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Issue 1 9 FEBRUARY 2018 Issue 1 Friday, 9 February, 2018 Hunter River Yarning Quality Relationships, Quality Learning PO Box 716 Raymond Terrace NSW 2324 36 Elkin Avenue Heatherbrae NSW 2324 T 4987 2306 F 4987 4076 E [email protected] W http://www.hunterriv-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ LIKE US ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM A special welcome to the new students and families who have joined our HRHS community. We have also greeted 171 students into Year 7 (pictured below), the most to enrol in Year 7 for many years. Mrs Dixon, as their Year Advisor, has ensured the students have enjoyed a smooth start to 2018. New Staff - Not only do we have many new students, we have also welcomed a number of new staff members. A special welcome to: Mrs Dover – HSIE; Ms Gage – Special Education; Ms Waters – English; Ms Woods – Senior Psychologist; Mr Barry – Special Education; Mr Dinham – Special Education; Mrs Mason – TAS; Mr Milne – Mathematics; Ms Schleinzer – TAS; Ms Stone – TAS; and Ms White – Mathematics. Farewell to Mr Blatchford – After many years of devoted service to public education and HRHS, Mr Blatchford has made the decision to retire. He will be missed by students and staff. Thank you Mr Blatchford for your service to students and the community. We wish you many happy years of golf, orienteering and travels. High Expectations - I have discussed high expectations with staff and students. We expect that students will come to school ready to learn with the required equipment every day. To be successful, students need to complete work; submit assessment tasks on time; and give their best in every lesson. Education provides students with choices and opens door into the pathways of their future. “Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” Christine Gregoire Meet the Teachers Evening - Next Monday evening at 5pm we have “Meet the Teachers” afternoon for all Year 7 students and parents, as well as other families new to our school. We will meet in the Outdoor Learning Area between Blocks B&D for a “meet and greet” and sausage sizzle. We look forward to meeting the families of these students. P&C Meetings – Held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm in the Connected Classroom. These meetings are an ideal opportunity to find out more about our school, ask questions and hear valuable information about what is happening in faculties and programs across the school. Let us all make 2018 a great year of learning. Yours in education, Deb Dibley Principal
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Issue 1 Friday, 9 February, 2018
Hunter River Yarning Quality Relationships, Quality Learning
PO Box 716 Raymond Terrace NSW 2324 36 Elkin Avenue Heatherbrae NSW 2324 T 4987 2306 F 4987 4076 E [email protected] W http://www.hunterriv-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ LIKE US ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM
A special welcome to the new students and families who have joined our HRHS community. We have also greeted 171 students into Year 7 (pictured below), the most to enrol in Year 7 for many years. Mrs Dixon, as their Year Advisor, has ensured the students have enjoyed a smooth start to 2018. New Staff - Not only do we have many new students, we have also welcomed a number of new staff members. A special welcome to: Mrs Dover – HSIE; Ms Gage – Special Education; Ms Waters – English; Ms Woods – Senior Psychologist; Mr Barry – Special Education; Mr Dinham – Special Education; Mrs Mason – TAS; Mr Milne – Mathematics; Ms Schleinzer – TAS; Ms Stone – TAS; and Ms White – Mathematics. Farewell to Mr Blatchford – After many years of devoted service to public education and HRHS, Mr Blatchford has made the decision to retire. He will be missed by students and staff. Thank you Mr Blatchford for your service to students and the community. We wish you many happy years of golf, orienteering and travels.
High Expectations - I have discussed high expectations with staff and students. We expect that students will come to school ready to learn with the required equipment every day. To be successful, students need to complete work; submit assessment tasks on time; and give their best in every lesson. Education provides students with choices and opens door into the pathways of their future.
“Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.” Christine Gregoire
Meet the Teachers Evening - Next Monday evening at 5pm we have “ Meet the Teachers” afternoon for all Year 7 students and parents, as well as other families new to our school. We will meet in the Outdoor Learning Area between Blocks B&D for a “meet and greet” and sausage sizzle. We look forward to meeting the families of these students.
P&C Meetings – Held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm in the Connected Classroom. These meetings are an ideal opportunity to find out more about our school, ask questions and hear valuable information about what is happening in faculties and programs across the school. Let us all make 2018 a great year of learning. Yours in education,
Deb Dibley Principal
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Welcome back!!
