NEW TOWN HIGH SCHOOL

Key Dates for 2017

Mon 3 July

Mid-Year Reports Distributed

Tues 4 July

All Schools Cross Country

Wed 5 July to Mon 17 July

Central Australia Tour

Fri 7 July

Last Day of Term 2

Mon 24 July

Student Free Day

Tues 25 July

First Day of Term 3

Wed 26 July

Shakespeare is Dead - G9

Macbeth - G10

Thurs 27 July

Australian Mathematics Comp

Mon 31 July - Thurs 4 Aug

NTHS/OHS Concert Band Tour

Mon 31 July

Parent Teacher Interviews

Course Selection Evening

Fri 4 August

Swimming Carnival

Thurs 10 August

Grade 8/9 Social

It has been a very interesting and rewarding first half of the school year. With the introduction of

our new school APP we have been able to send out stories of student activity, learning and success

frequently. Our web page now also contains a link to our school Facebook site and a calendar of

events.

The purpose of this newsletter is to highlight student achievement over Term 2. It is not possible to

mention everything as our students are so busy in many pursuits. We will publish this newsletter at

the end of each term from Term 2.

After six months talking to staff, parents and students I have formed a very clear sense of the pur-

pose for our school. Our school is here to Develop Good Men through individualised learning, exten-

sion activities and character building programs - guaranteeing skills and attitudes to learning to en-

sure our graduating students continue education to complete year 12 and to attain the TCE or equiv-

alent. For some the equivalent might be entering an apprenticeship or full time work. What we are

clear about is that we want all our young men to be in the best possible position to have a successful

life. There is of course, considerable research to tell us that completion of year 12 will result in the

ability to find employment and to earn a higher salary. There is also evidence that year 12 comple-

tion will result in better health over a person’s life time.

We believe that it takes involvement in formal lessons and in-school activities at High School to gain

the attitudes and confidence to achieve a year 12 qualification. Many of our boys experience signifi-

cant hardship in their lives and it takes determination and grit to overcome adversity and obstacles to

allow achievement at school. We believe that our school provides all boys with an opportunity to

become good men and to leave here with the skills and attitude to achieve at College level. I have

found the staff at the school to be highly committed and very supportive while always seeking better

outcomes for our boys.

In reading our newsletter you will get a glimpse of the diverse array of opportunities provided for

everyone.

As you may be aware Jason Szczerbanik our former Principal has moved into a new role permanent-

ly. We thank Jason for his contribution to the school over the past two years. The position has been

advertised and we are hopeful that the permanent principal role will be confirmed prior to Term 3. I

hope to be here as your principal in Term 3 to continue our journey to find better ways to prepare

our boys for a great life as strong and compassionate - Good Men.

Dave Kilpatrick

GRADE 7 NEWS The Student Representative Council organised a Sports

Jumper Day – all grades were encouraged to wear their

favourite sports jumper with their uniform on Friday 30

June. All proceeds will go to the Cancer Council – a gold

coin donation was collected by Grade 7 Student Council

Representatives during Home Group Friday. Thank you

for supporting this worthwhile cause.

Congratulations to the Grade 7 Debating Team – they

were narrowly defeated in the finals. Team members

are: Charlie Pilkington, 7-7, Ashton Hill, 7-2, Oscar

Neale, 7-4, Nicholas Kesuma, 7-4, Oliver Sproule, 7-4

and James Heazlewood, 7-2.

Well done to Haney Mokonen, 7-7, Jordan Blyth, 7-3,

Jesse Willmott, 7-4 and Luke Nicholson, 7-5, for their

outstanding efforts in the recent Inter-high Cross Coun-

try. Haney was the stand out performance with a second

place in a race of approximately seventy athletes.

Welcome to the following students to our school: Lach-

lan McKee, 7-1, Aidan Lynch, 7-2, Aroun Duncan, 7-

2, and twins, Hudson and Keenan Griffiths both of 7-

6. We wish our new students good luck and success at

New Town High School.

We would encourage students and parents to check win-

ter uniforms over the coming holidays in preparation for

the cold Term 3 ahead.

Finally, a safe and happy holiday to all students.

Leone Lamont & Keith Turnbull

GRADE 7 SUPERVISORS

GRADE 8 NEWS Term 2 has been jam-packed with events and activities, to

keep us all very busy.

Congratulations to those who recently competed in the

Cross Country. We saw a great turnout from Grade 8,

and everyone else who competed put in a stellar effort

representing their house. Good work to Dechaineux,

the overall winners of the event. A further congratula-

tions to those who qualified for the interschool competi-

tion, notably Brayden Golding, 8D1, who took out 1st

place in the event.

