Friday 26th October 2018 Term 4 Issue 16

YEAR 6 TRANSITION Primary students descended on Canobolas on Wednesday this week for the first of their four

possible main transition events. Students had the opportunity to experience high school activities

with their future cohort.

Congratulations to the student volunteers for conducting themselves in such a professional

manner and representing the school extremely well. Shawn McKeowen, Emma Klose, Chloe

Harshmann, Tyrone Howarth, Tyler Dent, Tyhler Rogers, Caitlin Radnedge, Rebekah Ryder, Zac

Phoo, Erica Borys, Marnii Shelley, Rickelle Seabrook, Trixie Ward and Gabby Spresser.

Students were broken up randomly into seven classes and attended four unique classroom

activities. Students all participated in the final session as a whole. A big thankyou to the

Canobolas staff for giving up their time and also the primary schools for organising the students

to attend.

Mr Craig Edwards

Year 7 2019 TRANSITION DATES

Once again students from Canobolas Rural

Technology High School participated in the NSW

Country Junior Chess competition. With both

Brock Anderson and Joshua Dargin-Carr

having great showings, competing well against

some very stiff competition from all over western

NSW. The winners of this competition will

compete in Sydney for the title of NSW Junior

Chess champion.

Photo of Brock Anderson courtesy of Orange City

Life.

CHESS REPORT

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Dear Parents and Members of the School Community

Welcome back to Term 4, which is always very busy and challenging as the year rapidly comes to an end.

HSC EXAMS AND GRAD

The HSC exams have started successfully for our Year 12 students with nearly two weeks already

completed. These exams will continue for another three weeks, finishing on the 9th November. The

completion of 13 years of schooling will then be celebrated on the 16th November with the Year 12

Graduation at the Orange Function Centre. Year 12 students and their families are reminded that tickets

are available from the Front Office and cost $80 each.

2019 HSC COMMENCEMENT

Year 11 students have now commenced the HSC course in all their subjects. Assessment books for the

HSC year have been issued to all students. If your student has not received theirs, please contact the Year

Adviser, Josh Conliffe. This book contains all the information related to assessment tasks for the next 12

months. The Senior Study Sessions are also continuing this term, each Thursday afternoon in the FOCUS

Room in C Block from 3:30-5:00pm, giving students a space to study and complete assessment tasks with

teacher assistance.

NAIDOC WEEK

Next week will see NAIDOC Week celebrated in Orange. Our students will be involved in a wide range of

activities, including the NAIDOC March, the NAIROC Eisteddfod, and Orange Aboriginal Medical Centre

Open Day. The school will also host an Indigenous Sports Day attracting schools from across Western

Region to Orange for a day of friendly competition. The school will also mark NAIDOC Week with an out

of uniform day on Friday 2nd November, with students encouraged to dress in black, red and yellow.

YEAR 7 2019

It was great to see such a great turn out at our first Year 6-7 Transition activity earlier this week. The

students had the opportunity to be involved in mini lessons to experience what high school will be like. A

Parent Information Evening will be held on Wednesday 31st October. Students and their families will be

given the opportunity to hear what high school will be like, get information about uniform and BYOD

requirements and also to have any questions answered. Year 6 students will also take part in further

transition activities between now and the end of the year.

JUNIOR EXAMS

Junior exams will commence in Week 6 (Monday 19th November). A timetable will be issued to students in

the near future, but it should be noted that not all subjects will have formal exams in the Hall. Some may

choose to have tests during class time as their final formal assessment, whilst other subjects may have long

term assessment tasks. If you have any questions please get in touch with your child’s Year Adviser.

HSC MINIMUM STANDARD

For students who sit their HSC from 2020 onwards there will be a new minimum standard that will need to

be met to achieve an HSC. For students currently in Year 10 their first opportunity to do this was in 2017

when they sat NAPLAN. If they achieved a Band 8 or above in reading, writing or numeracy they are

recognised as having met the minimum standard. If this was not the case they have to complete an

online test to achieve this minimum standard. Students will have multiple opportunities to do this, with the

first one occurring before the end of this term. Further information will be sent home in the coming weeks.

I hope you have a great fortnight and I look forward to speaking with again in Week 4

With my warmest regards

Kate Wootten

Look at what’s coming up...

