BATHURST HIGH CAMPUS NEWSLETTER · PHEW!! The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) will be held...

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JUNE 2011

Mathematics staff have finished, and met the deadlines, the

massive task of completing Semester 1 reports. PHEW!!

The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) will be held

for the 34th time on Thursday 4 August 2011. Your child is

invited to enter this internationally recognised competition

through their school. Believed to be the largest annual event on

the Australian education calendar, with more than 40 countries

participating each year. The competition aims to be accessible

to all students from Years 3 to 12, not just the mathematically

gifted. There is an emphasis on problem solving, a valuable life

skill, and the questions are designed to be fun for the student.

Year 11 Extension 1 Mathematics Lauren Irvine ex-

amining the tangent to the curve on the smartboard.

Over 1,000 students share the prizes and around 50% of partic-

ipants qualify to receive a Certificate of High Distinction, Dis-

tinction or Credit. All other entrants in the competition receive

a Certificate of Participation or a Proficiency Certificate. All

students are also provided with a detailed report showing how

they performed on each problem with wider statistical rank-

ings.

The competition costs $5.50 and payments will be required as

soon as possible to the front office. See Mr Allan for further

details.

Bluescope Steel Cadetships Opportunity Get paid to study. Online applications open on 1 July. Visit

www.bluescopesteel.com/cadets

Or see Ms Sheader for further information.

Having completed all the Semester 1 Exams we now have a

high achievers list for each course.

Year 7 Daniel Flynn,Georgia Browett, Dylan White, Jordan Stapleton,

Lachlan King, Storm Siejka, Brianna Woodhead, Cynthia Lau-

taru, Zoe Coombes, Christina Truslove

Year 8 Brendan Hampton, Cameron Jones, Bradley Stratton, Scott

Matheson, Li Huiying, Danika Smith, Eily Fidock, Preston

Parker, Alex Malicinin, Efron (Kyle) Yonzon, Tealor Irwin,

Clarish Baltazar, Jeffrey Hope, Zachary Grant, Megan Jobson,

Liam McArthur, Shania Morgan, Jayson Penman, Grant Jones,

Harry Holford, Hayden Carpenter

Year 9 Tianqi Shen, Madison Muller, Kyne Hanlon, Jessica Truslove,

Neha Deo, Uttam Rana Magar, Caitlin Davis, Anthony Yonzon,

Kristin Willis, Indigo Noonan

Year 10 Simin Sadrzade, Michael Coles, Kaine van Gemert, Tyler

Graves, Anne Murray, Melanie Arthur, Theresa Dukes, Andrew

Bedwell, Michael Bower, Bryce Colley

Wowed by the tangent and Calculus -

(L to R) Lauren Inwood, Heidi Bigrigg, Nethaniel Farr,

Andrew Collins, Samit Prasad

FOCUS ON Maths - A Big Piece of π

http://www.bluescopesteel.com/cadets


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Year 11 General Mathematics — Shane Jackman,

Extension Mathematics— Lauren Inwood

Year 12 General Mathematics— Brianna Wade, Trinity Gurich, Page

Aberley, Tim Henderson, Madeline Pleming, Mitchell Rox-

burgh, Luke Carpenter

Extension Mathematics— Stacey Booth-Mollema, Chris Cady

Previous Choc Challenge Answer Belinda Macri Yr 11 with 6 squares

Runner –up Kiaran Muldoon with 5 squares

Choc Challenge There are 5 boxes:- Boxes 1+ 2 weigh 12 kg, Boxes 2+3 weigh

13.5 kg, boxes 3+4 weigh 11.5, boxes 4+5 weigh 8 kg and

1+3+5 weigh 16 kg. How much does each box weigh?

Professional Learning Rita Alphonsus completed the online Geogebra Course and

went to a Moodle training day. She enjoyed them both and will

now incorporate this new knowledge into her lesson plans.

Janine Browning is looking forward to 2 days at the Tips,

Tools and Techniques for Teaching General mathematics using

DER laptops and Graphics calculators.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

By Lauren Inwood

At the end of last year a small group of year 10 students were

given an opportunity to work with Dr David McKinnon from

Charles Sturt University and learn about Astronomy. Early

this year I was presented with an amazing opportunity to work

with Dr McKinnon, and a few of his colleagues to help

analyse an open star cluster called NGC 2215.

