow workers

Openness to learn and look for opportunities

WANT TO WORK.

The trip was a good one for boys and highlighted the opportunities that will present to them

when they graduate from Year 12 and look to get into the work force. It was noted that they

have people with university degrees, trades people who have completed TAFE course and

employees who have no formal education and can get up-skilled in the work place by

completing courses.

Thank you MSM Milling,

James Grant- Director

Canobolas Rural Technology High School

Clontarf Academy

Mobile +61 437 111 018

Email: jamesgrant60@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.clontarf.org.au

When: Friday 13th April 2018

Where: Canobolas High School

Remember to dress up in your House Colours, for a fun day of

Athletics. Please nominate for the events in your age group

prior to the day. See any of the PE Staff for a nomination slip.

A big thank you goes to Matt Tabbernor from Cricket

NSW for running a coaching clinic with our Open Girls

cricket team last Thursday. This clinic was in

preparation for our Open Girls cricket team first game

in the Western Knockout next week. Matt took the

girls through a range of batting, bowling and fielding

skills and drills as well as field positioning and match

strategies.

Our Open Girls Cricket team will play their first match

ever in the Western Knockout competition vs Orange

High School at Moulder park on Monday 9th April.

Good Luck Girls!

The Open Girls Canobolas High School Netball team competed in the

annual WSSA Netball Gala Day. The girls came up against some tough

competition on the day, unfortunately losing their first two games. The girls

finished the day on a high defeating Kelso High School. Defender of the

day went to Cailtin White and the best attacker was Jada Murphy.

Thank you to our Year 12 girls, Caitlin, Jada and Sarah Smith for their

contribution to netball at Canobolas over the past 6 years you girls will be

missed.

A big thanks to Miss Woods for coaching the girls on the day and Mrs

Hurford for her organisation.

INNOVATION FACULTY NEWS

Year 8 IPL – The Art of War Project

While learning about conflict in ancient civilisations, Mr Edwards 8 Clark class have been

investigating Feudal Japan. Students have been using Minecraft to model a virtual village from

Feudal Japan, as part of a trial of a Minecraft for Education on behalf of the NSW Department

of Education. Here are some progress photos of 8 Clark’s handiwork:

Year 8 ILP – Changes to Assessment

In order for all Year 8 classes to thoroughly complete the first assessable task in both Projects,

tasks due in Week 10 Term 1 in will now be due in Week 7 Term 2, not as stated in the

Assessment Booklet. This includes:

Project A: Waterworld - Animal species research presentation

Project B: Art of War - Historic Artefact

Project B: Art of War – Battle Scene

These tasks are now due for presentation at exhibition. Most classes are currently working on

these as they are likely to be completed over the next few weeks.

SCHOOL NOTICES

1 or 2 days each week doesn’t seem like much but ...

When your

child misses

just…

That equals

…

Which is … And over 13

year of

school is...

Which means the best your

child can perform is ...

1 day

each fortnight

20 days

per year

4 weeks

per year

Nearly

1 1/2 years

EQUAL TO FINISHING IN YEAR 11

1 day

each week

40 days

per year

8 weeks

per year

Over

2 1/2 years

EQUAL TO FINISHING IN YEAR 10

2 days

each week

80 days

per year

16 weeks

per year

Over

5 years

EQUAL TO FINISHING IN YEAR 7

3 days

each week

120 days

per year

24 weeks

per year

Nearly

8 years

EQUAL TO FINISHING IN YEAR 4

Ask us about help with getting to school every day

Your Child

Other Children

Your Child

Other Children

Your Child

Other Children

Your Child

Other Children

When: Wednesday 11th April 2018

Time: 3:45pm—5:30pm

Where: School Hall

Please contact the school if you require

any further information on 6362 1677

Parent Teacher

Evening Years 7-12