The music department has been busy with performances

and even a camp! The Brass Ensemble recently per-

formed at Mona Museum for the ‘Museum of Everything’

exhibition. Mr Brown conducted the performance, which

was highly praised. The band was joined by a host of ex-

New Town High boys. Congratulations to everyone who

performed. On the topic of the school’s musical achieve-

ments, the 7/8 Junior Band travelled to the Roches

Beaches Orana camp for two days’ worth of intense prac-

tise. The program was very rewarding for the students

involved, as demonstrated in their (upcoming or prior)

performance. Thirdly, in terms of music, the Stage Band

(Oglivie/New Town High School) recently took out the

certificate of merit at the Hobart Estieddford. Congratu-

lations to Liam Rodemann, 8J2, Luca Cartledge, 8J2,

Josh Ford-King, 8J2, and Masyn Wilkins, 8H1, who per-

formed from Grade 8.

It is Fun Run time again! Ms Brooks is organising the up-

coming Glenorchy Fun Run. The entry cost is $5.00 for

New Town High School students, and you can run in ei-

ther the 5km event or the 10k. Be sure to enter, and

represent your school for a small cost on your Sunday

morning. Our Grade is always the largest representing

New Town High School, and we urge everyone to do

Grade 8 proud! Well done to the two Grade 8 teams

who competed in the Southern Schools’ Volleyball Cup at

the Moonah Sports Stadium. The teams have also been

competing in a Monday night roster. Again, thanks to Ms

Brooks for all her wonderful organising of so many of our

sporting activities, for the love of sport, and our Grade!

Evan Stone, Liam Timms, Andrew Smith, Samuel Payne, Masyn Wilkins &

Luke Van Emmerik -

NTHS A team that competed in the Tasmanian Schools Volleyball Cup

Joshua Ford-King, Thomas Morgan, Jevan Housego, Magnus McCausland,

Joshua Glover & Aiden Midson -

NTHS B that also competed in the Tasmanian Schools Volleyball Cup

Congratulations to both our Debating teams, who have

worked tirelessly all term, and well done to the Grade 8

Blue Debating team, have qualified for the TDU Southern

Schools Competition finals. Thank you to Ms Guerzoni

for organising and tutoring our debating teams, and for

her selfless dedication to debating.

Thanks again, to Ms Guerzoni for organising the Alliance

Francaise competition. Some of our dedicated French

students have showed off their French speaking skills to a

panel of judges via a pre-determined poem. Well done to

all who participated.

The Grade 8 Student Representative Council is hosting a

Table Tennis competition for all grades. The competition

will be doubles-based, and the entry fee is $4.00 per

team. Teams will be divided into separate heats, and

each team playing a set number of matches. From there,

the winners from each heat will go on to compete in fi-

nals. All proceeds raised are going to Speak Up Stay

Chatty, a charity involved in spreading mental health

awareness and suicide prevention. The Grade 8 Student

Representative Council have been going around Home

Groups collecting entries. Remember your money, and

your teammate!

Congratulations, everyone, on a solid Term 2! Enjoy

your holiday!

Evan Stone

GRADE 8 SRC PRESIDENT

What a fantastic term it has been for Grade 8s!

As the weather has cooled, our Grade has taken to win-

ter sports and extracurricular activities with great enthu-

siasm. From chess and philosophy, to AFL and volleyball,

the Grade 8’s have utilised every opportunity to develop

their minds and bodies. In the classroom, students have

been immersed in not only the core subjects, but an array

of electives. Teachers of Grade 8 are also emphasising

organisational skills that will help our Grade ‘Build for

the Future.’

Mr Heidenreich, Ms Mulholland and Ms Burrill would like

to take this opportunity to thank the teachers of Grade

8, and our dedicated Home Group teachers. We wish all

our students and their families a safe holiday.

Sara Mulholland & Nathan Heidenreich

GRADE 8 SUPERVISORS

GRADE 9 NEWS Term 2 has been packed full of amazing activities and op-

portunities for Grade 9. The year is in full tilt and all stu-

dents have been working well towards their mid-term

reports. To start off with, the Grade 9 Student Repre-

sentative Council got straight to work, starting to organ-

ise events for the grade throughout the term. Our

lunchtime committee ran a Mario Cart Tournament, test-

ing the fastest racers in our grade. Two fundraisers were

run by the Student Representative Council this term, one

for warm milo to combat the winter chill and another to

raise money for the Give Me 5 for Kids wheelie bin walk.

A massive thank you to all who helped run the fundraisers

and contributed to them. To finish off the term, our

grade committee set up an activities afternoon so all stu-

dents could enjoy some house sport.

Our Student Representative Council has also been in

close collaboration with Ogilvie High School to organise

the Grade 8/9 Social, setting up the groundwork for an

awesome night.

