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. They are considered part of our experienced school cohort and expected to set a great example to those who follow in the newly named Champion Bays SHS. It will be an exciting time for them to progress through the school with Upper School courses and choices. I remind parents and carers that staff are always happy to phone you back when they are available if you leave a message requesting information on your child’s progress in their class. You can also take advantage of signing into Connect if you selected that option on the offers to see the online layout of what they are doing in class. Pease contact the school if that login has not been set up and you would like to do so. As always , it is great to have the support from home with all the positive messages about making the most of the opportunities for success at school. iPads Disappointingly, the system managed by the Perth team has had some issues stopping us from rolling out the iPads currently, but we hope to have them in use as soon as possible. They are a great toolset for curriculum tasks and students usually take great care of them. As always, I remind parents and carers that the use of these devices is free and paid for by the school with no money needing to change hands, as long as the students do not cause deliberate damage. Insurance cover has usually covered accidental damage in the past. The Network Agreement as part of enrolment clarifies the need for great care to be taken with these as they are fragile. They are only for work purposes and any personal use or social media use should be left for home devices. We look forward to seeing them used for excellent curriculum purposes this year as the students aim at the personal best achievement in all classes. Thank you for your support with your child in encouraging the best uses of the ICT devices for work purposes at school. Kind regards Phil Pound Associate Principal

SHINE has kicked off on the 18th February with 48 beautiful Shine girls, who are all embracing the Shine program. We have a new circle of friendships, we are learning About the importance of TRUST and RESPECT and RESILIENCE for each other. The last 3 weeks we have been working on attendance , healthy eating and hygiene. We have had visits from MMG mining and Desert Blue Connect, which the Shine girls have really embraced and listened with open ears. A word from our Associate Principals

Wow, what a wonderful start is has been to 2019! A warm welcome back to our returning and new Year 8 students, and a very warm Champion Bay Senior High School welcome to our Year 7 students. Students in both years have settled in smoothly and are displaying a positive attitude and making good choices. It is such a pleasure regularly visiting classes. I have the daily privilege of observing our passionate teachers deliver the curriculum and our Year 7 and 8 students demonstrate our core values of RESPECT, ASPIRE and RESILIENCE within the classroom context. I have been extremely impressed at the high standard of work being produced by the majority of the students. It is also very pleasing to see students demonstrating these same core values within a social context during recess and lunch. Students are therefore encouraged to keep it up by continuing to RESPECT themselves, others and our school environment, ASPIRE to be the best they can be and show RESILIENCE in difficult situations by persevering and developing the ability to bounce back. In week 4, our Team Leaders and Student Services Manager, Mr Tapper, organised a fun filled and highly successful Orientation Day. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank them for their creativity, outstanding teamwork and excellent organisational skills. The purpose of the day was to build positive peer and teacher relationships through participating in a range of 27 team-building activities. Having had many informal chats with the students, it is safe to say that the students really enjoyed themselves and many new friendships were formed on that day. Attendance At Champion Bay Senior High School attendance matters and is everyone’s business. Every week Form Teachers inform students of their attendance percentage for the year and term. Students plot this data into a graph at the back of their school diary. All students are encouraged to attend school regularly and achieve 90% and above attendance. Parents and guardians are reminded to inform the school if your child is absent by either calling 9965 8300 or sending a text message on 0407 381 061. This needs to be done on the day of absence or before if you know your child will be away. All students need to work towards having all absences explained. Please contact your child’s Form Teacher, the Team Leader or Student Services if you have any concerns around your child’s attendance. With only four weeks left of Term 1, I would like to encourage students to end this term in the same way that they started. They are reminded to have fun, be kind and work hard! Mrs Waneen Bennett Associate Principal Year Nine News

