November 22, 2013

Bellingen High School NEWSLETTER Telephone: 02 66551 315 Fax: 02 66552 630

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

Philosothon

The Bellingen High School Philosothon team participated in this year’s Philosothon

hosted by Bishop Druitt College. With over 100 students

participating, this contest of minds drew students from across the region to compete in

a Community of Inquiry into important philosophical and

ethical issues. This year Madeline Cross, pictured middle, with Jordan Neville and

Madelaine Allen, was awarded the medal for the Most

Promising Female Philosopher in the Junior Division. An excellent achievement.

Congratulation to the students and to Ms Williams who is coordinating this program.

Big Idea Accolades

Below is copy of a letter received from Fiona Barden, Business Consultant, Enterprise & Training Company Limited regarding our Big Idea students; they should be very proud.

“I just wanted to formally acknowledge my admiration for the group of students

I have worked with on the Big Idea – Evie, Stella, Olivia, Amelia, Milli, Noah, Clayton, Daniel, Galen and Flynn.

These students showed a level of maturity, understanding and community spirit of which I am sure you and your staff must be very proud. It was a pleasure to

work with these 10 students as they discovered more about business, teams and themselves. Undoubtedly you have some positive future leaders as part of your school group.

Congratulations.”

The following story was written by Year 8 student, Zane Brandt under exam conditions in response to the Year 8 Stairs Stimulus Photo

Bleary from lack of sleep, I shut my eyes as hard as I can. “Click.” I am

attacked by streams of light, snaking under my eyelids and biting at my eyes.

Eventually they withdraw and I am left standing in the hall, like some kind of

weathered statue.

Slowly, I stretch my stiff limbs out and prepare for my descent to the bathroom.

As if terrified, something is coming from the darkness, I slide my hands down

the smooth polished hand rolls, stubbing my toes on the way. Half way down, I

consider going back upstairs to our kitchen to get a drink first, but my bladders

shove these thoughts out of the way. “Bathroom” they say, “Bathroom, or

things will happen”.

As if spurred on by their threat, I move quickly down the cool, dark stairs and

with a final stub of my fourth toe, I step from the stairs with an exhausted

slumping pair of feet catching the rugged carpet one too many times. Massive

loops of rug stick up from the floor here and there, attempting to block my way.

I charge through, aiming for the bathroom door. As I lunge for the handle, the

carpets final, deadly trap slips out from under my feet and I slam into the wall

with a thump. Stifling a potential shout, I shake off any major damage and

complete my journey to the bathroom.

Two minutes later, I flush, wash my hands, and flick the lights off. Shutting the

door, I turn to the stairs to begin my climb and I realise something. How was I

stubbing my toes on the way down the stairs? My brain says “poor coordination

between me and my limbs”, my feet say “mah bad”, and my eyes say “the cat”.

My lips say “sorry Misty” and my arms say, “pick up the gentle, helpless cat

that I unintentionally kicked four times”. Feeling like a complete idiot, I pick her

up and apologise for my stupidity. With a confused “meow”, I set her down on

the couch and as I prepare to go back upstairs, I see my mate Tony outside my

window.

“Tony!” I yell, oblivious to my sleeping family. “What’s going on mate? Why

are ya up this early?” He turns to me with a white eyed grimace and whispers

“I saw him.” “What did you see?” I reply. “It”, he says quietly. “Are you

serious dude? You actually saw ‘It’”, I say with excitement. “Yeah”, he says. “I

saw ‘It’.” I think to myself, screw school tomorrow, I want to see ‘It’ and I open

the window and climb out to join him. “Where was it mate?” I ask inquisitively.

He turns me around, and points at something in the distance. “Is that”….”Yes”

he says “that’s it.” “Quite a sight if you ask me”. “It sure is”, I reply slowly.

