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well prepared for further education and life long learning.

Quairading District High School

1st September 2020 Issue 14, Term 3

NEWSLETTER 100 years strong: 1913 - 2013

Term Dates 2020 Term 3 - 20/7/20 to 25/9/20 Term 4 - 12/10/20 to 17/12/20

High School Snapshot - Y9/10 In week 5, the year 7-10 boys (along with the 7/8 girls) competed in the West Coast Fever High School

Netball Cup. While the girls battled it out for a respectable 4th position, the boys had an entertaining day

playing against a much older (and taller) group of boys. Much fun was had by all. Well done for never

giving up! Many thanks to all the staff, students and volunteers involved in coaching, umpiring and scoring.

Maths with Mrs Squiers!

This year in maths we have been focusing on the students’ growth mindset. A growth mindset is instilling the belief that everyone is a maths person and in class we focus on our growth in maths. Some students are currently sitting on 200% growth which means they are learning 2 year’s worth of math content in 1 year. On Wednesday afternoons, the high school students have been learning how to play darts with Mr Peter Hayden. Their skills are improving and they are enjoying learning how to play the different games. Football darts is a favourite at the moment. Thank you to Peter Hayden and his helpers for coming in each week . The reason we play darts in maths is that whilst scoring, students are improving their fluency and automaticity in addition and multiplication.

Year 9/10 H@SS during term 3

The Year 9/10 students have been very busy this term. During week 2 the whole school undertook tree planting activities in conjunction with the National School’s Tree Planting Day and the Rotary Club of Quairading. Students at QDHS planted around 2,500 seedlings over a day in two locations both in and out of town. The year 9/10 students were leaders for the younger students on the day and regularly monitor the previous year’s plantings over Heggerty Road throughout the year. One of the sustainability responsibilities of the Year 9 and 10 students is to regularly work on improving the veggie patch, this includes the ongoing maintenance of weeds, harvesting of crops, improving the soil and seedling planting duties.

This term during our Civics and Citizenship studies the year 9s and 10s undertook a Parliamentary Debate on the issue of The Republic versus a Constitutional Monarchy (week 5). They had to research and perform as Parliamentarians using their persuasive language to convince the Parliamentary Back Benchers of their arguments.

All High School students attended an excursion to the Cemetery Reserve during week 6. They participated in a variety of science and H@SS activities observing the flora and fauna and learning their Ballardong names. They were treated with some special guests who helped them with their set tasks and discussed the importance of being connected to country. In addition, there was some yummy traditional food provided for lunch which was much appreciated by all.

During week 6 Quairading DHS held their Book Week activities and several year 9/10 students created a terrific Curious Creature character. Congratulations go to Kaeshia Colbung, Jaxon Adams and Adam Cosgrove on their Curious Creature entrant.

On the 27th of August the year 9/10 students were very lucky to have a visit from Acting Sergeant Duffy, he spoke about his service as a Police Officer, how they could become involved as a possible occupation, and explained the roles and responsibilities involved on the various levels within our Government, the Australian Constitution and Laws. An important component of our Democracy is the Separation of Powers and the Federal and State Laws that we all have to answer to.

During the week 6 Monday Morning Meeting (MMM) the year 10 students received

their ‘Leavers” Jumpers and can be seen proudly wearing them at school.

Year 8/9/10 English with Mrs Garrett In English, we have been learning about persuasive speeches while closely analysing various speeches from a military context. The students then created their own speeches—the year 8/9s recreating existing speeches with a photo slide show to accompany them. It was great to see speeches by Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and Sojourner Truth; and the students’ ability to identify anaphora, metaphor and rhetorical questions. Their accompanying slide shows demonstrated their understanding of context. The year 10s researched and wrote their own speeches on topics of their choice. Their presentations to the class were passionate and clearly spoken, demonstrating their ability to control pitch and pause to engage the audience. It was a great practice for their end of year speeches on awards day. Currently we are comparing ideas in various texts whilst studying the films ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Chicken Run’. Book Week was great fun as we dressed up as characters from ‘The Great Escape’.

My speech - 2020 climate change by Adam Good afternoon everyone. I am here today to tell you how terrible climate change is. Each year millions of particles of car-bon dioxide get let out into atmosphere. It is a real big problem climate change is very, very important. It is happening right now. The ice caps are melting causing the sea levels to rise. It is getting worse each minute and as a world we can do some-thing. We are wasting too much food, we are driving too much, we are using far too much plastic, we are making too many factories’ and producing too many materials that will get used for a couple of years then thrown out. We need to stop somewhere. People you may think cli-mate change is not a thing. Look at the drought, look at the rising oceans, look at the floods and they are just ruining the environment. Mining is another big thing we need to stop. One day we can look back and see how bad the environment was, then we can think about how we fixed all of the climate change issues. What is the solution people? Well people where do we start. We can stop wasting food. It not as hard as you think, you can just eat the food and if you don’t want to eat it all give the food to your animals or don’t cook as much food. We can stop mass producing technology for our own use. We can recycle the technology. We can use less plastic. Just recycle it or ask for a card board straw. All businesses should stop plastic use. We can use biodegradable metals. We could even get carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into carbon in the ground. We may need to create machines to do this but the technology is here so we can do this. Stop using diesel cars, we can just use electric cars like Tesla or even better there is public transport that we can use. We can stop mining full stop. Imagine a world without big pits of ore. We can recycle all the stuff that we have and there will be no need to mine. People imagine using your phone for 5 years then you take it to a JBHifi or a Kmart and just put it into box then they take that box and recycle it. People that’s needs to happen right now. Shopping’s centres could be doing this right now. Big companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple need to help us against the fight of climate change. Apple could stop mass producing phones and recycle their old ones. Google could change their sever stations to use less power - people imagine that. We can use less power as a world we can get rid of coal power plants and use sun power or wind power. People think about that for a second. People we can work together and do this as a state, as a nation and as a world. Our prime minister and presidents need to help and everyone guess what? You can help bring a change. We need to act now before it is too late. Think for one second not having climate change…We don’t need to create much new technology to stop climate change we have it right now. But tech company’s need to make it cheaper for the everyday person to buy electric cars. My Vison is…I Would like to see a future with everyone using public transport or having electric car. I Would like to see