It has been a fantas+c start to 2019 at We are pleased to announce the winners Champion Bay Senior High School with our of the Year 9 Student Leaders to be: year 9s in their new uniform. Students •Thea Volkerts have commented on how much they love •Declan Densley the uniform and are proud to be wearing it. A +mely reminder to please provide a •Tenaya Prosser note for your child being out of uniform. •Alseeya Amirizal They will be provided with a uniform pass for the day by their Form teacher. Thank you to all students who par+cipated With the first few weeks there was and a huge congratula+on to our winners. discussion around Year 9 Student Leaders. Student Leaders will be working in Much interest was generated among conjunc+on with Team Leader Bright and students and we were fortunate to have Goforth, and Student Services throughout over ten students self-nominate. the year to fulfil their leadership. Students who self-nominated were invited Week Seven is our Year 9 Assembly week to a speed speech wri+ng session with which brings the opportunity for staff to Miss Bright to review and edit speeches reflect on our values observed among our ready to present to the en+re Year 9 students and to award our top achievers cohort. It was fabulous to see students for the fortnight who have upheld the interested in represen+ng their school and Champion Bay Senior High School values of peers, and par+cipa+ng in such an event. Respect, Aspire and Resilience. Keep an Staff and students were impressed with eye out on the school Facebook page to the quality of speeches and the resilience celebrate our wonderful achievers. shown by many who wanted to deliver a speech but felt nervous. With many kind Regards, words of support and strategies used to Rebecca Bright overcome fears, all students presented Year 9 Team Leader with confidence. Year Ten Student Leader Speeches. Dakota Tesling addresses his peers. Year Ten News

Welcome back to Champion Bay Senior High School’s first cohort of Year Ten students. I would like to congratulate them for the excellent start they have made to the year. The feedback I am receiving from teachers is that students are giving their best efforts in class, coming to school prepared and ready to learn, and setting a great example for our younger students. Geraldton Universities Centre Excursion Please keep an eye out for Geraldton Universities Centre (GUC) excursion assigned. It is also essential that any work permission slips. On 10 April, we will be taken home for revision is brought back the going to the GUC to hear from each of the following day, especially any notes required universities in Perth about possible for “open book” assessments. university pathways available to our students after they complete their Uniform secondary schooling in 2021. This is a As the senior students of the school, it is compulsory excursion and there is no cost. important that our Year Tens set a good Driver Education Program example for younger students by coming dressed in full Champion Bay Senior High On Thursday 14 March, all of our Year Ten School uniform. If there is any reason why students will be attending the Rotary WA a student is out of uniform, they must bring Driver Education Program at Towns a signed note from a parent or caregiver. Football Club. This is a community event organised by Rotary WA, St John’s Possible Events Ambulance, WA Police and the WA I am currently in discussions with a number Government. This excursion is aimed at of students and staff around possible influencing the attitudes of young people events that the Year Tens can be involved before they learn to drive and supports the with throughout the year. Students with any WA Government’s Towards Zero road ideas for any future events or who would be safety strategy. interested in assisting with organising such Attendance events should see me. As the senior students of the school, I Fundraising would encourage all of our Year Tens to A number of Year Tens have also make the most of every class by arriving at approached me as they have iden+fied a their timetabled class on time and with the need within the school for addi+onal outdoor correct equipment. If a student is absent for furnishings. We are currently in discussions any reason, their absence needs to be around raising funds for these. If you have any explained. The easiest way to do this is for ideas for fundraising or would like to become a parent or caregiver to reply to the involved, please see me. automated text messages that are sent My role as a Year Coordinator is focussed on throughout the day. pastoral care of students by offering advice and Diaries support in all aspects of school life, such as Diaries are required for every class. This course, study, social and family concerns. I look year’s student diary contains many forward to working with our Year Ten students valuable resources which teachers will and their families and carers to ensure that require students to have access to they have a produc+ve, successful and throughout the year. It is also the place memorable year. If there is anything I can do to where any homework and revision tasks support you, please feel free to contact me. will be recorded. As a senior student, it is important that time is taken to revise at Tim Collier home, even when no homework has been Year Ten Coordinator Team 2

