ISSUE NO. 4 28th MAY 2014

DATE CLAIMERS

NEXT MEETING

Tuesday 10th June

5:30PM Venue: Library

Tea and Coffee available

Everyone Welcome

pandc@mareebashs.eq.edu.au

NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President—Mr R Heggie

Minute Secretary—Mrs Jackie Kinley Correspondence Secretary —Mrs Debbie Heathfield

Treasurer—Mrs Michelle Cifuentes

INDIGENOUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Mareeba State High School acknowledges the Traditional

Custodians, the Muluridji people of the country in which this school is located and pays

respect to their Elders past

and present.

Jasper Street Mareeba PO Box 1079 Mareeba QLD 4880 Telephone 07 4086 2777 Fax 07 4092 3915 E-mail the.principal@mareebashs.eq.edu.au Web http://mareebashs.eq.edu.au

9th Jun

Public Holiday—Queens Birthday

11th Jun

SWAD Breakfast

13th—14th Jun

School Production "Hasta La Vista, Dracula!" 7pm

22nd—25th Jun

South Passage Excursion

26th – 27th Jun

School Athletics Carnival

Report Cards Posted

14th Jul

Back to School for all year levels

18th Jul

Public Holiday—Cairns Show

P & C ASSOCIATION

YEAR 10 WORK EXPRERIENCE Congratulations to all the Year 10 students who participated in Work Experience

last week. A special Thank You to the local businesses for supporting our

students. 1st Concept Salon, 2 Wheels N Wear, A Touch of Country, Altitude Hair

Design, APL Plumbing and Tanks, As Dogs, B & C Cabinets, Battistin Builders,

Beaurepaires, Biboohra State School, Bolwarra Enterprises, Bridges Café,

Caracalla House of Beauty, Casali's, Central Veterinary Surgery, Coffee Works, Coles

Supermarket, Cornett's IGA, Creative Photographic Memories, Curcio's Bakery,

Datum Plastering, Essential Fitness, Floral Magic, FNQ Computers, FNQ Filters and

Parts, Frank DeRosa, Fraser Automotive, Friends of the Animals TSPCA, Gallery of

Beauty, Gentle Dentist Mareeba, Graham Hotel, Grubers Beckett, Hairmania, Hairport,

Hartley's Crocodile Adventures, Heavy Equipment Hire, HMAS Cairns, Home-Fab Steel

Truss & Frame, Howe Farming, IMLA, Irwin Reid, Kaizi's Traditional Coconut Oil,

Leading Edge, Mareeba Auto Electrics, Mareeba Children and Family Centre, Mareeba

Computer Services, Mareeba Dental Centre, Mareeba District Hospital, Mareeba Hire,

Mareeba Kids Campus, Mareeba Mazda and Mitsubishi, Mareeba Mowing and Camping,

Mareeba Radiator & Windscreen Specialist, Mareeba State High School P & C, Mareeba

State Primary School, Mareeba Veterinary Surgery, Miles Electronics, Millar Teitzel -

Accountants & Advisors, Mity Nice Cake Supply, Moro's Auto Repairs, Mt Molloy State

School, Mulungu Medical Centre, My Mareeba Dentist, Normans Hair and Make up,

Northern Auto Electrical, Northern Sky Electrical, NR Engineering, O'Donnells Office

Power, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School, Paul Jerome Panel and Paint,

Performance Motors, Piagnos News, Priceline Pharmacy, Pumping

Irrigation and Machinery, Qld Police Service - Mareeba Station, QT's Early Learning Centre,

Rainforestation Nature Park, Repstar Agriculture, Rob Stevens, Robert Battistin Builder, Ross

Cardillo Financial Services, RTS Concreting, Simply Bliss Hair & Beauty, Spena's Service

Centre, St Thomas's Parish School, Suffolk Hairdressing, Tableland

Honda, Tableland Newspapers, Tableland Veterinary Service, Tablelands

Regional Council, Target Mareeba, TGT PTY Hardware, Thomas Jerome

Builders, Travel Experience and

Wetherby Station. Kym Carlsson—

VET Co-ordinator

“Building a Better

NON NOBIS SOLUM

Recently drama students had the opportunity of working with professional actors from the Grin and Tonic Theatre Troupe. Students were enthusiastic and challenged in learning new things about themselves and others as performers.