Monday 29th October NAIDOC Week march

Wednesday 31st October NAIROC Eisteddfod

Wednesday 31st October Year 7 2019 Parent Information Night

Thursday 1st November Indigenous Sports Day

Friday 2nd November Year 7 2019 Transition

Monday 12th— Friday 16th November Junior Big Picture Exhibition week

Friday 16th November Year 12 Graduation

Monday 19th—Friday 23rd November Junior Exam week

Tuesday 4th December Year 7 2019 Transition

Wednesday 12th December Presentation Night

TCRTHS

CALENDAR

AROUND THE GROUNDS

Brand new signage has been installed at the school entrance

off Icely Road highlighting our flagship programs.

Also a big thankyou to

our hard working

cleaners Cheryl, Kelly,

Andrew, Scott and

Jack as well as the

school’s General

Assistant, Mr Felstead

for keeping the school

grounds looking neat

and tidy.

Big Picture Help Launch The Dream Peddler

The Dream Peddler, an important book written by

Irena Kobald, about obsession and addiction, was

launched at the Orange Regional Art Gallery, on

Saturday 13th October.

In Term 3, under the mentorship of Margrete

Lamond from Dirt Lane Press, Big Picture students

Felicity Van Doorn and Jaime Macdouall, created

sophisticated and thought provoking poetry,

watercolour paintings and photographic pieces,

inspired by aspects of the story and images

portrayed in the book. These works were then

professionally displayed in the gallery as the backdrop and a discussion point during the

book’s launch.

The exhibition was part of a Personal Interest Project that Felicity

and Jaime did as part of their individualised learning plan in the

Big Picture Academy. Not only did they develop their ability to

express ideas and feelings through words and images, but

through their mentorship with Margrete and the publishing

house, they learnt about elements of design, book and art

creation, editing mark ups and general editing and publication

principles.

Felicity and Jaime were presented with autographed copies of the book and met the author,

illustrator and publishers to discuss the messages portrayed in the book as well as their own

pieces.

The launch was attended by a large group of community members who engaged with the

girls and praised them on their insightful pieces.

The whole project experience was extremely valuable for both Felicity and Jaime who are

talented artists and wordsmiths and will draw on this experience with confidence as they

continue to create, publish and exhibit projects into the future.

BIG PICTURE NEWS

Canobolas High School will be sending a group of students down to Homebush on

Friday 26th of October to witness the Invictus Games. Founded by HRH The Duke of

Sussex in 2014, the Invictus Games are an international adaptive sports event for

wounded, injured and ill, active duty and veteran service personnel. Canobolas High

School was successful in obtaining tickets through a ballot system for schools all over

the state. The students will have the opportunity to witness the athletes in action in

Wheelchair Basketball and Athletics. They will also be attending an interactive

information session on Prosthetics throughout the ages.

Term 4 School Sport

As the weather warms up students are encouraged to bring a hat and wear sunscreen as well as bring a

bottle of water to sport. Students are able to wear their sport uniforms on the following days:

Year 10– Thursdays

Year 9—Tuesdays

Year 8—Thursdays

Year 7—Wednesdays

For the first four weeks of Term 4 all students will be remaining at school for

sport. For Weeks 5-9, students will be participating in a compulsory school

swimming program. Students have been given permission notes in sport, if

they require a new one please see the PE staff.

PERMISSION NOTES and MONEY are to be returned to the front

office by the end of Week 4.

Reminder if students are sick or injured and unable to participate in sport they MUST

bring a note from their parents/caregivers explaining inability to participate.

PDHPE Assessment Reminders Many of the PDHPE classes across the years are currently working on assessable items both in class and at

home. A reminder that if your child does not complete an assessment task and hand it in on time for

marking, it will affect the overall grade they are awarded for PDHPE. This grade also has a practical effort,

attitude and participation mark for lessons where students participate in practical games, sports and

various physical activities. Please note that this component of the course is compulsory and students may

only be excused from these classes with a medical note during the time of injury recovery.