This term we have also had a massive amount of partici-

pation on the sporting field. With the Cross Country

operating this term, it was great to see all going into the

event and giving it their best shot. Congratulations to

Jack Willmott, 9J2 and Kylen Cobern, 9J1, for taking 1st

and 2nd respectively and also to our entire Inter-high

Cross Country team who took out another win for New

Town High. Within our grade, Ellis won the Cross Coun-

try but Dechaineux was victorious overall.

Both our senior AFL team and Grade 9 Volleyball team

have done us proud this term, competing exceptionally

strongly and making their way to the grand finals, congrat-

ulations to both teams.

Aden Roberts, Jarrod Eaves, Jack Rosewarne, Seth Perkins, Jack Barrow,

Yubaraj Kadariya, Samuel French, Umesh Adhikari -

NTHS Blue competed in the Tasmanian Schools Volleyball Cup

We have also had several Grade 9 Hockey students com-

pete in the June long weekend competition. It was an

intrastate tournament with exceptional performances

from Tyler McDonald, 9H2, Jayden Vince, 9H1, Ari

Trochatos, 9D2 and Aron Flatten, 9H1.

In the area of music, we had many Grade 9 students at-

tend the Orana Band Camp to further their already amaz-

ing musical talents. A big thank you to all staff involved

with the organisation and we wish all those going on to

compete in the band tour the best of luck.

It has been an amazing term for Grade 9 and a great year

so far. With many new responsibilities and roles within

the school as senior students it has been a challenge but

one many have taken in their stride. A massive thank you

to our Grade Supervisors Ms Jones and Mr Harris along

with Mr Bavage for helping our grade be the best it can.

Harrison Tunks, 9E1

GRADE 10 NEWS Term 2 has been huge for Grade 10’s this year, with our

last year at New Town High half complete we’ve indulged

in all our favourite activities to make the last year special.

We look to the Leadership Board, who attended leader-

ship training opportunities early in Term 1, to orchestrate

Free Dress days and Inter-Home Group Sports competi-

tions to spice up our daily school lives.

This year as New Town boys we have looked to nurture

intrapersonal, interschool and international relationships

within our communities. Various leadership forums and

opportunities have fostered understanding, teamwork and

respect across all grades in our school society, our Grade

8 and 10 leadership teams attending conferences in leader-

ship and technology. Part of our goal as a Leadership

Board this year is to build relationships with feeder

schools to ensure the future of New Town High. Prefects

and House Captains have acted as Marshals and supervi-

sors at Lenah Valley Primary, Mount Stuart Primary, New

Town Primary and Inter-primary Cross Country and Ath-

letics events, assisting teachers and students alike in main-

taining safe and functional events while putting New Town

High School into the community eye. We’ve continued to

build these relationships through mentor programs, the

best of New Town’s athletes, debaters and public speakers

have attended primary schools to help develop skills and

explain the primary school to high school transition pro-

cess. Our debating program being of particular success

with our debaters coaching and adjudicating several prima-

ry teams with huge success. While focusing on strength-

ening local communities, boys at New Town have looked

to expand their international horizons. We were over-

joyed to host international students for a week in March

and are looking forward to building further relations with

our sister school in Japan when they visit in Term 3.

Hani Moore, Benjamin Goodman, Samuel Marshall, Owen Chivers,

Ryan Marshall & Alexander Long -

NTHS Blue participated in the Tasmanian Schools Volleyball Cup

As only New Town Boys can, we have relished in local

sports competitions. Recently our Inter-High Cross

Country team were victorious in their event at the Roke-

by Police Academy, individual achievements saw podium

finishes from New Town. Senior Basketball players have

participated in development programs with the Hobart

Chargers and are competing outstandingly in local college

competitions. Our mind sports have had their time in the

limelight too, with debating teams making finals in Grade 7,

8 and 10, the first chess team in years participating strong-

ly in local competitions and public speakers representing

New Town in the Tasmanian Junior and Senior State Finals

of the Rostrum Voice of Youth.

Basketball Athlete Development students working with

Chris Whitehead from the Hobart Chargers

The Leadership team in Grade 10, consisting of our Pre-

fects and House Captains has worked tirelessly to support

our local community. Term 1 saw donations go to the

RSPCA to assist them in finding homes for neglected pets.

Peter West the Head of RSPCA Tasmania came into New

Town with two adorable puppies to speak to some boys

about the ways in which the funds would be used. The

Leadership Board recently swapped blazers for aprons to

begin their brownie bake sale to raise funds to assist with

costs for boys at the close of this year. We have made

New Town an epicentre for school functions in Hobart,

hosting various conferences for students inside and out-

side of our school community. The onus for Grade 10

boys this term has been preparation for college. It has

been important for boys to be able to attend orientation

days and information evenings at various colleges to pre-

pare them for later learning. Our goal is to build for the

future, and the first step is to prepare ourselves for future

education.

