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KEMPSEY HIGH SCHOOL NEWSLETTER
NRMA Supports Riding Program
A $2500 grant from the 2013 NRMA Insurance Community Grants Program has supplied bikes and safety helmets for the new Wheels Safety and Maintenance program at Kempsey High School. The bikes had their first outing at the Year 11 Study Skills Camp in February and are now in constant demand for the school’s sports programs.
PO Box 3268 West Kempsey NSW 2440 Phone 65 626166 Fax 65628570
Email kempsey‐[email protected] Website: www.kempsey‐h.schools.nsw.edu.au
Issue 3, Term 1 2014
April Calendar
Friday 11th. Last Day of Term 1
Monday 28th. School Development Day
(no students)
Tuesday 29th. Students Return for Term 2
Wednesday 30th Bellbrook Camp
To Fri. 2nd. May Year 12 SLR
May Calendar
Thursday 1st. NAPLAN trial test for some
Year 7 and 9 students.
Friday 2nd. Merit Awards Presentation
Hall 9.30am – 10.30am
Tuesday 6th. Science & Engineering
to Thurs. 8th. Challenge
Thursday 8th. Year 10 Coastal Fieldwork
at Crescent Head
Friday 9th. May Zone Cross Country at
Kempsey
Tuesday 13th. Wingham Beef Week
to Fri. 16th.
Tuesday 13th. Year 7 & 9 NAPLAN
Language and Writing
Wednesday 14th. Year 7 & 9 NAPLAN Reading
Thursday 15th. Year 7&9 NAPLAN
Numeracy
Friday 16th. Year 7 Rainforest Fieldwork
Tuesday 20th. Immunisation Year 7 boys
and girls and Year 9 boys.
Macleay Valley RELAY FOR LIFE
Starts at 2pm
Saturday 11TH. October 2014
Finishes at 9am Sunday 12TH. October 2014
Kempsey Showground
Get a team together and help beat
Cancer.
Contact: Fiona 6659 8400 or email [email protected]
Merit Awards Presentation
9.30am Friday 2nd. May 2014
Kempsey High School Hall
NAPLAN Students in Years 7 and 9 will do the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) from Tuesday 13th. to Thursday 15th. May 2014. The results of the tests will provide important information about what each student can do, and will be used to support teaching and learning programs. Parents will receive a report indicating their child’s level of achievement. Each student’s level of achievement will be reported against the national minimum standard.
In the Numeracy tests students do not require any measuring tools such as rulers or protractors. In Years 7 and 9 there will be two Numeracy tests: one where a calculator is allowed and one where calculators are not to be used. For the calculator test, the student should use the calculator that they currently use at school.
Students who are absent at the time of testing can complete missed tests at another time during testing week. Individual students are not permitted to sit tests after Friday 16 May 2014. Additional information about NAPLAN can be found at www.nap.edu.au/NAPLAN/Parent_Carer_support/index.html.
CROSS COUNTR
Y CARNIVAL
Threatening skies were cast aside by a great Cross Country Carnival last
fortnight. It was a fantastic day for running and walking and in the
afternoon students and staff enthusiastically participated in fishing,
surfing, beach soccer/touch, lawn bowls, beach volleyball, beach
cricket/frisbee/vortex, beach walking and sand modelling. Well done Mr
Peisley, the organising staff and Year 12 (a great BBQ)!
CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
House Points Lawson 371 Kipling 345 Barrie 180
Masefield 140
Age Champions U12 Kaitlin Hutley &
Michael Pyle‐Thomson
U13 Brook Bruce‐Smith & Liam Whalen
U14 Katie Barnett & Dharm Phakphai
U15 Jennifer Mitchell & Kyle Barclay
U16 Amber Towle & Daniel Gurney
Open: Amelia Mickle & Jarrad Witheridge
University Roadshow Kempsey High recently hosted the Regional University Roadshow which brought together
representatives from the University of New England, Charles Sturt University and Southern
Cross University to talk with HSC students. The presentation provided students with insights
about the university application processes, university study, living costs, early entry,
alternate entry programs, scholarships and what life is generally like at university. Students
had the opportunity to see how regional universities provide the personalised support to
their students with high employment outcomes for their graduates. Approximately 120
students from Kempsey High, Melville High and St Pauls College attended the Roadshow.
Open Girls Soccer
The open girls soccer team travelled to Wauchope on 13th. March to play against Mellville
High School. The day started with Demi Peirpoint the assistant coach (due to injury) running
the girls through the warm ups and giving them some good advice. The team was captained
by Antwinette Dunn who did an outstanding job at keeping the girls motivated, talking and
playing in the Kempsey High spirit.
Unfortunately, both our goalies were unable to make the game, so Bri Toby, Courtney Kelly‐
Scholes and Jaymie‐lea Thaidy, at the last minute stepped up to the challenge and all took
turns in goal. They all did an outstanding job. Keeping the score down to 0‐2 at half time.
Our girls in the back worked extremely hard the whole game, with Suzie Griffen doing an
outstanding job running the backs from the sweepers position. Suzie was awarded “woman
of the match” and was also selected to trial for the Lower North Coast team. Chloe Ennis,
Megan James and young Sarah Honess kept up the pressure on the Melville strikers all
game, keeping them from attempting to shoot at goal until the last 10 minutes when
Melville finally managed to score another 2 goals.
Bec Shea and Jess Jones worked hard in the mids all day with the young girls Hayley Kesby,
Katie Barnett and Kate McMillan stringing together a number of passes and scoring a goal
for Kempsey High.
Thanks girls for a fantastic day out. You did Kempsey High proud.
Visiting from Louisiana
Kempsey High School Agriculture and Marine Studies students came away totally enthralled from lectures offered to them last fortnight from visiting Rotarians from Louisiana. Team Leader of the vocational visit, Mark Shirley from Louisiana State University gave an astonishing account of his work as a commercial alligator harvester and farmer. He conducts programs for crawfish, shrimp and crab farmers, alligator farmers and harvesters and fishermen. Mindy Hotard talked to an overflow audience about cattle reproduction and her research in using reproductive technology. She brought extensive experience from her family’s crawfishing, alligator trapping, commercial cattle and abattoir businesses. The visiting team also included Keith Normand who works in retirement as an agricultural extension associate with Louisiana State University and Nick Simoneaux who worked at the Louisiana State University Rice Research Station. Keith and Nick have extensive industry experience – Keith in working in grain cropping, sugarcane, cotton and forage crops and Nick in a farm supply company and later in a landscape business specialising in construction, renovation and maintenance of athletic turf.