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Keeping in Touch KOTARA HIGH SCHOOL Lexington Parade, Adamstown NSW 2289 Phone: 0249433044 Fax: 0249421049 Email: [email protected] Keeping In Touch The next P&C Meeting for 2016 is on Monday 15th August. at 7pm in the LIBRARY in D Block (All Parents and Carers are invited) Principal’s Report I sincerely hope that Semester Two Term Three has started off positively for our community. I have always seen Term Three as the real business end of the year for secondary schools. By the end of this term Year Twelve have completed their studies and would have graduated at their final assembly on the last day of term. So it is a time when all staff are completing courses, revising, supporting students with specific external projects and completing Higher School Certificate paperwork. I sincerely wish all of Year Twelve the best for this term and I hope that they maximise their final term of schooling. Our senior debating team this term successfully made it to the state semi-finals of the Premier’s Debating Competition. They were narrowly defeated by North Sydney Girls High School but have had amazing success reaching this stage of the competition. Debating is very competitive in this region, let alone on a state level, and I would like to congratulate the whole team – Ben Frohlich, Alena Payne, Sofia Davey, Jake Rexter and Kiera Hayden for their effort and success, as well as Ms Scobie, Ms Harrip and Alexandra Yates for their support and commitment to the team and debating at Kotara High School. This has been an amazing effort. During Week Two we had our parent teacher interview evening for Year Eight and Nine and I would like to thank all of the parents and carers who made it on the evening. The amount of parent support was quite overwhelming with staff interacting with parents from 3:30 to 6:30 in the evening. It is so positive to see so many parents communicating with the school on this level and working together. Thank you again for your attendance and support. Our Year Six to Seven transition program is well and truly underway for Term Three with staff attending all of the primary schools in week three facilitating taster lessons to our incoming students in English, Mathematics, Science and History. I will also have all of the leaders from each primary school up to Kotara High to spend a morning with me and talk about the school and what a secondary principal does. I will also be volunteering some time in each of our primary schools’ canteen, working with people from our community and meeting as many students as possible. Later in the term we will have another parent information session also, that we will advertise shortly. I have enjoyed getting to know our primary schools on a more personal level and I am looking forward to spending more time within each school as the year progresses. The new roofing of the canteen was completed in the holidays. This was a huge project and I thank the school community for their patience during this work. The canteen has now returned in to the building, as of the start of the term, and we are now in a position to have a look at the change rooms above the canteen and see how we can utilise this space for the school as all of the asbestos has now been safely removed. All the best for Term Three and thank you to the whole community for your ongoing support of Kotara High School Mark Snedden Kotara High School PARENT ONLINE PAYMENTS Make Online Payments: It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer, tablet or mobile phone. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website by selecting $ Make a Payment. Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales to students and creative and practical arts activities (these include band, drama and dance, please note no Entertainment Book payments). There is also a category called ‘Other’ this is to cover items not covered in the previous headings. Other can be used to make a complete payment of a school invoice. When you access the $ Make a payment you must enter: the students name, and class and reference number OR the students name, and date of birth. These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system. There is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number if you are aware of them, these are optional fields OR there is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number these are not used at our school, please leave blank. This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school. You have the ability to check and change details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed. Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school. For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the School Administration Office on 02 49433044. Maths On Tuesday 28th June, 14 Year 8 students attended the Inquisitive Minds excursion at the Hunter School of the Performing Arts. The central focus of the day was problem solving and feedback from participants indicated that the day was a success, with useful strategies for approaching more complex problems discussed. The day was highly engaging and our students were excellent representatives of Kotara High School. The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) was conducted on Thursday 28th July with around 150 Kotara High School students taking part. This annual test is run across three divisions – Junior (Years 7 and 8), Intermediate (Years 9 and 10) and senior (Years 11 and 12) with high-achieving mathematics students from all over the country participating. Tests are marked externally and we expect notification of results and award recipients later in the year. Awards of Credit, Distinction or High Distinction will be announced and included in student folios at the award ceremonies at the end of the year. On Friday 29th July, the Year 10 Stage 5.1 Mathematics Competition took place with 40 students from Kotara High School selected to take part. Participants gave their best to represent Kotara High School and as with AMC, awards and money prizes for this event will be announced and included in Year 10 folios at end of year presentations. Term 3 is the final school term for Year 12 and having just completed their Trial HSC, teachers are returning marked examinations with feedback to students. It is strongly recommended that students use these papers to identify areas for improvement from the content and skills of their respective courses inform their study most effectively. There is one more assessment block for ATAR students in Weeks 5 and 6 which will cover content not already tested in the Trials. Congratulations to all students in the above initiatives and to Year 12 on completing their Trials. We look forward to another productive term in Mathematics. Regards, Mathematics Faculty Mr A Pulsford is a member of the Social Science Department and was successful in gaining a grant to improve the outdoor learning area. Thirty two schools applied for the grant and only four gained a grant from the Teacher’s Mutual Bank. The Outdoor Learning Area currently is not used as it is unsafe as shown in the picture below. The proposal to improve the Outdoor Learning Area is a whole school project that will enhance the educational opportunities and outcomes of students at Kotara High School. Students will actively participate in the design and construction of a space for use in teaching and learning programs from across the curriculum. These programs will engage students in activities and experiences that encourage the utilisation of natural environments whilst developing a greater awareness and understanding of a broad range of key ecological and social values. The project will consist of 2 main stages which include: Stage 1 - Site preparation, construction and installation of classroom furniture Stage 2 – Creation, construction and installation of faculty and class and individual projects. Stage 3 – Introduction of class activities and programs. The Outdoor Learning Area will become an outdoor classroom, providing a focal point for experiential learning activities in this beautiful remnant bushland setting. The Outdoor Learning Area will also contain a number of faculty, class and special interest projects that will enhance student learning opportunities as well as the aesthetics of the learning space. These will become part of the classroom space and will also be integrated throughout the school bushland reserve. Incorporation of carved Awabakal totems in the learning space for example will help to develop a better understanding of local indigenous culture and tradition. The installation of environmental sculptures and ceramics will provide creative learning opportunities for arts students as well as a point of interest for the school community. Native flora identification plaques will develop student knowledge and understanding of endemic species and their adaptations to Australian environments.
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