West Wyalong High School 30 Dumaresq Street West Wyalong NSW 2671 T 02 69722700 F 02 69722236 Newsletter E [email protected] SINCERITY MONDAY OCTOBER 30 2017 TERM 4 WEEK 4 [email protected]. We value your opinion and we appreciate the ongoing support of our families and the local community. STRIVING FOR SCHOOL EXCELLENCE It has been a hectic start to the term with many TERM 4 CALENDAR additional opportunities for our students. Mr Lees co- ordinated a great experience for fourteen students WEEK 4 who successfully completed an intense shearing Year 12 Work Placement 30 Oct-3 Nov school. All of these students gained a valuable insight Penrith Exchange Program into the skills and demands of this career. Girls CHS Basketball ‘Final 8’ 31 Oct – 2 Nov at Terrigal Mrs Barnes and her Year 9/10 Food Technology students participated in a catering experience for the Wednesday 1 Nov CHS Water Polo – Albury 10-year anniversary of the Lake Cowal Foundation. WEEK 5 The food and service was greatly appreciated by the Thursday 9 Nov Creative Minds Exhibition eighty plus visitors to the conservation centre. Evolution Mining, LCF and LCCC are great supporters of our school and we value the work of RETURN OF TROPHIES Sally Russell and Mal Carnegie in providing exciting As the end of year fast approaches, could all West environmental experiences for our students. Wyalong High School academic and sporting trophies please be returned to the school as soon as possible. Ms Maslin transported our Rotary exchange students to Forbes on Saturday for their weeklong visit to Penrith. Our students always enjoy this experience HSC EXAM TIMETABLE – 2017 and I look forward to their reports about their work Year 12 students are continuing with their exams and experiences and their time with host families. A huge their timetable for the next couple of weeks is below:- thankyou to Ms Forster who co-ordinated all of the documentation and communications with Nepean MONDAY Morning Physics and West Wyalong Rotary. 30/10/17 Afternoon English Extension 1 Afternoon Community and Family 31/10/17 We have many additional experiences for our Studies students as we progress through our final term 1/11/17 Morning Chemistry however, our core business is teaching and learning. Morning Legal Studies We expect all students to commit to their studies and 2/11/17 we continue to develop appropriate pathways for Afternoon Electro technology (VET) individual career development. We have the Afternoon Visual Arts expectation that students who participate in activities 3/11/17 Art Criticism and Art outside of the classroom make appropriate History arrangements with their teacher to catch up on their 6/11/17 Morning Food Technology learning. Normally these arrangements are made 7/11/17 Morning Design and Technology before the students miss any lessons. Our school continues to develop close links with the REMINDER - YEAR 12 FAREWELL wider community and we are looking at strengthening these connections in our 2018-2020 school plan. We DINNER are in the early stages of planning for 2018 and The dinner for Year 12 students will be held on FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10, after the HSC examinations have been beyond and we thank all of our community members completed. The invitations have been sent out. If you are who have contributed to the consultation process. attending this event could you please contact the school to We will complete our community surveys next week RSVP as soon as possible. Payment is due by Friday and draw our IGA $100 voucher winner. If you have October 27 2017. any suggestions about making our school a better place, please email me at SINCERITY MONDAY, October 30 2017 TERM 4 WEEK 4 YEAR 8 SSAI NATIONAL PRIMARY & Come on down to appreciate the hard work of our SECONDARY SCHOOLS POSTER West Wyalong High School students! COMPETITION Earlier in the year it was reported that the year 8’s had created a poster after collecting their own data and entered their work into a national poster competition ran by SSAI. Even though judging is currently underway, the students received their participation certificates this week for their entries. The winners will be announce mid-November. Good luck year 8. SYDNEY EXCURSION Year 11 students studying Legal Studies, Geography and Business Studies travelled to Sydney on the 11th to 13th of October to visit a range of places to use as case studies to support their HSC studies. For the first time, Henry Lawson High School’s Business and Legal Studies classes joined the excursion accompanied by Mrs Griffiths. The first place we visited on the excursion was the Parramatta family courts where we found out about the operations of the family courts from the Senior Registrar Mr Paul Lelarge and Retired