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Murray Bridge High School NEWSLETTER Term 3: Issue 4 7 September 2020 Excellence Respect Working together Principal: Ruth Mussger 8531 9500 Chairperson Governing Council: Cathy Smith 0408 336 469 Principal’s page Over the past two weeks the Transion Team has met with Year 7 students and their parents from primary feeder schools to give an overview of what to expect in the lead up to starng high school next year. We have reviewed our tradional pracces and made small refinements to the key aspects that families really like about the program. A significant posive change has been brought about by refining subject selecon processes this year, which has enabled us to metable all students currently enrolled with us into classes. On December 1, all Year 7 students will join us on the same day, receive their 2021 metable and spend me geng to know their home class teacher and each other, as well as experience a range of different subjects with their new classmates. Feedback from families also indicated that Day One can be quite overwhelming for our new Year 8s. Next year we will trial a staggered start to the year, with Year 8 and 12 starng on Wednesday 27 th January, followed by the rest of the school students on Thursday 28 th . Today you will receive an email from the Educaon Department about the Parent Engagement Survey. This survey happens every year and provides me with data individualised to our school that helps shape key priories for the coming year. We value parent/caregiver voice and the partnership we have together to connually improve pracces that support student achievement and wellbeing. You will receive a link via email or SMS, and it will close on September 25. Parents can find more informaon at www.educaon.sa.gov.au/parentsurvey. Our teachers constantly look for novel ways to engage students in learning and recognise success in improvement. The Agriculture faculty have been challenged by the limited opportunies this year to showcase student learning, so created a 2020 Murray Bridge High School Show. Students demonstrated their experse in handling goats, sheep and heifers in front of judges and other students. I parcularly want to thank the Ag staff, animal donors and judges for making this day so wonderful (see pages 8-9 for more details). Based on the success of this event I can see it may well become a fixture on the MBHS calendar in future! Courtney from Commshake is working with us on our rebranding consultaon process. Please see below an excerpt from Commshake’s Facebook page. Today Lisa and Courtney spent a few hours chang with some of the Murray Bridge High School (Official) ‘Student Voice’ representaves about what they believe the school’s new brand should look, sound and feel like – and we were blown away by the response! Typically in our industry, the youth sector (ages 12-25) are the most difficult to engage in construcve conversaon, but this bunch of young leaders, deep thinkers and passionate creators proved the data wrong! They were exceponal contributors and the school can be incredibly proud of the young people it is developing. As you can see this newsleer is jam packed with learning experiences our students have been involved in. Please enjoy! Lohmann Street, Tel: +61 8 8531 9500 Email: [email protected] PO Box 1584, Fax: +61 8 8531 9595 Website: www.mbhs.sa.edu.au Murray Bridge SA 5253 Entrepreneurial Specialist School and Music Focus School

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Murray Bridge High School

NEWSLETTER

Term 3: Issue 4 7 September 2020 Excellence Respect Working together Principal: Ruth Mussger 8531 9500 Chairperson Governing Council: Cathy Smith 0408 336 469

Principal’s page

Over the past two weeks the Transition Team has met with Year 7 students and their parents from primary feeder schools to give an overview of what to expect in the lead up to starting high school next year. We have reviewed our traditional practices and made small refinements to the key aspects that families really like about the program. A significant positive change has been brought about by refining subject selection processes this year, which has enabled us to timetable all students currently enrolled with us into classes. On December 1, all Year 7 students will join us on the same day, receive their 2021 timetable and spend time getting to know their home class teacher and each other, as well as experience a range of different subjects with their new classmates. Feedback from families also indicated that Day One can be quite overwhelming for our new Year 8s. Next year we will trial a staggered start to the year, with Year 8 and 12 starting on Wednesday 27th January, followed by the rest of the school students on Thursday 28th. Today you will receive an email from the Education Department about the Parent Engagement Survey. This survey happens every year and provides me with data individualised to our school that helps shape key priorities for the coming year. We value parent/caregiver voice and the partnership we have together to continually improve practices that support student achievement and wellbeing. You will receive a link via email or SMS, and it will close on September 25. Parents can find more information at www.education.sa.gov.au/parentsurvey. Our teachers constantly look for novel ways to engage students in learning and recognise success in improvement. The Agriculture faculty have been challenged by the limited opportunities this year to showcase student learning, so created a 2020 Murray Bridge High School Show. Students demonstrated their expertise in handling goats, sheep and heifers in front of judges and other students. I particularly want to thank the Ag staff, animal donors and judges for making this day so wonderful (see pages 8-9 for more details). Based on the success of this event I can see it may well become a fixture on the MBHS calendar in future! Courtney from Commshake is working with us on our rebranding consultation process. Please see below an excerpt from Commshake’s Facebook page. Today Lisa and Courtney spent a few hours chatting with some of the Murray Bridge High School (Official) ‘Student Voice’ representatives about what they believe the school’s new brand should look, sound and feel like – and we were blown away by the response! Typically in our industry, the youth sector (ages 12-25) are the most difficult to engage in constructive conversation, but this bunch of young leaders, deep thinkers and passionate creators proved the data wrong! They were exceptional contributors and the school can be incredibly proud of the young people it is developing. As you can see this newsletter is jam packed with learning experiences our students have been involved in. Please enjoy!