It all started through email exchanges between myself and Dr

McKinnon. I then received several emails from people in-

cluding Mr Michael Fitzgerald – a PhD candidate at Mac-

quarie University, Mr Rob Edwards – an astronomy teacher

in Canada, and Bailee and Matt – two of his students. Then it

got down to the hard work. As a group we analysed the clus-

ter and took measurements for around 200 stars. Slowly, via

emails and giant spread sheets our work came together into

tables and graphs comparing various aspects of this cluster.

I was very excited to have Mr Fitzgerald, Dr McKinnon and

Ms Lena Danaia – another member of our team – visit the

school last Tuesday. It was really interesting to finally put

faces to email addresses and chat about future plans for the

project. Our next step (or maybe it is a giant leap) is to pub-

lish an official scientific paper on this cluster. While there

have been a few papers previously published on this cluster,

the best result so far analysed roughly 20 stars and estimated

the distance away from earth to be about half of our measure-

ment! I am looking forward to the publication of our paper

because it will bring new knowledge to the scientific commu-

nity.

For me, it is absolutely amazing to be part of what Mr Fitzgerald

has termed ―cutting edge stuff‖. To be given opportunities to

communicate with people on the other side of the world while

talking about stars on the other side of the universe is, quite liter-

ally, out of this world.

Lena Denaia from CSU, Lauren Inwood, Dr David McKinnon

from CSU and Michael Fitzgerald from Macquarie University


Who is in the Environment

Committee? Bernadette Woods (Art KLA), Brian

Walsh and Fred Madden (TAS), Jude

Murphy and Dave Cowley (English),

Sharon Mendes and Ilisa Newell

(HSIE), Maresha Downey (PE), Lesley Krajcer

(Maths). We meet once a month on Wednes-

day morning at 8.30am to plan and implement

environmental activities for our school. We are

planning to have a student team and would

welcome parent participation.

What do we do? Our Focus Areas are:-

Resource Management which includes water

and energy use, recycling and waste issues.

Grounds Management -This includes planting

shade trees and shelters. Planting and weeding

and maintaining gardens and other areas to

reverse degradation and wear and encourage

birds and greater plant diversity. Manage safety

aspects of the grounds.

Whole School Planning where we promote

healthy eating and lifestyles, educate students

about a sustainable future and respect for the

school environment, reduce the school‘s carbon

footprint and curriculum integration where

possible.

What have we achieved? You may have noticed:-

Our very successful Green Days assisted by the

SRC to raise money and work on helping to

beautify our grounds.

Working Bees where teachers, parents and

children get stuck into the gardens.

Tree Planting days-all those lovely new

trees.

Tree guards constructed by TAS students.

Weeding, mulching and maintenance by a

student team.

―Turn off the lights/power as you leave the

classrooms‖ campaign.

PBL lessons on bin use.

Student fund raising sweet stalls.

New bins.

What will we do next? Future Projects include:-

Writing a School Environment Management

Plan -which is necessary to apply for the fund-

ing to pay for different projects.

Having a water and energy audit done to look

at our current usage and possible saving strate-

gies.

An Art project to enhance exterior and interior

walls/space around the school.

Making a Bike Shed area to encourage students

to ride to school for exercise.

Buying and planting more trees and making

more tree guards.

Logo Competition Results Recently we had a competition inviting stu-

dents to design a logo for our committee. We

received 14 excellent entries. The winner was

Emma Warburton from Year 7 who will re-

ceive a CD voucher. The runners up were

Georgia Browett who incorporated a motto and

gave us that idea in her design and Guiseppe

Pantano for the words ―We Care‖ which we

will incorporate into a stylised version of Em-

ma‘s design . They receive canteen vouchers.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who

entered, you will all receive a lolly pop!


Emma Warburton

Kirsty-LeeTildesley

Giuseppe Pantano

Georgia Browett

Madison Batchelor

Christina Truslove

BATHURST HIGH CAMPUS NEWSLETTER

News from the Principal’s Office

Geoff Hastings

Campus Principal

A very quick report in this newsletter as it is full of

the wonderful achievements of our students and the

initiatives of the teachers to give them a rich learning

environment.

The commitment of the students and teachers at this

school never ceases to amaze me. Teachers have been

working very hard to ensure that semester reports are

complete and available to students and parents before

we go on holidays. The reports will be given out at

our commendation ceremonies.

