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The Oak Leaf Armidale High School

Friday , 7th

September 2012

Butler Street, Armidale, N.S.W., 2350 – PHONE: 6776 7466; FAX: 6776 7424 Email: [email protected] Website: armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Issue 14 – Term 3 – Week 6

PRINCIPAL’S COLUMN

SASS Recognition Week This week our school community recognised the very

valuable work of all our support staff with a special

morning tea and some RAKs (Random Acts of

Kindness)! Thank you to all our non-teaching staff for

your hard work all year round- we would not be able to

teach without you!

Thank you also to our hard-working P&C and especially

to Geoff Thorne who organised the Bush Dance held in

the auditorium. Around $700 was raised and a great time

was had by all!

Congratulations to Lucie Yeomans – 3rd

in the National

Worldskills Comp and member of the winning State

team. What an achievement!

Congratulations also to our Tournament of Minds Team

and to their mentor Mr Michael McKenzie, on winning

the regional final. They are off to Sydney this weekend

to compete in the State Final.

ARTS IN CONCERTS

I have received many phone calls and emails praising

our wonderful students who participated as performers,

ushers or back stage crew, in the Regional Arts in

Concert performances last Tuesday and Wednesday

nights at Lazenby. All students looked and sounded

fabulous and were a great credit to our school.

On a similar note our MADness nights were very well

attended and the standard of music, art and drama on

show was phenomenal! Two different programs for the

two nights is proof of the strength of the creative and

performing arts at Armidale High School.

Parents of Year 12 students are reminded that all lessons

continue until the Weirdathon on Thursday, 20th Sept.

Some course work is still being completed as well as

revision and strategies for exam technique and handy

hints being given by staff.

Anne Matley, Principal

LUCIE YEOMANS’ TRIUMPH

Armidale High School’s

Vice-Captain Lucie

Yeomans has returned from

the National Worldskills

Championships with a

Bronze medal in the Primary

Industry sector and the

knowledge that her strong

result contributed to New

South Wales team’s Shield-

winning performance as the

Best Performed State.

The Vocational Education

Training in Schools

competition was held at Sydney’s Olympic Park. The

competitors were called upon to demonstrate their skills

in tractor work, stock work, fences, weather fore-casting,

chemicals and first aid and chemical spills scenarios.

“The team challenge, to improve some aspect of the

Olympic Park, was especially rewarding,” Lucie said.

COMPUTING CHALLENGE – National

Computer Skills Test held by UNSW

(Standing) Ben James (Credit), Liam Knott, Tim Edmonds

(Seated) Ben Hemmings, Domenico Favotto (Credit), Jackson

Doak (Distinction) with teacher Mr Andrew Curry who said

he was very pleased with the students’ results in a competition

which tested knowledge of systems and software.

Friday 7th September, 2012


BUSHDANCE

The P&C Fundraiser on 1st

September was a great

success thanks to the

Waldorf Salad Bush Band,

the many sponsors who

contributed prizes, all those

who helped with preparations

and food and the enthusiastic participants.

More photos available on our website:

http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ soon

ZONTA The Zonta Club held a meeting at Armidale High School

which was catered for by Year 11 as part of the fundraising for

their vocational excursion to the Nara Seaworld Resort later in

the year. A number of teachers from the school enjoyed the

club’s hospitality at a dinner which has become and annual

event.

Alana and Shae Leske

delighted the diners

with entertainment

before the meal. Many

of those attending are

musicians and spoke

highly of the girls’

performances.

At the end of the meal

the student chefs and

waiters were thanked

by Zonta. The evening

was greatly enjoyed by

all.

GATES

Thanks to a hard working group of volunteers, the Memorial

Gates are almost restored. These photos show the final

touches being put in place by Mark Garvey, a local police

sergeant and parent who has donated his brick laying skills,

Ken Peters and Geoff Walsh. A celebratory reopening

of the gates is planned for next term.

http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/



REUNION

The class of 1982

enjoyed a walk

through the school

as part of their

weekend reunion.

They were

accompanied by

their Year Adviser,

Tim Channon.

YEAR 10 TEXTILES

Year 10 making newspaper dresses to decorate the

Textile room for the Zonta dinner, and working

hard on their Recycled Bag unit.

BIKE WEEK!

Bike Week, from Saturday 15th

September to

Sunday 23rd

September, is sponsored by the NSW

Government. More information on the activities

organised can be found at

http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw_bik

eweek.html

http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw_bikeweek.html

http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw_bikeweek.html



1 West Ave Armidale 2350

Saturday 13th October 2012

Open Day 10am to 2pm – Guided tours on the hour.

Cutting of Celebration Cake – From 1pm.

Unveiling of 30th Anniversary Quilt – 1.30pm.

Armidale Montessori Preschool is celebrating 30 years in Armidale.

