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Walcha Central School students Anastasia and Charlize Haling recently attended the 2019 NSW Interschool Equestrian Championships which were held from Friday 8 to Tuesday 12 March at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre. The level of competition at this event was extremely high with the girls competing against horses who had been to the Rio and Beijing Olympics.

Anastasia ODE (Eva 95cm) was placed 10th after the dressage phase and had a clear round in the showjumping. Straight dressage: Novice 2C - 10th, Novice 2A - 16th

Charlize Combined Training (80cm): 15th overall after clearing her showjumping phase and coming 15th in her dressage.

On Thursday 28 March, students in K-12 participated in the annual school cross country. They participated in events ranging from a 400m run around the oval up to 4km events depending on their age division.

All students showed amazing sportsmanship and enjoyed the changed cross country course.

Thank you to all the community members who came to support their children, the staff who helped with the running of the event and the PASS students from Years 9 and 10 who assisted with the K-6 section of the carnival.

Overall combined house points for the event were: Apsley - 167, Oxley - 148, Derby - 145, Fitzroy - 137.

walchacentralschool A JOURNEY OF LEARNING FROM K TO 12 K-12 NEWSLETTER

WALCHA CENTRAL SCHOOL

154E North Street Ph: 02 67772777 WALCHA NSW 2354 Fax: 02 67771009 PRINCIPAL: Mr Mark Hall P&C School Pesident: Mr Cameron Hayton Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.walcha-c.school.nsw.gov.au

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HAPPY AND SAFE STUDENTS 12 April 2019 NEWS AND VIEWS OF YOUR LOCAL CENTRAL SCHOOL

K-12 Cross Country

2019 NSW Interschool Equestrian Championships

Congratulations to the 16 Walcha Central School swimmers who qualified for the PSSA and CHS State Swimming Championships held at Sydney Olympic Park this week. Jemma Warden, Samuel Swain, Sarah Morris, Thomas Micallef and Abbey Mackaway all qualified to swim in individual events.

Jemma also joined Poppy McLaren, Claudia Kirton and Isabella Mooney in the senior girls relay, while Lucile Thomson, Sienna Cooney, Phoebe Fenwicke and Stephanie Blake made up the junior girls relay team.

In the secondary, Sarah Morris, Tahlia Galvin, Charlotte Mooney and Isabella Hayton made up the 13 years girls relay team, while Isabella then swam with Abbey, Thomas and Murdoc Chawner in the Central Schools Mixed relay.

Stay tuned for results in our next newsletter.

K-12 NEWSLETTER 12 April 2019

For photos, notes, information and more, visit our school website http://www.walcha-c.schools.nsw.gov.au

Mark Hall, Principal

Welcome Amanda Cooper I would like to welcome Amanda Cooper who joins us at Walcha Central as an Instructional Leader K-12. Amanda’s key role is to work with staff to support an evidence based teaching practice. Her focus is to identify and help implement ‘What works best’ for our students to improve literacy and numeracy. You can read more about Amanda in this edition.

School Plan A key improvement measure in our school plan is student writing. On the back of our research project, staff this term set specific student writing milestones, collected and shared evidence of impact and have used this evidence to inform their teaching practice. Over the year staff are scheduled to meet twice a term to evaluate the evidence of impact on student writing.

BeREAL Rewards Day On Friday more than 150 students enjoyed a fun activities afternoon in celebration of their 4.8 BeREAL score. Special thanks to Karen Barnes and Sonia Ussher and their ‘brains trust’ for devising and coordinating the student challenges.

State Swimming Sixteen Walcha Central students have been selected to participate in the NSW State Swimming Championships which are being held this week at Homebush in Sydney. Our next newsletter will have full details however I wanted to congratulate all students for their hard work and on their selection to this prestigious event. Can I also give a huge vote of thanks to everyone at Walcha Flippers for their dedication and support of young people in Walcha.

Kevin Creighton - Cross Country Awards During our last awards ceremony, we were fortunate to have Mr Kevin Creighton present the runner-up and age champions for the recently held school cross county. With a newly devised track alongside the levy banks, Walcha Central and our feeder primary schools completed this event in the spirit of strong competition.

Aunty Sue’s Project As an extension on the NAIDOC theme Because of her, we can… Walcha Central initiated Aunty Sue’s project. The aim of the project was for students to work with Aunty Sue Green to listen to and then retell part of her story using a variety of mediums including dance, sculpture and drawing. The project is on track with students meeting during lunch and afterschool on Mondays to work on their recreations. A special thanks to Aunty Sue, Karen Bloomfield, Bina Armstrong and Graham Barnes for their work with this project.

