Newsletter 15 2018 - Be a Learner, Be Respectful, Be Safe Page 1

Issue 15

31 May 2018

INSIDE

Diary 2

RVC Try a Trade Week 2

Lawn Bowls 2

Author Tristan Bancks Visit 3

Canteen Roster 3

Yr 7-12 Athletics Carnival 3

Careers Corner 3

Aboriginal Summer School for

Excellence in Science and Technology 4

Speak Up Community Survey 4

School Zone Offences 4

Guarantee Your Place 4

Exploring Early Childhood Exploring Early Childhood students have been studying food and nutrition for

young children. As part of their assessment task they planned a birthday party

for a young child and created a nutritious party food dish. Each student

researched and justified their food choice by analysing and comparing the

recipe to the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating for Children. The results

were wonderful, well done.

Miss Gray

Year 9 Food Technology Last Thursday, our Year 9

Food Technology students

completed their first practical

assessment task. This

‘Masterchef’ style pressure

test involved each student

individually preparing and

presenting a pasta dish. Specific skills and techniques demonstrated by the

students included precision cuts, al dente pasta and a basic roux. Everyone

completed the dish to an excellent standard, congratulations!

Miss Gray

Congratulations Tahj Tahj Hodder, Yr 7, has been successful in gaining a place in the 2018 NSW

Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company. Tahj and three other students

attended a workshop in term one in Lismore run by the esteemed Bangarra

Dance Company tutors. These workshops were held across NSW and both

Tahj and Chloe Gillett were short listed. Video footage was taken of the

students and this was used to conduct further selections with a panel back in

Newsletter Issue 15, 2018 - Be a Learner, Be Respectful, Be Safe

Diary

Week 6 Term 2—Week A

Jun 4 CHS Regional Squash Grafton

Jun 5 Athletics Carnival (7-12)

PSSA Netball Knockout Yamba

Jun 6 Primary Soccer Gala Day Woodburn

Jun 7 Netball NSW Cup Yr 5/6 Lismore

Jun 8 K-6 Assembly 9:30am

Week 7 Term 2—Week B

Jun 11 Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Jun 12 NCPSSA Boys & Girls Touch Trials Grafton

Jun 13 CHS Regional Cross Country Nana Glen

NCPSSA Cross Country Nana Glen

7-12 Social 6:30-9:00pm

Jun 15 K-6 Assembly 9:30am

Coming Events

Jun 19 Primary Athletics Field Events 9:00am-2:40pm

Jun 22 Primary Athletics Track Events 9:00am-2:40pm

Jun 28 P-2 Mini Carnival—note date change

Sydney once the workshops were

completed across NSW. Tahj will travel to

Sydney on several occasions for

rehearsals and perform at important

events including Schools Spectacular.

This is a televised event late in the year.

Huge congratulations are also extended to

Chloe Gillett. She danced very well on the

day.

Mrs Price

Richmond Valley Try a Trade Week Richmond Valley Council hosted ten young ladies to

spend a week working in the operational sections.

The purpose was for females to experience what it

would be like to work outdoors in horticulture,

engineering, survey and design, civil construction and

water and sewer construction. Two of our students,

Rachael Redman and Logan Bradford were

successful in their application to participate in this

program.

Comments from the participants confirm the program was a great success:

What did you like best about your time here with us?

“Getting involved with everyone, doing outside activities”

“Working and learning everything, and Mikey was so welcoming and loving”

“The work, the other workers being so kind, letting me in the com, very

welcoming and how the council is run”

“Working with workers that helped with answering questions and the support

that they provided. Also helped within the workshop with what I was unsure

about”

‘The people were very nice, explained things and made it a fun and safe time”

“Everyone was really friendly”

“The welcoming staff and their willingness to help and educate us. Also the

eye opening to the diversity with the council and engineering section and the

mix of outdoor/indoor work”

“The range of opportunities that council offered

us. Both in the field and indoors. We got to get

hands on and all the staff were supportive and

encouraging”

What did you like least about your time here?

“The concreting”

“Not working longer, like more hours of working.

The program should be longer – at least 2 weeks”

“The cold start but everything else was good”

“That it has to end”

Would you recommend our work experience

program to others? Why?

“it gets girls out in boy related jobs and it is good

to try new things”

“everyone is so lovely and I loved working here,

and I learnt a lot”

“Yes, because it was an amazing experience to

have. Good to learn about different trades, jobs

and so much more.

Thank you everyone in RVC for this program and

being selected to participate in this. I enjoyed it

very much. It has encouraged myself to think

about a school based traineeship at the council”

“to help them with their future careers”

“because it is a good chance to see what it is

really like working outside and to see what

working in a males role is like too”

“it is very eye opening, with much variety between

outside/inside, fun, paperwork.

