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Narrandera High School Newsletter

Narrandera High School

Issue 13 Week 6 Term 3 Tuesday 27th August 2019

Term 3 continues to progress very quickly with the last fortnight being a very busy

one at Narrandera High School.

It has been wonderful to witness the creative arts flourish at our school over the past

few weeks. Following our amazing KROP performance, we have had our choir and

dance group perform at the Leeton Eisteddfod. This was the first time in many years

that our school has entered in these sections. It was a great achievement for our

school to receive highly commended prizes for these performances. Special thanks

to Mrs Julie Ramos and Mrs Brooke Gilmour for their leadership and commitment to

improving our focus on the creative and performing arts at Narrandera High

School. Our CAPA Evening last Wednesday was also a success. A showcase of sing-

ing, dance, drama, art and photography was on display. It was also a great oppor-

tunity for our Stage 6 Drama students to deliver their HSC Drama Performances in

front of an audience. Thank you to Miss Naomi Williams, Miss Emily Tyler and the CA-

PA staff for organising this highly successful evening.

Our Stage 6 students are completing their Trial HSC Exams this week. It is pleasing to

see the vast majority of students being well-prepared for these examinations. I wish

them all the best of luck.

The Narrandera High Clontarf Academy will be officially opened tomorrow, August

28. The positive impact that Clontarf has had on student attendance and engage-

ment has been absolutely amazing. We are very fortunate to have our own Clon-

tarf Academy on site at our school.

All students have been recently reminded about the contents of our school elec-

tronic device policy (which covers mobile phones and tablets). During lesson time

all devices, unless under specific teacher instruction, are to be turned off and away

in the student’s bag. Students are not permitted to record images, video or sound.

Filming or recording without permission can be classified as an offence. If these

technologies are misused by students they can be very disruptive to teaching and

learning and in some cases cause harm. Consequences of a breach of this policy

may include steps right up to suspension. Your support in reinforcing the im-

portance of these guidelines with your children is greatly appreciated.

It is SASS (School Administrative & Support Staff) Appreciation Week this week. We

will celebrate the magnificent contribution our SASS staff make to our school in a

staff luncheon this Friday. One of the most wonderful things about Narrandera High

School is the commitment and care all of our staff, including our support staff,

demonstrate towards our students and fellow staff members. It is a privilege to be

part of such a positive and dedicated staff team.

Kind Regards,

Marni Milne

Relieving Principal


Term 3

Week 6

HSC Trial Examinations

Wednesday 28th August

10SS Snow Skiing Excursion

Clontarf official opening

Thursday 29th August


Year 8 English Assessment Due

Year 9 English Assessment Due

Friday 30th August


Year 10 PDHPE Resume task due

Week 7

Monday 2nd September

Year 7 Music assessment all

week

HSC ITT practical marking

Tuesday 3rd September

HSC ITT marking

Wednesday 4th September

State Athletics Carnival—

Homebush

Year 7 Scripture P3-4

HSC Drama marking day

Thursday 5th September


Homebush

Formal Assembly Period 2

Friday 6th September


Homebush

HSC mathematics study day—

Leeton

CALENDAR

Make your life a

masterpiece, imag-

ine no limitations on

what you can be,

have or do Brian Tracy

Monday 26th—Friday 30th

HSC Trial Examinations

Wednesday 28th– Friday 30th

10 Sports Studies Snow Skiing excursion

Thursday 29th August

Year 8 English assessment due

Year 9 English assessment due

Friday 30th August

Year 10 PDHPE Resume assessment due

Monday 2nd September

Year 7 music assessments all week

Thursday 5th September

Formal Assembly—Period 2 (9:50am)

Monday 9th September

Year 7 Science Assessment due

HSC Minimum standards testing

Tuesday 10th September

HSC Minimum standards testing

STUDENT INFORMATION


AG—WHETHER CHALLENGE

YR 11 YEAR DAY

The results are in from the Southern Merino Wether Challenge at Deniliquin last week.

We are pleased to announce that the Narrandera High team has placed second

overall to Moama Grammar. Thank you to our sponsors Bendigo Bank, QPL and John

Shady and Sons. We are especially appreciative of the efforts of Mr Matt Shady who

has worked hard to make our show team an important part of our school in 2019.

