Newsletter Issue No 2, Term 1, 21st February, 2020...2020/02/21 · Newsletter Issue No 2, Term 1, 21st February, 2020 Principal’s Message -Alecia Kearney (Relieving Principal)

CASINO H IGH SCHOOL

90 Queensland Road, Casino NSW 2470 Phone: 02 6662 3077 Fax: 02 6662 6390 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.casino-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Individually We Achieve, Together We Excel

Newsletter Issue No 2, Term 1, 21st February, 2020

Principal’s Message - Alecia Kearney (Relieving Principal)

The start to the term has been busy with new enrolments, some

new courses, new staff, a Swimming Carnival and a CAPA

excursion to Sydney.

School Attendance

Regular attendance at school is essential if students are to

maximise their potential. Schools, in partnership with parents/

carers, are responsible for promoting the regular attendance of

students. While parents/carers are legally responsible for the

regular attendance of their children, school staff, as a part of their

duty of care, monitor part or whole day absences. If your child is

marked absent at roll call, without an explanation, an SMS will be

sent to the mobile number on the student’s record.

Parents/Carers are responsible for:

Enrolling their children of compulsory school age in a

government or registered non-government school or registering

them with the NESA (NSW Education Standards Authority).

Explaining the absences of their children from school promptly

and within seven days to the school.

Ensuring that their children attend school regularly.

Taking measures to resolve attendance issues involving their

children.

School Staff are responsible for:

Providing a caring teaching and learning environment which

fosters students’ sense of wellbeing and belonging to the school

community.

Recognising and rewarding excellent and improved student

attendance.

Maintaining accurate records of student attendance.

Implementing programs and practices to address attendance

issues when they arise.

Providing clear information to students and parents/carers

regarding attendance requirements and the consequences of

unsatisfactory attendance.

If your child is absent from school, for any reason, notification

must be received by the school within 7 days, otherwise the

absence will remain “unjustified”. This could affect any

Government payments you or your child receive.

Students Signing Out During the Day

Parents and carers are encouraged to follow school procedure

when students need to sign out of school during school hours.

Students are only permitted to leave school before the end of the

school day if they have a note signed by their parent/guardian.

This note must be presented at the Student Services Counter

before school begins at the start of the day. Parent/carers are also

reminded that if they are picking up their child during school hours

they are not permitted to take any students other than their own

unless the school has written permission from the other parent.

Week 5 Term 1 Week A

Monday 24.02.20

Year 12 SLR Casino Pool Excursion -

Period 3

Tuesday 25.02.20

University Roadshow - 11.40am to

12.40pm The Len Walsh Hall

U15 Touch Football - Woodenbong

Wednesday 26.02.20

Thursday 27.02.20

Zone Open Boys & Girls Basketball Trials -

Lismore

P & C Meeting - 5pm at the school

Friday 28.02.20

Week 6 Term 1 Week B

Monday 02.03.20

Year 12 Half Yearly Exams

Tuesday 03.03.20


North Coast Swimming Carnival -

Coffs Harbour

Wednesday 04.03.20


Thursday 05.03.20


Year 7 Cyber Bullying Presentation -

Period 2

Year 12 SLR Casino Pool Excursion -

Period 5

Friday 06.03.20


Open Boys & Girls AFL - Cavanbah Centre

Byron Bay

Calendar Events


PDHPE FACULTY NEWS

Introducing the PDHPE Teaching Team

The PDHPE Faculty at Casino High School has eight highly skilled and experienced staff members including New

Scheme Teachers who work cooperatively to provide students with the learning experiences that cater for a wide

variety of knowledge and skills. The PDHPE teaching team for 2020 is:

As well as excellence in teaching, the PDHPE Faculty is responsible for the provision of a range of whole school and

extracurricular activities that provide opportunities for students to challenge themselves and to excel. These include;

the organisation and management of each of the three major whole school sporting carnivals – Swimming, Cross

Country and Athletics, the organisation of the schools’ Sports Program, preparing & coaching sporting teams for

State Knockout Competitions, Premier’s Sporting Challenge, Senior Study Days, Year Excursions, Leadership

Camps and the annual Sports Awards Assembly.

Policy for Practical Lessons:

Students have been advised by their class teacher as to class expectations and the need to be active and

cooperative participants, particularly within practical PDHPE & elective classes. As a safety issue for all, students are

required to have suitable sports shoes - (Heavy work/riding boots are not suitable for PDHPE class).

In the event that your child is unwell or unable to complete set learning activities, parents/carers are asked to provide

a note to be handed to the class teacher which includes:

A brief explanation

Relevant date

Parent/carer’s signature.

