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19 June 202019 June 2020

From the PrincipalWe have of course had lots of adjustmentsdue to COVID-19 and a fantastic responsefrom the entire school community. I wouldlike to acknowledge the additional workloadof students, parents, teachers,administrative staff, teacher aides andcleaners during the past few months. Wehave an amazing school community and

staff, and our students have certainly benefited from theco-operation and hard work of all. It has been fantastic to haveall our students back for the last month and they have settledwell into their regular routines.

Changed 2020 Captains

Congratulations to Isaac Jeynes who will assume the role ofschool captain for the remainder of 2020. Kayne Duncan hasaccepted the position of vice captain due to workcommitments. Thanks Kayne for your great representation ofthe school to date!

Reporting and student absence

Reporting will occur in all subjects (on a 15 point scale) inall year levels in week 3 term 3. Unfortunately parent-teacherinterviews are not yet able to resume.

Please remember that if your child is unwell they should stay athome. Please contact your child’s teacher or year co-ordinatorif you are concerned about them missing schoolwork.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish our students all thebest in their final assessment prior to reporting and a great endof term break!

School Opinion Survey for Parents andCaregivers

Parents and Caregivers are invited to participate in this year’sSchool Opinion Survey and have a say about schooling duringthe COVID-19 lockdown. You are also given the opportunity toprovide feedback about our school more generally.

Participation in the survey is anonymous and you areencouraged to take this opportunity to have your say. Thesurvey form has been designed so that it can easily becompleted on a computer or smartphone. The online survey willbe available until Friday, 17 July 2020, and should take lessthan five minutes to complete.

To access the survey, please click on the link below or copyand paste it into your web browser:

Parentsurvey

https://survey.qed.qld.gov.au/form/Parents-HaveYourSay

Please contact the school if you have any questions about thesurvey.

Kind regardsKirsten Dwyer

Domestic and family violence servicesChallenging times can unfortunately result inrelationship strain and abuse. Families andyoung people are encouraged to reach outfor support. Domestic and family violenceservices are continuing to operate.

In an emergency, always call the Police on triple zero (000).

DVConnect provides crisis support for domestic and familyviolence issues. 1800RESPECT is available for 24/7 web andtelephone counselling. Kids Helpline is available 24/7 forchildren and young people seeking counselling and support.

The Queensland Government’s Domestic and Family Violenceportal provides useful information on local domestic and familyviolence services.

Video competition focuses on GreatBarrier Reef

Students aged 6 to 13 have the opportunityto combine their creativity and desire toprotect the Great Barrier Reef and itsmarine life.

The Reef RADicals film competitionwelcomes 90-second videos addressing one of five challenges:marine pollution, climate change, habitat loss, food waste orexplore ideas that activate.

The competition is presented by Citizens of the Great BarrierReef and James Cook University.

Entries close midnight 9 August. For more information, go tothe link below.

http://www.reefradicals.org/

Love a good podcast?The Department of Education has its ownseries of podcasts covering interviews withaward winning scientists, tips to help parentswith their child’s move from kindy to school,a series on looking after your wellbeing and more! Search for“Queensland Department of Education” in your favouritepodcasts app or visit the link below.

https://qed.qld.gov.au/about-us/news-and-media/podcasts

Early departure from schoolParents are reminded that the procedure forreleasing your student early is as follows:

If your student has an unexpected appointment that arisesduring the day, please advise the school at least an hourbefore the appointment.

Around the grounds with the HPEDepartment

The annual inter house Cross Country carnival has beenre-scheduled and is due to take place on the last day of term2, Friday June 26. The course has also been re-designed sothat the students don’t leave the school grounds, which meansthat there is no parental permission required for this event. Atthis stage, the event will not lead onto further selection in theRocky High Inter School Team to compete at the RockhamptonDistrict Trials against students from other schools in the region.Students are not required to nominate for this year’s event, theywill be asked to marshal on the oval, in their AGE Groups (notnecessarily grades) in the following time slots:

Session 1

Boys born 2002, 2003, 2004 (16 and Open Boys) 6kmevents

Boys and Girls born in 2008 and 2007 (12 and 13years boys and girls)

3kmevents

Session 2

Boys and Girls born 2005, 2006,2007 (14 and 15years boys and girls)

4kmevents

Girls born 2002, 2003, 2004 (16 and Open Girls) 4kmevents

The Meares Dingoes are looking to go back to back and claimtheir first title of 2020 following their humbling defeat in thisyear’s swimming carnival. We encourage all students toparticipate and contribute towards their house points tally!

