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Message from the Principal Welcome to week 8.
Our shop windows are looking fabulous and as the school year is finishing, if there are any students happy for
their work to be in the shop windows over the holiday break, please see Mrs Jackson or Mr Blenkins.
This has been a week where inappropriate social media behaviour has been prominent. Year 9/10 received a
very stern presentation from our Police School Liaison Officer and a warning about posting in public chat rooms.
Public chat rooms through Facebook are a relatively new addition and are unsafe rooms. They are public and
once they are established, you cannot change anything or delete comments or the room. Students were
reminded that their digital footprints are a reflection of themselves and how others can perceive them. Students
must be extra careful about writing any comments, posting any photos or videos and only have positive behaviour
on social media. It certainly has been a tough lesson for some.
Year 7/8 need to be reminded that they must be 13 to open many social media accounts. Any students taking
photos or videos of others without their permission is illegal and you can be charged, especially if you post it. All
our students are given social media presentations by our Police School Liaison Officer every year and students
now, more than ever, need to adhere to the rules. If any parents have any questions in relation to social media,
I am happy for you to contact the school and, as we are not the experts, we can find the answers for you.
As November is fast coming to an end so is “Movember” fundraising. The students have done some creative
fundraising for such a great cause. If anyone wishes to donate, please let the front office know.
I am excited to take our senior leadership students to CSU next week to the National Young Leaders Day
Masterclass presentation at CSU on Friday. They will participate in workshops and listen to 4 keynote speakers.
There is a Wakakirri Dance workshop in week 9 in preparation for our entry in 2017. I love our theme next year
and cannot wait for Ms Dunn’s workshop.
Lastly, this week we welcome Ms Forster who has returned for several weeks from the Netherlands. Ms Forster
was absolutely beaming talking of her experiences working with her idol and designer – Claudy Jongstra. Ms
Forster will be working with our senior Textiles and Design students to upskill them on her experiences over there
and prepare them for their Major Design Projects in 2017.
Have a fabulous fortnight and I look forward to seeing you at our annual Presentation Night.
Enjoy your fortnight.
Kind regards
Mrs Fiona Jackson
Message from
The Principal
Deputy’s Corner
Maths News
Career Adviser
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PDHPE & Sport
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General News
SRC News
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Deputy’s Corner
Week 8 of the term is here!
The preparations for this year’s Presentation Night are
well under way – and the Presentation Night
committee has much of the organisation in hand. The
much-awaited lists of award recipients will be placed
on the noticeboard in the course of Week 8. Mrs
Clifton has gone to a lot of trouble to select a
wonderful array of book prizes. A P&C representative
will be meeting with me on Monday as we calculate
the First and Second students in each year group. The
weighted subject formula presented to P&C will be
used in this process.
Whilst some schools across the state may be
embracing a wind-down phase at this time of the year,
there is so much going on at Tumbarumba High
School. Mrs McGrath has reported that her
Enrichment Book Club group thoroughly enjoyed their
reading and study of The Hunger Games. Students
from the audio DEAR class have been also viewing the
film after reading the novel earlier in the year.
Students will be looking forward to next week’s
Country theme disco which has been promoted by the
SRC. An excursion is also scheduled for History
students in Years 7 and 8 thanks to the tireless efforts
of Mr Smith, Ms Ikier and Mr Mulherin.
Ms Sturgess has also been very busy organising a suite
of Interest Elective options for our students during the
final days of the term. Her promotion of the various
Interest Electives options at our last school assembly
certainly generated interest within the student body.
The school’s Workplace, Health and Safety Committee
has been meeting over the last fortnight – and has
been critically assessing procedures and practices
within the school to ensure that students and staff
enjoy a safe learning and work environment. The
committee has been working with support and
guidance provided by the Albury Department of
Education office.
I am in the process of organising some planning days
over the next few weeks so that Head Teachers and
their faculty teams can work together to refine
existing programs and develop new programs to
engage our students. A STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering & Mathematics) planning day has been
organised for Week 8 – so our students will have some
new learning challenges ahead in 2017!
I am very proud to report that some new casual
teachers have been impressed by the conduct and
application of our students – this is really great news
to hear in Term 4! Our new Year 12 students are
working solidly and have made an effective transition
from Year 11 to Year 12.
Mr Michael Blenkins
30 November 2016
o Girls T20 Cricket
o 7/8 History Excursion to
Wolters Cottage
o General Mufti Day
1 December 2016
o SRC Disco
6 December 2016
o Year 7 BBQ
8 December 2016
o Assembly
9 December 2016
o Wakakirri Workshop
12 December 2016
o Presentation Night
7.30pm
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Maths tutoring will be on again this term,
each Wednesday afternoon in the school library from
3:30 – 4:30pm. Everyone is welcome – please bring
some work to do.
