Dalley St Lismore Ph: 66215185 Fax: 66222940 Email: lismore-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Issue 14 6th September 2011

RESPECT YOURSELF RESPECT OTHERS RESPECT LEARNING RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT

Website: www.lismore-h.schools.det.nsw.edu.au

Calendar Of Events

September

6th *Year 8 Gala Day at Kadina High School

*Year 10 meeting re traineeships period 1

with Jill McCall in the library

*School social 6:30pm to 9:30pm

7th *Year 12 Chemistry excursion to Rocky

Creek Dam

*Year 11 Macquarie University Excursion

*World Challenge Expedition to Cambodia

*Year 8 to 10 dance workshop a in 2012

meeting in the library at 6pm

11th *Sunday working bee 8:30am

(see article)

13th *Year 7/8/9 & 10 Parent/teacher interviews

3:45pm to 6:30pm

15th *Year 11 exams start

Steve’s Cake Shop

70 Conway Street

Lismore Ph 66 215665

Mr Hair is an industrial arts teacher at Lismore

High School and a keen water polo player. He is

glad the weather is warming up so the new Lis-

more High School pool can be put to good use.

School Certificate Review

In our last Newsletter I mentioned changes to the School Certificate in 2012 and

what impact they will have on students. A number of points from the DEC Review

into the School Certificate will have impact on students in 2011 also.

Schools have been advised that for 2011, Year 10 students are to be engaged in

their learning until the end of Term 4, the same as all other students. This may have an impact on stu-

dents and family planning for this part of the school year. I advise everyone to look at their calendars

to plan for students last day for 2011 as being the 16 December date.

Year 10 students will be advised of the critical dates in a “Year 10 Newsletter” produced at the begin-

ning of Term 4. At present, parents and students are reminded of these dates:

October 10/11/12 – trial School Certificate Examinations (week 1)

November 7 – 11 School Certificate Examinations (week 5)

Junior Parent Teacher Interviews

I encourage all parents of students in Year 7/8/9/10 to attend the Parent/Teacher Interview afternoon

on Tuesday, 13 September in E-block. Letters have been sent to many parents asking them to attend

the interviews so it is important that students make booking times with their teachers.

Year 8/9 Electives 2012

Information about Year 9/10 electives will be provided to parents and stu-

dents at the Elective Information Evening to be held straight after Parent/

Teacher Interviews on 13 September. Information will be given on:

* the new School Certificate

* new electives available

* Trade Training Electives available for 2012

HSC Music Performances

On Monday night I was fortunate to be part of the audience that viewed the

HSC Music performance from students across LCoSS – Kadina, Lismore and

Richmond River schools. There were a variety of individual and group per-

formances that were professional, exhilarating and so entertaining that it was

hard to imagine that these were not professional performers. Thanks to the

LCoSS team that put together the evening – well done.

School Planning 2012

I take this opportunity to invite parents to a planning conference for the

school for 2012 – 2014. This will be held Friday, 4 November and Sat-

urday, 5 November at Lismore High. The planning conference will look

at the School Plan for these 3 years and align this with the DEC State

Plan and the North Coast Region Priority Areas. Interested parents will

have the opportunity to register for this event early next term.

Year 11 Preliminary Exit Examinations

These exams commence next week (week 9) and are an important milestone for Year 11 students.

Once completed, the students will commence their HSC courses. The attendance in examinations is

compulsory. Students have been given timetables for examinations and asked to make themselves fa-

miliar with the times and procedures set out for each examination.

Principal’s Report

Boys Netball

Lismore High Boys netball team played Macksville High school in the regional final of the state knock-

out competition last Friday. Both teams were fairly equal in skills and ability. Macksville were two goals

ahead at the end of the first quarter. By the end of the second quarter, Macksville were seven goals in

front. Lismore won the third quarter by one goal and lost the last quarter by one goal. The final score

was 29 to 22. Macksville were marginally better than Lismore High on this particular day. Macksville

shot at 59% where as Lismore had a 54% shooting average. It was an entertaining game and our

team did their absolute best to win.

A sincere thanks to Giselle Newton who did an outstanding job umpiring for us. We are very lucky to

have a national C Badge umpire available to us. Also a big thank you to Amelia Wright and Giselle

Newton who helped coach the team all through the competition. The Team is now knocked out of the

competition but the boys did really well to be in the final 20 teams in the state. Congratulations to

Toby Jeffery, Tim Jeffery, Zac Morris, Nathan White, John Wilton, Irfan Elms, Leroy Duroux, Sam Anee-

mat and Ross Campbell on learning to play the best sport of all and on the great way you represented

Lismore High during this competition. It has been a pleasure to be part of this team.