Dr David Townsend and Dan Hazler Our School Plan identified a review of the current curriculum model with a focus on improving school pedagogical practice. Earlier this term we had the first of three visits this year with Dr David Townsend from Alberta, Canada. David uses generative dialogue to support a reflective practice with a focus on identifying opportunities to improve student learning and engagement. Also, our school has commenced its partnership with Cut Through Education and Dan Hazler to support our work in collaborative planning around a two phase model over the next 18 months. I look forward to providing further information regarding our progress.

With the end of the term now here, can I thank all parents, students and staff for helping to forge such a successful term of learning.

School resumes for staff on Monday 29 April with all students returning on Tuesday 30 April.

Amanda Cooper – Instructional Leader K-12

I am so pleased to be working at Walcha CS as an Instructional Leader K-12. My background as a teacher is quite diverse. I am trained in Early Childhood, Primary and Special Education and I completed post graduate studies as a Teacher Librarian K-12. I have worked from Preschool through to Year 8 as a classroom teacher, teacher librarian and learning and support teacher and as a maths consultant K-6.

My teacher journey has enabled me to teach in a number of locations including Inverell, Moree, Tamworth, Cootamundra, Tenterfield, Warren, Crookwell, Goulburn, Canada and Kelly’s Plains. In my latest role as a Teacher Quality Advisor in the Armidale Education office, I have worked to build the capacity of teachers, school leaders and principals K-12 to lead quality teaching practice in schools across a huge geographical area encompassing Yarrowitch in the south, Tenterfield in the east, along the border to Mungindi, Moree, Wee Waa and Collarenebri in the north west, and everything in between.

Each experience has developed my passion for teaching and

leadership of quality teaching to ensure the best learning for every student. My key drivers for success focus on student-centred teaching, quality student learning and measured

improvement using evidence, all underpinned by wellbeing.

I look forward to working at Walcha CS with a strong focus on

evidence based practice to improve student learning and I look forward to meeting our school families.

Amanda Cooper



Friday 22 March saw the largest group of Walcha Central students competing at the Walcha Show in many years! Thirty three students competed across a number of categories in the show including junior sheep meat and wool judging, junior cattle judging, cattle parading and led steer classes.

Our students had tremendous success on the day with placings in all categories.

In the junior cattle judging, Harry Chenoweth came second and Sophie Worth third in their age divisions. The steer classes saw Walcha Ninja placed 1st and Walcha Nitro 2nd in the Crossbred Steer competition, while Walcha Nincom placed 5th in the Purebred Steer class.

In the paraders competitions, our Walcha students exhibited outstanding skills up against some tough competition. Skylar Kyle-Robinson was awarded first place in the U12 years group, while in the U13 years division, Charlotte Mooney came first, Harry Chenoweth 4th and Stuart Lawrence 5th. In the U14 years Marlee Wall was awarded 4th place and Olivia Haslem 6th. Lillie Chenoweth came second and Tyla Bloomfield 4th in the U15s. In the U16 years division Abbey Mackaway came 2nd, Jessica Wake 3rd, Olivia Bruce 4th and Sophie Worth 5th. Hannah Dunn took out first place in the U17 years age group while Maddison McGovern finished in 5th place. Hannah then returned to the ring to win Champion Parader of the Show.

The students were impeccably behaved throughout the day and were excellent representatives of Walcha Central School and the Walcha community. Samantha Reeves and Dinah Jones

Students in the design and technology class have worked on an assessment task where they had to produce a lamp from recycled materials. They had to come up with a unique design of their choice, produce working drawings of their lamp and then construct it.

They completed a folio of their work explaining how they came up with the idea, the success criteria for their project and developed a finance plan and construction time-line for their work.

The uniqueness of their designs was amazing and the quality of their work outstanding, so much so that I convinced them to enter their work in the show. I am pleased to say they had great results.

All students entered the Under 18 Handicraft section of the show. Thomas Donnelly was awarded Champion in ‘An article not mentioned’, while in the ‘Recycled’ section of the competition, Ashleigh Wall received first place, Thomas Vella second and Elizabeth Pendlebury’s work received Highly Commended.

As the students’ teacher I am proud of their results and the recognition of their hard work in class.

