Friday 21st February 2020 Week 2 of cycle Term 1 Vol 2

DATES TO REMEMBER

Sunday 23 February - Friday 28 Feb Year 10 Sydney Excursion

(2019 Year 9)

Tuesday 25 February U15s Touch Football

University Roadshow 9:30 -10:30am

Thursday 27 February Open Basketball trials

Tuesday 3 March Police Talks

CHS Swimming

Thursday 5 March Open Netball

U15 & Opens Rugby League Trials

Monday 9 March CHS Zone Rugby Trials

Tuesday 10 March Welcome Year 7 Social 6 - 8:30pm

Friday 13 March U15s NC Touch Football

Monday 16 March Opens Soccer Trials

Tuesday 17 March NC Rugby

Hurfords Factory and Plantation and Designer Woodworks Industry Visit. Year 11 and 12 Industrial Technology students enjoyed a day off site, touring local the timber industry. The staff at Hurfords allowed students a behind the scenes look at one of their local mills. The group was then taken to the Hurfords plantation at Warrazambil Creek to see the hardwood plantation that supplies the mill. Following a quick lunch students were able to see a older style timber mill at the Hurfords site. The staff, Les White and Jim Rankin, were very generous with their time and knowledge. After departing the plantation students visited a Designer Woodworks a custom hardwood joinery and fine furniture manufacturer led by Master Craftsman Garan Hale. Designer Woodworks uses traditional timber joinery to supply high end joinery for builders and architects. Designer woodworks took us on a tour of their new factory and gave us an insight into working with our local timber products from logs to finished furniture. Overall it was a long and hot day and Kyogle High students represented their school well and got a great introduction to the timber industry in our local area. Mr O’Meara

TIMBER INDUSTRY EXCURSION

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Students and staff have settled into the 2020 school year. I congratulate the students in full school uniform and the positive message that this sends out to the community regarding the pride in being a student at Kyogle HS. Attendance At the last assembly, I spoke to students regarding our school Attendance Procedure. Under the Education Act (1990) all students between the ages of 6 and 17 must attend school everyday unless there is a justified reason supplied to the school within 7 days. The two most common ‘justified leave’ are sick or approved leave. In terms of sick leave, a medical certificate must be provided to the school for absences of three days or more. Approved leave relates to incidents such as a serious illness of an immediate family member or attendance at a funeral. An unjustified absence is unexplained or unacceptable such as shopping, haircuts, tired, family visiting etc. Some statistics relating to 13 years of Schooling 1 day a fortnight missing school = nearly 1.5 years 1 day a week missing school = over 2.5 years 3 days per week = nearly 8 years Or in terms of a years worth of schooling 1 day a fortnight = 4 weeks per year 1 day a week = 8 weeks per year 3 days per week = 24 weeks per year Extended leave/family holidays Application for Extended Leave and Certificate of Extended Leave forms are required when a student will be absent from school for more than 5 days. Families are encouraged to travel during the NSW school holidays. If travel outside this time is necessary, the family must apply for approval before hand through completion of Application for Extended Leave (available from the Front Office). If approved, a Certificate of Extended Leave form will be issued. Have a great fortnight.

Gae Masters Principal

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Welcome to this issue of the KHS newsletter. Across Term 1 our PBL focus is on transition to class and movement around bubblers. This focus aims to maintain smooth movement to class so that students arrive on time and ready to learn. Our PBL expectations around these two settings are: Bubblers

Transition

I encourage parents and carers to discuss these expectations with their student(s) especially using bubblers at break times and moving quickly and quietly to class to maximise educational and engagement opportunities.

David Hanley - Deputy Principal

Be Safe Be Respectful Be a Learner

• Right place, right time

• Wait in line

• Use equipment for its purpose

• Walk

• Use at break times

• Take turns

• Follow staff instructions

• Keep water in the sink

• Turn taps off when finished

Be Safe Be Respectful Be a Learner

• Right place, right time

• Know your timetable

• Keep to the left

• Use direct route to class

• Walk

• Move quickly and quietly

• Line up outside classroom

• Wait for teacher

• Follow staff instructions

• Use school talk

• Put rubbish in bin

• Have all equipment for class

• Digital devices off and in your bag

VACCINATIONS NSW SCHOOL VACCINATION PROGRAM: Each year NSW Health works in partnership with schools to offer the vaccines recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school vaccination program.

In 2020 the following vaccines will be offered: Parent Information Kits that include an information sheet, consent form and privacy statement will be sent home to parents/guardians. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to:

• read all the information provided

• complete the consent form, including signing their name next to the vaccine/s they would like their child to receive

• return the completed consent form to their child’s school

• ensure that their child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccination clinic. Please note that, to improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered any missed doses dur-ing Year 7 or 8 (for HPV and DTP vaccination) and during Year 10 or 11 (for Meningococcal ACWY vaccination). Parents/guardians who wish to withdraw their consent for any reason may do so by writing to the school Principal or phoning the school. The Procedure for Withdrawal of Consent is available on the NSW Health website at www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/ Pages/withdraw_consent.aspx.

