HIGH SCHOOL | PH: (02) 9954 7100 ISSUE #14 22 SEPTEMBER 2017

Cammeraygal High School

Empowered to Achieve

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CONGRATULATIONS follow in the early newsletter of term 4) this cost

Fantastic results by Ruaradiah K Y7 at the 2017 would be additional and as a public school I do feel NSW State Championships (Acrobatic that we need to minimise the outlay for parents Gymnastics). In the Level 3A Mixed Pair he placed when possible. The other reason for my decision 1st in Balance & Dynamic and Overall NSW State was that the teaching staff and some students have Champion spoken with me about the disruptions to their learning this term by the many activities happening Good luck to the following student representing in the school. We have had a huge number of North in Soccer State Cup during the activities this term and I feel that we would like to holidays - Noah HM (Y7) focus Year 9 in term 4 on continuity and working towards completing the year with fewer disruptions than we had this term. CALENDAR WEEK 1, TERM 4 / 9 - 13 OCT Student achievements Mon Staff & Students return for Term 4 Year 9 Premiers debating challenge regional finalists WEEK 2, TERM 4 / 16 - 20 OCT Congratulations also go to the year 9 debating Thurs Y9 French to Alliance Francaise (TBC) team who reached the regional final for the Northern region in the Premiers debating challenge. MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL This was a truly outstanding achievement and it Dear Parents/Caregivers, was a joy for me to watch the team debate again last week. It was especially rewarding to see the Well we have managed to see through the term four students grow in their thinking, their team work and what a successful and busy one it has been! and their communication. They were not successful We have celebrated many student achievements in winning the regional final against Manly Selective and congratulate all of our students on a very High School, but in our eyes they were the true successful term of learning and engagement in a champions of the event! Thank you to all students huge range of interesting and fun activities. involved in the team, Jess CD., Katie R, Chrisso, C Year 9 camp and Charlie W and a special thanks to Ms Nolan for leading the students towards this great learning I spoke with our Year 9 students yesterday and experience. explained that I have had to cancel our proposed Year 9 camp which was set down for next term. Congratulations to Gemma B who has won the The reason for our decision is based on the finals of the 400 metres in the State Athletics feedback I have received from some parents on carnival. Gemma will now go through the ‘All how much they have spent this term and this year Schools” competition which is the national schools on other camps, excursions and sporting activities. athletics meet. Gemma has been outstanding in her I will also be asking Year 9 families to purchase the efforts and we wish her all of the best in her senior uniform in term 4 (details and costing to continued success on the track.

1 Cammeraygal Senior Uniform As mentioned in the previous newsletter after consultation with our P&C and our SRC we have decided on a senior uniform for our senior students in years 10, 11 and 12. Next year 10 will wear a red jumper and both boys and girls will wear the same ties which will be black with a Cammeraygal logo. The school has endorsed the introduction of a new jacket which will be additional to the school jumper. This jacket will provide more warmth and will have the school logo and can be worn by years 7-12. The sports jacket and sports uniform can only be worn on a Wednesday. I will provide more details and pricing next term and will let parents/ caregivers know when the new uniform will be available. Pricing for the additions to the uniform will be published on our website and in the newsletter when Noone Imagewear finalise the availability of the additional items to our uniform. Sadly we will be farewelling one of our staff members this term. Keith Rowe is our General Assistant who has been with the school since we opened our doors on Orientation Day 2014. Keith has been a huge asset to our school with his commitment and problem solving abilities that have been second to none!! Keith took on the job as GA as a favour to me after we worked together at Rose Bay Secondary College many years ago where he had just been happily retired. I cannot thank Keith enough for his professionalism and commitment to solving all of Cammeraygal’s maintenance, sound and lighting issues that arose and so many other things that came up in a new school. Keith is an absolute gentleman who we will miss very much! We wish him the very best in his retirement. We are also farewelling Sebastian Riorden who has worked with us as an SSLO at the school. Bas has been a great contributor to the school and we will also miss his presence around the school. Bas is doing his teaching practicum and we wish him all the best in his career in teaching. Thank you to all of the Cammeraygal teaching and administration staff for a very committed and dynamic term that has seen the school continue to grow in our offerings and outcomes for our students. Thank you as well to all of students and their families for their commitment to the school and its ongoing success and development. I wish you all a safe and restful break and look forward to seeing our students return on Monday October 9. Regards Kathy Melky Principal

Behind the Office Window Dear Parent/Caregivers, Whatever is beautiful, Whatever is meaningful, Whatever brings you happiness….. May you enjoy it over the following two week break. On behalf of the School Administration Staff and Support Staff we would like to thank you all for your cooperation and support over the last term. Mrs Belinda Hayes School Administration Manager

2 Year Information

We wish to advise you that a student in our school community is currently receiving treatment for cancer. This student will be attending school on occasion while recovering from / undergoing treatment. As a consequence of treatment, this student’s ongoing health is at risk if she comes into contact with infectious illnesses, in particular: chicken pox, measles or mumps. If your son or daughter is suspected of having one of these illnesses it is very important that they do not attend school. It is also important that while your child is unwell they remain at home until they are no longer contagious. Information on infectious conditions can be found on national health websites such as www.health.gov.au or alternatively contact your local GP. If your child has chicken pox, measles or mumps or is suspected of having an illness please contact the school immediately. This will allow the school to assess the probable contact and therefore exposure of our student to the disease. Notification can then be given to the parents and medical specialists.

