Woolgoolga High School Newsletter Issue 4 . April 7, 2017 CENTENARY DRIVE WOOLGOOLGA 2452 . 6654 1500 . [email protected]. www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au INSIDE THIS ISSUE From the Principal P.2 Important coming dates P.3 Science & Engineering Challenge P.4-5 Harmony Day P.6-7 Year 10 Drama P.8 Head-Start P.9 Shave for a Cure P.9 Art Department P.10-11 Wellbeing P.12 Music P.13 State Swimming P.14 Sport P.15 The Coffs Coast Science and Engineering Challenge was hosted for the third consecuve year at Woolgoolga High School on April 4, 2017. Thirty five students from our school parcipated in the event. There were over 200 students parci- pang from other local high schools as well. The Science and Engineering Challenge is a naonwide outreach program presented by The University of Newcastle to inspire students to consider future scienfic career paths, and encourage students to study STEM subjects in their senior school years. A huge thank you goes out to the sponsors – The University of Newcastle, Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Engineers Australia, Clarence Consulng, Pacific Complete, Wool- goolga Rotary Club, Woolgoolga Lions Club and Woolgoolga High School P & C for their generous donaons. Full story and photos pages 4 and 5. The event attracted local media attention. To view the NBN news segment please go to: http://www.nbnnews.com.au/2017/04/04/students-get-a-taste-of-how-fun-science-is/ 2017 Science and Engineering Challenge
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The Coffs Coast Science and Engineering Challenge was hosted for the third consecutive year at Woolgoolga High School on April 4, 2017. Thirty five students from our school participated in the event. There were over 200 students partici-pating from other local high schools as well. The Science and Engineering Challenge is a nationwide outreach program presented by The University of Newcastle to inspire students to consider future scientific career paths, and encourage students to study STEM subjects in their senior school years.
A huge thank you goes out to the sponsors – The University of Newcastle, Sullivan
FREE Excel HSC Survival Guide available from the Library for students in Years 11 and 12 . Lots of tips on how to reduce stress, time management and study timetables. Even coupons to the value of $65 included in each text.
New 2017 photo galleries now on our school website: http://www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/gallery
House Captains 2017, Academic Achievement Centre, RYDA, S.M.I.L.E., Term 1 Representa-tive Sport and Harmony Day.
Students have just completed a monologue for their first Assessment and costumed
their performances. Each student had to adapt a short piece and perform in
character for 3 minutes. It was entertaining, fun and the audience loved the variety.
Thanks to The Coffs Coast Advocate for publishing this wonderful story about the high-achieving students from your school. Coffs Coast Advocate Head-Start students
Southern Cross University has warmly welcomed 149 senior high school students into the SCU Head-Start Program for 2017. Students from across the NSW North Coast and south-east Queensland are participating in the program at each of our campuses, including 32 high-achieving Years 11 and 12
students from the Coffs Harbour and Clarence regions at the University’s Coffs Harbour campus. Head-Start provides the opportunity to study a unit at university to gain direct entry and advanced standing into a variety of courses offered at Southern Cross University scu.edu.au/headstart.
On Monday April 3, Woolgoolga High once again participat-
ed in the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave
with three students and one teacher putting their heads up
to shave for this worthy cause. First up Meg Beedie, one of
our token Year 12 students, was very brave shaving her
hair and raised an amazing $700. Meg was an extra special
candidate as she donated her hair for wig making. Zac
Dove, a Year 8 student went completely bald and raised
over $250 for this amazing cause. Miles King also went
bald, and raised over $300. The amazingly brave
Mr Chadwick stepped up and shaved off his beard for the
entertainment value. Not to be outdone there were count-
less students who coloured their hair for the occasion. All
these students deserve commendation especially those students who shaved. I would like to thank Katie,
from Little Rippers Barber Shop in Woolgoolga for volunteering her time and effort to come and shave our
students’ heads. The money raised will go towards this brilliant cause and it is good to see Woolgoolga
High making a difference. Well done everyone involved.
Art students from Years 9, 10 and 11 have recently submitted
works for the Yellow Door Art Exhibition which will showcase
student works at Coffs Central Shopping Centre throughout
Youth week from Friday, March 31 to Sunday, April 9.