“great opportunity to learn about what council

offers and to get experience in different trades.

Everyone is supportive and encouraging”

Team RVC did a great job to ensure the

participants got value from the experience.

Lawn Bowls Oscar Forrester, Donovan Moss and Eric Redman

travelled to Casino on Wednesday May 16. They

played Bonalbo Central school and defeated them

19-12. Thanks to Kevin (Oscar's grandfather) for

umpiring the game. Well done boys.

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Monday 4 Jun Laurie Wood

Tuesday 5 Jun Help Needed

Wednesday 6 Jun Roslyn Wood

Thursday 7 Jun Help Needed

Friday 8 Jun Help Needed

Canteen Roster - Week A

Careers Corner The following resource and information is available at the schools careers

website:

www.evansriverk12careers.com

Helping Your Child Find Their Career

The year 10 to 11/12 subject selection night is being held early next term. It

is important that students make an informed choice that suits their needs

and abilities.

Over the coming weeks I will be highlighting a number of useful parts of our

careers website that could help with senior subject selection.

Research has shown that young people value parents/carers who show a

genuine interest and understanding about their career pathways.

From the drop menu “For Parents” select “Useful Links” and select “Helping

Your Child Find Their Career” or by clicking here. This New Zealand website

has some excellent information and advice on helping your child with career

choices and decision making.

Chris Hayward - Careers Adviser

Author Tristan Bancks Visit Byron Writers Festival’s,

StoryBoard Bus and author

Tristan Bancks visited Year 8

on Wednesday. StoryBoard

is a travelling creative writing

workshop that stimulates the

critical life skill of active and

functional literacy through

writing and publishing.

Bringing leading authors and

illustrators into schools,

StoryBoard helps to inspire

young people in the Northern Rivers to create

stories, and foster creativity and literacy.

Tristan Bancks is a children's and teen author with

a background in acting and filmmaking. His books

include Two Wolves (recognised as an Honour

Book in the 2015 Children's Book Council of

Australia Book of the Year Awards, as well as

winner of the YABBA and KOALA Children's

Choice Awards), the My Life series (weird-funny-

gross short stories featuring Tom Weekly) and

Mac Slater, Coolhunter. These books are popular

choices in our library for our students.

What the students thought of the day…

Eric: It was a great experience

Jake: I liked the funny sentences about his life

Amber: I enjoyed the 5 minute writing

Pascallie: I liked everything about the experience

Justice: he is very inspirational, he helped me

realise I’m not so bad at writing after all.

Yr 7-12 Athletics Carnival A reminder to high school students that the Yr 7-12 Athletics Carnival is on

next Tuesday. Please come dressed in your house colours. Year 12 students

will be cooking a BBQ during the day and Café Sharkies will also be

operating.

Year 7 Project Based Learning Students in PBL (Project Based Learning) impressed the Red Queen this

week with an outstanding display of top-notch food and cooking skills. The

final cook that was on display would satisfy Heston himself and "Foodies"

alike. In PBL, students had unlimited access to the now 2 years young

Hospitality room for the past ten weeks. The room’s facilities provide an

outstanding opportunity to hone their cooking skills and refine the finer details

required to host a high tea. Over this time, students learned to prepare,

organise and coordinate great meals in teams of 3. The beginning stages

presented some challenges that included baking skills and finding where the

blenders are stored! Students adapted accordingly and quickly, and

developed finesse in their cooking to produce well-balanced, plated food. The

final product of plated food was sensational and created with a high level of

creativity and quality. The menu would satisfy a child’s dream with menu

items such as choc-coated skittles, cookies & cream thick shakes and scones

baked from scratch with hand-whipped cream. It left invited guests satisfied

with full bellies. Guests also commended the students for their efforts and the

quality of food presented. Well done!

Principal: Rob Walker B:Ed:, M:Ed: Cypress Street, Evans Head NSW 2473 Email: evansriver-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: 02-6682 6666 Website: www.evansriver.nsw.edu.au Fax: 02-6682 6777

Please Note: The cut off for information to go in the newsletter is 1:00pm Wednesdays.

What is ASSETS? ASSETS—Aboriginal Summer

School for Excellence in Technology

and Science

Who is ASSETS for? If you are…

In Year 10

Thinking about a career in

science, technology, engineering

or mathematics

Someone who identifies with their

Aboriginal or Torres Strait

Islander culture and heritage

...Then ASSETS is for you!

Newcastle: 3-11 January 2019

Applications close 12 June 2018

For further information and to apply,

please visit:

www.csiro.au/indigenous-assets