16th September 2016 Term 3 Week 9

KELSO HIGH CAMPUS

NEWSLETTER Delivering excellence, innovation, opportunity and student success

Telephone: 63314544 email: kelso-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au PO Box 499

Fax: 6332 1678 web: www.kelso-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Bathurst 2795

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Brandon Martin 2016

NSW All Schools Cross Country Championships – 4th overall in the 18 Years 8km event; Silver medal in the NSW CHS category.

Australian Cross Country Championships – 35th from 60 in the U20’s 8km event. 18th in the 18 Years category; Gold Medal in the 5x3km Relay event.

NSW CHS Athletics Championships – 7th in the 17+ Years 3000m with a personal best time of 9:05.52; 5th in the 17+ Years 1500m; Gold Medal in the 2000m Steeplechase.

NSW Country Athletics Championships – Gold Medal in the U20’s 1500m and 3000m Steeplechase.

NSW Junior Athletics Championships – Silver medal in the U20’s 3000m Steeplechase.

Australian Junior Athletics Championships – 11th in the U20’s 3000m Steeplechase.

NSW Cross Country Championships – 7th in the U20’s 8km event.

City2Surf – 37th from 67,000 in a personal best time of 47:34 for the 14km event; winning the 16-19 years category.

NSW Short Course Cross Country Championships – 5th in the U20’s 5km event.

Deua Berry

2016

Played in the Sydney League every Sunday for the last 5 months. Won the U/19s Division

Member of the Open CHS Western Team which won gold at the State Carnival.

Captain of the U/16s NSW CHS team. NSW placed 5th at the Nation-al Tournament. Selected in the Top 10 Players making the Honorary U/16 Australian team.

Invited to join the Australian Junior Volleyball Program. Attends many camps over the next two years in the lead up to the Asian Juniors.

Captain of the U/17 NSW Open Team travelling to Queensland in the September holidays.

Has trained every Saturday in Sydney over the last 5 months as part of this program.

Congratulations to Brandon and Deua who have both achieved outstanding results!

Important Dates –

September 12-23 September Year 11 Preliminary Examinations 15 September RSA/RCG Course 16 September CKC Cup - Canobolas to Kelso 22 September Year 12 Final Assembly 23 September Last day of term October 10 October Staff and students return to school 13 October CAPA Night 13 Oct - 4 Nov HSC Examinations 25 October Student Leaders Induction Assembly 29 November Year 7, 2017 Welcome to Kelso High Evening

2017 Year 12 Student Leadership Team and School Captains

We are pleased to announce the 2017 Year 12 Student Leadership Team: Caroline Harvey, Lachlan Smith, Susannah

Winkelman, Joshua McInerney, Emily Geerkens, Felix Mol, Samantha Pett and Mark Day. In order to be eligible to

stand for election by staff and Year 11 students, these students were required to submit a written application and

were successful at interview with the Principal, Year Adviser and Coordinator of the Student Leadership Team.

All eight members of the 2017 Year 12 Student Leadership decided to stand for a School Captain position which re-

quired them to give a speech to the whole school in a special assembly. They spoke about what being a leader means

to them and why they would be an effective School Captain. The quality of the speeches was very high and all candi-

dates presented themselves in a professional manner. All staff and Year 7-11 students as well as the current Year 12

Student Leadership Team had the opportunity to vote for our School Captains last week and the following four stu-

dents were elected: Lachlan Smith, Caroline Harvey, Samantha Pett and Joshua McInereny. Congratulations to these

students. We are very proud of all candidates and acknowledge their sincerity, integrity and pride in their school. It is

clear that our student leaders have a strong desire to work together with the students, staff and community to im-

prove our campus and we have much confidence in their ability to achieve great things.

2017 School Captains Joshua McInerney, Caroline Harvey,

Samantha Pett and Lachlan Smith with Mr Sloan

2017 Year 12 Student Leadership Team : Caroline Harvey,

Emily Geerkens, Susannah Winkelman, Mark Day, Lachlan

Smith, Samantha Pett, Felix Mol and Joshua McInerney

Principal’s Report

Student Leaders and Captains Determined

It has been a hectic couple of weeks as we elected our Student Leadership Team of 8, then our 4 Captains from that

Team. Congratulations to Lachlan Smith, Susannah Winkelman, Emily Geerkens, Caroline Harvey, Joshua McInerney,

Mark Day, Samantha Pett and Felix Mol. We are so fortunate to have a group like this; students who are amazing role

models, passionate, intelligent and dedicated. All 8 students in the Team nominated for the captaincy and any one, or

any combination would have been worthy of the role. Congratulations to Lachlan Smith, Caroline Harvey, Joshua McIn-

erney and Samantha Pett who were elected as Captains.