Our Year 11 students enjoyed their Year Day at Galore Hill recently. Our Year Days are

all about promoting positive relationships and support amongst the students in each

year group.


YEAR 9SS ICE BATHS


STATE CUP NETBALL

A number of Narrandera High School netball teams contested the State Cup Netball competition

on a very cold Tuesday 13th August at Equiex Centre, Wagga Wagga. Our Year 7/8 boys partici-

pated and look forward to a stronger performance next year. The Year 7 & 8 girls finished 3rd in

the Riverina, losing in the preliminary round.

The stars of the day though were the Year 9 & 10 boys. These boys were the winners of the State

Cup Netball in the Year 9 & 10 division. The boys won the Riverina final which sends them to state

finals at Homebush Netball Centre on 24th & 25th September.

The boys took great pleasure in showing off the winners trophy to the girls!!!

Congratulations boys!!


EISTEDDFOD

LIBRARY BOOK REVIEW

Year 7 have been writing Book Reviews for books in our Library that they have read. They write

their Reviews within our OLIVER Library System and then everyone can see them when they

search for a book. It is invaluable to see what others have thought, before borrowing.

Thank you Year 7.

Take a look at some of the results below, and come up and borrow a good book…..maybe

even one of these!

MEET ALICE by Davina Bell

Dancing in the Rain!

In this historical fiction there is a girl named Alice. Young Alice is

dancing in her thoughts thinking about her papa, thinking about if

he is ever breathing. She takes changes for her dream and then

everything is turned backwards and Alice is dancing in the rain. I

love the twists! It starts off smooth sailing then it starts to get wavy.

The book is good. It has a lot of things happening at the end. I like it

because it had history in it like from the wars and it had my favour-

ite sport in it which is dance. The book made me excited! I think

that this book is for 13 years or younger. Overall I like the book.

RATING: 4 stars

REVIEWER: Tahlia Gilbert Yr. 7

The school choir recently competed at the Leeton Eisteddfod. The girls sang in 3 sections

and received a highly commended in two of them. Despite the nerves, the girls sang well

and are to be congratulated on their determination.


CLONTARF

The Narrandera Clontarf Academy went away to the Ross Kelly Cup Rugby League Carnival

in Sydney week 4 of this term and competed against Clontarf Academy's from all across

NSW. The Narrandera Academy were fortunate enough to meet some NRL players and

Clontarf Partners who were invited to the event.

At the end of the Carnival the top 25 players were picked to compete in the NSW team and

would take on the Holy Cross College 1st team at the end of the day. Deakin Bright of Year

11 was selected in this 25 man squad and played a massive role in NSW defeating Holy Cross

College who have not been beaten in two years. Deakin scored a try for NSW in this game

and was one of the standout performers on the day.

Well done to all the boys that participated you all should be very proud of how well you all

behaved.

Also just a reminder that our Official Opening is this Wednesday 28th August at 12pm. Please

report to the office on arrival at the school.

John & Nev


COMMUNITY NOTICES


2019 Narrandera Show Saturday 7th September 2019

The Narrandera Show Inc., in conjunction with the Showman's guild (responsible for amusements at

show) are this year offering a bonus dollar coupon which must be pre-paid and can be used on any-

thing in sideshow alley, whether it is on rides, games and novelties or to buy food at various can-

teens. Please note: This doesn't include show bags.

This is a great opportunity to help families afford the cost of the show my making regular payments to

purchase the coupons:

Buy a block of 30 tickets for $25

Single tickets 1 for $1

Payments can be made in person on Thursdays & Fridays at Get Stitched Embroidery - 149 East Street

(Next door to MI Vet) or direct deposit. Bendigo Bank BSB: 633-108 A/C: 1311 64022. Account Name:

Narrandera Show Society Inc. please use surname and initials

This offer will run from 8th February to 19th July (23 Weeks) and tokens to be collected from the show

office Friday 6th or 11:00am on the day of the show.

* THESE COUPONS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON SHOW DAY *

There will be NO REFUNDS available - only in exceptional circumstances, where prior arrangements

have been made with the show society.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

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