Byron Bay High School Newsletter Term 4 - Edition 1

Newsletter Edition 1 Term 4

Newsletter

Byron Bay High School

Telephone: 02 6685 8188 Fax: 02 6685 8119

Email: byronbay-h.school@det.nswedu.au

Website: www.byronbay-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Member of the Lighthouse Valley

The Future is Ours

Byron Bay High School stand proudly on the traditional land of the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation

Dear Parents and Care Givers Thank you to all parents and staff who attended our School Vision Planning evening on Tuesday 24 October. It was a fantastic opportunity to hear your opinions on our School directions and think about the questions you posed of us at Byron Bay High School. We will use your feedback to inform our School Plan 2018-2020. I would like to congratulate all students who received their Lighthouse Certificate on our Assembly this week. These students can be proud of their achievements and for how they represent our Byron Bay High School community. I urge all students to consider applying for Lighthouse Level which demonstrates overall commitment to our school (see photos next page). I have had the absolute pleasure in announcing our School Captains for 2018. Congratulations goes to:

Domenica Wenban and Xander Mains - School Captains Georgia Willey and Ethan Archer - Vice Captains. These students are outstanding leaders of our school and I look forward to working with them as they lead the student body in 2018. Ms Janine Marcus, Relieving Principal

What's Coming Up!

TERM 4 - WEEK 4

30 October (Day 1) - 31 October (Day 2) NSW CHS Championships 15's Boys Basketball

1 November (Day 3) Year 8 Camp Kokoda leave @ 9 am North Coast Surf Lifesaving LNC NSW CHS Championships 15's Boys Basketball

2 November (Day 4) Year 8 Camp Kokoda NSW CHS Championships 15's Boys Basketball United Nations Youth Workshop

3 November (Day 5) Year 8 Camp Kokoda return @ 3 pm North Coast Futsal K/O finals LNC "White card" OH&S Induction Training

TERM 4 - WEEK 5

6 November (Day 6) - 7 November (Day 7) - 8 November (Day 1) RRISK Day Year 11 new Year 12

9 November (Day 2) - 10 November (Day 3) Remembrance Day Assembly 15's and under Netball Gala P&C Raffles Byron Golf Club @ 7 pm

Payments Due:

Year 7-10 - Overdue Term Sports Fees All Year - Overdue School Fees Year 9 Geography - $15 Year 9 and 10 PASS Beach Fitness - $25 Year 11/12 SLR - Beach Fitness - $25 15’s boys basketball - $60 Year 12 RRISK - $15

Byron Bay High School Newsletter Term 4 - Edition 1

The Future is Ours

Byron Bay High School Newsletter Term 4 - Edition 1

The Future is Ours

FLOW HIVE PRESENTATION Byron Bay High School Design and Technology, Business Studies, Project Based Learning (PBL) and Agriculture students were lucky enough to attend a presentation with CEO and Inventor of the Flow Hive, Cedar Anderson, on Monday 23 October in the Performing Arts Centre . Cedar presented his story of how he and his father developed a new way of collecting honey - a more efficient way. He spoke about the Flow Hive that he developed into an award winning design and how his design has been produced into a bee hive (Flow Hive). The innovative design can extract honey, tapping directly from the hive without the need to remove frames and disturb bees. Students had a fantastic opportunity to see the passion that Cedar has for the invention, design, the environment, bee keeping and his business, which he is continuing to develop. I would like to thanks Cedar and the Flow Hive team for their donation of a Flow Hive to the Byron Bay High School Agriculture department and a warm thanks to the staff and teachers that made the day possible. Mr Mark Hernage - TAS Teacher

Cedar with Design and Technology, Agriculture students and staff Cedar giving the Agriculture students and Gary Woodward a demonstration of how the Flow Hive works

Cedar Anderson

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2017 JAPAN STUDY TRIP Tadaima! On Tuesday last week we returned home after an amazing 19 days in Japan. Our highlights were a seven night homestay with our sister school in Okutama, a three night homestay with our sister school in Nara, catching the shinkansen, exploring countless temples and gardens, leaving behind a prayer for peace in Hiroshima, shopping in Osaka, and trying all of the delicious food. We discovered our karaoke tune-belting skills, too! Our students learned so much over the course of the trip. They got to try out their Japanese, embrace the culture, and impressed us with their open minded, enthusiastic and positive attitudes. You certainly did Byron Bay High School proud. Can’t wait to see what adventures are around the corner for our 2018 Japan study trip! Miss Kristina Ballard, Japanese Teacher

