apparent that the students, and staff, truly engaged in an enjoyable day for

all, learning along the way. The

videos on Facebook capture the enthusiasm and positive atmosphere of the day.

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I think Week 4 at Windsor High was one of our busiest weeks so far this year. For those who follow us on Facebook, you would have received regular notifications about the great things that happened at our school. You will notice within this report that students are exposed to enrichment activities that are both curriculum based and extracurricular, to ensure students experiences are enhanced in a variety of areas. Koomurri Day was celebrated on Tuesday, where Years 7-10, and students from some of our feeder pr imary schools learnt about Aboriginal culture. The singing, dancing and body paining created a great atmosphere, where it was clearly

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HSC Drama Night gave our Year 12 students who are doing Drama for the HSC the chance to perform their pieces for an audience of family, peers and staff. The students’ performances were very well received and we wish them the best of luck when they complete the

performances for the HSC markers.

We had an enrichment activity day based around Vikings as a part of the HSIE syllabus, bringing history to life for our students. They learnt about the

lifestyle and dress of people from the Viking era.

Year 11 had a Crossroads camp on the Central Coast, a mandatory requirement that all Preliminary students undertake. Crossroads is designed to help senior students address issues of health, safety and wellbeing at a time when they face significant changes and challenges in their lives. Crossroads aims to prepare and support these students as they encounter situations related to identity, independence and their changing responsibilities. Crossroads aims to build students’ sense of empowerment and respect for themselves and

others.

A number of Year 11 students chose not to attend the overnight camp, so the school organised their

Crossroads activities and lessons at school.

Our Bronze Duke of Ed students headed off on Friday for their challenge of walking the Great Northern Walk. This provides a great opportunity for students to challenge themselves, as well as develop great leadership and team building

opportunities. All returned safely on Saturday.

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On Sunday, Windsor High School Rural Fire Service (RFS) cadets entered a competition against other RFS units in the district. We were highly successful for a group that has only been established recently at Windsor High, beating schools that have been a part

of the cadets for a number of years

I would like to say a BIG thank you to all the staff of Windsor High for their hard efforts over the last few weeks. The organisation involved in the events men-tioned here and in previous newsletters is huge and takes a lot of time and effort. Many of these events have taken place outside of normal school hours, and also on weekends. The students are benefitting great-ly and the school has a great positive culture. I hope that both students and parents appreciate the “little extras” that the teachers are providing to ensure stu-dents are receiving valuable learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom. Regards Jennifer Hawken

Principal

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15/8 to 19/8 Year 10 Taster Week Yr 11 Workplacement (VET Catch-up) 16/8 Trial HSC Examinations Exc - B-Street Smart - Year 10 18/8 Captains Interviews Year 7 Academic Reviews 22/8 Girls Leadership Program - Period 1-2 24/8 Year 10 Options Day 25/8 HSC Drama-BOSTES Practical Marking 29/8-2/9 Yr 10 into Yr 11 Subject Selection Week 29/8 Girls Leadership Program - Period 1-2 Exc - HSIE - Geography RAP Field Trip 30/8 Captains Assembly - Speeches - Period 2 5/9 Girls Leadership Program - Period 1-2 Year12 Talk - Safe Celebrations - Period 1 Exc - HSIE - HSC Study Day 6/9 Principal’s Morning Tea - Years 10,11,12 7/9 Year 6 into 7 Transition Day 12/9-20/9 Preliminary Yearly Examinations 21/9 Year 12 Graduation Ceremony 22/9 Year 12 Formal - Riverside Oaks 23/9 Last day for Term 3 10/10 Staff & students return to school for Term 4 (NO student free day to start Term 4) 18/10 Year 8 into 9 Subject Information Evening Year 7 Gala Day 20/10-25/10 Year 9 Subject Selection Interviews 25/10 Year 6 into 7 Transition Day 14/11-18/11 Year 9 & 10 Yearly Examinations

Thank You to Harvey Norman The English Faculty at Windsor High School constantly seek new ways to integrate technology into classroom prac-tice in engaging and meaningful ways and to this end we would like to extend a warm thanks to Stuart Boyd and the fabulous staff at Harvey Norman, McGraths Hill. Following a request for support, the staff at Harvey Norman and Belkin has provided the English Department with twen-ty (20) chargers and four (4) power boards for the English faculty’s class set of iPad minis. With this generous dona-tion, the English faculty are now able to establish a charg-ing station, allowing for greater access and use of the iPads by students. Harvey Norman McGraths Hill have been a community part-ner for many years now and provide our students and par-ents with great deals on their products. We look forward to continuing this partnership into the future and, again, ex-tend a big thank you for their wonderful and ongoing sup-port .

