DATE/EVENTS

UP COMING DATES

1st June—Try a Trade—

Cobar High School

1st, 2nd and 3rd June—

SRC Camp—Burrendong

3rd June—Middle School

7th June—Tom Kemp

Rugby League – Condobo-

lin

7th June—P& C Meet-

ing—5.45pm

9th June—Buckley Shield

Rugby League—Dubbo

28th June—RYDA Driver

Awareness Program—

Sydney

FROM THE OFFICE

Reminders:

SOCKS ORDERS AND

MONEY TO STEPHA-

NIE WATERHOUSE

OR SANDRA BEETSON

BY END OF THIS

WEEK - THANK YOU

SCHOOL GROUP PHO-

TOS ARE ON DISPLAY

AT THE FRONT OF-

FICE—ORDERS ARE

BEING TAKEN NOW

FOR THESE— WILL

BE POSTED AWAY

END OF THIS WEEK

I N N O V A T I O N , E X C E L L E N C E , O P P O R T U N I T I E S & S U C C E S S

M O N D A Y 3 1 S T M A Y , 2 0 1 0 T E R M 2 W E E K 7

N Y N G A N H I G H S C H O O L

PO Box 156 Cobar Street NYNGAN NSW 2825

Phone: 02 68321004 Fax: 02 68321769

Email: nyngan-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.nyngan-h.school.nsw.edu.au

Photos from our School Captains visit to Sydney to meet with the Governor

From the Principal

I was extremely pleased with the number of students who

presented to Mr Sonntag and myself last week with a merit

award. We had in excess of 200 merit certificates issued for

the week which shows that your children are doing some

wonderful things in the classroom. It is important that all

students continue to work to the best of their ability and

focus on improving their understanding in each and every

lesson. Extrinsic rewards are a wonderful short term meas-

ure however, intrinsic rewards come from working hard and

achieving success without any other reward. Please encour-

age your children to do the best they possibly can in every

lesson.

Dr Michael Carr-Greg

As part of our involvement in the Country Areas Program,

we have been fortunate enough to book a session with Dr

Michael Carr Gregg via video conference on Thursday 17th

June 2010. Michael is one of Australia’s highest profile psy-

chologists. Michael will be presenting a session on dealing

with teenage children from 5.30pm – 6.30pm on 17th June in

the School library via video conference. If you are interested

in listening to Michael speak could you please contact the

school on 68321004. Numbers will be limited to 20 so

hurry, this is an opportunity that is too good to miss.

300 Club

Congratulations to Mrs Di Dunn who was successful in win-

ning the 300 club raffle. Di has won $1000. The other re-

cipients of $100 prizes were G.Griffith, L.Shone, P.Murphy,

M.Colless and D.Woods. Thankyou to all members of our

school community for your participation in this fundraising

event. A big thank you must continue to go to Stephanie

Waterhouse and the team of committed parents who con-

tinue to support our school through the P&C.

Science and Engineering Challenge

Last week 17 of our budding Scientists travelled to Cobar to

compete in the annual Science and Engineering Challenge.

Our school achieved a 5th place overall which was fantastic.

A special mention to Dylan Chadburne and to Kyle Turk for

their fantastic balloon powered car. This car broke all re-

cords and was the stand out performance for the day. Well

done!

New Markings on Road for School Zones

As part of the State Government’s commitment to improv-

ing school zone safety, new triangular markings known as

―Dragons Teeth‖ will soon be painted on the entry points to

our school zones. I have attached an information brochure to

explain the purpose of the 40km/h school zones.

Drum Beats

On Tuesday last week we were fortunate enough to have

Drum Beats attend our school thanks to Viv Cleaver and

Barnardos. Drum Beats is an interactive cultural music per-

formance which involves all members of the audience. This

was a fantastic opportunity for our students to articulate

their talents using a variety of drums from around the world.

I was able to see our senior students take part in this per-

formance and Luke Healey was a standout in this group.