Congratulations Deua

Outstanding performances by Deua Berry for NSW in the recent National Championships has earned him a spot in the

Australian Under 16 Volleyball Team. This is a huge achievement!

Well Done Brandon

Brandon Martin has dominated our publicity in recent weeks and he continues to do so, in what has been a stellar year.

In CHS State Athletics last week Brandon achieved a PB and a 7th place in the 3000 metres. The next day he was bril-

liant winning the 2000 Steeplechase to claim the Gold Medal and backed up for the final of the 1500 finishing 5th. Fan-

tastic results that are thoroughly deserved.

Aboriginal Mural

Under the guidance of former student and incredibly gifted artist Taylor Curry and AEO Rex Cochrane, a group of stu-

dents have produced a mural that is now a permanent fixture in our gym. It is an incredible creation and tells an im-

portant story about being on-task, respectful and safe. The mural was developed in collaboration with local Wiradjuri

Elders and features important local totems and symbols. The mural will be officially unveiled during our NAIDOC Week

celebrations on Tuesday 20 September at 5:00 pm. We would love you to come along.

Term 3 Draws to a Close

This is my favourite time of year. I’m really looking forward to next week and spending some time with Year 12 as they

celebrate their final week of school. I would like to thank everyone at Kelso High Campus for their efforts this term. In

many ways we have so much to celebrate. I hope everyone has a safe and relaxing break

Agriculture Position Finalised

I am very pleased to announce that Jarrod Kelly has been appointed permanently to the Agriculture/Science position

which was vacated by Mrs Behan. Jarrod has been working in a temporary capacity this year. It is fantastic that he will

be staying!

Top Performances:

Zach Burke, Duea Berry and Macson Alexander who represented NSW in the All Schools National Volleyball

Championships

Our dance ensembles who rehearsed and worked really hard for their performances in the Bathurst Eisteddfod

last week - especially the Year 10 Ensemble which placed 3rd

HSC Art and Photography students who have produced some outstanding works which were showcased last

week, highlighting the enormous talent and commitment that has gone into these creations

Josephine Geerkens who will represent KHC in December at the State Finals in Debating

Our SRC students who have done some important community work for the Bathurst Cancer Council and Legacy

Please give me a call me or drop by to discuss anything concerning your child and Denison College—Kelso High Campus

Mick Sloan

Principal

College Principal’s Report

September 2016

Future Directions

Future Directions interviews are complete! 280 students and their parents have met with cross-campus teams to dis-

cuss career and study plans. I would like to thank those parents and carers who were able to make the time to come to

the campuses and meet with College staff.

Now that the interviews are complete, we are in the process of reviewing the choices made by the students and making

the final decisions about what subjects will run for Year 11 2017. I expect that this will be finalised by Wednesday 14th

October.

West of the Divide Stage Band European Tour

A number of Denison College musicians have the privilege of doing something very special this year. 88 talented musi-

cians and singers gathered in Dubbo during the July holidays to start polishing performances they will present in

world famous venues in some of the music capitals of Europe. The intensive weeklong rehearsals were part of the

preparation for the West of the Divide Stage Band and Choir for their European Performance tour in September and

October.

Students from both campuses of Denison College and all over regional NSW will perform, undertake master-

classes and workshops, share musical experiences with local students and enjoy concerts and recitals in Vien-

na, Salzburg, St Gilgen the Mozart Village, Hodonin, Budapest and Prague.

The tour is an opportunity to enrich the talents of the outstanding musicians and singers, taking their local

regional and state experiences to an international level.

Highlights of the tour include:

masterclasses and workshops with renowned conductors at musical meccas such as Salzburg’s Mozar-teum, Vienna’s Wiener Konzerthaus abd the Budapest Operetta and Musical Theatre;

immersing themselves in the amazing acoustics as they perform in Matthias Church, Budapest, performing with Czech student musicians in the 14th Century Church of St Havel, jamming with jazz musicians on one of Prague’s famous River Vltava jazz boats and entertaining with an impromptu recital in the 900-year-old Benedictine Abbey church at Melk; and

enjoying the opera La Traviatta in the ornate Prague National theatre. The 88 students chosen for the West of the Divide ensemble earned their place through outstanding perfor-

mances at choral and concert band programs held for students

from local public schools.