Go, Harvey Norman,

Go!

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English Department - Twelfth Night Excursion ‘Journeys end in lovers meeting…’ Earlier this term, students from Years 8, 9 and 10 attended the Belvoir Street Theatre to see a perfor-mance of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Ac-companied by the wonderful teachers of the English department, students experienced a highly dramatic day, due only in small part to the actors on stage. Leaving Mulgrave Station early in the morning, stu-dents travelled to Central Station only to encounter the first drama of the day; a sustained and torrential downpour of rain. Despite weather forecasts predict-ing such, only 3 of the 60 students attending the ex-cursion had umbrellas, and these students, as well as Ms Kedicioglu, suddenly found themselves very popular as students huddled beside them seeking shelter. Those unfortunate students who didn’t ‘suck up’ fast enough had to brave the weather. Running down the narrow and uncovered footpaths of Surry Hills, students dodged and weaved through oncom-ing pedestrians with such speed that many could have been competing in Rio with the likes of Usain Bolt. Soaked and more than a little dishevelled, students were grateful to finally reach Belvoir St Theatre. En-joying a warm beverage, students were able to raise their body temperature before heading into the thea-

tre to begin the First Act.

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Koomurri Day 9th August Koomurri Day was a day celebrated by Windsor High school as part of the National Aboriginal Childrens Day. The day began with Primary School students arriving from Macdonald Valley, Windsor South and Windsor Park to attend the day alongside their older student mentors from Allowah Day. A smoking ceremony started the day along with a welcome song and dance show. Students were all spellbound with many recognising Darren from NITV who sang and played the Didgeridoo. The students and teachers were divided up into four groups and cycled through each activity during the day. One group taught Aboriginal dance. All students learnt a dance and many then performed the dance at the farewell concert at the end of the day. Artefacts, Weaponry and Bush survival were taught focusing on Aboriginal lan-guage and culture, students were captivated. Boomerang throwing was very popular with many boomerangs re-turning to the person throwing the boomerang. Aboriginal Art saw all our students painted and participating in a mural for the school. The day ended with a farewell concert that had everyone in the school dancing with lots of smiles. It was a very successful day involving the whole school and many of its partner primary schools.

Kerrie Corr - Aboriginal Education Co-ordinator

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Senior Drama Night During Week 4, Year 12 Drama students held the Senior Drama Night, performing their major perfor-mance pieces for friends and family in the Drama Room at Windsor High School. Guests were treated to a variety of performances. The night began with a dark, and somewhat disturb-ing monologues from Katelyn D and Chloe H in-spired by The Lovely Bones and American Gothic respectively, before Gemma Healey entertained the crowd with her detective work and conspiracy theo-ries as 11 year old Gabz from David Walliams’ nov-el, Demon Dentist. Our first group then performed their Group Devised Performances (GDPs) with Izaya Souter, Tristan Gaiter, Gabrielle Duggan and Caitlin Morgan performing as Apps competing for the top spot in the App Store. The audience laughed as the sarcastic and competitive Apps in-sulted Snap Chats lack of focus, Pokemon Go’s nerdiness, Spotify’s constant advertising and Face-

Windsor High Netball Uniforms Following the success of the Windsor High School Open Netball Team, who recently repre-sented the Hawkesbury Zone at the Sydney West Knockout Competition, our team is closer to re-ceiving netball uniforms. This is a result of the generous donation from Samantha and Andrew Tuckwell, parents of one of our players, Maddie Tuckwell, and the fundraising efforts of the SRC. This overwhelming and unexpected donation is greatly appreciated and gives the players the op-portunity to represent our school with pride in the wider community, proudly dressed in our school colours. The team would like to thank Samantha and Andrew for their support. WHS Open Netball Team: Maddie Tuckwell Katelyn Woods Brittnee Sheath Emily Dunn Jackie Van Trump Analyse Steel Alannah Allen

Zoe Alchin

book’s ability to turn society into slaves of social media. These performances were followed by a mono-logue from Tristan G as an historic bachelor finally tying the knot and passing on his knowledge of the ‘Bro Code’ to the next generation, as well as a monologue from Caitlin M as a child whose dead twin sister lingers in this world as her imaginary friend. Group two followed up with their GDP as stream-ing networks Netflix and Stan stand trial for trying to take over the world. As each network tries to blame the other, it is hard not to laugh at poor Pi-rate Bay, whose poor grasp of the English lan-guage leaves him with dialogue reminiscent of a Guzman and Gomez menu. The night was brought to a close with the mono-logues of Izaya S and Gabrielle D. Izaya plays Lakshmi, a Nepalese girl who becomes the victim of human trafficking. Inspired by the novel ‘Sold’, Lakshmi tells the story of how she came to ‘Happiness House’ and her courageous journey to freedom. Gabby’s monologue, however, was in-spired less by plight and more by Simon Cowell, as Gabby becomes a crazed One Direction fan camped out for a concert and desperate to begin the one perfect night that will see her in the arms of Harry Styles by nights end. Overall the performances were excellent and stu-dents are now in final planning mode in prepara-tion for HSC examiners coming in Week 6. Good

luck Year 12!

