CLARE HIGH SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Volume 3 09/03/2017

‘To Seek a Worthy Goal’

ACHIEVEMENT ● EDUCATION ● INVOLVEMENT ● RELATIONSHIPS ● RESPECT

Principal: Sharryn Daly

Deputy Principal - Middle School: Nina Thomas

Assistant Principal - Senior School: Matt Linn

IMPORTANT DATES

March 2017

8th-10th—Year 7 Camp

13th—Public Holiday

16th—Clare High School Athletics Carnival

21st-22nd—Senior School Parent/Teacher

Interviews

23rd—Lower North Athletics Carnival

28th—29th—Middle School Parent/Teacher

Interviews

April 2017

1st—Year 12 Formal

3rd—7th—Year 10 Work Experience

11th—SSSSA Athletics

12th—Year 8 Immunisations

14th—Good Friday—Term 1 Ends Dismiss

2:25pm

17th April to 5th May—UK/Ireland Trip

May 2017

1st—Term 2 begins

17th April to 5th May—UK/Ireland Trip

5th—Generations of Jazz tour to Mr Gambier

22nd-24th Year 8 Camp

29th—31st—Henley High Netball

Exchange

June 2017

5th—9th—District SAPSASA Netball and

football

20th—Year 8 B & G Immunisations

21st—SACE Stage II Implementation

Workshop at CHS

Elliot Street Clare SA 5453

Phone: 88422788 Fax: 88422153

Email: dl.0773.info@schools.sa.edu.au

www.clarehs.sa.edu.au

T/A South Australian Government Schools

CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

On Monday the 27th February, Clare Primary and

Clare High School staff participated in a common

Professional Development Day. Garry Costello, retired

Chief Executive Officer and Principal of Mount

Gambier High School, facilitated the day and focused

on how to build a positive and student-centred School

Culture. The strength of working together as “One

Clare Community” is in the continuity of high

expectations, the delivery of learning opportunities and

personalised support for every child and young person

within our wonderful community. We have all

committed to ongoing work that will bring our staff

together to improve the wellbeing, learning outcomes

and lifelong opportunities for every child. This is very

exciting work!

As a key stakeholder in the Mid North Partnership,

Clare High School hosted the Network Learning Group

Launch last Wednesday afternoon. These professional

learning teams allow educators from our Pre-school,

Primary Schools and the High School to work together

in small groups to further develop their knowledge and

skill in education. Examples of the various focus areas

are: Numeracy Improvement, Student Wellbeing,

STEM learning, the Flipped Classroom and the SHINE

program. I hope that you will hear more about their

learning as they progress over the coming year.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

Mathematics) Project Update:

I met recently with the STEM Project team to

CANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWS

Thank you to the following people for their

support for the canteen and for providing

produce for the canteen:

Shannon Robinson, Diedre Earle & Mel

McHugh for volunteering. Leeanne

Williams, Lesley Squires & the Agriculture

Block for produce.

If you have some time or produce you

can donate to the canteen. We would

love to have it. Thank you.

The canteen staff

A Note from the

Deputy Principal

I can’t believe we are nearly half way through the term already. Where has the time gone?

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all the students, staff, parents and caregivers who have made my first 5 weeks as Deputy Principal at Clare High School so welcoming. I actually feel like part of the furniture already! This term has been off to such a busy start and the fantastic turn out from the community for our Middle School Parent Evening and Senior School Information Evening provided a fabulous opportunity for me to meet many of you.

For those of you I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting, I hope to do so in the near future.

I am really passionate about student learning and excited to be part of such an amazing and supportive school and wider community over the next 5 years!

Nina Thomas Deputy Principal

UNIFORM UPDATE The Clare High School backpacks are now back in stock – cost is $65.00 The Clare High School fleecy windcheaters are now selling for $20.00 each (down from $40.00) due to a large stock numbers. The old sports tops are selling for $15.00 each – these would be good as a spare for PE lessons. Heather Guthrie Business Manager

2017 Materials & Services charge are now due and payable

If you are eligible for School Card, forms are available from the school (remember that you have to apply each year for school card). School Card applications close on 24 Novem-ber 2017. If you wish to pay by instalments, please see me asap to organise a part payment plan. Heather Guthrie Business Manager

consolidate the way forward in the redevelopment

of the Middle School/STEM facilities. This project

is a major priority for the Government and so once

the final concept is decided then works will begin

immediately. The plan is that a more detailed

building plan is developed with actual costings to

be assigned. The project will involve demolishing

the current ‘old 70’s’ buildings. I have requested

that this take place in the October holidays with

the rebuild occurring in 2018. This will of course

require some reshuffling of classes during this

time but I will work closely with the builders to

minimise the disruption to student learning.

The Clare High School Athletics day is next

Thursday 16th March. This is always a fantastic

opportunity for parents, staff and students to share

the experience and for so many of our students to

participate (more information is further on in this

edition). I look forward to catching you on this day.