Student Behaviour in Class

I have been concerned with a small number of students who

continually attempt to disrupt the learning environment of

their peers. I have spoken with all students at this week’s

assembly and reinforced my message of high expectations

and respect. I would ask for your assistance to ensure that as

parents or carers you reinforce this message at home.

P&C Meeting

Next Monday 7th June will be our final P&C meeting for

Term 2. If you are available at 5.45pm please come and

have a say in how you would like our school to run. Every-

one is invited and I encourage you to attend if you are avail-

able.

I look forward to speaking with you again next week.

Kind Regards

Chad Bliss

Principal

Science News.

Last week the HOT (Higher Order Thinking) NRL group

have been looking at spoonerisms. The Science Challenge

report has been rewritten by this group as a spoonerism. For

the uninitiated, a spoonerism is the deliberate rearranging of

parts of words, either vowels, consonants or groups of letters.

Please enjoy their report. The originally report has been in-

cluded if you experience difficulty.

Science and Engineering challenge Spoonerism

On Scieday , 16 Tuentists set off to Cobar for the Chience and

Engineering Scallenge

Kyle and Dylan had to bonstruct a calloon cowered par. The

gompromise was to go the distest greatance or to marry the

cost weight. The dehicle vesigned by these actineers engually

broke records. They then had to caroeuvre their man around a

course resembling getting a hole in one on a colf gourse. Ex-

cellent bork woys!

Ashlie and Macayla were chaplexed by their perllenge to sy-

phone pater through wipes to locarent diffetions . They en-

joyed the man carufacturing that they did bext netter. Aaron

and Sam were more enthusiastic about the chater wallenge.

But didn’t like the electricity game.

Oliver and Dean cesigned and built a datapult. They achieved

excellent acctance but their disuracy left a bit to be desired.

Wade and Jakk excelled with Chesigning a Dair for their dol-

erweight ovly.

Kelsie and Sam were our moat banufacturers whilst Joshua

and James had to conign and destruct a very brong stridge.

More stars were Tayla and Imogen who spent the day envi-

ronning an designmentally friendly house. They were able to

collect the most rater from their woof design.

All in all the day was freat dun. Next year we will know how

to cheat the ballenges.

Science and Engineering Challenge - Original Version

On Tuesday, 16 scientists set off to Cobar for the Science and

Engineering Challenge.

Kyle and Dylan had to construct a balloon powered car. The

compromise was to go the greatest distance or carry the most

weight. The vehicle designed by these engineers actually

broke records. They then had to manoeuvre their car around a

course resembling getting a hole in one on a golf course. Ex-

cellent work boys!

Ashlie and Macayla were perplexed by their challenge to

syphoned water through pipes to different locations. They

enjoyed the car manufacturing that they did next better.

Aaron and Sam were more enthusiastic about the water chal-

lenge, but didn’t like the electricity game.

Oliver and Dean designed and built a catapult. They achieved

excellent distance but their accuracy left a bit to be desired.

Jakk and Wade excelled with designing a chair for their over-

weight dolly.

Kelsie and Sam were our boat manufacturers whilst Joshua

and James had to design and construct a very strong bridge.

More stars were Tayla and Imogen who spent the day de-

signing an environmentally friendly house. They were able to

collect the most water from their roof design.

All in all the day was great fun. Next year we will know how

to beat the challenges.

Leonie Montgomery and HOT NRL

P & C News

Hi everyone

Well we drew the 300 Club on Friday night at the RSL Club

and the very popular winners were: $1000 Di Dunn, $100

Peter Murphy, $100 Myra Colless, $100 Gracie Griffiths,

$100 Del Woods and $100 Louise Shone. Congratulations to

the winners and thank you to everyone who bought tickets

in this annual fundraiser. Your support is greatly appreci-

ated. I would like to thank those who sold tickets especially

Lyn Webster and Janelle Jeffery who went way above the

number of tickets they had been asked to sell and to my

other sellers Sandra Beetson, Jenny Lane, Julie McCarthy,

Noelene Bandi, Di Dunn and Louise Shone. It’s not an easy

job to ask people for money so thanks to those who came

forward to buy them without having to be asked.

