Dates for Calendar

Term 3

Wednesday 5th to 7th

September—State Ath-

letics Carnival

Friday 7th to Saturday 8th September—Harden

Show

Monday 10th Septem-

ber—Paddock to Plate

Tuesday 11th Septem-

ber—SRC Fundraiser Pyjama and crazy hair

day

Thursday 13th Septem-

ber—Cowra Art Gallery

Excursion Stage 5

Thursday 13th Septem-ber—School Disco in the

Hall

Saturday 15th Septem-

ber—Young Show

Thursday 20th to Tues-day 25th September -

Year 11 Exams

Tuesday 25th September

—Merit Assembly

Tuesday 25th September

—Parent Teacher Inter-

views

Thursday 27th Septem-ber—Year 12 Final As-

sembly

MURRUMBURRAH

HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL: KYM

ORMAN

31 August 2018 Mercury

Mercury

This week’s focus is Science!

The Science Department has been busy changing over subjects in Stage 4 and 5, Stage 4 are

beginning their studies on the body systems, all 11 of them. This will include lots of discus-

sions and tests involving foods.

Stage 5 are completing their assessment task dealing with chemical reactions and are prepar-

ing for their next topic.

Stage 6 have been busy either completing Trial exams and receiving feedback or in the case of

Year 11, preparing for their upcoming Preliminary Final exams.

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Science

This Friday’s challenge brings building a bridge to reach 50cm with only a specific handful of equipment. The

winners judged by our staff were Lily Shorrock, Emily Schulz and Sam Emms.

Ms Ashton's Stage 5 class had the great experience of inflating a set of sheep

lungs. The experiment demonstrates the remarkable ability of a set of healthy

lungs to exchange Carbon Dioxide for new Oxygen.

Congratulations to the student listed below,

who have received their MHS Blue Level Cer-

tificates: Jamie Ryan,

Congratulations!

Congratulations to the students listed below,

who have received their MHS Purple Level

Certificates; Natalya Kelly, Bethany Robertson,

Brydan Cracknell Lily Shorrock, Brooke

Beeson, Gus Shea, Sharna Allen, William

Cracknell and Ben Sargent

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Principal Report

Over the last month the executive have been discussing and reflecting on our 2018 planning and

milestones and evaluating progress and working on the 2019 and beyond framework of learning.

We are a learning community that promotes, values, learns and evaluates. We focus on students

wellbeing, excellence in classroom learning delivery, feedback and reflection, excellence in teacher

professional learning and excellence in community engagement.

We aim for sustainable practices with a commitment to;

• Nurture, guide, inspire and challenge students

• Prepare students to make successful transitions from Stage to Stage, future learning, study

and employment

• Provide engaging lessons, continually analyse growth and understandings that support pro-

fessional learning for all

• Collaborate and learn from and with local context and community.

It is anticipated at the October P&C meeting refined planning overview will be presented.

Over the last fortnight Year 7 and 9 were part of NAPLAN Online, teachers reported that stu-

dent’s attitude and application to this testing was outstanding, thank you to those students.

Year 12 Trials are now completed. This year we decided to employ external supervisors to en-

sure that Year 12 knew ‘what to expect’ in the HSC examinations. Congratulations to Year 12

trial completions. Mrs Young asked Year 12 to complete a feedback survey i.e. trial examination

to ascertain how we can further support Year 12 in their final weeks of formal schooling.

Families will be aware that school holiday workshops will occur, it is anticipated and encouraged

that Year 12 be part of this important learning strategy.

Congratulations to those students who have undertaken work experience, feedback has been

outstanding.

We look forward to reporting to families learning successes for students in the next few weeks,

in particular;

• Camp at Wooglemai Oakdale

• State Athletics

• Drama HSC examinations

• Involvement in the Harden Show

• Involvement in the Kite Festival

• Debating Competitions

• Stage 4 HSIE Excursion

• Police Liaison Officers presenting to Legal Studies and LEAP students

• Binit Binit Excursion

• Primary Industries Day

• Paddock to Plate

Thank you to all for organising these quality learning opportunities for our students.

