LAWSON’S LATEST 22 FEBRUARY 2019 TERM 1 ISSUE 4 THE HENRY LAWSON HIGH SCHOOL

CHALLENGE, ENCOURAGE, ACHIEVE49 SOUTH STREET, GRENFELL NSW 2810 02 6343 1390 www.henrylawso-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to our age champions. Your participation, encouragement of others and sportsmanship throughout the day is to be commended.

LEHANE WINS THE SWIMMING CARNIVALLehane House has taken out honours at the 2019 school swimming carnival. Proving that there is more to winning a carnival than just winning the race, Lehane came to the pool with bucket loads of house spirit and accumulated a huge number of participation points to win the day overall. Congratulations Lehane on your win.

HOUSE POINTSLehane 719McNamara 696McCabe 482

AGE GIRLS BOYS13 years Annabella Taylor Jake Troth14 years Taylor Keppie Riley Aspin15 years Niamh Mitton Ky O’Byrne16 years Caprhyse Lawler George MittonOpens Chrystal Hiucker Tom Robinson

Saturday night saw our enthusiastic team compete in the Business House Relays. Thank you to the Grenfell Amateur Swimming Club for a great evening on Saturday, and congratulations to our Henry Lawson High School team on their inaugural win. The school and town are extremely lucky to have such amazing pool facilities. My only complaint is that the pool is far too long. It seemed to take a long time to get to the other end! (Photo)

Congratulations to Lehane House for winning our 2019 Swimming Carnival. Well done to all participants and a special mention to our age champions and record breakers. See the following report. Thank you to staff and community members who ensured our day was a very successful.Our school will be supporting the National Anti-Bullying Day on Friday 15 March. This national day is a positive day of action, bringing school communities together to help find workable solutions that address bullying and violence. Stay tuned in for further details.

Have a great week!Aaron FlaggPrincipal

Principal’s reportA big thank you to Mawhood’s IGA for their donation of $400 to The Henry Lawson High School as part of the IGA Community Chest fund raising efforts. It was a very welcome surprise. Our captains Connor Day and Bridget Baker very proudly accepted the cheque and will be tasked with considering how to best utilise the funding to benefit our school.

This week we very proudly donated 12 lawn mowers in various conditions to the Grenfell Men’s Shed. They will no doubt extend the life of these machines, and raise valuable funds for this community organisation. (Photo)

Year 12 held their first fundraising day for their chosen charity, Crohn’s and Colitis Ausralia, with a yellow and blue mufti day and cake stall. Did you know that over 80,000 Australians live with Crohn’s and Colitis? This number is expected to rise to over 100,000 by 2022. Year 12 will continue to fundraise throughout the year and make a donation to their charity once their fundraising is complete.

EVENT PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER OLD RECORD NEW RECORD

50m freestyle Peter Buckley (1995) 27.57 sec 25.00 sec

50m butterfly Toby Anderson (2013) 30.03 sec 27.51 sec

50m breaststroke Toby Anderson (2013) 36.50 sec 34.74 sec

50m backstroke Toby Anderson (2013) 32.72 sec 32.52 sec

100m freestyle Peter Buckley (1995) 1.00.95 mins 56.47 sec

200m freestyle Peter Buckley (1995) 2.36.44 mins 2.13 mins

200m IM Tom Robinson (2017) 2.42.09 2.30.97

400m freestyle Tom Robinson (2017) 5.10.73 4.56.52

EVENT PREVIOUS RECORD HOLDER OLD RECORD NEW RECORD

50m breaststroke Tom Robinson (2018) 37.05 sec 36.76 sec

There is a saying that “records are made to be broken” which rang true at the pool last Friday. Tom Robinson was dominant in the Opens male age group and broke all eight records, recording some very fast times.

George Mitton swam a very good 50m breaststroke race to claim a new 16 years male record beating the old record set by Tom only last year.

Congratulations Tom and George!

CASUAL RELIEF POSITION

The Henry Lawson High School is seeking to establish a pool of suitable applicants to provide casual relief in the school office.

The position is responsible to the Principal for assisting in a range of office activities, including record keeping, book keeping and other clerical duties, reception and operating and maintaining office equipment.

Please contact the principal, Mr Aaron Flagg, on 63431390 or email aaron.flagg@det.nsw.edu.au for further information.

Please note: It is a requirement of the Department of Education that employees obtain a Working With Children Check number from the Office of the Children’s Guardian. The application for the Working With Children Check costs $80.00.

P&C AGMThe Henry Lawson High School P&C Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 4 March at 7pm in the school library. There is no pressure to take on executive positions. This is a great op-portunity to come along and support our school and your child’s education. Everyone welcome.SCHOOL HATSSchool Hats are available for purchase at the canteen. Please insert pictures

Reversable Bucket Hats $15 Trucker Cap $15

P&C CATERINGThe P&C are catering for a local clearing sale on Saturday 9 March.We are calling for donations of baked goods to sell on the day. If you can contribute, please drop it to the school office on Friday 8 March in a container labelled with list a of ingredients and your name. If you able to help on the day please call Hannah on 0421888601.The proceeds from the sale will go directly back to the school for resources.

