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Friday 9th March 2018 Term 1 Issue 3
This is Choir!
Twenty students in Years 7-12 from Canobolas Choir enjoyed a great day out last Friday. They
experienced live music and workshops on a variety of instruments and vocal performing styles at Lander’s
Music. The Lander’s staff shared their skills and knowledge on their instruments of expertise in short
workshops for us. From drums, to guitars, to strings, wind instruments, ukuleles and voice – the students
were enthusiastic and engaged. There was an impromptu rendition of Riptide by Haylee and our
students that the customers enjoyed. Finally Ben, Haylee, Albie and Miss Aldrick joined as a band to
perform “Valerie” made famous by Mark Ronson with Amy Winehouse, as well as Glee.
After lunch we headed to Odeon 5 Cinemas where we saw The Greatest Showman Singalong version.
Our students enjoyed participating singing along and getting to know the storyline. Choir are learning to
sing ‘This is Me’ from the musical movie. The song imparts an important message about self-confidence in
spite of any perceived barriers; don’t be afraid to show them, ‘this is me’. On our way back to school this
message was loudly recited as we sang our way into school and through the office for an impressed
audience of Mr Riles. New members are always welcomed – singing in a group is fun and releases
endorphins. Choir rehearse Thursday lunches in B5.
♫ MUSIC NOTES ♫
From the
Principal’s Desk Dear Parents and Members of our School Community
As always the school has been a very busy place since I wrote to you two weeks ago, and it is
hard to believe we are already half way through Term 1. With a number of activities planned in
the next few weeks it does not appear to be slowing down.
Senior Student Support
This year we have re-established our senior study space, called the FOCUS Room, as a place
where Year 11 and 12 students are able to go to access support with assessment tasks, time
management and examination preparation. Mrs Ashley Bunworth has been employed to
support the senior students and is another point of contact for parents, in addition to Year
Advisers, if they have any concerns regarding N-Award Warning letters or their child’s progress.
Mrs Bunworth is working Monday – Wednesday and Friday each week.
Senior students are also reminded that they need to attend the FOCUS Room any time that they
have a study period. The only exception to this is if they have a study period Period 1 or Period 6,
where they can sign in late or sign out early through the Front Office. If senior students need to
leave school at any other time for a legitimate reason they must obtain a leave pass from the
Front Office.
Year 11 Crossroads and All My Own Work
Year 11 students have been working through both the Crossroads and All My Own Work courses
in the last two weeks. Some students were able to complete Crossroads through an excursion
earlier in the term, whilst the remainder of the year group finalised this mandatory course through
booklets at school. A reminder to all students who remained at school that these booklets are
now overdue to Mrs Hurford in the PDHPE staffroom.
All My Own Work is a course designed by the NSW Educational Standards Authority which is
mandatory for all Year 11 students to complete at the beginning of their senior studies. It focuses
on helping HSC students follow the principles and practices of good scholarship, including how
to avoid plagiarism and academic malpractice. If students have not completed these
mandatory modules they need to see Mrs Bunworth ASAP as they cannot be enrolled officially
into the Preliminary course.
SRC Induction Ceremony
Congratulations must go to Ms Lisa Doherty and the SRC on the fantastic Induction Ceremony
that was held on the 23rd February. We have a great group of student leaders and I look forward
to working with them all in the coming 12 months. One of the big activities they have coming up
is ‘Bullying No Way Day’, on Friday 16th March. This will be an out of uniform day with activities for
students and a whole school BBQ. I am looking forward to supporting this great day with the
students.
TCRTHS
Look at what’s coming up...
Friday 30th March Good Friday Public Holiday
Monday 2nd April Easter Monday Public Holiday
Tuesday 3rd April Year 12 Half–yearly examinations begin
Wednesday 11th April Year 7 Parent Teacher night
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
Calendar
Brett Lee Visit
It was a very special occasion last Wednesday, 28th February, to have former Australian
cricketer, Brett Lee visit the school. He spoke to the male students about respectful relationships
and appropriate ways to interact with females. He also spent much of his time signing
autographs. We are very appreciative that he was able to take time to visit our school and be a
positive role model for our students.
I hope you have a great fortnight and I look forward to speaking with you in Week 8.
With my warmest regards
Kate Wootten
SRC members at their
induction ceremony
FORMER TEACHERS VISIT CANOBOLAS On Friday 23rd February,
several former teachers visited
our school as part of a 1978
School Reunion weekend.
They enjoyed looking through
the display of items from the
1982 Time Capsule. They also
joined us for our traditional
Friday staff morning tea.
