Friday 9th March 2018 Term 1 Issue 3

This is Choir!

Twenty students in Years 7-12 from Canobolas Choir enjoyed a great day out last Friday. They

experienced live music and workshops on a variety of instruments and vocal performing styles at Lander’s

Music. The Lander’s staff shared their skills and knowledge on their instruments of expertise in short

workshops for us. From drums, to guitars, to strings, wind instruments, ukuleles and voice – the students

were enthusiastic and engaged. There was an impromptu rendition of Riptide by Haylee and our

students that the customers enjoyed. Finally Ben, Haylee, Albie and Miss Aldrick joined as a band to

perform “Valerie” made famous by Mark Ronson with Amy Winehouse, as well as Glee.

After lunch we headed to Odeon 5 Cinemas where we saw The Greatest Showman Singalong version.

Our students enjoyed participating singing along and getting to know the storyline. Choir are learning to

sing ‘This is Me’ from the musical movie. The song imparts an important message about self-confidence in

spite of any perceived barriers; don’t be afraid to show them, ‘this is me’. On our way back to school this

message was loudly recited as we sang our way into school and through the office for an impressed

audience of Mr Riles. New members are always welcomed – singing in a group is fun and releases

endorphins. Choir rehearse Thursday lunches in B5.

♫ MUSIC NOTES ♫

From the

Principal’s Desk Dear Parents and Members of our School Community

As always the school has been a very busy place since I wrote to you two weeks ago, and it is

hard to believe we are already half way through Term 1. With a number of activities planned in

the next few weeks it does not appear to be slowing down.

Senior Student Support

This year we have re-established our senior study space, called the FOCUS Room, as a place

where Year 11 and 12 students are able to go to access support with assessment tasks, time

management and examination preparation. Mrs Ashley Bunworth has been employed to

support the senior students and is another point of contact for parents, in addition to Year

Advisers, if they have any concerns regarding N-Award Warning letters or their child’s progress.

Mrs Bunworth is working Monday – Wednesday and Friday each week.

Senior students are also reminded that they need to attend the FOCUS Room any time that they

have a study period. The only exception to this is if they have a study period Period 1 or Period 6,

where they can sign in late or sign out early through the Front Office. If senior students need to

leave school at any other time for a legitimate reason they must obtain a leave pass from the

Front Office.

Year 11 Crossroads and All My Own Work

Year 11 students have been working through both the Crossroads and All My Own Work courses

in the last two weeks. Some students were able to complete Crossroads through an excursion

earlier in the term, whilst the remainder of the year group finalised this mandatory course through

booklets at school. A reminder to all students who remained at school that these booklets are

now overdue to Mrs Hurford in the PDHPE staffroom.

All My Own Work is a course designed by the NSW Educational Standards Authority which is

mandatory for all Year 11 students to complete at the beginning of their senior studies. It focuses

on helping HSC students follow the principles and practices of good scholarship, including how

to avoid plagiarism and academic malpractice. If students have not completed these

mandatory modules they need to see Mrs Bunworth ASAP as they cannot be enrolled officially

into the Preliminary course.

SRC Induction Ceremony

Congratulations must go to Ms Lisa Doherty and the SRC on the fantastic Induction Ceremony

that was held on the 23rd February. We have a great group of student leaders and I look forward

to working with them all in the coming 12 months. One of the big activities they have coming up

is ‘Bullying No Way Day’, on Friday 16th March. This will be an out of uniform day with activities for

students and a whole school BBQ. I am looking forward to supporting this great day with the

students.

TCRTHS

Look at what’s coming up...

Friday 30th March Good Friday Public Holiday

Monday 2nd April Easter Monday Public Holiday

Tuesday 3rd April Year 12 Half–yearly examinations begin

Wednesday 11th April Year 7 Parent Teacher night

Friday 13th April Last day of Term 1

Wednesday 25th April ANZAC Day march

Monday 30th April Staff Development Day

Tuesday 1st May Students return for Term 2

Calendar

Brett Lee Visit

It was a very special occasion last Wednesday, 28th February, to have former Australian

cricketer, Brett Lee visit the school. He spoke to the male students about respectful relationships

and appropriate ways to interact with females. He also spent much of his time signing

autographs. We are very appreciative that he was able to take time to visit our school and be a

positive role model for our students.

I hope you have a great fortnight and I look forward to speaking with you in Week 8.

With my warmest regards

Kate Wootten

SRC members at their

induction ceremony

FORMER TEACHERS VISIT CANOBOLAS On Friday 23rd February,

several former teachers visited

our school as part of a 1978

School Reunion weekend.

