Newsletter Issue 11

2019 YEA HIGH SCHOOL

Racecourse Road, Yea 3717

P: 03 5797 2207 F: 03 5797 2931

E: yea.hs@edumail.vic.gov.au

W: www.yeahs.vic.edu.au

LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WITH A TWIST

The Murrindindi Shire Council Youth Team and Lauren Sartori from the Department of Education, are working with year 8 students on the Eve-ryday Leadership Program. The program is designed to foster every-one’s capacity to be a leader. A leadership program with a twist!!

This series of 4 sessions highlights the benefits of healthy decision mak-ing, peer support and positive role modelling in an energetic and engag-ing program.

MSC staff wish to establish that leadership is not just for the smartest, strongest, richest or most popular, it is for everyone, every time, every day. The Everyday Leadership Program (as part of Councils commit-

ment to Youth focussed programming), sends a powerful message to all young people that they have it within themselves to make positive changes for their benefit and for the benefit of those around them.

TERM 2

Week 4 Monday 5th - Friday 9th August

Thursday 8th Unit 4 Studio Arts/Vis Com Excursion

Friday 9th Hume Region—Senior Boys Netball

Week 5 Monday 12th Friday 16th August

Monday 12th 8B Mission to Mars Excursion

Monday 12th Yr12 —Medicinal Chemistry Excursion

Tuesday 13th 8A Mission to Mars Excursion

Thursday 15th STUDENT FREE DAY

SEMESTER 2 NETBOOK INSTALLMENTS & BUS FEES ARE NOW DUE

Netbook payments for semester two are now due. If you are paying your netbook via in-stalments please make contact with the office . Bus Fees for semester two are also now

HEALTH WARNING:

Chickenpox (Varicella) Yea High School has received a report of

a case of Chickenpox. Please be vigilant

if your child presents with any of the

symptoms and seek medical advice as it

is highly contagious. If it is contracted you

are infectious for one to two days before

the rash starts up until the last blister has

dried. The rash usually starts between 10

to 21 days after the first exposure. Chil-

dren with Chickenpox should be kept

home from school or other group settings

until the last blister has dried out. FURTHER INFORMATION

ww2.health.vic.gov.au

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Student Free day

On Thursday the 15th August students are not to attend school; this day has been set aside for staff to devel-op the school’s curriculum, undertake professional development and to review a range of data sets that reflect on the performance of Yea High School.

Parent Opinion Survey

The Parent Opinion Survey is currently open and parents that have been randomly selected to complete the survey have been notified. If you are one of these parents, we encourage you to take the time to respond. The survey is conducted online and only takes 15 minutes to complete. These surveys are very important and as-sist us in future school planning and improvement strategies.

Girls Football Team

Congratulations to the Senior Girls football team that recently competed at the zone finals. They were runners up on the day, however with such a young playing group the future looks bright!

Bus Safety

It is the case that bus travel is the safest form of travel to and from school. It is important to remind students and parents that the driver is not permitted to drop students off at any other destination other than the school or their point of pickup. The only exception to this is when there is a prior arrangement made with the school and the driver is then directed by the school.

To ensure safe travel on our buses I feel it is important to remind student of their condition of travel:

Stay in your seat while the bus is moving and wear seatbelts

They are not to distract drivers with loud noise and unruly behaviour

When students get off the bus they can only cross the road after the bus has left and when it is safe to do so.

Breakfast Club

Starting next Tuesday, the Breakfast Club will be back in action. Students arriving at school are invited to make their way to the Food Technology room where a range of healthy breakfast options will be available. Our thanks go to our new school nurse, Emma Sears, who has taken on board the task of organising this. There are local businesses that have pledged to assist in this programme and we will highlight these in our next newsletter.

Mr Brian D’Arcy

Mr Bruce Skewes

We have been giving an amazing op-

portunity with rotary to go to Fiji at the

end of July for a whole week. To get

to Fiji we each must raise $200 to

donate to our host families, as well as

pay for our own flights and passports.

People that are within this Fiji group

are; Riley Ball –Tilbrook, Bethany

Freeman, Arienne Holsworth Rose,

Cheyenne Hanson-Aristides, the initi-

atives taken to go to Fiji were; lolly

drive, raffle, collected donations from

the community, and waitering at the Beaufort Manor, we

had to raise money for the family we are staying with.

Fiji

For the first 5 days or so, we will be in a ‘Bure’ (a Fijian hut) with a host family and another student who has also volunteered. For the last two days, we will go to a hotel resort for a proper rest, as well as to eat and shower. While at Fiji we must be wearing a lot of cloths as the Fiji-ans have a very strict dress code, and we are not allowed to show lots of skin.

For our CSP (community service project) the nine of us chose to help Yea High school by cleaning up the nature strip. This in in-volved digging out saplings, raking leaves, picking up sticks, picking up rubbish and weeding gardens. Before we started the clean up the nature striped looked over grown, untidy and not up to scratch. How-ever with the help of da bois we managed to fix these problems.