Here Comes the Sun

Here comes the sun is a youth run event designed to show case the very best youth talent in Bellingen. The event is coordinated by Year 10 Bellingen High School students aged between 15 and 16 years who are currently participating in an enterprise learning program called The Big Idea. The students have selected as their ‘big idea’ for 2013 to create an event which will culminate in an authentic youth event to be held in Jarrett Park with an array of youth orientated activities. The event will consist of a skate competition, live home-grown youth acts performing on our main stage, local food stalls and a chai tent. The event also aims to be eco-friendly and sustainable. We hope you can join us on the day.

From the CAPA Faculty The Clappers ‘13

Friday 8th November saw Bellingen High dons its finest and scrub up for the CLAPPER Awards; the school’s annual film festival that showcases the students’ own works. The evening was a huge success, ably compared by the soon to be gone and sadly missed Sam Vallins. Hundreds of students frocked up to walk the red carpet and be in with a chance of winning the best dressed prize, they looked glorious.

The films were of the usual high standard, with the ever popular Peoples’ Choice bringing the house down. The winners were; Jasper Lopez, Best Minute Me, a new category in which the students capture the essence of themselves in 60 seconds; Blaise Borrer won the best documentary/mockumentary with his brilliantly ironic “Music should be banned”; The Best Music video went to Meagan Davis and Charlotte Wilkins for their hysterically funny version of “The Climb”, this film also took out the Peoples’ Choice by a massive majority.

The best dressed competition was, as always, hotly contested and the winners were - Blaise Borrer, Charlotte Wilkins and Bobbi Howell and Khan Carter.

From the TAS Faculty More great projects flowing out the door!

It's like Christmas came early with high quality projects going home from now till the end of

the year. Pictured is John Gaite with a magnificent hand forged steel fruit bowl, Dylan

Swanston with a side table made from a combination of Spotted Gum and Radiata and

Natasha Clancy helping Mr Richards spray her Radiata and Brush Box footstool. Also

pictured are Lia Grosvenor and Grace Costello who kindly spent time bending up some new

book holders for the Library.

Parents are reminded that all students should be wearing leather shoes at school and that

when buying new ones for Christmas, choose leather uppers for your kids so that we can

meet the DEC safety requirements.

Ian Dillon

Head Teacher TAS

Student Representative Council (SRC)

Do you know your SRC representatives? If you can identify the students in the photos above then

you should know that this is the Junior SRC.

The last two weeks have been a busy time for the whole SRC. We have held two successful fund

raisers this term. Our first fund raiser was for the children of Syria who have been displaced by

war and driven to hunger and desperation. The Save the Children Foundation invited us to fund

raise and Georga Hulbert drove this with the support of the SRC who baked cakes and slices to

raise funds. We collected over $360, a great effort I’m sure you’d agree.

Currently we are raising funds to help Karlie Swanson with the cost of her shoes so that she can

compete at Israel next year. We have raised over $120 so far from our recent cake stall and have

BERITA DARI LOTE (INDONESIAN) Halo tahun 7 dan orang tua

Kami sangat beruntung istilah ini memiliki

Purwanti datang dan menunjukkan

kepada kita bagaimana memasak

makanan Indonesia.

Purwanti adalah seorang wanita lokal,

lahir di Indonesia dan telah bekerja

sebagai koki di Australia.

Dia akan mendemonstrasikan makanan

lezat seperti sate, mie goreng dan kami

akan mencicipi makanan penutup manis.

RABU 11 DESEMBER

o

Biaya $ 6

(membawa wadah takeaway)

Menantikan hari besar makan

Ms Newhouse

NEWS FROM LOTE (INDONESIAN) Hello Year 7 and parents

We are so fortunate this term to have

Purwanti come and show us how to cook

Indonesian food.

Purwanti is a local lady, born in Indonesia

and has worked as a chef in Australia.

She will be demonstrating the delicious

foods such as satay, mie goreng and we

will be tasting her sweet desserts.

WEDNESDAY 11th DECEMBER

Cost $6

(bring a takeaway container)

Look forward to a great day of eating

Ms Newhouse

a lolly guessing competition running to raise more money. There will be further fundraisers later

in the term to help Karlie achieve her goal.

The SRC have also been assisting with a Leadership Day at Bellingen Public School.

We welcome suggestions for our events calendar next year, just tell your SRC representative your

ideas and it may just happen.