It has been a fantastic start in Team 2, welcoming 31 new year 7 students as well as 4 classes of year 8’s. This year Team 2 consists of: 4 Year 8 classes and one Year 7 classes. S o m u c h h a s Attendance: Staff for 2019: happened this term so far with all three We aspire to get each student to attend Team Leader 7/8 teams joining regularly (90%+) and if they are absent, to Ronan Croft t o g e t h e r f o r a n get their absence explained. We rely on amazing Orientation parents/care givers to be prompt in Teaching Staff Day. There were 27 explaining any missed days or if the student English: Maree Espinos activities to build is late. This takes a great deal of time away HSS: Kahla Schilling team work across from teaching staff to chase up any Science: Aditi Mahajan the 2 years. It was reasons. So thank you to all our parents/ Math: Chris Markham fantastic to see all guardians who have so far supported us in and Ravu Tagive t h e s t u d e n t s this area. AIEOr: Mal Maloney participating, having Equipment: Educational Assistants: fun and enjoying the Please ensure that your child has their Adam Molloy, range of things on school diary, pens, something to write on Bec Pusey and offer. The staff and has all of this packed into a school bag. Paula Stacey couldn’t have been These items will be checked during form p r o u d e r w i t h t h e each day and will help ensure that they are attitude and behaviour prepared to learn rather than waste time the students showed. negotiating the supply of these items from Team and House assembly: Wednesday’s peers or teachers. We appreciate your the school has their team and house support in this area and the sub school is assemblies to discuss matters happening in willing to discuss plans with any families the school. House assemblies are held on that contact them if these items are even weeks while our Team 2 students unattainable. meet every odd week. This is to go through Keep aspiring to be the best person you expectations and the preparation for the can be both in and out of the classroom. swimming carnival which has just taken Enjoy a great term 1 at Champion Bay place. Senior High School. From All the staff in our Here in the team assemblies there will be team. apple draws to acknowledge students good work throughout the term. There are also Ronan Croft celebration lunches and other activities to be planned throughout the semester based Team Leader on behaviour and attendance. Team2 Student Councillors: C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s t o o u r y e a r 8 representatives Ruby Macpherson and Syrah Boryczewski. These girls will be representing Team 2 for semester 1. Congratulations also go to our 2 year 7 representatives Izabelle Sekuloff and B e n j a m i n P e r h a m , w h i c h w i l l b e representing Team 2 for term 1. These superstars put their name forward and were a no brainer to pick, with their amazing leadership and well respected personalities, Team 2 is will represented. Team 1

I’ve only got one word on my mind, phenomenal! Phenomenal students, phenomenal staff and a phenomenal new school. A massive thank you to all the staff that are working so hard behind the scenes, after- hours, weekends and in their own time to make this team and school such a success, none if this would be possible without you. Welcome to 2019, I believe this is the year of great things if you embrace the opportunities Year 7’s (Term 1) – Blaze Fabello & Nitarcha given to you. Finch On the first day of school I gave the students Year 8’s (Semester 1) – Mason Heta & and staff my 2 expectations for this year, (1) try Sophie Auld your best and (2) learn from your mistakes. Congratulations, I know you guys will be This will be my focus. I know it’s not always amazing! easy, but you CAN do it! Attendance plays such an important role in a students’ schooling career. I urge everyone to please make sure students attend as much school as they possibly can. In the event of a student not being able to make it to school, please let the school know. Teachers can provide work that might have been missed. Our attendance as a team is pretty good, but we need to maintain this and increase it as the year progresses. Assemblies; We will have a Team assembly every fortnight during form to relay any important information to students. These assemblies do not affect class time and are extremely important to get together as a team and discuss issues, general information and successes. We will also do apply draws during these assemblies where students can win stationary, vouchers or other random prizes on offer. We’ve had our Year 7 and 8 orientation day at school. There were 3 zones with 9 stations in Apple tickets can also be traded in for icy each zone. 27 different stations in total! The poles, free time, milo’s, muffins and many students loved the team building games and a more awesome things. chance to get to know other students in their Have a great rest of Term 1, and please do not team. The general vibe around the whole day hesitate to contact me if there are anything was super positive. Thank you to everyone that I can help with. who helped in whatever way. I’ll leave you with a quote from Tony Robbins; Each term we will select two year 7 team “No matter how many mistakes you make or captains, and each semester 2 year 8 team how slow your progress, you are still way captains. Their roles are to lead by example ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” and help out in different areas in the team. It is my pleasure to announce our first team Mr. Fredrick Pritchard captains for 2019: Team 1 Leader The students listed below were awarded Fine Reports or Principal Awards for their 2018 Semester Two Reports – CONGRATULATIONS!

