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DENISON COLLEGE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION KELSO HIGH CAMPUS NEWSLETTER 29th February 2008 Delivering excellence, innovation, opportunity and student success Telephone:6331 4544 email: [email protected] PO Box 499 Fax: 6332 1678 www.kelso-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Bathurst, 2795 P&C News The 2nd P and C meeting for Kelso High Campus is Wednesday, 12 March 2007 at 7:30pm in the School’s Administration Block. All parents are welcome. This is the Annual General Meeting. Marilyn P&C Secretary Get In Quick For Your Place In History Kelso High Campus P&C Association Is Holding A Fundraiser Buy a paver for $30 Your Name, Family Name, Business Name Or Whatever! Gets Engraved On The Paver The Pavers Will Be Laid In Our Brand New School, A Permanent Record Of Your Commitment To Kelso High So Lookout For The Order Form Coming Home Gemma Lord If You Miss It Please Grab One From The School Gemma is Lion’s Office Or Ring Kiri on 6337 5190 Youth of the Year Kelso High Campus Gemma Lord is the Lion’s Youth of the Year for Open Day Bathurst. Gemma competed against representatives of Thursday 6th March 2008 the five other Bathurst high schools in the judging that 4pm to 7pm was held at the Bathurst RSL Club on Thursday 21st Guided tours run every 15 minutes. February. Gemma was interviewed by a panel of judges for 40 minutes and then gave a prepared speech for 5 minutes on Important Dates “Circus” and did two impromptu speeches for two minutes 4th March School Photos on “Andrew Symons” and “American politics”. 6th March Open Evening at School Gemma is a Kelso High Campus captain, an outstanding 12th March P&C Meeting student, a member of the Cirkus Surreal Troupe and is very 20th March Progress Reports posted active in school life. 21st March Good Friday Winning the Bathurst competition means that Gemma 27th March Year 11 Study Day goes on to the next round which will involve students from 27th March Parent Teacher Afternoon Yrs 7,11,12 the Blue Mountains and Lithgow areas. 1st April Parent Teacher Afternoon Yrs 8,9,10 The Youth of the Year Quest is sponsored by the Lions 3rd April Year 12 Exams begin Club and the National Australia Bank. It is an Australia 11th April Last day of Term 1 wide competition to select outstanding youth to be young 28th April School Development Day ambassadors for Australia. 29th April First day of Term 2 From the College Principal The year has started very well for Denison College with a growth in enrolments of more than 40 students, bringing our total enrolments up to over 1600 students across both Kelso High and Bathurst High Campuses of the college. In 2008, we are conducting courses that are shared across both campuses in the Preliminary and the Higher School Certificate. Denison College has a curriculum of over 60 different courses which are taught in each of Years 11 and 12. In addition, there are a wide variety of subjects The Aboriginal flag offered at TAFE for our senior students. We have also established an innovative program with profoundly disabling consequences for those taken and has our partner primary schools. Every term, Year 6 students negatively affected the indigenous community. For many will be coming to Kelso High Campus for lessons in of the children, removal meant that they lost all connection Science, Creative and Performing Arts, and Technology. to family, traditional land, culture and language. Staff and students will be delighted with these learning This removal occurred as the result of official laws and experiences in our wonderful new facilities. policies aimed at assimilating the Australian Aboriginal All of this ensures Innovation, Opportunity and population into the wider community. Success for students at Denison College. Today, PM Kevin Rudd will apologise for the laws Kathleen Compton and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss, and Denison College Principal especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, communities and their country. “For the pain, suffering and hurt of these “stolen generations”, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry,” the text reads. “To the mothers and fathers, the brothers and sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.” “And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted Mr Stirling speaking at the Sorry Day Ceremony on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.” Sorry Day:Wednesday 13th February He says it is a first step where the parliament resolves This is the speech that was given by Mr Brian Burke the injustices of the past that must never happen again. at the Kelso High School “Sorry Day” Ceremony. An