Le Fevre High School

Principal: Karen Bond Tel: (08) 8449 7004 Web: www.lefevrehs.sa.edu.au Email: dl.0814_info@schools.sa.edu.au

NEWSLETTER Issue 2, April 2019

From the Principal

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It is hard to believe that we are at the end of term 1. I would like to thank the Le Fevre High School community for their warm welcome. While it has been a very busy term, it has been a productive and

enjoyable one. Over 240 people attend our Open Night, more than 40 families attended our SACE Information Night and there were over 100 attendees to our Year 8 Acquaintance Night. As well as these important evenings, our students have engaged in a range of excursions and on site special events such as Year 8 Aquatics Day at Port Noarlunga, Year 8 Medieval Day, and Participation Games. The school is currently hosting Bu Rini Anggraini Effendi and 12 students from Sekolah Pilar Indonesia until the end of term. I write this newsletter article after our delayed Harmony Day Assembly. This event was a timely and important reminder of our commitment to be a strong, successful and harmonious multicultural school and a fantastic opportunity to welcome our Indonesian visitors. The genuine engagement and enthusiastic response of staff and students to the wonderful musical performance from our visitors from Sekolah Pilar Indonesia and to the enchanting African dances lead by Allie Nahimana reflected our multicultural identity. In light of the recent terrorist act in New Zealand, reinforcing our commitment to respect and the appreciation of everyone was timely. I asked all students to behave in ways that preserve the rights of others and to stand up against all forms of discrimination. If we want a harmonious world our behaviours must reflect this every day, not just on Harmony Day. This term our Governing Council for 2019 was established. The officer bearer positions are as follows: Chairperson: Tracy Blamey, Secretary: James Dekort and Treasurer: Andrea Coleman. Membership also consists of Frances Whaley, Tod Weymouth, Greg Krauss, Shane Ash, Janet He, Jan Stephenson,

Lisa Robson, Devinia Binell and Ellie Sibbald as parent representatives, Mick Ridge and James Dekort as the staff representatives, Edie S and Mitchell B as Student Voice representatives and Karen Bond (ex officio). If you are still interested in being part of the Governing Council, please consider attending the next meeting scheduled for 7pm on Monday May 13th. Please contact the school for more information. As the colder weather approaches I would also like to emphasise the importance of school uniform. Wearing a school uniform assists in improved Work, Health and Safety (WH&S) outcomes for all and helps set a positive tone at the school. Wearing uniform, including shoes, allows young people to engage safely in the full range of learning activities and participate safely in break time activities. It also removes competition based on fashion trends, reducing incidences of bullying and harassment. The school uniform at Le Fevre High School is endorsed by Governing Council, who considers recommendations from the Uniform Committee. This committee has representatives from Student Voice. Our school uniform does not include hooded tops, track pants, jeans or leggings. Shoes also need to be predominantly black in colour. At the time of enrolling at Le Fevre High School, uniform expectations are outlined and in the process of enrolling, parents/carers are agreeing to support their child/children attending the school in uniform. I would like to thank those families that ensure their child/children are in uniform and I ask that all families assist the school by ensuring that your child/children is in full uniform each school day. Term 1 reports will go home on Friday 12th April. I encourage families to discuss and reflect upon these reports. Parent/Teacher interviews will be held on the evening of Wednesday the 8th May. Appointments can be made through Schools Online. Please keep an eye out for when this online booking service opens via letter that will be sent home with your child/children soon. I look forward to meeting families on this night.

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Inside this Issue:

Principal’s Report ................... 1

Karndo Lightning Ice Hockey . 2

Indonesian Exchange ........ …3

STEM News ....................... 4/5

The Power of Reading ........... 6

RAA Street Smart Excursion .. 6

EPIPEN Information ............... 7

Materials and Services ........... 8

Fri 12 April Last Day Term 1 Mon 29 April Beginning Term 2 Wed 8 May Parent Teacher Night Mon 13 May Governing Council Fri 24 May Yr 12 Formal Tues 28 May Reconciliation Assembly Mon 3 June Student Free Day Mon 10 June Public Holiday Mon 17-Fri 21 June Exam Week

Coming events:

2019 Term dates:

Term 1 29th January - 12th April

Term 2 29th April - 5th July

Term 3 22nd July - 27th September

Term 4 14th October - 13th December

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Le Fevre Karndo Lightning Ice Hockey Team

The Ice Factor program at Le Fevre is now in its 12 year. This program has assisted many students over the years in improving school attendance, motivation at school and improved outcomes for future endeavours. We have a number of players who have just started in the program and aim to have between 15-20 players for the rest of the year. On Monday 1st April the Le Fevre Karndo Lightning Ice Hockey team played in our first tournament for the year. The students worked hard and improved as a team throughout the day. Not only did they represent Le Fevre in a positive way, they also won the Division 1 Championship. Congratulations to the 9 players who played on the day; Lukas, Kolton, Matteo, Will, Mitchall, Amber, Lucy, Max and Maddy and thank you to the Hamilton goalie for helping us out on the day.

