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TERM 2 WEEK 5A MONDAY 28 MAY □ Preliminary Assessment Period □ Yr 8 Technology Assessment Task Due - 8T5,8,9 □ Greenday Sponsorship excursion □ Psychology career discussion 2 pm

TUESDAY 29 MAY □ Preliminary Assessment Period □ QTIP TRAINING □ Stage 5 Debating : Library : C Vodicar □ HSC English Adv and Stand Assessment Task p3 and 4 – MPC □ Greenday Sponsorship with students 12-3pm: C Hayden □ Bill Turner Girls : 12-3pm – B Donaghey MORE DISTINGUISHED YEARS OF SERVICE

This week we once again recognise significant achievements WEDNESDAY 30 MAY and milestones of our teachers who also received certificates □ Preliminary Assessment Period from Mark Scott, Secretary of the Department of Education. Congratulations and thank you to Ms Glabus (20 Years), Ms □ Year 12 PLP Interviews Freer (20 years), Ms Sandland (20 years) and Ms Nowak (20 □ Starstruck Rehearsal Newcastle Entertainment Years). We thank them for their dedication to supporting our Centre A Grivas students and distinguished service to our community.

□ Open Girls Hockey KO 1-3 pm : J Lawrence □ Aboriginal dance class : sport ConnectED Conference for NSW Public School □ PLCG 7.30am - 8.30am: M. Davies Principals On Thursday 24 and Friday 25 the Music Department represented our school by providing all the musical THURSDAY 31 MAY entertainment at the Principal's Conference at Crowne Plaza, □ Preliminary Assessment Period Pokolbin. A wonderful opportunity for our students to perform and be seen by all the Principals, Directors of Education and □ Yr 8 Technology Assessment Task Due - 8T4 Secretary, Mr. Mark Scott. □ Year 12 PLP Interviews

FRIDAY 1 JUNE □ Preliminary Assessment Period □ Yr 11 ROSE Awards □ Year 12 PLP Interviews □ Year 9 Visual Arts Assessment Task due □ UoN Student Observation Visit (15 Students) - J Lawrence

From the Principal’s Desk

PARENT LEARNING COMMUNITY GROUP A reminder you’re invited to attend the upcoming Parent Learning Community Group on Wednesday May 30. We hope to see you there:

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Students Emma Masters, Amy Mason, Shelby Lincoln, Sophie For parents of students who are new to the school and have Carson and Emily Parkes, support by Mr Wilson, all performed not been set up with a parent portal account, please send the over the two days to an extremely appreciative audience, who school an email requesting one to be setup and this can be have praised their professional sound and enjoyable done before the booking process begins. performances to begin their days at the ConnectEd conference. Once you are registered on the parent portal, follow these instructions to book parent teacher interviews.

1. When you log in to your portal, you will see many active links that will allow you to keep up to date with what's on at LHS. 2. Parent teacher interviews for years 11 and 12 will become visible and accessible via your portal (only if you have a student in these years) from 9 am on Wednesday 30th of May. 3. Once you hover over the green interview link, the current interview setup title will appear, select it. There are instructions to follow on this screen. 4. You are now are in the booking section, scroll down to see the subjects your student is enrolled in. 5. On the right you will see a button that when clicked will display available time slots for your student’s teacher. 6. Once all selected, ensure you click on confirm appointments button at the bottom. Amy Mason and Emma Masters Confirmation emails regarding your appointments will be sent to the email address you used to set up your parent portal.

TIMETABLES UPDATED WEEK 5 Some minor timetable changes have been necessary. This week, Monday 28th May (the start of Week 5) we will have a timetable change. The main change will be that Tuesday WkA Period 2 and Period 6 will switch positions in the timetable. There will be some other minor changes to teachers that have classes. Students are advised to please check Sentral Student Portal to see the most current timetable. http://web1.lambton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/portal

STEAM TRANSITION WORKSHOP Shelby Lincoln, Emily Parkes, Sophie Carson and On Tuesday Mr Wilson. 22nd May, a select group YEAR 11 AND 12 PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS of Year 6 students Parents of Years 11 and 12 students need to be aware that the from our bookings for the upcoming parent teacher night scheduled for feeder Monday 4th June will open as of Wednesday 30th of May at Primary 9am and close at 12pm on Monday 4th June. The bookings Schools are only accessible via the parent portal. attended a Please be aware that if you have forgotten your password for STEAM the parent portal there is a "forgot password" function at the Workshop at Lambton High School. Hosted by Mr Bozinovski, bottom of the login page (in red print) that will allow you to the students worked through various activities during two have a new password sent to your email address. sessions.