A reminder that your child should have a scientific
calculator for Maths. Please help ensure that
they bring a Board approved scientific calculator to
every Maths lesson. If your child does not have a
calculator, they are available from the front office for
$21.
Numeracy at Home – Part 4 In Part Four of our series on Numeracy at Home we
look at Times Tables.
Multiplication and Maths are used, whether you
realise it or not, almost on a daily basis. When you
go grocery shopping, you often need to compare
the cost of similar items or how much it will cost to
get multiple items. If you are cooking and need to
make a double recipe you are going to need to know
how to multiply and if you are at a store and want to
determine what type of discount you are getting,
you need to know multiplication.
Knowing your times tables provides you with a
strong sense of number which can then be
used in many different areas of life as well as in the
Maths classroom. Times tables provide an important
foundation for understanding different aspects
of Maths such as division, algebra and fractions.
Students that do not know their one to twelve
times tables by heart tend to struggle with
grasping other mathematical concepts, usually
resulting in them falling behind and not achieving
their full potential.
“I can just use my calculator” I hear you say. A
calculator is a tool that can help reduce the grunt work
when dealing with mathematical problems that are
more complex than Basic Arithmetic. However, it is
only a tool. A calculator is only as good as the person
using it and does not provide you with the
understanding of number needed to succeed in the
Maths classroom.
To help improve your knowledge of times tables:
Practise – every day!
Put a times tables poster up somewhere that
you can spend time looking at it regularly (the toilet door is often a popular choice!)
Border your bathroom mirror with times tables
and their answers written on coloured Post-It notes.
Obtain time tables songs and play them on
the way to and from school.
Search for (then play) times tables games online – there’s heaps out there, most of them free.
Make stacks of coins with loose change and
determine the total value of each stack (e.g. a stack of eight five cent coins is 40 cents) – check your answer by skip counting (e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20 . . .)
Use a pack of cards – make Aces worth 1,
Jacks 11 and Queens 12 (leave out the Kings or make them worth 13!) Shuffle the deck, deal 2 cards and multiply them.
Create a Times Tables Memory game. Write
times tables and their answers on different cards. Shuffle and turn the cards face down in a grid pattern. Choose two cards to turn over – try to find question and answer pairs.
Create ‘Chatterboxes’ for the times tables
you struggle with. Write the times tables inside, then open the flap to check your answer.
Create flashcards to test yourself with
questions on one side and answers on the other. Ms J Donovan
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This week’s reader is Mr Jay Mulherin (English/Music
teacher). He is reading “Give the devil his due” by Sulari
Gentil.
This is book 7 in the Rowland Sinclair mystery series, a
series of historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s
about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum-
amateur-detective. “I really love this story, the mystery
has me hooked and I love the time period it is set in.”
Start with the first book in the series, “A few right
thinking men”, which is available in the school library.
Year 7 & 8 students are completing a wide reading unit
for English. They have been working on a ‘Survival’ unit
in English based on “The Crash of the Stinson”. Then
students have chosen a book related the survival theme.
Students have used the online library catalogue (Oliver)
to find reading materials that suit their interests within
this theme. They have chosen adventure stories,
survival adventures and animal stories such as Bear
Grylls “Claws of the Crocodile”, “The maze runner” and
“Terra-Farma” by Gillian Rubenstein.
Most students have benefited from this unit and really
got involved with reading their novels, as you can see
from the photographs of the class.
Student Recommendation Books:
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PASS Hike
The students in Ms Sturgess’ 9/10 PASS class recently
participated in a local area day-hike. Starting at
McClelland’s Lane, we walked up and along the
Mount Garland Fire Trail before following the Hume
& Hovel Walking Track down to Mannus Lake. The
terrain was a mix of very easy, quite difficult and
everything in between. It was a perfect day, students
were challenged by the 11km hike and they came out
smiling. The hour we spent having a picnic lunch on
the lake was very nice indeed. Special thanks to Mr.
Harris and some of the Year 10 Kokoda training group
who assisted us on the day.
Child Studies ‘Eggcellent’ Challenge
The 9/10 Child Studies class took part in an ‘eggcellent’
challenge activity over three days earlier this term.
