17 November 2017

Bellingen High School NEWSLETTER Telephone: 02 66551 315 Fax: 02 66552 630 Website: http://www.bellingen-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Zonta International YWPA Program

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women worldwide through service and

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Program aims to encourage more young

women to participate in public affairs by

recognising a commitment to the

volunteer sector, evidence of volunteer

leadership achievements and a

dedication to the empowerment of

women.

The Young Women in Public Affairs

Award honours young women of ages

16 to 19, who demonstrate a

commitment to leadership in public

policy, government and volunteer

organisations.

Alena Hardinge (Year 11) represented

Bellingen High School at a local dinner

where she impressed all in attendance

with her powerful speech on Muniba

Mazari, Pakistani artist, model, activist,

motivational speaker and television host. Photo shows Alena with Jenni

Farrands who accompanied her to the dinner.

Frieda Gorman

Careers, Welfare & VET Teacher

From the TAS Faculty Year 8 Create!

8T6 have had a great lesson with Miss Kelly, Prac Teacher from SCU

making their Chocolate Product. Here are some of the great results.

Miss Kelly with Elijah Thorn and Alex Sommerville Blake Bolton with Wade McBaron

Tayla Blackwell with Aliyah Partington Mint Creation by Lily Dwinger and Mollie-Lee Sheather

Year 9FTY – Assessment Task

Miss Jeanes and Miss Kelly

had a busy Year 9 Food

Tech class completing their

Cake Assessment Tasks.

There were some fantastic

creations. Well done Year 9

Food Tech! Some cakes up

close.

Rainbow Cake by Taylah Bull and Minkah Steinbeck

One Love Cake by Jonathon Newman and Eachan Clarke

Wedding Cake by Britney Danzey and Eve Fortin

Jesse Jeanes TAS & VET Hospitality Teacher

TAS Faculty

Year 9FTX - “The Themed Cake”

During Term 4 Year 9FTX was given a design brief. This design brief

allowed the students of Year 9 to create their own themed cakes. In

other words, they could design their cake for a specific purpose. e.g.

birthday, christening, wedding, Christmas, whichever occasion they wanted

to celebrate. Many fantastic designs were produced as you can see from

our photos.

Karen Hayward TAS and VET Hospitality Teacher

TAS Faculty

NEWS FROM LANGUAGES (INDONESIAN)

Hello Year 7 and Parents!

We are so fortunate this term to have Purwanti come and show us how to cook Indonesian food. Purwanti is a local lady born in Indonesia and has worked as a chef in Australia.

She will be demonstrating the delicious foods such as sate, mie goreng and we will be making a traditional drink – Soda Gambira.

TUESDAY 5th DECEMBER Please bring a takeaway container

Look forward to a great day of eating!

Jody Newhouse Indonesian Teacher

Careers News

Ex Student Career Spotlight

CAPA News Last week saw two of our outstanding Year 10 Drama students take a trip to Sydney to perform as part of the State Drama Ensemble. Janardan Cowell-Curry and Tomas Pocilujko successfully auditioned and then spent half of the last school holiday devising and rehearsing a movement piece. They then performed at the Seymour Centre as part of the State Drama Festival. I was lucky enough to be able to attend and their piece was astonishing. This is what their tutor, Belinda Simon had to say about them – “The group worked effortlessly as an ensemble, they were encouraging and supportive of one another. They created a performance, which highlighted their skills, talent and ability to create an evocative and theatrical work. They were a credit to themselves, their school and to all Drama students from across New South Wales. They were all extremely grateful and we thank you and the school for supporting their opportunity and success. You should be very proud of them.” We are, well done!

In other news Blaise Borrer’s car winning film will be shown on SBS at 4.30pm Friday 17th November, if you don’t catch it, it will be on SBS on-demand after the airing.