Login at http://web1.lambton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/portal

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Overall, the students participating greatly enjoyed their day, having an early experience using our varied and innovative STEM learning resources. Students who attended were presented with participation certificates. Thank you to the Year 9 girls for their support, and Mrs Davies for her organisation and communication with our feeder primary schools. For Session 1 the Students worked through an introductory course on the 3D modelling program SketchUp, where the CAREERS CORNER students had a competition to design a house using the software. Having established some foundation skills, the Last Thursday, 152 students from Year 10, attended the Careers Expo at Newcastle Jockey Club. Students had the students then focused on the primary task to design a bag-tag/ opportunity to visit over 100 exhibitors and discuss career keyring to be printed on our 3D printers. pathways. Many students discovered new and exciting jobs

and most importantly the expo inspired Lambton students to really start thinking about what they enjoy and how this passion can transfer into employment. It was a pleasure taking this well mannered group of students to an external classroom for career planning. Mrs Gocher

During Session 2 the students participated in a robot space navigation challenge using our school Sphero Robots. The students were required to navigate a maze using block coding language after determining the speed of their robots after A White Card (also known as a General Construction Induction completing some mathematical equations. The students were Card) is a mandatory work certificate required in Australia to mentored by Year 9 iSTEM students Nupur Garg, Alexa Stuart, order to work on a construction site and in some other and Charu Kansal, during the robotics challenge. industries.16 students successfully gained this certificate by

completing a face-to-face government mandated course. Most The girls also presented a valuable insight into elective choices of the students will be using this certificate for work experience at Lambton High School to our feeder school students, in the construction industry. If students are interested in providing examples of work undertaken during elective gaining this qualification, please see Mrs Gocher in the career mathematics and iSTEM. office so another course can be organised.

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John Hunter Hospital and Hunter New England Health are Lambton’s lead, running away to cooly slot home. Lambton excited to offer students in the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and would go to the break 3-0 up, with Hilton adding to his tally Maitland areas the opportunity to attend the very popular John from a cheeky backheel. Hunter Hospital showcase days. A Multi-Disciplinary Healthcare Showcase is scheduled for Monday 30th July 2018. (This Showcase includes a variety of healthcare disciplines outside of Nursing & Midwifery that work within the hospital environment - such as physiotherapy, speech pathology, occupational therapy) Please see the linked information with regards to the process for applications to attend, student information and, expectations of students via the Portal student notices. Applications are attached and available in the careers office and must be returned via careers advisors. http://web1.lambton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/portal After the break Lambton would continue to dominate with Fameli getting his brace. Goal of the match came from Hilton, Bookings are taken in the order they are received. securing his hat-trick with a smashing freekick from outside the There are limited places to attend this event. box. Late in the game, Fameli would bag another goal securing his hat-trick. Lambton 6 defeating Muswellbrook 0, securing a spot in the regional finals on Wednesday 23rd May, versus .

With Lambton needing a win to secure a spot representing the region, Callaghan would be no push over as many of our students played club football with our opponents, adding extra spice to the fixture. The game started a cagy affair, neither team threatened early on. A bursting run down the flank from left back Aiden Goodbun would bear fruit, cutting in towards goal he was clumsily brought down, penalty Lambton. Alex Hilton stepped up the spot and gave the keeper no chance. Lambton would go to the halftime break 1 goal to nil up.

