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2018 Term Weeks 5-6

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Barham High School

Enabling students to successfully transition to future learning and employment Principal: Glenn Buchanan

Gonn St Barham NSW 2732 | T: 03 54532322 | F: 03 54533259 | E: [email protected]

Barham High School Diligence & Integrity

Calendar Term 3, Week 7

Mon 3rd September Tues 4th September Wed 5th September Thurs 6th September Friday 7th September

VALID 10 window open Get That Job day YEP Program HSC Ind. Tech. Timber markers in school School Counsellor

Term 3, Week 8 Mon 10th September Tues 11th September Wed 12th September Thurs 13th September Fri 14th September

SRC Mufti Day for farmers Yr 7 2nd round Cervical Cancer vaccinations School Counsellor VALID 10 window closes

Reminder: Assembly – every Tuesday morning “A Weeks”

Year Meetings – every Tuesday morning “B Weeks”

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Gunbower Forest Field Trip

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Principal’s message

Year 12 The Year 12 trial HSC examinations are now complete

and our teachers are busily marking and providing

feedback to the students. I would very strongly

encourage the Year 12 students to continue with their

application and stay focussed and engaged. The

completion of the trial examinations does not mark a

finish line, merely an indication to begin the final sprint.

Please make use of any available resources as you

prepare for the culmination of your schooling

experience. We have plenty of avenues for support,

please make use of them. Our teachers are subject

matter experts, make use of their expertise and listen

to their advice.

Parent / Teacher Interviews I am looking forward to Thursday 20th September when

we will again host our Parent / Teacher Interviews. This

event will again provide an opportunity for parents to

seek feedback from teachers their child’s performance

and strategies for improvement. Please ensure that you

book an interview time between 3:30 and 6:30pm when

the interview sheet comes home in the coming weeks.

Year 11 Work Placement Last week also saw our Vocational Education and

Training (VET) students participate in work placement.

We offer a number of vocationally based courses in our

senior school; these include Hospitality, Metal and

Engineering, Construction, and Primary Industries. These

courses teach our students the skills they need to be able

to work in specific industries. One of the requirements of

the course is that the students spend a minimum of 70

hours practising their skills in a genuine workplace

environment. Last week many of our students took the

opportunity to experience the “real world”. I thank the

various employers who kindly looked after our students

and thank them also for their commitment to public

education.

Wellbeing Day Success On Thursday 23rd August, BHS held a wellbeing day for

students from years 7-12 with a variety of activities and

experiences on offer. We were lucky enough to secure

the services of “Project Empower:Country to Canberra”

who presented at BHS as part of their state-wide tour.

Their mission is to empower teenage girls in rural and

remote Australia to achieve their leadership potential.

We were also fortunate to secure the services of the

Odyssey program who ran interactive workshops

covering masculinity, mateship and positive

relationships with our boys. These sessions were

augmented with a variety of other locally sourced

resources including sessions on Smiling Minds, boot

camp exercise, Pilates, general car maintenance, food

preparation, medical health information, life skills. Thank

you to all those involved in the organisation,

preparation, supervising and running of all the events. I

especially thank local community members, Dr Dermott

Hurley, Em Azzopardi, Katrina Myers and Jenny Lodge

who so competently utilised their expertise to make the

day a fantastic success.

Ski trip A hearty welcome back to the intrepid thrill seekers who

spent a magical week in the snow last week. As we

expect, the feedback was extremely positive and student

behaviour was up to the usual exemplary Barham

standard. It is a very large and sometimes daunting

undertaking to take a group away (even when it is a

pleasurable trip to the mountains with the best snow for

years).


External Validation I recently had the opportunity to participate in the

external validation of a high school in the central west of

the state. Every year schools across NSW assess their

performance against the Schools Excellence Framework.

The framework consists of three domains of Teaching,

Learning and Leadership with each domain containing a

number of Elements including: Wellbeing, Assessment,

Effective Classroom Practice, Professional Standards,

and School Resources. Once in every five year cycle each

school is externally validated by a peer principal and a

senior executive from the Principal School Leadership

(PSL) team. In this process, schools nominate where they

position themselves against the Schools Excellence

Framework and provide evidence to support their

position, which is validated by the external team.