Lynda Lane CAPA Faculty

From the Deputy Principal

I would like to thank all the people who have been supportive and welcoming over my first few weeks as the Deputy Principal at Bellingen High School. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the students, staff and wider school community to continue to provide opportunities for the students to thrive and succeed during their time at Bellingen High School. I will share part of my story in that this is my 5th school that have worked in starting at Batlow Technology School, Tumut High School, Griffith High School, Richmond River High Campus in Lismore and now Bellingen High School. My wife and I are both PDHPE teachers and we have four daughters. They are all still in primary school and looking to enrol at Bellingen Public school to start in 2018. When I spoke to the students for the first time there were three key themes that I addressed which were respect, students being their best and following teachers instructions. When talking about respect breaking this down about respecting themselves, their peers, their teachers and our school. In doing this being the best student, friend and school representative they can be. Finally the message about following teacher’s instructions so that everyone can learn and be safe at Bellingen High School. I look forward to building upon the strong partnerships that we have with our local primary schools and creating opportunities for staff to engage in ongoing collaboration to share the expertise we have in our local public schools. Please contact the school to arrange a meeting or time to discuss any concerns or issues that your student might be experiencing and to share their successes.

Tim Laverty

Tell Them From Me Parent Survey

Thank you to all those parents who completed the Tell Them From Me Survey. We had a record number of parents completing the survey this

semester.

Congratulations to Leanne Murcott who was the winner of the parent draw

for a $50 voucher at the Bellingen Butter Factory Café drawn by Principal

Paul Holding.

Haridian Ramirez

Coordinator

English News

Year 11 (Year 12 2018) English assessment tasks: First one of the course is

due Monday 4th December (Week 9).

Please read information about illness/misadventure VERY CAREFULLY. In

the interest of fairness to all students, the English Faculty will be following

all NESA rules.

End of year classes Years 7, 8 and 9: All classes in years 7-9 have engaging,

challenging and relevant topics through to the end of the year. All work is

relevant to the following year and will continue to the end of the year.

Tom Gyenes,

Head Teacher English

Bellingen High School 2017 Debating

Debating is a great opportunity for students to develop confidence and demonstrate teamwork and oral presentation skills. Bellingen High entered debating teams from Years 7 and 8 and two teams from Year 10 to participate in this years' State-wide competition. The two Year 10 teams were pitted against Toormina High School. Despite Toormina’s formidable reputation of coming fourth in the State last year, our students were eager to compete after giving up their Tuesday lunchtimes training during Terms 1 and 2. The first rounds of debates was hosted at Bellingen High and were closely contested, with an even day ending in a defeat and a victory for both sides. The follow up round promised more tough debates; however, we were subdued by Toormina's arguments and rebuttals.

The Year 7 and 8 teams had another strong adversary in Nambucca Heads High School; we visited Nambucca for the first rounds and again the debates were closely contested, unfortunately the adjudications did not go our way and we returned to Bellingen having gained useful competition experience. The follow up round promised an opportunity to settle the vendetta, the Year 7’s again were beaten in a debate so close the adjudicator took twenty minutes to decide the verdict. Applying the lessons learned and feedback from previous defeats, the Year 8 team won convincingly.

Our students worked effectively in their teams to deliver convincing cases with structured and well-supported arguments. Highly developed oral presentation skills were on display on every single occasion. Our students were humble in defeat and gracious in victory, and proudly represented Bellingen High School. Those students involved have been recognised since in formal assemblies and have received certificates that will look great in their CVs.

WW1 Lone Pine Re-enactment

As part of their study of World War 1 students in Year 9 were invited to participate in a 1/72 scale re-enactment of the battle of Lone Pine. The battle took place after school over three hours on Tuesday 14th in F1. Terrain was carefully crafted sticks tied together that represented trenches and lichen represented bushes. A soundtrack of Ambient WW1 sounds set the scene alongside paintings of the battle. After rules were clearly laid out, the 12 students rolled a dice to determine whether they would be in the Australian or Ottoman General Staff.

From the first turn the Australian advance was met by artillery and machine gun fire from the Ottoman Turks, almost wiping out the first two waves of Australians, however the final wave of Australians carried the Turkish trenches and ejected them from their defensive positions in hand to hand combat around about 6:00pm. Willow became attached to one miniature named Rodrigo, and insisted on his survival. Poor Chris Hogan lost all his men on the Turkish right flank, after being consistently targetted by Australian artillery and snipers. The students displayed a high level of engagement and demonstrated highly developed content knowledge surrounding the Gallipoli Campaign and the conditions of trench warfare in WW1.

Sam Cross Debating Co-ordinator

HSIE Faculty

Down at the Ag Plot The Alpacas Have Arrived

The school farm now has two new friends. Two alpacas arrived on

Monday and have made friends with our sheep. They have settled

in well, and should help keep the sheep safe. The students find the alpacas fascinating, and everyone loves them.

