New Town High School

ISSUE: No. 10 Friday 1 July 2016

2016 CALENDAR TERM 3

18 July

Professional Learning Day

Pupil Free day

19 July

First Day of Term 3 - Students

25 July

Parent/Teacher Evening 3.30-

6.50pm

Course Information Evening 7.00-

8.15pm

29 July

NTHS Swimming Carnival

4 August

Grade 8/9 Social

9 August

Master Builders Talk

13 to 19 August

Ski Trip

15 to 19 August

Melbourne Schools Band Festival

26 August to 2 September

Grade 10 Exams

1 to 2 September

Grade 9 Peer Support Training

9 September

Grade 10 RYDA Excursion

15 September

Grade 10 Social

23 September

Final Day of Term 3

FROM THE PRINCIPAL As Term 2 draws to a close, it is fantastic to be able to look back over the first

half of the year and reflect on the wonderful achievements of our students and

staff in all areas of school life. Perhaps the most significant issue at the moment

for most parents is however, the Mid-Year Report that came home on Monday.

The report provides a comprehensive snapshot of progress so far in all areas of

endeavour. On Monday 25 July the all-important Parent Teacher Evening will be

held to ensure that parents can follow up all issues or concerns with individual

teachers. Parents are encouraged to book their appointments on line using the

details provided in the letter that accompanied reports earlier in the week. Small

issues or concerns addressed now, can have significant benefits for the remainder

of the year.

On Monday 20 June our school hosted a visit by the Governor of Tasmania, Her

Excellency Kate Warner and members of the Underwood Centre for Educational

Attainment. The committee were visiting schools who provided excellence or inno-

vation in different aspects of student engagement. In particular our tour focused

on the work being done in our Student Support Centre, in Information Technology

and in the Music Department. Our guests were impressed with the work and

success that was so obvious in all of these areas. Limited time unfortunately pre-

vented the party from visiting other learning areas in the school.

The Governor of Tasmania, Her Excellency Kate Warner with Mr Ashley Jubb and Caleb Smith

The final message for the newsletter as we are about to

start our holidays is, as always, be safe and have an enjoy-

able holiday break, and return to school refreshed and

ready for work in Term 3.

Ian Cordwell

Acting Principal

GRADE 7 NEWS Hi everyone, we’re from 7E1 and we’ll be giving the

Grade 7 report. We’ve had a pretty exciting term

with events such as the Cross Country and the Inter-

High Cross Country. Well done to all boys that par-

ticipated and especially to Braydon Golding, 7D1,

with the first place win for Grade 7 and to all Ellis

boys who came out with the win!

Also well done to all the boys who got top ten and

went to the Inter-high Cross Country Carnival where

New Town High School won the whole boys compe-

tition. Congratulations again to Braydon Golding

who came first in his event.

In the last few weeks during the Student Representa-

tive Council meetings, we decided what we are doing

this year. We decided to support CAMP QUALITY,

a fundraiser helping kids with cancer and supports

them going on camps and having a good time.

We also decided that we will do a Handball Competi-

tion between Grade 7 Home Groups in Term 3. An-

other sporting event we have coming up in the third

term is the New Town High School Swimming Carni-

val. All you have to do is go along with your Home

Group and do your house proud. Fingers crossed

that Ellis will pull out another win.

The last thing we will tell you is that you should be

looking forward to Term 3 when we’re all getting

subject changes. That means you get to try out even

more subjects.

Thanks for reading.

Report by

Harkirat

Grewal & Levi Rose, 7E1

Grade Supervisors Report

Last week’s Junior Assembly was jam-packed with

awards for our Grade. Our

grade has well and truly set-

tled into the New Town

High School way of life and

we are seeing so many stu-

dents take advantage of the

opportunities on offer at

our school. In particular, a

very big ‘Onya’ goes out to

Luke Van Emmerick, 7J2,

who became the very first

Grade 7 student to reach 50 Onya’s! This is a

huge feat and Luke received a shiny, gold Onya

badge for his outstanding efforts.

A very big well done to the following boys who

received awards at last week’s Junior Assembly:

Luca Cartledge, 7J2, Dylan Cooper, 7D2, Jack

Gough, 7J2, Harkirat Grewal, 7E1, Dylan Mid-

son-Laredo, 7D2, Jaden Moore, 7D1, Oskar

Puclin, 7D1, Alex Rolle, 7D2, Keegan Ryan,

7D2, Evan Stone, 7J2, Luke Van Emmerik, 7J2,

Hamish Watson, 7D2, Bryce Webberley, 7E1,

Russell Williams, 7E1, Samuel Wright, 7D2.

