Excellence in Vocational Educational and Training.

Eagle Vale High School has a strong and proud record of Vocational

Education and Training. Eagle Vale High School offers students the

opportunity to study VET subjects in Five (5) VET curriculum frameworks

(Certificate II Level) and two Board Endorsed Courses (BEC).

We offer following course at Eagle Vale High School:

Metal & Engineering;

Hospitality (Multiskilling);

Construction (Pathway);

Entertainment;

Business Services;

Sport Coaching (BEC); and

Cert I Manufacturing (Metal Stream) (BEC).

Our focus is to maintain industry standard facilities and equipment in our

learning areas. As such we have recently refurbished the hospitality kitchen

to commercial standard and built a coffee lounge area with the help of VET

Construction students.

One of the key features of our program is the integration of the above VET

framework courses which focus across a range of whole school projects that

enhance the school‘s physical and social environment. One such example is

our VET students‘ learning plan for by undertaking a series of real projects

around the school. These projects include the following:

The VET Entertainment student‘s participation in staging and

providing technical support to our performance art program

throughout the year. This initiative has been implemented and will

continue to expand as we promote our venue and facilities to our

stakeholders and community.

Hospitality students in partnership with support (IO) students

undertake the running of our coffee shop and provide catering

service during major events held at our school on a regular basis

throughout the year.

Construction students undertaking landscape projects, footpaths,

outdoor benches, pergola and tiling of toilets.

Sport Coaching students are planning to work with our Primary

feeder schools to organize sport carnivals during the year.

Eagle Vale High School is considered a highly accomplished provider of

Vocational Education and Training by the industry and business sector in

Campbelltown area. Increasingly VET courses are attracting clientele who

are likely to proceed to further training in Trade at TAFE and with intent to

commence an apprenticeship or traineeship. As a result of participating in

work placement and other aspects of VET programme, students are better

able to decide whether the industry is suited to their particular needs.

The following are examples of achievements to date for Eagle Vale High

School:

Recognition by DEC SWS Region for VET in School Excellence in

Campbelltown region for 2011;

Excellence in Teaching VET award for Campbelltown;

Regional Student winner in Metal & Engineering in 2011;

One of our students in SBAT also received a South Western Sydney

Regional Training Award for encouragement in workplace learning.

10 students were also recognised by MWLP for their outstanding

performance in workplace through ‗Honor Roll‘.

Completed building refurbishment for Creative and Performing Arts and

Multipurpose Entertainment Hall.

Successful bid for Federal Government funding to refurbish Metal and

Engineering Trade Training Centre facilities.

By Mr. Ali (VET Co-ordinator)

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INVITATION

EAGLE VALE HIGH SCHOOL

PARENTS/CARERS GROUP

Dear Parents and Carers,

You are invited to join us for our Eagle Vale High Parent Morning Tea Program. This

is a parent/carer gathering that is held twice a term throughout the year. It is an

opportunity for parents to come along and meet fellow parents and staff as well as find

out what is happening at our high school.

We especially would like to invite our new 2012 Year 7 parents and carers.

We would also like to extend a warm invitation to our Year 5 & 6 parents and carers

from our four feeder Primary schools. Blairmount PS, Claymore PS, Eschol Park PS

and Kearns PS.

The dates for our Parent Morning Tea Program during Term 1 2012 will be WHEN: Week 8 Tuesday 13th March 2012

“Great programs happening within the school”

Week 11 Tuesday 3rd April 2012

“Student Welfare” and “Positive Behaviour for Learning”

WHERE: School Library

TIME: 9.30am - 11.00am

(We meet at the school front office)

We encourage you to come along and take the opportunity to discuss any matters

relating to school and gain some insight into what your child is learning or will be

learning in the class room.

For further information please contact Lynn Baker, Community Liaison Officer

Monday or Tuesdays during school hours on 02 4626 5088

We look forward to you coming along to our get togethers.

Mr Robert Duncan Lynn Baker Principal Community Liaison Officer

EAGLE VALE HIGH SCHOOL

P & C

Warmly invites Parents to the next

P & C Meeting

WHEN: 19 March 2012

(P&C Meet every 3rd Monday)

WHERE: School Common Room

(Main Administration Block)

TIME: 6pm – 7.30pm

Refreshments provided

Come along to:

Meet other parents and staff

Hear about what‘s happening in the school

Ask questions, get answers

Find out about upcoming events

Chat over coffee

For further information please contact Lynn Baker, Community Liaison

Officer Monday or Tuesdays during school hours on 02 4626 5088

From the Principal Mr. Duncan

The year has started well with very few changes in staff and a series

of major new programs that are being implemented that are

innovative and exciting and that will result in a major transformation

of our school.

The Student Representative Council has started the year with a

planning and leadership conference organised by Mr Rix. This year

the SRC will have four portfolio areas and will have a budget of

$5000 to support school improvements with the opportunity to make

requests for a further $19,000. One portfolio area will look after the

built environment and this group will work in partnership with the

building and construction class to make improvements to such areas

as the student toilets. Some work will be undertaken by commercial

contractors. A second group will be responsible for the positive be-

haviour and learning portfolio and will be involved in talking to their

peers on assemblies and year meetings on expectations for our three

school rules. Show respect, best work and be safe.

