June 6, 2014

Bellingen High School NEWSLETTER

Telephone: 02 66551 315 Fax: 02 66552 630

http://www.bellingen-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

From the CAPA Faculty Music Notes

Choir excursion to Sydney! Our school Choir had a fantastic excursion

to Sydney to participate in the Arts Unit Program “In Concert”. The repertoire included Stevie Wonder arrangements by the “Idea of North” a leading a cappella ensemble from Sydney who have performed at major jazz festivals. Other repertoire highlighted Australian composer Ben van Tienen and Handel‘s “Zadok the Priest” which lifted the roof off the Sydney Town Hall. Students had a great time being a part of this annual event. The choir would love more tenors and basses!! Rehearsals are Wednesday mornings commencing at 8.00am.

“Horns on Helium” perform at Bellingen Show Bellingen High

students who make up the jazz outfit “Horns on Helium” performed at the Bellingen Agricultural Show. Blaise Borrer, Oscar Eager, Josh Thompson and Max Littlemore performed original jazz/Latin/funk compositions written by both Blaise and Oscar. These compositions are dynamic and fresh incorporating the originality of these young composers.

Australian Chamber Orchestra Workshop The Bellingen High

String Ensemble participated in a workshop held by the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Bellingen at the Memorial Hall. This is in conjunction with their upcoming performance at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday 7th August. If you have had the pleasure of passing by the music rooms during rehearsals, our String Ensemble are absolutely exceptional.

Youth Orchestra to perform with Jane Rutter! The Bellingen

Youth Orchestra will also be performing with Australian flautist Jane Rutter on Saturday 28th June at the Bellingen Memorial Hall. Many Bellingen students make up this orchestra along with other students from the Coffs Coast. The orchestra have been rehearsing very hard for this exciting event under the wonderful direction of Ms Annie Phelan.

Bellingen High School Musical Finally our musical “My Fair Lady” is

in full rehearsal mode. It is gearing up to be a great show. Our cast are exceptional and working very hard amongst all other school commitments. Some sneak previews of rehearsals have already highlighted engaging character roles. Communication amongst actors and rehearsal director, Taylor Pearce have proven to be very productive, setting the tone for cast collaboration - all members are enjoying this wonderful creative positive environment. Performances are scheduled for June 12th through to the 14th …..... Not to be missed!!

Linda Cochrane CAPA Faculty

Bellingen High School P&C Meeting

6.30pm - Monday 16 June

Staff Common Room

All Welcome!

Martial Arts and Fitness Classes

with Glenn Puckeridge

Glenn has 35 years’ experience in self-defence and fitness instruction and is a

Government Accredited Instructor.

0428 360 227

www.suntzu-kungfu.com.au

From the P&C - CAN YOU HELP?

As part of our support for the upcoming school musical the Bellingen High School P&C will be serving refreshments at the

Canteen and running a raffle over the three performance nights.

School musicals are a fantastic way of building and nurturing the

whole school community. This year’s musical My Fair Lady is

sounding and looking fantastic. The cast and musicians have been

working overtime to create a great show. Of course all the behind

the scenes work on costumes, sets, lighting and props is now

starting to come together as well. Once again Bellingen High’s

creative talent is shining through! Let’s get together to make this a

great whole school event!

If you feel you can support by offering a prize for the raffle or

helping out on the canteen roster please let us know – we need

another couple of helpers.

Performance Evenings are the 12th, 13th and 14th June.

Please contact our P&C President David Neville at email laddietrina@hotmail.com

Tickets are available at the door! We look forward to seeing you

there!

From the Principal

It’s been another busy couple of weeks. Thanks to all the organising teachers, participating students and spectators for their efforts at last week’s Athletics Carnival. I was very pleased with the student’s attendance and participation. Some records were broken including a record number of teachers who entered in the relay competition. With eleven staff making up two teams of five, I as Captain stood down to ensure everyone got a run. We achieved a 3rd and 7th placing and at our post run meeting we decided to concentrate on batten changes in preparation for next year’s event.

Congratulations to Nick Hiller recipient of the P&C Teacher of the Month Award. Nick has an extensive Agricultural facility to manage together with teaching a range of Agriculture subjects. Many of our students enjoy the opportunity participating in the Agricultural Shows in the district - especially more recently the number of very early starts with his cattle team. Parents, students and his colleagues are very appreciative of the effort he puts in.

The school musical, My Fair Lady commences next week with a number of matinee and evening performances. There are many students involved who have invested many hours rehearsing and helping with stage props and costumes. The staff involved are very excited about the quality of the show and are looking forward to the students having performances with full houses. It would be great if you could bring your family along to one of these events, have a great night’s entertainment, support the cast and crew and check out the outstanding abilities of our students. Spread the word and I will see you there.

Our annual Quirindi visit is coming up in Week 9, the last week of this term. It’s a great school tradition that I support and encourage as many students as possible to participate in. This year we are travelling to Quirindi and I thought I should go along to check out how it works and to support our teams. We leave on Tuesday 24th and return Thursday 26th June. At school during this time there will be a requirement to combine some classes and for teachers to cover for their colleagues. I have asked for as normal a program as possible to continue at school during this time with meaningful activities provided. I hope you encourage your child to go to Quirindi or school during this time.