Teachers have also been entering awards and I have

signed something like 5000 different awards over the

last two weeks. I am very proud of the way we recog-

nise student learning through our award system.

Astley and Mulvey Cups were another wonderful ex-

ample of the students and teachers working together

for a common goal. Watching the tie against Orange

and the visit to Dubbo, you could not help but admire

the tenacity, determination, skill and sportsmanship of

our representatives. Although we were unsuccessful,

the games were close and held in the right spirit.

The performance of our dancers at the Western Re-

gion Dance Spectacular was nothing short of excellent

and the whole spectacular a tribute to students of pub-

lic schools in this area.

You will see the stories of the Doon school below and

may have heard of the success of our 9/10 debating

team. Who are into the regional final.

Finally, on a personal note, can I wish the Bathurst

High community continued success over the next six

months as I start my time as a university lecturer in

Ontario, Canada. Mrs Dunshea relieves as Principal,

Mr Hamilton as Deputy Principal - Middle School,

Mr Baillie as PDHPE Head Teacher and Mr Lawler as

Year 9 Adviser for the next six months. I look for-

ward to returning in 2012 after a very

cold, white Christmas.


Burr

2010 Burr is available at the front office. If you paid your school fees in 2010 come and collect it and if not

it is available for $15.

On Tuesday 7th June Mr Browning took the visiting students from the Doon School in India out to Evans Crown and Flat Rock for

the day. The weather on the day was very cold but all the students both visitors and hosts had a great time. The traditional sausage

sizzle gave way to vege burgers for six of the visitors but they all enjoyed the damper and golden syrup. The students also played a

game of cricket while the lunch was being prepared.

The photos show the students enjoying some rock hopping at Evans Crown.

Doon School



News From The Senior School

Jim Browning

Deputy Principal, Senior School

The Central West HSC Seminar on Thursday the 16th June at

Charles Sturt University was very successful and 40 Bathurst

High students attended the day despite its clash with Day 1 of

Astley Cup.

Year 12 students should be revising their notes and studying

hard for their Mid Course Exams which commence on the 1st

August. The exams will run for two weeks.

The Graduation Ball has a change of evening and venue for

this year. It is going to be held on Friday the 18th November,

2011 at Panthers. This venue will be able to accommodate the

170 students and their friends and family much better than

BMEC.

Preliminary reports were handed out on Friday the 24th June. If

a student has not received their report they are to see Mr

Browning.

Due to Astley Cup, Preliminary students were issued with

their Senior Agreements this week to allow them the choice of

not being at school in their study periods. TAFE students with

14 units will be allowed to drop a school delivered subject if

their TAFE attendance and progress is such that they will be

awarded the TAFE delivered 2 units. Other students who have

successfully completed the Outdoor Recreation Course will be

able to do this as well. Preliminary students must have com-

pleted 12 units in order to be awarded a Preliminary Record of

Achievement.

There will also be a motor vehicle use letter included. Senior

agreements will need to be signed by both student and parent

and returned to Ms Burt. There are some students who will not

be given the privilege of a Senior Agreement due to behaviour

or attendance reasons.

Year 10 students received their reports at this week‘s Commen-

dation Ceremony and it was pleasing to see so many Principal

Awards given out due to quality work and cooperation.

The Indigenous Dance Group had its first session last week and

what started out as a Year 10 initiative has now expanded to

include students from Years 8 and 9. The group will meet every

second Thursday (Week A) for periods 2 and 3 at Bathurst High

Campus. On the other week the Dance facilitator Ms Jayne

Evans will work with Kelso High Indigenous students. It is

hoped that this initiative will allow students from Denison Col-

lege to participate in NAIDOC activities at local schools and

also be a part of Western and State Dance festivals.

The annual Western Region Dance

Festival was held on Thursday 23rd

June at Bathurst Memorial Entertain-

ment Centre. Students from Bathurst

High were involved in performance

and stage management rolls. There

were 4 items performed by our students

in Year 9, 10 & 11 Dance classes as

well as the BHC Dance ensemble. This

was a very exciting day for all students

involved, and allowed them to be ex-

posed to a large range of other dance

pieces from the Western Region.