GRENFELL AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUBGrenfell Aquatic Centre details

Ph – 6343 1756 Mob: 0490 830 563BUSINESS HOUSE RELAYSCongratulations to The Henry Lawson High School team of Ashley Kuhn, Kate Robinson, Brad Robinson and Aaron Flagg who were the winners of the Business House Relay. They swam a perfect race in the final and generously donated the prize money back to the club - thank you! We would like to extend our thanks to Rotary for cooking the BBQ and the Lion’s Club for providing the jumping castle. A big thank you to all of our volunteer timekeepers, judges, marshalls, recorders and our swimmers and sponsors. Without your support this event would not be possible. A special thank you to Frank Freudenstein who spent all day Friday starting for the high school carnival, Friday night starting for swimming club, then helping us out again last night starting for the relay. Last, but certainly not least, a huge thank you to Leann and her staff at the pool, for supporting swimming club yet again - this is a very busy time for you all and we appreciate all of the extra work that you do for our swimmers! CHAMPIONSHIPSChampionships will be held on Friday 1 March and Friday 8 March. We remind swimmers that to qualify for Championships you must have six swims in a particular event.It is hoped that a report showing each swimmers eligibility for championships will be available on Friday night. You may also confirm your eligibility to swim in the Championships by using the results tab on the swimming club website homepage. This will take you to the Swimming Australia Results page. From there you can search for a swimmer and filter the search to include distances and strokes.The results on this page will not include the nights that swimming club was cancelled. If you had entered on a cancelled night, it will be counted as one swim.PRESENTATION NIGHTPresentation Night will be held on Friday 29 March 2019. More details to come.TIME KEEPING ROSTERTimekeepers for this week Friday 22 February 2019 – Simpson (Griffiths), Smith, Taylor, Turner, White & YatesPlease arrive at the pool between 5.30 pm and 5.45 pm to run through the Dolphin timing system. (one person is to sell raffle tickets).If you are unable to help on your allocated night it is your responsibility to organise a replacement.RAFFLEThe raffle this week was donated by the Martin family and was won by Linda White. Anyone willing to donate prize/s for the weekly raffle can leave them with Leann at the Canteen.

English/History Assessment NotificationsYear 12 Ancient History - Historical analysis: Caesar: due: 1st March (week 5)Year 12 Modern History - Historical analysis task due: 15 March (week 7)Year 12 Standard English - Craft of Writing - persuasive and informative text checkpoints to teacher by Friday week 5Year 11/12 Endlish Studies - Who do I think I am? Life story scrapbook/portfolio due: 29 March (week 9) Year 11 English Standard and Advanced - Why do we read? Why do we write?: due 5 April (week 10)Year 11 Modern History - Historical narrative and analytical essay due: 28 March (week 9)Year 11 Ancient History - Investigation of Ancient Sites and Sources essay due: 15th March (week 7)Year 10 English - Composer study: Creative response due: 7 March (week 6)Year 9 English - IDEAL Paragraph Literacy Task: in class 27th February (week 5)Year 9 History - Checkpoint 2 - 6C Historical source analysis due: week 5

HSIE Assessment NotificationsYear 8 - Water in the world task due: Monday 25 February (week 6)Year 9 - Sustainable biomes task due: Monday 25 February (week 6)Year 10 - Environmental change and management task due: Thursday 28 February (week 6)Year 11 - Business Studies - Nature of business task due: week 10Year 12 - Business Studies - Finance task due: week 10

VaccinationsAttention Years 7 and 10: 2019 NSW School Vaccination Program

Each year NSW Health works with schools to offer vaccines recommended for adolescents by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

In 2019, the following vaccines will be offered to all Year 7 students:

• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in a 2-dose schedule at leaset six months apart.

• Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cough) - vaccine (dTpa) as a single dose.

For Year 7, the first scheduled vaccination will take place on the morning of Thursday 21 March, the second will occur later in the year.

In addition, the NSW Government will fund a school-based meningococcal vaccination program for all Year 10 students, due to take place on Thursday 23 May. Please mark these dates on your calendar.

Year 7 and 10 parent information kits were distributed last week. Please read, sign and return consent forms to the school office as soon as possible.

TO ALL GRENFELL RESIDENTSDO YOU OWN A DOG?

The Weddin Shire Council would like to take this opportunity to remind the public of their responsibilities under the Companion Animals Act 1998 in relation to owning or being in charge of a dog.Please be advised of the following offences:• Owner not preventing a dog from escaping which may attract a penalty of $220.00 • Own dog/be in charge of a dog not under effective control in public place which may attract a penalty of $330.00• Dog not wearing a collar and name tag which may attract a penalty of $180.00• Own/be in charge of dog which rushes at/attacks/bites/harasses/chases any person/animal which may attract a

penalty of $1,320.00.Breaches of legislative requirements may result in Council taking any appropriate action which may include but is not limited to impounding your dog.Please always have your dog under effective control by means of a collar and leash whilst in a public place. If you have any questions or wish to discuss this matter further please do not hesitate to contact the Council Ranger on 0427 246 787.

2019 Henry Lawson Festival of ArtVerse and Short Story Competition

The 2019 Henry Lawson Festival of Arts Verse and Short Story competitions are now open for all high school students. Students may enter verse or a short story for the opportunity to win prizemoney to the value of $150. Student entries are free, with a maximum of two entries per student. All other details including sections and conditions are available from the Henry Lawson Festival website. Entries close on Friday 29 March 2019, with the winners to be announced towards the end of May.

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