Janelle Godfrey-Coordinator

P&C Big Boys’ Breakfast

This great gathering was held for the first time last Friday morning. Dads, grandfathers, pops and un-

cles turned up with their children and were treated to a BBQ breakfast, chat and a gift from the P&C. It

was a lovely morning and I thank the P&C for their support for the school. During their time here, the

“Big Boys” had a sneak preview of the Trade Training Centre refurbishment – all were very impressed

with the state of the art facilities that are being built at our school.

With thanks,

Peter Campbell-Principal

Sport- North Coast Representatives

Name: Anna Chamberlain, Sarah Wykes and Hannah Sky (photo unavailable)

Year: 12 and 9

Sport: Hockey – Anna, Sarah and Hannah were part of a Lismore High

winning opens team recently and from there they both were selected to trial

for the North Coast side. Anna, Sarah and Hannah travelled to Newcastle

with their team in early June. They won 2 out of the five games played. The

North Coast team placed 6th overall. Well done girls!

Name: Toby Jeffery

Year: 12

Sport: Athletics – Toby competed in High Jump at the Regional athletics carnival

which was held at Nambucca Heads in late July. He came first in this event and he will

travel to Sydney on the 8th of September where he will compete in this event.

Name: Marcus Currie

Year: 12

Sport: Hockey- Marcus travelled to Moorebank in early June to compete with the

North Coast team in the NSW CHS Boys Hockey Knockout. His team came 4 th overall with

a couple of close matches being held over the two days.

Best of luck to the above Year 12 who have represented the school in sport for the past 6 years.

Mrs P Graham - Zone Sports Organiser

School working bee—Sunday 11th September 2011

8:30am start

If you are able to help out in any way, even if it is only for just an hour, we would

greatly appreciate your time.

Morning tea is being provided by the Southern Cross Presbyterian Church.

If you have or know of someone who has a wakka pakka we need one for approx

30 minutes to compact the metal dust in the SASS area.

Any questions please contact the School.

The following table outlines the projects and equipment needed.

Hope to see you, even if you only have a little time to spare. Thankyou.

Lismore High School & P&C

PROJECT WORK REQUIRED MATERIALS / EQUIPMENT

Front entry garden bus bay,

Dalley St

Prune and weed Wheelbarrow, gloves,

pruning saws/cutters,

shovel

Courtyard gardens + Garden

bed along Quad area

Prune and weed As above

Bushtucker garden

Erecting rock walls, raised gar-

den beds, perimeter edge kerb-

ing

Bobcat for heavy lifting,

hammers, tin snips,

crowbar

SASS area

Dig out area to 100mm deep,

fill with metal dust, lay pavers,

place furniture

Shovels, spades, crow

bar, rakes, wakka pakka

Maths Olympiad 2011

Names of students who

participated:

Maddison Little (Yr 7)

Jesse Lennon (Yr 8)

Nicole Webster (Yr 7)

James Cameron (Yr 8)

Grace Cook (Yr 8)

Mitchell Roberts (Yr 8)

Mr G Walters

Maths Olympiad

Coordinator 2011

Science and Engineering Super Challenge

Thirty four students from our School participated in the Science and Engineering Super Challenge held

in Hervey Bay. Northern Rivers Schools were grouped in with the state of Queensland for this state

final. Our Challenge was held on Tuesday the 23rd of Aug 2011 and we competed against seven other

Public and Private Schools from throughout Queensland. We went up a couple of days early and took

the opportunity to go on a whale watch tour. All the students

who chose to go had a fantastic time. We saw many pods of

whales and they were very active due to the rainy weather.

Many of the whales came very close to the boat and some were

only a metre or two away. Whales are particularly curious crea-

tures and don‟t mind putting on a performance for visitors.

Before the challenge, Mr Scott Allen told

the students they would see a lot of Pri-

vate Schools in suits and not to be in-

timidated by the way they look. He also

told them to be “very proud of who you

are and of your School”. Every student worked hard on the day and the dif-

ferent groups worked brilliantly well together as a team. All students were

challenged and gave their best to the various tasks. We all had a fabulous

day and both Teachers were very pleased with the behaviour, attitude and effort from all the students.

At half time on the day, we were coming 5th and an hour later we were coming 7th, however, when it

came to the bridge building challenge we knew we had a great

one. We were second last to have the bridge test (points given

for low weight and the weight it can carry). The bridge was

brilliant and the five ingots and bridge-buster weight breezed

across the top. We were then in first place. The only School

that could beat us now was St Peters Lutheran College who

were yet to test their bridge. They also had a great bridge and

performed almost as well as ours. We knew the results would

come down to the wire. It was very exciting hearing the

Schools being called out from 8th place to 1st place. Unfortu-

nately we were just beaten in the end.