As part of their unit on ‘Newborn Care’, they were given
an egg (straight from the carton) and charged with
‘caring’ for it over a three-day period. They were
required to name it, dress it and keep it within two
metres of their body at all times. Their egg was allowed
to be cared for by another person for an hour per day.
Some students were more successful than others, either
through commitment or sheer luck. About half the class
finished the challenge with the same egg they started
with. Some eggs even survived the rigours of the PASS
hike! Other eggs, unfortunately, did not fare as well. The
girls later presented a photo-journal of their ‘journey as
a carer’ and these were very entertaining indeed.
At the start of the hike.
Finally, we’ve finished!
Day 1 egg photo-shoot.
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Medical Conditions
Due to the recent warm, Spring weather there has been
an increase in the number of students suffering from
symptoms of hay fever and asthma during practical
lessons. This is largely due to both mown grass and
pollen in the air. There are also a lot of bees around and
any students who are allergic to stings should be aware
of this. Please ensure medication is used when and if
appropriate and that triggers are avoided where
possible.
Swimming for Sport
The pool is opening on Friday 25 November and we are
hoping to book our Year 7-10 Sport classes in for the
remainder of the term. Most classes will only attend
during their double period in Week 9 but some classes
will also be able to attend during their single periods
(depending on where they fall on the timetable).
Students will be given an information note to bring
home as soon as our bookings are made.
PDHPE & Sport Uniform
Congratulations to most students who continue to wear
their full sport uniform for all practical lessons. There
are only three weeks to go until the school holidays so
please keep up the good work. With the warmer
weather now upon us, students are encouraged to ‘slip,
slop, slap, wrap’ in terms of sun safety.
Yours in sport
Ms. J. Sturgess (PDHPE teacher & Sport Organiser)
Interest Electives
We are excited to offer Interest Electives which will run
over two days in Week 10 (Tuesday 13 and Wednesday
14 December). All students are involved and they will
be offered the choice of ten one or two-day courses.
Most are school-based or in the local area and the
majority are free. Some will incur a small cost. Choices
are:
- Coding, robots and electronic devices - Theatre sports - Computer Assisted Drawing and 3-D printing - Puppet making and puppetry - Pouch-making for orphaned animals - Kokoda training camp - Cattle work - Photography for beginners - Sporting challenge - Landscaping
Students will receive information sheets and
permission notes on Friday 25th November and places
will be allocated on a ‘first in, best dressed’ basis as all
courses have capped numbers in accordance with
equipment, facilities and WHS policies.
Proud and Deadly Awards On Wednesday 16 November the School Executive with some of our Aboriginal Students attended the Proud and Deadly Awards in Tumut. These awards identify encouragement to students or excellence in sport, citizenship, leadership or academic achievement. The afternoon commenced with a smoking ceremony including ‘Welcome to Country’. Students from Tumut, Gundagai, Brungle, Batlow and Tumbarumba were awarded books. Nicholas Radford received a Didgeridoo for completing Year 12. Well done to all our nominated students.
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New Laptops funded by P&C
A huge thank you to our P&C for contributing
$20 000 toward 25 new laptops with a storage trolley
that was bought for the school. Our students are very
excited about this new learning experience.
A reminder to parents to
notify the school about your
child’s health
We welcome information from parents about your
child's health, even if you are not requesting
specific support from our school.
Our school asks for medical information when you
enrol your child. It is also important that you let us
know if your child’s health care needs change or if
a new health condition develops.
Information about allergies, medical conditions
such as asthma and diabetes and other health care
related issues (including prior conditions such as
medical procedures in the last 12 months) should
be provided to the school by parents. Please
provide this information in writing to the principal.
This will greatly assist our school in planning to
support your child’s health and wellbeing.
Please also remember to notify staff in the school
office of any changes to your contact details or to
the contact details of other people nominated as
emergency contacts.
We appreciate your assistance in this regard and
assure you that any information you provide the
school will be stored securely and will only be used
or disclosed in order to support your son or
daughter’s health needs or as otherwise required
by law.
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On Thursday 24 November SRC undertook a
fundraiser for the Agriculture department of our
school. SRC sold sausages, milkshakes and ice-
creams. SRC will make a donation to the
Agriculture faculty in the coming week.
On 30 November, which is Wednesday, there will
be a general mufti day which will be combined
with the money raised on pink day earlier this
month. SRC will donate, on behalf of the student
body, to Pink Ribbon and “Movember”.
On 1 December there will be a school disco with
the theme of country/cowboys/girls from
7-10pm, cost $5 at the door. Music request
sheets will be available from the canteen on the
night.
Mikayla Jackson and Kate DeAbel
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