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7 JUNE 2019 TERM 2 ISSUE 6 THE HENRY LAWSON HIGH SCHOOL

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

The drama project team invites you to their event FIGHT FOR THE SPOTLIGHT.

Tickets are $15 each, which includes catering by our hospitality students and drinks.

Seats are allocated in table settings, so be sure to call the school today on 63431390 to secure you seat.

We have a variety of acts from our talented student body and would love you to be a part of our event.

6:30pm - 21 JUNE 2019

Principals reportYou just can’t keep Anna down. Despite battling the flu all week, Anna has impressed selectors at the CHS Soccer Championships held in Kirrawee this week. Anna scored four goals for the Western Region team, to claim her spot in the CHS team. Anna now travels to Sydney in a fortnight’s time to compete at the NSW All School Soccer Championships. Congratulations Anna on all your achievements in soccer. Our intermediate debating team consisting of Brett and Brendan Knight, Hugo Fenton and George Mitton took to the debating game like ducks to water this week. Using the video-conferencing facilities, our team came up against Coonamble High School in the first round of the Premier’s Debating Challenge. Arguing the affirmative, Should sporting clubs be punished for their player’s off field actions? was a gift to our sports-loving team, taking out the debate comfortably. The team now waits to hear who they will debate in the second round. Well done!

We would like to share an email we received this week from Mrs Mary Moffit on behalf of the Catholic Debutante Ball. On 25th May 2019 St Joseph’s Parish Grenfell organised and conducted the Grenfell debutante ball. Most of the 11 debutantes and their partners were students from your school. It was a wonderful evening and memorable, I’m sure, to all the young people and their family and friends who also attended.On behalf of St Joseph’s Parish and the organisers, I would like to congratulate all the students for their co-operation, conduct and willingness to follow the directions of all the organisers. They were indeed a wonderful group of young people who you should be very proud to have as students at your school.As matron of honour I had the privilege of introducing the debs and their partners to the deputy prime minister of Australia, Mr Michael McCormack and his wife Catherine, who were our official guests for the night. Michael also commented on what a fine group of young people he had been introduced to.

Once again under the expertise of Mr McKnight, our school band has impressed at the Cowra Eisteddfod

taking out both the school band and open band sections with a very credible 95 points. Feedback from the adjudicators was very positive stating The Henry Lawson High School band is an ensemble that any principal should be extremely proud to have at the school and they make it a joy to listen. Congratulations Mr McKnight and band. We are all very proud of you.

While many of us will be enjoying the Henry Lawson Festival this weekend, Year 7 student Josh Chalker will be travelling to Maitland as part of the Central West Rugby Union Under 13’s team to compete at the state championships. Josh’s selection in the position of flanker, backs up his selection in the 2018 Central West Rugby Union under 12’s team as well as the 2018 Western Region Rugby Union PSSA team. Good luck Josh!

It was great to see the local primary schools at our school for the festival play day on Thursday. It looked like a lot of effort had been put into producing the items. Well done to the students and their teachers. If you are at the festival this weekend, come and visit our stand. We will have student work on display and for sale, and a wood raffle is being run by Year 8 students. You can test your science and engineering skills on our string-ways game and pick up your special festival edition of the newsletter. Have a safe and happy long weekend. Aaron FlaggPrincipal

Cross CountryStudents were relieved with the cool change arriving in time for the running of the cross country last Friday.

Well done to our age champions.

AGE GROUP GIRLS CHAMPION BOYS CHAMPION12-13 years Mia Bateman Josh Chalker14 years Taylor Keppie Benji Reid15 years Anna Hunt Michael Smith16 years Caprhyse Lawler Hugo Fenton17 years Chrystal Hucker Saxon Southwell18 years Marie Knight Andrew Knight

Congratulations to Saxon Southwell who was the first runner home, completing the 8km track in just over 34 minutes. Second home was Hugo Fenton (37 minutes) and followed by Andrew Knight (38 minutes)

To round out the inter-house competitions, congratulations MacNamara House on winning the cross country competition.

Western region trials are being held on Wednesday 19 June and we would like to wish those running good luck.

English/History Assessment NotificationsYear 12 English Studies - Travel brochure: due 4 July week 10 Year 11 English Studies - Resume, cover letter and interview: due 28 June week 9Year 11 English Standard - Digital text on a contemporary issue: due 4 July week 10Year 11 English Advanced - Narrative composition and evaluation: due 2 August week 2 Term 3Year 11 Modern History - Historical Investigation: due 2 July week 10Year 9 English - Shakespeare character analysis speech and presentation: due 1 July week 10Year 9 History - Australians at war research task: due 7 June week 6Year 7 English - Narrative composition: due 3 July week 10

Reminder to Year 12 English Standard and Advanced: You should be consistently working to improve your drafts for your Module C assessment task, applying the teacher’s feedback and seeking peer feedback. While the final due date for these is not until next term, do not

leave them to the last.

YEAR 8 RAFFLE Thank you to Matt and Lisa Griffiths who have generously donated a trailer-load of firewood to be raffled off, to raise funds for the Year 8 end of year excursion to Sydney.

Year 8 students will be selling tickets over the next few weeks.

Ticket are $2 each or 3 for $5 and will be drawn on Tuesday 18 June.

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

June7A

Queen’s Birthday10 11

WR Cross Country

12 13 14

June8B

17Year 8 cake stall

18Year 7/8 debating

19 20

Show team judging workshop

Fight for the Spotlight6.30pm

21

June9A Year 10 Work

Experience24

HSC Enrichment Day - BathurstYear 10 Work Experience

25

Year 10 Work Experience

26

AssemblyYear 10 Work Experience

27

Year 9 Peer Mentor training Year 10 Work Experience

28

July10B

1 2Silver MAD

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