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21 February 2020

Bellingen High School

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

Bellingen High School this year is

involved with the Local Health District

in research and promotion of water as

the preferred drink called Thirsty?

Choose water!

Being involved means that our school

has received a chilled water station

with a chilled water bottle filler so

students can refill their water bottles

during the day.

Year 7 students are receiving information in PDHPE classes on sugar sweetened drinks and

taking part in a water challenge.

Students will be surveyed on their knowledge and

behaviours around drinking water and sugar

sweetened drinks.

At home we are asking parents to provide water

or milk as the drinks of preference

Year 10 student James Horn making

good use of the school’s new

water station

Careers News

Business Owners Can

you help?

We are running a Year 10 camp to Sydney at the

end of the year with Urban Adventures. The camp

involves outdoor activities, camping on Cockatoo

Island and Sydney icon activities such as the

Amazing Race! It will be a wonderful experience

for our students, many of whom have not been to

Sydney before. Bellingen High School are

subsidising the camp as much as possible so

hopefully the cost to students will be $399

fully inclusive. To enable all students to

attend, we will be running a raffle with prizes

donated by local businesses, for example gift

vouchers or donated goods. Students can

cover the cost of camp by selling raffle

tickets. These raffle tickets will be

professionally printed with names of business

donations and promoted through our

website, newsletter and social media page.

We would greatly appreciate any donations

large or small. Please contact Year 10

Advisors Frieda Gorman or Jon Winfer or the

lovely office ladies on 66551315 if you can

help.

University Roadshow

Year 12 enjoyed University

Roadshow on Monday with

presenters from University of

Newcastle, University of New

England, Charles Sturt University

and Southern Cross Uni (pictured).

On Thursday 27th February all Year

12 students are expected to attend

our Strategies for Success Day at

Bellingen Youth Hub, including

lunch at the Golf Club. There is no

cost to this event. Sessions will

include applying for university/

TAFE/Apprenticeships, Early Entry,

ATAR, Scaling, Study Skills, Planning,

Illness and Misadventure

procedures. A parent session will be

held at 6pm in the school’s staff

common room. Students have been

issued with permission note, please

return ASAP.

Year 12 are invited to attend Charles

Sturt University Port Macquarie

options day on Tuesday 10th March,

cost $15. If interested in attending,

please see Mrs. Gorman for a

permission note.

Frieda Gorman

Careers Adviser

Bellingen High School P&C

Annual General Meeting &

General Meeting

Monday 9 March - 6pm

Staff Common Room

Stymie Focus

Year 7

INDONESIAN NEWS

Halo (Hello)

Selamat Datang (Welcome) to all the new Year 7 students.

The Indonesian Language Department is pleased to announce new and exciting

programs for 2020. We will be introducing Indonesia as a country and learning

about where it is and who its neighbours are. This will be done through mapping

and a variety of games. Students will also learn about the history of Indonesia,

its Flag and the significance of its Emblem. This gives us an understanding of

Indonesia and its people as one of our closest neighbours. As we learn about

another culture, we reflect on our own.

The Year 7 students have also received their note about 4 incursions that they

will be participating in. Please hand in the note and money to the front office.

FYI Statistics

14 x Year 7 students have holidayed in Indonesia (Bali)

18 x Year 7 students have planned a holiday in Indonesia (Bali) this year

85 x Year 7 students say they would love to plan to a visit

Language at Bellingen High School is delivered in an exciting and enjoyable way,

with lots of hands-on games and activities. Let the fun begin!!!!!

Makasih (Thanks)

Ibu Jody Newhouse

Valentine's Day 2020

Year 12 Valentine's Day fundraiser was a huge

success with several beautiful roses and bear hugs

sold. A massive thank you to those who supported

the day and showed their love for all! Also a big

thank you to the team of Year 12 students who

helped to prepare, wrap and deliver the bear hugs

and roses. It was a wonderful example of successful

team collaboration! Thanks to Roses Naturally

Nambucca for providing the gorgeous roses.

Amber Hill

Year 12 Advisor

Sport News BHS starts the year on a high

The Bellingen High School boys entered the Mid North Coast CHS Volleyball

competition with a sense of purpose after numerous days spent practicing their

serving game and drilling plays. Hudson Brown the teams’ captain, had a steely look

of resolve in his eyes during his team chat. First match Bellingen High drew Coffs

Harbour High. The Coffs High contingent were by far the shorter team, an assembly

that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the junior division. However, they were

certainly not short on spirit displaying some decent play. Nevertheless, the boys

settled things quickly in two sets. The second match the boys faced Orara High

School, whose team members were spotted performing impressive push up routines

during warm up, they seemed hungry for a challenge after winning their first game

comfortably. The Bellingen boys started the game extremely well, leading 20 to 12

in a race to 25. Josh Weldon-Schupp, Tyran Fieldes and Hudson Brown were all

instrumental in constructing this lead with a scintillating display of blocks, serves

and spikes. However, at this point Orara found some rhythm and the student who

was spotted during the warm up unveiled the real extent of his talent, leading his

team with some brilliant plays to steal the first set from under the Bello boy’s noses.