Lohmann Street, Tel: +61 8 8531 9500 Email: [email protected] PO Box 1584, Fax: +61 8 8531 9595 Website: www.mbhs.sa.edu.au Murray Bridge SA 5253

Entrepreneurial Specialist School and Music Focus School

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Murray Bridge High School Newsletter 7 September 2020

Year 9 Excursion to Adelaide Oval by Nikita Hein and

Aaron Noske

On Friday 21st of August 9O and 9R enjoyed a day touring Adelaide Oval and the surrounding parklands as a major part of their Health and Physical Education program this term, centred around answering the question ‘How does a positive sporting culture create confident, resilient citizens who actively contribute to society?’

The tour helped demonstrate why sport is an integral part of the Australian identity by learning the captivating tales of the history of the venue. Highlights included viewing the media room, stepping inside the heritage listed scoreboard (the only one of its kind in the world!) and gaining an insight into players match day preparations.

Walking around the parklands area allowed students to view various statues of local sporting greats, the heritage listed fig trees, and prime social hubs of the area, acknowledging the cultural and historical significance of these sites and give students a better understanding and appreciation of sport within society and culture and how it helps to benefit teamwork, social skills and inclusion and bring people in the community together.

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Workplace Practices Guest Speaker Shaun Harris by Michael Pater Shaun Harris from Regional Development Australia spoke to the MBHS Workplace Practices class as a part of our guest speaker program. Shaun spoke about his career from leaving school as a 15-year-old to today. He spoke about how to make employment opportunities in Murray Bridge happen, tips of resume writing, presentation at interview and making personal contact with potential employers. Once he had finished his presentation, he helped individual students tailor their cover letters and resumes.

Midwife visits Child Studies students

On Thursday, 27th of August, Child Studies students had a visit with a practicing registered Midwife, Kezia Riggs. This workshop gave students a chance to discuss the care of women, children and families and discuss career pathways and opportunities in this field. Kezia discussed what it is like to work in a labour and delivery ward and in a hospital nursery. Thank you very much to Kezia for donating her time and sharing her passion for the care of women and infants.

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Year 10 Visual Art/Design students

at work Year 10s have been busy designing

posters based on the Fringe festival. The festival is the Southern

Hemisphere’s largest, and Australia's biggest, open access (not-for-profit) arts festival which takes place over

31 amazing days and nights in February and March each year. It

allows artists across all disciplines to share and celebrate their work.

The assignment undertaken by the Year 10s was based on the Schools Booking Guide poster competition.

They have done a great job in illustrating the wonder, magic, and

energy of the festival!

Students are also working on a variety of sculptures and pottery.

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Over the last three weeks, the Year 11 Outdoor Ed class has been exploring a range of diverse and unique wetlands within the Murray Bridge region which includes the Riverglades, Rocky Gully and Swanport Wetlands during our double lessons.

Students were provided with a brief to form a small tour company and then create, plan and lead a group of students around one wetlands area. During this process students learnt about the importance of teamwork, delegation of roles, planning, preparation and the organisational skills needed to effectively plan a successful walk.

On the day, the tour companies did a great job maintaining the safety of the group, leading and educating the group about the unique biodiversity located within their wetlands and the importance of a wetlands. A highlight was seeing a mother Swan with her cygnets (babies) at the Swanport Wetlands. It was awesome to see the groups working closely together in the planning phase but then transferring their personal and social skills and group management strategies in a field context. It was a great team-building activity to prepare the students for the 3-day kayaking camp to the Murraylands Aquatics Centre that will be occurring next term in Week 2, which the class is busily preparing for the remainder of this term.

Well done team. Really looking forward to our 3-day kayaking camp next term.

Year 11 Outdoor Education B: Aquatic Based Program Wetlands Walk by Kathryn Reedy

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Adelaide Football club filming at MBHS

On Friday 28th of August, the Adelaide Football Club came to Murray Bridge High School to film some of our Aboriginal students executing some football skills.

The aim of the project is to produce a collection of videos to help develop football skills in traditional language for different language groups, specifically towards the NT area. MBHS students have been chosen to help out with this and create the filming part of the video (the language will be added in after).

AFC Personnel worked with a select group of students throughout the entirety of the day on the school oval.

