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On

Thursday 6th of June,

Woolgoolga High Schools Yr 12

EEC class held a children’s Disney

themed party as part of their HSC

Assessment. The party catered

for children aged 1mth -5yrs old.

The girls of the EEC class had a lot of preparation to do in the weeks

prior to the party to make sure that everything was ready to go and that

it all ran smoothly on the day.

Preparation included making all the decorations, setting up the

room and activities, catering for all interests of children

invited, organisation and preparation of fresh food

served, interaction with children and

entertainment eg-pin the tail on

Eeyore,

playdough/goop

(sensory activity),

musical instrument corner and

colouring in. Each invited child received a hand-made invitation,

lolly bag, hat/mask and a cup.

The EEC class did really well. All displayed a natural ability with the

children. Students really got into the spirit and came dressed as

Disney characters themselves, which was fantastic to see. The children were all happy and they had a

great time. Overall the party was a great success and the girls should be

proud of their achievements.

A big thanks to Mrs Fluechter & Mrs Cochrane for their help.

Ms Woodward

Woolgoolga High School June 28, 2013 Issue No. 10

GOOD NEWS WEEK

Web address: www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au E-mail: [email protected]

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Principal’s Report Page 2 Canteen Roster Page 15

Aboriginal News Pages 3-5 Community News Pages

17-19

IT Report Page 7,8

Sport Pages 10-13

What a great front page for this newsletter and the photographs say it all!!! The photo-

graphs encapsulate what we value at Woolgoolga High School, fun, quality lessons,

engagement, real life learning, direct community involvement and vibrant and exciting

teaching and learning. Thanks for sharing Mrs Fluechter, Ms Woodward and

Ms Cochrane.

The Christmas in July fundraiser is looking like being the social event of the year.

Many school faculties and community groups are organising tables. I urge you to

come along and support our SMILE mentors and the school. Thank you to the P&C

and Cex for organising the upcoming event. Note – this is a P&C event.

Congratulations to Mr Larry Hancock for his North Coast Regional Aboriginal Award. This is a well-

deserved award. Thanks also to Year 12 student, Trinity Sherry who directed the ceremony.

Our 2013 NAIDOC celebrations included a formal assembly where all 150 Year 7 students sang two songs

onstage in Gumbaynggirr language. Many local elders attended the celebration and enjoyed the bush tuck-

er afterwards. It is great that so many Aboriginal Elders feel confident to participate in our whole school ac-

tivities. The Aboriginal mural being painted in Room 5 is starting to take shape and our construction stu-

dents yesterday were putting the final touches to the new Coffs Harbour City Council funded bush tucker

garden. Please note the garden beds and seats were constructed by our senior Construction students and

were helped and directed by Nigel Croke and BTA (Brick Layer Training Australia).

Our IT classes are certainly pushing the envelope in giving our students access to quality ICT skills. Well

done Mr Bordignon (please see article on pages 8 and 9).

The Under 15 Girls Soccer is continuing to dominate the local schools in the Bill Turner Cup. Their next

round is against a Catholic school from Moree. Good luck girls!

We continue to dominate sport on the North Coast and congratulations to athletes who have broken athlet-

ics records – Jessica Gentle, Maddison Sadler, Gemma Hutchinson, Addisen Mallett, Samuel Burke and

Isaiah Koopmans and Nicole Gusman. Well done to Jacinta Smithers winning the 18+ Regional Cross

Country. (More great results are contained on page 11.) Some great results at the Zone Athletics Carnival

with Woolgoolga High heading the leader board to become Zone Champions 2013 with 503 points (full re-

sults on pages 12 and 13). Great effort from Nicole Gusman in breaking the Shot Put record by 1.53m. Age

Champions went to Renee Rovere (12 years), Izack Smidt (14 years) and Nicole Gusman (17+ years). Well

done to Renee Rovere, Mani Bates and Margaret Pietrykowski making the North Coast Gymnastics squad

to compete in Newcastle in August. Congratulations to Keelan Birch for his selection to the NSW team for

Squash having recently represented the North Coast team. Also well done Jessie Gentle for being selected

as a reserve for the NSW All Schools Team after recently representing NSW in the second team for soccer

(football).

I’d like to wish the entire school community a safe and happy holiday.

Until next time Guy Wright Principal

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From the Principal’s Desk

IMPORTANT COMING EVENTS

Friday 19 July Assembly of Excellence

Sat 20 July Christmas in July

Thur 1 Aug Maths Competition

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Aboriginal

Education

Awards for North

Coast Region were held on

Wednesday 19th June the 2013

at the Yarrawarra Aboriginal

Cultural Centre.