These students are all to be congratu-

lated on a fantastic performance. Sev-

eral pieces have been sent as auditions

for the NSW State Dance festival. We

are now awaiting to hear if they have

been selected.

In other Creative Arts news, the BHC

Concert Band has been selected to

perform at

the Sydney

O p e r a

House in

Week 6 of

next term

Next term

will be a

busy one

f o r a l l

C r e a t i v e

Arts stu-

dents with

the HSC Practical exams for Dance,

Drama and Music taking place, as well

as Drama Festival, and the exciting

play produced by our Drama Ensemble

―Our Town‖, which will be performed

in Week 8 at CSU.

2011 Western Region Dance Festival



News From The Middle School

Multi-Cultural Day

We celebrated the many cultures mak-

ing up our school with our first Multi-

Cultural Day last Tuesday. Despite wet

and snowy weather, we all had a won-

derful time experiencing various forms

of art, craft, music and food. Students

were thrilled to view so many student

performances on assembly and Ms

Murphy‘s singing and guitar perfor-

mance was so wonderful it has become

the stuff of assembly legend. Well done

to Ms Harper and the team who worked

on the idea to create such an enjoyable

day for all.

Commendation Ceremonies

It has been a very busy time for all,

with students involved in so many ac-

tivities and teachers working on prepar-

ing reports. Next Thursday we celebrate

student achievement at our Commenda-

tion Ceremonies.

INVITATION

To Parents and Family Members

Commendation Ceremonies

Thursday 30th June

BHC Hall

Please join us to celebrate student

achievement

9.20am- 10.45 am Years 8 and 11

11.40am – 12.15pm Years 10 & 12

1.55pm-3.20pm Years 7 & 9

At our Commendation Ceremonies,

students receive certificates for academ-

ic performance and recognition for ef-

fort. This ceremony is for all students.

Please come along and support your

child.

Iexplore

Our very successful transition program

from Year 6 into 7 continues with stu-

dents from primary schools attending

workshops in Japanese and Science.

Please contact Judith Bertolin for more

information.

Deputy Principal – Middle School

From the 27th June Mr Darren Hamilton

will be relieving in my position for the

rest of the year. From the start of Term 3 I

will be relieving as

Principal.

All the best for the

winter holidays,

Gaye Dunshea

Deputy Principal

Recognition for exciting Initiative!

Staff at both campuses of Denison College have been working

hard over an extended period of time to ensure that we are able

to cater for the needs of all of our students, especially since the

introduction of the new school leaving age in January 2010.

Creating partnerships with other agencies is a key strategy in

ensuring that education is relevant and that the skills are trans-

ferable to the workplace.

To this end, Denison College worked with a wide range of non-

school based agencies throughout the latter part of 2010 and

throughout the first part of this year to create the School Within

A School Program. This program, aspects of which have been

trialled during this term in conjunction with Bathurst TAFE,

Central West Community College and Headspace, will be ex-

panded in Term 3 with a view to full implementation in 2012.

As a result of the quality of work that has been done to date

and the importance of this strategy in engaging young people

with education, Denison College has received a significant

grant from the Department of Education and Communities to

support the further development of this program.

I particularly thank Mr Hastings

(Principal, Bathurst High Campus) for

his work in initiating the project and

bringing the various agencies together

and Mr Behan (Program Co-ordinator,

Kelso High Campus) for the outstanding

work he has done in developing the cur-

riculum and coordinating activities.

News From The College Principal

Craig Petersen

College Principal

Astley Cup War Cry created by

Taylor Elsworth and Breeanka Smith

Minnie, Mickey, Donald, Daisy

Come on Bathurst

Scream like crazy

G-o Bathurst!

B A T H U R S T Bathurst!

North, South, East, West

Come on Bathurst

You‘re the best!

G-o Bathurst

Tall, short, young and old

Come on Bathurst

Go for Gold!

G-o Bathurst

2 4 6 8

Who do we appreciate?

Bathurst

Orange, Dubbo, you‘re in trouble

Come on Bathurst

Win the double!

G-o Bathurst



Astley Cup

Our first round was against Orange. It started

out a great day, normally with driving rain and

wind, the pleasant cold morning start for the

Tennis was greatly appreciated.