The second set ended more quickly,

despite the best efforts of Bellingen,

Orara ran away with the set winning the

match two sets to nil. The team as a

whole are to be congratulated for their

dedicated performance. This meant the

boys were runner-up Mid North Coast

Zone Champions.

Josh Weldon-Schupp setting with Jacob

McBaron and Oliver Hutchings in support

Open Boys Team

Back row

Hudson Brown, Jacob McBaron, Isaac

Malt, Tyran Fieldes, Tom Willett

(Coach)

Front row

Rowan Juodvalkis, Darcy Cronin,

Wade McBaron, Oliver Hutchings,

Josh Weldon-Schupp

The Bellingen High School Girls Volleyball team also attended the Knockout and

Trials Volleyball day at Sportz Central. These girls have trained well and been Zone

Champions for the last few years. However, with some older girls spending more time

on study commitments only 3 girls from last year attended. The young players coming

through have worked well with the older girls and the team play, in general, was

excellent. The standard on the day had improved from past years, however, the

Bellingen girls stepped up and were dominant on the day.

Firstly Bellingen High defeated Orara High convincingly 2 sets to 0 with the Orara

girls only able to reach 12 points in both games. CHEC was keen to show their skills

after defeating Coffs Harbour High easily. However, it was the Bellingen girls who

again dominated winning easily in 2 sets.

In recognition of their dominance on the day the entire Bellingen team was selected

in the Mid North Coast Zone team,

however, only 3 were available to go.

Indiana Brodbeck, Jamika McAulay-

Earnest and Leilani Coombes will travel to

Ballina for North Coast trials this Friday.

The Bellingen High girls’ team will go on in

the State Knockout competition taking on

the winners of Lower North Coast later

this term.

Jamika McAulay-Earnest leaps high

to spike with Indi Brodbeck and

Leilani Coombes in support

Mid North Coast Open Girls Champions

Back row

Leilani Coombes, Indiana Brodbeck,

Willow Neal, Emily Ruming, Sophie

Boyd

Front Row

Jamika McAulay-Earnest, Tallara

Doye, Ashley Sticker

Records Tumble

The Bellingen High School Swimming Carnival was held on Wednesday 5th February

in overcast conditions and the threat of heavy rain. However, the rain held off and

the swimming was generally classy with 8 records being broken on the day.

The individual results on the day saw a joint award for Swimmer of the Meet being

shared by Rebecca Hodgson with 10 starts and 10 wins, plus 1 record and Patrick

Carey with 6 wins, 3 seconds and a third, however, boasting 2 records taking large

chunks off the standing records. Overall, it appears that close to 40 students from

Bellingen High will participate in the Mid North Coast Carnival to be held in Grafton

on Monday, 24th February.

Individual Championship results were:

Girls

12 years Winner Saskia Scheib

Runner-up Ayla Furze

13 years Winner Chia McGrath

Runner-up Harriet Pagulayan- McCabe

14 years Winner Lulu McGrath (right)

Runner-up Kaia van Heuvel Lulu finishing strongly

15 years Winner Jamika McAulay-Earnest

Runner-up Rosie Yeates

16 years Winner Demi Bowd

Runner-up Emily Sutherland

Rani Shiell

17 years + Winner Rebecca Hodgson (right)

Runner-up Kristin Taylor

` Rebecca displaying great

Boys technique

12 years Winner Josh Skinner

13 years Winner Oliver Rogers

Runner-up Jayden De La Cruz

14 years Winner Patrick Carey

Runner-up Caleb Daykin

15 years Winner Niam Noble

Runner-up Taylor Harris

16 years Winner Sam Case

Runner-up Lewis Pagulayan-McCabe

17 years Winner Jacob McBaron

A massive 8 new records were set on the day:

14 years boys

Jai Bowd Year 12 enjoying the water

50m Breaststroke - 42.34

Patrick Carey

50m Backstroke– 36.86

200m Individual Medley – 3.02.62

Caleb Daykin

50m Butterfly – 36.46

16 years boys

Sam Case

200m Individual Medley -3.15.37 Jamika McAulay-Earnest

14 years girls after winning the relay

Lulu McGrath

200m Individual Medley-3.21.31

15 years girls

Jamika McAulay-Earnest

200m Individual Medley – 3.36.56

17 years + girls

Rebecca Hodgson The staff team – winners of the

200m Individual Medley – 2.53.88 Open ‘Boys’ Relay

The relays are always an exciting part of the day and this year was no different. A

big improvement in Hocking saw them finish 2nd in three relays. The open boys relay

saw the staff team on fire winning by the narrowest of margins.