Of greatest achievement for

Woolgoolga High School (at

these awards) was a prestig-

ious award being received by

Indigenous Languages teacher

Mr Larry Hancock. His dedica-

tion to the teaching of Gum-

baynggirr to the Year 7 students has caught the attention of members of the

indigenous and non-indigenous commu-

nity and this award is a small part of his

recognition. Congratulations to all of

four students and Maclean indigenous

community members who received an

award at this year's ceremony.

(L-R) school Principal Mr Guy Wright, A.E.O.

Mrs Jo Hine; Year 12 student, school Prefect

and Mistress Of Ceremonies, Trinity Sherry,

and School Education Director Ms Kim Taylor.

Trinity and Aunty Beris Duroux

at the ceremony.

Mr Larry Hancock

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Trinity and Zoe do the

'Welcome to Country'

Afternoon tea of bush tucker food was enjoyed by students, staff,

visitors and community members

Principal Guy Wright speaking with indige-

nous student Zoe Cowan

NAIDOC ASSEMBLY

Year 7 on stage performing a song in local indigenous dialect

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Community members Ben Ferguson and

Steve Morelli with indigenous languages

teacher Mr Larry Hancock

Community members Dee Murphy,

Deb Dootson and Aunty Marg

revelled at the entertaining ceremo-

ny and afternoon tea afterwards.

Aunty Beris Duroux, AEO Mrs Jo Hine,

indigenous languages teacher

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Examination preparation afternoon's started on Thursday 30th May. These afternoons will

occur on 'T-Days' (Tuesday and Thursday) in the Library. Year 11 and 12 students need to

sign-on on the sheets provided (see Library noticeboard) and nominate

the HSC exam they would like to sit in complete exam conditions.

Transport can be arranged if required. Light refreshments are also provid-

ed.

Weekend family

snow sports camp

"Affordable holiday" and "skiing" in

the same sentence? Yes, if you're

quick. Sport and Recreation offers

weekend getaways in the snow

from July – September.

Find out more: http://

www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/jindabyne/

Cyber-

bullying –

what the experts say

While research into cyberbullying is

still in its infancy, the one thing we do

know is the online environment is real-

ly just a new setting for age-old is-

sues. Cyberbullying is an extension of

face-to-face bullying. It's all about rela-

tionships.

Find out more: http://

www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/

technology/cyberbullying/what-the-

experts-say

How teens are really

using Facebook

New research says teens are finding

Facebook a "burden" - but they don't

want to miss out on the latest up-

dates from their friends. It seems like

more of them are using Instagram.

Find out more: http://

www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/

teens-facebook-pew-

study_n_3313812.html

From the beginning of Term 3, any Year 10

student who intends to enrol in the Math-

ematics Course for Year 11 can meet Mrs

Young in Room 23 on Thursday afternoon

from 3.15 to 4pm to revise and reinforce

their algebra and other skills essential

for success in this rigorous course.

There is no cost for this service.

See Mrs Young if you are interested.

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Year 8 and 10 Information Communication and Tech-

nology – This is a compulsory subject for all students

aimed at increasing the skills of our students in this

ever changing technological world. Students complete

projects using software such as Microsoft Word, Excel

and PowerPoint to prepare posters, brochures, spread

sheets and presentations, Photoshop - to edit images,

Fireworks - to create simple graphics and animation

and Flash Professional- to create more complex anima-

tions.

Year 9 Multimedia and Design

In term 1, students were introduced to Photoshop

where they started learning about layers and masks

while digitally altering images. The paint splatter effect

was used to create interest and impact with selected

photographs. This was followed by a poster design of a

gaming console and turning an image Tony Abbott into

a character from the movie Avatar.

In term 2 students began their unit on animation,

learning about paths based animation and simple pro-

gramming code to assist with their animations. In the

later part of the term the students created a simple

computer game using Flash Professional and learned

more programming code using the built in ActionScript

language.

Year 10 Information and Software Technology

(Robotics, Animation and Movie Making)

In term 1, students were introduced to OOP (Object

Orientated Programming) by building simple robots

and programming them to perform functions like trav-

elling at various speeds, stopping, turning and respond-

ing to light and dark. Students learned basic program-

ming constructs while having fun building and pro-

gramming Lego robots. The photo below shows some

of the robots created by students. At the end of the

unit the students used their robots on a robot war

game. This is similar to sumo wrestling where the last

robot standing is the winner.