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YEAR 9 AGRICULTURE In Term 3 the wonderful Year 9 Agriculture class completed their valuable Vegetable Garden Project Based Learning. The students successfully investigated and produced a variety of vegetables to eat using organic techniques and pictured are some of the keen gardeners! The class undertook a corn growing trial using two different systems for seed germination. The students then planted their corn seedlings in garden plots to observe their growth and development. They are now looking forward to a delicious harvest later this term! Mrs Jennifer Woodward, Agriculture Teacher

RACISM - NO WAY! Anti-Racism Contact Officers - ARCO Any students or parents who have concerns about racism in the school may direct their concerns to either Mr Joe Swinson or Ms Tracie Lee. Each school has at least one trained Anti-Racism Contact Officer (ARCO) to facilitate the complaints handling process. The ARCO is an impartial facilitator, not an advocate for students, parents or community members. The ARCO is the central point of contact for complaints of racism. They record complaints and resolution methods and maintain all data in line with the policy guidelines. Ms Tracie Lee and Mr Joe Swinson

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VISUAL ARTS So many opportunities and fun experiences for our Visual Art students are happening this term in the CAPA department. Year 7 students have been working on a range of interesting and engaging activities this term. We have some incredible musical instruments based on Picasso’s Cubist movement. These are currently being exhibited in Ms Marcus’ office and in the CAPA department. There is also a collaborative installation artwork project underway that expresses their concerns about the pollution that ends up in our local waterways. Students have made sculptures of fish from sticks, raffia, paper and rubbish that was found on the school grounds. The rubbish is embedded in the fish as if they had been swallowed. The artworks communicate the fragile nature of our waterways and places importance on us to be responsible custodians and to care about the way we treat its fragile eco system. This installation along with the Year 9’s ‘Spirit of the land’ paintings will be exhibited starting November and over the summer at the Byron Bay Library so we hope students and their families will pop in and see this amazing exhibition. The Year 7 winning entry is being exhibited in the front office. The Bangalow Show is around the corner and this year’s theme is ‘Cows’. We encourage all Visual Art students to enter and take part. Students can also enter work into the general sections of art, craft and photography. Year 7 will be working on artworks to enter into the ‘cow’ category so please take time out on the weekend of 17 November to pop by and see Byron Bay High Schools entries and enjoy the show. More information about the Bangalow show can be found here http://www.bangalowshow.com.au/. Speaking of cows, CAPAL have some exciting new ones … read on for more information. Beyond this, a fantastic opportunity for creative students to participate in a cultural art program is about to begin. Thank you to Ms Eke for overseeing this exciting arts program. More information on this will be made available and selected students will begin the program soon. Ms Linda Robson, Head Teacher CAPAL

CAPAL COWs CAPAL have been blessed with a brand new set of COMPUTERS on wheels or COWS as they are fondly referred to. These COWS have enabled us to plan highly engaging, interactive lessons with our Language and Creative and Performing Arts learners. The students are loving it!!! This includes the challenging task of learning to type in Japanese script. Ms Tracie Lee, CAPAL Teacher

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MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Term 4 has got off to a flying start with the space that the outgoing Year 12 Music students took up being quickly filled by the new Year 12’s and below. The Music department is a hive of activity again with students sparking up new collaborations and working in established groups as well as on solo acts.

This week saw the first lunch time outdoor music concert (now titled ‘Day 4 Music’) outside the CAPA block, with the new Year 12 VET Entertainment students taking over the running of the production, setting up and running the audio system and presenting/managing the event. They have made a great start and are well on the way to becoming the ‘Dream-Team’. The session saw Lachlan Buckley (guitar), Sacha Jackson (drums) and Curtis Cloake (Bass); supported by Mr Reade on keys, perform an Albert Collins Funk Rock piece to get the groove going. Next up we had two songs, including an original, from our talented new arrival Jake Harpaz showing off his vocal skills and supporting himself on his mini carbon-fibre guitar! Following that, we heard an original from Abbey Haworth supported by our new School Captain, Domenica Wenban, on cello. Our ‘MC’ Clayton Ramirez treated us to a great rap performance of very recently written lyrics to beats made by Josh Denholm. The closing slot was beautifully filled with an original by the ever professional Tilka Fossmale who never fails to impress.