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To all Parent and Carers: Survey about ‘What Young People Need’ in Term 3 Windsor High School has been invited to participate in the study being conducted by re-searchers at the University of New South Wales. The New South Wales Department of Education, The Smith Family and the Advocate for Children and Young People are part-ners on the project. Students in Years 7/8 and 9/10 have been invited to participate. Students in selected classes will be sent home with a Parent/Guardian Information Statement two weeks be-fore the survey takes place. Students will complete the survey in Term 3, in Weeks 6 or 7. The survey will take 25-30 minutes during class time and will ask about the types of items and activities that all young people should have. It will ask young people about their overall well-being and life satisfaction, including asking about some basic infor-mation about themselves, their family and their friends and social networks.

If you have any concerns and are unsure whether this study applies to your child please contact Candice Keir. For more information about the study please visit: www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/deyp/

Participation is voluntary, so your child can decide on the day whether they would like to participate. If you are happy for your child to partici-pate you do not need to do anything. If you would NOT like your child to participate, please sign and return the ‘Withdrawal of Participation Form’ that will be sent home with your child, or let Candice Keir know that you do not want them to participate.

SRC Happenings

Term 3 has gone off to a flying start for the members of the Student Representative Council. The SRC conduct-ed and assisted in a number of school-based events. The SRC participated in and supported the White Ribbon Movie Night that promoted the idea of respectful relationships within our school. The night proved to be a suc-cess with students having had the pleasure of watching a movie and to have the chance to be in the draw to win a number of prizes. Recently, the SRC also organised a very successful fundraiser on Friday 5 th August for the Jeans for Genes Organisation. Students donated a gold coin donation in return for having the privilege of wearing their favourite jeans to school for the day. All funds raised went towards the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI). CMRI’s work is carried out with the single aim to im-prove and extend the lives of children genetic diseases. Some events for the calendar to look forward to include: Footy Colours Day which will be held on Friday 5th September. In return for a gold coin donation, students will be able to wear their favourite sporting team’s jersey. The aim is to raise much needed money for the Cancer Foundation and to show our support for kids who

are suffering from this deadly disease.

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Duke of Ed

The first trip – Great North Walk

On 12th of August we set off on an adventure. We first all met at Mulgrave station about 7.50am, preparing for a massive day of adventures and bushwalking. We jumped onto the train all pumped and ready to go. Our train pulled in about 9am to Circular Quay, and then it was time to catch our ferry to Woolwich Wharf, hoping to get to our camp at Lane Cove Tourist Park before dark. Once off the ferry we had a little talk about where we were going then were given a map and we set off with the teachers following behind. After about 1km we were lost but after carefully looking at the map we found our way and set off. Many more km ahead we missed one of our signs so we walked all the way down a massive hill to find it was a dead end. Then we walked back up the hill wondering if we would ever get there. We found the sign back at the top of the hill covered by a big hedge, just visible. Continuing a few more streets we found both Mr Hawes and Ms Thompson relaxing in the sun having a coffee. So we decided to buy an ice cream to cool down. Then it was time to start the bush walking and after a few km we decided to have lunch. Continuing on after lunch we got lost once again. Finally, finding that we had just gone around in a big 500m loop, we were walking along a beautiful river, the sun light dancing off the top of the water. Later we decided to make a little short cut to make sure we got to camp before dark. When we arrived at camp it was time to set up our tents, although sir and miss stayed in a cabin. After camp was set up it was time for a cook up. Having cooked some great food under the stars, which the teachers joined us for, we cleaned our bowls and pots and dried them. It was time for a nice shower and then we walked up to the TV room and chilled out. Come 10pm we went to bed. In the morning we woke to the amazing sound of the birds and bush turkeys. We decided to cut our trip short due to injuries so we let our tents dry out, packed our packs and set off for the train station 900m up the road. After catching a train to the city we walked around the QVB for an hour until it was time to head home. We were all so tired and hap-py at the same time. We thank Mr Hawes and Ms Thompson for taking us on a trip we will never forget.

By Annabelle T and Jack W, Year 9.

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