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The Oak Leaf Armidale High School
Friday , 7th
September 2012
Butler Street, Armidale, N.S.W., 2350 – PHONE: 6776 7466; FAX: 6776 7424 Email: armidale-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au
Issue 14 – Term 3 – Week 6
PRINCIPAL’S COLUMN
SASS Recognition Week This week our school community recognised the very
valuable work of all our support staff with a special
morning tea and some RAKs (Random Acts of
Kindness)! Thank you to all our non-teaching staff for
your hard work all year round- we would not be able to
teach without you!
Thank you also to our hard-working P&C and especially
to Geoff Thorne who organised the Bush Dance held in
the auditorium. Around $700 was raised and a great time
was had by all!
Congratulations to Lucie Yeomans – 3rd
in the National
Worldskills Comp and member of the winning State
team. What an achievement!
Congratulations also to our Tournament of Minds Team
and to their mentor Mr Michael McKenzie, on winning
the regional final. They are off to Sydney this weekend
to compete in the State Final.
ARTS IN CONCERTS
I have received many phone calls and emails praising
our wonderful students who participated as performers,
ushers or back stage crew, in the Regional Arts in
Concert performances last Tuesday and Wednesday
nights at Lazenby. All students looked and sounded
fabulous and were a great credit to our school.
On a similar note our MADness nights were very well
attended and the standard of music, art and drama on
show was phenomenal! Two different programs for the
two nights is proof of the strength of the creative and
performing arts at Armidale High School.
Parents of Year 12 students are reminded that all lessons
continue until the Weirdathon on Thursday, 20th Sept.
Some course work is still being completed as well as
revision and strategies for exam technique and handy
hints being given by staff.
Anne Matley, Principal
LUCIE YEOMANS’ TRIUMPH
Armidale High School’s
Vice-Captain Lucie
Yeomans has returned from
the National Worldskills
Championships with a
Bronze medal in the Primary
Industry sector and the
knowledge that her strong
result contributed to New
South Wales team’s Shield-
winning performance as the
Best Performed State.
The Vocational Education
Training in Schools
competition was held at Sydney’s Olympic Park. The
competitors were called upon to demonstrate their skills
in tractor work, stock work, fences, weather fore-casting,
chemicals and first aid and chemical spills scenarios.
“The team challenge, to improve some aspect of the
Olympic Park, was especially rewarding,” Lucie said.
COMPUTING CHALLENGE – National
Computer Skills Test held by UNSW
(Standing) Ben James (Credit), Liam Knott, Tim Edmonds
(Seated) Ben Hemmings, Domenico Favotto (Credit), Jackson
Doak (Distinction) with teacher Mr Andrew Curry who said
he was very pleased with the students’ results in a competition
which tested knowledge of systems and software.
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BUSHDANCE
The P&C Fundraiser on 1st
September was a great
success thanks to the
Waldorf Salad Bush Band,
the many sponsors who
contributed prizes, all those
who helped with preparations
and food and the enthusiastic participants.
More photos available on our website:
http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ soon
ZONTA The Zonta Club held a meeting at Armidale High School
which was catered for by Year 11 as part of the fundraising for
their vocational excursion to the Nara Seaworld Resort later in
the year. A number of teachers from the school enjoyed the
club’s hospitality at a dinner which has become and annual
event.
Alana and Shae Leske
delighted the diners
with entertainment
before the meal. Many
of those attending are
musicians and spoke
highly of the girls’
performances.
At the end of the meal
the student chefs and
waiters were thanked
by Zonta. The evening
was greatly enjoyed by
all.
GATES
Thanks to a hard working group of volunteers, the Memorial
Gates are almost restored. These photos show the final
touches being put in place by Mark Garvey, a local police
sergeant and parent who has donated his brick laying skills,
Ken Peters and Geoff Walsh. A celebratory reopening
of the gates is planned for next term.
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REUNION
The class of 1982
enjoyed a walk
through the school
as part of their
weekend reunion.
They were
accompanied by
their Year Adviser,
Tim Channon.
YEAR 10 TEXTILES
Year 10 making newspaper dresses to decorate the
Textile room for the Zonta dinner, and working
hard on their Recycled Bag unit.
BIKE WEEK!
Bike Week, from Saturday 15th
September to
Sunday 23rd
September, is sponsored by the NSW
Government. More information on the activities
organised can be found at
http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/events/nsw_bik
eweek.html
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1 West Ave Armidale 2350
Saturday 13th October 2012
Open Day 10am to 2pm – Guided tours on the hour.
Cutting of Celebration Cake – From 1pm.
Unveiling of 30th Anniversary Quilt – 1.30pm.
Armidale Montessori Preschool is celebrating 30 years in Armidale.