It was great to see everyone participating and volunteering in the workshops. Afterwards many students asked if they could do it all over again. Many thanks to Adam for organising and motivating our students to succeed.

The venue for today's workshops was the new and improved V Block. V Block is now an amazing performance space.

Kylie Lambert—HOD Visual and Performing Arts and LOTE

PHOTOGRAPHY TRIP Year 12 photography students had the fabulous opportunity to go on excursion with Ms Gar-gan and Mr Christensnen last week.

Students had a great time on their adventures and visited places such as the 'Rainforestation' on the Kuranda Range. Students were exceptionally well behaved and took thousands of images that will be used in the classroom.

Kylie Lambert—Head of Department Visual and Performing Arts and Languages.

OFFICE HOURS Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

8:00am — 4:00pm

Tuesday 8:00am — 3:15pm

GRIN AND TONIC

THEATRE

The school has a new answering service to assist in providing a more efficient service to parents. The options are:

1. Student Services (Enrolments, Absence, Behaviour, First Aid)

2. Student Payments (Excursions, Resource hire scheme)

3. Administration (Curriculum, Teachers, Laptops)

4. Accounts payable (External agencies)

5. Other

NEW PHONES

PRINCIPAL’S WORDS It is already nearly the end of Term 2, the building work to upgrade classrooms in preparation for Year 7 coming to high school in 2015 is nearly complete. My leadership team are working hard to prepare for this important move for the Year 6 students coming to high school

The cluster transition plan is available on the school website, please take some time to read it. If you have any feedback please email me.

Over the coming months I will be holding parent forums in our partner primary schools to seek further feedback about junior and secondary schooling.

Mareeba State High School is committed to providing the best possible learning environment for our students.

As a function of this, my Deputy Principals and I will be spending 1—2 full days every week in classrooms, in order to help improve the teaching and learning that happens on a daily basis.

Therefore, we may not always be available to speak with you when you drop in or telephone us. However, we really do value communicating with you.

So, when you want to speak with one of us, please contact our personal assistants, who will schedule a time to talk.

This newsletter is full of meaning, fantastic student achievements and activities. I am especially looking forward to the drama production of "Hasta La Vista, Dracula!" playing 13th and 14th June at the new refurbished covered stage.

Warm regards to all families.

Jo Soothill

Principal

PENINSULA SPORT The following students have been selected fo Peninsula sporting teams: Cross Country—Johnson Makoti, Brock Hawke Olivia Anderson and Kristy Lane (Shadow). Basket-ball—Sarrah Myrteza. Golf—Cameron Christopher and Nicholas Turner, Lachlan Ford (Shaddow). Hockey—Lani Fitzimmons

Anna Newlands—Senior Teacher and Sports Co-ordinator.

EQUESTRIAN TEAM Mareeba State High School Equestrian Team members, Olivia Anderson, Tegan Jennings, Keisha Battistin, Lisa-Maree Toohey, Bonnie Van Bockel, Rachel Shred and Jasmin Anderson won the perpetual shield in a close competition with riders from 11 other secondary schools from across Far North Queensland. Lisa-Maree Toohey was age champion in the Year 11/12 group.

Hazel Bensted—Guidance Officer

CANTEEN HELP

“Building a Better

NON NOBIS SOLUM

Future Together”

“NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE”

Recently six of our students were selected to participate in the State Honours Ensemble Programme (SHEP) run by Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.

Students selected for SHEP include: Mitchell Booth (Clarinet), Levi Lilly (Percussion), Ashleigh Hollins (Trumpet), Zahra Marshall (Alto Sax), Alice Sibthorpe (Flute) and Tara Nowell (Alto Sax).

To be selected for SHEP (Middle School) students need to be outstanding young musicians and nominated by their Instrumental Music teacher. Students are challenged musically to extend their abilities and benefit from the expert tuition of international conductors.

Kylie Lambert—Head of Department Visual & Performing Arts & Languages

Our newly refurbished School Canteen is eager for some more helpers. If you are able to help in any way please contact our Canteen Convenor Deb Heathfield.

Working in this friendly environment is a great way to be a part of your child’s learning and school experience.

For more information please phone Deb-bie Heathfield, Canteen Convenor on 4086 2747.