Year 8 PASS– Game Design—Week 7

Year8 Gymdanstics—Week 6

Year 10– Final Exam—Week 6

9 PASS – Coaching Session - Week 3

9 Dance – Semester 2 Journal Questions—Week 4

10 Dance – Semester 2 Journal Questions - Week 4

Year 11 SLR– First Aid Examination—Week 9

Prelim Year 11 PDHPE– Health Priority Area—Week 9

HSC PDHPE– HSC Examination - Week 1 Thursday 18th October (Goodluck)

On Thursday the 27th of September, our dance and music students performed in the

Canobolas concert! Dancers from sport groups and elective classes performed a variety of

routines along with some choir and music items.

We had over 100 students come from Glenroi Public School to watch the 1pm show, as well

as some of our own students. The evening show was exciting as many family, friends, and

Canobolas staff came along to see everything we’ve worked on so far this year.

After a busy term of eisteddfods and the concert, Miss Lee is very proud of how much the

students have improved in their dancing abilities and in their confidence on stage. Great

work to all the students who performed at the concert and thank you to all of the people who

have helped support the students in the eisteddfods and at the concert.

STEM CENTRE NEWS Adam Spencer at CSU

Canobolas High students were among

the 200 students from the Central West

and beyond who spent time with ABC

presenter, and self-confessed maths

nerd, Adam Spencer, at CSU

Engineering Bathurst campus last week.

Mr Spencer is a Maths and Science

ambassador for the University of Sydney

who had the room captivated by the

way he applied mathematics and

taught the students how to flex their

brains when solving maths problems.

6.25% of a Day with Adam Spencer was

part of the STEM Industry Schools

Partnerships program.

Mr Scott was

hamming it

up with his

idol Adam

Spencer

Mr Boardman

and students

with ABC

p r e s e n t e r ,

A d a m

Spencer Digital Farmhand program launch

The NSW Minister for Primary Industries,

Niall Blair was at our school last week for

the launch of the University of Sydney

Digital Farmhand STEM Pilot program.

Canobolas High is one of three NSW

schools chosen to help develop this

program before going to a larger scale

across NSW next year.

The Digital Farmhand can be coded to

measure the height of plants, then

selectively apply liquid fertilizer or

herbicide. An optical sensor can then be

used to ‘see’ healthy or sick plants, then

only apply what is needed for the

individual plants.

Andrew Carter at the

controls of the Digital

Farmhand

♫ MUSIC NOTES ♫ Canobolas Concert – End of Term 3

Canobolas Music students were delighted to combine with Miss Lee’s Dance students to perform

two concerts showcasing student talent in performing arts. The afternoon concert delighted

students from our school and Glenroi Heights Public, while students delighted their families,

friends and teachers at the evening concert.

Congratulations to all students singing, playing, dancing in these concerts. An additional huge

thanks to the awesome technical team assisting Miss Aldrick on cameras and backstage: Chloe

Harshman, Ryan Canavan, Jace Bishop, Sam Tester.

Special mention to music performers including soloists: Cuong Nguyen (Year 8), Samuel Tester

(Year 9), Jace Bishop (Year 10), Marlie Draper, (Year 10), and Canobolas Choir (Years 7-12):

Victoria Ruming, Ryan Canavan, Jaime Macdouall, Cara Crowley, Nic Henry, Taliah Klose, Marnii

Shelley, Jade Smith

Orange Youth Arts Festival Masala Day

Orange Masala was a celebration of culture, music, dance and

craft at Northcourt on Saturday 20th October.

Jace Bishop performed two songs on keyboard, including his own

composition, ‘Moving On’.

Marlie Draper performed two popular songs. She performs in

Orange Theatre Company’s The Little Mermaid which opens this

Friday 26th October. Music classes

Year 10 are completing their final assessment for the course –

writing their own song or rap.

Year 9 are studying Musical Theatre and working towards their final

performance assessment task. Year 8 are studying Film Music and

working towards composing their own film music, while learning to

play popular TV, movie and gaming theme songs on keyboard,

guitar and ukulele.

SCHOOL NOTICES

Please note that black tights are not acceptable and sports uniform is

only to be worn on days where students have double sport.

SCHOOL UNIFORM DONATIONS

If you are cleaning out your cupboards and

have any unwanted items of school uniform,

please consider donating them to our school.

You can drop them off to the Front Office and

any donations will be greatly appreciated.

Also please remember to label all items of your

child’s school uniform as replacement costs can

be expensive.

PARENTS AND CARERS ARE INVITED TO THE

YEAR 8 IPL EXHIBITIONS