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Newsletter

Hunter River Community School

17 Melaleuca Drive, Metford NSW 2323 T 4933 5844 F 4933 5557 E hunterrivc-s.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Friday 8th December 2017 Term 4 Week 9

Newsletter

Dear families and friends,

The end of the year is nearly here and on Friday we celebrated the

tremendous learning and achievement that has occurred during the year.

Presentation Day: What a wonderful day we had on Friday as we recognised

the achievements of each and every student at Hunter River Community

School. I would like to thank our official guests for joining us for this very

important occasion.

Our special award recipients are:

We are SAFE,

We LEARN &

We CARE

Junior Swimming Encouragement

Award:

Charleigh Hayes

Endeavour Swimming Award: Hayden Armstrong

Junior Athletics Age Race Champion Dekkard Maynard

Intermediate Athletics Age Race

Champion

Haysam Sheldon

Senior Athletics Age Race Champion Emma McDonald

Endeavour Athletics Encouragement

Award

Liam Brazier

NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge

Medal—Primary—Secondary

Liam Brazier Connor Murdoch

March past Trophy The Hub

Carnival Winning House:

Belmore

Aaron Blinman memorial trophy for

Ten Pin bowling

Hayley Payne

Senior Ten Pin Bowling Encourage-

ment Award

Thomas Field

Overall Champion Sports House

from 2017

Belmore

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Kiwanis Student of the Month Claire Connell

Boccia Achievement Award Alyssa Clarke

Junior RDA Encouragement Award Brielle Vanderheul

Senior RDA Encouragement Award Bevan Kimber

Sailability Encouragement Award Nikkie Fleming

East Maitland Bowling Club Encour-

agement Award Gymnastics

Lochlin Johnson

Boyce Trophy for Achievement in

Sport

Haysam Sheldon

Rasmussen Trophy for Performing

Arts

Jacqueline Vidray

Shirley Kerslake Award for Out-

standing Attendance

Brodie- Lee Doubleday

Strive Families Supporting Families

Coping with Autism

Rick Farrugia

Nola Warby Trophy for Excellence Claire Hartas Berry

Fitness Family Award for Achieve-

ment

Stuart Clausen

Rueben F Scarf Memorial Award Lachlan Morgan

Power Family Award for leadership Murad Khan

East Maitland Bowling Club Citizen-

ship Award

Elijah Davies

Ian Hughes Trophy for Outstanding

Achievement

Haylen Cooper

Jenny Aitchison Award Kai Poon

Meryl Swanson Year 6 Leadership

Award

Emma Longbottom

Principal award for Outstanding

Achievement

Jack Bajric

Principal award for Outstanding

Achievement

Luke Massey and Lochlin Johnson

P & C Merit Awards for PBL excel-

lence

Isaac Rooks Justin Auld Emma

McDonald Haysam Sheldon Michael

Bright

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I would like to congratulate all the award winners and all our students that have made such

wonderful progress during the year.

Presentation Day is also a time to farewell our Year 12 students. We would like to wish all our

graduates all the very best for their future and we feel very privileged to have been a part of

their educational journeys. We would also like to wish our Year 12 families and friends all the best

for a fabulous future.

Staff Changes: There have been several new staff appointed to HRCS for the 2018 school year.

We would like to welcome Rachel Buckley, from Seaham Public School to our administration team.

Rachel is a very experienced school administration officer and we look forward to her joining our

team.

Vickie Fisher has also been appointed to our school in the role of school learning support officer.

Vickie joins us from Tenambit Public and is very experienced in supporting young people and we

look forward to working with her.

Jo Rathbone will be joining our team on a 12 month contract. Jo has worked in our school for

several years and we are pleased that she will once again be a part of our teaching team.

We will say “bye for now” to Michael. We would like to thank Mick for everything he has done and

wish him all the best for the future. We hope to work with Michael again in the future.

Rayleen will also be moving off a temporary contract and moving into a casual SLSO role. We would

like to thank Ray for all her hard work and dedication in supporting young people with complex

needs.

I would like to sincerely thank all our departing staff for their commitment and enthusiasm: they

have made tremendous contributions to our school community.

ROSA Certificate of Achievement Callum Appleton

Higher School Certificates Stuart Clausen Kai Poon Eli Davies

Lachlan Morgan

Haylen Cooper Murad Khan Brodie-

Lee Doubleday

Claire Hartas Berry

Presentation of School Leaders Primary Prefects: Michael Bright

Coby Bayliss

Secondary Prefects: Nikkie Fleming

Jacqueline Vidray Zac Smith-

Widley Jackson Anderson

House Captains: Sophie Mills

Rick Farrigia

Vice Captains Emma McDonald

Thomas Field

Captains: Alyssa Clarke

Jesse Jones

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School reports: It has been a pleasure to read the end of year reports for students. The

comments illustrate the wonderful achievements of each student. Reports will be sent home by

Friday, and I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have.

End of Year: Our 2017 school year will conclude next Friday 15 December. School resumes in

2018 for staff on Monday 29 January and students will resume on January 30.

I hope everyone has a great last week of school.

Kind Regards.

Tracey

Save the Date Term 4

Year 12 Day

15th December 2017

Last Student Day

Term 4 2017

Friday 15th December 2017

Term 1 2018

Student Return

30th January 2018

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