Have a great week!

Sharryn Daly Principal

SRC induc�on Assembly

Clare High School’s wonderful student leaders were welcomed and inducted at a formal assembly for the whole school on

Friday 10th February.

We were fortunate to have several guest speakers share their leadership experiences with the assembled students. Lea

Hooper, along with several students, recounted their amazing journey to Cambodia late last year, volunteering in schools and

building huts for the locals. Etabez Donato thanked the 2016 SRC for their dona+on which assisted her to improve condi+ons

for locals when she returned to her birth village in Ethiopia over the holidays. It was a moving presenta+on, which really

highlighted how fortunate our students are to receive the opportuni+es that they do.

Ex-student, Bryce Eldredge, returned from Sydney to share his leadership journey and his current des+na+on. He spoke of ‘The

Rural Network’, an ini+a+ve that he and his partner, ex CHS student Ashley Schultz, had begun. He reinforced that leadership is

developed in many situa+ons, and that making the most of opportuni+es presented is a must.

Principal Sharryn Daly, and Heather Lymburn, our Governing Council Chairperson, spoke briefly, as did our Head Prefects,

Travis Kuchel and Etabez Donato. They all reflected upon the importance of student leadership and the ability to make a

difference.

Following the formal presenta+on of our SRC, the students and their parents enjoyed a morning tea supplied by the school. We

congratulate our student leaders, listed below, and look forward to working with them this year.

Michelle Rowe and Mandy Knight

SRC Coordinators

School Leaders 2017

Head Prefects Travis Kuchel, Etabez Donato

Deputy Head Prefects

Joseph Hillard, Holly Wood

House Captains

Sco9: Joseph Lally, Ellie Falconer

Weinsmith: Emily Lymburn, Peter Cornwell

Stanley: Oliver Barre9, Etabez Donato

Gleeson: Chloe Cook, Josh Earle

Year 12 Prefects Ashley Smith, Caitlin Pink

Year 11 Prefects

Georgia Meyer, Brodie Rimmer, Bree

Nield, Neve Pra9, Caitlin Bolitho

Year 10 Prefects

Zack Holland, Will Nickolai, Kellie Smith,

Chloe Smith, Ella Cornwell

Yr 9 Middle School Captains Nikita Morgan, Thomas Lymburn

Yr 9 Deputy Middle School Captains Alyssa Pawelksi, Zack Longbo9om

Yr 8 SRC Elizabeth Cornwell, Isla Baum, Jack Weck-

ert, Aimee Cusack, Ma9 Holland

Yr 7 SRC Alex Head, Jordan Hentschke, Ryan Stock-

er, Ashley Randall

Head Prefect Etabez Donato speaks

about her trip to Ethiopia

Ex- student Bryce Eldredge shares his

leadership journey

Pro Tennis Tour

Our Year 7s were lucky to attend the tour last week as a guest of Tennis SA. Students were able to have a talk from two of the tour players, join in with some tennis activities and watch some great

games!

Ms Liebelt

BOOK CLUB!

Come along to the new book club.

Where: P84

When: Tuesdays—Weeks 3, 6, 9 at Lunchtime (1.15pm)

Share the books you’re reading, ask others for recommendations, share ideas & opinions on novels & authors.

Be prepared to join in some discussion around your favourite books and to receive some information about the club itself. Readers of all years and skill are welcome!

Any questions? Please see Miss Mooney

Year 10s Paying It Forward

As a part of Mrs Mensforth’s Year 10 English class, we have been conducting some research around the Pay It Forward Foundation and what their mission is. We were looking at the foundation with the question of, ‘what can this motion do for us in

the Clare Valley?’ We viewed the Pay It Forward film and now have a sound understanding of the profound impact this could have within our school and wider community. Each student has committed themselves to an act of kindness and we are in the midst of creating a social platform to share our success using the Pay It Forward Foundation’s hashtag of #sharekindness.

Here is some of what the students had to say:

“The Pay It Forward Foundation is about acts of kindness among strangers making a chain effect from one person to the next and onwards. This foundation inspires countless acts of kindness and is made to inspire people from all over the world. It is important for everyone to take part in this foundation to bring kindness, generosity and thoughtfulness into the community and for us all to help each other.”

“It is important to Pay It Forward because our lives would be so much easier and so much more enjoyable if we all just did some good deeds once in a while to make someone else happy and ourselves happy also.”

“The Pay It Forward foundation is a foundation promoting acts of kindness towards others by giving other foundations the resources and funding they need to help communities across the globe. The program inspires people to create the pay it forward reaction. A chain reaction that lightens up the world.”

“The foundation also helps schools like how they help pay for 1,500 books for teachers to use with their students and provided by the Pay It Forward Education Program.”

“The Pay It Forward thing is where one person does three big nice things for three people, then those three people do three things for three other people and so on. I think the Clare Valley Community should participate in the pay it forward motion because there would be a lot of generosity around the Clare region.”