FINE REPORTS

Lucas Goldring 7A1, Mikael Khan 7A1, Belle Kjellgren 7A1, Cassidy McLean 7A1, Tori Nicholson 7A1, Alicia Short 7A1, Chloe Clift 7B1, Kiannah Lee Cross-Marshall 7B1, Emma Doyle 7B1, Darcie Findlay 7B1, Nathan Johnston 7B1, Brianna Palmer 7B1, Cooper Weston 7B1, Skye Hogan 7B2, Jamaica Indich 7B2, Jessica Davies 7C1, Kiana Adams 7M1, Kathleen Barry 7M1, Ethan Broadhead 7M1, Jasper Clarkson 7M1, Charli Cox 7M1, Danita Northrop 7M1, Sharni Percy 7M1, Kyron Sheffield 7M1, James Browne 7Mu1, Tayah Palmer 7Mu1, Nikita Ah-Kim 7Mu2, Francheska Beredo 7Mu2, Aaliyah Gasatan 7Mu2, Axel Jeffery 7Mu2, Marnelle Lopez 7Mu2, Ruby Macpherson 7Mu2, Cendy Madrigal 7Mu2, Emma Matthews 7Mu2, Lakaii Merritt 7Mu2, Chanelle Reilly 7Mu2, Alfred Criddle 8A2, Shalise Baker 8B1, Tennessee Oreo 8B1, Jackson Patten 8B1, Lyndall Shaddick 8C1, Joshua Talbot 8C1, Jai Thompson 8C1, Drew Duffey 8C2, Hunter Jupp 8C2, Mitchel Langham 8C2, Maureece Moustafa 8C2, Christian Searle 8C2, Savannah Tuari 8C2, Abbas Zain Azman 8C2, Lindsay Powell 8G1, Rory Hutchinson 8Mu1, Tahnee Weir 8Mu1, Mathew Ford 9B1, Delta Day 9C1, Kalan Nitschke 9C1, Azlina Sekodel 9C1, Ihaka Tamehana 9C1, Cacha Westwood 9C1, Zachery Wheeldon 9C1, Brianna Hansen 9G1, Brock Reid 9G1, Sayloon Lurven 9G1, Chloe Duffy 9G2, Dakota Tesling 9G2, Jaz Moncrieff 9M1, Jack Garland 9M2, Taliah Halden 9M2, Kiara Hutchinson 9M2, Ella McLevie 9M2, Maude Ryder 9M2, Kiarna Tolley 9M2, Emmalyn Aarts 9Mu1, Kaitlyn Bishop 9Mu1.

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

Kiannah Lee Cross-Marshall 7B1, Darcie Findlay 7B1, Brianna Palmer 7B1, Syrah Boryczewski 7B2, Faith Cook 7B2, Laila Abdul Arnie 7C1, Shire Day 7C1, Adelle Edwards 7C1, Keely Giba 7C1, Nikki Higgins 7C1, Dace Luk 7C1, Chelsea Routledge 7C1, Bailee Symes 7C1, Kalirra Tesling 7C1, Bailey Wallace 7C1, Kayla Wallace 7C1, Ben Grigsby 7C2, Rielly Harwood 7C2, Clint Meyer 7C2, Corban Aarts 7G1, Zayd Akhtar 7G1, Edmarlein Benitez 7G1, Daniel Bowen 7G1, Jacob Coffey 7G1, Claudia Dahlberg 7G1, Annabelle Goforth 7G1, Miriam Grice 7G1, Etienne Horn 7G1, Kayla Jonker 7G1, Jasmin Joyner 7G1, Tristan Maeder 7G1, Luke McMile 7G1, Riley Micono 7G1, Reno Norman 7G1, Kelsey Powell &g1, Asha Robson 7G1, Alana Stringer 7G1, Brooke Taylor 7G1, Georgia Thill 7G1, Michael Whiteside 7G1, Shannon Wild 7G1, Brayden Wishart 7G1, Rose Blakey 7Mu1, Austin Breen 7Mu1, Meagan Crowe 7Mu1, Sienna Farmer 8C2, Jhon Rey Alap-Ap 8M1, Aleesya Amirizal 8M1, Matilda Attwood 8M1, Schenay Blignaut 8M1, Leils-Renae Crowe 8M1, Jaylarnee Manado 8M1, Charlotte McAuliffe 8M1, Charlotte McGowan 8M1, Joshua Quirke 8M1, Moana Smith 8M1, Brynie Wright 8M1, Marshall Childs 8Mu1, Dipsy San Pablo 8Mu1, Thea Volkerts 8Mu1, Gracee Wilson 8Mu1, Rea Jane Alap-Ap 9A1, Montana Bradley 9A1, Cameron Brigatti 9A1, Lily Burgess 9A1, Jasmin Carcuevas 9A1, Jake Chapman 9A1, Eithne Childs 9A1, Savannah Clarke 9A1, Tahlia Cook 9A1, Daniella Faraone 9A1, Kiona Fry 9A1, Bohdana Grosvenor 9A1, Rachel Heald 9A1, Gus Heberle 9A1, Zac Jackson 9A1, Chantelle Jonker 9A1, Cooper Knight 9A1, Ava MacPherson 9A1, Benjamin May 9A1, Erica McCarthy 9A1, Kelsey Newnham 9A1, Ethan O’Neill 9A1, Georgia Ross 9A1, Rauf Van Lierop 9B1, Toby Pergunas 9C1, Ethan Seidel 9G1, Brooke Martin 9G2, Ewan Shephard 9G2, Jack Blick 9Mu1.