The first half of the year has disappeared in a whirlwind of

opportunities, activities and responsibilities. We wish eve-

ryone safe and restful holidays before Term 3 and the up

and coming Grade 10 exams.

Kelly Stone & Tom Roberts

Head Prefect & Deputy Head Prefect

FOOD STUDIES NEWS Grade 8 Foods Studies students have explored many dif-

ferent culinary experiences preparing a selection of food.

They included developing a deep understanding of the way

yeast works and the importance of ensuring conditions

are correct to ensure activation. Practical tasks associat-

ed with the yeast work, included, pizza, bread rolls, cal-

zone, and garlic bread. The major design task looked at

the creation of a sweet or savoury muffin. After some

experience in cooking muffins earlier in the year (morning

muffins and red velvet muffins), the students were ex-

pected to follow basic muffin methodology to create their

own product. As an individual task, most boys enjoyed

the creative possibilities and achieved a degree of success.

Other practical tasks have included both sweet and sa-

voury options such as choc wheaten biscuits, chilli beef

and bean wraps, pumpkin soup, Cajun chicken, wedges

and apple crumble slice.

Ryan Underwood & Max Jenkins Aaron Suggett & Ke-Asi Akorsu

Grade 7 students have continued to hone their basic

cooking skills and have a greater understanding of the

need to listen carefully to instructions and watch demon-

strations closely. The issue of careful reading of the reci-

pe has become very apparent! After significant focus on

kitchen hygiene/equipment usage and basic food prepara-

tion techniques, all students should have developed a

good understanding of focus and requirements of success-

ful operating in the kitchen environment. Our practical

tasks, have included sweet options (truffles, chewy choco-

late slice) and savoury meals (spaghetti bolognaise, na-

chos). Two components which offered a challenge to

many students, revolved around learning correct scone

making techniques, which were further practiced in mak-

ing savoury whirls. Our design task looked at the prepa-

ration of fried rice and involved students exploring differ-

ent additions to the rice considering, colour, nutritional

value and plating ideas. Wendy Shelton

FOOD STUDIES TEACHER

Grade 9 and 10 Food Studies students have increased

their knowledge of safe food handling practices, yeast

cookery, convenience foods and design skills. They en-

joyed the bread and pizza design challenges and there

were many unique outcomes achieved. Students also par-

ticipated in a number of experiments highlighting the

growth of yeast and how it can be used in cooking and

what bacteria needs to grow and ways it can contaminate

cooking.

This term students have been exploring the role of con-

venience foods in their diet. Comparisons include home-

made choc chip cookies versus refrigerated dough and

packet choc chip cookies, homemade pumpkin soup ver-

sus packet and tinned pumpkin soup and chocolate mud

cake vs packet mix and prepared ready to eat chocolate

mud cake. In this study they looked at food labelling laws

in particular Nutritional Information Panels (NIPs) and

aligned them against the Australian Guide to Healthy Eat-

ing guidelines to assess the levels of fat, sugar and salt

contained in the products.

Samuel Richardson,

W i l l i a m M i t c h e l l ,

Regan Dwyer & Shaun Clayton

They also gained a better understanding of the differences

between saturated, unsaturated and trans fats contained

in many convenience foods. Additionally, students have

explored each of the products in terms of its chemical and

sensory properties and costed out their product, to as-

sess the cost of the home made product against the con-

venience products in terms of overall product, per 100g

and per serve. All students agreed one small sausage roll

was in their eyes not a serve! From all the information

gathered they reflected on each of the products ad-

vantages and disadvantages in terms of cost, taste, nutri-

tion, storage, sustainability issues related to packaging,

convenience and time.

Jane Miller

FOOD STUDIES TEACHER

ARTS NEWS As Term 2 draws to a close I would like to draw your

attention to the excellent learning boys are involved with

throughout the school community.

As the year gains momentum and our boys establish

learning patterns in Arts subjects, the quality of Music

performance, the new Stage and Theatre Crafts they ac-

quire and the techniques used to construct Visual Art-

works considerably improves. A great example of this is

the Junior Band.

Recently, we were treated to a Music assembly item pro-

duced by Mr Edwards, the Junior Band and senior music

students who performed with the Junior Band in a leader-

ship role. What impressed me about these performances

was the tightness of the music itself. Playing Music in a

band requires discipline and patience. Playing composi-

tions over and over again demands a high level of focus

from teenage boys and even the performance of the most

seemingly “basic” of tunes becomes a complex exercise.

Full orchestras are amazing in this respect because much

of the art is in each individual player perfectly following

the direction of the conductor, in order to realise the

ideas held in the original music. I am in awe of big or-

chestras and our school bands because of this. Big or

small they are essentially doing the same!