STATE HONOURS ENSEMBLE PROGRAMME BARRON RIVER CHALLENGE

A number of Mareeba State High School students and teachers took part in this year’s 4th running of the Barron River Chal-lenge Canoe Race. The juniors performed well in Saturdays 12km event, with Matthew Lep as the first solo junior in a record time of 59 minutes 15 seconds. The 1st female TC2 was Lisa-Maree Toohey and Alexandra Barbir and the 1st male double was Jackson Brown and Rhys Harvey. Well done to all who participated and assisted on the day. Thank you and congratulations to Mr McClelland for organising another successful race.

Pictured—Jonathan Meyer, Nicholas Turner, Jasmin Anderson, Lauren Elmes, Alexandra Barbir, Lisa-Maree Toohey, Shaun Johnston, Ethan Miller, Darren Low and Slade Houghton.

Jamie Gardiner—Teacher

SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The science department has been very busy in the past 5 weeks with the following activ-ities occurring.

Visit to 11 Biology class by

Donna McCleod – Entomol-ogist to show them how to pin insects as part of an assessment task.

JCU Speaker - spoke to senior stu-

dents about careers in Science and Engineering at James Cook Universi-ty.

CSIRO Labs on Legs visited on 22/05 and Year 8s par-ticipated in an electronics session, Year 9s – robotics and Year 11 – forensics.

Year 11 and 12 Agriculture and Horticulture students have been assisting the Groundsman, Darren Brinkley as part of their courses.

The UQ Sunflower Competi-tion concluded on 20th May with James Drinnan and Peter Holden from DAFF assisting students from the Science Club in the weighing process.

Year 11 and 12 Agricultural students are nearly finished their chicken nutrition trial with the meat chickens definite-ly showing that good breeding leads to high weight perfor-mance compared to layer chickens.

Two science stu-dents, Amy Mehmet and Kayla McCarthy attended the Malanda Cattle Han-dling and Showing Camp last week-end to learn a wide range of skills in assessing and handling beef cattle with Kayla gaining a third in the 15 years inexpe-rienced handler competition.

Year 12 Biology and Physics stu-dents are current-ly working on Extended Experi-mental Investiga-tions in class and

in their own time.

Year 6 and 7 students recently visited

and participated in a wide range of science activities as part of transition day activities.

Year 9 students completed an eye dissection as part of the unit on light and sound waves.

Gateway School’s in Agribusiness staff visited the school which is part of the program to talk about our future plans and funding opportunities for the Agriculture section.

Mandy Lindsay—Head of Department Science

STOP PRESS: 24 Meat chickens for

sale – still alive but ready to eat at a cost of $8.00 each. Contact Mandy Lindsay at the school if interested.

COMING SOON...

Mareeba State High School Presents

"Hasta La Vista, Dracula!"

Friday 13th June at 7pm Saturday 14th June at 7pm

At the new undercover stage (V Block)

OTHER TERM ACTIVITIES

Week 6 Reader’s Cup Preparation, Running Training. Basketball Training Week 7 Reader’s Cup Regional Finals, Running Training, Basketball Training. Canoeing Week 8 Running Training, Equestrian Team Competition, Basketball Training, Canoeing Week 9 Running Training, Basketball Training, Canoeing Week 10 South Passage Sailing

WEEKLY CALENDAR OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES

“Building a Better Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Before School

Library opens at 8.00am Lesson access for Distance Ed stu-dents

Library opens at 8.00am Lesson access for Distance Ed stu-dents

Library opens at 8.00am Lesson access for Distance Ed stu-dents

Running Training 5.45-6.45am Library opens at 8.00am Lesson access for Distance Ed stu-dents

Library opens at 8.00am Lesson access for Distance Ed stu-dents

1st Break Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Gym (8-12) Hall Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 Senior Science Support (as need-ed) SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Science Club (8-12) N03 Gym (8-12) Hall Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 Senior Science Support (as need-ed) SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Gym (8-12) Hall Rugby League Training (Girls) Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 Senior Science Support (as need-ed) SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Gym (8-12) Hall Football/Turner Cup Training (Hall) Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 Senior Science Support (as need-ed) Interact Club Meeting SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 InterYear Leaders E13 Gym (8-12) Hall Futsal Social Com-petition (11-12) Swimming Lessons Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 Senior Science Support (as need-ed) SAT support (11-12) A Block

2nd Break Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Intad Computer Access (8-12) B 08 SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Culture Club (8-12) Library Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 SAT support (11-12) A Block