International Principals’ Meeting

In late August I was privileged to be one of only two NSW school princi-

pals to be able to make a flying visit to Perth to participate in the Interna-

tional Confederation of Principals’ (ICP) Global Leaders’ Forum. ICP repre-

sents the peak principal associations from all over the world, and 75 prin-

cipals from every continent were visiting Perth for one of their regular

executive committee meetings.

As well as having the opportunity to speak to principals from all over Aus-

tralia and such diverse places as Denmark, Ireland, Finland, Kenya and

Nigeria (to name a few), I was also able to contribute to the ICP response

to the Incheon Declaration for Education 2030 which sets out the vision

for education across the world for the next fifteen years.

Craig Petersen

College Principal

Photo :Emily Sennett, Georgie Hayes, Elizabeth Talbot and Kathleen Murphy

(KHC) and Lewis Dunshea, Aiden McBurney and Alex Grace (BHC)

Premier’s Debating Challenge Success

The Year 9 Debating team competed in the Western Region quarter finals on the 19th August and defeated Orange High

School in a video-conference debate. The team argued as the negative against the topic ‘That the entry requirements

to enter teaching should be raised’. They raised many strong arguments about the quality of teachers in the system,

the need for subject specialised teachers, the importance of teacher passion being balanced against academic de-

mands and how this could lead to a shortage of staff in some areas.

They then proceeded to the semi-final on the 23rd August against Coolah Central School and argued as the affirmative

‘That we should raise the legal drinking age to 21’. They were successful in this round of the finals after raising points

about the impact on brain development, the increase in risk taking behaviour and the need for social change in Austral-

ia.

In the grand final they were against the Year 10 team from Henry Lawson High School in Grenfell and argued as the

negative in the topic ‘That we should give Indigenous people rights to air, land and sea’. They presented arguments

about the existence of consultation in our society, the impacts this could present to trade arrangements and Australia’s

economic stability.

The adjudicators of the grand final praised both teams for a high level debate claiming it was of Year 11/12 standard in

the construction of arguments.

Josephine Geerkens was selected to represent Kelso in the Western Region Representative team and will travel to The

University of Sydney in December to proceed further in the competition.

Congratulations to all members of the team: Bridget Hoban, Josephine Geerkens, Kathleen Murphy and Alivia Bourke.

Best wishes to Josephine in her preparation for State next term.

The Year 7 debating team have progressed to the Western Region quarter finals with their next round of the competi-

tion due to take place next month. Best wishes to the team and congratulations to both teams for being successful

zone winners in 2016.

Legacy Day

Once again KHC took part in raising funds for Legacy

by selling merchandise in the Bathurst CBD.

Well done to the ten SRC students who proudly rep-

resented our school and raised much needed funds

for this vital charity.

Thankyou to Ms Hardes for organising this event.

iLearn Term 3

Our Year 6 transition program, iLearn, continued in Term 3. Once again, students from over ten primary partner

schools attended Kelso High Campus on Wednesdays during Weeks 6, 7 and 8 and took part in an excellent selection of

activities including Technology in Maths, Agriculture and Circus.

During this visit, the Year 6 students had the opportunity to participate in a session led by Cirkus Surreal where they

experienced a wide range of equipment and circus skills. Under the tutelage of current circus students they were

shown how to juggle, to unicycle and to safely use the aerial apparatus. Many of the iLearn students look forward to

joining Cirkus Surreal once they commence at Kelso High.

The Agriculture component saw the students visiting the Ag Plot, getting hands on with the lambs, chickens and cattle

as well as learning about the significance of Agriculture in the high school curriculum.

The visit included a session in Maths. With the help of Mr Pillai the students created 3D shapes using Geogebra soft-

ware. They developed their skills in a short time and had an insight to the role technology plays at Kelso High as part of

our commitment to ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD). There will be more opportunities for parents and students to

learn about BYOD next term.

Students were also asked to complete some testing in Literacy and Numeracy during their visit to assist with class

placements for Year 7 2017.

Many thanks to all the teachers who assisted throughout the iLearn program and to our partner primary schools for

their assistance and support.

Upcoming Important Dates for Year 6 Transition:

29 November – Parent Information Night at 6.30pm

7 December – Orientation Day for all students in Year 7 2017.

Term 3: College Enrichment Activities

Kids Teaching Kids -

The Year 7 Platinum class and the Academically Talented class from Bathurst High have been busy working on their

Kids Teaching Kids projects.