Brigitte Williams

SRC Coordinator

P&C News Staff Xmas Lunch!

Bellingen High School P&C would like to invite all school staff to lunch at 1pm on Thursday 19th December. We want to thank you all for all the wonderful work that you have done for our children and school this last year.

Any parents who would also like to donate dishes – cold finger foods, salads, cakes and more - or want to help on the day (it'll be easy!) then please contact either Carol Clarkson carolclarkson@bigpond.com or Anna Joy at joycross@bigpond.com

Sport News North Coast Surf Lifesaving Titles

Bellingen High School had a small group of four students compete at the North

Coast Surf Lifesaving Titles held at Yamba recently. Despite the small numbers,

our athletes came away with some very impressive results. Congratulations to all

these athletes.

Katie Thorn 13 years girls 1st Beach Sprint

Jedd Mitchell 15 years boys 2nd Beach Sprint

2nd Ironman

2nd Swim

2nd Board

Jonah Mitchell 14 years boys 2nd Flags

Jonah Mitchell, Katie Thorn,

Ella Steward, Jonah Mitchell 3rd Cameron Relay

Junior Boys Cricket

On Thursday 14th November the Junior Boys Cricket team took on Coffs Harbour

High School in the 3rd round of the North Coast Knockout Cricket tournament.

Losing the toss (again!) we were sent into bat with Byron Auld (Captain) and Sam

Taylor leading the charge. We made a respectable 168 in 40 overs (that’s 4.2 runs

an over) with Sam Taylor (44) and Jonah Mitchell (22) standout batsmen.

Taking to the field we knew we had to keep Coffs’ run rate low, as well as get

through our 40 overs due to the risk of a wash out from the looming storm. The

first wicket fell in Byron Auld’s 1st over and Coff’s batsmen made the walk back to

the stands at regular intervals during the rest of the afternoon. Some of the

standout bowlers were Aaron Rigney (2 wickets for 4 runs off 2 overs) and Joel

Kearsley (2 for 10 off 3 overs). Joel did a wonderful juggle to claim a fantastic

caught and bowl in his 2nd over!!

Coffs were eventually all out in the 27th over for only 89. All up a great

performance including a fantastic team effort in the field. We’re now into the 4th

round against Melville High.

Peter Barron Coach

Gallant Girls!

The Bellingen High School girls and

boys 19 years Futsal teams travelled

to Tweed Heads for the Australian

Futsal Champion of Champions last

weekend.

The girls were a somewhat depleted

team having lost Jess Marks to

Cricket, Shelby Mackenzie to Physical

Culture and Sam Barker to injury.

This meant seven brave players

headed to Tweed Heads for the

titles. Lacking a specialist goal

keeper young 14 year old, Zali Rees

stepped up to do the job. It was a big ask of any untrained keeper, let alone a 14

year old.

The competition started on the Saturday with the girls having a massive 4 games.

The first game against St Peter Claver from Brisbane was a classy game with both

teams displaying their skills. The girls really excelled in this game defeating St

Peter Claver 5-4 in a tight finish.

Unfortunately, with only one game played the girls were already tired and with only

two substitutes found the other three games much harder. The game against

Gympie saw the score just after half time at 1-1 with the girls missing some close

opportunities. In the last three minutes of the game Gympie slotted in four goals

to blow the score out to 1-5. The next game against the highly rated St Monicas

from Cairns, the tired legs really kicked in and St Monicas won 5-1. The final

game of the day against St Josephs from Port Macquarie was a game the girls

should have won, however, with injuries and tiredness winning the girls were lucky to

complete the game losing narrowly 3-2.

Sunday morning arrived with two more games to be played. Fortunately, after a

night’s sleep the girls had a little more energy to play the so far undefeated

Calvary College from Springwood. The girls gave it their all and played some of

their best Futsal surprising many to defeat Calvary 1-0.

After giving everything in their game against Calvary the girls had nothing for the

next game. They lost 5-0 to Shailer Park the eventual winners.