As the peer principal who was responsible for validating

the evidence set, I thoroughly enjoyed the learning

experience and the honour of being involved in this

reflective process. The school I validated undertook the

exercise with honesty, integrity and professionalism and

I thank them for allowing me into their school and be

part of their learning community for a short while.

I have a further two schools to validate this year, one

from the far north of the state and one on the central

coast. I look forward to engaging with these two school

communities immensely.

Glenn Buchanan

Principal


Deputy Principal’s message

Wellbeing Day Our Wellbeing Day held last Thursday was a huge

success. Top presenters were brought in to deliver

valuable programs, which were complemented by

practical sessions including domestic skills, health

and fitness awareness, initiative games and basic

car maintenance.

Female students were fortunate enough to catch one of the workshops delivered by Project Empower: Country to Canberra. Barham High School was selected as one of the rural and remote schools the project would visit during the course of a four month road trip that aims to educate teenage girls about diversity, build self-esteem and encourage young women to embrace their leadership strengths.

The male students were treated to a guest

presenter, Joel Sloan, from the Odyssey program,

which is designed to help boys make the difficult

transition to manhood. Two workshops were

conducted; the first workshop looked at identity

and masculinity and addressed questions like when

does a boy become a man? And what are the

qualities that make up a healthy and responsible

man? The workshop challenged the boys to

redefine the social construction of masculinity,

power, success and mask wearing and to search for

new role models that can offer them alternate,

healthy qualities they might take on board. In the

second workshop the boys were encouraged to

redefine relationships, how they make us feel,

what are the rules and what they are not. They

challenged the social construction of gender by

looking at stereotypes, then exploring consent,

abuse, domestic violence, diversity and

homophobia. The workshops within this program

were highly engaging, informative and fun.

The Years 7 and 8 boys also spent time developing

some domestic skills by creating and eating wood-

fired pizzas and participating in games designed to

increase their initiative.

A visit from Dr Dermot Hurly, a basic car

maintenance practical session and a trip to the gym

rounded out the senior boys’ Wellbeing Day.

We had terrific ‘buy in’ from all students, staff and

presenters and we are extremely grateful to all

those that gave up time on a voluntary basis

including Katrina Myers, Dr Dermot Hurly and Chris

Bowen. The school, with the assistance of Sonya

Harrison, provided canteen vouchers to subsidise

any purchases made through the canteen on the

day. It was a real team effort from the staff of

Barham High School who were the glue that

allowed the day to run so smoothly. And the big

winners on the day were the students who were

both informed and inspired.

Ski Trip Last week was a huge week for staff, students and

parents who attended the ski trip to Thredbo. By

all accounts the recent snow falls provided

sensational skiing conditions and all had a fantastic

week. Congratulations and thanks to Ms Donnan

and Miss Edmunds for their organisation and

participation as well as to Paul Robinson and Glen

King-Gee for their support.

Science Week & Field Trips

Thanks to Miss Dennis who organised Science

Week activities last Wednesday.

This week has been a busy week for curricular

activities with fieldwork for Stage 5 photo/dig

students and all Stage 4 science students. Thanks

to Miss Sullivan, Mrs Farrant, Miss Dennis, Mrs

Snowdon and Miss Morton for the extra hours

spent on these activities.


Numeracy & Reading Tests Year 10 This Friday, Year 10 students will have the

opportunity to sit the practice tests for numeracy

and reading in the HSC Minimum Standard of

Literacy and Numeracy.

Senior School

The senior school is very quiet this week as Year 12

have trial HSC exams and quite a few Year 11 VET

students are completing their second block of work

placement. The end of Term 3 marks the end of both

Year 11 and Year 12 courses. Year 11 will have exams in

the final week of this term and will then commence

their respective Year 12 courses in Term 4. Year 12 will

have only 4 weeks of class time before the holidays and

final preparations for their HSC exams.