Some of you may recognise this information from last year; however, it is very important! Homework As we begin the new school year many parents/carers may have questions about high school homework, which can be very different from primary school. Individual teachers will discuss the homework expectations they have with their class, however, as a general rule the advice we provide is to ensure that your child is revising their class work regularly at home.
In 2016, HRHS began an initiative called Focus on Writing. One of our strongest messages to students is that, “ Writing is not talking written down”. Essentially this means that when students are writing for school purposes, their writing needs to become more academic and formalised, and therefore less conversational. With this in mind we have been explicitly teaching students how to write well using the ‘Fantastic 4’. Students new to our school will be taught these strategies in class. The first strategy is the TEEEC paragraphing system. Each classroom should have a poster to guide students in developing strong paragraphs when writing. There is a scaffold attached to this newsletter that parents/carers could use with their children to encourage them to complete their homework with or to reflect on the learning that took place during the school day. The next strategy is Nominalisation – students may call it ‘Noms’. This involves
encouraging students to review their writing and identify opportunities to ‘nominalise’ verbs. This process can improve students writing by making it more academic and formal, and therefore less conversational.
Please remind your children when they are completing assessment or homework tasks to make use of TEEEC paragraphs and ‘Noms’ in developing responses to questions. This year the focus will be on ‘given and new’ and ‘packing the noun’. We will also begin some work on a strategy called ALARM.
If you would like any further information about my role, Homework or our Focus on Writing strategies, please contact me. Christine Reilly Deputy Principal—Teaching & Learning
DEPUTY PRINCIPAL - Teaching & Learning
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DATES FOR THE DIARY
12 Feb Meet the Teachers BBQ - Year 7 Families & New Enrolments 5:00pm in the Outdoor Learning Area 15 Feb SCHOOL PHOTO DAY 19 Feb Port Stephens Zone Swimming Carnival 23 Feb Catch Up SCHOOL PHOTO DAY 26 Feb Port Stephens Zone Netball 26 Feb Year 7 Information Evening 6pm in the Library 27 Feb P&C Meeting at 6:30pm in the Connected Classroom 19 Mar Port Stephens Zone Touch Football - Boys and Girls 20 Mar Year 7 Immunisations 22 Mar HARMONY DAY - Formal Assembly 27 Mar P&C Meeting at 6:30pm in the Connected Classroom 30 Mar GOOD FRIDAY (Public Holiday) 2 Apr EASTER MONDAY (Public Holiday) 3 Apr Parent/Teacher Evening from 3:30pm in the Hall 5-13 Apr Year 12 Half Yearly Exams 6 Apr HRHS CROSS COUNTRY 12 Apr GOTCHA Draw 13 Apr Last Day of Term 1 1 May School Returns for ALL students
Hunter River High School P & C Association
Tuesday, 27 February, 2018 at 6.30pm
Venue: Connected Classroom
Refreshments available – All welcome
The P & C meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6.30pm in the Connected Classroom, come along and be involved in the future of your child’s school.
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P-TECH NEWS
P-TECH is well and truly making its mark around the school here at Hunter River High School (HRHS). The students came back to a surprise in their classrooms thanks to P-TECH. The Australian Government has invested $5.1 million to pilot the P-TECH model in Australia across 14 sites. A portion of funding has been provided to the Port Stephens Partnership at our school.
We are so excited to share this news with our school community, because it means we are now able to incorporate authentic teaching, innovative learning tools and technology into the once traditional classroom for Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering and STEM.
Special thanks to Mrs Janette Lyons (Technology Support Officer) and Mr Al Simmons (General Assistant) for coming in through the school holidays to prepare the new look classrooms with brand new technology that allows Mr Shane Lloyd (Head Teacher TAS) and Mr Rob D'Elboux (STEM Coordinator), the opportunity to broaden the scope of learning.
“The first thing I did was introduce Google Classroom into the curriculum." Said Mr Shane Lloyd.
He says, the benefit of this beyond the classroom, is that the interaction is constant between teacher and student, and we are inviting our P-TECH Industry Partners into our digital classroom via Cloud based learning systems to ensure all things P-TECH are accessible.
Not only does HRHS have a state of the art Trade Training Workshop for P-TECH students studying Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering, there is now a break out room to the side of this that is fully equipped with the latest technology systems that offer real life, simulated work stations for their theory components.
This investment, thanks to The Australian Government Department of Education and Training and Skilling Australia Foundation, will greatly assist the future and sustainability of P-TECH at our school.