Kym

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Writing in the Middle Years

On Tuesday 27th August all staff completed ‘Writing in the Middle Years:

Teaching beyond the Standard’, a course that supports the explicit teach-

ing of continuum of writing skills across the middle years of schooling.

The course addresses priorities based on NAPLAN writing data. Content

is based on standards of the NSW Department of Education Literacy

Continuum K-10 and reflects the outcomes of the NSW English K-10 syl-

labus.

Thank you to Mrs Middleton and Ms Beck who facilitated the course.

CEF University Experience

Through the Harden District Education Foundation and

the Country Education Foundation (CEF), students

from Murrumburrah High School had the opportunity

to attend the CEF University Experience Program last

week.

Students from Year 10 and 11 got to experience first

hand Uni life and what was on offer.

A quote sent from the University of Canberra;

‘From our team at UC, we had a great few days and the feedback we have received from the academic staff at the University is that the students were engaged, po-lite, insightful and a pleasure to work with, which is a fantastic reflection on the students and their schools, and your efforts in promoting the Camp to participation schools.’

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Ping Pong

LEAP This week in LEAP the students undertook activities in

communication and active listening. This activity was

using effective communication skills to create words in

a team. Can you guess what the words the students created

are ?

Work Experience Will attended his first day of work placement this week and had a

great day meeting the residents of Southern Cross Care St Law-

rence Apartments. Will applied himself to his duties for his first shift and impressed

with his presentation skills and wiliness to learn. He also impressed

Facility Manager Shelly with his understanding of hand washing pro-

cedures and infection control policies.

He will be completing his placement over the coming weeks and

we wish him all the best.

Pictured—Will with Southern Cross Care Facility Manager Shelly Gledhill

and the Facilities Cook Marg Akrigg.

MPS Spelling Bee

Earlier in the term three of our Year 11 Advanced English students

attended Murrumburrah Public School to assist them in the running of

their annual spelling bee.

The coordinator, Mrs Beal sent through the following message: ‘I just wanted to send a note through to say a very big thank you to Riley Southwell, Rachel Battye and

Emily Stanfield for their assistance during our annual MPS Spelling Bee which we coordinate in prepara-

tion for the Premier's Spelling Bee Competition.

Riley, Rachel and Emily were exemplary in both their presentation and representation of MHS and I would

like to professionally and personally thank and commend them on their effort. It was so lovely to see stu-

dents conducting themselves in such a positive and enthusiastic manner.

I would also like to thank any organising staff from MHS for their involvement in selecting the girls.

What a great learning community we have here in Harden-Murrumburrah.

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VET Construction The Year 12 Construction students are on track to complete their last cluster of work: assemble

components and prepare for off-site manufacturing process for their qualification, Certificate II in

Construction Pathways CPC20211.

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School Excursion to Wooglemai Due to insufficient numbers the boys overnight excursion to Wooglemai Environmental Edu-

cation Centre for 29/30 October 2018 has now been opened up to all students (boys and

girls) from Year 7 to 11.

Wooglemai EEC is approximately 3 1/2 hours from Harden, near Picton, and offers students

fun and exciting experiences. The centre provides great camp activities including a high

ropes course, archery, bush walking and a ‘My Bush Kitchen Rules’ Day.

The cost for this excursion to attend this overnight experience will be approximately $40.

Thank you to all of those who have already returned their EOI. Any students that are still

interested, please return the below to the Front Office by Wednesday 5th September.

……………………………………………………………………………….….….

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST—WOOGLEMAI EEC

Student Name: ……………………………….. Year: ………..

I am interested in attending the above excursion and understand the cost will be approximately $40.

Signed: …………………………………………..

(Parent/Carer)

Parent Name: …………………………………...

The twin towns of Harden Murrumburrah will mark the 150th birthday of one of its historic Catholic churches with a music con-

cert.