The Kids Teaching Kids Program promotes positive wellbeing and helps build resilience in young people. It raises

awareness and drives action on local and global environmental issues, bringing communities together to solve com-

mon challenges and help the next generation of leaders who will take collective responsibility for our future. The focus

of our projects is Sustainability in Agriculture.

The two campuses have been working together to research, plan and develop workshops that will be presented at our

Denison College mini-conference in Week 1 of Term 4. Groups are focusing on topics such as renewable energy, the

impact of pest animals and food sustainability. One group from each Campus will be selected to represent the College

at the Kids Teaching Kids Conference at the Henry Lawson High School in Grenfell later next term.

Mind Marathon –

During the term twelve Year 8 Denison College students had the opportunity to participate in Mind Marathon at East Hills

Boys High School. We entered a boys team and a girls team to compete in a series of academic rounds each focused on a

different subject area. The rounds covered Maths, Science, English, HSIE and general knowledge. The day ended with a high-

ly competitive paper aeroplane contest.

The students demonstrated great commitment and sportsmanship, working effectively with each other to complete the

challenges. They represented the College superbly with great results. The girls team finished in 10th place and the boys came

15th out of a pool of 26 teams.

Kelso High Campus was represented by Meghan Brennan, Lillani Young, Madie Geerkens, Ben Camenzuli, Moses Akau and

Declan Gould.

Bathurst Jobs Expo 23rd August at BMEC

The focus of the Expo is to increase the students' knowledge and understanding around post school career pathways in areas such as traineeships and apprenticeships, education and training path-ways, exploring career futures and strengthening student out-comes through enterprise learning.

Kelso High Year 10 and 11 students were provided with a wide variety of information about future options.

We also were given the opportunity to provide coffee from our cafe for visitors of the event. Our Year 11 Hospitality students were very busy - even serving Bathurst Mayor Gary Rush.

Australian Defence Forces

Selected Year 10 and 11 students attended a session conducted by 3 ADF representatives on Tuesday 30th August to talk about careers in defence.

RAAF Sergeant Tony Gosarevski, RAAF Flight Lieutenant Esther Suh and Army Corporal Jessielyn Arpon all gave com-pelling reasons for making defence a career.

For more information - www.defencejobs.gov.au

Aboriginal Mural in the Gymnasium

Ex student Taylor Curry is currently on assignment to complete some artworks for the school.

We are privileged to have Taylor working in our school. What a .talented young man! An amazing gift for our school.

Bathurst Eisteddfod

On Friday 9th of September, 45 Kelso High students performed at the Bathurst Eisteddfod. The Dance Company, Dance Ensemble, Year 7 Dance, Year 9 and Year 10 Dance participated in the event and all dancers did a fantastic job on stage.

Congratulations to all of our wonderful dancers for great performances and a particular congratulations to Year 10 Dance for placing third with The Phantom.

Robotics at O’Connell

Four Year 7 Maths students have enjoyed working with O'Connell Public School learning about Robotics.

Seth Toon, Jacob Cole, Katie Henderson and Tomika Speer spent three Wednesdays this term at O’Connell PS

using Lego Robotics kits with their Year 6 students to build skills in technology and mathematics. The pro-

gram was highly successful and a great opportunity for Kelso High to collaborate with one of our partner

primary schools to enrich and extend the curriculum.

Kelso High Uniform Shop -

20% off all school uniform items

The Kelso High Campus Uniform Shop will be

having a 20% off sale this week ONLY.

Sale ends Thursday 22nd September 2016

Year 7 Music

Year 7 students have been learning about the Instruments of the Orchestra. They have been lucky enough to have ex-perimented with some of the instruments we have here at school. Those lessons were especially raucous!

All Year 7 are now working on their assignment for the semester: investigating and researching one instrument of the orchestra in detail. Ask your child about this!

Tom Kemp Memorial Shield 2016

Kelso Team 2

The team consisted of :

Keeya Bowman - Year 9 Amber Hanrahan - Year 9 Poorsha Mcphillamy - Year 9

Rayleigh Sericchi - Year 9 Maddison Wheeler - Year 9 Sarah Morris - Year 10

Cally Poxin- Year 10 Claire Sheehan - Year 10

Two Bathurst High girls joined the team and one girl from Kelso 3 team joined the team for each game

Results

Canobolas vs Kelso 1-0 Kelso lost

Gilgandra vs Kelso 2-0 Kelso won

Delroy vs Kelso 2-0 Kelso lost

Mathsonline … you can have it till February 2017 for $10! See Mr Stroeve

Maths Online is a high quality, independent online maths tutoring program based on Australian state curricula for Years

7 - 12. It was developed by experienced Australian teachers. The program features hundreds of fully animated and nar-

rated maths lessons with over 15,000 exam-style questions to test a student’s mastery of maths. It was originally

provided free to every student in Australia.