Student Services

On The Pulse Update from Student Services Health and Wellbeing Team

Term 1 has got off to a great start. This term we have focused on mental health and our team was invited to present to all year 9 English students so that they could practice writing a summary and article. The presentations focused on how we can protect our mental health and wellbeing and a number of video clips from Headspace were used as well as interactive activities with the students. Many students demonstrated that they already have good health literacy and were able to identify how stress can affect teens and where to seek help locally such as Headspace, Desert Blue Connect, CAMHS and local GPs. Students have also been attending Student Services Art ‘N’ Relax groups and focusing on our strengths and goal setting. One of the activities used the flower as an analogy of growth and students identified ways in which they would like to grow and change over the next year. Individuals then focused on how they can achieve these goals. The activity as then extended to include some relaxation art activities including decorating flower pots and planting flowers as well as clay hearts. Students engaged well with these activities. If you are concerned about yourself or your child remember you are not alone. If you need support please contact the Student Services team via the school office.

Secondary Assistance Scheme The Western Australian Department of Education provides an allowance to assist eligible families with secondary schooling cost. The allowance consists of two components: • $115 Clothing Allowance paid directly to the parent / guardian. • $235 Education Program Allowance paid directly to the school. Please go to Financial Assistance to check your eligibility and come into the from office to complete the forms if you are eligible. This will benefit both you and Champion Bay Senior High School immensely. Applications close 12th of April 2019. Champion Bay Senior High School’s Student Services Student Services Team have been super busy assisIng students with all their well-being needs from the get go this year!! So far this year we’ve facilitated a whole school study skills program with Elevate EducaIon, had visit from the Fremantle Dockers, assisted with a massive day of team building with all of the year 7/8 teams and are running extra team building acIviIes each week with single gender age groups every Thursday! In 2019, Student Services will conInue to be the place for all students to sign in if they are late or where parents/carers may sign their student out if they are needed during the school day! In addiIon to this, the team are sIll commi7ed to health and well-being of all students here at Champion Bay SHS with facilitaIng individual appointments, group sessions and external agency appointments!

Here’s the team behind it all…

Shirley Forrester is the Craig Tapper is the Student Services Student Services Manager attending to all Manager attending to all Year 9 and Year 10 Year 7 and Year 8 students. students.

Amy Pilliner is our Melita Silvasi is one of Community Health Nurse our School Psychologists. who assists students in She is responsible for making healthy choices. Years 7 & 8 and self- She performs health referrals. assessments and runs

Mikaelha Byrnes is one of Crawford Lindsay or ‘Crawf, is our School our School Psychologists. Chaplain who provides safe and non- She is responsible for judgmental counselling services to students, Years 9 and 10 and self- parents and teachers. referrals.

Our rota(ng team of School Officers are a dedicated team who work on the Student Services front counter looking a6er a7endance, assist students in booking appointments and help students with any queries they may have.