Chess (8-12) Li-brary Maths Extra E05 Book Club (8-12) Library Intad Computer Access (8-12) B08 SAT support (11-12) A Block

After School

Study/Homework (8-12) Library 3.00-4.00pm Basketball Training 3.30-4.30

Running Training 5-6pm Oval

Study/Homework (8-12) Library 3.00-4.00pm Public Speaking Workshops (8-12) Library 3.15 -4.30pm Basketball Training 3.30-4.30

Study/Homework (8-12) Library 3.00-4.00pm Public Speaking Workshops (8-12) Library 3.15 -4.30pm

A large number of our students competed in the Mareeba to Chillagoe Great Wheelbarrow Race. A gruelling 140 klms over 3 days result-ed in “Bad Boys” winning the High School division and coming second overall on the weekend. “Shake and Bake” came second in the Mens division and third overall.

Congratulations to all who took part.

Anna Newlands—Senior Teacher and Sports Co-ordinator.

WHEELBARROW RACE

SCHOOL BUS In 2014 Mareeba State High School was fortunate enough to be able to lease its own Bus. The vehicle allows the school to deliver a wider variety of programs that require transport to and from venues outside the school district. It also allows the school the ability to offer extra-curricular opportunities at reduced costs to the student body. The Bus is available for hire when not in use by the school to the community and requires a driver with an LR Licence.

Any queries please feel free to contact Christian Stewart (Head of Department Health) on 4086 2717.

“Building a Better

DISABILITY DATA COLLECTION Mareeba State High School is part of a collection process to collect data on students who are receiving adjustments due to a disability as defined under the Disability Discrimination ACT.

A parent letter and fact sheet were sent home with students previously to provide more detail about this process. It is important that data is collected on students receiving assis-tance due to a disability.

Consultation with parents is important not only for the data collection but also to ensure you aware of the adjustments being provided to support your child. We will therefore con-tinue to consult with you.

While only data that cannot identify your child will be sub-mitted outside of the Department, if you do not wish for your child’s details to be included, please let me know.

Information and fact sheets are available to help you make a decision from the:

Department’s website: http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/disability-data-collection.html

Australian Government Department of Education website: http://education.gov.au/nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability

Alternatively, if you have any queries about the collection please contact either Jo Soothill, Principal or Michelle Sturgiss Head of Learning Support

Michelle Sturgiss— Head of Special Education and Learning Support.

LOST PROPERTY Please ensure that all property is clearly labelled. Hats and water bottles are easily mislaid so if labelled they can be returned to their rightful owner. Students are en-couraged to talk to the teacher of the last class where they had the lost item and then check Student Service (A Block) or the main front office.

INTERACT The Mareeba State High School Interact Club attended the Rotary District Conference in Ayr on May 3/4. The club received 2 awards for the work that they have been doing in the Interact Club. The New Generation Shield which is awarded for the most money raised for a rotary project and the Arthur Leinster Trophy for the best display at conference. The students also raised $83 in a purple pinky project in which all money goes to the END POLIO NOW campaign. Photo : Interact Club with Interactors from Home Hill, Rotaactors from Dili East, Youth Exchange Students including Lemke, Mareeba State High School Exchange Student.

Lesa Pershouse—Acting HOD Senior Schooling & Interact Club Co-ordinator

Future Together”

ROSTRUM VOICE OF YOUTH Two of our students participated in the Rostrum Voice of Youth regional final for the Cairns and Far North District.

Finn Weaver and Mateen Latif both prepared and delivered a 6 minute speech on the topic “Climb Every Mountain”, and were also required to prepare a short notice speech of 3 minutes duration with only 15 minutes preparation.

Both boys did very well and received positive feedback from the judges.

This round of the competition leads directly to the State Finals. The winner was a student from St Monica’s. The runner-up is the Reserve who will go to the state finals should the winner be unable to attend.

I am delighted to announce that Mateen Latif came second on the day and is therefore the reserve for the State Final. Christina Ellacott—Gifted & Talented Coordinator and Senior Teacher

NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK Mareeba State High Schools combine NAIDOC and Reconcili-ation Week celebrations kicked off with students ranging from year 8 to 12, performing a traditional dance on parade lead by community members, Sam Rodgers and Desmond Burns and Traditional Aborigi-nal elder, Aunty Loretta Baker performed the welcome to country, acknowledging the traditional owners of land.

