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Principal: Mrs M Crelley Issue No: 12 Term: 3 Monday 12th 2019

Best wishes to Year 12 who will commence their Trial HSC Examinations on Monday 19th August. Students studying practical and some Extension subjects will also be finalising their major projects or submissions over the next few weeks. Students are encouraged to use the week to revise their work, use their time wisely at school and at home and to eat and sleep well prior to and during their examinations. Toyota Tree Planting Day Since our last newsletter, our Links to Learning boys have planted thirty shrubs in the front school garden with the assistance of Sarah Taylor and Emma Chambers from our local Toyota dealership. This great initiative encouraged our boys to work as a team and to look at time management strategies to get the job done within the deadline. Thanks to Sarah Taylor who presented information on renewable energy in Toyota vehicles. The plants were sourced from Riverina Wildflowers. Mr Shultz also shared his knowledge on the best way to maintain our new plants. Thanks to Toyota and to Mr Shultz for their generosity and time given to our group. Also, thanks to Joey Longford for organising this great event. Compact Leap Program Some of our Year 9 and 10 girls have been invited to participate in a special program delivered by the team at Compact. This program runs every Wednesday to assist in developing self-esteem and resilience, positive relationships, problem-solving skills and to set manageable goals to achieve goals and aspirations. We thank Dana and Ruby for delivering this unique program to our students. My Community Grants – Leeton High School Oval Amenities Upgrade Voting for the My Community Grants Project will close this week. Leeton High School Ovals Amenities Upgrade is listed as a hopeful recipient of the grant to improve the current facility, which is used by numerous sporting clubs and home to many school events. To vote for our project, you need to be over 16 and have a Medicare Card, the details of which are required for login to the site: https://www.nsw.gov.au/improving-nsw/projects-and-initiatives/my-community-project/ Thanks for your support. LHS Fest 2019 Thanks again to the P&C for again putting on the wonderful LHS Fest on 28th August 2019. There will be a variety of rides, activities and food stalls for our students to enjoy. Wristbands can be purchased from the font office and will be given to students on the morning of LHS Fest. The cost also includes entry to the highly entertaining Leeton Idol from 1.30pm. If you can help the P&C out on the day please call the school office or email the P&C at LeetonHighSchool@pandcaffiliate.org.au. Positive Behaviour for Learning Our PBL focus for this fortnight commences with setting SMART goals. Setting goals is very important for us to be at our best. Goals can be immediate, short term or long term. It is very hard to achieve something if we do not have a plan. Students are asked to consider what they would like to do, achieve, experience or change. SMART goals are a great way of planning to achieve. A goal should be:

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“Educating young people for active and responsible citizenship”

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Students will work on strategies to help them achieve their goals in and outside of school. To assist in the setting and achieving of these goals and to focus on how we best learn, we will also be creating a learning plan over the course of the fortnight. Additionally, we will be focusing on positive lifestyles looking at stress and stress management. Stress is our body’s response to a demand placed on it. Stress is a normal condition, experienced by everyone. It involves an emotional, physical or mental response to events that cause bodily or mental tension. It can be thought of as a state of readiness – the ‘fight or flight’ response. A small amount of stress from time to time is not a problem; it can even motivate us to get things done. When stress is intense and ongoing, it can start to impact our physical and mental health. Teachers will introduce the term “Stressors” and students should be able to identify areas where they feel most stressed. Students are also given the opportunity to think about strategies to overcome stressful situations. Our PBL prize draws will be in Weeks 3, 6 and 9 with a mega prize at the end of each term. Alternately, students can drop 25 PBL tickets in to the office for a merit certificate to go toward earning a Platinum Jacket. PBL prize winners for Week 3 are listed below. Congratulations to these students who have demonstrated being respectful, responsible learners.