The Foods Poster Awards

This was a hotly contended competition and it was

very difficult to judge! Well done to those boys

who have won awards and to all the boys who en-

tered. A big thank you to Mrs Weitnauer for or-

ganising the competition.

Ashley Jubb & Sara Mulholland

Grade 7 Supervisors

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GRADE 8 NEWS Unfortunately we have still only played one game in our

lunch time sport competition of soccer, hopefully we will

have more luck next term with drier weather conditions.

We are all looking forward to the swimming carnival

next term, it is being held on Friday 29 July. We strongly

encourage that everyone participates as best they can to

earn points for their house.

Congratulations to all the boys who competed in the

Alliance Française Competition, especially Oliver Blum,

8E1, on coming first overall in Grade 8 and Joel French,

8E2, on coming second overall in Grade 8.

Well done to the boys from our grade who made the

Junior Basketball team: Jack-Barry Clark, 8H1, Riley

Best, 8E2, Tyson Joseph, 8E2, Joeseph Woolcock,

8E2, Lochlan Payne, 8E2, Dominic Woolcock, 8E1,

Thomas Beswick, 8D1, Jacques Barwick, 8H1, and

Zayden Kelly, 8J1, all made Div 1 and in Div 2 Kevin

Perez, 8H1, Jack Underwood, 8J1, Tyrone Mason,

8H2, Kylen Cobern, 8J1, Oliver Blum, 8E1, Jye Men-

zie, 8H1, Cooper Meredith, 8D1, Talyn Devine, 8D1

and Samuel Cosgrove, 8D2, all made the team.

We hope everyone has a safe, fun and relaxing holidays

and returns ready to learn in Term 3.

Neil Harris & Suzie Jones

Grade 8 Supervisors

GRADE 9 NEWS Aspire Connect Achieve

Grade 9 Members of the All Schools Cross Coun-

try at Symons Plains, 20 June, 2016

Mr Newbold set off to Symons

Plains with a strong team of run-

ners to compete at the All Schools

Cross Country. In wet and muddy

conditions, the Grade 9 boys rep-

resented our grade admirably. The

Grade 9 competitors were: Mason

Attfield, 9J1, (9th ), Ryan Mar-

shall, 9D2, Sam Becker, 9J2, Jon-

athon Gourlay, 9D2, Samuel

Major, 9D2, Henry Fox, 9D2, Rhys Prouse, 9J1,

Samuel Jones, 9H1, Baxter Lewis, 9J2, Thomas

Blackwell, 9D2, Cody Fros, 9H2.

Grade 9 Council Activity

The Grade 9 Council is currently selling homemade

fudge in order to raise a donation to Freedom

Wheels..

Freedom Wheels, supports young people to gain ac-

cess to modified bicycles so that they can enjoy cy-

cling independently and with family and friends.

Ms Jillian Alexander & Mr Shaun Newbold

Grade 9 AST & Grade 9 Coordinator

Snippets from Grade 9 - Senior Assembly

Report

Presented by Baxter Lewis, 9J2, Ethan Kelly, 9J1

and Hani Moore, 9D2.

This assembly is not only to share and celebrate stu-

dents great achievements this month but to also

farewell Mr Soz’ in the last assembly he is attending.

On Tuesday 14 June, nine boys from our grade went

off to the Inter-high Cross Country. Throughout the

race we had Mason Attfield, coming 3rd, Max

Homan 5th, Billy Cutler 15th, Cody Fros 17th, Sam-

uel Jones 21st, Braydon Blackaby 23rd, Sam Beck-

er 25th, Thomas Blackwell 38th and Zachariah

Caveretta finishing 47th.

We also took out the shield for the fourth year run-

ning. Well done to all the boys!

This term we had the Grade Council select the new

Home Group sport - basketball. Last Wednesday

we held the Grand Final with 9D2 coming out once

again on top with the strong D2 team consisting of

Samuel Major, Henry Fox, and Jonathon Gour-

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lay. Coming in second was 9D1 with Declan Murray,

Declan Bridge and Luke Eiszele. Third was 9J2 with

Nathan Woodham, Kelly Stone and Sam Becker.