Mega tech company’s recycling and not mass-producing products. No food- waste. I would like to see the see levels not

rising. Imagine not using as much diesel for cars truck airplane ships just imagine. I would like to see girls and guys please

stop climate change you can help. This is very important; climate change needs to stop right now. I would like to see world

with no climate change.

Thanks for listening let’s make a change.

Year 9/10 Science

Have you ever wondered why your eyes are the colour they are? Or why some people can roll their tongue and others can’t? In Science, the year 10s have been learning about genetics and how traits are passed down through generations.

They created some amazing DNA beaded keychains in Mrs Garrett’s science/craft class – to help them remember the structure of DNA.

The year 9s have been looking at ecosystems, and the effects on populations, from both natural and man-made events. The topic finished with an excursion to the cemetery nature reserve, where we practised using quadrats to estimate the population size of an organism.

It was interesting to put into practice what they learnt via the in-class simulation using m&ms and smarties on a pa-per grid

Merit Certificates—Assembly 28th August 2020 Zoe Mills: Zoe has planned and written a very good story about Phillip The Baked Potato, who has a Very Bad Day! The introduction is very well written and it also has a very happy ending! La'Shay Stubbs: La'Shay your Ant and The Grasshopper cartoon is so detailed and bright. Keep up the inspiring imagination and effort to always try your best. Chloe Anderson: In week 6 you reached the score 146 on your Maths Wizard. This is 35 more questions than your previous highest score. An amazing effort. Aaron Schultz for achieving excellent results in his Biological Classification assessment. Keep up the hard work Aaron! Nadia Mills: For achieving 400% growth in learning cycle 10. Congratulations Nadia! Stella Squiers - For achieving 300% growth in her last maths test. Congratulations Stella! Shelby Faltyn: For having the highest growth rate for the year in Maths with a average yearly growth rate of 300%. Congratulations Shelby! Alex Caporn: Alex is an enthusiastic learner in Indonesian lessons. His positive attitude is shown in every

activity he completes. Congratulations Alex on an excellent start to Indonesian!

Reggie Hayden: Reggie has demonstrated great listening skills and has shown what he knows through

conversations using Indonesian greetings. Reggie, superb work in Indonesian so far!

Gracie Jones: For an improved effort in listening and completing her learning. She has worked well with others in class to complete her learning tasks. Keep up the great effort Gracie. Pia Caporn: For an excellent book review with attention to detail. Pia's created a book review to be proud of with polished writing and a great book cover. Terrific Job Pia! Trey Faltyn: For a terrific and well considered book recommendation. He has reviewed his chosen chapter book carefully, giving excellent examples. Well done Trey ! Kailey Green: For drawing and designing amazing curious creatures for Book Week this week. They were very creative. Fantastic work, Kailey. Jarvis Yarran: For giving a very detailed retell of The Gingerbread Man. He was able sequence the events in order and used lots of descriptive language. Well done, Jarvis! Lucas Van Der Wacht: Lucas has made excellent improvement in his reading of his spelling words, moving quickly across our 'bump it wall'. Well done Lucas, keep up the hard work. It is fabulous to see. Hailey Hathaway: For always completing work to the highest standard. Hailey's enthusiasm towards learning is infectious, she celebrates learning new concepts with joy and implements them in all her work. Fantastic work Hailey, keep it up.

Community Notices

FOOD SENSATIONS INTRO COOKING WORKSHOPS Wednesdays 16, 23, 30 September and 07 October, 10am – 12:30pm at the Quairading CRC. Join us over four weeks, cooking lunch together and learning about healthy eating, label reading, meal planning, budgeting, food safety, cooking and more! This event series is completely FREE thanks to Food Bank and Department of Health. Bookings essential via Quairading CRC: quairaing@crc.net.au or 9645 0096.

On Thursday the staff welcomed Regional executive Director Neil Darby to the school to discuss and sign off on the Public Schools enquiry that was initiated in 2018. Mr Darby explained the Administration and the school has made strong improvements in relationships and leadership over the period and he was very happy with the progress. He is pleased to conclude the process and endorse the judgement of 'as expected' across all findings in the review.

Kaydee Hayes: For always reading with fluency and expression. Kaydee has grasped many new reading strategies and concepts: in particular 'Finding Details' independently in guided reading. Top job Kaydee! Shaneisha Hansen: For being the most helpful class member, always helping others and offering her assistance in all activities within the classroom. Shaneisha, we love your caring and kind nature. Thank you for being you.

Our condolences go to Mervyn, Alison and the

Caporn family on the recent passing of Jim.

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