As teachers here, we are always humbled by the talent we continue to experience at this school and love the way that they are appreciated, encouraged and respected by the student and staff audience. The very next day saw two of the acts performing at the Lighthouse Assembly with the National Anthem proudly performed by Hayden Keevers, supported by Mr Baker on guitar.

The School Band continues to be well attended on Thursday lunchtimes and we are working on a piece to be performed in week 6 at the performance assembly. All students should attend all two practices between now and then!

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Upcoming Events: Wednesday 1 November (evening) - Year 11/12 Vet Entertainment students and Year 10 students taking Entertainment next year are invited to attend the technical rehearsal of the musical ‘Chicago’ being performed at The Bangalow A&I Hall. This will be a valuable opportunity to watch from the ‘Bio Box’ how the lighting, sound and projection equipment is managed in a large show and we thank the Bangalow Theatre Company for agreeing to let us observe. Thursday 2 November - Year 10, 11 and 12 Performing Arts students are invited to attend the dress rehearsal and preview (for free) of the musical ‘Chicago’ being performed at The Bangalow A&I Hall. This promises to be a fun evening with all local high schools represented and we thank the Bangalow Theatre Company for putting on the evening and inviting our young people to attend. 11 and 12 November - The Byron Guitar Festival, with a great line up of all things guitar, we have students performing early on in the day so any support will be welcome there. Also Vet Entertainment students are working at the event on stage production and customer services. Mullumbimby Music Festival - We have a selection of our best singer/songwriters performing at this year’s Festival on the Sunday afternoon on the outdoor Youth/SAE stage at the High School. Anyone can attend for free to see this show and our students would love to see some familiar faces there. Fingers crossed for entries to win places on the Youth Mentorship Scheme and Song Writing Competition this year. Watch this space for results out soon. Finally I would like to thank my colleagues, Ami Peluchetti and Tim Baker, for all their expertise and encouragement of our musical talent in the school this year and their contribution to building the skills and confidence in our students that is so necessary to perform. Mr Dan Reade, Music and Vet Entertainment Teacher

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LANGUAGES Indonesian Bu Lee, the Indonesian teacher is very excited about how clever the new Year 7 classes are proving to be with many students getting 100% in their vocabulary exam. A fantastic start to the term guys! Well done!!! Ms Tracie Lee, Indonesian Teacher

Japanese Year 7 students have tried the Japanese art of paper folding and dyeing, called Orizomegami. Their work is currently on display in our library (photo on the left). Year 7 are worthy of congratulations for their work ethic. Ms Belinda Fleming, Japanese Teacher

100% Pandai = 100% Clever!

VELVET BYRON WRITING COMPETITION To celebrate their opening, Velvet Café in Byron Bay, ran a writing competition. The brief was to write a short piece (no more than 300 words) about how the ‘girl in the mural’ got there. The mural, painted across the entire interior wall of the café depicts a young girl suspended in a blue ocean or pool and was painted by Carla Zapel. Congratulations to Ruby Jeffries, a Byron Bay High School student in Year 7 who won the 12 years old and under category and $250. An amazing achievement Ruby, well done! Byron Bay High School Year 10 students, Star Maple, Sarah Apitz and Leo Piper, were also on the judges highly commended list for the Under 18’s category. In addition, Piper Leo secured a judges honourable mention and her story was printed in the booklet alongside the winners in each category. Reilly Baum, who attended Byron Bay High School up until Term 3, won the under 18 category ($500). Local writer Elspeth Lee won the over 18s category ($1000). Congratulations to everyone who entered and keep your pens poised for 2018’s competition. Ms Sarah McGregor, English Teacher

