Dates for Calendar

Week 7

School Photos -

Monday 9 March

Girls Soccer @ Wagga -

Tuesday 10 March

White Card Course -

Wednesday 11 March

Week 8

Stage 3 Extravaganza -

Tuesday 17 March

MURRUMBURRAH

HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL:

MR DALE RANDS

6 March 2020 Mercury

Mercury

Congratulations to all of our students that

represented Murrumburrah High at both the Zone

Swimming at Cootamundra and the

Riverina Swimming carnival at Leeton.

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Principal Report

Welcome to Week 6.

It has certainly been an interesting couple of weeks since our last newsletter. Last week Jan Young

and myself, met with a team from SISP (STEM Industry School Partnerships). The

meeting was organised to spend time discussing what the SISP team could do for the students of

Murrumburrah High as part of our ongoing transition work with all of our wonderful public schools.

The program will involve some very interesting work being done and without giving anything away, I

think that our students will be very excited by what we offer to them when the program begins.

Watch this space for future reports.

On Tuesday last week, the school executive hosted a representative from TAFE NSW. Karen Ward

came along to our regular weekly meeting to present her ideas on a project that we have been

talking about since late last year. The project is called Peer Literacy Support.

Fundamentally, it involves a small group of Year 10 students being trained by TAFE on their campus

in Young to be mentors for our Year 7 students in the area of literacy and reading. The program will

run over the course of the year and regular 2 hour sessions each term will be held back at TAFE to

allow the mentors further skills development. Mentors will spend 3 x 20 minute sessions a week

with their mentees during our IVY time, working on reading aloud, teamwork, self-confidence and

improved literacy. Year 10 will have this explained to them at a meeting next week where the

school will be seeking 10 -12 Year 10 volunteers to be the trained mentors. At the conclusion Year

10 mentors will also receive a certificate from TAFE to formally recognise their training. The entire

program will not impact timetable lessons.

The staff have started the yearly process of reviewing what we did as a school last year and

evaluating the impact we had. As a school a lot of progress was made in many areas and it is an

important step for us to spend time and reflect on our successes and look to see what we can do

better. This is an annual process as part of the School Excellence Framework that all school meas-

ure themselves against.

Late this week I met at Murrumburrah Public School with colleagues from the Department of

Education to start the process of air conditioning replacement at both our school sites. What the

Cooler Classrooms program consists of is that the evaporative cooling in classrooms will generally

be replaced by reverse cycle air conditioning units. This will also mean that the old blue gas heaters

in these rooms will also be disconnected after many years of service.

Readers will note the letter to parents/carers that I have included in this newsletter regarding the

Covid19 virus situation. We have also provided hand sanitiser to all classrooms and lots of

informative posters to remind everyone about how to look after their own personal hygiene. I think

this is an important message at any time, especially heading into a flu season.

Finally for this report, Bev Stevenson (the School Administrative Manager) and myself, travelled to

Gunning Public School to undertake our yearly budget review with the Department of Education

finance team. The 2 hour sessions are designed to spend one-on-one time with a team

representative to review our school budget process and make sure that, not only do we fully under-

stand the finance system, but that we have budgeted appropriately for the 2020 year. We had a

few questions answered and had our budget process approved with flying

colours.

Mr Dale Rands Principal

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Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to the students listed below

who achieved their:

Double Blue Level Certificate

Lily Shorrock

Purple Level Certificate

Tristan Steele

Harley Spencer

Talai Vasquez

Georgie Ings

Blue Level Certificate

Maci Wilkinson

Representing MHS

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English @ MHS

English Excursion ~ Emma Story

Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is an uptight "queen bee without rivals" in a quiet Eng-

lish village in the early 19th century.

The story is a witty and entertaining satire of social class and the pain of growing up. Emma journeys through a number of mistaken matches and romantic misdirections to find that her true love

had been there all along. Jane Austen's popular and well loved comedy about finding your true love and

earning your happy ending, is a delightful new film that Ms Beck and the Year 12 Advanced English

class went to see in Canberra on Wednesday 26th February. They will be studying the text in Term 2.

They all enjoyed the film and learnt a great deal about the text.

Year 11 have been writing persuasive pieces. This is a contribution by Peta Ryan.

There should be more horse trainers I think there should be more horse trainers because there are so many horses and not enough people

to train them. There are too many brumby horses and people are going to cull them, but if there were

more horse trainers they could catch the brumbies and train them for riding for the

disabled and companion horses.

Brumbies make great horses. They bond and trust people and they have a good nature. Brumbies are

also good work horses. It is really easy to break a brumby if they have your trust. To get the trust of a

horse it takes a lot of time and effort. You have to be willing to spend a lot of time working the horse and don’t ever give up. If you break that trust you will not get it back easily. To make

a horse trust you, you will have to spend a lot of time with it and pat it, talk and be gentle with it. When

the horse does something good you reward it with some food or a treat, a pat or cuddle.

Ex-race horses should go to a good home and be retrained for jumping, showing or disabled

children.