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A smoking ceremony is an ancient Aboriginal custom in Australia that involves burning various native plants to produce smoke. This smoke contains cleansing properties which have the ability to ward off bad spirits from people and the land and provide a pathway for a brighter future. Certain traditional smoking ceremonies are also believed to be used for positive therapeutic outcomes depending on what plants are available from region to region.

Last Monday afternoon, students from the two SAASTA Connect classes were fortunate enough to be involved in a traditional smoking ceremony. Jeff McKeown and Greg Carter began by providing students with some background knowledge on the cultural ritual and its prominent role in Indigenous culture.

Students then made their way to the reconciliation garden where they gathered around to observe the two men demonstrate how to produce the smoke from the selected native plants. Each student then approached the smoke to perform the act of cleansing both their mind, body and spirit.

This ceremony further developed and enriched the students with a strong sense of culture and pride which they carried with them as they walked back into the school. It was a magical experience for students to share with their elders and teachers bringing about a sense of community and togetherness. A big thank you to Jeff and Greg for giving up their time to organise this ceremony and share their knowledge and teachings with the students.

Smoking Ceremony by Danika Mortimer and Louis De Michelle

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Goats Heat 1 Melodee Barton-Ancliffe – 1st Stephanie Lokan – 2nd

Rebecca Williss – 3rd Goats Heat 2 Scarlett Cocks 195 (Gigi) – 1st Akaila Baltussen – 2nd Caitlin Hissey 198 (Archie) – 3rd

Overall Goat Handler Champion Melodee Barton-Ancliffe

Heifers Heat 1 Nickisha Crouch – 1st Stephanie Lokan – 2nd Noah Attrill – 3rd

Heifers Heat 2 Mia Parker – 1st Nickisha Crouch – 2nd Zamirah Williams – 3rd

Heifers Heat 3 Alex Clothier – 1st Megan von Rochow – 2nd Stephanie Lokan – 3rd

Overall Heifer Handler Champion Nickisha Crouch

Sheep Handlers Nataleah Staker – 1st Mitchell Constant – 2nd Coen Martin – 3rd Rebecca Williss – 4th

Overall Sheep Champion Nataleah Staker

Junior Judging Nataleah Staker – 1st Mitchel Constant – 2nd Rebecca Williss – 3rd

Sheep Helper Award Shakaya Holland – Champion Sherice Rumble -1st Logan Schubert -2nd Larissa Pike – 3rd

We would like to sincerely thank our sponsors for supporting MBHS. The Afford family from Woods Point who donated the heifers.

Boer Goats courtesy of Yundi Boer from the Kew family.

Merino Wether sheep donated by the Koehler family at Radnor Stud. We also thank the judges for the day:

Heifer Heats, David Pegler Heifer Championship, Courtney Afford All goat classes, Bryce Gillett All sheep classes, Steve Koehler

Murray Bridge High School ‘Show Day’ at Roper Road by Grace Sampson

Due to the recent events of COVID 19 shutting down the Adelaide Royal Show, the Ag teachers decided to run their own version of the Royal show here at school. Our Ag students have been working hard over the last two terms to prepare and train the animals for Show Day and we didn't want that to go to waste.

On Tuesday 1st September at Roper Road Farm we were joined by 4 honourable livestock judges to judge our student’s handling skills in Goat, Sheep and Heifer classes.

The day ran smoothly with a number of students walking away with big achievements in a very competitive field in the show ring, some even winning multiple rosettes for the day.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped organised and put this show together, students from Years 8-12 have been down every week feeding, cleaning and making sure our livestock are cared for in the best way possible.

Thank you to our farm hand Paul and ground staff that have kept the farm looking its best and setting up. Also to Roz Schulz from the front office who spent several hours crafting the beautiful handmade rosettes that students proudly wore all day after winning.

The team of Ag teachers hope that everyone had a brilliant day and are keeping our fingers crossed Adelaide Royal Show will be back on next year!

Heat 1

Heat 2 Heat 3

Results as follows:

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Heat 1 Heat 2

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Music at Work Program by Alex McFarlane

The Music at Work (MAW) program is finally up and running again.

The program is facilitated by Carclew and funded by the Department for Innovation and Skills. Its aim is to bring Industry professionals into schools to mentor students and develop entrepreneurial capabilities.

Musician, Composer and Sound Producer, Ryan Martin John, has been running a series of workshops over the last few weeks with the Year 10 Special Interest Music classes and Year 11 and 12 Sound Production students. The Year 10s have been working on song writing skills, writing original music in small groups and the Year 11s and 12s have been developing their studio recording skills. For the final session this week the students will combine these skills to record and produce their original music in the studios of Murray Bridge High School to then be released on our Soundcloud page later in the year.

www.soundcloud.com/MBHSmusic.

Watch this space.