The concert to celebrate the sesquicentenary of the Parish St Mary’s, Murrumburrah, will be held in its Harden sister church St

Anthony’s at 2pm on Sunday, 21 October.

The church, which holds about 600 people, has not hosted such an event before. All members of the community are welcome and

entry is by gold coin donation, proceeds to farmer’s drought appeal.

The Australian Rugby Choir with more than 40 male voices will come from Canberra to feature at the concert. Other performers will include Drew Ashley, from Canberra, who will perform songs from the Phantom of the Opera and Frank

Sinatra, Hilltops soprano Julie O’Connor, musical director of the Australian Rugby Choir Rachel Campbell, teenage artist Harry

Cleverdon, Trinity School choir and the Butt family with Greg Jamieson and Oscar Smith.

The then Bishop of Goulburn William Lanigan blessed and laid the foundation stone of St Mary’s Church on 27 September, 1868. In the late-1800s priests travelled on Saturday by train from Cootamundra to celebrate Sunday Mass, returning home the following

day. With the increase in the Catholic population, St Mary’s was extended in 1895 with 14ft of stonework added to the original aisle

and the massive granite bell tower built.

The additions were funded in the main from a bequest by an Irish resident Mrs James Murray.

The stone was quarried at Demondrille and carted with bullock teams, and horses and drays by John Shea.

A parish lunch in September and an anniversary Mass in November will also be held to mark the historic occasion.

St Mary’s Murrumburrah —Historic Occasion

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SRC Fundraiser—Pyjama & Crazy Hair Day The SRC is running a fundraiser on Tuesday 11th September where students are

invited to come to school in their Pyjamas paired with crazy hair!

During the assembly Brad Wyatt-Williams will be shaving his head for Variety—

The Children's Charity.

Variety donation boxes will be passed around during the day for students to sup-

ply a gold coin donation.

School Disco—Thursday 13th September The SRC School Disco will be held on Thursday 13th September from

6.30pm to 9pm in the School Hall.

Fancy dress themes;

Stage 4—Glow Party

Stage 5—Childhood movie stars

Stage 6—Blast from the past

Tickets are $5 each and can be purchased from the SRC during breaks.

Paddock to Plate 2018 - ‘ A field Day for Kids’ MHS will be holding their ‘Paddock to Plate’ day on Monday 10th September with

students from surrounding schools attending.

The theme this year is ‘50 things to do before you’re 11 3/4’. Students will be in-

volved in learning activities based on Science, Technology and Agriculture. There

will be competitions, games, sampling paddock to plate delights, learning about

paddock to plate, goodie bags and lots lots more.

We will be accepting a coin donation for the ‘Buy a Bale’ drought relief.

If you would like to know more details please contact the school.

Farm News The school’s farm had a surprise arrival last week with another new

heifer calf joining us. The students have nicknamed her ‘Midnight’.

The farm has a number of Hyline Brown pullets for sale—$15 each,

please contact the front office for more details.

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Important Dates & What’s Due Murrumburrah High School