Alternative learning opportunities/adjustments will be put in place to best cater for individual student needs. For

ongoing medical issues, parents and/or carers are encouraged to contact their child’s PDHPE Teacher to discuss

specific needs to be incorporated into teaching and learning programs.

Year 11 Life Ready Program:

Students have begun participating in timetabled lessons for the mandatory Life Ready program, as part of the

Wellbeing Framework at Casino High School. Students are provided the opportunity for personal reflection and to

build life skills for the future. Topics explored include Independence, Budgeting, Mental Health and Wellbeing,

Relationships, Drugs and Alcohol and Safe Travel. Later in the year, students will travel to Southern Cross University

to take part in the regional RRISK day to further explore and strengthen life skills to stay safe.

Staff Member School Position Staff Member School Position

Ruby Armbruster

Teacher,

SRC Patron

Year 8 Adviser

Andrew Yager

Teacher,

Weekly Sports

Organiser

Alyssa Goode

Teacher,

Year 7 Aquatics

Coordinator

Timothy Myers Teacher

Brooke Fisher

Year 10 Adviser,

LaST

TAP Coordinator

Thaya Evenden

Representative

Sports Organiser,

‘Premier Sporting

Challenge’ Coordi-

nator

Greg Hay

Teacher,

‘Year 11 Life Ready’

Coordinator

Glenn Fryer

Head Teacher

ARCO (Anti-Racism

Contact Officer)


PDHPE FACULTY NEWS

Bronze Medallion

During Term 4 2019 a group of students from Years 8 - 11 completed their

Bronze Medallion course.

The Royal Life Saving Bronze Medallion is recognised as the minimum

standard for a qualified lifesaver. This award also increases employment

opportunities with many pools and aquatic centres as they require

employees who conduct aquatic programs to have their Bronze Medallion.

The course enhances personal survival skills while providing the knowledge

and skills to develop the level of judgement, technique and physical ability

required to safely carry out water rescues.

The Bronze Medallion is designed to build awareness of dangers in aquatic

environments and to arm the Casino High School student community with

lifesaving skills used in both prevention and rescue. Students learn to throw

ropes and perform safe and appropriate rescues while prioritising their own

safety and others within the water. Students also undergo a series of

exercises that place them in likely accidents that occur around the water

and learn to survive, self-preserve, assess and take action in such

instances.

The following students received

their awards:

Ella Keep Year 9

Xailyn Ellis Year 9

Nicki-Lee Judson Year 9

Payton Lotz Year 10

Sharnni Clark Year 10

Taleesha Lambeth Year 10

Madison Hartley Year 11

Faith Pittman Year 11

Cheyne Appleton Year 12

Emily Taylor-Talbot Year 12

Ms Alyssa Goode, Teacher

Snap shot of events thus far:

Week 2: IRVING wins the school Swimming Carnival, highlighted by several new records.

Week 2: Open Volleyball success – Open Girls Team are Zone Champions & members of both the Boys and Girls Team are selected in the Northern Rivers Zone Team.

Week 4: All Year 7 began their Royal Lifesaving Aquatics Program during Wednesday sport to develop their water confidence and skills.

Week 4: School swim team competed at the Zone Swimming Carnival held at Lismore.

Glenn Fryer, Head Teacher PDHPE


PDHPE FACULTY NEWS

Swimming Carnival

Casino High School held their annual Swimming Carnival in Week 2. What a mixture of a day in terms of weather

with some warm but overcast conditions. Those in attendance had a great day and showed some tremendous house

spirit throughout the day. Special thanks to our House Captains and Vice Captains and all senior students who led

the way. The carnival not only consists of the competitive events but also many novelty events for all to participate in.

At the end of the day there is always a winner declared and this year the winning house was Irving for the second

year in a row on 1303 points. Congratulations to Irving House! Carrington was not far behind in second place on

1244 points, Tomki in third place on 673 points and Richmond dropping two places from last year to be in fourth

place on 570 points.

Age Champions

Congratulations to not only our age champions but to all students who attended on the day and showed tremendous

house spirit and got involved.

Records Broken

A big thank you to Ms Goode, Mrs Wall, and the PDHPE Faculty who once again organised such a great carnival.

Miss Thaya Evenden, Representative Sports Organiser

Boys Girls

12 Years Michael Turner

William Winter Brieanna Parker

13 Years Asher Johns Indigo Creighton

14 Years Asha Cormick Kalani Ellis

15 Years Dane Townsend Xailyn Ellis

16 Years Brady Noll Tayla Miller

17+ Years Kaleb Miller Julia Latvala

12-15 MC Brock Holten Montanna Marks

16-19 MC Josiah Thomas Brooke Hodder

Age

Div.