They enjoyed looking through

the display of items from the

1982 Time Capsule. They also

joined us for our traditional

Friday staff morning tea.

A great weekend was had by

all as former students and staff

gathered to tour the school,

catch up and reminisce.

Back: George Jackson (Social

Science)

Front: Terry Dwyer (Social

Science HT) and Mary Watson

(Music)

Sandy Taylor and the time capsule

Col Taylor with a Staff Attendance Book Kerry Kidd and Rhonda Milligan check out

the fashions in the School Pattern Book

Former Home Economics teachers: Judy Stocker,

Kerry Kidd and Rhonda Milligan (Gambrill) found an

old staff photo of themselves

Current Music teacher

Miss Aldrick with Mary

Watson

On Monday 26th February, 19 of our Student Representatives departed for their annual

Leadership Camp at Lake Burrendong. The students participated in a range of activities,

including canoeing, crate stack, camp out, Mini-Olympics and high rope climbing.

For the camp out on Monday night, students were required to carry their own gear to the

campsite and then set up their own tents and cook their own dinners with set ingredients. All the

parents and carers out there should be glad to know that these kids can cook! Make sure you

get them cooking at home!

On Tuesday, our students worked in pairs to design their own “Olympic” activity which they then

facilitated to 100 Year 3 and 4 students on Tuesday night. The general consensus on the night

was that our students did themselves, their families and our school proud, with teachers from

other schools commenting on their leadership and fantastic participation with the younger

students.

Students also participated in a

“Crate stack” where they had to

work in a team to build a tower of

crates that one team member had

to stand on. The camp record was

set by the NSW Swifts netball team

with nine crates, but one team

beat this by stacking ten crates!

Well done to Megan Stedman,

Thomas McKenzie, Connor Taylor,

Dyson Percival and Jorja-Rose

Tindall (pictured right) on the

fantastic team work.

On our final day, the students and

teachers participated in a “high

ropes” challenge, where students

were harnessed and climbed at an extreme height through an obstacle-style course. Mr Riles

showed his mountain goat skills throughout the course, while Ms Doherty struggled to complete

the lower course due to extreme nerves (tremendous fear of heights!). Year 8 students, Faith

Willcott and Megan Stedman, overcame their fear of heights and completed both the lower

and higher rope courses with determination and grit. Of course, there were those students with a

natural ability to climb, with Torren Burton (Year 12), Thomas McKenzie and Connor Taylor (Year 8)

all completing the course twice.

The purpose of the camp was to build on students’ leadership skills and develop a strong team

environment for their year of planning and coordinating events for the school. They are all to be

congratulated on the way they conducted themselves throughout the three days, being a credit

to TCRTHS.

Ms L Doherty SRC Co-ordinator

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Wollongong University 2018 Open Day

We were lucky to be given the opportunity to experience what university is really like from

lectures to dorms and what things they do for fun. Our first day started off leaving school at 9am

and travelling down to Wollongong. We had multiple McDonalds and sightseeing stops like the

Sea Cliff bridge, wonderful seas and a mountain lookout. When we stopped at Stanwell Tops

lookout we took a photo of our group. James almost lost his hat down the windy hills, but luckily

Dyson was able to catch it. When we arrived at the caravan park we had pizza for dinner and

we went for ice cream at Cool Rock. We were ready for the big day tomorrow.

We got up bright and early at 8am and were taken for breakfast at the University of Wollongong

and we had a look at the new dormitories, where there were share rooms for five people or a

single room. We arrived at the main lecture hall where we got seated and saw on the stage of a

great performance of School life vs Uni life. Then we headed off to specific lectures to inspire us

to follow certain career paths.

We left and split up, with some going to ‘Worried about your ATAR’ while others went to ‘How to

get a 90+ ATAR’, and you can assume who went where.

Some of us went to the nursing facilities, but we went to the SMART hub, where we got to play

with some robots, guitars, computers and most importantly, a satellite that tracks the spin of the

earth’s orbit.

Some of the kids went to a foreign exchange seminar, where we could go anywhere, such as

Hong Kong to do engineering, or creative writing at Oxford. You could go for a week, and most

importantly, if you were an average or better uni student, you can go for free thanks to the

government.

CAREERS NEWS

At the end, when everyone was tuckered out and got some Boost juice, we embarked on an

8 hour bus journey with Post Malone gracing the speakers, or Harry rapping about things in

Extension 1 maths.