The fantastic artworks our Arts teachers produce with

our students is genuinely amazing because it strengthens

our positive perceptions of what we as humans are capa-

ble of. While competition is one of the main elements in

team sport and the excitement is in the struggle to win,

the focus in artworks is not only one of entertainment,

but something that makes us think, dream and feel con-

nected. This is what our boys are involved with when

they see a Visual Art exhibition, listen to a street busker

or laugh at their favourite stand-up comedian or simply

enjoy the colours, sounds and movement of our everyday

lives.

Arts are about making, receiving and reflecting. This is

the DNA that is at the base of our curriculum and arts

practises throughout the world!

Ask your son about his involvement in the Arts at our

school and when you are in the school please ask to go

down to the “Art Hallway” and view the artworks on

display. Enjoy!

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to welcome back

Ms Mel Tighe into our school. Ms Tighe has considerable

experience as a Drama teacher and we are looking for-

ward to the Drama Learning Area gaining more momen-

tum, after a short period of uncertainty following the sud-

den retirement of Mr Tony Soszynski. Mel and Tony are

old colleagues and I know Tony would approve of Ms

Tighe becoming Head of Drama! Arts Night looks even

better now!

Peter Young

HOD - ARTS

MONA Performance On Saturday 10 June, the New Town High School Brass

Ensemble performed at Mona for the 'Museum of Every-

thing' Exhibition Launch. Along with our current stu-

dents, several 2016 New Town High School leavers

joined the ensemble for the performance.

Under leadership from Alex Brown, the ensemble per-

formed very well. Patrons and organisers alike enjoyed

the performance. Comments were made indicating the

music was better than expected and most surprised this

was a ‘school ensemble’.

Thank you to Alex Brown for his leadership with the

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brass ensemble, and the ever continuing support from

Jane Mason and Vincent Howe. Excellent performance

from the boys showing the greater community what is

possible at New Town High School.

Dracula Performance At The Theatre Royal The Grade 9/10 Drama class had an amazing experience

at Shake and Stir's performance of Bram Stoker's Dracula

at the Theatre Royal last Thursday. The performance was

gothic and intense, complete with a revolving set, and at-

mospheric lighting and music. Thank you to Ms Gardner

for accompanying us.

SPORTS NEWS

Cross Country Congratulations to students who took part in the School

Cross Country on Wednesday 31 May. Dechainuex was

the overall winner, followed by Hunter, Ellis and Jarvis.

Thank you to Mr Brent Williams for the organisation of

this event and the staff and student leaders who provided

support.

Haney Mokonen Braydon Golding

Jack Willmott Mason Attfield

Inter-High Cross Country Congratulations to all our boys who participated in the

Inter-High Cross Country at Rokeby Police Academy on

Wednesday 8 June. We won the Inter-High Cross Coun-

try Boys Shield by six points. A great result for New

Town High and a close win too.

Standout performances came from Mason Attfield, 10J1,

and Braydon Golding, 8D1, who won their respective

divisions.

Well done to all team members in what was some very

tight racing. Best results were:

Mason Attfield 1st

Braydon Golding 1st

Jack Willmott 2nd

Haney Mokonen 2nd

Jordan Blyth 3rd

Kylen Cobern 3rd

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City To Casino Fun Run/Walk Congratulations to the following students and staff for

taking part in the City to Casino Fun Run/Walk on Sunday

21 May.

7km Event:

Grade 7 - Leif Joyce, 7-1, Elliott Hay, 7-2, Brock

Parsell, 7-1, Jamie Stringer, 7– 6, and Bailey Husband,

7-4.

Grade 8 - Thomas Morgan, 8D1, Joshua Glover, 8D1,

Owen Roberts, 8J2, Aiden Midson, 8H2, Jevan

Housego, 8D1, Dylan Burns, 8E2, Troy Jenkins, 8J1,

Liam Timms, 8J1, Patrick Loring, 8H1, Jaden Moore,

8D1, Joel Johnson, 8D1, Lindsay Tyson-Mitchell, 8J2,

Chanel Leatua, 8E2, and Samuel Brown, 8H1.

Grade 9 - Samuel French, 9D2, and Max Hoyle, 9J2.

Grade 10 - Ryan Marshall, 10D2, Samuel Marshall,

10D2, Finlay Semmens, 10J2, Micah Di Zio, 10E1,

Braydon Blackaby, 10J1, Tom Roberts, 10E2, Oscar

Mineur, 10E1, Benjamin Goodman, 10E1, Will Sin-

clair , 10D2, and Regan Dwyer, 10E2.

Staff - Jane Brooks, Karin Hodel, Grace Guerzoni,

Cassandra Coleman and Bec Strong.