Senior Family Court Judge The Honory David Collier. Here we also learnt about the issues facing family courts in relation to access and efficiency, the importance of the registrar and alternative dispute resolution mechanism. After our session at the courts, we battled the traffic on Parramatta road and headed into The Sydney harbour YHA where we walked down to Circular Quay to catch a ferry for a cruise over to Darling Harbour. This was a chance for students to experience Darling Harbour on our way to have dinner in china town to allow the geography students an opportunity to see an urban village. On day two, we woke up nice and early to walk down to Martin Place in the hope of making an appearance on Sunrise. To our surprise, Jessica Mauboy was there signing autographs for the new Secret Daughter soundtrack and Sam Mack was out the front doing the weather. The students also got the CREATIVE MINDS EXHIBITION opportunity to meet and get a photo with Kochie, Sam It’s that time of year again! Yes, the Creative Minds and Beretts. From Sunrise, we walked down to the Sydney Tower Exhibition is on in the MPU. eye to go through the kitchen and restaurant of This year we will be exhibiting a host of displays, Sydney Tower Dining. This was a great opportunity including an array of artworks, textiles, PBL Projects th for the business studies students to utilise another and MC class work on Thursday the 9 of November case study while the geography students had a bird’s between 3pm and 8 pm and on Friday from 9 am to eye view of the city while we all enjoyed a buffet 12 pm. lunch. In the afternoon the geography students In addition, we will be displaying HSC major works walked over to Maritime Museum to do fieldwork from the class of 2017 visual arts, textiles and D&T investigating the urban dynamics of Pyrmont, while students. www.westwyalon-h.schools.nsw.edu.au SINCERITY MONDAY, October 30 2017 TERM 4 WEEK 4 everyone else headed to the Police and Justice wonderful instructors: Mick Pora – Cowra, Brian Museum to participate in a Trial Run and explore the Sullivan – Deniliquin, Shaun Wilson – Young. museum. Your patience and knowledge of the shearing Thursday night we caught the bus over to Manly to industry was evident in what our students learnt in have dinner on the esplanade and then headed out one week of shearing. They realised the physicality to the Manly Quarantine Centre to participate in a of the job and the importance of correct technique to Ghost tour. It was extremely interesting to hear about lower stress levels on the body. some of the inhumane operations of the centre and another great case study to demonstrate how land can be utilised if it is heritage listed. On Friday, the legal studies and geography students walked over to the Wayside Chapel in Potts Point to hear about the operation of the centre to utilise as a case study for social crime prevention, while the geography students were able to utilise Kings Cross as a great example of culture of place. They then caught the train over to Milsons Point to meet the Business Studies students who were learning about Luna Park as a business case study. The excursion was an invaluable experience and thanks needs to go to Miss Maslin who drove the school bus to Grenfell to meet the coach at 6am on Wednesday morning and to Mr Duncan who drove the bus to Grenfell to pick us up on Friday night. Thankyou also to Mr Hague for supervising the excursion and Mrs Markham for organising the excursion. SHEARING SCHOOL During week 2 of term 4 fourteen students from West Wyalong High School attended a shearing school run by Australian Wool Innovations. The fourteen students who attended were Zac Anderson, Joe Amarant, Jacob Lebner, Ethan Rowe, Bobby Jones, Max Jones, Harry Judd, Annie Worner, Chloe Worner, Gracelyn Norton, Harrison Thomas, Toby Whyte, Trent Bell and Billy Jones. The students learnt how to shear using The Five Pillars of Shearing: 1 Gear and Cut, 2 Position, 3 Freehand, 4 Grip, and 5 Entry. They looked at the wool handling side of shearing and the importance of classing wool correctly. Throughout the week, they were reminded of the importance of good manners, hygiene and looking after themselves in relation to healthy eating, plenty of sleep and staying hydrated. Teamwork was AEROBIC NATIONALS 2017 another message passed onto the students. After gaining a place in the National finals 2017, West A big thank you to John and Leanne Staniforth for Wyalong High School students, Jessica Payne, Katie providing us with the venue. The shed has plenty of Clemson, Tianna O’Meley, Britney Troy, Jessica space and allows the students to group together Butcher, Alana Donaldson and Kimberley Wright when the instructors demonstrate an aspect of the shearing procedure.