In term 2 the students were introduced to ActionScript. Ac-

tionScript is the Adobe Flash programming language which

was used to create simple user directed animations. The

students also created a simple game using the skills learned

in Flash Professional.

In Term 3 students plan and create a major project in Infor-

mation and Software Technology. Some of the projects in-

clude Gaming videos, Flash animations, Photo manipulation

in Photoshop and a computer game made in Flash. The stu-

dents present their major projects to the class and use

“survey monkey”, an online survey tool, to mark and critically

evaluate their peers’ work.

Year 11 Information Processes and Technology – In term 1

the students were introduced to the seven information pro-

cesses of collecting, organising, analysing, processing, storing

and retrieving, transmitting and receiving and displaying. The

students learned how a computer processes data into infor-

mation as well as how binary and hexadecimal work and the

role they play in computer processing. The students studied

“The Library as an Information System” as their first as-

sessment task and learned about the flow of data through

the system. In term 2 the students have learned about the

tools used in the processing of information and are now

ready apply their knowledge and create their own personal

information system.

Year 11 Software Design and Development - In term 1 the

students started learning how to program a computer by

making a simple calculator using the Object Orientated Pro-

gramming language (OOP) Visual Basic. The use of Flash Pro-

fessional by the students exposed them to the ActionScript

language when they created an interactive presentation on

the history of the Graphical User Interface. (GUI). The stu-

dents then programmed a temperature converter, to convert

degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius.

Along with associated theory on the main control structures

used by computer programmers when writing code, students

have also studied the most common software development

approaches. As the term progressed, the students learned

the coding required to create a simple game in ActionScript.

Paul Bordignon – Information Technology Teacher

Information Technology

The IT Report

Issue No. 10 Page 9

Students from year 7 with five or more merit certificates for

achievement and effort in subjects in Term 2

Examples of student work in Year 9 Multimedia and Design

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The Woolgoolga High School U/15 girls’ soccer team played Coffs Har-bour’s John Paul College at the Wool-goolga High St soccer fields in the 4th round of the Bill Turner Knockout Tro-phy.

The Woopi girls started off well and had many attacking opportunities in the first fifteen minutes but could not break JPC’s defence. Woolgoolga seemed to lose their way and lacked their normal energy and flare com-pared to their previous games, but maybe it was JPC not letting Woopi play at their best. With less than five minutes until half time Woolgoolga were awarded a free kick from a pen-alty. Jorja Murphy put a brilliant ball over the top of the JPC defence for speedy striker Tanisha Wallace to run on to and score Woopi’s first goal. Only minutes later the score was 2–0 when Amy Partridge made a great deceiving run to create a hole in JPC’s defence. Ashee Johnston then slotted the ball through to Lily Wilson who passed it onto Emily Nudd to score.

Woolgoolga had the wind at their backs in the second half and never looked like letting JPC back into the game. Five minutes after the break Lily Wilson and Emily Nudd combined again for Emily to score her second goal. Emily was voted Player of the Match by her teammates. The Woopi girls were now dominating and two more goals were scored by Lily Wilson and Tanisha Wallace. Just before full time Woopi nearly had their sixth goal when goal keeper Sophie Buller was allowed to have a run on the ring wing. Unfortunately Sophie hit the goal post and score remained 5-0 at the final whistle.

JPC had some extremely talented players who looked very dangerous and could score at anytime. Jorja Murphy followed JPC’s No.10 all over the field to eliminate many of JPC’s potentially dangerous attacking plays. Special mention to Woolgoolga’s backs, led by Emma Cahill (WHS’ sweeper) who led our strong back line of Dakota Rees, Gabbie Dowler, Ashlee Johnston, Zoe Batty and Innogen Armitage. Other members of the WHS U/15 girls’ victorious soccer team were Kelera Marsden, An-nie Wales and Jordon Henderson-Smith.

Congratulations girls on your 5-0 victory against JPC and being crowned 2013 Mid North Coast Area Champions of the Bill Turner Trophy. Good luck in the 5th round of the Bill Turner Trophy against St Philomenas, a Catholic school from Moree, to be played at Glen Innes. A big thank you to all the fam-ilies and friends who continue to support the Girls Under 15 Soccer Team.

B. Schofield

WHS Athletics Carnival held on Tuesday 5th May 2013 saw several records broken.

Congratulations for a great effort!