11km Event

Kelly Stone, 10J2, Max Waters, 9D2, and William

O’Neile, 8J1.

Jane Brooks

HPE TEACHER

Badminton Two teams of students have been representing New

Town High School in the Southern Schools Badminton

Competition this term. All teams play a combination of

singles and doubles matches every Friday night at various

venues around Hobart. We have had some tight matches

against Hutchins, St Virgils, Friends, Dominic and Kingston.

This is the first time our boys have played badminton and

they are to be congratulated for their enthusiasm and will-

ingness to learn a new sport. They have all shown perse-

verance and sportsmanship throughout the season. We

wish the boys good luck as they head towards the finals in

Term 3.

NTHS Juniors

Back L-R: Thomas Morgan, Liam Timms, Dylan Burns

Front F-R: Jaden Moore, Joshua Glover

NTHS Seniors

Back L-R: Daniel Bobbi, Umesh Adhikari, Tom Roberts

Front L-R: Chander Shekar, Umesh Rai

Volleyball Throughout the term we have thirty students represent-

ing the school in the southern schools volleyball roster.

Four New Town High School teams have been playing on

Monday nights all term, in a roster comprising of ten

teams from various high schools and colleges. Our boys

have represented us proudly and made huge improve-

ments on the court at Thursday trainings and Monday

games.

Our New Town High School Grade 9 team deserves a

special mention for making iy to the Grand Final in their

very first season of volleyball! All new to the sport – and

with some help from other New Town High School boys

showing them the ropes – they showed a natural talent

for volleyball. We look forward to seeing these boys

make further improvements in 2018.

It has been particularly pleasing to see most of the players

from NTHS Juniors, NTHS Blue and NTHS Gold return-

ing for their second season and refining their volleyball

skills this year. With a few ‘newbies’ thrown in, the boys

have worked together and played some very entertaining

volleyball all term. Well done boys!

We wish all New Town High School teams good luck in

the finals on Monday 3 July:

Senior Div A – Play off for 3rd/4th place - NTHS Gold V

Elizabeth College Thunder

Senior Div B – Grand Final – NTHS 9s V St Virgils

Senior Div B – Play off for 3rd/4th place – NTHS Blue V

NTHS Juniors

NTHS Juniors with Bailey Nelson (class of 2016)

Absent : James Brunner and Yubaraj Kadariya)

NTHS Blue

NTHS Gold

Tasmanian Schools Volleyball Cup – Friday 23

June

Congratulations to the New Town High School boys who

took part in this one day event. Thirty three teams from

various high schools participated in a long day of high en-

ergy volleyball.

We had two junior teams and two senior teams, each

playing a minimum of 4 matches throughout the day. Our

boys showed outstanding behaviour and sportsmanship.

The volleyball action was intense and all players should be

proud of their efforts. It was great to see the New Town

High School boys cheering each other on and having a fun

day.

Seniors -

NTHS Gold: Hani Moore, Ben Goodman, Samuel

Marshall, Owen Chivers, Ryan Marshall, Alex Long.

NTHS Blue: Aden Roberts, Jarrod Eaves, Jack

Rosewarne, Seth Perkins, Jack Barrow, Yubaraj Ka-

dariya, Sam French, Umesh Adhikari .

Juniors -

NTHS A: Evan Stone, Liam Timms, Andrew Smith,

Sam Payne, Masyn Wilkins, Luke van Emmerik.

NTHS B: Josh Ford-King, Thomas Morgan, Jevan

Housego, Magnus McCausland, Joshua Glover, Aiden

Midson. Jane Brooks

HPE TEACHER

STUDENT SUCCESS Adam Nankivell, 10E1, has been selected to represent

Tasmania at the Australian Karate Federation National

Championships to be held in Sydney at the beginning of

August. He will be competing in the 14/15 yrs kumite

(sparring).

Jacques Barwick, 9H1, has been selected to represent

Tasmania in the Tasmanian U/15 AFL Schoolboys team.

The National Schoolboys Championship will take place in

Perth, Western Australia from 22-29 July.

Adam Nankivell Jacques Barwick

OLD SCHOLAR SUCCESS New Town High is proud of Tanner Krebs’ (class of

2012) continued growth and ever-growing list of achieve-

ments on the basketball court. Tanner will be represent-

ing Australia as a member of the Emerging Boomers team

at the World University Games in Taipai this August.

Good luck, Tanner!

DEBATING NEWS With the 2017 debating season on the eve of the finals,

New Town High School teams are tentatively speaking of

the success enjoyed thus far. As in previous years the

Tasmanian Debating Union has organised an exciting and

challenging Southern Schools’ Competition with a round

robin of six debates in each grade division beginning in

March. New Town High School has entered four teams in

this year’s competition – one in the Novice Class, two in

the Class 8 Competition (Grade 8 Blue and Grade 8 Red)

and one in the Class 10 competition. Our debaters have,

as always, risen to the occasion and engaged audiences

with their persuasive wit and sound reasoning. As we go

to press three of our teams prepare to do battle in the

very challenging bouts of the finals series.