Margie Tilbrook

From Principal cont….. Lastly, I hope that all students have an enjoyable end of term break and that all families have the opportunity for some down time over the Easter break. If you are travelling during this time, please take care while on the road. Kind Regards, Karen Bond

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Sekolah Pilar Indonesia Exchange Visit 2019

Le Fevre High School is currently hosting our 8th visit from our sister school, Sekolah Pilar Indonesia. We have 12 students and Bu Rini joining us at LFHS from April 1-April 12. This immersion experience started strong with a night out bowling for students to get to know each other. Over the two weeks the students will get to explore the Central Markets, have a koala photo opportunity at Cleland, check out Rundle Mall, see the sights from Mount Lofty lookout and experience the day to day life of a LFHS student. This year we welcome: Bu Rini, Adel, Amelia, Alifa, Keysa, Diva, Rindu, Aziz, Asher, Dewa, Fikar, Kayo and Galang. Our LFHS student hosts are: Edie S, Emily G, Emily H, Hayley E, Charlotte S, Sofya C, Ethan M-L, Mitchell W, Jack J, Bray H and all their families. It is always such a wonderful opportunity and we thank everyone involved for helping create such memorable experiences. Sarah Craddock

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STEM News

Year 10 Science – a road to SACE As students progress through the middle years, their study of science is designed to support their transition to studying in one or more scientific fields in their SACE and beyond. SACE science at Le Fevre includes the “big three” – Biology, Chemistry and Physics - as well as emerging areas like Naval Engineering; a “STEM” subject. STEM involves using scientific principles, mathematical analysis and technology skills to solve engineering problems. Naval Engineering is a very popular and successful subject at Le Fevre High School as part of Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the SACE, sitting alongside its three more traditional brethren. At Le Fevre we would love to see more of our students study the sciences as they move from middle school to senior school. As a way of supporting this transition, we have remodelled our Year 10 Science curriculum. We have divided the curriculum content into Physics, Chemistry, Biology and STEM and have developed four units to be delivered by subject specialists to each of our teaching groups in term. In this way, all students get a sense of what these four scientific disciplines are all about, and get a taste of what it might be like to study them as part of their SACE. By becoming more comfortable with the personnel, style and content of the different disciplines, we hope students will have more confidence picking the area or areas that suit them best. We believe that a well-rounded education includes studying at least one scientific discipline in Year 11 and hopefully beyond. Thierry Herman, the teacher behind our SACE Naval Engineering course, has been asked to develop the Year 10 STEM course. He has aptly dubbed it “rocket science” and below provides some more detail about what this exciting unit entails. STEM – Astronautics - Rocket Science This year for the first time, we have a dedicated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program for our Year 10 students, running over a term. This means that through the course of the year, all classes of Year 10 students will have exposure to this program. Since we are going to have a National Space Centre here in Adelaide, I decided to design and implement this STEM unit as an Astronautics – Rocket Science unit. This program covers the concepts of location in space, time, speed, the three laws of Sir Isaac Newton, velocity, momentum, acceleration, forces and aerodynamics principles, all of which are essential to understand, work on, and optimise the performance of rockets. We also studied principles of space exploration by viewing videos relating to the history of space exploration, the dangers inherent to this pioneering work and recent applications such as the Space Shuttle STS technology, the International Space Station and the Space X program driven by Elon Musk featuring reusable rockets that can launch payloads in space and land back safely on Earth with a precision of less than 10 m from their landing target. If you are interested, please check it out. This technology is really breathtaking. AMAZING SpaceX Rocket Landing Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH9JQ4Kash0 From a practical point of view, students measured low speeds such as the speed of soap bubbles in the wind with a stopwatch, tape measure and an anemometer (a device that directly measures the speed of the wind) to compare the two. They also were able, through the use of our VR (Virtual reality) system, to first-hand experience what it really feels like to fly in valleys, at the speed of sound, 100 feet of the ground in an F/A 18 Super Hornet. We also used water rockets and by using J.E. Littlewood’s formula (h = 1/8 g t^2), students were able to determine the height reached by our water rocket (In excess of 60 m, obtained with a total flight time of 7 seconds). By independently varying the amount of water and the air pressure inside the rocket chamber, students were also able to realise that one of the most important skills relating to engineering is the ability to optimise the performance of the systems engineers work on. The analysis of different flight times under different conditions revealed that the best ratio volume of water to volume available is 40%. In other words, the rocket flew the longest with 600 ml of water for a total capacity of 1500 ml at 50 psi. Students were also able to calculate the acceleration sustained by the Space Shuttle STS – 129 Atlantis, using Newton’s Laws of Motion and data from the internet. Finally, because this technology will be sure to impact everyone in the future, my students were invited to conduct research regarding drone technology and how if might transform our lives, not only from a technical point of view but also from an ethical point of view. I must say that I was very impressed by the level of interest and academic performance from our very first group of Year 10 STEM students. They showed themselves to be very quick at learning and understanding various STEM concepts and I would not be surprised if quite a few of them became engineers in the near future. It was a real pleasure to teach this first STEM group and I wish them all the very best in their future academic endeavours.