Boy/

Girl

New Record Old Record

Distance Event Name Time Name Time Year

12 G 50m Free Brieanna Parker 32.94 Indigo Creighton 34.04 2019

12 G 50m Back Brieanna Parker 38.50 N. Macaulay 38.9 1981

14 G 50m Back Kalani Ellis 34.63 L. Creighton 36.37 2001

14 G 50m Fly Kalani Ellis 31.94 X. Ellis 34.13 2019

15 G 50m Breast Xaiyn Ellis 39.47 N. Macaulay 42.4 1984

15 G 50m Fly Xailyn Ellis 31.97 L. Creighton 32.78 2002


PDHPE FACULTY NEWS


PDHPE FACULTY NEWS

Year 7 Water Survival Challenge

On the first day of school this year our Year 7 students participated in the Water Survival Challenge at the Casino

pool. This activity is used to determine the aquatic proficiency of students in order to participate in aquatic activities

throughout the year. It also serves as a good introduction for the Aquatics Unit Year 7 will be completing this term as

part of the PDHPE curriculum.

The students had a great afternoon at the pool and it was pleasing to see the students behaving and performing well in the challenge.

Careers News

Week 5 is nearly here! Year 12 have an exciting opportunity on Tuesday 25th February to listen to many

representatives at the annual “Northern Rivers University Showcase” here at Casino High School.

Institutions that are attending include: Southern Cross University, Griffith University, University of New England,

Queensland University, Bond University and TAFE NSW. This will be an opportunity for Year 12 students to ask

questions about their intended future pathway and gain an insight into what they need to start preparing for.

There are many programs and opportunities coming up, so please stay up to date with the School Newsletter,

student daily notices, Casino High School Facebook and the Casino High School Careers Website.

Casino High School Careers Website

www.chscareers.com.au

Mrs Weir, Careers Adviser

http://www.chscareers.com.au


GENERAL INFORMATION

CANTEEN ROSTER

Week 5 Term 1 Week 6 Term 1

Monday

24.02.20

L Roberts

S Campbell

Monday

02.03.20

L Roberts

Tuesday

25.02.20

L Armstrong

C Campbell

Tuesday

03.03.20

L Armstrong

Wednesday

26.02.20

J Carbis Wednesday

04.03.20

J Carbis

L Miller

Thursday

27.02.20

L Roberts Thursday

05.03.20

L Roberts

Friday

28.02.20

L Davis Friday

06.03.20

E Rosolen

G Rosolen

Attention Parents and Carers

Casino RSM Cobras FC Sign On Saturday February 22nd At the Casino RSM Club

2-5pm

Casino High School P & C Association

Casino High School Parents and Citizens Association (P&C)

meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month at 5pm

at the school. We welcome parents and carers to come

along and join the P & C Association.

Our first meeting is on Thursday 27th February at 5pm.

Karen Armstrong, P & C President

FACULTY AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students

who received CAPA Faculty Achievement

Awards this week:

CORTYA & MERIT WINNERS

Cortya

Triston Klingler Year 7

Jason Vrckoff Year 7

Deanna Schubert Year 8

Jacob Gunthorpe Year 11

Merit

Charlee Duncan Year 7

Mikaylah O’Malley-Grayndler Year 10

Shiloh Torrens Noah Masri

Archie Smith Liam Saunders

Isabella Davey Callie Ellis

Jekhi Roberts Sandon Conderman

Annalise Blake Lazariah Day

Nikita Simpson Jaida Hoffman

Jezzekiah Bartholomew

OFFICE HOURS FOR SCHOOL RECEIPTING

The school office is able to receipt money from students from 8.30am - 9am and during Break 1 Monday

to Friday. Parents/Carers may personally come to the front office anytime between 8.30am and 1.30pm.

NO MONEY MAY BE RECEIPTED AFTER 1.30PM.

Payments may be received at the office via cash, cheque, EFTPOS and payments may be made online

through the School Website.

What expenses can be paid online?

Voluntary School Contributions, Subject Contributions, Excursions

How? Log onto School site at

www.casino-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Click on “Make a Payment” and follow the prompts to make a payment via Visa or MasterCard.

LEAP Opportunity Camp

Ref No. 466442 $50 Deposit

$125 Remainder

$175 Full Cost


COMMUNITY INFORMATION



Support for bushfire-affected school students and families in NSW A range of support is available from the Australian and NSW governments if you have a child starting or returning to school in 2020 in a bushfire-affected area.

Information about schools and school safety

If you have questions about starting or returning to school please contact your school or the NSW Department of Education (www.education.nsw.gov.au), Catholic Education NSW (www.csnsw.catholic.edu.au) or Association for Independent Schools NSW (www.aisnsw.edu.au).