The Year 12 Final Assembly is set down for Friday

28th September from 10:15am at cluBarham.

Fathers’ Day Breakfast &

Footy Colours Day

Notes have gone home regarding our Fathers’ Day

Breakfast and Footy Colours Day next Friday 7th

September. It would be great to see a big roll up and

support for both of these events.

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Our Semester 2 Parent Teacher interviews have been

scheduled for Thursday 20th September from 3:30 pm to

6:30 pm. More information and booking sheets will

follow in the coming weeks.

Lost Property

As the weather gets warmer we are finding more

discarded jumpers around the playground following

breaks. Please make sure names are in jumpers and

coats as un-named articles of clothing build up in lost

property.

Ian McConnell Deputy Principal

Project Empower

The Project Empower session for female students in

Years 7-12, was run by Hannah Wandell and the

Country to Canberra team. The session touched on

leadership, empowerment and developing a sense of

strong values. The feedback from students was

extremely positive, and we were very lucky to have the

opportunity to participate in this wonderful and

worthwhile program!


English/HSIE Report

Stage 5 Poetry Arriving at the oval at 10 in the morning

The thought of losing is so daunting

We have to win the game

If we lose we are the only ones to blame

We jog out to warm up as a team

We, as the future of the club, have a high esteem

Time ticks over to eleven o’ seven

We go and face the opposition

The ball is held in the air

There are supporters everywhere

The siren sounds

And the ball grounds

We gain the centre clearance

Nice and clean without interference

As soon as you know it we are the first team to score

All we want is more

By the first term we have a fifty point lead

With so much greed

Half time we are up by ninety

We aren’t taking this game lightly

Third and fourth quarters pass by

Swan Hill give up and

sigh

Then we find out the news everyone thought was untrue

Woorinen have won by two

The last song of the year is a hard one

But that’s our season done.

–Tom Mason

Sometimes

I get away from people

And fall down into a palace

Where there’s everything

I would expect from myself

And my fears.

-Henry Barr


Ye ar 7 Poetry

My Country by Dorothea

Mackellar/ Victor Krahnvohl

Visual Representations


Week Bonanza at BHS!

On Friday September 17 Barham High School celebrated

Book Week with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

theme.

Our awesome teachers dressed up in a range of

character costumes and the individual winner of the

Guess the Teachers’ Characters quiz was Imogen

O’Sullivan, with the group prize going to Year 12.

The winners of the Golden Ticket Elimination Prize were

Madi Eames and Leonard McClay who were rewarded

appropriately with Leonard’s height in chocolate.

Congratulations also to all winners of Year Group Prizes

for the Best Dressed Characters, Elizabeth Kelly (Year 7),

Albert Barnes (Year 8), Kalani Scoullar, Tatum Boyd and

Claudia Short (Year 9), Leonard McClay (Year 10), Mark

Barnes (Year 11) and Bridie Mathers (Year 12).

Our chocolatey celebrations were dedicated to the

memory of Roald Dahl. In particular, Leonard McClay’s

willing performance in the Frog in the Pond tiebreaker

will live in the communal memory for some time to

come.


TAS Report Stage 5 Industrial Tech Metal

Stage 5 Industrial Tech Metal today tested and

evaluated their camp BBQ’s that they have recently

completed. The students discussed design features

and flaws, cooking techniques, cleaning and fire

safety.

Year 6 Transition

During Week 6 we hosted the Year 6 Transition days for

our feeder schools - Barham Public, Koondrook PS,

Moulamein Public and Wakool/Burraboi Public with

over 40 students across the two days. The students

sampled classes in the timber workshop, science labs,

kitchen, ag plot and STEM MakerSpace.

Feedback from the students was very positive with

them thoroughly enjoying the Robotics session, where

they coded a robot to leave Earth, refuel at Mars and

complete a mission at Jupiter before heading back to

Earth with a fuel cell. An amazing experience as part of

the transition, where in yesteryear students would have

made scone cutters!