Many students have suggested

names for the alpacas, however,

the names have not been finalised.

So, keep the names coming. The names will be announced at the

next Assembly.

Cattle Club Update

The team has been very busy preparing for next weeks

Dorrigo Show. We will take a

team of 20 students, who will

show 11 Red Poll Cattle. This week we are concentrating on

washing and clipping the

cows, and preparing all the

gear required to attend the show.

The students will be

competing in the cattle

judging on Friday, with most of the events taking

place on Saturday

morning.

Bellingen High will also

enter 12 birds in the poultry section, 10

dozen eggs and many

classes in the fruit and

vegetable section.

Come and have a look at our talented Agriculture students at the Dorrigo Show.

2018 Royal Easter Show

Next year the plan is to enter as many

competitions at the show

as possible. Each

competition will become the major study focus for

Year 9 and 10 Agriculture

classes, and the Year 11

Primary Industries Class.

We will be entering pigs,

poultry, sheep and cattle

in the livestock competitions. Bellingen

has already planted the

seeds for the Giant Pumpkin and School Vegetable competitions.

To qualify for selection to attend the show, each student must

attend at least one previous show; successfully compete in one of

the many judging or parading competitions. They must always present themselves, and represent Bellingen High School, in a

professional manner. Spaces are limited, and competition for

spots will be tough.

Are you going to the 2018 Sydney Royal Easter Show?

Rye Grass Trial Completed

On Wednesday, the 2018 Year 12 HSC Agriculture class scored the

Ryegrass Trial, which is in the Norco paddock. They had to rank

sixty-six ryegrass varieties for rust resistance. This trial will form the basis for their compulsory Plant Production Practical. The

students learned about experimental design, repetition,

randomisation and validity. Well done, Year 12.

Stephen Boyd

Agriculture and Primary Industries

YEAR 12 ASSESSESSMENT TASKS – TERM 4

Agriculture Thursday 23/11/17 Industrial Tech Monday 04/12/17

Ancient History Friday 08/12/17 Maths Advanced Thursday 07/12/17

Biology Tuesday 12/12/17 Maths Extension 1 Friday 08/12/17

Business Studies Tuesday 05/12/17 Maths General Thursday 07/12/17

CAFS Wednesday 06/12/17 Modern History Wednesday 29/11/17

Chemistry Monday 20/11/17 Music Thursday 14/12/17

EES Tuesday 05/12/17 PDHPE Monday 04/12/17

Engineering Stud Thursday 07/12/17 Physics Friday 24/11/17

English Advanced Monday 04/12/17 SLR Wednesday 06/12/17

English Standard Monday 04/12/17 Society & Culture Monday 11/12/17

English Studies Monday 04/12/17 Visual Arts Tuesday 12/12/17

Year 10 FUTURES

PROGRAM Term 4 Week 7 2017

The Year 10 FUTURES Program starts next week – Monday 20th November and

runs for a full week, ending on Friday 24th November 2017.

Don’t forget:

First Aid is being held at the Bellingen Youth Hub. Please be there promptly at

9am. It will finish at 2.50pm. USI and photo ID must be brought to the session.

Safe Food Handling is being held at the Bellingen Youth Hub. Please be there

promptly at 9am. It will finish at 2.50pm. USI and photo ID must be brought to

the session.

Bring your running shoes for Mr Core’s Orienteering Adventures.

If you are attending the Movie Appreciation – BYO treats.

The Barista course - being held at the Bellingen High Cafe. Please be there

promptly at 9am. USI and photo ID must be brought to the session.

Change of venue - The Whitecard is being held at school in the Computer

Room. Location yet to be determined! USI and photo ID must be brought to the

session.

If you are doing the Firefighting Experience, please bring a change of clothes –

you may get wet!

Friday afternoon is a special get-together. This may be the last time we are

together as a group – please be there, it is important.

Full uniform is required.

If you are away, please contact the Front Office or call my mobile.

Daily updates and/or changes will be on Facebook and on the Year 10 Noticeboard

before 8am each morning.

Looking forward to a fun week!