Continued celebrations will occur for the remainder of the week during lunch times including, a contemporary dance workshop, guest speakers, boomerang throwing and football competitions.

BILL TURNERS CUP Mareeba State High School nomi-nated both a male and female U15 years team for the Bill Turners Cup. Unfortunately the girls did not make it through, howev-er the boys became the Tableland Winners with an undefeat-ed score card and as a result move to the next round where they are up against Cairns State High School.

Zane Singleton, Giovan Spena, James Stewart, James Elmes, Hayden Russo and Mateen Latif have all been selected for the Peninsula Tableland Team. Congratulations boys and

great effort girls.

Christian Stewart—Head of Department Health

NAPLAN NEWS Over 3 days in week 4, Mareeba State High School Year 9 students sat the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numer-acy (NAPLAN). These NAPLAN tests are designed to assess the skills of students in literacy and numeracy. The specific purpos-es are:

To collect data our Years 9 students for reporting to parents/carers and schools for systematic reporting;

To accommodate the assessment of stu-dents against national minimum standards;

Inform the school of student progress relative to others around the nation and identify areas of need and focus.

The program assessed students using com-mon national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation), and Numeracy.

Students applied the knowledge and skills developed as part of their everyday class-room curriculum, as well as specialist prep-aration activities to do their very best in each of the 5 tests.

To give our students the greatest chance of success, a delicious healthy choices break-fast was provided, kindly donated by Coles Mareeba. Special thanks goes to Deb Heathfield – Tuckshop Convenor, Hazel Bensted – Guidance Officer, and Jim Ballin – Year 9 Co-ordinator for their support with catering both at breakfast time, and during test breaks.

Paul Charles—Deputy Principal

MYSTERY PAYMENT The school has recently received a payment via a bank transfer into the school account. Unfortunately we are unable to identify the student that this deposit applies to in order to process the payment.

Please check you statements and contact the school on 4086 2777 if you believe it to be your payment. Thank you

Jasper Street Mareeba PO Box 1079 Mareeba QLD 4880 Telephone 07 4086 2777 Fax 07 4092 3915 E-mail the.principal@mareebashs.eq.edu.au Web http://mareebashs.eq.edu.au

“To create more positive results in your live, replace „if only‟ with „next time;.” Author Unknown

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P & C ASSOCIATION WORKING BEE

FATALITY FREE

FRIDAY

Fatality Free Friday, Australia’s largest community based road safety campaign is an initiative of the Australian Road Safety Foundation, and calls for road users to make a promise to themselves, their family and friends to consciously drive safely and obey road rules.

Each time we take to the road we make a number of choices which all have consequences and can be the difference between life and death.

Fatality Free Friday gives you the chance to take an active part in an event that makes a real difference.

Reducing the road toll is everyone’s responsibility...

Mareeba Chamber of Commerce and the local Emergency Services are facilitating a Community Road Safety Awareness event.

Date: Friday 30th May 2014

Location: Mareeba Soccer Club – Fenwick Street Mareeba

Time: 4.30pm

Program: 5pm - Crash Scenario – Emergency Services

6pm – Guest Speakers

Lucky Door Prize: Full day defensive driving course voucher valued at $320 donated by Sun City Driving School.

RSVP: 23rd May 2014 to Carolyn 0427934841 or email admin@mareebachamber.com.au or for catering purposes.

COMMUNITY NEWS

MANAGING ANXIETY IN

CHILDREN WORKSHOP A Short Practical

Workshop to assist parents manage anxiety and shyness in children.

Presented by Child Health Nurse

Monday 2nd June – 9.15 to 1015am

In the Library

Mareeba Primary School

No Booking required

Turn up after School Drop off.

ALL WELCOME

WATER POLO IS

HERE Come along and learn the skills and the game of Water Polo. Water Polo is a team sport and it is a great way to meet new people while having fun.

When—Saturday 26th july at 1pm

Where—Mareeba Swimming Pool

Who—Qualified coach Eugene Cornwell, assisted by Caitlin Murray

Cost—Pool Entry

Contact—Mareeba Swimming Pool 4092 1691 or Caitlin 0438 579 025

What to bring—Swimmers, Towel, Waterbottle and

Goggles if needed.