Coming fourth was 9J2 with Baxter Lewis, Nathan

Reid and Maxwell Homan.

We would like to congratulate

Riley Thurstans, 9J1, for win-

ning the Oceanic Champion-

ship in the youth division. By

taking out the championship he

heads off to China for the In-

ternational Championships.

Only two other people were

selected from Tasmania to

compete. We wish him good

luck and we are proud of his

achievement.

On Saturday 4 June, Kelly Stone, 9J2 and Harrison

Tunks, 8E1, competed in the Rostrum Youth Speaking

Competition. There were 1600 participants that both

students competed against. Only seven people could

go to Nationals and we are proud to say that Kelly

Stone is one of the seven candidates. We wish Kelly

the best and also well done to Harrison for competing.

Congratulations to all of the mentioned boys.

To Mr Soz, thank you for everything you’ve done for

the boys of every grade. You won’t be forgotten.

From everyone I wish you a safe and happy future.

Shaun Newbold & Jill Alexander

Grade 9 Coordinator & AST Grade 9

GRADE 10 NEWS Grade 10’s enjoyed their day at Elizabeth College Ori-

entation last Friday. It was encouraging to see the boys

experiencing their first taste of college life. Elizabeth

College staff will be visiting New Town High School

next term to conduct one on one interviews with stu-

dents which will further assist them in the transition to

college process. We would like to welcome Clunie

Addis to our staff who will be working with Grade 10’s

with transition to college. Clunie will be a valuable as-

set to the school as the boys move toward the end of

their Grade 10 year.

We have had a number of out-

standing achievements in our

Grade of late. Jack Stanwix,

10D2, has been selected in a

basketball team that is travelling

to the USA. This team is a part

of the LivOn Program and play-

ers are selected from all Australian states and New

Zealand. Jack is the youngest player to be selected –

a fine effort, Jack! Good Luck!

During the recent long weekend, Ned and Toby

Paynter, 10J2 and Josh Butler, 10J2, participated in

the Hockey Tasmania Tournament. This is a Junior

Intrastate Series with all three boys playing in the

U18 section. Joseph Murphy, 10E2, also played in

the tournament representing the victorious North

West side U18 division. Joseph scored some goals –

an excellent effort!

Bradley Carlton, 10J2, Aiden Clark, 10H1 and Xa-

vier Gandy, 10D2, represented the School in the

recent Alliance Francaise Competition. While all re-

sults have not been decided, we do know that Xavier

Gandy has received at least Honourable Mentions –

well done, Xavier!

The Grade 10 Volleyball team defeated Hobart Col-

lege in the Grand Final played on Monday evening.

This was a particularly outstanding effort as the boys

competed against college teams consisting of much

older players and had only five permanent players

throughout the roster. Well done to all team mem-

bers: Joel Kostiuk, 10E2, Zachary Bone, 10E2,

Grady Schottmeier, 10J1, Kieren Overy, 10E2 and

Bailey Nelson, 10E2.

Grade 10 boys had successful excursions to Try a

Skill and the Medical Taster Days at UTAS – thanks

again to Mrs Isles for organising these important ex-

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Mr Soszynski, affectionately known as ‘Sos’ will be retiring

at the end of this term. He has been an outstanding Home

Group teacher and we have valued his skill, hard work and

the fantastic relationships he has developed with the mem-

bers of 10H1. Our grade will miss his ‘larger than life’

personality and great sense of humour, not to mention his

outstanding contribution to the school in the Drama de-

partment. We wish ‘Sos’ the very best for his long and

happy retirement! We will all miss you, Sos!

Finally, Grade 10 boys have completed the first half of their

final year at New Town High School! We look forward to

the exciting activities to come in the second half of the

year. We wish all students, parents and staff a safe and

happy break and look forward to seeing you all next term.

Andrew Harrison & Leone Lamont

Grade 10 Supervisors

FEATURED WRITING In the burning gaze of the hot desert sun

I seek cover anywhere I can find it

The constant shutter of fear every time gunfire is heard

Turning to my comrade, I pray he makes it through

As I focus my eyes ahead

I see a glimmer of hope

It becomes clearer as I stagger towards it

I finally see my one and only hope to survive

A Black Hawk Helicopter comes swooping in to save us

I feel the soft hands of the surgeon as he helps me onto the

chopper

Now in the safety of the chopper, I watch the war torn desert

blur away as we fly home

Written by

Levi Rose, 7E1

ARTS NEWS Tony Soszynski will be retiring at

the end of this term. Tony says it

is a forced retirement citing some

ongoing health issues as the rea-

son. This professional loves

teaching and was planning on

teaching until he was seventy and

it is with reluctance that we too

have to say goodbye to Tony.