Jody Newhouse

FUTURES Coordinator/Year 10 Advisor

School Newsletter Change 2018

Please note that commencing 2018 our Newsletter will no longer be

printed and distributed to students as a hard copy. The Newsletter is

published every second Friday on the school’s website with the link

emailed to parents who have supplied us with their email information.

The newsletter is a valuable part of our home/school communication and

includes important dates and information about activities and events at

school. We also have our school Facebook page.

We would prefer you to receive the newsletter link via email as there are

many advantages including:

reduced photocopying costs to the school;

saving paper costs – we currently use approximately 2900 sheets of

A4 paper each fortnight;

supporting our environment initiatives;

savings in administration time;

your child can’t forget or lose the newsletter; and

access to the newsletter if your child is absent from school.

Please note that any savings to the school is money that can be better

used on classroom resources or for improving your child’s school

environment. Students will also receive the newsletter link via their

school email address.

If you would like the newsletter link emailed to you and we do not already

have you on our email list, please return the Newsletter slip in this

Newsletter. We will only be providing paper copies, if requested.

DATES TO REMEMBER

NOVEMBER DECEMBER 20-24 Year 10 Futures Program 1 Small Schools Orientation Day

23 NC Softball Trials 8 All Schools Orientation Day

23-26 Champion of Champions Futsal Jnr 11 Year 6 into 7 2018 Parent Meeting

27-12/12 Year 10 Work Experience 13 Presentation Day

28-29 Gold Excursion 14 HSC Results released

30 Year 11 QLD Uni Excursion 15 Years 7-10 Reports Issued

18-19 School Development Days

Sport News 16’s Girls Futsal do it again!

After so far being undefeated this year and being crowned Coffs Coast

Champions, Mid North Coast Champions and Northern NSW Champions the

16 years girls Futsal team added another Championship to their very

impressive list.

The girls played in the North Coast Finals against the winners of the other

Zones. In their first game against Woodenbong they were comfortable

winners 7-2. They then had to take on Wollumbin High School in the

North Coast final. This was a tighter affair and after a mistake near the

start allowing Wollumbin a one goal advantage the girls had to dig deep.

Not everything went their way but they came away in the end with a solid

7-4 win.

There is one final Championship this year – the Australasian Titles in

Queensland. This is a 3-day Championship against the best teams in the

country. They are ready to do their best.

The 14 years girls also made the final and played strongly against

Wollumbin how failed to finish critical opportunities. They went down 5-3

in a game they could have won. They too will be travelling to Queensland

two weeks after the older girls and look ready to really perform.

Back Row: Liz Hoy (coach),

Claudia White, Sophie Russell, Shellby

Osland, Willow Berry, Lauren Rigney

Front Row:

Brynne Couper, Emily Ruming, Sophie Boyd

Front - Willow Neal

Girls shine at Australasian School

Futsal Titles

Two teams from Bellingen High, the 16 years and 19 years girls, travelled

up to the Gold Coast to compete at the Senior Australasian School Futsal

Titles

The first game for the 16 years girls was against Canterbury College and

the girls got on top early scoring 3 goals in the first seven minutes, which

put them in a great position. They went on to win 6-1. The second game

against Mansfield State High School was much tougher with Mansfield

boasting a school of some 2,400 students to select from. Despite many

opportunities to score the girls ended with a 2-2 game. Their third game

on the first day of competition was against Murrumba State Secondary

College another large school with an enrolment of over 1,400 students.

Again, some beautiful play set up many opportunities yet finishing seemed a

problem. Again a 2-2 draw.

Day 2 and the 16s didn’t get to play until 5pm against MacKillop Catholic

College from the Central Coast and kept their undefeated record winning 2-

1 again with many missed chances. Their last preliminary game saw them up

against St Ursula’s from Toowoomba. With tired legs and aching bodies the

girls played below their normal standard and went down 5-0 finishing the

game at 8pm (9pm NSW).

Day 3 and there was a semi-final game against Murrumba waiting. The girls

set up many scoring opportunities but again the problem of not finishing,

again and again! A disappointing result going down 3-1, but by no means a

disappointing performance from a great young team. Only one girl in the

team was 16, with 5 fifteen year olds, 2 fourteen year olds and 1 thirteen

year old. The future looks bright for the team next year!