Year 7 2020 In order to confirm our classes for 2020 as soon as possible, please return Year 7 2020 enrolment forms to the office by 16th August. 2019. We are also seeking feedback on our Year 6 into & Transition Program. You’ll find the survey on our Facebook page. Breakfast Club and Homework Centre @ Leeton High School Breakfast Club is on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Toast and a variety of spreads and fresh fruit is available. A huge thank you to the Golden Apple for supporting us with this great start to the day. Our Homework Centre will run on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3.30pm – 4.30pm in the Library. Teachers will be available to support students with homework, assignments and assessment tasks. Students are welcome to access the internet for educational purposes via the computers in the library.

Year Canteen Voucher Canteen Voucher Gift Card Caltex Petrol Voucher Year 12 only

7 Braiden Lynch Braiden Lynch Joseph McCall

8 Callum Dunn Adelaide Meline Seth Flew

9 Rebecca Connell Ella Gason Jason Thomas

10 Maria Tynan Emerson Cody Maria Tynan

11 To be drawn later To be drawn later To be drawn later

12 Brianna Gray-Mills Talise Rudd Talise Rudd

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Leeton High School recognises and values the importance of communication between home and school. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the school on 69532122. Stay in touch with the happenings at Leeton High School via the School Website http://www.leeton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/ or our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/LeetonHS .

Mrs Meagan Crelley Principal

~~DEPUTY PRINCIPAL - TEACHING & LEARNING~~ Lifelong learning is about creating ‘a society of individuals who are motivated to continue learning throughout their lives – both formally and informally’. I came to focus on this important concept for my fortnightly newsletter write up, after having a recent conversation with a former colleague of mine. It was the opinion of my colleague that the concept ‘Lifelong’ learning was not emphasised back in ‘his day’ of schooling compared to more recent times. The observations made are somewhat affirmed by research available on the use and recent origin of the word. A statement made by a former Commonwealth Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs at a conference in 1999 titled: Preparing Youth for the 21st century reinforces the importance of the concept for our students. There is little doubt that nations which will succeed in the 21st century will be knowledge societies - societies rich in human capital, effective in the capacity to utilise and deploy their human resources productively and successful in the creation and commercialisation of new knowledge. In such a world there will be need to be greater opportunities than ever before for lifelong learning for preparation not just for the first job but for succeeding jobs. I am sure most people would be familiar with the saying success begets success or wealth begets wealth. Linking back to learning, it is important that our students have a sound educational foundation as research demonstrates that educational participation later in life is strongly correlated with educational background (primary and high school) - education begets education. In short, engagement in present day learning is a strong predictor of future success and engagement in learning. To ensure that we understand the path of each students’ learning journey, it is important that as a school we understand the needs and desires of the community (students and parents) that we serve. Students are understandably influenced in part by the conversations they have with their parents regarding career choices. When parents where asked about educational aspirations of their children in the most recent ‘Tell Them From Me’ survey (2018), the following information was obtained.

Within the last fortnight, the school has been working on two prominent initiatives to provide choice to our students as they transition from school into either further study or employment. We promoted the Country Universities Centre to our Year 11 and

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Year 12 students. The newly established centre in Leeton provides our students, who have aspirations to undertake university study, the opportunity to stay in the local region. The school also recently facilitated a meeting, attended by over 20 individuals across a wide section of the government, industry and the education sector to discuss initiatives under the National Indigenous Advancement Strategy (federally administered). One of the main objectives of the meeting was to devise strategies to better support our Indigenous students to transition from education into sustainable employment, particularly through School Based Apprenticeships/Traineeship activities. We recognise that it is much more difficult to achieve great outcomes unless we engage and utilise the expertise of key and influential stakeholders in this area. The Mayor of Leeton Shire, Paul Maytom, three members of the Prime Minister’s & Cabinet Office, along with Karen Davy of the local Lands Council were present. A further meeting will be held at Leeton High School on Thursday 29 August to build on the discussions of the first meeting. In summary, it is important that we seek to raise the educational aspirations of our students to encourage them to pursue lifelong learning to improve their knowledge, skills and understanding within a personal, social and/or employment related perspective. As a school and a community (parents/carers) we play an important role in influencing the aspirations of our ‘students/children’. This is affirmed from the following findings from a research paper titled, ‘Educational Aspiration of Secondary School Students’ - “there exists a significant positive relationship between parental encouragement and a positive school environment with educational aspirations of students”.