I would like to thank those who have given me sock orders.

I will be putting these together and posting them off by the

end of the week so anyone who has any late orders get them

to myself or Sandra ASAP.

Lastly our next fundraiser is the Trivia and Auction Night

on 25th June at the RSL Club. Please get some tables to-

gether and get organised for a great night out.

Thanks for listening

Stephanie Waterhouse

Nyngan High School P&C President

FOR SALE

Navy School Jackets (old style)

2 x large

1 x extra-large

$10.00 each

More information please phone

Jenny on 68 321049

Stage 6 Visual Arts Excursion Report

On Wednesday 5th May, Amy, Courtney, Alex, Alison,

Dana, Carla, Mr Dawson and I headed off on a four day art

excursion to the city of Sydney. Our journey began as we

departed Nyngan on a long and boring bus trip. It took

roughly eight hours for us to arrive at Miss Roots’ palace,

where we were greeted by her very kind and welcoming

family. Our first night was spent window shopping at K-

Mart followed by indulging ourselves with Krispy Krème

doughnuts. At Krispy Krème we got to see how the donuts

were made.

Our 6:30am wake up calls and massive breakfasts prepared

us for a big day in the city, beginning with taking an hour

train ride to Hyde Park. As we walked through the innova-

tive park and around St Mary’s Cathedral we were encour-

aged to do a photography task focusing on different texture,

colour and camera shots. We then had lunch in the park

where we were mobbed by sparrows thanks to Dana.

Next stop was David Jones food court where we were all

very impressed by the cakes and hand made chocolates val-

ued at $100 per 80 grams! Although the food looked ex-

tremely good it was a little out of our price range so we de-

cided to go shopping in Pitt Street instead. After about an

hour of shopping we visited the Museum of Contemporary

Art which exhibited ―We call them pirates out here‖, this

exhibition was a collection of the MCA’s Contemporary

Art and although it was very fascinating there were some

works and videos that were a little promiscuously odd.

Thursday night was spent shopping at Penrith Plaza fol-

lowed by a movie which a few of us got a little teary in.

Day 3 began with more shopping followed by a visit to Luna

Park. We had another photography task at the park which

also inspired us to focus on texture, camera angles, colour

and shadows. After about an hour and a half of going on as

many rides as we could we headed back on the ferry and

caught the train back to St James and walked through the

Domain to attend a guided tour of the Art gallery of New

South Wales. The first exhibition we viewed was Art Ex-

press which is a collection of HSC student’s body of works.

There was some remarkable works and all had interesting

concepts and meaning behind them. Next we met our tour

guide who taught that art is not just about the work, but also

its space, which includes framework, lighting, structure and

feel of the room. We started our tour viewing Modernist

works and followed into Contemporary and Abstract works.

Our tour went for an hour and we were kindly given a Con-

temporary Art book from our tour guide when it ended. We

then travelled back to Miss Roots’ house and we dropped

off our shopping then, readied ourselves for a night trip to

the Ice Skating Rink where we all put in a huge effort

especially Alex, as he only fell over once (sorry Alex). We

stopped for Cold Rock on the way home; we were all very

exhausted and crashed out to prepare us for the long trip

home.

I would like to give a big thank you to Miss Roots and Mr

Dawson for taking us and to Miss Roots’ family for being so

lovely and kind to us all. It was an unforgettable experience

and without you guys it wouldn’t have been possible thank

you.

Tayler McBrien

NYNGAN MEN’S SHED

WEDNESDAY 2ND

ALL WELCOME

Contact Ron (0428 924 034)

SPORT

Long Jump for All Students who

turn 13 this year (Boys and Girls)

will be held during sport on

Wednesday 2nd June.

High Jump for All Ages (Boys and Girls) will be

held on Tuesday after lunch

8th June.

Thanks

C Smith

Sport

FREE BBQ & MEETING

JUNE 6.30pm

NYNGAN GOLF CLUB

For further information