Champion Bay SHS is also very proud to announce that we are an official outpost for Headspace – leaders in teen mental health - in 2019. Headspace will be super active in the school assisting students individually up to two days a week and assisting at the Champion Bay Academy with the Year 7 and 8s. The Geraldton Follow the Dream program, established in 2013, is delivered across two campuses: Champion Bay Senior High School (the host school) and Geraldton Senior High School (an outreach school). A dedicated team of specialist tutors and AIEOs (Aboriginal and Islander Education Officers), along with the Program Coordinator, provides an environment that motivates students to engage, learn, work effectively, and achieve their potential at school and in life. The Geraldton program offers targeted enrichment support for academic endeavours, cultural strength and STEM engagement. The program takes advantage of the many opportunities and resources available within the Midwest and surrounding areas. Thanks to connections with many exceptional partners, including the WA Department of Education, students enjoy a wide variety of extra-curricular activities that increase their awareness of real post-school choices and options, including excursions to WA universities, presentations from guest speakers, science fairs, and culture camps. The key purpose of the program is to increase the number of Aboriginal students who achieve a Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) and transition to one of the following successful post school destinations: • University entry via an appropriate ATAR, submission of a portfolio or a relevant Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualification at certificate IV or higher; • TAFE entry to certificate III or higher qualifications; or • An apprenticeship/traineeship or meaningful employment. Follow the Dream is tailored to the specific needs of the participating students and may include: • After-school individual or small group tutoring to target each individual student’s identified learning needs; • Development and monitoring of a personalised learning plan for pathway planning and academic goals; • Course and career counselling, leadership development camps and/or opportunities; • University visits and participation in preparation courses and/or study skills seminars; • Participation in cultural activities, camps or excursions/incursions designed to enhance the students’ sense of cultural identity; and • Forums with guest speakers, local industry and/or post-school training and employment providers.

Eligibility To be eligible for the program, students must: • Identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander; and • Be enrolled in Year 7 to 12 at a Western Australian public school. Additionally, students must demonstrate the following attributes: • Achievement above the national minimum standard in NAPLAN reading and writing; • Achievement above the minimum standard in NAPLAN numeracy; • Work ethic: where teacher recommendation identifies the student as an aspirant who is working consistently; • Leadership demonstrated in school and/or community; and/or • 90% authorised absences.

Contact: Helen Bell Program Coordinator

CLONTARF

The start of the new year has seen some very exciting times here at Clontarf, firstly we have a new school name. We are now all attending Champion Bay Senior High School and with that have new school uniforms, a new school logo and for the first time we have Year 10 students attending that will go all the way through and graduate year 12 in 2021. The first day provided a great spectacle with the entire school population all in the new uniforms and the sight was absolutely amazing to see and a very proud moment for the staff to witness. We also have new look Clontarf shirts that the boys will be working towards with their early morning training sessions. A new group of year 7 boys have entered high school for the first time and have really embraced Clontarf and are extremely excited about their future involvement in our program. As previously stated we also now have year 10’s in our program which is also very exciting and provides a great opportunity for them to be great young leaders and role models for the younger boys coming through. We have a very busy and vibrant calendar of camps and activities to keep the boys striving towards for the first term. Each year group will have a Clontarf induction camp with the year 7’s having as day at the foreshore, year 8’s heading to Kalbarri, year 9’s to Shark Bay / Monkey Mia and the year 10’s off to Perth. We also have morning trainings throughout the term, after school activities and a few dinners and movie nights mixed in for good measure. Staff and students are all refreshed after the holidays and really looking forward to another awesome year in the life of Clontarf which we will keep you informed of along the way.

Inaugural Swimming Carnival a Great Success.

Friday 8th of March 2019 saw to the start of a Many thanks to the school staff who put new era. Champion Bay Senior High School themselves out of their comfort zone to run conducted its first swimming carnival. Four new events and keep the day running smoothly. A houses competing, year 10 students competing special mention to the Health and Physical for the first time and new events set the scene Education staff who have been tirelessly working for this historic day. All winners of championship behind the scenes for weeks making events had the honour of setting records that will preparations for the day. stand in each years program until they can be The day was finally won by Midalia House with bettered. Thanks to the school principal Mrs Drummond House, Sunset House and Campbell who was the chief timekeeper on the Coronation House hot on their heels. day and confirmed all new records. The balmy conditions saw keen completion in both traditional and novelty events. High level of Gary Davies participation was the order of the day as HOLA Health and Physical Education students strived to be in the inaugural winning house.

Final House Standing

Midalia. 765 Drummond. 557 Sunset. 500 Corona7on. 380

. Girls . Boys Year Winner Runner Up Year Winner Runner Up 7 Isabelle Sekuloff. Elise BREEN 7 Jonathan Black. Mark Antonio. 8 Syrah Boryezewski. Kalivia Tesling 8 Oska Flavel. Harrison Lane. 9 Thea Volkerts. Lyndall Shaddick 9 Kaleb Miller, 10 Brooke Mar7n. Alyisha Weir Cael Robson. 10 Dakota Tesling Kieran McKenna.