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to 2019 We welcome all staff, students, parents and caregivers to a new school year at Champion Bay Senior High School Principal News Making the news… • Congratula4ons to Midalia (green) on winning the first ever CBSHS Swimming Carnival • A huge thank you to all the many students who competed for their house. Each effort was worth a point for their house and to the students who had a go – despite swimming not being their ‘thing’- you really made the day! • If you do not know who the Team Leader for your student is – please contact the Administra4on Office of 99 658 300 for the informa4on. • Friday 22 March is a School Development Day – all teachers will be on site – but there will be no students. • CBSHS will be aiming to conduct a Humani4es and Social Sciences tour to Japan in September 2020 – subject to Department of Educa4on approval • Watch out for our P&C Profiles - coming soon. Welcome to Champion Bay Senior High School! It seems that this has been so long in coming. November 2015 was when the first announcement was made to create a new Years 7-12 campus on this site. So much has happened since this time, not the least being the near completion of the $20M building project. Last week a former student called at the Administration Office to collect a younger sibling and did not know where they were standing. That’s how much the site has changed in just two years. The total changes include: • The Technologies Centre – named the John Willcock Technologies Centre in recognition of the contribution to the state of WA made by the Premier John Willcock during the 1930s and 1940s, • The Dance Studio, • The Music wing including new practice rooms, • A new Administration Centre and cafeteria, • The construction of the school green – an area that is used by so many students and staff. • Refurbishment to the Science and Visual Arts rooms, Media area, and Student Services. All in all, a huge undertaking. From the Principal … The first day of Champion Bay SHS saw us take some drone photos of the whole school before we began classes and this showed us how fabulous the new uniforms look on our student population. More amazingly, there was not one student who attended school of the first day who was not wearing the new uniform. Feedback from the wider community about the new uniform has been so overwhelmingly positive – it has been a great choice. We have had a terrific start to the new school year with staff and students taking to our new organisational framework with ease. As a reminder, students are now organised into Student Teams for Years 7 and 8. There are three Student Team Leaders: Mrs Jayme Overstone, Mr Ronan Croft and Mr Fred Pritchard. Students in Years 9 and 10 are organised into Learning Teams. The Team Leaders are Miss Rebecca Bright and Mr Derek Goforth as Year 9 leaders and Mr Tim Collier as the Year 10 Coordinator. OFFICIAL OPENING On Tuesday 26 February, we held the official opening of the new school. Attendees included the Hon. Sue Ellery MLC Minister for Education and Training, the new Director General of Education Lisa Rodgers, Hon. Darryl West MLC, Hon. Laurie Graham MLC and Mr Ian Blayney MLA. One of the key features of the ceremony was the laying of a time capsule to be opened in 2044. Inside the time capsule were JWC and CBSHS shirts, timetables, lists of students and staff dated 26 February 2019, a memory stick of photos, a program of the ceremony and a letter from me to the staff of 2044 including details of life in 2019. It was certainly a strange sensation writing a letter to be read in 25 years time! On the evening of 26 February we also held a sundowner to thank staff, contractors and their workers and others who had helped us along the journey to 2019. Special thanks to Sandy Wendt for being our Bar Manager for the event and to Gina from Zen Productions for organising the fine details. A huge thanks go to Danielle Wilton for her support over the last years and to all the staff who have had their working environment turned upside down for a long period of time. AFTER SCHOOL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES CBSHS staff are offering a number of opportunities to students for after-hours learning. These include: Cheerleading and Dance, Visual Arts, Follow the Dream, eGames, GEMS and Homework. For more information about these, contact CBSHS on 99 658 300. WELCOME TO NEW STAFF I would like to welcome the following staff to CBSHS: • Ms Deb Kempton Program Coordinator – Transitions and Pathways (VET Coordinator) – as I write some parents may already be aware of Deb’s work as they sign off the opportunity for their student to attend the