From here we are looking forward to jumping into writing our discussion essays based on the following topics:

• Is it possible for one idea to change the world?

• Could the idea of ‘paying it forward’ actually work?

• Is it worth doing something nice for someone else, with absolutely no expectation of receiving anything in return? What

about if the person wasn’t appreciative? Do we always expect something in return for everything we do?

• Are there any opportunities where we can do good for others, or do we fail to notice them?

As a class, we also encourage you to take on the challenge of paying it forward within our community and spread the vision of the Pay It Forward motion. Mrs Brionie Mensforth

Year 10 English Teacher

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS.

In term 1 2017, Clare High School will once again hold Parent Teacher Interviews over 2 separate weeks.

We will be holding Senior School interviews (Year 10 - 12) on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd

March, Week 8 of Term 1, and Middle School interviews (Years 7 – 9) on Tuesday 28th and

Wednesday 29th March, Week 9 of Term 1.

We will continue with our online booking system called Parent Teacher Online.

This system allows you to manage your interview bookings with ease, allows the management of booking

for all of your children who attend CHS and more efficiently than a paper trail. Information regarding

placing bookings will be released via email and to students via hard-copy over the next few days.

If Clare High School does not have your current email address, please contact Lynda Johnson at CHS

reception via phone (08 8842 2788) or email dl.0773.info@schools.sa.edu.au to update your email

information and receive your log in details efficiently.

Thank you,

Matt Linn

The Order of Opera�ons

Brackets, Exponent, Division, Mul�plica�on, Addi�on and Subtrac�on

• Always remember that for :

• Division and Mul plica on work out which ever comes

first in the expression working from le� to right.

• Addi on and Subtrac on work out which ever comes first

in the expression working from le� to right.

Look at the following expression:

2 + 3 x 6 = ?

Is the answer 30 or 20? It’s 20…… because if you follow the order the

mul+plica+on comes before the addi+on, so this is what you do:

1. 3 x 6 = 18

2. 2 + 18 = 20

How about this one:

20 - 6 x 2 + (3 x 2)

The answer is : 12

Top Right: Wes McNair & Chloe Cook

Top Le4: Shield Winners

Centre: Clare High School Lower

North Zone Swimming Team

Bo5om: Age Champions

Layer Pullets For Sale

As part of our Agriculture program this semester students have been raising layer chickens.

They will be available for pick up from 3rd

April

The cost is $13.00 per layer.

If you would like to purchase some please fill out the form below and return to school ASAP.

For more informa+on please contact Lesley Squires

A9en+on: Lesley Squires

Name : __________________ Contact number;______________________

Number of layers @ $13.00: ___________

Total amount payable: ____________

Payment needs to be made before chickens are collected.

The Ac�vity Space – A4er School Program

Would your family benefit from an aMer school program designed for teenagers and pre-teens with a disability?

At SA Country Carers, we are con+nually striving to find ways to further support those caring for their loved ones who are

living with disability. AMer consulta+on with a number of carers, we believe that a tailored aMer school program – The Ac+vity

Space (TAS) could do just that.

Maybe you would like the opportunity to work more than you are currently able, maybe you would like to par+cipate more in

your community, or have the +me to spend with friends. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do all of this whilst feeling confident

that your child is being well supported by qualified staff to enjoy a wide range of recrea+onal and skill-building ac+vi+es.

Our vision for TAS is that it would be tailored to each of the par+cipants. There would be high staff to child ra+os ensuring

each par+cipant receives the highest quality of care and the required support to enable them to par+cipate in ac+vi+es. We

will focus on providing a posi+ve, fun and sensory friendly environment that promotes con+nual growth of independence,

social and self-help skills. Transport from local schools to TAS would be provided by SA Country Carers.

Par+cipa+on in TAS would be funded by your child’s NDIS plan at the relevant group rates or clients without NDIS funding

may pay a ‘fee for service’. Feel free to contact us for more informa+on about this.

Our respite team are currently gathering informa+on on how best we can support your aMer school care needs. If the TAS

program is something you think you may u+lise, please contact us for an Expression of Interest form by phoning Laura on

1300 686 405.

FOOTY UMPIRES WANTED

The San Remo NEFL Green Shirt Program for first

year umpires are looking for anyone interested to

register their interest. Do you love footy, like to keep fit, see great local

games and earn some cash? Your umpire

course, uniforms and mentoring and training are

all supplied as part of the program. This is open to

girls and boys who think that umpiring footy

could be a good career path. Students in year 9

and above are encouraged to consider. We are also looking for interest in forming a

boundary umpires panel. You also will be

supplied uniforms, coaching and earn some cash

and stay fit. This is a great stepping stone if you

think central umpiring would be for you later on.

Also open to boys and girls. This is perfectly suited

to playing your team sport in the morning, then

joining the umpires panel in the afternoon.

If you are interested please register interest

with Ms Katie Liebelt.