In the Novice Class, New Town High 1 – Ashton Hill, 7-

2, Oscar Neale, 7-4 and Charlie Pilkington, 7-7 (joined

by Jacob Blum, 7-6, Leo Buttermore, 7-6, James

Heazlewood, 7-2, Nicholas Kesuma, 7-4, Vu Ngyuen, 7

-4, Jacob Nicholson, 7-3, and Oliver Sproule, 7-4) – has

consistently presented itself as a formidable force to reck-

on with, winning every debate and finishing as minor

premiers in a field of sixteen teams from nine schools.

The Class 8 competition comprised two divisions – Blue

and Red – where ten teams from seven schools battled it

out each fortnight to make the top two. In the Blue Divi-

sion, New Town High 2 – Luca Cartledge, 8J2, William

O’Neile, 8J1, Evan Stone, 8J2, Liam Timms, 8J1 and

Luke Van Emmerik , 8J2, – have proven themselves the

team to beat, winning every debate in style and finishing

second on the ladder by the barest of ranking points. In

the semi-final they will meet The Friends’ School 2 from

the Red Division.

New Town High 1 – Oskar Puclin, 8D1, Alex Rolle,

8D2, Guntaj Singh, 8D2, and Dylan Vertigan, 8H2 –

have met many challenges in their rostered debates, win-

ning two and missing out on wins by very small margins.

Despite some sparkling individual performances they fin-

ished in eighth spot on the ladder.

Our senior team - Maxwell Hohman, 10J2, Finlay Sem-

mens, 10J2, Kelly Stone, 10J2 and Harrison Tunks,

9E1, (our lone ranger from Grade 9) – have sparkled

through a competition where the standard of debate is

simply outstanding. They have won every single debate,

the majority of which are short preparation debates

where the team is given the topic one hour before the

actual debate takes place. Naturally, they have finished at

the top of the ladder in the Class 10 competition where

ten teams from nine schools have proven skills in the art

of arguing cases. The team will face the formidable St

Mary’s in the semi-finals to take place in third term.

There are many moments which remind us that we can

take pride in our debaters as wonderful ambassadors for

our School and we choose just a number to outline.

Firstly, our Class 8 Blue team and our Class 10 team have

won the Dean’s medal for the Round 4 Law Debate.

The Dean’s Medal, presented on behalf of the UTAS Dean

of Law, Professor Margaret Otlowski is awarded to the

team with the strongest case in each Grade as decided by

a consensus of adjudicators. Our teams were adjudged to

have the strongest matter – compelling arguments and

evidence – of any team in their Grade in the round which

featured contentious topics on matters which involve the

law. The Class 8 team successfully argued against the case

‘That fines should be proportional to income’ while the Class

10 team defeated St Mary’s presenting a compelling case

‘That criminal trials should be televised’. Both teams were

winners of the Dean’s medal in 2016 so this is an amazing

achievement.

Secondly, New Town High School hosted Round 6 of the

TDU competition for Class 8 and Class 10 teams on June

14th. A number of our students and Prefects acted as

debonair and generous hosts for the evening, welcoming a

large number of students, parents, teachers and adjudica-

tors and earning countless compliments for their warmth

and cordiality. It was a great evening and when it comes

to supper, hey, our school rules!

Thirdly, we pay tribute to our senior team, led by Kelly

Stone, who have been nothing short of wonderful in their

roles as mentors and adjudicators for students involved in

the Primary School Debating Competition. The boys have

conducted masterclass workshops at Mt Stuart and New

Town Primary Schools and have given thoughtful and in-

valuable adjudication at debating rounds held at Mt Stuart

Primary School and Lenah Valley Primary School. Kelly,

Harry, Finlay and Max deserve every commendation for

their commitment, passion and care for young debaters.

Not only have they earned high praise from parents and

teachers in the wider community but they deserve our

own for the work they do to promote debating within the

school. Kelly, Finlay, Harry and Max have attended the

debates of our younger students, led vibrant coaching ses-

sions for the teams and for individual students. They

make debating cool and they epitomise all that is best and

finest in our Peer Support program, the jewel in our

crown.

As three teams excitedly face finals fever we wish our wit

warriors all the very best as they consolidate the strong

tradition of the fine art of debating at New Town High

School.

Grace Guerzoni

DEBATING

ENGLISH NEWS As the first half of the year

draws to a close we celebrate

the work continuing in English

classrooms and offer a little

look forward to a breadth of

exciting visits and performanc-

es to stimulate our love of lit-

erature and language.