TENNIS

With the Tennis sets being fairly even between

both schools, Orange took a lead about half

way through and extended this the longer the

Tennis ran, eventually running out winners 10

sets to 6, 62.5 points to our 37.5. Good perfor-

mances by Darcy Davis as Captain and Jane

Hanrahan kept us in close to Orange HS. New

recruits in James Siegert and Bryson Richards,

who is in Year 7, will be players to look for in

the future.

NETBALL

With Orange being dominant in Netball, we

were always going to struggle to hold our own

against them, despite a home ground ad-

vantage. Orange HS soon skipped away to a

commanding lead and that‘s where they stayed.

They were far too dominant across the court,

eventually running our winners 61-14, 81-19

Astley Cup points. Our young and developing

team should be able to do better over the next

few years with many players in year 9 and 10.

Never did any of our players give up through-

out the game, a trait that is in every Bathurst

HC team.

BASKETBALL

This was where we were expected to start turn-

ing the tide of the points score, our boys having

beat Orange in the past. Strong performances

by our senior players kept Orange HS looking

for how they could contain our scorers. Strong

performances by Western Region reps; Jake

Single, Jayden Taylor, Toby Ivanovic and

Wade Grantham lead the way. The final score

of 58-32. 64-36 Astley Cup points, in our fa-

vour was expected to be higher, something that

Ms Ferris impressed on the boys at the end of

the game for the next round against a much

stronger Dubbo outfit.

HOCKEY

This was another sport that has been dominated

by Orange HS over the other two schools for

many years, historically having a much strong-

er side and many Western Region reps. The

first half was a very interesting game with Or-

ange HS coming out and looking very confi-

dent in the way they played. The only change

was that our players were equally fired up and

this was shown in the manner that they at-

tacked the Orange HS team. The game was

very even, the ball being moved freely, by both

teams, around the field. There were several

scoring opportunities that both teams had, both

teams scoring a goal in the first half. What was

something that the Orange players didn‘t count

on was Bathurst at one stage leading from a

Stephanie White goal to go 2 – 1 up. Orange

played scrambling hockey and eventually

scored the equaliser in the second half. It was

very close to the final siren with a draw a fan-

tastic result. All girls played very well, keeping

a much stronger team to a draw able to set up

the team for day 2.

Day 2 ATHLETICS

On a calm morning with ominous clouds in the

distance Orange HS showed up looking to im-

prove on their 59 point lead from day 1. Our

athlete‘s had other ideas and quickly showed

their dominance, winning many of the first

events; our sprinters Doug Hewitt and Kandy

Kennedy winning the 100m, distance runners

Jaydem Tumeth-Mcleod winning the 1500 and

Jessica Fearnley 800. This set the pace of the

morning with many of our athletes winning

events. Sam Callan the boys shot put and both

relay teams being the icing on the cake for the

morning. Point score of 79-21 was very one

sided and something not normally seen in the

athletics between the schools.

BOYS FOOTBALL

Proctor park was hopefully going to be the

scene for the continued fight back being behind

by 1 point going into the first soccer game.

Bathurst dominated across the paddock with

many scoring opportunities not being taken

advantage of, Jaydem Tumeth-Mcleod eventu-

ally scoring to make the score 1-nil, 67-33

Astley Cup points.

GIRLS FOOTBALL

The girls with a 33 point lead going into the

game could play without pressure on them

winning and this should have happened, having

many opportunities to move the ball down to

the goal. Coach Baillie impressing on the girls

to have more control over passes and shots on

goal. From a handball in the goal square, a

penalty shot taken by Jane Hanrahan made the

eventual final score 1 – nil. Another 67-33

score line and a 67 point lead into the Rugby

League.

RUGBY LEAGUE

With a much depleted Orange HS side due to

injury and sickness meant the game almost did

not occur. In a reduced numbers and time for-

mat a game was eventually played at Carring-

ton park. In the 10 a side format and 25 min

half structure, a change not seen in Astley Cup

history.The game got under way with Bathurst

HC dominant from the kick off. Our recent

Greater Western reps, who travelled to Toronto

on the central coast for State trials, led the way

with a superstar performance from Doug

Hewitt, instrumental in directing Brady Chesh-

ire, Blake Seager, Luke Carpenter and the rest

of the team around the paddock. In a very one

sided affair that Orange HS could not match-

with a final score of 66-17, 80-20 Astley Cup

points.