Harry Betts and Kane Mitchell

ADF VISIT

Thank you to Cpl Jake Doherty

and Sgt Rachael Dudgeon from

the RAAF for conducting a

recruitment information session

for the Australian Defence

Force. Many students attended

this interesting session. Thank

you to our Careers Adviser, Mr

Marriott, for organising the visit.

Coming Up

Science and Engineering

challenge Friday 23rd

March

Year 10 Independent

Research Project. Handed

out in week 8, this project

requires students to design

and conduct their own

scientific experiment.

YEAR 8

Mr Rodwell’s 8 STEM class learning

about static electricity. A truly hair-

raising experience.

YEAR 10

Year 10 have been about DNA and its role in

inheritance. Here are some pictures of DNA

strands extracted from a kiwi fruit.

The Big Science Competition

The Big Science Competition is an easy way to challenge students from Years 7 to 10

and track their performance against state or national averages.

It’s a 50 minute, 30 multiple choice question competition, testing critical thinking and

problem solving skills, not just factual recall, so you can find out what’s really going

on inside their heads. Questions are set in real-life, contemporary contexts, making

them relatable (and interesting).

Competition questions in the Big Science Competition are aligned with the Australian

Curriculum – Science.

Science inquiry skills: including identifying and formulating questions and hypotheses for

testing; making predictions, collecting, analysing and evaluating data and drawing

valid conclusions; interpreting and communicating information through appropriate

representations and media.

Science as a human endeavour: including the development of science knowledge

and processes across cultures and over time; its application in areas of human

endeavour; its significance in informing personal and societal decisions and actions;

and the influence society has on science.

Science understanding: core concepts relating to Biological, Chemical, Earth and

Space Sciences, and Physical Sciences that are designated at each stage.

The Big Science competition is available for students in Years 7 to 10. It will be held at

Canobolas Rural Technology High between 7 – 16th May. Entry fee will be $7 and can

be paid at the Front Office when permission notes are made available.

For more information or to register your interest in entering, please see Mr Curran in the

Science staff room.

DO YOU SHOP A COLES????? YOU SHOULD…….. TO HELP OUR SCHOOL!!!!!

Canobolas High School is participating in the Coles Sports for Schools

Program!!!

HOW CAN YOU HELP????

1. Shop at Coles

2. Collect Sports for Schools Vouchers

3. Bring vouchers into school and put in the Coles Sports for Schools

boxes either in front office or PDHPE Staffroom.

WHAT WILL THE SCHOOL GET OUT OF IT????

Vouchers will assist the PDHPE Faculty in receiving new sporting goods for

the students at TCRTHS. The more vouchers you collect, the more sports

gear we will receive.

The program runs until 3rd April 2018!!! START COLLECTING………...

Term 1 Western School Sport Team Trial Dates If students are interested in trialling for Western Region Sports Teams this term please see the PDHPE staff for more

details. Please note that parents would be expected to transport their child to the majority of these trials if they

choose to attend. The details of the up and coming trials are below.

Sport Date Location Nominations Close Teacher to see

Volleyball 16th Feb Bathurst

Kelso High School At trial Miss Woods

U/15s Touch

Football 23rd Feb

Orange

Waratah’s Sporting Club 11th Feb Miss Somers

Basketball

Girls 26th March

Bathurst

Basketball Stadium 14th March Mrs Dederer

Swimming 15th March Dubbo

Dubbo Aquatic Centre 20th Feb Miss Somers

Football

Girls 5 th March

Orange

Jack Brabham 7th March Miss Morrissey

Hockey

Girls 16th March

Molong

Multi-Purpose Field 2nd March Miss Somers

Basketball

Boys 12th March

Orange

PCYC 4th March Mrs Dederer

Golf 26th March Cowra

Cowra Golf Club 10th Feb Mr Skein

Football

Boys 3th April

Orange

Jack Brabham 11th March Miss Lee

Netball 5th April Orange

PCYC 11th March Mrs Hurford

Rugby Union 9th April Orange

Endeavour Oval 1st March Mr Curran

Hockey

Boys 16th March

Bathurst

Bathurst Hockey Centre 14th March Mr Skein

Lawn Bowls 6th April Parkes

Parkes Bowling Club 28th March Mrs Abrahams

Rugby League 5th April Blayney (regional)

Peak Hill (area) 16th March Mr Curran

On Friday 2nd of March Canobolas High School sent two Opens Touch Football teams to

the annual Connaughton Cup Carnival in Orange. The Connaughton Cup is held in

memory of Lochie Connaughton, a local Orange boy who loved touch playing touch

footy with his mates. Over the course of the day each team played 3 matches against

Kinross Wolaroi, Orange High School and a Celebrity team. The Open Girls team had 2

wins and 1 loss and the Boys Team had one win and 2 losses.

