Term 3, Week 8 9.9.2011 Oberon High School Principal: David Scott Deputy Principal: Ken Barwick Phone:6336 1606 Fax:6336 2164 Email:[email protected]Educating the whole person for the whole of life David Scott, Principal Tournament of Minds Oberon High Students participated in the Tourna- ment of Minds, a competition for creative and talented students which has participation from many schools across the region, including both private and public schools. Two teams were entered, trained under the guidance of Head Teacher, Mrs Christian. Each team had a task to address through acting, music or song, which must be completed in a ten minute time slot in front of several judges. Our students performed very well on the day, with very positive feedback from the judges. Academic Review Every term our staff monitors the progress of our students, indicating where students have excelled or need to put in additional effort. I was immensely pleased to sign a very large number of congratulations letters where students had made excellent progress. I also signed a much smaller number of letters for students needing to improve. Watch out for these in the mail, and if you would like further information, please contact the school. NAPLAN Results Parents of Year 9 and 7 students will soon receive their child’s Naplan results for literacy and numeracy. These are benchmarked against the school average result and the National average result in Literacy and Numeracy. Better Futures Program Helping students build healthy relationships is a key feature of the Better Futures program, run in the school by Lisa Lantry. Over the past few weeks, our Year 10 students have been involved in the program which covers healthy relationships, being a good friend, dealing with conflict , cyber bullying, safe use of mobile phones and on-line social networking such as Facebook. A number of Year 11 students were trained as mentors, and did a fantastic job delivering the program to all Year 7- 10 students in our welfare periods! Year 11 Examinations Year 11 Examinations commence in one week’s time! All year 11 students should be reviewing notes and summarising work in preparation for this important exam. Many of these exams for part of the students’ final assessment, which will determine results for the Preliminary Certificate. Students need to ensure that all assessment tasks are completed. Students who do not satisfactorily complete the Preliminary Certificate are unable to commence the HSC course. Oberon Students –Helping Others Oberon High students pride themselves on the links they have with their local community – students were busy this week helping out others – a team of students helped out Legacy by selling Legacy Badges, while the whole school got behind the Cancer Council fundraiser Footy Colours Day, raising over $150.
Tournament of Minds Oberon High Students participated in the Tourna-ment of Minds, a competition for creative and talented students which has participation from many schools across the region, including both private and public schools. Two teams were entered, trained under the guidance of Head Teacher, Mrs Christian. Each team had a task to address through acting, music or song, which must be completed in a ten minute time slot in front of several judges. Our students performed very well on the day, with very positive feedback from the judges.
Academic Review
Every term our staff monitors the progress of our students, indicating where students have excelled or need to put in additional effort. I was immensely pleased to sign a very large number of congratulations letters where students had made excellent progress. I also signed a much smaller number of letters for students needing to improve. Watch out for these in the mail, and if you would
like further information, please contact the school.
NAPLAN Results Parents of Year 9 and 7 students will soon receive their child’s Naplan results for literacy and numeracy. These are benchmarked against the school average result and the National average
result in Literacy and Numeracy.
Better Futures Program
Helping students build healthy relationships is a key feature of the Better Futures program, run in the school by Lisa Lantry. Over the past few weeks, our Year 10 students have been involved in the program which covers healthy relationships, being a good friend, dealing with conflict , cyber bullying, safe use of mobile phones and on-line social networking such as Facebook. A number of Year 11 students were trained as mentors, and did a fantastic job delivering the program to all Year 7-10 students in our welfare periods!
Year 11 Examinations
Year 11 Examinations commence in one week’s time! All year 11 students should be reviewing notes and summarising work in preparation for this important exam. Many of these exams for part of the students’ final assessment, which will determine results for the Preliminary Certificate. Students need to ensure that all assessment tasks are completed. Students who do not satisfactorily complete the Preliminary Certificate are unable to commence the HSC course.
Oberon Students –Helping Others
Oberon High students pride themselves on the links they have with their local community – students were busy this week helping out others – a team of students helped out Legacy by selling Legacy Badges, while the whole school got behind the Cancer Council fundraiser Footy Colours Day, raising over $150.