official apology to members of the “stolen I start today by acknowledging the owners of this land, generations” by the Australian government today is Waradjuri land, to all the elders past and present of the an important step towards building a respectful, new land we stand on today. relationship between us as indigenous and non-indigenous Today, Sorry Day is a day of apologies to all the “stolen Australians to continue to build on today’s reconciliation generations” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander process and to make our bonds stronger. Australians. Brian Burke The term “stolen generations” refers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who were forcibly removed from their families and communities by the government, welfare or church authorities as children and placed into institutional care or with non-indigenous foster families. The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children began as early as the mid- 1800s and continued until 1970. This has had life-long and Raising the Aboriginal flag Sorry Day The opinions of some of Kelso High’s Aboriginal students on Sorry Day. It was good to see an Aboriginal flag since the fire two years ago. I liked that someone important to Brian Burke gives his address most Australians actually said something good about Aboriginals. Jacob On Wednesday 13th February, Kevin Rudd said sorry. I watched it at homewith my parents. Both my mum and dad were proud that he said sorry for them taking our land. Ruth Sorry Day was awesome. We had a whole school assembly and we saw the Aboriginal flag and the Australian flag put up and flying together. It was good to see the Aboriginal flag flying in our school again since the fire. After the assembly the Aboriginal kids went to the library and brought one friend with them to watch the Ashleigh McDonald and Kaitlin Giuliano Prime Minister say sorry to the “stolen generation” on a at the University Roadshow exhibit. big screen. It was a good day. Careers April Tax File Numbers Last Wednesday, I liked it because Kevin Rudd said Students who require a Tax File Number (TFN) can sorry to the Aboriginals. We went to the library to watch obtain an application form from Mr Behan. The Australian the Sorry Day apology to Aboriginal people of the stolen Tax Office advises that TFN applications can take up generation. to four weeks to process before the TFN is sent to the Hayden student’s home address. On Wednesday, the government said sorry to the stolen Sport and Recreation Traineeship generation. To most Aboriginals it was a big day that a Congratulations to Izak Peters (Year 11) on being lot of us have been waiting a long time for. At school, me successful in gaining a school-based Sport and Recreation and some other people watched the government saying traineeship with the Girri Girri Sports Academy. Izak will sorry. After, we went and had an assembly and raised the undertake his traineeship while completing his senior Aussie flag and the Aboriginal flag. After the assembly studies. Well done Izak. we went down and planted a tree. There is going to be a The Careers Adviser, Mr. Behan is located in the library park in memory of this day. and has an extensive range of up-to-date career information Kynia. to assist students. Students can find information about jobs in general, traineeships, apprenticeships, TAFE, private training providers and university courses. A good deal of Kelso Aboriginal students and friends after the tree planting material is available for loan to students. Year 12 students ceremony: back row Izak Peters, Dwayne Morgan, Jace Hood, are particularly encouraged to see Mr. Behan to clarify Robert Daniels, Tre Dennis, Wade Dennis, Will Hickey, Emmitt their post-HSC options. The noticeboards in the senior Smith, Luke Malart, Kynia Knight, Collen Gerrard, Megan Wil- study are used to display all career information relevant liams. Front: Brendon Press, Vincent Morgan, Hayden James. to Year 12. Students should consult this noticeboard on a regular basis. Human Papillomavirus Vaccination (HPV) Years 8,9,10,11 and 12. The Department of Health is conducting a national vaccination program against Human Papillomavirus (HPV). This program is for girls in Years 8,9,10 and as necessary in Years 11 and 12. This is a FREE service and Kelso High Campus students in Years 8,9,10,11 and 12 will be vaccinated on Friday7th March, 2008 by community nurses. The HPV Vaccination Program consists of three vaccinations. The first vaccination will be on 7th March 2008, the second on 30th May 2008 and the third on 12th Kelso High’s St John’s Ambulance volunteers September 2008. The one consent form will cover all three at the Swimming Carnival vaccinations.