I would like to see more people go to riding for the disabled to see how these children enjoy these hors-

es. If more people saw the happiness they bring in to the children or people they might take more hors-

es in to train them.

I would like to see a horse trail riding club started up in our town, this would be good for visitors to our

town and also gives city people a look at what

county life is all about.

By Peta Ryan, Year 11 English

Year 11 English

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Quote Poetry

Year 11 students researched quotes from and about famous (and infamous) figures. By carefully selecting and

arranging these quotes, they used poetry to cast a spotlight onto powerful messages.

Quote Poetry: Kim Jong Un The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This

is reality, not a threat.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

Want to know what’s more destructive then a nuclear bomb? Words. Chad Webster

Quote Poetry: Adolf Hitler - MEN DO NOT THINK

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think Those who want to live, let them fight and those who do not want to fight in this world of external struggle do not

deserve to live.

If you win, you need not to explain

If you lose, you should not be there to explain

It’s not truth that matters but victory

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it

It’s not truth that matters but victory

Life doesn’t forgive weakness

Strength lies not in defence but in attack

When diplomacy ends war begins

Skye Wilson

Quote Poetry: Martin Luther King, Jr Darkness cannot drive out darkness;

only the light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

As the moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war,

It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

As pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing check,

But the true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;

It must be demanded by the oppressed.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down

In the length of life, void of breadth.

Our lives only begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter

The time is always right to do what is right.

I am not interested in power for powers sake,

But I’m interested in power that is moral,

That is right and that is good.

If a man has not discovered something he will die for,

He isn’t fit to live.

Whilst love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

He who passively accepts evil Is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Moving forward life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what you are doing for others.

If you can’t fly then run.

If you can’t run then walk

If you can’t walk then crawl

But whatever you do you have to keep moving. Jordan Phelan

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Stage 4 Science Stage 4 Science do simple pendulum experiments.

LEAP The first couple of weeks have been very busy, students have been getting to know each other by

doing lots of ice breaking activities . This week we have spoken about the importance of personal presentation. We dressed our models

in recycled paper to make some outfits.

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Stage 4 Art

Students have been researching and creating 3D masks in the art room. They have researched

various festivals from around the world and investigated the transformative power of wearing a

mask. Results will be on display at the end of term.

Mrs Kate Van Leeuwen

Stage 6 Art Excursion

Wednesday Week 6 three students from the Year 12 visual arts class visited the National Gallery in Canberra. Tour

educator Kate gave us a memorable tour through ‘belonging’,

modernism, post modernism, sculpture and prints. We ended

the tour with a detailed look at Matisse Picasso exhibition.

Thanks to the National Gallery for gifting the MHS art room

with ‘Masterpieces from Paris’.

Mrs Kate Van Leeuwen

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Stage 6 Hospitality

Around the School

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EFTPOS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ANY STUDENT PAYMENTS i.e. School and elective contributions and excursions can be paid via the following options;

EFTPOS at MHS front office

Cash to the front office

Online via the school website – click on ‘Make a payment’ tab at the top.

SICK STUDENTS If your student is sick, they must stay at

home and avoid close contact with others to

prevent spreading the germs.

It is Department Policy that if your student

becomes sick at school, the office staff will

notify parent/carers and

they MUST arrange for

someone to pick up your

student up as soon as pos-

sible.

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HARDEN SOCCER CLUB! Welcome to season 2020!! Our club registrations are now open and ready to go!! Simply click on the link below and it will take you directly to our club's PlayFootball portal. Once there click on the tab "Get Started" and follow the prompts.

As in 2019 if you would like to use and redeem an Active Kids Voucher please obtain your voucher prior to starting your PlayFootball online registration.

PlayFootball:-https://registration.playfootball.com.au/…/WelcomeRegPlus.a…

Office of Sport Active Kids Voucher Apply Online https://bit.ly/2DKbAMs

If you need more information or assistance please contact the Club Registrar or visit playfootball.com.au, email playfootball.support@ffa.com.au or call PlayFootball Helpline on 8880 7983.

REMINDER SCHOOL PHOTOS

MONDAY 9 MARCH

FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM

REMINDER P&C AGM

MONDAY 9 MARCH

ALL WELCOME

Murrumburrah High School - Term 1, 2020

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9

School Photos

P&C AGM

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Girls Soccer @

Wagga

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Whitecard Course

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Stage 3

Extravaganza Day

18 19 20

Newsletter

National Day

against Bullying

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Parent Meeting

Year 6 to Year 7

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Sydney Royal Show

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Sydney Royal

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State Swimming @

Homebush

Sydney Royal

Show

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State Swimming

@ Homebush

Sydney Royal

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Newsletter

State Swimming

@ Homebush

Sydney Royal

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Parent Teacher

Interviews

8 9

Athletics Carnival

10

LAST DAY OF

TERM

11 12

Year 12 Mid Course Exams

Year 12 Mid Course Exams

Murrumburrah High

School

Smith Street

Harden NSW 2587

Phone: 02 6386 2755

E-mail: murrumburr-

h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

MURRUMBURRAH HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL:

MR DALE RANDS

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