Tony has been teaching Drama since the early 1970’s

and he is one of the few Drama teachers on the

teaching register that actually trained specifically as a

Drama teacher. In my opinion Tony is perhaps not

only one of the most effective teachers of Drama in

our state, but possibly the best and certainly the most

experienced. We have been incredibly lucky to have

Tony at New Town High. He has transformed the

facilities in the Drama Suit into a fully functioning

black box theatre and added a high degree of profes-

sionality to this area of learning for our boys.

Tony’s style of teaching demands professionality, at all

times, from our boys. He does not tolerate time

wasting, inattention or mediocrity. Subsequently, we

have seen many excellent productions and poetry

evenings where the standard is always spot-on. In-

deed, Tony once told me that if the boys are not fully

prepared they do not perform. One can only surmise

that the Muses must be acknowledged at all times and

the Muse is definitely present in Tony’s approach.

Personally I enjoyed the excellent poetry reading and

performance evenings arranged by Tony for the en-

joyment of parents and staff. It blew me away to see

junior boys stand and deliver powerful, yet brief,

punchy and honed performances one after the other

without fault. Such is Tony’s way! Success for all

with hard work and commitment.

On behalf of myself, the New Town High Arts team,

the thousands of students who have been lucky

enough to have been taught by Tony and indeed any-

one who has had the pleasure of working with him or

seeing one of his student performances wish Tony a

long and stimulating life after teaching. This is a big

life-changer for Tony and we all wish him the very

best.

On a less melancholy note, yet

one that carries the same weight,

we also reluctantly say goodbye to

Catherine Morris. Catherine

came to New Town High School

in 2006 and has been a regular

fixture since! Like Tony Catherine

is a highly experienced specialist

Grade 10 University Medical Taster Day

and her contribution to the school has been enormous.

Catherine is a masterful conductor of teenage musi-

cians. Her organisational skills and musical abilities have

been evident on a regular basis during assemblies, public

events, band competitions, Band Camps and Arts

Nights. She demands excellence and achieves it through

great communication skills, innate talent for musical

composition and sheer hard work. Music, especially

band music, requires commitment and rigour. The sub-

tle art of coaching the individual within the group with-

out losing the overall effect of the whole band is some-

thing Catherine has been great at. I was always slightly

envious of her ability to conduct and while I am not a

Musician my appreciation for the art of conducting was

easily conveyed via Catherine’s poise and style.

Catherine took on other important roles within the

school. I was always happy to be under her leadership

as a Grade Supervisor, as her directions were always

clear and unambiguous. As parents may be aware,

Grade Supervisor is a tough, but essential role. It is

time consuming, at times incredibly frustrating and a job

that demands incredible patience. Catherine met all

these criteria, often playing the “tough cop” and, be-

cause of her consistent approach, earnt great respect

with the boys of her grade.

I am hoping Catherine will revive her interest in horses

and enjoy many happy moments ahead of her when she

retires from teaching. Her presence and her skills will

be missed.

Mr Andrew Sweeney will also be

leaving his role within Music taking

his young family on an extended trip

to Vietnam via a teaching position in

an English School. Many teachers

from Tasmania apply and win teach-

ing jobs in overseas schools and

some do not return! According to

Mr Sweeney his overseas contract

lasts for two years and he assures

me he will return. Well I have heard that one before!

Seriously, we wish Andrew and his family all the best…

provided he returns! Andrew’s relationship with our

boys is second to none. His popularity as an even tem-

pered, friendly and consistently reliable professional

insures excellent learning outcomes all-round and while

the Arts Learning area loses great people we gain new

people that aptly fill the positions left vacant.

Finally, now the reports have been sent home parents

are encouraged to consider the Arts as a viable option

for their boys as they weigh their option choices for

2017. Arts provide a great balance to those areas

deemed as being academic. An education in the Arts

promotes many positive life skills from team work to

individual focus and excellence. Most Arts learning

areas are pre tertiary subjects in college and are

included in your son’s ATAR score. More and

more Tasmanians are enjoying the social capital that

Arts festivals and major contemporary art exhibi-

tions offer to us, and, given our position as a state

that relies heavily on Arts tourism, an education in

the Arts seems sensible. If you have any questions

related to your son’s choices please feel free to

contact me.

