Newsletter

No.13

12 September

2011

PBL Update 2

Contribution &

Course Fees

2

P&C Matters 2

HSC Wood

Major Projects

3

Social

Scientists

3

Futsal 4

Cycling 4

Inside this

issue:

Bellingen International Jazz Festival

On Friday 19 of August, Duval High School Soul Band left Armidale in the

school bus and made the trip down Waterfall Way to Bellingen. Once at

Bellingen, the band rehearsed with Bellingen High School Stage Band

under the direction of Miss Phelen (from Bellingen High School) and our

very own Mr Myers. That evening, the students and staff of Bellingen

High School billeted us. We had a great time with our billets and there

were many different stories of going to the beach and playing with fire

which will be told again and again.

On Saturday morning, we gathered at Bellingen Markets, one of many

live performance venues at the Bellingen International Jazz Festival.

There was a terrific carnival atmosphere and Duval High School began

the morning‟s entertainment with a crowd pleasing 40 minute set of jazz,

swing, and funk

music, with

something for

everyone from

Michael Bublé

to Nina Simone.

Bellingen High

School

performed

straight after us

and then we

combined our

bands and

performed the

music that we had rehearsed on Friday.

The vibe at the event was awesome and we wandered around the

markets as we listened to a school stage band from Port Macquarie who

were very good. The whole excursion was a really positive experience

and we‟re looking forward to going back again next year and hopefully

performing again in one of the concert venues.

Thank you Mr Myers and Mrs Pearson for taking us!

DATES FOR THE DIARY:

Wednesday 7 September 2011 Preliminary Exams, until Friday 16 September.

Wednesday 21 September 2011 P & C Meeting

Wednesday 21 September 2011 Year 12 Farewell Social, Duval High School gym.

Friday 23 September 2011 Valedictory Assembly

Friday 23 September 2011 Last day of Term 3

Monday 10 October 2011 First day of Term 4

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School Contribution and Course Fees

Thank you to all parents who have paid their contributions and course fees. The school relies on

these course fees to purchase materials and resources used and consumed in school subjects.

Recently many of you will have received a second Statement of Account. Some of you may have al-

ready paid earlier in the year before Finance Invoicing took place. I apologise to any parents who

may have received one of these statements and have already paid. If you have paid, please ring me

as soon as you receive a statement and I will fix this for you.

This fault sometimes occurs when a receipt is processed at the school office, because it must be proc-

essed as a “prepayment” for it to offset against invoiced contribution and subject fees. Often course

fees are paid at the beginning of the year before the “invoicing” process takes place. If the receipt is

processed as a “sundry” receipt instead of a “prepayment” receipt, this causes the second statement

to be generated.

Usually, invoicing occurs in Week 6 as we have to wait until all classes are fully established before

this takes place and all changes have been considered.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if there are problems with your statement.

Thank you for your understanding.

Jenny Mitchell

School Administrative Manager.

P & C Matters

The P&C finalised their support for the school Wish List at their last meeting. The Wish List is pre-

pared by asking the school staff to nominate areas that require extra support to improve the learning

environment for our children. This year, the P&C has agreed to support the purchase of six items to a

total value of $12,200. Those items are a piano, sun shade, sound equipment for the school hall,

blinds for the staff common room, an electronic drum kit and a baritone saxophone. We look forward

to seeing and hearing the benefits of this support and we thank the school community for its support

of the P&C.

Our communication subcommittee continues to work with the school to implement the outcomes from

the communication survey that we conducted last year. You will already have noticed some good

changes to the school website, such as the "contact us" option for you to convey feedback to the

school and the „Dates for the Term' found in the News/Events page.

More changes are planned over the coming months and we thank Jeanette Verwayen for her work

with the website and the newsletter.

The next meeting of the P&C will be held 7pm Wednesday 21st September, and all are welcome.

PBL Update

The PBL Team have finalised the DHS PBL logo to rep-

resent CREST (Community, Respect, Excellence, Safety

and Teamwork). The process of working with the

school community to develop our PBL Matrix of Ex-

pected Behaviours has begun. Our first area of focus is

„What are the expected behaviours in the playground?‟

12 September 2011 Page 3

Social Scientists blitz the competition

In the recently completed University of New South Wales Business Studies Competition Duval High

performed very creditably.

Nikki Armfield was awarded a Certificate of Distinction and Rachael Bourke

a Certificate of Credit .

Certificates of Merit were awarded to Andrew Magann and Adam Croft.

In the Economics compe-

tition Karina Siems was

awarded a Certificate of

Distinction. Certificates of

Merit were given to Bax-

ter Ward, Ken Marshall

and Adam Croft.

Overall these are outstanding results for Duval as

this prestigious competition is held throughout Aus-

tralia as well as in Singapore, Malaysia and Fiji.

Industrial Technology Wood HSC Major Projects

Mitchell Hardman and his

New Guinea rosewood chair

Josh Crompton with his

surian cedar hallstand

Jacob Ginzborg with his radiata pine bed

12 September 2011 Page 4

Going on holidays?

The last day of Term 3 is Friday 23 September 2011. If your child is starting holidays any earlier

please advise the office of the dates your child will be absent. Please consider applying for an Ex-

emption if your child will be absent for an extended period of time.

Please advise the office on 6772 1266 if your child is absent due to sickness or any other reason.

Northern NSW State Futsal Champions!

The Northern NSW Football Association ran its state futsal finals in Newcastle on the 8 September. Du-

val had three boys‟ teams that reached the finals by qualifying through the preliminary stage. Two

under 15 boys‟ (Red and Green) teams and one under 19 boys‟ team. All teams played tremendous

futsal to reach the semi-finals. The under 19 boys lost to Tamworth in a penalty shoot out after scoring

two goals in the last 45 seconds to force the game to penalties.

The two under 15 teams ended up playing each other in the semi final. The red team were unfortu-

nately struck by two bad injuries in the pool-stage and thus were well below full strength in the semi.

As a result the Duval Green team won and went through to the state final against Newcastle Grammar.

During the pool stage Newcastle Grammar easily defeated the Duval Greens, but when it mattered

the Greens showed Newcastle their real talent. In a match that was completely dominated by Duval,

the Greens thrashed Newcastle Grammar 5-0 to become state champions.

The team line ups were:

* Under 15 Green (State Champions) Jack Baillie, Robert Campbell, Riley Hopwood, Ari Georkes,

Lewis Russoniello, Naran Singh, and Brock Whittley.

* U15 Red (semi-finalists) Daniel Cherry, Brodie Davies, Dean Heffernan, Ben See, Rory Sutherland,

Hugh Winter

* Under 19 (semi-finalists) Andrew Magann, Brayden Kliendienst, Hugh Reckord, Nathan Hewitt, Zac

Smith, James Campbell, Liam Campbell,

Bruce Wilson, Baxter Ward.

We would like to also recognise the efforts

of Mr Russo (coach) and Mr Bartlett-Taylor

(driver).

Pictured: The two under 15 Duval Futsal

teams in great spirits moments before they

played each other in the Northern NSW

State Futsal Semi-Final at Newcastle. The

Greens went on to become state champi-

ons.

Well done Sam!

Sam Jenner has been representing NSW Cycling in the Australian Junior Champion-

ships held in Shepparton, Victoria from the 29 August to 5 September.

He has also been selected as a member of the Emerging Talent Squad with NSW Cy-

cling/NSWIS.

October will see Sam touring New Zealand with the Australian Development Team.