Former students and families who would be interested in attending and

participating in our Celebration please contact us. Phone 6772 3628 or Email:

[email protected] R.S.V.P Friday 21

st September 2012

Name: ________________ No Attending: ______

The Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program is directed towards students in Years 7 to 10 and aims to decrease the prevalence of health risk behaviours (such as alcohol consumption, smoking, other drug use, physical inactivity and inadequate nutritional intake) by enhancing the resilience of students through resilience interventions. These resilience interventions aim to increase the internal and external resilience of students. Internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people. These include empathy, self-esteem, self-awareness, effective help seeking, communication and cooperation, and goals and aspirations. External resilience factors refer to positive influences within the young person’s environment and surroundings that protect them from engaging in health risk behaviours. And include school connection, community connection, family connection, and pro-social peers. School workshops and Action Plans are two important milestones of the Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program and we encourage all teachers, parents and students to contribute to the planning of Armidale High School’s resilience interventions. The next step is for Armidale High School to create an Action Plan. This plan will list selected resilience interventions to implement over the next couple of years. Strategies in this plan may include activities from MindMatters and SenseAbility, rewards and recognition programs, student empowerment programs, and plans to increase links between the school and the community.

DEAR BOOK BOXES

Thank you to all who are leaving magazines and

books at the Office for our DEAR reading; they are

avidly seized upon by reading groups.

Magazines of sporting and topical interest are

especially highly prized.

mailto:[email protected]



TOURNAMENT OF MINDS

Tournament of Minds is an international competition

that challenges students to use creativity and ingenuity

to solve problems based around topical issues. The

challenge is entirely driven by the participants and

requires strong, positive teamwork. Armidale High’s

team of Luke Logan-Clarke, Caitlin Sillar, Emma Swan,

Georgie Cooper, Grace Shortis and Elly Bell

was successful in the North-west regional competition in

the Social Science Discipline, in a problem regarding

travellers from the future. Their success is built on

inclusiveness, cooperation and creativity; hallmarks of

the student body at Armidale High School.

The students travel to Sydney on Friday to take part in

the State Finals at UNSW.

Jack Grigg

Armidale

High’s

drummer, Jack

Grigg, and his

band, Contour,

are celebrating

their

endorsement

by proAudio in

Sydney and

Canberra. The

endorsement means the company will play the recently-

recorded album of the band’s own compositions in their

stores, sponsor some broadband casting and play time on

radio stations and finance publicity. This sponsorship

also allows the band to receive reduced costs on items in

stores at discount prices. The photo shows Jack playing

at the Madness performance this week.

Who is that exemplary student?

Girls’ Advisor, Jenny Evans, made a

fashion statement recently and

demonstrated just how to wear the

school uniform. The jumper and shirt

were purchased from the Clothing Pool

for the sum of $5.00. Thanks to Brett

Field for the photo.

Stop Press: Madness on Friday Night

Another night of

stunning performances

from Armidale High’s

Class of 2012 delighted the audience on Friday night. Full

report soon at http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/




SIEGE ENGINES

A Year 8 History class enjoyed

the culmination of their unit on Medieval History as they

constructed siege weapons such as catapults and ballistas.

ARTS IN CONCERT

The biannual showcase of Performance in Public

Schools “Arts In Concert” occurred this week on

the nights of Tuesday 4th

and Wednesday 5th

of

September.

The performances were supported by a static art

display in the foyer at Lazenby.

Armidale High School, as always, was strongly

represented by a range of performing ensembles.

Tuesday featured the Combined Strings presenting

a challenging program of Mozart and Ravel. The

combined schools Chamber ensemble also played a

short excerpt from Telemann; and Sam Kreusler

and Angus Gallagher reprised their award winning

dramatised performance of Libertango which

brought the house down.

Wednesday included our Jazz combo slickly

performing in suites and oozing cool, Angus

Gallagher’s string quartet composition and our

Chamber Orchestra presenting a Baroque set of

Dances followed by Our Time by Sondheim.

Special mention should go to Igraine Spiers and

Anna Moffet . Nick Kelly was to be to be the

featured performer in this item but was unable to

perform due to ill health. Igraine and Anna learnt

this song on the day and performed it dramatically

and from memory on the night to a packed audience

of 500.

Our own Rowena Teege directed the splendid

Regional Choir!!!

Thank you to our indefatigable music teachers, Mrs

Teege and Ms Archer.

NETBALL

The local Armidale District Netball Association

competition is winding up with the finals underway.

Armidale High School has two teams registered in

this competition and both have made it to the finals.

The Division 2 team including Lucie Yeomans and

Fiona Thomson, as well as some former AHS

students, will play for a spot in the Grand Final this

weekend.

The Junior team (the Curly Wurlies) featuring girls

from Years 9, 8 and 7 have already secured their

place in the Grand Final to be played on the 15th of

September.

We wish both teams good luck!



SOCIAL

The SRC raised over

$1,00 with their Cowboys

and Indians social.

Lots more photos will be

posted on the website soon

and students are invited to

send in their own photos.

See Ms O’Hara in the

English Staffroom.

INVERELL

The Inverell

visit was a

resounding

success; all

events were

played in the

best of spirits

and participants

and spectators

enjoyed the

great venue at

UNE. AHS,

with the home

team

advantage, regained the trophy which has been contested for

many decades.



MADNESS

Some of the

stunning art

works on

display at

this year’s

Music, Art

and Drama

(Madness)

celebration

of HSC

major works.

Two nights of

appreciative

audiences

and great

performances!

See full report on

the website soon:



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