Kind regards and safe and exciting holidays.

Peter Young

HOD Arts

TRY’A SKILL DAY On Wednesday 29 June students from New Town

and various other high schools attended a Try a Skill

Day at Princes Wharf. During the allocated time

students would attend a workstation filled with dif-

ferent activities before moving on to their next sta-

tion. Personally the things I participated in were

informative and gave me a broader view on indus-

tries I had little knowledge of, I am sure I can say

the same for the rest of the students who attended.

Overall the event was filled

with fun and gave many stu-

dents a new perspective on

industries that seem boring

but are much more interest-

ing and diverse than some

may think. A special thanks

to Mrs Isles and Mr Appleton

for coming along and giving

us the opportunity to try the

skills we participated in.

Report by

Solomon Ghanbarzadeh, 10H1

On Wednesday 29 June, fifty two Grade 9/10 stu-

dents attended the Try‘a Skill Day at the Princes

Wharf and we found the opportunity to be most

rewarding.

The students enjoyed the hands on tasks that were

given by the majority of the stalls and it gave us a

real understanding of the job career that we may

like to take in the future. The volunteers were real-

ly enthusiastic and really enjoyed and showed pas-

sion for their jobs and were very helpful with the

questions that we asked.

The most career stalls were forestry, carpentry,

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to attend more in years to come.

Report by

Lucas Higgins,9D1 & Thomas Barker, 9H2

INDOOR VOLLEYBALL The volleyball season finished this week. Our New

Town High teams have been terrific ambassadors for

our school and have worked hard at developing their

skills all term.

It has been particularly pleasing to see the senior

boys mentoring the junior students at trainings and

on game days throughout the season.

The results from Monday night are as follows:

NTHS Grade 7’s

PREMIERS Junior Boys Div

NTHS Yellow (Grade 9)

5th place Senior Boys Div

NTHS Blue (Grade 9)

6th place Senior Boys Div

NTHS Grade 10’s

PREMIERS Senior Boys Div

Congratulations to all New Town High Town High

School boys. We wish them well as they head to-

ward the Southern Schools Volleyball Cup in Au-

gust.

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Grade 9 Players

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE COMPETITIONS On Friday 24 June, thirty-two of our French students

took part in the annual Alliance Française Competitions

held at Hobart College, Mount Nelson. The Alliance

Française is a group which promotes supports and devel-

ops the learning and speaking of the French language

throughout the world. At the annual Alliance Française

Competitions for schools, students are judged in poetry

recitation (by heart), reading comprehension, listening

comprehension and conversation.

Our students prepared with sincerity and commitment

for their performance and we acknowledge their efforts.

Very few of us undertake the task of learning an English

poem by heart for recitation, let alone a work by cele-

brated French poets. The number of entrants was high

with the majority of Southern Schools represented and

the standard of performance was first-class.

We take pleasure in announcing the best results earned

by our students and congratulating them on their

achievements. In the Grade 7 Poetry section, we were

represented by seven eager students – Dylan Brereton,

7D2, Dylan Midson-Laredo, 7D2, Jaden Moore, 7D1,

Liam O’Connor, 7D1, Oskar Puclin, 7D1, Alex Rolle,

7D2 and Maxwell Watson, 7D2. In a very tight time

frame ach student had prepared a wonderfully animated

recitation of a traditional French rhyme, ‘Coco Le Perro-

quet’, about a parrot’s efforts to cure his hiccoughs.

Dylan Brereton, 7D2 was awarded Equal 3rd place while

the others earned Honourable Mentions. Their commit-

ment was evident as they devoted considerable home-

work time to practice. Their French pronunciation

proved to be quite correct and it goes without saying

that the charm factor played its part.

Our Grade 8 contingent – Thomas Beswick, 8D1, Oli-

ver Blum, 8E1, Blake Brenner, 8J2, Sebastian Cock,

8E1, Bradley Doering, 8H2, Joel B French, 8E2, Joel

R French, 8D2, Deklan Haas, 8E2, Charles Meadows,

8E2, Lochlan Payne, 8E2, Ari Trochatos, 8D2, Max

Waters, 8D2 and Dominic Woolcock, 8E1 – were

faced with learning a challenging poem ‘La Tour Eiffel’ by

Maurice Carème. The challenge was in both the language

content and the length of the poem but all rose to the

occasion magnificently. We are all very proud of Oliver

Blum who was awarded 1st place, of Joel B French who

was awarded 2nd place and of our Honourable Mentions

Blake Brenner, Bradley Doering and Max Waters.