We look forward to hosting the students over a number

of days during Term 4.


Year 6 Transition Continued…………..


Industrial Timber

The students have been busily working in the Timber

workshop on their projects for Term 3 with

candlesticks, spice racks, four jointed boxes and timber

joint display boards. We will have a large collection of

works to put into the show in October, with a number

of high quality pieces of work.

Year 8 STEM

The Year 8 STEM class has been busily working and

developing their understanding of volume this week.

The students predicted, tested and evaluated a number

of experiments as a lead in to further developing their

skills.

Year 8 Agriculture

The Year 8 Ag students have been busily preparing

seedlings for their vegetable beds as well as

germinating a number of flowers to be placed in garden

beds and pots around the school. Thank you very much

to Joy Eagle who donated a range of succulents to us as

well.


Science/Vis Arts/Careers Report

Photographic & Digital Media

Kayla

Yvette

(above &

right)

Miss Sullivan

On Wednesday the 29th of August, our Photography

students packed up their DSLR cameras and headed out

for a field trip down the main street and surrounds of

Barham. Students are starting a unit called ‘Architecture

vs Landscape’ and examined some of the local treasures

we have in Barham. It is truly amazing what you

discover when you are really looking at things you see

almost every day. These images will be layered and

manipulated in Photoshop as part of their assessment

for this unit. Stay tuned for more amazing photographs

to come.

Careers On Tuesday 4th of September, all Year 10 students will

participate in “Get That Job” day that will be held at

Barook Senior Citizens Hall in Koondrook. We are lucky

enough to have two guest speakers running this day,

which consists of practical and everyday advice about

applying for jobs, resumé and portfolio ideas and

presentation skills. It will be an invaluable day.

“Mock interviews” are coming up in Week 9 –

Wednesday 19th September. All Year 10 students will

participate in this program, which requires them to dress

in appropriate interview attire and attend an interview

for a “job” at a local business house. This is a wonderful

experience and one that we couldn’t do without the

support of local businesses.

The “Get that Job” and “Mock interviews” form the

assessment for this term.

In Term 4 the Year 10 students have the opportunity to

participate in a second block of work experience. This is

a fantastic opportunity and we strongly advise that all

Year 10 students participate.


Science Week

We celebrated another fabulous Science Week, with

our gang of nerds spending last Wednesday creating a

brochure about the awesome Science of the Gunbower

Forest. The studious young Scientists had their minds

blown with all the fun facts the forest has to offer. They

hope to complete their brochure in the near future for

distribution at local tourist hotspots and even plan to

create a social media platform to share their newly

gained knowledge. Watch this space, and thanks always

to our keen students for making Science Week a great

success!

Science Field Trip

On Thursday, Years 7 and 8 students headed out to the

Gunbower Forest for a fieldtrip. A great opportunity to

get some hands-on experience in the field, the students

got their hands dirty with soil and water testing, kept

their eyes peeled for a range of plants and animals, and

looked at human impacts on the forest. The students

were outstandingly well - behaved and were an

absolute delight to take out into the field.


Thredbo Ski Trip 2018

The Barham Koondrook Historical Society has been approved to progress to the next stage

of the Victorian Government’s Pick My Project Initiative:

Important Structural Repairs to a Key Koondrook Building

WE NOW NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!!

Are you a Victorian who lives within 50kms of Koondrook? Are you over 16 years? Do you possess a mobile phone and an email address? If you answered yes to all of the above you are able to vote for a project in Victoria. Preserving the history of Koondrook for future generations. This project will enable refurbishment and structural repairs to a key heritage building ensuring its long-term viability. Three projects are to be voted on. Go onto the website https://pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/ Complete the registration, select your projects to vote for and include the Barham Koondrook Historical Society.

VOTING CLOSES: MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER AT 5PM.

Need assistance to vote? Check out these options…..

Visit the Barham Koondrook Historical Society, Punt Road, Koondrook, on Wednesdays between 10am to 4pm.

Phone: Christine Dartnell on 0404 835 384

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