Tony Bozza

Year 6 into 7, 2020 Transition Program

Each year, Year 5 & 6 students from the Walcha district have been participating in high school Taster Days. These Taster Days allow students to experience the types of lessons they will have when they go to high school and are designed to make their transition to high school as smooth as possible.

This year at Walcha Central School we will commence this program with two Taster Days in Term 2 on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 June 2019. This will give students a more authentic picture of what to expect when they begin high school.

A further Taster Day will also be held during Term 3 on Wednesday 28 August 2019.

Each day will be structured as if it were a regular day at high school. Students will be divided into groups for the day and given a timetable to follow. There will be five separate lessons. They will spend their recess and lunch breaks with other high school students.

The Year 6 into 7 Orientation Day is scheduled for Year 6 students and their parents during Term 4 on Thursday 28 November 2019 – parents will be invited to attend the morning session. To enhance this experience we will hold an additional day for students only on Friday 29 November 2019 where students will engage in workshops and activities to prepare them for high school.

For more information and any queries regarding this program, please contact Simon Warden on 6777 2777.


On Thursday 14 March approximately 30 students from Years 7, 8 and 9 were very fortunate to be given the opportunity to participate in a Sheep Judging Workshop which took place at the school Ag Farm.

Angus Carter from Landmark and Warwick Fletcher generously gave up their time to help teach the students how to correctly judge merino sheep for fleece and wool.

Students were excited to be able to use their new skills at the Walcha Show in the junior judging competitions.

Sheep

Judging

Workshop

Dinah Jones Ag Teacher


eGATS Outreach STEM Day On Tuesday 19 March,

Year 6 students

participated in an exciting

eGATS Outreach Day

(enrichment and gifted and

talented learning).

Teachers Maria Russell

from Armidale City Public

school OC class and Matt

McKenzie from Thalgarrah

Environmental Education

Centre visited the school and conducted a series of

hands-on Science and Technology based learning

activities to challenge and extend the students to

create and find solutions to real life problems.

A big thank you to these teachers who provided

further extension activities to the students at WCS.



Book Club

Year 6 Awareness Day

Year 6 students were proud to organise activities to

acknowledge National Day of Action against Bullying as

their nominated Awareness Day for 2019.

On Friday 15 March during RAGE sessions, all students

across WCS discussed the difference between bullying

and conflict and ‘Take a Stand Against Bullying’ wrist

bands were distributed to the students. Throughout the

following week, rage sessions were centred on building

resilience and ways to help yourself and others who feel

like they don’t belong due to actions of others. Year 6

students ran the K-6 sessions, having the opportunity to

demonstrate leadership skills while acting as peer

mentors. Each day, Year 6 organised activities during

break times to support students in treating each other

respectfully.

All parents should be proud of the leadership

demonstrated by Year 6 and the co-operation and maturity

from the rest of the student population in discussing such

an important topic.

Brenda Watkins

The new Book Club has started this term, and with a few weeks already under our belt we are off to a fun start. We have nine members so far, all reading novels that are included in the Premier's Challenge list as we have decided to tackle the challenge for 2019.

We have also made a start to this term's major project. Members are currently learning how to write the hardest books of all - picture books. They are restricted with their stories, only using words that have up to five letters in them, and 16 lines all together with one sentence per line.

These restrictions have certainly given members something to think about, but we have one first draft story complete, which is great.

To prepare for the project, members have worked on a planning booklet which guides the story. Creating characters, deciding on settings, and thinking about plots have been the focus towards first drafts.

As part of the project, members are designing their picture books. Next week, we hope to start work on their mock books, and start illustrations. I think we might be looking for some great artists to help with this part.

Our target audience is K, 1 and 2, and we are hoping to share some of our completed picture books with those classes later in the term.

Making bookmarks, drawing characters, writing book reviews, and keeping a club journal are some of the fun activities we cover. Discussion has been fantastic among members, and we are having a colourful, interesting, and most of all, fun time.

Book Club is on every Thursday at lunch time in the back meeting room in the library.