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SPORTING EXCELLENCE GROUP Sporting Excellence had the opportunity to participate in a session with Ballina Cross Fit this week. The session was designed to speak with the owners of the gym who were elite athletes themselves as high school students, Erin, a tennis player and Lindsay, a gymnast. They gave our students advice on what they wished they had known as young athletes, ie. how to look after your body in your sport using strength training and then gave us a smashing session to finish off. Some of our athletes are finding muscles they never knew they had! Thanks to Ballina Cross Fit for spending the time to talk to our up and coming athletes. Mrs Kelley Caoyonan, Sports Organiser (Sporting Excellence Program Coordinator )

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAN PEACOCK AND FINLEY STUBBS !! Who recently competed at the QLD schools kayaking competition. The boys (sneakily!) won a whack load of medals. Dan, four Gold medals in the 200 m, 500m and K2 and Finley a Bronze medal in the 500 m. Well done boys and thanks for representing our School in your out-of-school endeavours!!

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New Library Resources Term 4 Week 3 FICTION Older Readers’ Fiction: Australia Day Because of You Beautiful Mess The Build-up Season Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 tales of villainy Dreamland Burning The Book of Secrets The One Man The Collapsing Empire Defy the Stars NON-FICTION The Edge of the Abyss The Chicken Wisperer’s Guide to Keeping Chickens: The Forgetting Time everything you need to know … and didn’t Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Racoon and know you needed to know about backyard Groot steal the galaxy! and urban chickens A Hat Full of Sky: a Tiffay Aching novel The Gibson Les Paul: the illustrated history of the The Loneliest Girl in the Universe guitar that changed rock Heartless Goblins and Ghosties: stories of darkness from The Hundred Names of Darkness around the world Maybe Step-by-Step Projects for Self-sufficiency See You in September The Teenage Guide to Friends Shaozhen Tokyo Geek’s Guide: manga, anime, gaming, cosplay, The Six toys, idols and more Sparrow Spellslinger Biographies: A Story Like the Wind The Children of Willesden Lane: a true story of hope Taboo and survival during World War II Nancy Wake: a biography of our greatest war horoine Graphics: Northern Lights: the graphic novel. Volume One Volume Two

CONNOR GIBNEY WINS IN TOUR DE VALLEY TEAM TIME TRIAL Connor rode on Sunday 22 October as part of the Byron Bay Cycle Club Team Time Trial crew at the Tour de Valley event in the Currumbin Valley. The team participated in the 36 km event where up six riders worked as a team with at least three required to finish. The aim was to complete the course in the quickest possible time. Connor rode strongly, finishing with the final group in a time of 55:42 minutes. The team captain was very impressed with Connor’ efforts and feels that Connor has a lot of talent. Well done Connor (and Mr Duncan our Head Teacher of Welfare)!

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Kids can enter: The Skate Competition, The Raft Building Competition (and Raft Race if over 15 years), The Sandcastle Building Competition and this year, all competitions are FREE! We also have the Ballina Prawn Festival Boat Parade! Those with boats can join in on the parade and dress up their boat to celebrate the Ballina lifestyle and Prawn Industry. There are prizes for all competitions and the best dressed boat in the parade, so get involved! Tickets for kids $5, adults $10 and families $25 with entry all day; come back as many times as you like. We’ll see you there! Head to the website for more information or to sign up for any of the above www.ballinaprawnfestival.com.au.

ROADWORKS - BANGALOW AND BROKEN HEAD ROAD RESEAL WORK Byron Shire Council have advised us that they will be resealing a section of Bangalow and Broken Head Road out the front of Byron Bay High School. It is scheduled to commence on Monday 30 October, weather permitting. Works are expected to take 1 - 2 days and Council’s contractor will finish the work between the hours of 9 am and 3 pm. Access through Bangalow Road will be available during the work. Traffic controllers will be present on site to maintain traffic flow for the duration of construction. Short delays can be expected at certain times. Council would like to thank you for your patience during this time and apologises for any inconvenience caused by this important work. Council is committed to improving the condition of our assets and improving road safety for our community. Should you require further information, wish to comment or if there are queries or concerns you would like to have addressed, please do not hesitate to contact Council’s Road and Bridge Engineer, Josh Proves on 02 6626 7248 or by email at Joshua.provis@byron.nsw.gov.au. Mr Tony Nash, Byron Shire Council