Glenn Duggan Deputy Principal (Teaching and Learning)

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MARIA TYNAN YOUTH PARLIAMENT VISIT & SECRETARY FOR A DAY Marie Tynan of Year 10 attended the YMCA NSW Youth Parliament in Sydney where she was on the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Committee. “I was appointed Shadow Minister for the committee and debated our Bill ‘a single use plastics ban in NSW’. It was highly successful and passed the Youth Parliament.” The bill will now go to the Youth Advocate and could be debated in real parliament. Marie had an amazing time and encourages others to apply for it next year. Last week Marie went to Sydney for the Secretary for a Day Program. Students are selected to visit the Department of Education and participate in workshops. Marie participated in the Sustainability and Waste Management Business Unit. She learnt a lot about public speaking, how the department manages things and making sure her voice was heard. If this is something other students may be interested in please see Marie or Mr Duggan.

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BACK TO THE 80’S WRAP UP Life is almost back to ‘normal’ for CAPA staff and students after an absolutely epic Term 2 which ended with the hugely successful Back To The 80’s musical. The many hours rehearsing paid off when our cast and crew of 73 students performed to well over 1000 audience members in 4 shows. Thank you so much and congratulations to all of the amazing students involved in the show and a massive shout out to former student, Josh Nikoro for jumping on board a month out to perform back on the stage he was so comfortable on growing up. A massive vote of thanks to all of our school staff and P&C for your support and hard work in the lead up and during the show. Many staff and students were involved in a variety of roles behind the scenes and without you, we couldn’t give our students performance opportunities such as these. And lastly, thank you to the Leeton community. 9 local schools attended our matinee shows and many community members, many with no connection to Leeton High, came to the evening performances. Some people even returned to watch the show twice! We are very lucky to live in a town where our students are supported and celebrated for doing what they love. Until 2021!

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KROP 26 members of the Back to the 80’s cast performed ‘Love Shack’ in KROP at the Griffith Regional Theatre last week. KROP (Kids Rapt On Performing) is the annual showcase of performing arts from public schools in the Griffith Region and last week we packed up the Love Shack and transported it to Griffith to wow the audiences at 3 shows. Opening the second act of the show requires some high energy and our students once again rose to the occasion and had everyone dancing and singing along. It was one of the most entertaining acts in the show. The kids had so much fun reliving the musical again that we’ve organised one more performance, at the Leeton Eisteddfod later this week. Congratulations to all involved and good luck at The Roxy on Wednesday!

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~~ SCHOOL SPORT~~ RIVERINA SECONDARY ATHLETICS On Friday 2nd August students travelled down to Albury to participate in the Riverina Athletics Carnival. All students performed well. The State carnival will be held in Sydney in September. Amazing results from this year’s carnival included:

Jenna Elliott 1st 400m

Jade Cooper 1st Javelin, Discuss, Shotput

Ryan Butler 1st 1500m, 800m

Josh Baulch 1st 800m (new record by 2 seconds), 100m, 400m

Madeline Irvin 2nd 1500m, 800m

15s Boys Relay 2nd

17s Girls Relay 2nd

Congratulations to all participants for their notable sportsmanship and exemplary behaviour on the day.

DATES TO REMEMBER Mon 19th Aug – HSC Trial Exams Wed 28th Aug – LHS Fest/Idol Mon 26th Aug – P&C Meeting – 7pm Fri 27th Sep – Year 12 Final Assembly

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DOCKETS

The Golden Apple docket promotion is running again. Please drop off all your

dockets to the Front Office or Canteen to support this great fundraiser.

