Albury High School Grapevine Tradition, Innovation and Excellence Find us at: 625 Kiewa Street, Albury NSW 2640 Email:
[email protected] Website: www.albury-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Twitter: @Albury_High Phone: 02 6021 3488 Term 2 Week 5 2013 30th May 2013 Issue 8 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Why has swearing and abuse become so common in certain areas of our lives? Often the language used on Congratulations to: social media sites is disgraceful, but the sites are often left - Maddison Horsburgh on her selection in the CHS unmonitored and abuse is not reported to site managers. Open Girls Hockey team This unfortunately reinforces the negative behaviour. - Emily Crawford, Emma Hooppell, Emma Jory As educators and parents, we attempt to instil in our (U13 Girls), Andrew Nixon (U15 Boys), Zac Kraich students and children the expected values of our society. (U17 Boys) and Kate Homer (U15 Girls) on their Do we want to live in an Australian Society where success in the recent Victorian Junior Hockey language and abuse is just an expected part of everyday Championsips. All teams won their respective Grand life? Finals after 2 days of competition - an amazing result! - Ti’ana Crawford who was the Assistant Coach of the Mr Damian Toohey U13 Girls team Deputy Principal – Junior School Mr Darryl Ward Principal SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS School photographs are scheduled to occur on Wednesday the 12th and Thursday the 13th of June. On assembly this week, I took the opportunity to remind Individual and other special interest groups will take place students about their general language and the offensive on the Thursday, while sport’s team photographs will be words that can sometimes fill their conversations.