Name Age Group Event New Record

Girls

Jessica Gentle 17-21 years 400m Dash 1:06.10

Jessica Gentle 17-21 years 1500m Run 5:29.20

Maddison Sadler 17-21 years 1500m Race Walk 8:32.10

Gemma Hutchinson 15 years 3000m Run 12:18.80

Boys

Addisen Mallett 13 years 1500m Race Walk 9:45.70

Samuel Burke 13 years 3000m Run 11:04.90

Isaiah Koopmans 14 years 3000m Run 11:25.70

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Regional Cross Country

Congratulations to the following students for a superb performance on Friday 7th June qualifying for the CHS State Carnival.

Samuel Burke—3rd 13yrs boys

Izack Smidt—4th 14yrs boys

Jonathon Gusman—6th 15yrs boys

Joshua McBrien—6th 17yrs boys

Awal-Bol Maker—6th 14yrs girls

Gemma Hutchinson—4th 15yrs girls

Jessie Gentle—2nd 17yrs girls

Jacinta Smithers—1st 18+ girls

Also competing at the CHS state carnival, the winning WHS 18 years girls team of

Carla Westwood, Nicole Gusman and Jacinta Smithers.

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Name Placed Event

Chloe Fairbairn 2nd 12yrs : Shot Put

Renee Rovere 2nd 1st

12yrs : 100m, 200m Long Jump

Paris Woodgate 2nd 12yrs : High Jump

Berach Desalegn Bekele 1st 13yrs : Javelin

Jarramindi Bill 2nd 13yrs : Shot Put

Tanisha Wallace 2nd 1st

13yrs : 100m 200m

Ariat Desalegn Bekele 1st 14yrs : 1500m Walk

Awal Maker 2nd 1st

14yrs : 800m 3000m

Emily Nudd 2nd 15yrs : 200m, 400m, Triple Jump

Jessie Gentle 2nd 17+: 400m, 800m

Gemma Hutchinson 2nd 15yrs : 800m, 1500m

Jacinta Smithers 1st 17+ : 1500m

Nicole Gusman 1st 17+ : High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, ShotPut (12.04m), Javelin

Maddie Sadler 1st 17+ : 1500m Walk

Carla Westwood 2nd 17+ : 1500m Walk

Girls

Name Place Event

Brandan Webb 1st 2nd

12 years : High Jump Long Jump, Shot Put

Sam Burke

1st 2nd

13 years : 800m 1500m

Angus Cameron 2nd 14 years : Javelin

Isaiah Koopmans

1st 2nd

14 years: 1500m 3000m

Izack Smidt 1st 2nd

14 years : 400m, Long Jump High Jump, Triple Jump

Jonathon Gusman 1st 2nd

15 years : 800m 1500m

Steven Adams 1st 2nd

17+ years Long Jump High Jump

Bo

ys

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IMPORTANT SPORT DATES 2013

PLEASE NOTE: ALL DATES AND VENUES ARE CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING BUT ARE

SUBJECT TO CHANGE SO PLEASE CHECK CLOSER TO EVENT

SPORT DATE CARNIVAL VENUE TERM

CROSS

COUNTRY Fri 19 July CHS State Cross Country Eastern Creek 3

ATHLETICS Fri 2 August NC Regional Athletics Carnival Kingscliff 3

Fri 5 Sep to Sat

7 Sep CHS State Athletics Carnival Homebush 3

Renee Rovere – 12 years (20points)

Izack Smidt – 14 years (33points)

Nicole Gusman – 17+ years (56points)

Woopi High Zone Champions 2013 with 503

points followed by Bellingen (452) and Coffs Har-

bour High School (422). Toormina, Orara, South Grafton, Grafton and

Dorrigo High School and Coffs Harbour Senior College also competed at

the event (respectively in descending order of points).

Other teams

not pictured

13yrs girls 2nd

16yrs boys 2nd

12yrs boys 2nd

(top left)

12yrs girls 2nd

(centre)

17+ girls 2nd

(bottom left)

Pictured:

15yr girls; 13yr boys;

15yr boys; 14yr boys;

17yr boys

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As the semester drew to a close our debaters were really firing. Firstly there was something of a 'debate-off' between our Year 9 team and our Year 10 team to decide which team would progress to the Interzone rounds. After all the speakers had done their best the adjudicator could only split the two teams by half a point with the Year 9 outfit ,Zoe Schmidt, Oliviah Swainson, Liljana Brain and Patrick Mullan prevailing. Our Year 10 team of Cheyenne Hart, Bethany Atkins, Charlotte Chaffe, Pippa Bond and Mitchell Huth-

nance performed very well and brought great credit to the school.