We look forward to seeing the swimmers at the MNC Zone Swimming Carnival and

hope to have an increase in relay teams involved.

Jon Winfer/Liz Hoy - Sport Organisers

Lawn Bowls success for former student

Former Bellingen High School student Corey Wedlock (23) will

be representing Australia and competing in the 2020 World

Bowls Championships on Queensland’s Gold Coast from the 23rd

May to 7th June. He will be one of a 10-strong contingent to

be charged with the nation’s hopes on home soil in the Jackaroo

team. The two-week-long tournament will see 36 nations

compete in one of the pinnacle international events in the

sport.

Corey has been playing bowls since he was 8 and is currently an

apprentice greenkeeper and hopes when his apprenticeship is

completed, work his way up to a management position.

Australia will be hoping to better their haul of five gold medals from eight disciplines

from the last time the event was held at the 2012 World Championships in Adelaide.

We wish Corey all the best and look forward to seeing how the Jackaroos fare.

Bellingen Football Club

Registrations

Bellingen FC has been accepting registrations for the

2020 season since the start of February. Teams are

filling up fast and training will begin in early March.

If you are intending to register now is the time!

Register at https://www.playfootball.com.au/register

Information Bellingen Football Club on Facebook @bellingenfc or

http://bellingenfc.com.au

Bellingen High School Canteen Menu 2020

DATES TO REMEMBER

FEBRUARY APRIL

24 MNC Swimming 1-3 Small Enterprise Opal Dreaming Camp

24 Year 8 Get Up Girls Program 1-3 CHS Swimming

26 AFL 14’s Trials (Boys/Girls) 2 NC Rugby League 15’s/Opens

27 MNC 15’s Touch Football (Girls/Boys) 7 Years 11 & 12 CSU Excursion

27 Year 12 Day 7 Years 9 & 10 Da Vinci Decathlon

28 MNC Rugby League 15’s/Opens Trials 7 MNC Football Knockout (Girls/Boys)

MARCH 9 End Term 1

2 Year 8 Get Up Girls Program 10 Good Friday

2 Year 8 Project Evening 27 Staff Development Day

2 MNC Netball 28 Students Return – Start Term 2

2 MNC Rugby 29 Cross Country

3 Bangarra Dance 29 NC Rugby League Finals Day

3 NC Swimming MAY

4-6 Indigenous Boys Camp (Years 8-11) 2-3 CHS Touch 15’s (Girls/Boys)

5 MNC Basketball Knockout Trials 4 Year 10 & 12 Parent Evening

6 MNC Hockey (Girls/Boys) 4 AFL Greater Northern Trials

9 P&C Meeting 5-7 CHS AFL (Boys)

9 Year 8 Get Up Girls Program 5-7 CHS Hockey (Boys)

10-12 CHS Volleyball (Boys) 7 MNC Touch (Girls/Boys)

10 NC Rugby 8 Year 11 & 12 UNE Open Day

13 NC Touch 15’s 11 P&C Meeting

15-17 Creative Arts Excursion 11 MNC Squash (Girls/Boys)

17 St Patricks Day ♣ 12-14 NAPLAN

17 MNC Football Trials (Girls/Boys) 15 MNC Cross Country

18 League Tag (Girls) 18 NC Golf Trials

18-20 Indigenous Girls Camp (Years 8-11) 19 Vaccinations

19 NC Basketball 19 NC Lawn Bowls

20 National Day of Action Against Bullying & Violence 19-21 CHS Football (Boys)

20 Year 10 HSIE 2 & 3 Coasts Excursion 19-22 Opal Dreaming Trip

24-26 CHS Volleyball (Girls) 22 NC Touch Opens

25 NC Netball 25 Year 10 Volunteers Day

26 NC Rugby League 15’s/Opens Knockout 26-28 CHS Football (Boys)

26 Futsal 19’s (Girls) 28-29 Coffs Coast Futsal

27 NC Hockey

30-3/4 Year 12 VET Work Placement Week

31 Vaccinations

31 NC Football

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