It all started with our team clean-ing up around the carpark, by

picking up rubbish. We then moved on to the font nature strip. In the front nature strip and inside the school yard we begun by pick-ing up sticks, we then started to pull out many of the hundreds of shrubs and saplings. The methods used to remove the shrubs and sapling were ways such as using shovels to dig out the little trees, and fly kick the shrubs to break the branches.

From this CSP we’ve learnt many new skills including leadership

skills, working together and have built a good work ethic. We were so lucky for this opportunity and I recommend this community ser-vice project to the up coming year 9s because it was great. Thanks for reading this and hopefully it influenced you to do this commu-nity service job because it really helps out the school and its heaps of fun.

Angus, Jake, Lochlan, Anthony, Reece and Antonio.

As part of Brea’s Community Connections Community Services Project she helped

cater at the Yea Football Netball Clubs Thursday Night meals including the now

famous ‘Build Your Own Burger Night’ where

she prepared the food and served 60+ players,

familys and friends..

As part of our Community Connec-

tions Community Service Project, the

four of us chose to work with Land

Care Australia and coordinator, Chris

Coburn. He took us out to different

locations to work and plant trees and

put up nesting boxes. We put the

nesting boxes up at Cheviot Tunnel.

Students at Yea High school as part

of woodwork class had made the

nesting boxes. Chris also took us to a

private home, and we planted kanga-

roo grass around a dam to promote

biodiversity.

It was a good experience for all of us

because we got to go out into the

community and experienced seeing

lots of wildlife in the nesting boxes.

It was also good because we were

able to do something good for the

environment, such as planting the

kangaroo grass.

A skill we gained from this Commu-nity Service Project was how to work with outside groups to coordi-nate our project, communicate with people in the community, how to use a GPS correctly to mark and locate nesting boxes. We also learnt how to use different tools correctly. We enjoyed our experi-ence and would encourage other students to work with Landcare and Chris in the future.

The ‘BE A VOICE OF KINDNESS’

booklet can be downloaded from

the Compass Portal under School

Documentation or visit our web-

site

www.yeahs.vic.edu.au/student-

support-services/ Hard copies

will also be available from the Stu-

Thought for the week

Provided by Welfare & Wellbeing

2019 Tertiary Open Days

The following website lists information about institutional open days provided to VTAC. At open days, you can tour the campus, find out about courses that interest you and get a taste of tertiary life. For further information, including dates, times and loca-tions, visit

www.vtac.edu.au/opendays.html

Year 12 students will be having a VTAC ‘How To’ info session with Mr MacDonald. If you have any

questions regarding the application process please don’t hesitate to

have a chat with him

Hi Yea High School Community

My name is Emma Sears, I am the new School nurse at Yea HS and I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and my role. I trained as a Registered Nurse in Gippsland where I grew up in a small farming community of Stratford. Over my 12 year nursing career I have worked in Paediatrics, Emergency and School nursing in the Gippsland Region. I also worked in the mining sector doing mines rescue, firefighting and first aid. I currently live in Yarra Glen and work in the Emergency Department at the Northern. I work closely with the welfare team, Health and PE teachers and year level advisors to help inform and empower our students with all aspects of their physical, mental and emotional health. Students may see me in Health and PE classes assisting the teachers delivering content such as puberty, drug and alcohol education. I can see students on an individual basis for health education consultations and refer students to external supports/ services if needed. I work Mondays and Tuesdays. Students can drop by my office or ask their teachers to make a referral to see me. Parents are able to contact me through the general office. I am looking forward to working with the school community to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for all our students, families and staff. Kind Regards, Emma Sears.

How Technology Works, a DK publication Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialis-

ing in illustrated reference books for adults and children. Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles.

Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Dis-

cover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide.

How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip

fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches,

personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, l

ike the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival, I

ncluding solar cells and new kinds of farming to feed a growing population.

Visit the Yea High School library now to

check out this fantastic new book. If

you can’t locate it please ask the

friendly library staff for assistance.

Likewise, if there is a particular book

that you are interested in and you

don’t know if the library has it, just ask!

We are always on the lookout for great

new titles/topics.

Book Profile

LIBRARY NEWS

LIBRARY HOURS EXTENDED!

The library is now open to students at lunchtime on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays! Many thanks to the

staff who are helping out with supervision on those days, making it possible to open the library to students.

Happy reading! Belinda

This year we have commissioned two brilliant illustrators to create the artwork for our annual NAIDOC Week colouring competition: Angela Ramirez, who illustrated The Little

Corroborree Frog, and Brenton McKenna, the graphic novelist who wrote and illustrated

the Ubby’s Underdogs trilogy.

The colouring sheets are designed to be used as a NAIDOC Week activity!

What is the prize?

A student in each of three age groups will receive a set of books, and their school library will receive the equivalent set.

Who can enter?

The competition is open to students in primary and secondary school to Year 10. There

are two distinct colouring sheets, one for primary and one for secondary, but judging will take place in three categories, you will be entering the Year 7-10 category.

2019 NAIDOC Week

colouring competition!

Entries close Friday August

9th, end of school!