A great weekend was had by
all as former students and staff
gathered to tour the school,
catch up and reminisce.
Back: George Jackson (Social
Science)
Front: Terry Dwyer (Social
Science HT) and Mary Watson
(Music)
Sandy Taylor and the time capsule
Col Taylor with a Staff Attendance Book Kerry Kidd and Rhonda Milligan check out
the fashions in the School Pattern Book
Former Home Economics teachers: Judy Stocker,
Kerry Kidd and Rhonda Milligan (Gambrill) found an
old staff photo of themselves
Current Music teacher
Miss Aldrick with Mary
Watson
On Monday 26th February, 19 of our Student Representatives departed for their annual
Leadership Camp at Lake Burrendong. The students participated in a range of activities,
including canoeing, crate stack, camp out, Mini-Olympics and high rope climbing.
For the camp out on Monday night, students were required to carry their own gear to the
campsite and then set up their own tents and cook their own dinners with set ingredients. All the
parents and carers out there should be glad to know that these kids can cook! Make sure you
get them cooking at home!
On Tuesday, our students worked in pairs to design their own “Olympic” activity which they then
facilitated to 100 Year 3 and 4 students on Tuesday night. The general consensus on the night
was that our students did themselves, their families and our school proud, with teachers from
other schools commenting on their leadership and fantastic participation with the younger
students.
Students also participated in a
“Crate stack” where they had to
work in a team to build a tower of
crates that one team member had
to stand on. The camp record was
set by the NSW Swifts netball team
with nine crates, but one team
beat this by stacking ten crates!
Well done to Megan Stedman,
Thomas McKenzie, Connor Taylor,
Dyson Percival and Jorja-Rose
Tindall (pictured right) on the
fantastic team work.
On our final day, the students and
teachers participated in a “high
ropes” challenge, where students
were harnessed and climbed at an extreme height through an obstacle-style course. Mr Riles
showed his mountain goat skills throughout the course, while Ms Doherty struggled to complete
the lower course due to extreme nerves (tremendous fear of heights!). Year 8 students, Faith
Willcott and Megan Stedman, overcame their fear of heights and completed both the lower
and higher rope courses with determination and grit. Of course, there were those students with a
natural ability to climb, with Torren Burton (Year 12), Thomas McKenzie and Connor Taylor (Year 8)
all completing the course twice.
The purpose of the camp was to build on students’ leadership skills and develop a strong team
environment for their year of planning and coordinating events for the school. They are all to be
congratulated on the way they conducted themselves throughout the three days, being a credit
to TCRTHS.
Ms L Doherty SRC Co-ordinator
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Wollongong University 2018 Open Day
We were lucky to be given the opportunity to experience what university is really like from
lectures to dorms and what things they do for fun. Our first day started off leaving school at 9am
and travelling down to Wollongong. We had multiple McDonalds and sightseeing stops like the
Sea Cliff bridge, wonderful seas and a mountain lookout. When we stopped at Stanwell Tops
lookout we took a photo of our group. James almost lost his hat down the windy hills, but luckily
Dyson was able to catch it. When we arrived at the caravan park we had pizza for dinner and
we went for ice cream at Cool Rock. We were ready for the big day tomorrow.
We got up bright and early at 8am and were taken for breakfast at the University of Wollongong
and we had a look at the new dormitories, where there were share rooms for five people or a
single room. We arrived at the main lecture hall where we got seated and saw on the stage of a
great performance of School life vs Uni life. Then we headed off to specific lectures to inspire us
to follow certain career paths.
We left and split up, with some going to ‘Worried about your ATAR’ while others went to ‘How to
get a 90+ ATAR’, and you can assume who went where.
Some of us went to the nursing facilities, but we went to the SMART hub, where we got to play
with some robots, guitars, computers and most importantly, a satellite that tracks the spin of the
earth’s orbit.
Some of the kids went to a foreign exchange seminar, where we could go anywhere, such as
Hong Kong to do engineering, or creative writing at Oxford. You could go for a week, and most
importantly, if you were an average or better uni student, you can go for free thanks to the
government.
CAREERS NEWS
At the end, when everyone was tuckered out and got some Boost juice, we embarked on an
8 hour bus journey with Post Malone gracing the speakers, or Harry rapping about things in
Extension 1 maths.
Harry Betts and Kane Mitchell
ADF VISIT
Thank you to Cpl Jake Doherty
and Sgt Rachael Dudgeon from
the RAAF for conducting a
recruitment information session
for the Australian Defence
Force. Many students attended
this interesting session. Thank
you to our Careers Adviser, Mr
Marriott, for organising the visit.