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$20 BOSS Program by Tiahne Rowe

As part of their studies in Year 9 Global Citizens, students will be engaging in the $20 BOSS program where they have the opportunity to develop enterprise skills and start a real business using $20. The first class is Mrs Rowe's class who have created the following businesses and items available for sale between now and the end of Term 3:

Pretty Packs: Home-made Laptop Bags able to be personalised with your name

The Beeswax Project: Beeswax wraps as an alternative to plastic packaging. Different sizes and packs available

Together Wide: Hats and Caps with a student-designed logo

DESK: Creating personalised clay keyrings in a range of colours

Candles Sausage sizzle Pancakes Ice blocks

All groups have had to consider how they can be a social enterprise and will be donating part of their profits to a cause of their choice. Please support these students in their endeavours and keep an eye out for updates on the Murray Bridge High School Facebook page. Orders for non-food items can be placed via the QKR app which we encourage you to download. If you have any questions or queries regarding our student enterprises, please don't hesitate to contact Tiahne Rowe - Assistant Principal (Entrepreneurial Education) at 8531 9500 or via email: [email protected]

What is Student Voice? Student voice is a group who has a say and is making change within the school. It includes students from all year levels and is led by Mrs Rowe. What have you been working on? We have been working in groups to try and solve an issue we have identified in the school. This includes behaviour management, wellbeing, littering and skipping classes. Our group has focused on facilities, in particular school hygiene, littering and learning spaces. We have made a presentation on the issues and possible solutions for each of the topics and will be presenting to the Executive Team next week. Why is it important to have Student Leaders at Murray Bridge High School? It is important to have student leaders at Murray Bridge High School because it promotes leadership, student opinions and new perspectives for the school. What was it like to be part of the school's rebranding process? It was a good experience and exciting to have a say in the new school brand. We are looking forward to seeing the outcome of our solutions and creating a cleaner school.

By Jessica (Year 8) and Melissa (Year 9)

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Doorways 2 Construction Farm Projects

This term the D2C course have been working on projects down at the Roper Road Farm.

One of the projects was to extend the cattle wash pad. The pad was increased by 2.3m x 2.3m and had a drain installed.

This project enforced the work in their theory books; undertake a basic construction project, plan and organise work, handle construction materials and equipment, apply basic levelling procedures, measurements and calculations, carry out excavation and concreting to simple forms.

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Equal Learning Opportunities (ELO) Life Skills Excursion by Christine Oberholzer

On Thursday 27th of August, the ELO students had an opportunity to go on an excursion. They went to Sturt Reserve in the local community and engaged in various team building activities such as egg racing, ball games, enjoying lunch in the sunshine and using the playground. Please enjoy some of our photos from our awesome day out.

DVDs now available for students to borrow

Recently we received some DVD donations from a student and after a discussion with the Student Librarians, we decided to start lending DVDs to students. To do this we set up this carousel to display them. DVDs are available for a three-day loan. As with our extensive ClickView digital video collection, age restrictions apply for M and MA rated videos. We realise that online video is the most popular way to access video, but this can be limiting if you do not have membership to the service that hosts the video you want, and some videos are not hosted at all. If you have any suitable DVDs that are cluttering up your shelves then the Library will gratefully accept them and make available for loan. The Premier’s Reading Challenge ends on Friday 4th September, but you can still hand in your Reading Records in to Mr Steinberg in the Library until Thursday 10th September.

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DATES TO REMEMBER – TERM 3 Tue, 8 Sep Finance Committee – 5pm

Thu, 10 Sep End Term 3 (Year 8 electives)

Fri, 11 Sep STUDENT FREE DAY (Differentiated Success Criteria)

Mon, 14 Sep STUDENT FREE DAY (Supporting Aboriginal Learners)

Tue, 15 Sep Governing Council – 6pm

Tue, 22 Sep Year 8 and 10 Immunisations

Fri, 25 Sep Last day of Term 3 – 2pm dismissal

The Variety Scholarships Program is open now until 30 November, 2020.

Variety offers scholarships in sports and the arts to talented children who are sick, disadvantaged (socio-economically or geographically) or have special needs of up to $3k per annum.

Applications are now open - https://variety.smartygrants.com.au/scholarship2020

MURRAY BRIDGE

ATHLETICS

2020/21 SEASON

Sunday 27th September 2020

Ages: 3 years – 16 years

Our first home meet for this season will be a ‘Come and Try’ Day on Sunday 27th September 2020 at the Murray Bridge High School Oval.

Commencing with registration from 9:00am, then kick-off at 10am.

Following this day, meets are weekly, beginning

Sunday 11th October 2020.

For more information head to our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1556109984667570

or contact our President, Dale Martin Tel: 0421 919 215, or Secretary, Shelyn Wilkinson Tel: 0401 165 240

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