In Grade 9 Mason Attfield, 9J1, Aayush Bagga, 9E1,

Daniel Bobbi, 9E2, Jacob Gilham, 9D1, Calin Jenner,

9H1, Philip Matthysz, 9H1, Oscar Mineur, 9E1, Jor-

dan Russell, 9E1, Ethan Ryan, 9D2, Finlay Semmens,

9J2, Kelly Stone, 9J2 and William Thomas, 9J1,

learned the classic poem ‘Le Ciel est, pardessus le toit’ by

Paul Verlaine. We congratulate Aayush Bagga on

his creditable 1st place and Daniel Bobbi, Jacob

Gilham, Oscar Mineur, Finlay Semmens and Kelly

Stone on earning Honourable Mentions. In the

reading comprehension task Jacob Gilham, Kelly

Stone and Will Thomas all earned creditable

Honourable Mentions.

We had a very small but committed Grade 1o

group – Bradley Carlton, 10J2, Aiden Clark ,

10H1and Xavier Gandy, 10D2 – who did well

to learn the beautiful Victor Hugo poem ‘Le

Printemps’ and complete the listening comprehen-

sion task. We congratulate Xavier Gandy on his

trio of Honourable Mentions in poetry, conver-

sation and listening comprehension.

We extend a sincere vote of thanks to Ms Dare

for accompanying us to the competitions – we

appreciated her good company and support

throughout the day.

It was a treat to accompany our French students

to the Alliance Française Competitions, to share

in their excitement and be proud of their

achievements. Best of all, though, was the special

mention of the gentlemanly manner and attitude

of our New Town boys by the adjudicators. The

charm factor was a definite winner on the day.

All the participants deserve our congratulations

and will be presented with their awards and an

Alliance Française badge in a future assembly.

Grace Guerzoni

Coordinator

FOOD STUDIES REPORT The Foods Studies rooms have been filled with

the aromas of curried sweet potato soup, sushi

rice rolls, fabulous chicken parcels, parfait and

Devonshire tea from the Food Studies classes

this week. The boys have focussed on planning

and presentation of meals in the junior classes

and design tasks in the senior classes. Learning

to plan a recipe and meet time frames are im-

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portant preparation steps for the senior students do-

ing Grade 10 Exams in Term 3.

This term the Grade 7-5, 7-6, 7-7 and 7-8 complete

their first Semester course in Food Studies. The New

Town High School Fronter page gives students access

to all recipes which have been cooked, so I would en-

courage you to look up any favourite recipes and cook

them over the holidays.

Winners of the Grade 7 Food Studies Hygiene and

Safety Poster competition were announced in the last

school assembly and the successful winners were: 1st

prize Masyn Wilkins, 7H1, 2nd prize Aiden Midson,

7H2, and 3rd prize Ethan Unger, 7H1. All boys cre-

ated fabulous food safety and hygiene posters and they

have been on display in the Food Studies corridor

over the past three weeks. Congratulations to all our

entrants. Mr Jubb and Ms Mulholland were invited to

be guest judges and they were very impressed with the

explicit learning that was shown by the graphic details

in the posters!

In Term 3 the new Grade 7 students, (7-1, 7-2, 7-3, 7-

4) will be taking Food Studies in the second semester

so they will need to bring their school plastic contain-

er for take home food each lesson, an exercise book

and pencils. We hope they are organised and pre-

pared for their first lesson. Please see Mrs Weitnauer

if you have any problems obtaining these items.

Congratulations to Junior Chef of the Month Se-

bastian Cock, 8E1 and Senior Chef of the Month

Luke Eiszele, 9D1. Both boys were presented

with their certificates and gifts at the last school

assembly. Their photos can be seen in the Foods

Studies ‘walk of fame’. Well done to these skilled

and highly efficient students.

From time to time please check out the school

Fronter page (Food Studies) and select a recipe to

cook with your son. New recipes will be added as

the year progresses.