Former students and families who would be interested in attending and
participating in our Celebration please contact us. Phone 6772 3628 or Email:
armidalemontessori@bigpond.com R.S.V.P Friday 21
st September 2012
Name: ________________ No Attending: ______
The Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program is directed towards students in Years 7 to 10 and aims to decrease the prevalence of health risk behaviours (such as alcohol consumption, smoking, other drug use, physical inactivity and inadequate nutritional intake) by enhancing the resilience of students through resilience interventions. These resilience interventions aim to increase the internal and external resilience of students. Internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people. These include empathy, self-esteem, self-awareness, effective help seeking, communication and cooperation, and goals and aspirations. External resilience factors refer to positive influences within the young person’s environment and surroundings that protect them from engaging in health risk behaviours. And include school connection, community connection, family connection, and pro-social peers. School workshops and Action Plans are two important milestones of the Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program and we encourage all teachers, parents and students to contribute to the planning of Armidale High School’s resilience interventions. The next step is for Armidale High School to create an Action Plan. This plan will list selected resilience interventions to implement over the next couple of years. Strategies in this plan may include activities from MindMatters and SenseAbility, rewards and recognition programs, student empowerment programs, and plans to increase links between the school and the community.
DEAR BOOK BOXES
Thank you to all who are leaving magazines and
books at the Office for our DEAR reading; they are
avidly seized upon by reading groups.
Magazines of sporting and topical interest are
especially highly prized.
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TOURNAMENT OF MINDS
Tournament of Minds is an international competition
that challenges students to use creativity and ingenuity
to solve problems based around topical issues. The
challenge is entirely driven by the participants and
requires strong, positive teamwork. Armidale High’s
team of Luke Logan-Clarke, Caitlin Sillar, Emma Swan,
Georgie Cooper, Grace Shortis and Elly Bell
was successful in the North-west regional competition in
the Social Science Discipline, in a problem regarding
travellers from the future. Their success is built on
inclusiveness, cooperation and creativity; hallmarks of
the student body at Armidale High School.
The students travel to Sydney on Friday to take part in
the State Finals at UNSW.
Jack Grigg
Armidale
High’s
drummer, Jack
Grigg, and his
band, Contour,
are celebrating
their
endorsement
by proAudio in
Sydney and
Canberra. The
endorsement means the company will play the recently-
recorded album of the band’s own compositions in their
stores, sponsor some broadband casting and play time on
radio stations and finance publicity. This sponsorship
also allows the band to receive reduced costs on items in
stores at discount prices. The photo shows Jack playing
at the Madness performance this week.
Who is that exemplary student?
Girls’ Advisor, Jenny Evans, made a
fashion statement recently and
demonstrated just how to wear the
school uniform. The jumper and shirt
were purchased from the Clothing Pool
for the sum of $5.00. Thanks to Brett
Field for the photo.
Stop Press: Madness on Friday Night
Another night of
stunning performances
from Armidale High’s
Class of 2012 delighted the audience on Friday night. Full
report soon at http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/
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SIEGE ENGINES
A Year 8 History class enjoyed
the culmination of their unit on Medieval History as they
constructed siege weapons such as catapults and ballistas.
ARTS IN CONCERT
The biannual showcase of Performance in Public
Schools “Arts In Concert” occurred this week on
the nights of Tuesday 4th
and Wednesday 5th
of
September.
The performances were supported by a static art
display in the foyer at Lazenby.
Armidale High School, as always, was strongly
represented by a range of performing ensembles.
Tuesday featured the Combined Strings presenting
a challenging program of Mozart and Ravel. The
combined schools Chamber ensemble also played a
short excerpt from Telemann; and Sam Kreusler
and Angus Gallagher reprised their award winning
dramatised performance of Libertango which
brought the house down.
Wednesday included our Jazz combo slickly
performing in suites and oozing cool, Angus
Gallagher’s string quartet composition and our
Chamber Orchestra presenting a Baroque set of
Dances followed by Our Time by Sondheim.
Special mention should go to Igraine Spiers and
Anna Moffet . Nick Kelly was to be to be the
featured performer in this item but was unable to
perform due to ill health. Igraine and Anna learnt
this song on the day and performed it dramatically
and from memory on the night to a packed audience
of 500.
Our own Rowena Teege directed the splendid
Regional Choir!!!
Thank you to our indefatigable music teachers, Mrs
Teege and Ms Archer.
NETBALL
The local Armidale District Netball Association
competition is winding up with the finals underway.
Armidale High School has two teams registered in
this competition and both have made it to the finals.
The Division 2 team including Lucie Yeomans and
Fiona Thomson, as well as some former AHS
students, will play for a spot in the Grand Final this
weekend.
The Junior team (the Curly Wurlies) featuring girls
from Years 9, 8 and 7 have already secured their
place in the Grand Final to be played on the 15th of
September.
We wish both teams good luck!
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SOCIAL
The SRC raised over
$1,00 with their Cowboys
and Indians social.
Lots more photos will be
posted on the website soon
and students are invited to
send in their own photos.
See Ms O’Hara in the
English Staffroom.
INVERELL
The Inverell
visit was a
resounding
success; all
events were
played in the
best of spirits
and participants
and spectators
enjoyed the
great venue at
UNE. AHS,
with the home
team
advantage, regained the trophy which has been contested for
many decades.
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MADNESS
Some of the
stunning art
works on
display at
this year’s
Music, Art
and Drama
(Madness)
celebration
of HSC
major works.
Two nights of
appreciative
audiences
and great
performances!
See full report on
the website soon:
http://www.armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/
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