Term 3, 2018

Month Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Satur-

day

Sun-

day

Sep-

tember

7 3 4 LEAP Connect@Lunch Assembly

5 State Athletics Carnival @ Sydney

6 State Athletics Carnival @ Sydney

7 State Athletics Carni-val @ Sydney

8/9 Murrumburrah Show

Sep-

tember

8 10 Paddock to Plate

11 LEAP Connect@Lunch Assembly

12

13 Cowra Art Gallery Stage 5 SRC Disco

14 Mercury emailed

15/16 Young Show

Sep-

tember

9 17 18 LEAP Connect@Lunch Assembly

19 20 Year 11 Exams

21 Year 11 Exams

22/23

Sep-

tember

10 24 Year 11 Exams

25 Year 11 Exams LEAP Connect@Lunch Merit Assembly Parent Teacher Interviews

26 27 Year 12 Final Assembly

28 Mercury emailed

29/30 School Holi-

days

Stage 5 PDHPE (Year 9) AFL Assessment Task 7th September

Stage 4 Food Tech Healthy Pizza Assignment 14th September

Stage 4 Wood / Metal Project 2 14th September

Stage 4 Art Archibald Assessment 10th September

Stage 5 Food Tech Celebrations Case Study 14th September

Stage 5 Ag Practical 14th September

Stage 5 Metal Metal Fabrication 14th September

Stage 5 Commerce Research Assignment Week 8

Stage 5 IST Assignment Week 8

Stage 5 Geography Assessment 13th September

Stage 4 CAPA Assessment 10th September

Stage 4 Maths STEM Assignment Due 21st September

Stage 4 Ag Research & Design 21st September

Stage 4 Science Inv/Research 21st September

Stage 5 History Research Empathy Task Week 9

Stage 5 History Assessment 20th September

Stage 4 Geography Assessment 19th September

Stage 4 PDHPE Basketball Assessment Task 24th September

Stage 4 History Exam Week 10

Year 11 English Extension Assessment 26th September

Year 11 Drama Assessment 26th September

Stage 5 English Assessment 27th September

Stage 5 Visual Arts Assessment Week 10

Stage 5 Drama Assessment 24th September

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Dear Parents and Carers, The Department of Education is working closely with the Black Dog Institute to support the im-plementation of Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM), an evidence based mental health pro-gram. As part of the Wellbeing initiatives at Murrumburrah High School, all Year 9 students will be participating in YAM for five hours over a three week period. This program will be run at our school by qualified YAM instructors. YAM is a culturally sensitive program targeted at all our Year 9 students to promote in-creased knowledge and discussion about mental health, as well as the development of problem-solving skills and emotional intelligence. There are six themes explored through discussion and role play in the program: What is mental health; Self-help advice; Stress and crisis; Depression and suicidal thoughts; Helping a friend in need; Who can I ask for advice. Students will also be issued an information resource booklet about content covered in the course as well as local support networks that they may find help-ful. This is a free program for all Year 9 students at Murrumburrah High School. The Department of Education has funded all costs associated with the YAM program. Three Sessions will be held at the school on Wednesday 12 Sept 10.05 - 12.35pm, Wednesday 19

Sept 10.05 - 12.35pm and Wednesday 26 Sept 11.35 - 12.35pm. If you do not wish your child to participate in YAM or to gain further information about the YAM program please contact:

Murrumburrah High School

Deputy Principal Lee Hyland tel 6386 2755

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Murrumburrah High School P & C Association

ABN: 98 824 183 176

PIE DRIVE FUNDRAISER ORDER FORM

Delicious pies made to order by The Outback Bakery Cootamundra.

All orders and correct payment are to be returned to the front office by

Monday 3rd September.

Orders to be picked up from the School’s Canteen on

Wednesday afternoon 26th September.

For further enquiries please phone Sarah Rowan on 0487 255 083 or

Email: murrumburrahhighpandc@gmail.com

NAME:………………………………………………………………………………

YEAR:…………………………………………………………………………………

CONTACT NUMBER:……………………………………………………………

TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED:…………………………………………………

PIE

FLAVOUR

FAMILY

SIZE PRICE

QUANTITY

FAMILY

TRAY OF 4

PRICE

QUANTITY

TRAY OF 4

TOTAL

COST

Plain Mince $16.00 $16.00

Bacon &

Cheese

$20.00 $20.00

Curry Beef

Mince

$20.00 $20.00

Steak & Mush-

room

$20.00 $20.00

Apple $14.00 N/A N/A

Total Payment $

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SRC School Disco!

When: Thursday 13th September 2018

Where: MHS School Hall

Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm

Themes:

Stage 4—Glow Party

Stage 5—Childhood movie stars

Stage 6—Blast from the past

Murrumburrah High

School

Smith Street

Harden NSW 2587

Phone: 02 6386 2755

Fax: 02 6386 3048

E-mail: murrumburr-

h.school@det.nsw,edu.au

MURRUMBURRAH

HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL: KYM

ORMAN

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