The NSW Department of Education website has information relating to schools, school safety and support:

www.education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/school-safety.

The Australian Government Department of Education has information about support for bushfire-affected communities on its website: www.education.gov.au/support-bushfire-affected-communities.

Financial support

Additional payment for children

The Australian Government has announced an Additional Payment for Children of $400. You'll automatically get this payment if you are the principal carer of a child affected by bushfires after 30 June 2019 and you are eligible for the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment (AGDRP).

The payment is in addition to the existing $400 AGDRP (for a total payment of $800) for children and is not subject to income tax.

It is available to new applicants from 20 January 2020. Families of the nearly 20,000 children who have already applied for the AGDRP do not need to re-apply, the additional payment will follow automatically.

www.humanservices.gov.au/disaster

Community support

Staff from Services Australia (formerly Department of Human Services) are visiting bushfire affected communities to help people access Australian Government payments and services.

They can also help people access Centrelink, Medicare and Child Support services using free self-service facilities at these locations.

www.humanservices.gov.au/access

The National Bushfire Recovery Agency (NBRA) is coordinating the national response to help rebuild communities.

www.bushfirerecovery.gov.au

Stay up to date with what the government is doing to help Australian families, communities, wildlife and businesses rebuild and recover:

Facebook National Bushfire Recovery Agency ̶ @FireRecoveryAU

Twitter National Bushfire Recovery Agency ̶ @FireRecoveryAU



Mental health support

Extra mental health services from Beyond Blue

An extra 25 mental health liaison officers will work with local schools and early childhood education and care services in bushfire-affected communities as part of an Australian Government funded expansion of the mental health services provided by Beyond Blue.

This support will be delivered through Be You, the Australian Government’s national education initiative to support child and youth mental health. Schools and early childhood education and care services that have yet to participate in Be You can sign up for free at any time.

www.beyou.edu.au

Ongoing mental health and wellbeing support

Schools and students can access a range of mental health and wellbeing services including counselling. Please talk to your school about the support available or the support you might need as the school year gets underway.

Australian Government support will complement existing school counselling services including state and territory responses to the bushfires. $76 million of Australian Government funding will provide distress counselling and mental health support for individuals, families and communities affected by bushfires. This includes additional funding to support young people through headspace centres in bushfire-affected areas.

www.health.gov.au/health-topics/emergency-health-management/bushfire-information-and-support/australian-government-mental-health-response-to-bushfire-trauma

Useful resources and contact details

Emerging Minds

A range of resources, including a toolkit to support children through a natural disaster or traumatic event, is provided by Emerging Minds. The toolkit is grouped into the timeframes surrounding a natural disaster — preparedness, immediate, short-term recovery, and long-term recovery.

www.emergingminds.com.au

Student Wellbeing Hub

The Student Wellbeing Hub is an online space for educators, parents and students to build safe, inclusive and connected school communities that promote wellbeing and learning.

www.studentwellbeinghub.edu.au

School chaplains

The Australian Government is offering extra funding, available to state and territory governments on request, for school chaplains.

School chaplains work together with school communities to support the wellbeing of students through pastoral care, running programs such as breakfast clubs, and coordinating volunteer activities within the school community.

Child care assistance

Additional Child Care Subsidy

Additional Child Care Subsidy (ACCS) (temporary financial hardship) is a short-term payment, in addition to the Child Care Subsidy.

This subsidy is available to families who:

• have experienced temporary financial hardship due to an event that happened in the last 6 months

• have a substantially reduced ability to pay child care fees.

www.humanservices.gov.au/accs

Child Care Subsidy activity test

Families in bushfire-declared areas have also been given an exemption to any potential Child Care Subsidy (CCS) activity test debt for the 2019–20 financial year by the Australian Government. No action is required by families at this time. This will be applied automatically when CCS is balanced at the end of the financial year.

Assistance for early childhood education and care services

Funding is also available for early education and care services in bushfire-affected areas to enable them to remain viable, and help pay for things like temporary premises, the replacement of damaged playground equipment, or wages for affected staff.

www.education.gov.au/community-child-care-fund-cccf-special-circumstances-bushfire-and-drought-support

Higher Education students

HELP repayments

For students who are studying, or thinking of studying, at university, there may be help available from your education provider or Study Assist. You may also be able to defer or amend your HELP compulsory repayment.

www.ato.gov.au/individuals/study-and-training-support-loans/deferring-repayments

Scholarships

Scholarships of up to $18,000 are available through the Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarships program. Special consideration will be given to students from drought and bushfire-affected communities.

www.education.gov.au/rural-and-regional-enterprise-scholarships

January 2020

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