Happy cooking, happy holidays

Mrs Karen Weitnauer, Ms Taylor & Mrs Creed

REGISTRATION TO WORK WITH

VULNERABLE PEOPLE (RWVP) If you volunteer at this school, you will be required

to register for “Registration to Work with Vulner-

able People”. This will be mandatory by 1 Septem-

ber 2016. In July 2014 the Registration to Work

with Vulnerable People Act 2013 commenced in

Tasmania. This registration aims to significantly

improve safeguards to help keep children safe from

harm.

Under the new legislation

Employees and volunteers must apply for their

own Working with Vulnerable People Registration

(RWVP) once every three years.

Employers can check a person is registered using

the Tasmanian Departments of Justice (DoJ) web-

site at:

Masyn Wilkins Aiden Midson

Ethan Unger

Sebastian Cock

Luke Eiszele

http://www.justice.tas.gov.au/working_with_children

The same RWVP will apply to everyone—employees,

self-employed people and volunteers.

There are two forms of Registration—they are Volun-

teer Class and Employment/Volunteer class registra-

tion. This second class allows a person to both work

and volunteer with children.

Everyone with registration will be continuously moni-

tored for serious offences.

It is extremely important that staff and volunteers are

registered and that their school or business unit is rec-

orded against the registrant. This information is used

to communicate decisions about the suitability of peo-

ple to work with children. This information can be

checked and recorded using the DoJ website using the

registrant’s registration number and surname. If you

already have a RWVP card, please make sure you have

updated your registration to included all organisations.

How do I apply for RWVP?

Complete the online application form. This is available

from the website:

http://www.justice.tas.gov.au/working_with_children

It is critical that you choose Department of Education

from the drop down box.

Print the “application receipt” which is generated when

the application has been completed in full (if you do not

have access to a printer, record the reference number

and take that to a Service Tasmania Shop).

Take the “application receipt” to a Service Tasmania

Shop, have your photo taken and have your identity

confirmed. You will need to satisfy the identity re-

quirements. A driver’s licence will do this if it displays

your correct name and address. Advise the staff that

you are a volunteer with DoE.

Employees and those volunteers that currently have a

Good Character Check (GCC) will not have to pay.

Those volunteers that do not currently have a GCC

will need to pay $17.76 to 30 June or $18.36 from 1

July.

The Tasmanian Department of Justice will assess and

process applications and issues the Assessment Notice

and Working with Vulnerable People Registration card

directly to the applicant.

Generally applicants will receive their results within six

weeks of completing the application process.

There may be delays, however, depending on the

applicant’s personal information.

REMINDER: Due to the limited times to purchase uniform our preferred option is via phone orders, or filling out the order form, send it to school or email new.town.high@education.tas.gov.au. Enclose your credit card details or a cheque for payment. Allowing 24 hours for the order to be filled and we will send the uniforms home with your son and the receipt will be enclosed. The Uniform Shop is open only on Tuesdays from 8.15am to 9.15am and Wednesday from 2.30pm to 3.30pm.

Please note that most of these uniform items have been reduced.

PARENT NAME: _____________________________ PHONE No: _________________

STUDENT NAME: ___________________________

UPDATED UNIFORM PRICE LIST

ORDER FORM FOR 2016

ITEM COLOUR SIZE PRICE NO: TOTAL

FORMAL UNIFORM

Shirt, short sleeve Blue 8 –30 32

22.00

Shorts Grey 8 - 14 38.00

XS – 4XL

Trousers Grey 8 - 14 45.00

XS – 5XL

Woollen Jumper Navy 12 - 18 80.00

with school logo 20 – 24 26 - 32

SPORTS UNIFORM

Polo Shirt Yellow/blue 3XS – 4XL 28.00

Rugby Jumper Navy/gold trim 3XS - 3XL 50.00

Shorts Navy and yellow

stripe

8 – 3XL 30.00

Track Pants Navy/ 10 – 6XL 55.00

Yellow stripe

Spray Jacket Navy/

yellow stripe 14 – 3XL 80.00

OTHER ITEMS

Bucket Hats Navy/Gold 6.50

Caps Navy 5.00

School Bag with logo Navy Back pack 60.00

Tie Navy/yellow 20.00

New Town High School

6 Midwood Street, New Town, TAS 7008

Phone: 6278 0400

Absence Line: 6278 0499

E-mail: new.town.high@education.tas.gov.au

Web: http://newtownhighschooltas.org

https://www.facebook.com/NTHSTasmania