The students then competed in an Individual Sprint and Sprint Relay during the lunchtime

break. Erin Naden won very convincingly in the girls individual sprint with Destiny

Anderson finishing fourth out of eight runners. Tyren Dixon and Jack Connors were the

entrants in the boys race finishing 5th and 6th. The Canobolas Girls team took out the

relay title, Erin, Kiara Sullivan, Heidi Bell and Destiny made up this dynamic team. Isaac

Hooper, Brayden Quigg, Callan Naden and Jack Wilson finished 3rd in the boys relay.

The girls and boys then combined to form a mixed team to play another 3 games where

they came away with 2 victories and a loss. Chloe Walton and Tyren Dixon were voted

as players player for the Canobolas Teams.

Thanks to Miss Somers and Mrs Hurford for organising and coaching the Opens Touch

teams on the day.

The Western U/15s Touch Football Trials were held on the 23rd February at Waratahs

Sporting Club in Orange. A boys and girls U/15s team represented Canobolas High

School at these trials. Students were not only vying for a spot in the Western team but

were also aiming to be crowned Western Champions.

The girls team had a mixed day finishing in 5th place with 2 wins and 2 draws. The

boys team finished in 3rd place with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

A massive congratulations to Heidi Bell, Brianna Priest, Isaiah Magnus, Wil Phillips and

Max Wilson on their selection in the U/15s Western Touch Teams to compete at the

CHS carnival at Glen Willow Sporting Complex, Mudgee on the 5th and 6th of May.

Thankyou to Super Coach Hurford for all her hard work on the day coaching both the

boys and girls teams throughout the day.

Well done to Mitchell Kelly

and Trent Wilde who

represented Western at the

NSWCHS Boys Softball

Championship in Camden

last week!

Well done Harry Pearce who

represented NSWCHS at the

All Schools Boys Cricket

Championship in Bathurst this

week!

Canobolas

Sporting

Year 11 took off to Crossroads camp in Week 4 at Borambola Sport and

Recreation camp in Wagga Wagga. The group spent the three days

engaging in activities that addressed issues of health, identity and

wellbeing. The students also participated in archery, the mud run and

rock climbing. A great time was had by all. Thankyou to Miss Woods and

Mr Conliffe for taking the students.

Year 7 Positive Behaviour Towards Peers

Year 7 have been given a challenge for the second half of the term.

This challenge is to display positive behaviour to those around them

in their classroom and the playground.

Over the coming weeks students will have a focus, last week it was

displaying kindness, this week is being helpful and next week is being

respectful.

Students are nominated by class teachers when they are seen being

kind, helpful or respectful. Everyone that is nominated receives a

school award for their efforts. They also get the opportunity to go into

a draw and choose a prize from Miss McRae’s reward box. One

student from each class is drawn out of a hat and is publicly rewarded

at Monday morning assemblies.

This week’s winners were:

Joe Lucas from 7 Fulminata

Mitchell Crossman from 7 Minerva

Ella Draper from 7 Felix

Madison Knox from 7 Claudius

Madison Wilson from 7 Augusta

Kyall Southwood from 7 Victrix

INNOVATION FACULTY NEWS The week, Year 8 students conducted a field study of Gosling Creek Reserve as part of the

‘Waterworld’ Project unit. Led by Bill, a landscape environmentalist who contracts to Council,

students discovered a range of local and introduced species of flora and fauna. Close attention

was paid to the floating artificial habitat island. Commissioned by council, this provides a safe

nesting space for native migratory birds and native fish. Student will use this primary research to

design and prototype their own habitat islands as part of ‘Waterworld’.

NEW BOOKS IN THE STEM CENTRE

FEATURE BOOK Shivaun Plozza knows what it’s like to love somebody on

the transplant list. And she knows what it’s like when the

waiting is over, when the call comes in the middle of

the night. But when the surgery is over and the

transplant deemed a success, Shivaun still couldn’t get

the donor out of her head.

Who was this person?

What were they like?

Who was their family?

That’s what inspired her to write her

second young adult novel Tin Heart.

Frankie, also by Shivaun Plozza is

available on our ebook platform.

Download the free Wheelers

eplatform app and find our

library then login using your DET

username and password.

From the Archives F

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1982

Year 9

celebrates

Bastille Day

Year 7 student Jason

Streatfeild’s

assignment book

Coco the frog was made by

Jeanette Watts’ mother for

Year 8 students to use in

class.

Christmas card made by Kim Thomas

of Year 10

SCHOOL NOTICES