Earlier this month, Grace Grace MP released informationpertaining to the reduction of COVID – related restrictions andthe potential “re-booting” of interschool sports for Queenslandstudents from July 10, 2020. At this stage, there has beenno formal resumption date for interschool sports in theRockhampton District, nor has there been the release of anyrevised trial dates for Rockhampton District and CapricorniaSchool Sports. Our district sports committee is currentlyawaiting further clarification and direction from QueenslandSchool Sport, who have issued a revised “interim” calendarproviding information regarding the Queensland School SportState Events for the remainder of the year. It can be found atthe following link:

https://queenslandschoolsport.education.qld.gov.au/aboutUs/eventsCalendar/Documents/interim-state-calendar.pdf

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact the HPE and Sportdepartment via email if you have any queries.

Yours in Sport

Damien KelsoHOD of HPE and Sport

• Send a note with your studentrequesting an early departure fromschool.

• In an emergency a student can belocated but depending on thewhereabouts of your students this cannot always beachieved in a short time.

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Street food markets an overwhelmingsuccess

Congratulations to Mrs Lane and her Year 12 Hospitalitystudents for planning and implementing Rockhampton SHS’sfirst ever street food markets on the 16th of June as part oftheir assessment this term. Students were excited to bringthis unique dining option to both students and staff, creatingmouth-watering dishes including Texan BBQ ribs, Honeychicken, Naan butter chicken, Risotto, BBQ pork and Koreanpopcorn chicken. Tickets sold out in just 12mins; a testamentto the efforts of all those involved.

Students serving up their dishes:Students serving up their dishes:Maikala Fogarty; Maddison Clarke & Keearna CollisMaikala Fogarty; Maddison Clarke & Keearna Collis

Year 11 Hospitality students Coffee Shopproject

Students oversaw the operation of the school coffee shop thisterm as part of their assessment. They were involved in allaspects of planning and operation, developing and refining theirfood production and coffee-making skills over a 4-week period.Congratulations to all those involved, especially Ms Clark forassisting with coordinating the project, and thank you to theschool community for supporting students.

Mrs GranvilleHome Economics HOD

The Support Team are excited toannounce a new initiate – The ROCKETProject.

Commencing Term 3, the Support Team will be facilitatinglunchtime activities as part of the ROCKET Project. TheROCKET Project aims to support and promote student mentalhealth and wellbeing. These activities are aimed to engagestudents from all year levels and interests and provide studentswith an option to engage in activities in a peaceful space duringlunch times.

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Walk and Talk(walkingaround theoval –umbrellas willbe supplied)

Mindfulnesscolouring(colourings willbe laminatedand displayedaround theschool)

Mindfulnesscolouring

Giving tree(knitting squaresto make blanketsfor community)

Yoga(deliveredby a yogainstructor)

In addition, The ROCKET Project includes twoprograms to selected students that will bedelivered during the ROCKS lesson, Grit andDrumbeats.

The Support Team:

Mr Smith – Guidance OfficerMiss Spencer – Guidance OfficerMs Penny Peers – Youth SupportCoordinatorDamien – ChaplainStacey – Community EducationCounsellorLoretta – School Based Health Nurse

Join in the Dolly’s Dream

Rockhampton Online Family Workshop TuesdayJune 23rd @ 7PM.

Social networking - are your children ready for it?

The actual age of your child, as well as their level of maturityand resilience can affect their experiences on social media.

Every social media site and app has its own criteria for minimumage requirements. Most require users to be at least 13 yearsold before they can register, although some sites are createdespecially for children under 13.

For more information visit:

https://parenthub.dollysdream.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Social-networking-are-they-ready-for-it_V2.pdf

https://www.carlyryanfoundation.com/carlys-story

Loretta GreenSchool Based Nurse

It’s been a busy time for everyone in our school communityand the EXCEL cohort are no exception. Students from Years7 – 10 have been working very hard on improving their contentknowledge and embedding inquiry-based learning into theirclassrooms. The Year 9 EXCEL Science class will beparticipating in a 3D design challenge next week which will seesome of their designs printed by our 3D printers in the EXCELroom! The Year 7 Science students have been investigatingwhether the length of a lever plays a role in the force appliedto an object when thrown. They’re busily working on submittingtheir final assessment tasks so they can move onto aninvestigation regarding parachute size and air resistance!