"I love how I can communicate with the class online about what we learnt today." – Matt Griffiths
"I feel like having these computers is going to let us check out 3D images online, actual You Tube clips of 21st century engineering concepts that will help us learn what happens in the workplace" – Abby Menchin
“The future is bright for students”, Mr Shane Lloyd stated.
P-TECH is allowing us to work together with our local employers to find out what they want their new recruits to know. Not only can we come up with the ideas, this technology is the way forward for teachers to unlock new ways to make their ideas happen faster with more accessible resources. Find out more at www.ptech.org.au
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2018 SWIMMING CARNIVAL
2018 HRHS Swimming Carnival Results
1st Pindaree (R-Z) 830 points
2nd
Attunga (A-E) 710 points 3
rd Kurratoo (L-Q) 689 points
4th Cooranga (F-K) 524 points
Age Female Age Champion Male Age Champion
12 Ella Grosse Jaxon Pratt
13 Lily-Ann White Cody Hancock
14 Avani Awal Matthew Hughes
15 Chloe Zdebski Zac Nicholls
16 Sierra Nowlan Lachlan Williams
17+ Leah Nowlan Matthew Griffiths
Female Relay Male Relay
1st Kurratoo Teachers
2nd Attunga Pindaree
3rd Teachers Attunga
4th Pindaree Cooranga
5th Cooranga Kurratoo
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2018 KING and QUEEN of the POOL
CONGRATULATIONS to Lachlan Williams and Leah Nowlan (Both 50m Freestyle)
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2018 SWIMMING CARNIVAL Con’t...
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Each year NSW Health works in partnership with schools to offer the vaccines recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school vaccination program. On March 20, 2018 the School Immunisation Clinic will visit Hunter River High School and the following vaccines will be offered:
Parent Information Kits that include an information sheet, consent form and privacy statement will be sent home to parents/guardians. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to: Read all the information provided Complete the consent form, including signing their name next to the vaccine/s they would like their
child to receive Return the completed consent form to their child’s school Ensure that their child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccination clinic. Please note that students who commence HPV vaccination in school clinics in Year 7 but do not complete the course during the school year may be offered catch-up doses at school in Year 8. Students who have dose 1 HPV at their GP will be advised to complete the course with their GP. Parents/guardians who wish to withdraw their consent for any reason may do so by writing to the school Principal or phoning the school. The Procedure for Withdrawal of Consent is available on the NSW Health website at http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/withdraw_consent.aspx To improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered any missed doses throughout the year where possible. A Record of Vaccination will be provided to each student vaccinated at each clinic as a physical card.
Parents/guardians should ensure that this record is kept for future reference and should not assume that
their child has been vaccinated if they do not receive this Record of Vaccination.
YEARS VACCINE NUMBER OF DOSES
Year 7
Human papillomavirus (HPV9) vaccine
2-doses at least 6 months apart
Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine Single dose
Years 10-11 Meningococcal ACWY vaccine Single dose
NSW SCHOOL VACCINATION PROGRAM – MARCH 20 2018
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CAREER & TRANSITION (CAT)
There are currently THREE positions available for Year 11 students only, who are interested in a pathway with Reece Plumbing completing a Certificate II in Warehousing as a School Based Traineeship (SBAT).
This is a really great opportunity if you are thinking about a trade in plumbing or in warehousing when you complete Year 12.
The locations are: Maryville, Newcastle and Salamander Bay.
If you would like further information, please email [email protected].
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Seaham Bowthorne Football (Soccer) Club
Player Registration Days – Season 2018 Sunday 11th Feb 10.00am – 12.00pm Monday 12th Feb 3.00pm – 7.00pm
Sunday 18th Feb 10.00am – 12.00pm Monday 19th Feb 3.00am – 7.00pm
SEAHAM COMMUNITY HALL (Back Hall) Warren Street Seaham
Small Sided Football $130.00 (U6 – U7) Less $100 Active Kids Voucher = $30 Total. Small Sided Football $160.00 (U8 – U11) Less $100 Active Kids Voucher = $60 Total.
Competition $190.00 (U12 – U18) Less $100 Active Kids Voucher = $90 Total. All Age Men, All Age Women & Over 35 Men $320.00
(Registration cost includes weekly Match Fees)
Full payment required with registration, Active Kids Voucher Number Needed to Claim Discount
All new registrations require proof of age & current FFA number if applicable. On Line Registration & Payment available @ www.playfootball.com.au
For more info please contact either - [email protected]
Daniel Flynn (Registrar) 0455805164
COMMUNITY NEWS
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