The second half started much like the first with our midfields trading blows leading to a few corners each, but few shots on goal. Samuel Haren’s tricky footwork in the box would lead to another Lambton penalty as he turned his player in tight quarters only to be felled. Once again, Hilton stepped up and dispatched the penalty. A silly freekick given away outside our box led to a Callaghan goal as they chipped over the top of the wall for their striker to run onto and bundle into the goal. This set up a very tense final 10 minutes with Callaghan beginning to take the ascendency. Our backs showed good composure to weather the storm. We would put the game out of reach . after a quick break away, after our first shot was blocked the rebound fell nicely to Rory Kalnins to curl a fine shot to the back stick. Lambton 3 defeating Callaghan College 1. Lambton will now represent the as it’s “B” qualifier. We will take on the North Sydney B qualifier, game to be played before the end of term. Congratulations to all players who contributed to our success during the qualifying rounds. LAMBTON LIGHT THE WAY!!! Mr Bozinovski

OPEN BOYS FOOTBALL ROUND 4 AND REGIONAL FINALS REPRESENTATVE SPORT ACHIEVEMENTS

On Monday 21st May, the Lambton HS Opens Football Team travelled to Magic Park to take on Muswellbrook HS in our re-  Hunter SSSA Open Girls Basketball scheduled Round 4 fixture. Lambton started brightly and would Team: Chyra Evans (Hunter placed 3rd in be rewarded for some good interplay as Alex Hilton would NSW - Chyra named Hunter Region MVP) open the scoring for Lambton pouncing on a goal line scramble to toe-poke home. Nando Fameli would soon double Lambton Short-Takes A welcoming school leading in excellence, innovation and opportunity Lambton High School T(02)49523977 F(02)49562429 E:[email protected]

 Hunter SSSA Open Boys Rugby Union TEAM SPORT ACHIEVEMENTS Team: Hayden Comyns (Hunter placed 5th  Open Girls Football Team: Through to the in NSW) NSWCHS Final 16 after defeating Tomaree HS (10-0). The girls coached by Mr Raschke will now play the winner from the Sydney South-West region for a spot in the final 8 in NSW. Fantastic effort from the team!

 Open Boys Football Team: Through to the NSWCHS Final 16 after defeating Callaghan College (3-1).  Open Boys and Girls Tennis Teams: Defeated in the Hunter Region Finals Series.

 NSW All Schools Open Girls Water Polo Team: Alexie Lambert (NSW won the School Sport Australia Championship defeating QLD 11-7)

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FRIDAY 8 JUNE CITY ZONE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL □ Preliminary Assessment Period □ Year 12 ROSE Awards  Permission notes and money must be submitted to the Student Office by the end Mr Gary Bennett – Principal of Recess on Thursday 31 May 2018. Spare permission notes or withdrawals from the To view previous Short-Takes e-newsletters go to the Lambton High School website at www.lambtonhighschool.com.au team need to be organised with Mr Keath Facebook: www.facebook.com/LambtonHS

or Mrs Smith (PDHPE Faculty). The Lambton Short-Takes e-newsletter provides a snapshot of some of the programs and events occurring at the school and it is not intended to address student participation in every school activity or sporting event.

P&C ASSOCIATION MEETING

School staff voluntarily provide tuition support for students Meetings are held at 7.00pm on the second Tuesday of each each week. Students can use this opportunity to gain month in the Library. The next meeting will be held on: assistance with classwork, assignments, homework and  12 June assessment. This is available in the Library from 3.05 pm to 4 pm every Thursday afternoon.

The week after

TERM 2 WEEK 6B MONDAY 4 JUNE

□ City Zone Athletics Carnival

□ Preliminary Assessment Period □ Year 11 and 12 PT Interviews

□ Skills Show Aust.: Cosserttini/Bertram

TUESDAY 5 JUNE

□ Preliminary Assessment Period-

□ Wellbeing Day Yr 7(p 1-3) Yr8 (p 4-6) - K. Birrell □ Year 9 Semester 1 Maths exam

□ Yr 9&10 Debating 9-3 pm : Meg Salter

WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE Paul Muggleton

□ Preliminary Assessment Period [email protected] Mobile: 0410581452 □ Year 6 ATSI Event

□ ARTIBALD 5.30.7.30PM

□ Open Girls Hockey KO 9-3 pm : J Lawrence

THURSDAY 7 JUNE

□ Preliminary Assessment Period L

□ Wellbeing Day Yr 9 (p 1-3) Yr 10 (p 4-6) - K Birrell hort-Takes

□ 12 Geography exc. : K Williams

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