Year 8 Science has focused on minerals and rock types thisterm. Students have been working on identifying rock typesfrom features such as striations, crystallisation and hardness.If you haven’t been to Pebble Beach, down by Rosslyn Bay,there are some great examples of rock types strewn across the

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Year 7 EXCEL studentsYear 7 EXCEL studentsanalysing their dataanalysing their datafrom their ball throwerfrom their ball throwerexperiment.experiment.

beachfront as well as in the massive rock walls that circle thebay.

The Year 9 Maths EXCEL class have been factorisingquadratics and working on triangle geometry and looking atsimilarity and trigonometry. They’ve also started delving intothe theory of trigonometry and working on some introductorygeometric proof work.

Year 10 EXCEL Humanities students are finalising their study ofhistorical key events that helped promote Indigenous AustralianRights while in Science the students have been investigatingwhether concentration of acid rain contributes to a fasterdegradation of marble statues, as well as whether an increasedsurface area also plays a role in statue degradation.

Allyssa working on her finalAllyssa working on her finalsubmission for EXCELsubmission for EXCEL

Science.Science.

Year 7 EXCEL studentsYear 7 EXCEL studentsworkingworking

on their draft submissions foron their draft submissions forScience.Science.

Part of the EXCEL Program includesoutreach to communityorganisations and our parents.Please ensure you are following theFacebook page for up to date andamazing opportunities for you andyour children to participate in –these opportunities are not limitedto students in the EXCEL Program.If your child has an interest inanything STEM-related that weshare on the Facebook page andwould like more information about the opportunity, pleasemessage the Facebook page or contact Mrs Sinnamon directon bsinn11@eq.edu.au. In the past few weeks there has beenmany opportunities for extension and immersion inSTEM-based learning shared on our Facebook page. Some ofthese include:

Mrs SinnamonEXCEL Coordinator

Queensland Virtual STEM Academy atCentral QueenslandHosted by Rockhampton State HighSchool

Round 2 has begun with 145 Young Scholars enrolled in GrandChallenges and Skill Builders. A brand new Grand Challenge,Mission to Mars, is being offered this Round with ProfessorSteven Moore from CQUniversity as the guest expert. Sophia(Year 7), Nate (Year 8), Georgia and Emma (Year 9) haveinteracted with Professor Moore and students across the stateto discuss concepts such as space shuttle design, health inspace and the dangers of radiation exposure. They will beginideating solutions to the problems associated with colonisingMars in the first week back after the holidays.

Professor Steven Moore discussing centrifugal force with theProfessor Steven Moore discussing centrifugal force with theMission to Mars cohort.Mission to Mars cohort.

We welcome William and Royce (Year 9), Xander and Hayden(Year 7) to the QVSA Young Scholars at Rockhampton StateHigh School for Round 2, and we welcome back Jared (Year 9)and Tobias (Year 7) who have previously been Young Scholarsand are returning to Grand Challenges this term. William,Xander and Hayden, along with Keeley (Year 7) are part ofthe Biomimicry Skill Builder which sees students designing newand novel creations with nature as its base design. Royce isparticipating in the Biomaterials Grand Challenge with Tobias,Jared and Mackenzie (Year 8). These students are looking atways to reduce the use of plastics in our world, substitutingplastic-based materials with biomaterials with Dr PadraigStrappe (CQUniversity) as an expert, as well as studyingmicroplastics in the oceans under the supervision of Dr AngieCapper from Gladstone’s CQUniversity Campus. Will andLachlan (Year 9) are part of the Microcontroller Arduino SkillBuilder course hosted by GTF NQ and have both received theirown Arduino kits to practice on and retain.

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The QVSA program allows students to participate in authentic,real-world STEM-based research through connections withindustry professionals and researchers from CQUniversity andaround the world. The QVSA at CQ also offers Programs tostudents in Year 5 and 6 from the CQ Region. This Round weoffered Grand Challenges in Bushfire Reduction, Missing theNight (analysing the impact light pollution has on humans, theenvironment, and the world at large), Mission to Mars (juniorcohort), Waging War on Food Waste and an iSee licence andscientific inquiry Skill Builder.

Breeha SinnamonQVSA at Central Queensland Coordinator

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