Yellow Door is an Art Exhibition that represents how art
connects all people and can open doors for young people with
barriers such as mental health.
Yellow Door will also be hosting creative workshops during
Youth Week.
Art Students from Year 10 have also been encouraged to
exhibit their work at our local Woolgoolga Art Gallery and
compete for excellent prize money in the Human Rights Art
Exhibition. This Exhibition will be held from June 2 to June 28.
Works must be submitted by May 26 for those students who
are entering.
Sydney Art Excursion
Once again our Visual Arts students were given the
opportunity to travel to Sydney to see a variety of Art
Exhibitions and performance. Leaving Woolgoolga
with 47 students at 5.30am all bright eyed and bushy
tailed ready for an adventure.
We arrived in Sydney at 1.30pm to see the Museum
of Contemporary Art. It was raining when we arrived
in Sydney, so our short walks to and from the bus
were very brisk! Students found many works inspir-
ing, as well as challenging their ideas about what art
could be. The Contemporary Art Museum exhibits
only Australian artists with work from the past 10
years. The aim of the gallery is to promote recent
Australian
developments in the Visual Arts.
After the Museum of Contemporary Art, we checked in to our luxury accommodation readying ourselves for the evening ahead. Students toured Paddy’s Markets, found dinner and a few places to invest in some Sydney shopping. From here we ventured to The Lyric Theatre to see ‘Shen Yun’, a display of tradi-tional Asian dance. Our students were in awe of the many talents on show and made celebrity status with the Asian community at the end of the night.
Friday morning, we all ventured down to an early
breakfast before hitting the road to more galler-
ies. We started at the NSW Art Gallery to see the
Artexpress exhibition. This is a display of the top
HSC Visual Arts Bodies of Work from 2016.
Students found themselves inspired by what was
possible and recorded many ideas to assist with
their own art making. The standard of work was
incredible and really confirmed that our young
people can be leaders in the art world. We were
also fortunate enough to tour the John Olsen
exhibition. To see his works in reality was such a
privilege. The scale of many of his works gave us
a deeper understanding of his practice and will go
a long way to support students’ HSC written
responses.
Artexpress was also on display at the Armory Galley at Homebush. Students loved the setting of this old world gallery. The works on display here were equally inspiring and we saw some of our local students’ works on display. Again the talent displayed was inspirational for both our students and staff. Many leaving the exhibition with plans to start new canvases or add to their own ideas on our return.
News From the Art Department
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Fri 9 June NC Regional Cross Country Murwillumbah 2
Fri 21 July NSW State Cross Country Eastern Creek 3
AT
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Wed 3 May
Thur 4 May
School Athletics Carnival - Day 1
School Athletics Carnival - Day 2
Woolgoolga Sports
Ground
2
Thur 15 June MNC Zone Athletics Carnival Coffs Harbour Interna-
tional Stadium
2
Fri 4 Aug NC Regional Athletics Carnival Lismore 3
Wed 6 Sept
to Fri 8 Sept
CHS State Athletics Carnival Homebush 3
2017 SPORT CARNIVAL DATES
PLEASE NOTE: DATES AND VENUES ARE CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING BUT
ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK CLOSER TO EVENT.
ADDISEN & TANISHA
Congratulations to Year 11 students
Addisen Mallett and Tanisha Wallace
who have been selected in the North
Coast Regional Open Soccer teams.
Both students will compete at the
NSW CHS State Championships
next term. Addisen travels to Griffith
and Tanisha to Glenwood in Sydney
to play in these championships. Well
done and good Luck! Oops!
Apologies Luke! It was incorrectly reported in the last newsletter that Jack Taylor was a member of the Woolgoolga High School 12 year’s boys swimming relay team. Luke Taylor of Year 7 was the member of this team.
EMMANUEL SUTTON
Congratulations to Emanuel Sutton of Year
9 who has been selected in North Coast re-
gional under 15 rugby league team. Eman-
uel will now play a 2-day tournament at
Coffs Harbour next term in the quest to be
chosen in the Greater North rugby league
team. Well done Emanuel and good luck!
CONGRATULATIONS
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