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BATHURST HIGH CAMPUS NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2017 http://www.facebook.com/bathursthighcampus/ From the Principal’s Desk In my last report, I encouraged Year 12 to make the most of their final days of formal schooling before they head off to prepare for their HSC examinaons over the holidays and during the first week of Term 4. I will be thinking of all our students whilst I am in Japan with 25 students and 4 other teachers from Bathurst High Campus, however I wish all our students success in the final examinaons and ask that they celebrate safely and take care of each other at this me in their lives. I am sure all our parents can relate to this excing me for Year 12 and I would like to thank the parents of Year 12 for the support they have provided our school over the past six years. If this is your last child compleng schooling, I congratulate you for choosing Bathurst High Campus and thank you for working with our staff over the years. Our Year 12 students have proven to be an impressive group of students who have engaged in many acvies throughout the year and they have maintained a consistent approach, embracing our posive school values of being Safe, Respecul Learners. Our Year 12 students in 2017 are a parcularly creave bunch of individuals with many studying courses such as Music, Drama, Visual Arts, Graphics Technology, Photography, Industrial Technology Timber and high levels of English and Mathemacs. I am hoping they set a very high standard and achieve some outstanding HSC results, which would reward their connual hard work and effort throughout the year. I would also like to acknowledge the hard work of our teachers who have supported Year 12 throughout 2017. Well done to all involved. End of Term Student Recognion BBQ On Thursday 21st September 2017, Bathurst High Campus will hold an end of term student recognion BBQ for students. Students are able to use their Vivo points to buy a BBQ voucher online to reward them for their hard work throughout the school term. The top five students in each year group will receive a free voucher for the BBQ. All other students can sll purchase at the BBQ as per normal, however our focus is to recognise students who commied themselves to posive self‐Improvement. The BBQ is an opportunity for teachers to engage with the students outside the classroom environment. Well done to all students throughout the school term. End of Term Talent Show On Friday 22nd September 2017, Bathurst High students have the opportunity to become involved in a talent show during the last two periods of the term. Many students and some teachers have jumped at the chance to write their names down for our first talent show. The aim of the talent show is to connect with students and to build their confidence performing into the future. Country music talent Mickey Pye will be aending to support the students and he will perform a few songs. All teachers and students will aend the talent show to support the students. Parents of performers are also encouraged to aend and assist with the talent show. Thanks to the student recognion team who are working to provide these posive experiences for our students. Page 1 Denison College of Secondary Education—Bathurst High Campus—www.bathurst-h.schools.nsw.edu.au An Inspiraonal Student Year 11 Bathurst High student, John Aard delivered an inspiraonal speech during the Young Carers NSW presentaon at the Bath‐ urst RSL on Wednesday 13th September 2017. The audience acvely engaged with John's powerful personal story as they discussed the pressures on young carers across NSW. John also delivered a professional learning seminar to the Bathurst High Campus teachers on Monday 18th Sep‐ tember 2017. Congratulaons John, our school community is proud of your commitment and efforts. New Addion to the Uniform 2018 Bathurst High Campus will add an outstanding winter jacket to complement our exisng school uniform. Aer supplying samples to the P&C Commiee, a decision to stock the new school jacket will improve the quality of our overall uniform next year. The cost of the water resistant jacket with both school logos will be around $68.00. Amazing Celebraon Cakes Students in the Year 9 Food Technology classes have been working hard as they produced many outstanding celebraon cakes as part of their Stage 5 praccal assessment. It is always excing when the senior execuve are invited down to talk to the students as they present their creaons. Congratulaons to all the students who have excelled this year and well done to our amazing Food Technology and Hospitality teachers. Page 2 Denison College of Secondary Education—Bathurst High Campus—www.bathurst-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Amazing Celebraon Cakes cont….. Mahew McCauley – Outstanding Success in VET Year 12 student Mahew McCauley finished runner‐up in the NSW VET Student of the Year Awards at Town Hall in Sydney recently. Aer an outstanding year, Mahew represented all of regional NSW as one of the three finalists from more than 100 000 students studying a VET course. An extremely proud family, school staff and local community members were on hand to celebrate Mahew's fantasc achievement. Well done Mahew, you are a credit to the Bathurst community. Page 3 Denison College of Secondary Education—Bathurst High Campus—www.bathurst-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Bathurst High Campus Combined Exhibion 2017 Congratulaons to the students and staff involved in the BHC Combined Exhibion of HSC Major Works last Thursday evening in the Performing Arts Foyer. Many students and their parents aended to view the outstanding works produced throughout the year. I would like to acknowledge the amazing effort and support provided by the teachers of the Visual Arts, Industrial Technology Timber and Mul‐Media who assisted the Year 12 students as they prepared the exhibion and completed their projects. Bernie Wood and Joe Hardy addressed the large crowd to pay tribute to the students and their efforts this year. Well done to all involved in this outstanding exhibion. Page 4 Denison College of Secondary Education—Bathurst High Campus—www.bathurst-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Teacher Stars in AFL Premiership Aer four consecuve years of grand final pain, Tim Hunter starred for the Bathurst Bushrangers on Saturday as they celebrated a Central West AFL premiership over the Orange Tigers 13‐11‐89 to 7‐9‐51. While Tigers were first into the grand final and had the advantage of playing on their home turf, Outlaws led at every change at Bloomfield Oval. On the hour mark, a quick play on from Hunter pushed the Outlaws’ advantage beyond 50 points. However, six minutes into the final term Hunter kicked his fourth goal of the day, making Tigers’ task of a launching an unlikely comeback even more difficult. Congratulaons to Tim Hunter who has dominated on the goal‐scoring front for the enre season. Ken Barwick Principal Bathurst High Campus Denison College of Secondary Education Phone: 02 6331 3755 Page 5 Denison College of Secondary Education—Bathurst High Campus—www.bathurst-h.schools.nsw.edu.au College Principal News—September 2017 Decade of Denison What a fantasc night we had celebrang the first decade of Denison College on 4th August! The Kelso High Campus Hall was packed and guests enjoyed performances from Cirkus Surreal, and Swing Factor, along with the combined Denison College Concert Band and Dance Troupe. Catering was prepared by the Hospitality classes from both campuses and served by members of the student leadership teams. Past students and staff members, including Nick Williams (Kelso HS Captain 2006), Jim Browning (College Project Officer and Head Teacher at both campuses) and Kathleen Compton (foundaon College Principal) gave insights into the establishment of the college and commemorave plaques and trees were presented to the campus principals as a memento of the occasion. Read the arcle in the Western Advocate here hp://www.westernadvocate.com.au/ story/4900456/branching‐out‐to‐remember‐college‐anniversary/?cs=115 Future Direcons This annual event for our Year 10 students and parents is now all but over. The selecons and interviews have been completed and we are now in the process of finalising our subjects for Year 11 2018. We will be running over 40 courses across the college and 26 of these will be running on our shared lines. Somemes a school cannot run courses that students might be very interested in because there are not enough students to form a class or because the school doesn’t have a qualified teacher. Our shared lines allow the campuses to run courses that would otherwise not be able to run and give students greater choice and a greater chance of geng the subjects that are high priority for them. This year, for the first me, we asked all Year 10 students at both campuses to complete their subject choices online using webchoices. This enabled us to consider the preferences for every student as part of the enre college. This resulted in a more streamlined operaon and has reduced the number of issues in giving students their preferences. Where some students did encounter some difficules with subject choice, the parent interviews that we held in Week 5 were invaluable in finding the best soluon. I would like to thank the many parents who made the me available to come into the campus and meet with staff. You contribuon has made our work much easier, and has helped us to get the best result for your children.