Each of the eight challenges had a winning team for the day. LHS won the two most prestigious tro-

phies for the day, they were, Gold Fever (bridge building) and The Engineering Game (chair design).

Thank you to all the parents who allowed their children to participate in this Challenge. As Teachers

we see the greater benefit from the experience. It is not just about Science and Engineering, it‟s

about life, challenging and pushing yourself, working with others, standing up as a leader, not giving

up, achievement, bonding and so much more.

We have so many wonderful students at Lis-

more High School and they can be very proud

of themselves.

As we left the Challenge and walked back to the

bus past all the Private Schools and their own

private buses, everyone felt good about their

Public education. Many students came up to us

and asked “are you proud of us?” This said it

all. We replied “very, very proud”.

Sharon Templeton and Scott Allen-Coordinators

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Friday 9th September. The winner will be drawn

on Monday 12th September and receive a $5

voucher to spend at the canteen. Last Newslet-

ter winner: No entries – no winner

Mr G Walters-Maths Faculty

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Gold Card Excursion to

‘The Green Lantern’

Students of Lismore High School who demonstrate

excellent behaviour are issued with a Gold Card and

are rewarded by being allowed to participate in sev-

eral excursions during the year.

On Monday 15th August the Gold Card students had

a great day out at the movies. They enjoyed a walk

to McDonalds where they had a snack before going

to the cinema to see The Green Lantern.

Students rated the movie 3 stars out of a possible 5

and all agreed that the message conveyed was that

„willpower overcomes fear‟. Students had a great

reward day and are looking forward to the next excursion.

K. Evans—Gold Card Committee

National Science Week

Macquarie University Indigenous Science Education Program

On Tuesday 16th August 2011, during National Science Week, 15 of our Year 9 and 10 indigenous stu-

dents worked with Macquarie University staff, at Casino High School, to train as demonstrators for the

Science Program to be held here at Lismore High the following day.

This leadership opportunity for the indigenous students allowed them to demonstrate science experi-

ments, including slime making, elephant‟s toothpaste, disappearing ink, turmeric magic, and others, to

a range of students from Years 7 – 10.

The interactive displays provided an engaging and rewarding experience for all the students involved.

Graham Wallace—Head Teacher Science

DON’T FORGET

Year 7/8/9 & 10 Parent/teacher

interviews

Tuesday 13th September

3:45pm to 6:30pm

E Block

Free Tax Help now available in your area

Media release 2011/41

Volunteers trained and accredited by the ATO are now available to assist low income earners with their

tax returns. Tax Help is a free and confidential service provided by local ATO-trained volunteers in a

community centre near you. The free service is available to low income earners - who earn around

$50,000 or less per year - and who have straightforward tax affairs. Tax Help is available by appoint-

ment only, at convenient community locations until the end of October 2011. To find out if you are

eligible or to make an appointment at your nearest Tax Help centre, phone 13 28 61.

Taste of spring

Taste of spring is an event of taste and flavours of the northern

rivers. The day will include live performance, celebrity cook-offs

with local comedians, ABC broadcasts and gardening activities

and children‟s activities and entertainment.

Date: Saturday 24th September 2011

Location: Wollongbar Tafe

Time: 10am-4pm

Entry tickets: Adults: $5, Age 11-17 $2 entry, under 10 years FREE entry

For further information or if you wish to hold a stall contact: Andrew Habner on 0266204700,

0411431960 or email enquiries to Andrew.habner1@tafensw.edu.au

Community notices

Cricket sign-on

Goonellabah Workers Sports Cricket Club will hold its sign-on downstairs at the club in Oliver Ave-

nue on Sunday, September 11, from 11am to 1pm.

There are teams for all ages.

Under-16s is played mainly on Friday afternoons after school . Under-14s and Under-12s are usually

played on Saturday mornings. Goonellabah teams train once a week at the club‟s practice nets near

the synthetic hockey field. Season fees are only $90.

Non-competitive Kanga cricket for Under-10s is played on Saturday mornings from 9am to 11am. A

soft ball is used and players bat and bowl in turn for the same amount of time. Goonellabah teams

usually train one afternoon a week at Kadina High School. Season fees are only $70.

The skills-based In2Cricket program for younger children (ages 5-8) is run one afternoon a week at a

venue in downtown Lismore. It‟s a great introduction to the sport. Fees are likely to remain at $50.

There‟s a free sausage sizzle on sign-on day, so why not come down and find out more. Inquiries to

junior co-ordinator Brenton Hare on 66245418