Rotary WA Driver Education Program. • Ms Nicola Wise – Teacher English Nicola is working with the Year 9/10 Learning teams. • Mr Andy Bleach – Teacher Digital Technologies – Andy has joined us from John Tonkin College. • Mrs Sarah Todd – Teacher Music – we welcome Sarah back to our new school and look forward to working with her in this role. • Ms Natalie Partington - School Officer. • Darienne Ramasamy and her team – We welcome these awesome people to our community as they come on site to conduct our cafeteria. And we say goodbye to… • Andrew Hough – Head of Science Learning Area. Andrew and his family have gone to live and work in New South Wales. We wish them the best of luck and thank Andrew for his many years of service to John Willcock College. • Jenny Hansen and Sharon Sontag - These ladies have gone to run the Allendale Canteen. • Samsinar Safian – Teacher Digital Technologies – we thank Samsinar for her work with our students – but we are not saying goodbye as she will continue to work with us. • Kate Crowe – Teacher Literacy and Kate McDougall – Teacher English. Both these ladies will continue to work with us on a regular basis. • Narelle Ryder – Teacher English. We thank Narelle for her work with Greenough Sub School and wish her well in her new venture. • Alyce Brook – Teacher Music. Alyce has left us to go to Waggrakine Primary School as the Music teacher. • Trish Kupsch – School Officer - whose newsletters we will miss. • School Officer Mrs Kerry Robartson is taking some leave. We all wish Kerry the best of luck in her recovery and an enjoyable break. YEAR 10 STUDENT LEADERS The Year 10 Student Leaders have been elected by their peers and staff, and these students are: Jack Garland, Brooke Martin, Maude Ryder, Kealan Nightingale, Cacha Westwood, Jade Taylor, Lily Burgess, Alex Gilbertson, Zac Jackson, Kiona Fry, and Dakota Tesling. This is a terrific group of students and we congratulate them on their success. Teams from Years 7-9 have also elected representatives and their tenure is either for a term (Year 7) or a semester (Year 8/9). Also elected were House Captains from Year 10. From the Principal … OLNA Week 5 saw the first of the OLNA testing opportunities – this time ,Writing. Given that our iPad fleet has still not CHAMPION BAY SENIOR been rolled out due to issues with wireless points and HIGH SCHOOL BOARD Central Office controls, we went to Plan B, which was I welcome the following Board using our banks of desk based machines in the Library and members for 2019/2020: in Digital Technologies. Waneen Bennett and Nat Worthington worked to ensure as Community: many students completed this assessment as possible. We ¥ Ms Jonine Harrison move to the Reading online assessments during Week 6. ¥ Mrs Wendy Radford All Year 10 students who have not achieved a Band 8 or better in NAPLAN Reading, Numeracy and Writing need to ¥ Dr Mort Harslett sit these assessments in order to achieve this element of ¥ Ms Corryne Bull their WA Certificate of Education. Special thanks to Sue ¥ Mr Gavin Black Carr for her assistance in administering assessments. ¥ Ms Samantha Brearley Staff ¥ Mrs Waneen Bennett ¥ Mrs Jo Crothers ¥ Mrs Deb Kempton ¥ Mrs Alison McCarthy ¥ Mrs Helen Lyndon ¥ Mr Justin Mallard SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL GERALDTON SCHOLARSHIP This scholarship ($500 per year) is awarded to a deserving female student who has excelled in her studies, attends school regularly and who aspires to the CBSHS values of Respect, Aspire and Resilience. This scholarship has been awarded to Jasmine Carcuevas (Year 10) for the duration of her time at CBSHS. Congratulations Jasmine! Some HOUSEKEEPING • Please let the school know if your student has an appointment during the school day – use the diary or contact the school on 99 658 300. If you let us know in advance, your student will be waiting for you at Student Services. • Thank you to all parents who are using the Drive and Drop. Just a reminder to new parents, students are not permitted to cross in front of cars to be collected. Please take your turn to get to the collection area. • There is now parking for the community at the front of the school for business to be conducted during school hours. Please feel free to park here while you collect your student during the day. This area is NOT to be used to deliver and collect students before and after school as the buses arrive and leave from this area. Kind regards Julie Campbell Principal A word from our Associate Principals Year 9 The year has got off to a more than busy start and the majority of students have taken up the challenge to make this important year count for best achievement for their own future.