YEAR 5 CHALLENGE REPORT

Last Tuesday saw 15 intrepid Year 5

students from our feeder primary

schools attend the Dapto Learning

Community Challenge Shield. Each

of the students was selected to attend

Kanahooka High School after

completing an Interactive Whiteboard

Lesson involving problem solving

activities run by Mr Panecasio at each

school.

Students took part in 4 activities

including Drama with Mr Pirie, Maths

with Mr Dalley, Sources and Evidence

with Mr Panecasio and Interactive

Whiteboard quiz session with Miss

Boreland. Points were allocated to

individuals and to their school total.

All students represented their schools

with distinction, and received a

certificate of participation. At the end

of the day the champion school for the

second year in a row was Hayes Park

Public School represented by Emerson

Burke, Mackenzie Hill, Amy Withnall

and Amelia Anderson.

In the individual competition, 1st Place

went to Emerson Burke of Hayes

Park, 2nd Place to Chelsea Cooper of

Lakelands and 3rd to Amy Withnall of

Hayes Park.

Mr T Panecasio

DAPTO WOMENS BOWLING

CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY

Kasandra Child, Nathan Sorrentino and

Mrs Haines began this catering

extravaganza at 7.00am. The Hospitality

students took on the challenge of preparing

and serving morning tea to sixty women.

There was a fruit platter, cheese and

cabanossi platter, raisin bread, tea and

coffee.

The comments were all very positive, some

about the food presentation and others in

regard to their presentation of trainee food

servers.

They were very happy and appreciative of

our work due to the students waiting on

the tables and plating food and also

portion plating all the desserts. The ladies

said it really felt like Christmas because

they were waited on. The students were

able to develop their skills in time

management, using the industrial lifter for

dishwashing and food service.

We were very impressed with the student’s

ability to plan, prepare, present healthy

wholesome foods and the platters were

very colourful and appetising. All

students are to be congratulated for their

teamwork and ability to respond to the

needs of the ladies. Thanks Mrs Haines

and the Year 12 Hospitality class.

Miss P Middlebrook

Term 4 – Week 8

11th December 2009

Matthew George, Daniel Collins, Kasandra Child,

Jeremy Rice, Amber-Lea Pender, Donna Mathews,

Kirsty Trinder, Jace Ward, Nathan Sorrentino and

Diana Millard proudly display their work.

Merry

Christmas

Last school day for

students is

Wednesday 16th

December

Years 7, 10, 11

& 12 return on

Thursday

28/01/10

Years 8 & 9

return on Friday

29/01/10

Presentation Day

on 15.12.09 at

1.00pm

Have a safe and

happy holiday!

BACK 2 BASICS DAY

Last Friday, Kanahooka High

participated in a Back 2 Basics day

which meant “turning off the

power” from 8.20am until lunch

time (with the exception of

essential services). This was an

initiative started by Ulladulla High

School a couple of years ago and

the school thought we would also

like to participate.

Leading up to the day Mrs Roddan

and I took daily meter readings so

we could see what savings might

be made. SRC members (with the

help of Mr Kipp) blew whistles

and a very noisy horn to tell us

when each period finished whilst

other students did two power

audits in every room before and

after recess to see whether power

was being used.

It was great to see the whole

school community get behind this

initiative and I was astonished that

we had reduced our power usage

during that time by 80%!

Congratulations to the entire

school, but particularly to the 700

Block which used only minimal

power during the day and Mr

Kipp and SRC members who

helped out. It is hoped that

everyone will now become more

aware of not leaving lights and

fans on unnecessarily and turn

them off when not in use.

Mrs K Lowis

PRESENTATION DAY

Our school Presentation Day is

being held on Tuesday 15th

December at the Ribbonwood

Centre, Dapto. Notes have gone

home to our award recipients and

we are anticipating a wonderful

afternoon.

COFFEE SCHOOL EXCURSION

Six Year 12 Hospitality students travelled

to Sydney last week to take part in a full

day coffee making course.

We learnt to work a coffee machine, froth

milk correctly, make all the different

types of coffee and make designs in the

coffee with the crema.

We got to taste all the coffees but some

people were not used to the caffeine (aka

Brooke), however, we all enjoyed the hot

chocolate.

We also got to have lunch at a two storey

McDonalds on George Street.

We all learnt new skills and hope to get a

coffee machine for our Hospitality class

to show off our skills.

By Kirsty Trinder, Amber-Lea Pender,

Brooke Billing, Jace Ward, Jeremy Rice,

Natalie Ryan and Mrs Haines.

MUMMIFIED RATS

7K1 mummified rats last Friday in our

Science period. We had to take out all

the organs except the brain and heart

before completely filling the inside with

salt. The room stank of dead rat and it

was an exciting but disgusting

experience.

By Nicole Gentle of 7K1

ANNUAL CLEARANCE

All students have now been issued

with their Annual Clearance Forms.

This process has been put in place to

ensure all fees are paid and resources

are returned in preparation for a

smooth start to 2010. We would

appreciate if these forms could be

completed and returned to Year

Advisers by Monday 14th December

2009.

Peter K Jones

YEAR 10 WELFARE DAY

Last Friday our Year 10 students

started their day with bacon and eggs

and then proceeded to a range of

welfare workshops with speakers

from a diverse range of areas

including Headspace, Job Illawarra,

Police Liaison Officer and

Wollongong Community Legal

Centre.

The Year 10 students reported that the

sessions were enjoyable and very

informative. It was also pleasing that

all speakers commended the Year 10

students for their enthusiasm and

insightful comments.

Ms L Patterson

APOLOGY

On assembly last week, I spoke about

having a special assembly and BBQ

for all students gaining 1st, 2nd and 3rd

in their class. I was planning to

organise the event for Monday 14th

December. Unfortunately, the

assembly and BBQ are not possible

before the end of term. However, the

certificates will go ahead and will be

presented to students when they

receive their reports on Monday.

Have a safe and happy holiday.

Mr A Mar

Our guest speakers taking a well earned break with Ms Patterson

Mr Spicer & Mrs O’Sullivan

conserve energy by boiling a billy for a cuppa