Coming Up
Science and Engineering
challenge Friday 23rd
March
Year 10 Independent
Research Project. Handed
out in week 8, this project
requires students to design
and conduct their own
scientific experiment.
YEAR 8
Mr Rodwell’s 8 STEM class learning
about static electricity. A truly hair-
raising experience.
YEAR 10
Year 10 have been about DNA and its role in
inheritance. Here are some pictures of DNA
strands extracted from a kiwi fruit.
The Big Science Competition
The Big Science Competition is an easy way to challenge students from Years 7 to 10
and track their performance against state or national averages.
It’s a 50 minute, 30 multiple choice question competition, testing critical thinking and
problem solving skills, not just factual recall, so you can find out what’s really going
on inside their heads. Questions are set in real-life, contemporary contexts, making
them relatable (and interesting).
Competition questions in the Big Science Competition are aligned with the Australian
Curriculum – Science.
Science inquiry skills: including identifying and formulating questions and hypotheses for
testing; making predictions, collecting, analysing and evaluating data and drawing
valid conclusions; interpreting and communicating information through appropriate
representations and media.
Science as a human endeavour: including the development of science knowledge
and processes across cultures and over time; its application in areas of human
endeavour; its significance in informing personal and societal decisions and actions;
and the influence society has on science.
Science understanding: core concepts relating to Biological, Chemical, Earth and
Space Sciences, and Physical Sciences that are designated at each stage.
The Big Science competition is available for students in Years 7 to 10. It will be held at
Canobolas Rural Technology High between 7 – 16th May. Entry fee will be $7 and can
be paid at the Front Office when permission notes are made available.
For more information or to register your interest in entering, please see Mr Curran in the
Science staff room.
DO YOU SHOP A COLES????? YOU SHOULD…….. TO HELP OUR SCHOOL!!!!!
Canobolas High School is participating in the Coles Sports for Schools
Program!!!
HOW CAN YOU HELP????
1. Shop at Coles
2. Collect Sports for Schools Vouchers
3. Bring vouchers into school and put in the Coles Sports for Schools
boxes either in front office or PDHPE Staffroom.
WHAT WILL THE SCHOOL GET OUT OF IT????
Vouchers will assist the PDHPE Faculty in receiving new sporting goods for
the students at TCRTHS. The more vouchers you collect, the more sports
gear we will receive.
The program runs until 3rd April 2018!!! START COLLECTING………...
Term 1 Western School Sport Team Trial Dates If students are interested in trialling for Western Region Sports Teams this term please see the PDHPE staff for more
details. Please note that parents would be expected to transport their child to the majority of these trials if they
choose to attend. The details of the up and coming trials are below.
Sport Date Location Nominations Close Teacher to see
Volleyball 16th Feb Bathurst
Kelso High School At trial Miss Woods
U/15s Touch
Football 23rd Feb
Orange
Waratah’s Sporting Club 11th Feb Miss Somers
Basketball
Girls 26th March
Bathurst
Basketball Stadium 14th March Mrs Dederer
Swimming 15th March Dubbo
Dubbo Aquatic Centre 20th Feb Miss Somers
Football
Girls 5 th March
Orange
Jack Brabham 7th March Miss Morrissey
Hockey
Girls 16th March
Molong
Multi-Purpose Field 2nd March Miss Somers
Basketball
Boys 12th March
Orange
PCYC 4th March Mrs Dederer
Golf 26th March Cowra
Cowra Golf Club 10th Feb Mr Skein
Football
Boys 3th April
Orange
Jack Brabham 11th March Miss Lee
Netball 5th April Orange
PCYC 11th March Mrs Hurford
Rugby Union 9th April Orange
Endeavour Oval 1st March Mr Curran
Hockey
Boys 16th March
Bathurst
Bathurst Hockey Centre 14th March Mr Skein
Lawn Bowls 6th April Parkes
Parkes Bowling Club 28th March Mrs Abrahams
Rugby League 5th April Blayney (regional)
Peak Hill (area) 16th March Mr Curran
On Friday 2nd of March Canobolas High School sent two Opens Touch Football teams to
the annual Connaughton Cup Carnival in Orange. The Connaughton Cup is held in
memory of Lochie Connaughton, a local Orange boy who loved touch playing touch
footy with his mates. Over the course of the day each team played 3 matches against
Kinross Wolaroi, Orange High School and a Celebrity team. The Open Girls team had 2
wins and 1 loss and the Boys Team had one win and 2 losses.