Faculty News “An epic journey” The definition of odyssey is “An epic journey” and there is no doubt that the journey that the 11 of us boys got to experience was epic. On Monday last week Mr Barraclough and 11 boys, 4 from year 9 and 7 from year 8 went on a 3 day journey out into the wilderness. We rode on bikes each day and canoed on the third. The bike trail we went on was pretty crazy, starting with an extremely steep downhill where we descended 500 meters into a historic valley littered with historic sites. But we then had a painful uphill which all of us can agree was a tough challenge. Since we were out in the wild we had to set up our own tents and cook our own food. No cabins or prepared food. There were also no facilities out in the wild, no bathrooms, no sinks. It was definitely a challenge to some of us. Even with these challenges we all had an amazing time learning and experiencing things we wouldn’t be able to usually in a school environment. I would like to thank Mr Barraclough and Optimum Experiences for the amazing time we had. Alexei Belchenko Year 9

3 Faculty News The Secret Life of Plants Cammeraygal Y9 Visual Art class was kindly invited to a Collaborative Art - Student Exhibition at Gallery Platform 72 with Y9 Visual Art. The exhibition included amazing artworks from the 2017 Art Camp, which our Y9 Visual Art and Photography elective classes have contributed to. There are also some outstanding artworks such as the environmental-friendly plant sculptures that are made out of cardboard and paper, the realistic charcoal sketching of plants etc. Ryde Secondary College had some incredible photography, sculptures and crayon artworks as well on display. The exhibition was full of excitement, it allowed us to learn art techniques and ideas from other people’s artworks, helped us to improve our knowledge of how art could be interpreted differently with other people’s hand. The exhibition also fostered communication between Cammeraygal and Ryde Secondary College. Many visitors from both schools as well as the public came and viewed student’s work. Ms Melky, Ms Arrow, Head Teacher of CAPA - Ms. Nolan and many other teachers from Cammeraygal all made very positive comments on the exhibition. Overall, thank you to the students who came along to help set up the first Y9 art exhibition for Cammeraygal! And special thanks to Ms Steiner who organised this exhibition which gave us a great opportunity to show our artworks to the public and encourage more people to join and enjoy the process of doing art. by Daimi Z, Haoyi H & Kailani H

4 Archibald Excursion On Tuesday the 5th of September, Year 7 took a trip to the beautiful Botanical Gardens and to the amazing Archibald Prize at the awesome Art Gallery of NSW. After period 1 we went to the hall and then we were all set for our excursion. We hopped on the bus, eager to see the gallery come into sight. When we arrived we had recess in the Botanical Gardens and started filling out our detailed worksheets that we had been given in the hall. We all had our Visual Arts Diaries with us (prepared to take notes and draw), so we started drawing. We drew some close-ups of plants, drew trees, took some rubbings of various natural objects in the environment around us whilst taking in and, of course, drawing the natural landscape. After lunch, we went to the incredible Art Gallery. We headed on in with our Visual Arts diaries and our booklets. We filled in our worksheets which had a lot of interesting questions about the exhibition including ones like “if you could choose who won, who would you choose and why”? After what seemed like what was not nearly enough time we all had to get back on the bus to return to school. Overall it was a brilliant day and our whole grade had a lot of fun in, and out of the gallery and Botanical Gardens. It was highly entertaining and a huge thanks to Ms Keong who arranged the delightful day and it was definitely one we won’t forget. By Isabelle Mather 7A

On Tuesday the 5th of September Year 7 put on their cultural hats and immersed themselves in a day of fine arts. The day began with some plein air sketching in the Botanical Gardens with 145 students studying and sketching various aspects of the gardens. The day continued by students viewing some of the permanent collection within the Art Gallery of NSW before viewing the annual and high esteemed, Archibald Prize and Wynne and Sulman Prizes. Our students each gravitated to works they found they engaged most with and some lovely discussion was had among students and teachers about which artworks they responded to most.

Overall it was a lovely day had by all with our Year 7s walking away a little more inspired and amazed!

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Cammeraygal P&C Run Sports Update Extra-curricular sport is run by the P&C sports sub-committee and occurs outside of school hours. Training is usually before or after school and competitions or matches may take place after school or on the weekend. It is separate to school sport. Information about all the extra curricular sports being offered at Cammeraygal HS can be found on the P&C website: http://cammeraygalpandc.org.au/committees/sports-committee/

Summer Football The summer football competition teams have all been organised and the teams are ready to start when they come back to school at the beginning of Term 4.

Summer Netball The summer netball competition team has started training in readiness for their summer competition.

Basketball A huge congratulations to the Cammeraygal Eagles on their amazing effort last week in winning their game by just one point!

Date for your Diary The next P&C Sports Committee meeting will be held on Thursday 12th October at 6.30pm. If you would like to attend please contact [email protected]. We will be starting to plan for next year’s sports teams. New members would be very welcome!

Spring intensives are here with coach Fuzzy! The intensives will be taking place either on the outdoor school court on in the hall if it is too hot or wet.

To book click here or enter https://www.trybooking.com/SEBS into your browser.

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Social Committee Update A big thank you to all the parents and students who gave up their time to come along and help out at the BBQ & Cake Stall on Saturday 9 September (local council elections). We had a big turn out of volunteers and it was great to see the kids out in force. Not as many people as were expected turned up to vote at the Cammeraygal polling booth, however the P&C and students still managed to raise some valuable dollars. It was also a really good community building exercise with many locals commenting how impressed they were to see the students helping out on the day. Thanks again to all who helped and to everyone that sent in cakes, cookies etc as they were a big hit.

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For a limited time, when you purchase an Entertainment Membership through the Cammeraygal P&C you will receive 2 x BONUS EVENT Cinemas Saver Tickets – just in time for the school holidays! But hurry, stocks are sure to run out. BUY FROM US NOW Redeem your EVENT Cinemas eVouchers at participating EVENT Cinemas. Click here to find out more. And remember by purchasing the Entertainment Membership through the school you help us raise funds for the P&C as 20% of every sale is donated to the school. Belinda Kent [email protected] / 0415 757 41

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