During May, five of our talent-

ed students – Alex Rolle,

8D2, Finlay Semmens,

10J2, Evan Stone, 8J2, Kelly

Stone, 10J2 and Harrison Tunks, 9E1 - entered the

Southern regional finals of the Rostrum Voice of Youth

speaking competition. Rostrum Voice of Youth is the

premier public speaking competition for secondary school

students throughout Australia. Students participating de-

liver a prepared speech on one of five set topics plus a

short notice speech of three minutes and are judged on

their ability to speak with confidence and engage their

audience through appeal to the intellect and the emo-

tions. Our students presented engaging and inspiring

speeches with Evan Stone and Kelly Stone winning the

Junior and Senior divisions.

The State finals were held in Launceston on Saturday 3rd

June. Evan performed creditably in the Junior Section

showing his promise for the future and Kelly earned sec-

ond place in the Senior Division after a wonderful perfor-

mance. In first place was Year 12 student Eamonn Short-

er who placed second in last year’s national competition

so Kelly’s performance is quite outstanding.

In the months to come our students will find their winter

warmed by visiting authors and players. On Monday 3

July Grade 10 students were treated to the Australia Play-

house performance ‘Great Scott Fitzgerald! - Gatsby Un-

leashed’. Regular visitors Bell Shakespeare come in early

third term to treat us to the wonders of the Bard (‘the

play’s the thing’) with performances of ‘Shakespeare is

Dead’ for Grade 9 and Macbeth for Grade 10.

Our people’s poet Geoff Goodfellow will come in August

and we look forward to visits from Ben Law (author of

The Family Law) and Will Kostakis (author of the highly

acclaimed The Sidekicks and The First Third).

We are pleased to note that 32 students were keen to

enter the ICAS English competition on Tuesday 1 August.

We also look forward to celebrating Children’s Book

Council of Australia’s Book Week (18 – 25 August) with

its theme concept of Escape to Everywhere with a number

of events. It will be a winter of content with all that Eng-

lish has to offer.

Grace Guerzoni

HOD - ENGLISH

LITERACY AT

NEW TOWN HIGH SCHOOL Our whole school focus is on spelling and looking at using

the different spelling knowledges to support our students

to know more about where words come from, how they

make their meaning and why they are spelt the way they

are. At our recent professional learning, Mr Kilpatrick

modelled what this would look like in his HPE class using

the word perishable. The focus here was looking at the

meaningful parts (morphemes) of the word- ‘perish’ and

‘able’ and the history of the word (etymology).

The word perish comes from the Latin perire meaning to

be lost and the morpheme able generally meaning ‘to be

capable of’.

Spelling will continue to be our focus in learning areas

with subject specific words and helping students under-

stand the meaning of the words they see, hear and need

to use in their writing. Some recent examples include;

Art- monochromatic, HPE ostracised, IT peripheral, Music

- interval.

For terms 3 and 4 we will be looking at writing to learn

strategies with a focus on increasing the quantity and

quality of student writing. We have noticed many boys

coming to class not prepared for writing and we ask for

your support in ensuring boys have necessary equipment,

including a pen and pencil!

Jill Burrill

LITERACY

ABSENCE LINE

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Call or text any time (24/7)

regarding your son’s absence.

REMEMBER:

STUDENT FREE DAY

Monday 24 July

Students return for Term 3

Tuesday 25 July

SCIENCE NEWS

AFL NEWS Congratulations to the victorious Grade 7/8 AFL team who won

the SATIS Grand Final against St Virgil’s College on Wednesday

28 June. Thank you to Mr Newman for coaching the side to an

undefeated season this year.

Congratulations to the following team members: Keegan Ryan,

8D2, Samuel Wright, 8D2, Dylan Cooper, 8D2, Josch Bing-

ham, 8J2, Riley Higgins, 8E1, Jayden Bowerman, 8D1, Bray-

den Golding, 8D1, Brayden Butler, 8E1, Ashton Read, 8D1,

Blair Wood, 8D1, Blake Wood, 8D2, Mitchell Ford, 8D2, Taj

Auksorius, 8D1, Jack Rogers, 8D1, Chanel Leatua, 8E2, Zac

Braslin, 8D2, Luke Nicholson, 7-5, Callum Thompson, 7-5,

Jack Rolls, 7-3, Joshua Meredith, 7-2, Alex Rogers, 7-7, Bill

Griggs, 7-6, Fraser Payner, 7-2, Jesse Wilmott, 7-4, Harry

Hollmer-Cross, 7-6, Joshua Hilder, 7-5, Brady Simpson, 7-5,

Jordan Blyth, 7-3, Billy Phillips, 7-5.

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