The students then competed in an Individual Sprint and Sprint Relay during the lunchtime
break. Erin Naden won very convincingly in the girls individual sprint with Destiny
Anderson finishing fourth out of eight runners. Tyren Dixon and Jack Connors were the
entrants in the boys race finishing 5th and 6th. The Canobolas Girls team took out the
relay title, Erin, Kiara Sullivan, Heidi Bell and Destiny made up this dynamic team. Isaac
Hooper, Brayden Quigg, Callan Naden and Jack Wilson finished 3rd in the boys relay.
The girls and boys then combined to form a mixed team to play another 3 games where
they came away with 2 victories and a loss. Chloe Walton and Tyren Dixon were voted
as players player for the Canobolas Teams.
Thanks to Miss Somers and Mrs Hurford for organising and coaching the Opens Touch
teams on the day.
The Western U/15s Touch Football Trials were held on the 23rd February at Waratahs
Sporting Club in Orange. A boys and girls U/15s team represented Canobolas High
School at these trials. Students were not only vying for a spot in the Western team but
were also aiming to be crowned Western Champions.
The girls team had a mixed day finishing in 5th place with 2 wins and 2 draws. The
boys team finished in 3rd place with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
A massive congratulations to Heidi Bell, Brianna Priest, Isaiah Magnus, Wil Phillips and
Max Wilson on their selection in the U/15s Western Touch Teams to compete at the
CHS carnival at Glen Willow Sporting Complex, Mudgee on the 5th and 6th of May.
Thankyou to Super Coach Hurford for all her hard work on the day coaching both the
boys and girls teams throughout the day.
Well done to Mitchell Kelly
and Trent Wilde who
represented Western at the
NSWCHS Boys Softball
Championship in Camden
last week!
Well done Harry Pearce who
represented NSWCHS at the
All Schools Boys Cricket
Championship in Bathurst this
week!
Canobolas
Sporting
Year 11 took off to Crossroads camp in Week 4 at Borambola Sport and
Recreation camp in Wagga Wagga. The group spent the three days
engaging in activities that addressed issues of health, identity and
wellbeing. The students also participated in archery, the mud run and
rock climbing. A great time was had by all. Thankyou to Miss Woods and
Mr Conliffe for taking the students.
Year 7 Positive Behaviour Towards Peers
Year 7 have been given a challenge for the second half of the term.
This challenge is to display positive behaviour to those around them
in their classroom and the playground.
Over the coming weeks students will have a focus, last week it was
displaying kindness, this week is being helpful and next week is being
respectful.
Students are nominated by class teachers when they are seen being
kind, helpful or respectful. Everyone that is nominated receives a
school award for their efforts. They also get the opportunity to go into
a draw and choose a prize from Miss McRae’s reward box. One
student from each class is drawn out of a hat and is publicly rewarded
at Monday morning assemblies.
This week’s winners were:
Joe Lucas from 7 Fulminata
Mitchell Crossman from 7 Minerva
Ella Draper from 7 Felix
Madison Knox from 7 Claudius
Madison Wilson from 7 Augusta
Kyall Southwood from 7 Victrix
INNOVATION FACULTY NEWS The week, Year 8 students conducted a field study of Gosling Creek Reserve as part of the
‘Waterworld’ Project unit. Led by Bill, a landscape environmentalist who contracts to Council,
students discovered a range of local and introduced species of flora and fauna. Close attention
was paid to the floating artificial habitat island. Commissioned by council, this provides a safe
nesting space for native migratory birds and native fish. Student will use this primary research to
design and prototype their own habitat islands as part of ‘Waterworld’.
NEW BOOKS IN THE STEM CENTRE
FEATURE BOOK Shivaun Plozza knows what it’s like to love somebody on
the transplant list. And she knows what it’s like when the
waiting is over, when the call comes in the middle of
the night. But when the surgery is over and the
transplant deemed a success, Shivaun still couldn’t get
the donor out of her head.
Who was this person?
What were they like?
Who was their family?
That’s what inspired her to write her
second young adult novel Tin Heart.
Frankie, also by Shivaun Plozza is
available on our ebook platform.
Download the free Wheelers
eplatform app and find our
library then login using your DET
username and password.
From the Archives F
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Classes
1982
Year 9
celebrates
Bastille Day
Year 7 student Jason
Streatfeild’s
assignment book
Coco the frog was made by
Jeanette Watts’ mother for
Year 8 students to use in
class.
Christmas card made by Kim Thomas
of Year 10
SCHOOL NOTICES