Some of the features that this program has are as follows;

800+ Full lessons for each concept with a voice over and numerous examples of varying difficulty. Every lesson has

a pause and rewind facility to help students grasp concepts at their own pace.

Every lesson has an accompanying printable lesson summary & worksheet to consolidate the concept, with full

worked solutions provided also.

A student’s ongoing use and progress in the program is stored for theirs and their teacher’s perusal at any time.

The program can be accessed from any internet ready site, not just at school.

The entire year 7 to 12 program is available to every student, not just their particular year group.

Given that the program covers most of the concepts that we teach, and as good as this resource is, the school wishes to

make it clear that it was never intended by its creators to replace the work that our mathematics teaching staff already

do. This program is best used as a support/supplement to the classroom teaching/learning experience.

If you wish to take advantage of this opportunity please pay $10 to Stroevey.

Goodbye Desta

Way back in 2002 a 6-year-old girl from Ethiopia wrote: “To introduce myself. My name is DESTA MERHAWIT. I live

with my mother in a district called TSEADA ANIBA, which is about 853 km North of Addis-Ababa (Capital of Ethiopia).

My mother supports the family by doing daily labour works. She is divorced and my father lives in other area. I have

got only one brother whose name is KIDANE and he is 15 years old. We all live in one room stonewall rented house

which its roof is covered with mud and wood. We get our drinking water from the nearest distribution point and we

use kerosene lamp to light the room.”

We heard from Desta every year about how her family and community were being helped by our support, and what

progress she was making at school. In 2014 she wrote as an 18 year old “ I am in grade 12 and I love Maths best! I

wants to be a doctor.”

Now 14 years after it started, our support of a 20 year old Desta has come to an end. Desta and her community can

now move forward independently. They now have a well-equipped school, improved access to clean water and

hygienic toilets at home and school. The community has improved health services, better nutrition and farmers have

gained skills in crop production and raising livestock for a reliable income.

Here is a brief list of what Desta and her community now have as a result of our support over the last 14 years: 3 pri-

mary schools, 6 pre-school rooms, 23 232 students being supplied with books and stationery, 6 health posts, medical

supplies and equipment, immunisation programs, 81 wells, 11 toilet blocks.

So … it might be goodbye to Desta, but we still support 16 year old Van Huan Lo from Vietnam … you will hear more

about Van later.

Solution to Stroevey Number 221

Simple triangles

Answer -

There are 47 triangles.

Stroevey Challenge

Number 222

WHAT RELATION??

Who is your father's only son's brother's uncle's wife's daughter's brother's father's son?

Solutions showing necessary working and your roll call group should be given to Stroevey. Prizes always

on offer.

A free workshop for parents and supervisors of

learner drivers will be held by Roads and Mari-

time Services (RMS) in conjunction with Bathurst

Regional Council at Bathurst Memorial Entertain-

ment Centre on Tuesday 20 September at 1pm.

The two hour workshop, Helping Learner Drivers

Become Safer Drivers, will offer parents and super-

visors hands-on advice on how to provide the most

effective driving practice for learner drivers.

“Parents and supervisors of novice drivers have a

crucial role to play in making our roads safer, and

that is why the RMS has developed a course to bet-

ter support them.” Council’s Road Safety Officer, Iris

Dorsett said.

The course will cover topics such as:

Supervising learner drivers

Completing the Learner Driver Log Book

The benefits of supervised on-road driving prac

tice

Licence conditions for learners and provisional

licence holders The New Safe Drivers Course

“Parents and supervisors who have attended this

course found it to have boosted their confidence,

helped them better plan driving sessions and allowed

them to share experiences with other parents and

supervisors” said Ms Dorsett.

The course, which runs from 1.00pm to 3.00pm rein-

forces the important role of families in providing on-

going support for young drivers in the early years of

driving.

Bookings for the Helping Learner Drivers Become

Safer Drivers course are essential and can be made

by calling 6333 6517 during office hours.