A new exciting program for our school is a link with the Beacon

Foundation a charitable organisation that provides career support

programs for year 10 students. The Foundation has a range of large

companies that sponsor its initiatives. The program includes such

initiatives as mock interviews with all year 10 students having an

interview with representatives from industry. I anticipate that our link

with Beacon will be for a minimum of five years and I look forward

to links being developed with the support of Beacon with the

hospitality, building, metals and performing arts industries.

Our performing arts programs go from strength to strength with a

range of new initiatives that are highlighted in this newsletter

including employing a school learning support officer to work as a

sound engineer one day a week to run our new recording studio. So

far two recordings have been substantially completed one has been

done by members of the year 12 music class and one by year 11 class.

The year 12 cohort from 2011 performed well both in academic and

vocational courses. Our highest performing students were Kathryn

Nocera who received a High Achievers Award at the Campbelltown

Council Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 22 February.

Kathryn will start her studies in law at Western Sydney University

this week. Kathryn received a band 6 in Geography and legal studies

and band 5 in all her other subjects.

6 March 2012 Term 1-Week 7

Drysdale Street, Eagle Vale NSW 2558

T: (02) 4626 5088, F: (02) 4628 0408,

E: eaglevale-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

EAGLE VALE HIGH SCHOOL

Calendar

March

5/03 Zone Swimming Carnival

12/03 Primary Opera Ed Project with Kearns PS

14/03 Primary Opera Ed Project with Claymore PS

14/03 PBL Assembly

15/03 Fast Forward—Year 9 Awards Evening

15/03 Primary Opera Ed Project with Blairmount PS

16/03 Primary Opera Ed Project with Eschol Park PS

23/03 Year 7 Vaccination ep B, BPV

26/03—03/04 Year 12 Exams

27/03 A Night at the Opera

28/03 EVHS Cross Country

29/03 SMARTARTZ

April

04/04 School Disco

05/04 Last Day Term 1

24/04 Students Return Term 2 24/04 ANZAC Ceremony

25/04 ANZAC Day Holiday

26/04—01 May Year 11 Exams

Dear Parents and Caregivers

EAGLE SPEAKS

INTRODUCING OUR

2012 SCHOOL CAPTAINS

Deborah Fainifo Caleb Rodriguez

Help us to help your child

On Monday 5 March 2012 a Priority Schools

(PSP) survey was sent home to all families in

Years 7, 8, and 9. Completing the survey gives

EVHS an opportunity to be considered for extra

funding and staffing for our school for the next

four years (2013—2016). We are striving for a

100% return. We look forward to your support in

this activity.

Mr Budden in the recording studio

Design An Ad Education Project

Eagle Vale High School had a very

successful Term 4 in 2011 with Year 9

Art student Mikaela Hinds taking out

the prestigious Design An Ad

Education Project with the local

Macarthur Campbelltown Advertiser.

Through the process of designing an

advertisement, from concept to client

to publication, students were able to

gain an insight into local businesses

which connect to a broad new

audience and the readers of the

newspaper got to see the creative work

of talented art students from the local

area. The project required students to

create an advertisement for a local

business which had agreed to sponsor

the school. The advertisement had to

be hand drawn and sent to the sponsor

business for short listing. Mikaela submitted an outstanding entry and took

out first prize in the High Schools section. For her efforts Mikaela received

$500 and the school received $600 for which will certainly be put to good use

purchasing resources for the school. The staff and students from Eagle Vale

High School are very proud and would like to congratulate Mikaela for her

brilliant work and her fantastic dedication to the Visual Arts, keep up the

great work!!

Great Success at Volleyball

Volleyball at Eagle Vale has kicked off already for 2012 with both boys and

girls inter-zone championships being held early in Term 1. Eagle Vale had

good representation in the Fisher zone representative teams with 12 players in

both competitions. The Fisher zone girls team finished equal 2nd in the

tournament just missing out on defending their title from 2011. The boys team

also finished 2nd with outstanding wins over the fancied Westfields and

Lansdowne zones. Special mention must be given to John Ioane, Kome

Ualesi and Primo Vaipapa who made the Sydney South West team to play

in the state championships later this year in Taree. Well done to all players for

their consistent efforts and we look forward to more pleasing results in the

upcoming state knockout competitions.

Mr Viravong

High Achieving Student Programs 2012

The high achieving strategy was introduced in the school five years

ago. All Year 6 students who are in area for our high school are given

the opportunity to sit for a test each year and the class is then selected

based on the academic results from this test as well as their academic

progress in Year 6.

In 2012 the high school is enriching this program by providing

opportunities for students to mentor primary students when they are

writing the librettos for their operas.

HAS students are also going to be involved in mentoring students

from Year 6 in some Science and Maths lessons. Different students

will be chosen to work with our four feeder primary schools Kearns,

Eschol Park, Claymore and Blairmount on each of these projects to

ensure that students don‘t miss out on too much of their normal work.