TAS , Visual Arts and Vocational
Education Report
As we are approaching the end of term three the focus for the Vocational Education Students has been the completion of mandatory workplace hours in their chosen frameworks. Over the past few weeks students in Hospitality, Metals and Engineering, Construction and Sports Coaching have all worked in businesses to gain the necessary hands on workplace experiences to enhance their learning and improve completion of required Australian competencies. Primary Industries students in the preliminary course will also complete work placement early next term. We are very lucky as a school in this community that there are so many employers who give us their full support in these learning partnerships. The trade training centre building is now finished and both Hospitality and Metals and Engineering students are benefiting from the industrial equipment that is being used to provide CERT 11 and 111 competencies in both of these frameworks. I have included a couple of photographs of these new facilities at the completion of the report. The official opening of the Trade Training Centre has not been decided as both Lithgow and Portland High Schools will be part of this event but we plan to have a school opening and invite all industry representatives later on next term.
Everyone is welcome and invited to attend Back
to Church Sunday on the 11th of September at
any of the following churches...
St Barnabas Anglican Church
9 a.m. Holy Communion and Kid’s Church
St Ignatius Catholic Church
7.30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Mass
5 p.m. Mass at Black Springs Saturday 10th
Dates To Remember:
Year 11 Hospitality Work Placement, 12th-16th September
Try-A-Trade, Tuesday 13th September
Xsel Camp Yr7/8, 13th-15th September
Assembly, Monday 19th September
Yr 7 Vaccinations, Monday 19th September
Year 11 Final Preliminary Exams, 19th-23rd September
Yr 10 Rural Ops Work Placement, 19th-23rd September
Year 12 Farewell Assembly, Friday 23rd September
Last Day of Term 3, Friday 23rd September
P & C Meets: 2nd Tuesday of each month 5.30pm
Next meeting: 13th September 2011
All Parents and Citizens are welcome
Tournament of Minds
On Sunday 28th August, thirteen talented students participated in the Regional Tournament of Minds Challenge at Orange High School. Students had been preparing for the tournament for five weeks prior the event, and performed remarkably on the day.
Students participating in the Applied Technology Challenge were Jessie Foley, Claire Sullivan, Jackson Foley, Hannah Bourchier, Angela Massey, Joseph Kingi, Lucy Voerman. This challenge required students to make a four minute film made up of a series of “still shots” which depicted a journey. The students then had to show the ending of their journey in a ten minute performance. Our team chose to explore the metaphorical journey of life. Judges commented on the team’s creativity and excellent use of technology. The costumes made were also outstanding with many cast members appearing to be in their eighties!
Our other team participated in the Language Literature Challenge. Shelby Russo-Vooles, Tomas McKinnon, Megan Gearon, Laurie Bailey, Olivia Robinson and Caitlin Foley performed admirably in this challenge. This challenge required students to create a three minute trailer for the film “Cool Runnings”. The students then had to sell their trailer to a committee of judges in a ten minute play. Shelby and the rest of the team kept remarkably calm when the technology did not work and the team improvised part of their performance. Again this team was praised for their work on developing costumes and props which bought a “Jamaican” feel to their performance.
Both teams of students also faced an unseen spontaneous challenge on the day of the Tournament. All students were pleased with their performance in this arena.
All team members are to be congratulated on the creativity of their ideas, their willingness to give up their weekend to rehearse and compete, and the overall quality of their performance. Most importantly however, each student’s commitment to their peers and their ability to work together as a team has been outstanding.
It is also important to acknowledge the parents of our team members and thank them for their support of their children and the school. In particular special mention must be made to Mrs Gearon, Mrs Bourchier, Mr and Mrs Voerman, Ronny Maere, Mrs Foley and Mrs Massey for coming to Orange on the Sunday and supporting our teams.
We look forward to Oberon High students participating in Tournament of Minds again in 2012.
Mitchell Conservatorium Scholarships
On Saturday the 27th of August two of our Year 8 students auditioned for scholarships at the Mitchell Conservatorium in Bathurst. Darcie Behan and Keely Armstrong both sang two songs and the judges commented on the quality of both girls’ performance.
Both girls are to be heartily congratulated on receiving the title of “Runner Up” for the scholarship
awards. We look forward to hearing their wonderful voices in the near future at school.