LOST PROPERTY

There is a lot of lost property in

the Front Office. If you are

missing some clothing please

come down and look through the

lost property box.

Please put names on clothing

items as it makes it easier to get

it back to the correct owner.

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UPCOMING EVENTS – Term 3 COLLIER & MILLER VISIT – 3/9/19 Collier and Miller will be visiting LHS to search for candidates for a retail traineeship, mechanical engineering cadetship, welding, sheet metal and fitting & machining apprenticeships for 2020 intake. If you would like to attend see Mrs Goring @ Careers Central. In the meantime you can find more information at: https://colliermillercareers.com.au/Current-Opportunities/ Students are asked to apply online through the above link, and should provide current resume AND a cover letter for their application. C&M are an excellent employer and would give successful candidates a very good start to a great career. It is early in the hiring process however students shouldn’t waste time, first in best dressed.

SAVE THE DATE! UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA EXCURSION – 18-19/11/2019 Year 10 and 11 will once again have the opportunity to visit University of Canberra to experience uni life, participate in hands-on workshops and campus tour. More information to come…

WORK EXPERIENCE Year 10 students – permission notes are due back no later than Wednesday 14th August.

A Work Ready Day will be held in the school library on Wednesday afternoon 14th August during sport. This is a mandatory part of the work experience program.

CUMMINS ENGINEERING Heavy Diesel Mechanical Apprentice - Leeton Description

Undertake a Certificate III in Heavy Commercial Vehicle Mechanical Technology (AUR31116) Outstanding opportunity to become a fully qualified Cummins Mechanical Technician Gain practical experience with a global leader in engine technology

Bring your enthusiasm and determination to a role that will grow your career. Working under supervision of a qualified Cummins Technician, you will learn everything that comes with diagnosis and repair of Cummins engines and products.

With Mrs Goring & Mrs Palmer

Year 10 Expression of Interest -

Notes need to be returned this Wednesday 14th

Leeton High School Careers

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What’s in it for you? Earn while you learn Obtain a nationally recognized qualification Complete formal TAFE/Registered Training Organization study Receive on the job training and exposure to Cummins engines and heavy vehicles Product specific training with our very own Cummins Technical Trainers

About you Cummins are looking for applicants with the following attributes:

A positive attitude and eagerness to learn The ability to work well in a team Completed or currently enrolled in Year 12 preferable or Completion or near completion of a pre-apprenticeship or relevant vocational training Good level of language, literacy and numeracy skills Part or full-time work experience in any field of work would be desirable Right to work in Australia

About us At Cummins, everything we do is underpinned by our commitment to safety and collaboration. Cummins is a recognised segment front-runner in the On & Off-Highway, Mining, Power Generation, Rail and Marine market segments. We are a value based organisation who place the highest priority on customers, employees, shareholders and the communities in which we operate. Learn more about us atwww.cummins.com.au All Apprenticeships will have a commencement date of 28 th of January 2020. For more information or a personal discussion regarding this opportunity please e-mail the Cummins Recruitment Team at careers.sthpacific@cummins.com. For all applications please click on the link provided. Qualifications Job SERVICE Primary Location Australia-New South Wales-Riverina-Australia, Leeton, Distributor BR 290 Job Type Apprenticeship Recruitment Job Type Apprenticeship Job Posting Jun 19, 2019, 1:23:33 AM Unposting Date Ongoing Req ID: 190002JP

Apply here: https://cummins-australia.jobs/leeton-aus/heavy-diesel-mechanical-apprentice-leeton/7229AE5376F94F71B86DC12F199013BC/job/

DREDGE MACHINERY GRIFFITH – LIGHT VEHICLE APPRENTICESHIP Job vacancy for light vehicle apprentice. Contact Kelli-Anne at Dredge Machinery 40 Wakaden Street GRIFFITH NSW 2680 P: 02 6964 6166 F: 02 6964 6177

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