Scrapbooking Flex Subject Wins Show Prizes

Throughout Term 1, students in Years 3 - 6 have had the opportunity to choose a flex subject that occurs once a week. One of these subject options was scrapbooking and card making. Twenty one girls have been creating and exploring the skills of scrapbooking and card making. Some of their outstanding creations were submitted to the Walcha Show with results as follows:

Anna Benson: Ivy Partridge encouragement award

Layla Smith: Second place

Dakota Andrews: Second place

Georgia West: Highly Commended

Sophie Smolders: First place

Andrea Kwast

Kristy Lawrence

CALENDAR See website for more details http://www.walcha-c.schools.nsw.gov.au

29/04/2019 Staff Development day

30/04/2019 First day of Term 2 for students

01/05/2019 New England Debating Workshop @ Armidale City Public School

02/05/2019 Author Visit - Jacqueline Harvey in the library for K-6 students

03/05/2019 PSSA Cross Country @ UNE in Armidale for selected students

09/05/2019 Captains visit to Sydney

13/05/2019 - 17/05/2019

Wingham Beef Week


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Five Tips for positive parenting

in the School Holidays

School holidays are fast approaching. Here are five tips to help you feel more confident and less stressed while the kids are at home.

1. Create a safe, interesting environment Bored teenagers are more likely to find trouble and bored kids are more likely to misbehave.

2. Have a positive learning environment. Give your kids positive attention, even if only for a minute or so.

3. Use Assertive Discipline Set clear rules and boundaries, and follow through with fair consequences.

4. Have Realistic Expectations Nobody’s perfect – kids, teenagers and parents all make mistakes sometimes.

5. Take care of yourself as a parent It’s all about balance – you’ve got to look after your own needs too.

Source: https://www.triplep-parenting.net.au/

YEAR 5 OPPORTUNITY CLASS PLACEMENT FOR 2020

The application process for Year 5 opportunity class placement in 2020 is about to begin.

The Opportunity Class Placement Test will be held for interested students on Wednesday 31 July 2019.

Parents and carers must apply online between Tuesday 30 April and Friday 17 May 2019 at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5

Further information about applying for Year 5 entry to an opportunity class in 2020 is available at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5/information-for-applicants

You must apply online before the closing date.

WALCHA CANTEEN MENU 2019 NO STUDENT CREDIT

Sandwiches: Fillings - Seasonal

Cheese, Lettuce, Beetroot, Egg

Meat only 3.00$ Tomato, Ham, chicken, Carrot,

Vegemite 2.00$ Vegemite, Pineapple

Salad - NO MEAT 4.50$

Chicken or Ham & Salad 5.00$ Drinks

Hot Chicken Pattie & Salad 6.50$ Up & Go 250ml 2.50$

Flame Grilled Breast Fillet & Salad 6.50$ Hot Milo 2.00$

Toasted Sandwiches 4.50$ Orchy Pop Top 25ml 2.50$

Juice/Ice Cups 1.00$

Water 600ml 2.00$

Flavoured Fresh Milk 250ml 2.50$

Rolls & Wraps Flavoured Milkshake 3.50$

Small Milkshake 2.00$

Ham or Chicken Salad 5.00$ High School 500ml milk/juice 4.00$

Hot Chicken Pattie & Salad 6.50$

Hot Chicken & Gravy 3.50$ Ice Blocks & Yoghurt

Hot Flame Grilled Breast Fillet & Cheese 4.50$ Paddle Pops 1.80$

Hot Chicken & Cheese 3.50$ Frozen Juice Cups 1.00$

Flame Grilled Breast Fillet & Salad 6.50$ Frozen Flavoured Milk cups 0.60$

Chicken Pattie & Cheese 4.50$ Mossies 1.00$

Salad Box with meat 5.50$ Wiess Bars 2.00$

Frozen Yoghurt 2.50$

Hot Food:

Snacks

Low Fat Meat Pie 4.00$

Small Meat Pie 2.50$ Grain Waves 1.50$

Large Low Fat Sausage Roll 3.50$ Prezels 1.00$

Small Low Fat Sausage Roll 2.50$ Cheese & Biscuits 1.50$

Chicken Dinosaurs - each 0.80$ Finger Bun 2.70$

Chicken Stix - each 0.80$ Small Finger Bun 1.50$

Chicken Pattie 3.00$ Muffin 2.20$

Flame Grilled Breast Fillet 3.00$ Jelly 0.60$

Chilli Chicken Wrap 3.40$ Custard 0.60$

Soup & Roll (Winter) 4.50$

Extras:

Vegetarian Options: Spoon 0.10$

Fork 0.10$

Spinach Cheese Roll 4.00$ Lunch Bag 0.10$

Garlic Roll 2.00$

Cheese Roll 2.00$ Sauces:

Salad Sandwich/Roll no meat 4.50$ Tomato, BBQ & Sweet n Sour 0.30$

Salad Box - No Meat 4.50$

Homemade Maccaroni Cheese/Pasta 3.00$

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