The eventual score was a resounding success to

Bathurst HC of 464-336 Astley Cup points.

Round 2 Bathurst HC vs Dubbo Senior Col-

lege.

DAY 1 — DUBBO

Dubbo was a very different story to that in

Bathurst. There were losses in each of the 4

sports on day 1.

Tennis was very one sided, 13-3 sets. Basket-

ball closer for us and a great game considering

the amount of Western Region talent in their

team we lead each quarter until running out of

steam in the last quarter; 49-41. Hockey was a

sport that was expected to do well and with a

score of 3-2 to Dubbo, unexpected for the girls

coming off a draw against a much stronger

team the week before.

Finally the Rugby League was expected to be

highlight of the sporting calendar, both teams

being the best in the region. Our team looked

out of sorts from the kick off and Dubbo SC

took no time to capitalise on this by skipping

away to a lead that could not be caught back.

With many bounces of the ball not going our



Astley Cup continued

Coming Events

1 July Last day of term

18 July Staff Development Day

19 July Term 3 begins

26 July Parent Teacher Evening A - K 4 pm to 7 pm

28 July Parent Teacher Evening L - Z 4 pm to 7 pm

1 August - 12 August HSC Trials

4 August Future Directions Evening - at CSU

way the eventual score at half time of 12-0 was

a good result. The final score of 42-16 indicat-

ed a one sided affair in the second half. A bro-

ken hand to star forward Blake Seager didn't

help us.

Day 2 — DUBBO

This was a day that we could make up points

and that was how the Athletics team took it,

even Bryce Hitchcock a spectator throwing the

shot. Dubbo SC beat us in a close result 57-43.

The girls and boys football would have to

score at least 4-nil in each game to give us a

chance, and what games they were. Both our

teams were dominant across the field and un-

lucky not to score at will. The girls won 2-nil

with 2 goals from Kira Mendes in a game that

could have easily been double that score line.

The boys won 2-1, an unlucky goal from a

miscommunication which should have been

much more in our favour, goals from a cracker

shot by Blake Aubin and Jayden Tumeth-

Mcleod finishing well for the second.

After these two sports, we trailed by 66 points

going into the Netball. The Netball team then

had to win by a ratio of at least 6 to 1. The

game started well with our younger players not

being out muscled or pushed around. Some-

thing impressed upon them by new coach Ms

Hennessy. The game was a little one sided

with the Dubbo SC team containing much

older players. The final score of 48-20 a good

example of how our young team could perform

in the coming years.

The overall score of 454 — 346 to Dubbo SC

and an overall lead 108 points was well de-

served from them, a much superior team over

the two days. This coming week Dubbo SC

travel to Orange HS to play the third round of

the Astley Cup. There is still a slim chance

that Bathurst HC could win but Orange HS

would need to play a spoiling role in deliver-

ing a win to them and a point‘s victory to us.

All the best to Orange HS for the coming week

I say!

The Astley Cup organisation is something

which is helped by many people and organisa-

tions around Bathurst. I would like to thank

Newman‘s buses, Jones Bros buses for

transport, The parents of the team members for

carting them into school at very early hours of

the morning, Radio 2BS and the Western Ad-

vocate for the great media exposure over the 2

weeks, Referee‘s including Nick Lander, Da-

mien Carter, the Bathurst Regional Council,

the staff of Bathurst HC and everyone else in

the local community who helps me put on this

show each year, see you in 2012.



Bathurst High Campus P&C meets the 1st Wednesday of each month.

Next meeting will be Wednesday 3rd August in the Staff Room.

Chess Team and Public Speaking

P&C

Chess Team

Well done to the Bathurst High School chess team

who were successful in their win against Lithgow

High School last Thursday the 9th of June. The team

consisting of Tealor Irwin, Xianghon Meng, Sarvin

Sadrzadeh and Ryan McNarey played exceptionally

well, coming away with three wins and one draw.

Well done team!!!!

Public speaking

On the 31st of May, Anne Murray, Ricky Daymond

and Annabel Meadley represented Bathurst High

School in the CWA public speaking competition.

They all represented the school well and Ricky Day-

mond achieved a highly commended, placing him in

the next round at Parkes later this month. Well done

to all students!

