Page 1 The Oak Leaf Armidale High School Friday , 7 th September 2012 Butler Street, Armidale, N.S.W., 2350 – PHONE: 6776 7466; FAX: 6776 7424 Email: [email protected]Website: armidale-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Issue 14 – Term 3 – Week 6 PRINCIPAL’S COLUMN SASS Recognition Week This week our school community recognised the very valuable work of all our support staff with a special morning tea and some RAKs (Random Acts of Kindness)! Thank you to all our non-teaching staff for your hard work all year round- we would not be able to teach without you! Thank you also to our hard-working P&C and especially to Geoff Thorne who organised the Bush Dance held in the auditorium. Around $700 was raised and a great time was had by all! Congratulations to Lucie Yeomans – 3 rd in the National Worldskills Comp and member of the winning State team. What an achievement! Congratulations also to our Tournament of Minds Team and to their mentor Mr Michael McKenzie, on winning the regional final. They are off to Sydney this weekend to compete in the State Final. ARTS IN CONCERTS I have received many phone calls and emails praising our wonderful students who participated as performers, ushers or back stage crew, in the Regional Arts in Concert performances last Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Lazenby. All students looked and sounded fabulous and were a great credit to our school. On a similar note our MADness nights were very well attended and the standard of music, art and drama on show was phenomenal! Two different programs for the two nights is proof of the strength of the creative and performing arts at Armidale High School. Parents of Year 12 students are reminded that all lessons continue until the Weirdathon on Thursday, 20 th Sept. Some course work is still being completed as well as revision and strategies for exam technique and handy hints being given by staff. Anne Matley, Principal LUCIE YEOMANS’ TRIUMPH Armidale High School’s Vice-Captain Lucie Yeomans has returned from the National Worldskills Championships with a Bronze medal in the Primary Industry sector and the knowledge that her strong result contributed to New South Wales team’s Shield- winning performance as the Best Performed State. The Vocational Education Training in Schools competition was held at Sydney’s Olympic Park. The competitors were called upon to demonstrate their skills in tractor work, stock work, fences, weather fore-casting, chemicals and first aid and chemical spills scenarios. “The team challenge, to improve some aspect of the Olympic Park, was especially rewarding,” Lucie said. COMPUTING CHALLENGE – National Computer Skills Test held by UNSW (Standing) Ben James (Credit), Liam Knott, Tim Edmonds (Seated) Ben Hemmings, Domenico Favotto (Credit), Jackson Doak (Distinction) with teacher Mr Andrew Curry who said he was very pleased with the students’ results in a competition which tested knowledge of systems and software.
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The Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program is directed towards students in Years 7 to 10 and aims to decrease the prevalence of health risk behaviours (such as alcohol consumption, smoking, other drug use, physical inactivity and inadequate nutritional intake) by enhancing the resilience of students through resilience interventions. These resilience interventions aim to increase the internal and external resilience of students. Internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people. These include empathy, self-esteem, self-awareness, effective help seeking, communication and cooperation, and goals and aspirations. External resilience factors refer to positive influences within the young person’s environment and surroundings that protect them from engaging in health risk behaviours. And include school connection, community connection, family connection, and pro-social peers. School workshops and Action Plans are two important milestones of the Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures program and we encourage all teachers, parents and students to contribute to the planning of Armidale High School’s resilience interventions. The next step is for Armidale High School to create an Action Plan. This plan will list selected resilience interventions to implement over the next couple of years. Strategies in this plan may include activities from MindMatters and SenseAbility, rewards and recognition programs, student empowerment programs, and plans to increase links between the school and the community.
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