These opportunities will give students significant leadership skills in

team work as well as enhancing their literacy and creative writing

skills.

The Year 9 HAS class will be involved in an innovative research

project documenting the history of Claymore and the greater area of

Campbelltown.

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Positive thought for the day:

If you choose a job that you like, you will never have to work a

day in your life. Confucius

Community of Schools Opera Ed. Project 2012 Sponsored by Graeme Wood - the founder of wotif.com.

Eagle Vale HS is proud to present the Year 6 Opera Ed. Project. This is

a primary links project designed to promote student leadership in our

high school students who will be acting as mentors and leaders of

learning to their primary peers.

Year 6 students from Blairmount PS; Claymore PS; Eschol Park PS

and Kearns PS will attend our school for 5 full days each during week

6 to week 10 of this term. They will write, develop and perform their

own individual Opera!

The students will perform these operas in our newly refurbished

school hall on Tuesday 27 March 2012 starting at 6pm.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Murray Dahm working with our student leaders

and Primary School students.

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Report from Senior Leadership Group and SRC

The SRC are about to undergo its annual renewal – elections will be held

in the week of 5 March when the new SRC will join with the Senior

Leadership Group to continue the sterling efforts so far exhibited this year.

Reflecting the current School Plan, the Senior Leadership Group (SLG)

and SRC are undergoing a major restructure and reorientation.

The restructure has resulted in a more activist SLG-SRC which deals with

real issues and takes initiatives to resolve them. There are now four

portfolio groups:

School Visual Environment

Recycling and Energy Efficiency

Positive Behaviour and Improved Learning

Performing and Creative Arts & Primary Discos

Using discussion points developed in small group meetings in late 2011,

students discussed the role of each portfolio at a full-day SLG-SRC

Conference held in February 2012. They resolved that each Portfolio

Group would be made up of some SRC members and at least two SLG

members. The closest approximation to the new structure is a Government

Ministry!

The Conference also discussed SLG-SRC Finances, Communication

Strategy and meeting procedures.

Ms Phoebe Drake, President of Sydney University SRC addressed the

Conference. Ms Drake stressed the need for members of the SRC to take

their role as student representatives very seriously indeed. She told us that

she had been an active member of her own school SRC (Inverell High

School) and this had been a solid foundation for her life at Sydney

University.

In short, the SLG-SRC is working towards becoming a more

―professional‖ organisation which is able to take the initiative and

genuinely represent students‘ real issues and needs.

This professionalisation will be further enhanced as the 2012 SRC

elections are held.

The 2012 election will have the same form as a State or Federal election,

having a formal declaration of vacancies, call for nominations to fill the

vacancies, election campaigning, voting, SLG participation in the count, a

formal declaration of the vote and a formal establishment of the new SRC.

The work which the current SLG-SRC has begun so well will be continued

throughout 2012. It‘s something to look forward to!

Stephen Rix, HSIE Faculty, SRC Coordinator

What’s Going on in Music? Eagle Vale High School has a host of new facilities and equipment for the

use of our Performing Arts students, including a state of the art recording

studio. As a result, Eagle Vale High School is employing Mr. Mitch

Gilmore one day a week to operate the new recording studio. This will

give our students the opportunity to record their music and further develop

their talents in the performing arts. Mitch is an experienced recording engi-

neer and has worked with some of the ―Big Names‖ at most of the major

venues in Sydney. Work has already begun on recording Moria Perenise

and Boaz Tupuola‘s Year 10 graduation song composed in 2011.

We also have a number of students involved in a performance of ―New Art

Music:‖ at the Campbelltown Performing Arts Centre in May. The

composition was composed by Professor Greg Schiemer. He and his

assistants, vocal coach and singer with the Wot Opera program, Dr. Lotte

Latukefu and Lecturer in Theatre Dr Janis Hayes (both from Wollongong

University), will be coming into the school to help our students prepare for

the performance.

The preparations are underway for the staging of the Eagle Vale High

School Rock Opera. Yes, our students will actually be writing the script

and composing the music. Performances will be held during week 8 of

Term 2. Murray and Ben from the Wot Opera will be coming in to help

with this project, and there are quite a few members of staff involved.

The Eagle Vale High School Choir has started up again this year. The

student roll up has been good, but there is always room for more. Mr. Tim

Gwan has come on board to help with the choir, the Rock Opera and the

teaching of our stage 5 music programs.

We have been pleased with the number of music performances students

have been doing at Eagle Vale High School. Our music students are ably

assisted and supported by students in Mr Law‘s Entertainment classes who

take care of all the technical aspects of these performances.

We have been videoing most of the students‘ performances and they have

been uploaded to the ―Eagle Vale High‖ You Tube channel. It is definitely

worth going to www.youtube.com to look at them, the URL is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EagleValeHigh?ob=0&feature=results_main

Showcasing great talent !

Jerome Moria

INTRODUCING OUR

2012 VICE CAPTAINS

Narelle Dunn Sanjeev Prasad