A Record of Vaccination will be provided to each student vaccinated at each clinic either as a physical card or a text message sent to the mobile number recorded on the consent form. Details about vaccinations given at school will also be uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) to support complete vaccination histories.

YEARS

VACCINE

NUMBER OF DOSES Year 7 March 20 & October 23

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine

2-doses at least 6 months apart

Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine

Single dose

Years 10 June 19

Meningococcal ACWY vaccine

Single dose

P&C ASSOCIATION

ROSTER

Monday 242:

Tuesday 25/2: L. Ryan, K. Crawter

Wednesday 26/2:

Thursday 27/2:

Friday 28/2:

Monday 02/3:

Tuesday 03/3: K. Crawter, K. Carter

Wednesday 04/3:

Thursday 05/3:

Friday 06/3:

If you are rostered on to help on a day and you cannot make it, please let Deb know as soon as possible. Phone: School - 6632 1300 Deb - 6636 4261

CANTEEN NEWS

It was great to have some new faces at last weeks meeting and thank you to the regulars who always attend. Coming to the P&C is a great way to be involved in your child's education and meet other people from your child's grade. It is a great platform to have a say, in a relaxed, non judgmental atmosphere. Meetings have been changed to 5pm instead of the later 5:30pm. Our AGM will be held on Tuesday 10th march in the Common Room. This is the same day as the Welcome Year 7 Social - hope to see some more families

join us!

P&C MEETING (A.G.M) 5:00pm

MARCH 10th Ordering at the Canteen Recess and lunch orders are available every day. Please make sure your orders are in by the following times: Recess: Orders in by 10am Lunch: Orders in by 11:30am Orders can be given directly to the canteen or via phone (from 7:30am everyday). Volunteers! Volunteers are always welcome 9:00am - 1:50pm OR 9:00am - 11:30am. Please contact Deb on the above numbers if you can assist!

TAS

Students are in the swing of practical classes across TAS with many interesting activities taking place. In Year 12 Hospitality students have this week made a few different chicken salad dishes to share and taste test. Year 11 Hospitality students made fresh hommus and beetroot hommus which they compared to store bought varieties, before choosing one for their Avo on Toast recipes. Year 9 students in the Cooking Masterclass, are investigating bread from around the world and made ham and cheese scrolls. Year 8 and Year 7 Food Tech classes are learning about bees. Students created smoothies with banana and honey, after taste testing local honey varieties and our home made labneh cheese.

Year 12 Hospitality

Year 11 Hospitality

Year 9/10 Cooking Masterclass

TAS continued.. In Industrial Arts students in Year 12 Industrial Tech Timber and Design and Technology are starting their major

projects. There are some interesting choices with designs this year. Students in Year 11 Construction have been

inducted into the program and are now learning about industry safety. In Miss Sutcliff’s Year 9/10 Metal class last

week students investigated metal art and had a lot of fun making crickets. Students used metal hand tools to bend

and shape some old forks to make some lovely metal art pieces. In Timber Technology Year 9/10 students have

finished their safety induction and are building a phone speaker.

Year 9/10 Metal

Students in the new Year 9 and 10 Furniture Design short course, are investigating types of timber and developing designs for their small stool furniture projects. Across TAS our elective subjects do have student contributions and we would appreciate if parents and carers can make payment through the Front Office for TAS subjects being studied. Year 8 Technology Mandatory Mixed Material class is working with textiles and making some beautiful bracelets with Miss McMillan. Year 8 Mandatory Technology classes rotate every Term throughout the year, covering four aspects of Technology over the year. 8 tech 2 has been investigating fibres and their first hands-on project was a Chunky bracelet using knotting and weaving techniques.

Mrs Byrnes

ASSESSMENT TASK SUPPORT!! Mrs Batson (Learning & Support Teacher) will be available at lunch times (Room 8) to assist students in Years 9, 10, 11 & 12 with their Assessment Tasks. This support will start next week, Monday 24th February 2020 and continue for the whole school year. Students can access direct support in:

• Time management skills

• How to minimise stress involving meeting Assessment Task due dates

• Interpreting / break down the questions to clarify exactly what they are being asked to do

• How to decode and read the Marking Criteria and specific strategies and guidelines on how to structure their answers.

For further enquiries, please contact Mrs Batson at school 6632 1300 (Kyogle high School) or email the school : kyogle-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au.

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Congratulations to our students who competed in the Zone Swimming Carnival on Thursday 20th February. Official Results will be published in the next newsletter.

MEET THE TEACHERS

English Department My name is Annie Murray. I graduated as an English Teacher in 2008 and have been teaching in the Northern Rivers for the past ten years at various high schools in the area on temporary engagements.

This is my first year teaching at Kyogle High. So far the students have been a bright and bubbly bunch and the teaching staff are wonderfully fun and supportive. I look forward to my year working with everyone. That's me on the right! :) My husband and I love camping. This is us on Stradbroke Island with our kids.

FROM THE OFFICE Friendly Reminder. Please bring notes and money together to the Front Office for excursions and activities. Otherwise notes will be returned to the student to hand in when they have the money with it. This doesn't apply when the excursion/activity does not involve payment. Front Office