The 19 years girls had their first game against the very strong Assisi

Catholic College. The game was a close affair with opportunities for both

sides. The Bello girls scored first, but unfortunately that was their only

goal and Assisi won 2-1. The next game against Helensvale State High

School saw a lot of near misses by the Bello girls which if converted would

have given them the game, however, a 3-3 draw was the final score.

Day 2 and the 19s girls had to play Brigidine College and despite the Bello

girls dominating possession Brigidine scored first. They equalized 1-1 just

before half time and played the second half with good passing and many

unconverted opportunities taking the game in the last 5 minutes 2-1. Then

the girls had to face Chancellor State College in their second game for the

day. Despite playing well and really putting it to their very strong

opposition, a few errors saw Chancellor take the game 5-3.

Day 3 and a do or die game with local rivals Bishop Druitt College. Both

teams needed a win or scored draw to make the semis. The Bellingen girls

dominated from the start outplaying their opposition winning 7-3.

The semi-final was against 2nd placed Chancellor College. This time the girls

were better prepared for their opposition and came away with the game 3-

1. This put them into the grand final against Assisi Catholic College with

an enrolment of over 1400 students. The girls were tired and injured and

despite their best efforts could not match it with Assisi and went down 4-

0. Runners-up at the Australasian Titles is an amazing result.

Australasian Runners-up (Back row) - Hannah Watt, Lauren Rigney, Emily Ruming, Katie Thorn, Jordan Healy, Kelsey Williamson-Leslie, Liz Hoy (Front Row) - Sophie Russell, Willow Neal, Gaia Malcisi, Zali Rees, Sarah Ludwig

There is still more to come with the 13 years boys, 14 years boys and 14

years girls all to compete at the Junior Australasian Titles in 2 weeks!

Emily Ruming shooting for goal Zali Rees and Katie Thorn taking a free kick

Jon Winfer/Liz Hoy Sport Organisers

Boys Cricket Lachlan Auld stands tall but Toormina too

good

Bellingen under 14’s travelled to Toormina Oval

last Monday to take on Toormina High School who

boasted some very handy cricketers. Needless

to say we needed to bowl well to contain them on

a ground with very narrow, square of the wicket

boundaries. Unfortunately we didn’t. Too many

short deliveries were easy pickings for some of

the Toormina guns, three of them advancing to

over 60 runs. They amassed a total of 6 for

216 in the thirty over innings. Most of our

bowlers were on the receiving end of some big

hits but Jake Bourke (2 for 28 off 6 overs),

Lachlan Auld (1 for 27 off 6 overs) and Quinn

Green (2 for 18 off 5 overs) were our best. The

highlight of our fielding was Joe Mitchell’s

amazing diving catch in the deep from a very flat

hit. Chasing more than 7 an over was a

formidable task but Lachlan Auld (pictured right)

really stood up with the bat with an outstanding 109 runs out of our 30

over total of 5 for 135. Lachlan was only dismissed in the last over and I

was most impressed with the Toormina boys who formed a congratulatory

guard of honour as he left the field. It was quite a moment. No more

cricket for our under 14’s but our boys can be very proud of the effort

they displayed against a very, very good side.

Open Boys Cricket

The Open Boys Cricket side was rapidly brought back to earth on Monday

against Woolgoolga High School. Our bowlers worked hard but each of the

Woolgoolga top order made a

start and they put on a very

healthy 237 from 40 overs.

The pick of our bowlers were

Will Thomas (2 for 40 off 7

overs) and Harrison Knight (1

for 22 off 6 overs). Harry

bowled some outstanding leg

spins and could have ended up

with a few more wickets with a

bit more luck. So it was into

bat for us and we quickly Josh Weldon-Schupp defending a rising

delivery from one of the Woolgoolga quicks

Back Row: Kyan Upsall, Blake McCann, Joe

Mitchell, Quinn Green, Liam

McFarlane, Brock Wylie

Middle Row: Jacob Hawkshaw, Jake Bourke, Wade

McBaron, Sam Case Front: Lachlan Auld,

Jacob McBaron

realised that the Woolgoolga bowling attack more than matched their

excellent batting. Unfortunately, we were bowled out for 95. Some

resistance was provided by Lachlan Auld (23 not out), who was stepping up

to the opens team after his brilliant century in the U14’s last week. One

positive to be taken from this season is the fact that the vast majority of

our team are in Year 8, 9 or 10. The future looks bright!

David Mayo

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