Over the last two terms Scott Matheson

has had some fantastic performances with

Golf within the Western Region. At Cowra

Gold Club at the end of Term 1, Scott rep-

resented Bathurst High along with Tom

Mackey and Blake Arthur. Scott, with dad

Norm on the bag, was able to play very

well throughout the 18 holes against many

of the best golf players in the Western Re-

gion. Throughout the round Scott was

playing very good golf, particularly with

the testing finish holes back to the club

house.

Overall, Scott was able to shoot a fantastic

round of 71, 1 under par and his first ever

sub-par round. This is a fantastic result

considering Scott‘s age and the players

that he was playing against.

With Scott shooting this great result he

was the eventual winner not only on handi-

cap, but overall by several strokes. This

lead Scott to be the eventual overall West-

ern Region Champion, and at such a young

age an excellent result. Scott now plays the

CHS Golf Carnival next week, week 10, at

Dubbo Golf Club. Best of luck to Scott for

this competition from all the staff and stu-

dents at Bathurst High Campus.

Western Region Golf Champion


On top of the Trade Training construction in Keppel Street the terraces have also become a construction zone as Joss Management

Services upgrade the terraces on the southern side of the oval. The photo shows the work in progress with the two rock artists Charlie

and Rhys.


Terrace Upgrade

Year 6 students from Bathurst West, Eglinton and Bathurst Public Schools visited

Bathurst High Campus last week for Iexplore. They spent half of their day learn-

ing Japanese language and culture and the other half of the day was spent doing

fantastic experiments in the science laboratory. They had a wonderful time and

this follows up their day working in TAS last term. These days give the students

a great opportunity to become familiar with the High School before they come

along next year to start their secondary schooling.

Iexplore



Positive Behaviour for Learning Launch

Ph 6331 3755

Tuesday 23rd August 2011

11am

Parents and members of the com-

munity are invited to Bathurst High

Campus to celebrate the official

Launch of PBL at our School. Guest

speakers, students, teachers and

our newest mascot will be here to

join in the celebration.

Morning Tea follows in the Library

At Bathurst High Campus Hall



Waste to Art

Waste to Art is a community project encouraging all artists from

school-aged to professional to showcase works made from reused

and recycled waste materials.

In term one, the Year Nine Visual Arts students produced a success-

ful collection of engaging abstract paintings using found objects and

recycled materials from their immediate environment. These paint-

ings were showcased in the Waste to Art competition at the Bathurst

Memorial Entertainment Centre in May.

Congratulations to all the Year Nine students who entered the com-

petition, also a special mention to Finlay Murphy whose work

‗Eggplant popo-lopolis the 3rd‘ (pictured) won the 2D High School

division. His work is currently being exhibited in Grenfell.

Here‘s an artist statement by Fin.

Title of artwork: Eggplant plop-o-lopilis the 3rd.

Who inspired us? Kurt Schwitters inspired me, as his still live art-

works were amazing in their own way.

What materials did we use and why? I used found objects, going

for a rustic vs computer technology theme, because I thought it

would be sick, and be a bit like old versus new.

Why you made the work: I had to for school, it was a requirement

to complete the topic, but that doesn’t mean I didn't enjoy doing it.

Mr. James Ferguson

White Card Training

White Card Training will be held the second week back next

term. This is very important if you wish to enter a construction

site. Please see Mr Crawford in the Careers office to register for

the course.

Newcrest Mining Limited

George Witty from Newcrest Mining will be visiting Bathurst

High on Thursday 30th June at 11am to discuss Apprentice op-

tions with Cadia Valley Operations. This will be open for year

11 and 12 students. Please see Mr Crawford for further infor-

mation.

Local Government Careers Day

On the 2nd August Bathurst Regional Council will visit the

school as a part of Local Government week. Council represent-

atives will be here to talk to students in year 10, 11 and 12

about the various types of careers with local government.

Year 12 Early Entry for University

Many of the universities are now sending out early entry infor-

mation and applications. For information further information

around early entry please see Mr Crawford .

Job Expo

The Central West Job Expo will be held in Orange on the 28th

July. All year 10 will be invited to attend this day. It is a great

opportunity for year 10 students to gain an insight into possible

careers. There will be no cost to the students.

Year 12 CSU Visit

Visit Monday 15th August, CSU will be coming to Bathurst

High to talk to year 12 students about early entry, scholarships

and university life. Please see Mr Crawford for further infor-

mation.

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