Thierry Herman Specialist STEM Teacher

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STEM News

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OUR SCHOOL VALUES CARE

COMMITMENT CO-OPERATION

RESPECT

AS WE ACHIEVE TOGETHER

At Le Fevre High School, we value the power of reading. Students who read more discover new worlds and experiences, are exposed to exciting vocabulary and concepts and make greater gains in their learning across all subject areas. Independent reading is a key strategy to this end. Independent reading is when a student has choice in the book they are reading, without assessment. We encourage all students to read independently in a variety of ways. Middle School students participate in the Reading Volume Program during morning Care Group. They can read anything in print format. They are expected to read a text of their choice for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week. Students are expected to bring their books with them each morning. We are supporting this through a variety of competitions, the Premier’s Reading Challenge and peer discussion and recommendations of books. This program is highly valuable. However, independent reading at home is more so. Please encourage your child to read for a least 10 minutes a night and discuss what they are reading if possible. If they say they have minimal homework, reading is a wonderful alternative! Rachel McLaine Senior Leader Literacy Development

This term Le Fevre High School year 10 cohort had the privilege of attending the 2019 RAA Street Smart High presentation held at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Tuesday 2nd of April. This is a highly regarded program that has been offered to SA students for the last 7 years. It is an annual road safety event hosted by RAA in conjunction with event partner the Motor Accident Commission. Their aim is to reduce the state’s shocking and growing youth road toll. Road crashes are one of the leading causes of death for young people under the age of 25, and Street Smart High demonstrated the devastating reality of road trauma to South Australian high school students. On the day there were approximately 3000 students from all over SA. Feedback from our students indicate that the realistic crash scene re-enactments involving vehicles, emergency services and actors impacted students in a powerful and lasting way. These re-enactments realistically portray the events of a fatal car crash and the long term trauma caused to victims, their families and the wider community. I want to take the opportunity to commend our students for their impeccable behaviour and excellent participation on the day. A special thank you to Le Fevre High School staff who supported the excursion and other staff who worked with the few students who stayed behind. Gabi Hirsch-Brown Year Level Coordinator

Year 10 RAA Street Smart Excursion

The Power Of Reading

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New EPIPEN information for families: STUDENTS WITH A MEDICAL CONDITION REQUIRE A HEALTH CARE PLAN These are specific to the student’s medical condition i.e., Asthma, Epilepsy, Anaphylaxis etc. These Plans can be obtained from Student Services and must be completed by the parent and signed off by the doctor.

STUDENTS ON MEDICATION Students must not administer their own medication, it should be given to Student Services in the original chemist packaging stating dosage information along with written consent from the parent.

EPIPEN information and First Aid Medical Support

Please be advised that the SMS phone number for advising of STUDENT ABSENCES is 0438 130 557.

SMS Systems Overdue Text/Library Books

Text and Library books are valuable school resources. We ask that families search for any overdue books and return them to the school as soon as possible.

2019 Materials and Services Charge

The Materials and Services Charge for 2019 will be $480 per student and is due now. PAYMENT OF MATERIALS AND SERVICES CHARGES can be made using any of the following options -

Cash, Cheque, EFTPOS, VISA OR MASTERCARD in person or over the phone.

Qkr (Quicker) is a CommBank mobile phone or online payment app which is secure, fast and flexible. Qkr can process full or part payments for M&S Charges. Qkr has been designed for schools and is our preferred method of payment. Qkr will accept payments from Visa or Mastercard. No fees are charged for using Qkr. Download the Qkr app from the App store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android), register and follow the steps to find our school. Please see our website www.lefevrehs.sa.edu.au for more instructions to assist you in setting up this app.

B Point Direct Debits made regularly from your account at a time that suits you. Please call us for assistance.

Centrepay - If you receive a Centrelink payment for Family Benefit, Parenting Payment or Disability Support, you can choose to have money regularly deducted from your Centrelink payments to pay for Materials and Services Charges. Centrepay is a direct deduction service that is voluntary and available at no cost to you. Use your My Gov accout to set up or Contact Centrelink for more information on 13 2490 or www.centrelink.gov.au

Make an application for SCHOOL CARD GRANT - a Commonwealth Government Grant for the purpose of paying Materials and Services Charges for eligible families. The amount of the grant in 2019 will be $318.00 for Secondary Students. Assessment for eligibility is made on taxable income for the 2017/2018 financial year. A new application for the School Card Grant must be completed and lodged each year. Please bring your Concession Card with you when making the application for the School Card Grant.

NEW OPTION ** - School Card Application Forms are available at www.sa.gov.au under the heading Education, Skills and Learning. ED003A applications can be made online and these applications will be emailed to government schools where the children attend. Children attending different government schools can be listed on one application.

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LE FEVRE HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT CARD PAYMENT AUTHORISATION

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2019 MATERIALS AND SERVICES CHARGE $480.00

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