Recently Joel Cooper represented North Coast in rugby union at the Combined High Schools State Championships in Newcastle. Terry Simpson the North Coast convenor wrote to me to say: “I have nothing but the highest praise for Joel in the manner that he conducted himself over the four days of the carnival. Joel is a credit to Bellingen High School by showing exemplary behaviour, great sportsmanship and a high level of skill.” I can only add well done Joel.

Paul Holding

Sport News Lawn Bowls

The Opens Lawn Bowls Triples team made it to

the 4th round of the State Knock-out before

being defeated in a close game against Wollumbin

High School. The Bellingen team was up by 1

bowl but ended up losing 2 bowls in the very last

end. Our team had a few convincing wins on

home turf before having to play away against

Wollumbin High.

All three bowlers played well in all matches and

should be very proud of their achievements.

Our Bellingen High Triples Lawn Bowls Team (left to right) – Jarrod Mitton, Calin Lyttle and Corey Wedlock.

Jarrod Mitton Corey Wedlock

Calin Lyttle

Senior Futsal

Bellingen High wins all divisions!

After the Junior Futsal teams won all their divisions in the area Futsal titles it was

time for the senior teams to see if they could match the feat.

On Thursday, 22nd May the 16’s and 19’s girls travelled to Port Macquarie and the

16’s and 19’s boys travelled to Coffs Harbour to take on the teams from our area.

The teams weren’t to disappoint with the 16’s and 19’s girls facing Westport,

Camden Haven and Wauchope. All the games were hard however both teams

managed to defeat their opposition and were Champions on the day.

The boys 16’s and 19’s teams finished on top of their pools which put them in the

final against Bishop Druitt College in both cases. The 16’s thrashed BDC 12-0 and

the 19’s beat BDC 8-0.

This means of the 7 teams entered in the area Futsal Titles, Bellingen High School

has won 7 out of 7 divisions. These teams are now looking forward to the Regional

Finals.

Liz Hoy/Jon Winfer Sport Coordinators

16s and 19s girls’ team: Back row - Amelia Brewin, Jeannette Kambere, Ochre Pastro, Moala Mackenzie, Hannah Taylor, Katie Thorn, Sam Barker, Alex Jandzio Fry Middle row - Jess Marks, Jemara Imrie, Katelyn Wolfe, Simone Fuller-Byrne, Brie Thomas, Zali Rees Front row - Gita Pastro, Bess Condran

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ASSESSMENT TASKS – TERM 2

YEAR 12

SUBJECT WEEK TASK WEIGHTING

Ancient History

Business Studies

English Extension 1

English Extension 2

Food Technology

Geography

Mathematics

Mathematics General

Music Extension

Sport Lifestyle & Recreation

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YEAR 11

SUBJECT WEEK TASK WEIGHTING

Agriculture

Ancient History

Biology

Business Studies

Drama

Engineering Studies

English Advanced

English Extension 1

English Standard

Hospitality

IT Metals/Engineering

PDHPE

Society & Culture

Sport, Lifestyle & Recreation

Visual Arts

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SUBJECT WEEK TASK WEIGHTING

Film & Video

Metal

PASS

Timber

Visual Arts

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Mockumentary/Theory – Mockumentary

Prac Task – Automotive Stool/Half Yearly Exam

Practical Assessment/Lifestyle, leisure and recreation

Half Yearly Exam/Practical Task – Colonial Table

Art making Task 2/Art History - Criticism

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DATES TO REMEMBER

JUNE NOVEMBER

9 Queens Birthday Holiday 3-7 Years 7/8 Exams

12-14 School Musical 7 HSC Concludes

16 P&C Meeting 7 NCCHS Surf Lifesaving

16-20 Senior State Music Camp 10 P&C Meeting

18 MNC Athletics 10-14 Years 9/10 Exams

24-26 Quirindi Visit 17-21 Year 10 Futures

27 End Term 2 24-28 Year 10 Work Experience (Week 1)

30 Jane Rutter/Youth Orchestra Concert DECEMBER

JULY 1-10 Year 10 Work Experience (continued)

7-11 NAIDOC Week 2 Silver Excursion

14 School Development Day 2-3 Gold Excursion

14-18 Trial HSC (Part 1) 5 Year 6 into 7 Orientation Day

14-18 Junior State Music Camp 8 Year 6 into 7 Parent Evening

15 Term 3 Commences 8 P&C Meeting

21 Year 8 into 9 Student/Parent Subject Selection Information Evening

11 Year 10 Clearance Day

28 – 1 Aug Education Week 12 Presentation Day

28 Education Week starts 12 Years 7 to 10 Reports issued

AUGUST 17 End Term 4

1 NCCHS Regional Athletics 18-19 School Development Days

5-7 NSWCHS Lawn Bowls State Carnival

11 P&C Meeting

11 Cybersmart Presentation for Years 7/8/9

18-22 Trial HSC (Part 2)

18-22 Year 11 HSIE/Science Excursion

19-21 Ag Quip

SEPTEMBER

4 Year 12 Farewell Social

8 P&C Meeting

9-12 Year 11 Exams

15-19 Year 11 Info Tech/Business Services / Hospitality Work Placement

18 Year 12 Final Assembly

19 End Term 3

OCTOBER

7 Term 4 Commences

13 P&C Meeting

13 HSC Written Exams Commence

15 Years 7 and 9 Vaccinations

31 MNC Cricket Trials (Boys)