Shortly after our Year 7 team of Jamila Grace, Sherydan Simson, Ashleigh Lambert and Kiahni Huthnance experienced a baptism of fire debating against Coffs Harbour. Again, after a very close debate where all contributed in fine style our team was declared the

winner.

Both Year 9 and Year 7 teams are now awaiting news of the next opponent.

DEBATING

Year 7 debators (L-R):

Sherydan Simson,

Kiahni Huthnance,

Jamila Grace and

Sam Gustafson

Three girls have made the North Coast

'squad' and will travel to Glendale - New-

castle in August after competing in the NC

Gymnastics trials held 26/06/13.

Places Overall: 1st Renee Rovere, 2nd Mani Bates, 5th Margaret Pietrykowski

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MONDAY

15 July

TUESDAY

16 July

WEDNESDAY

17 July

THURSDAY

18 July

FRIDAY

19 July

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If possible, please arrange a swap if you are unavailable on your rostered day

CANTEEN HOURS MON/TUE/THUR/FRI 10am to 2pm WEDNESDAY 10.30am to 1.30pm

Woolgoolga High School Silver & Bronze

Awards are generously supported by:

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Reminder to parents that any large items cannot be car-

ried on our buses. The actual definition of this 'large item' can be somewhat clouded. However, under OH&S and the Passenger Transport Regulations definition (Section 41(1)) it states that "The driver of a public passenger vehicle must not permit any person to place or carry in or on the vehicle any article that is of such size or

has such dimensions that it cannot be accommodated in or on the vehicle without inconvenience or danger to any other person". Our company defines it as anything that cannot fit in the student's school bag, or cannot be safely sat in their lap without impeding other students on the bus. Hence, we believe that large musical instruments such as guitars, saxophones and such cannot be safely placed in a child's lap without impeding other students. We will accept a violin as the largest musical item to be brought onto the bus. Due to the fact that we interchange students, it becomes difficult for other students to manoeuvre safely around such items. Our company has already had one incident where a child was seriously injured due to items impeding their walkway, and we were held accountable. Unfortunately under our OH&S risk assessment we cannot allow the students or the drivers to access the carriage bins. Basically, if the child can fit the item in their bag or on their lap with-

out impeding another student, it is allowed in the bus. I do understand that this assessment may inconvenience some students and their families, however we feel that this is the best decision in the interests of the safety of all stu-dents in the bus.

Cheers Nigel Tooth

Operations Manager

Ryans Bus Service

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Garlambirla

Coffs Harbour High School is thrilled to be presenting our new original musical, Gar-

lambirla, at the Jetty Memorial Theatre. Garlambirla (the Gumbaynggirr name for Coffs Har-

bour) has been developed by the school CAPA department in consultation with local elders,

parents and students and celebrates the shared history of living on the beautiful and abun-

dant Gumbaynggirr country.

The musical reinterprets local creation stories using traditional Indigenous dance and music,

interwoven with contemporary Indigenous songs and some well-known soul sing-alongs.

Our aim has been to educate ourselves and our audiences about the country on which we

live, work and learn.

PERFORMANCE TIMES

Thursday 15, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 August

At 7pm $10 for adults

$7.00 for students/concession For more information contact Coffs Harbour High

This school holidays, Coffs Coast Kids Club will be putting kids through their paces in Coffs Harbour’s City Centre with a series of FREE events.

School holiday Fitness and Fun in the CBD

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The WHS P & C

meets on the

second Tuesday of

every month at

6.30pm We’re on the Web:

www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

EFTPOS Facilities for

credit/debit card

transactions are now

available for making

payments at the school

office. There is no cash out

Woolgoolga High School

Centenary Drive

Woolgoolga NSW 2456

E-mail: woolgoolga-

[email protected]

RITCHIES COMMUNITY

BENEFIT CARD PROGRAM

This program donates a percentage of the money spent by customers to their nominated

club, school or charity. Many schools and charities are receiving over $1000 every month.

By shopping at Ritchies’ Coffs Harbour IGA, you can help our school and benefit students. Ritchies’ Community Benefit Card saves you

money and helps your favourite

organisation at the same time

Northern NSW Local Health Net-

work

Mid North Coast Local Health Network

Oral Health Service

Did you know all children under 18 years of age,

still attending school are entitled to free dental

care?

To be eligible all you need is a current Medicare Card

To register for free dental care please call:

1300 651 625