They may not have won the competition but the girls can hold their heads high and

be pleased with the way they played and the tremendous effort they gave.

Jon Winfer/Liz Hoy Sport Coordinators

DATES TO REMEMBER

NOVEMBER JANUARY 2014

25 Year 10 Work Experience Starts 28 School Development Day

26 North Coast Cricket (Girls) 29 Students in Years 7, 11, 12 start

DECEMBER 30 Students in Years 8, 9, 10 start

3-4 Gold Excursion FEBRUARY

6 Year 6 into 7 Orientation Day 7-11 Year 10 Girls Camp

9 Year 6 into 7 Parent Info Night – 6.30pm 10 P&C Meeting

13 Presentation Day Assembly – 10am MARCH

13 Years 7 to 10 Reports Issued 10 P&C Meeting

18 End Term 4 20 School Photographs

20-25 CAPA Excursion – Sydney

APRIL

11 End Term 1

28 School Development Day

29 Term 2 Commences

Back row - left to right - Zali Rees, Cassie Windows, Hannah Taylor, Matilda Brewin, Hannah Rees Front row - left to right - Jemara Imrie, Brie Thomas

HSC Assessment Task Schedule – Term 4

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

8

*Biology

*Earth & Env Science

*Engineering *IT - Timber

9 Society & Culture

10

Modern History

*Maths General *Maths Advanced

*Maths Ext 2

Food Technology

*Maths Ext 1 *CAFS *Music

*All students check, some tasks may not be on this calendar yet.

Canteen Roster

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

25 November 26 November 27 November 28 November 29 November Debbie Bardsley Ruth Battis

2 December 3 December 4 December 5 December 6 December Jo Barr Helen Trist

9 December 10 December 11 December 12 December 13 December

16 December 17 December 18 December 19 December 20 December DEVELOPMENT DAY DEVELOPMENT DAY

“WANTED TO RENT”

INEXPENSIVE

ACCOMMODATION

For a Mum, 3 kids and a dog

If you think you can help, please

contact Ann Phelan in the Music

Department, Thanks.

Nambucca Juniors 2014

Registration Day

WHERE Coronation Oval Nambucca Heads WHEN 15 February 2014 TIME 10am to 2pm

Games and Activities on the Day!!

Need any more information contact Shane Eadie on 0411 458 910 or google NHJRLFC

“Where everyone gets a game”

Bellingen High School Uniform Code

Bellingen High School asks all parents to send their children to school neatly dressed in correct uniform. Every student should take pride in their personal appearance and the wearing of school uniform is an important step in developing a good school spirit. The following is acceptable uniform at Bellingen High School:

GIRLS: YEARS 7-10 ● White button front blouse or polo shirt with collar (no advertisements) ● Blue tartan skirt or royal blue shorts or denim shorts (not more than 10 centimetres from the knee - see picture) ● Dark blue slacks or blue jeans of an acceptable length ● Dark blue jumper and/or school jacket (no hoodies) ● Black shoes, white socks ● Acceptable sports shoes

GIRLS: SPORTS DAY/PE ● Royal blue shorts (not more than 10 centimetres from the knee) ● Gold polo shirt ● Acceptable sport shoes with white socks ● Hat

BOYS: YEARS 7 - 12 ● White button front shirt or polo shirt (no advertisements) ● Dark blue jumper and/or school jacket (no hoodies) ● Grey shorts (not more than 10 centimetres from the knee – see picture), slacks (single colour) or blue jeans ● Black shoes, white or grey socks, acceptable sports shoes

BOYS: SPORTS DAY/PE ● Royal blue shorts (single colour/of an acceptable length) ● Gold polo shirt ● Acceptable sports shoes with blue and gold socks ● Hat

GIRLS: YEARS 11-12 ● White button front blouse or polo shirt with collar (no advertisements) ● Royal blue skirt or royal blue shorts or denim shorts (not more than 10 centimetres from the knee) ● Dark blue slacks or blue jeans of an acceptable length ● Dark blue jumper and/or school jacket (no hoodies) ● Black shoes, white socks ● Acceptable sports shoes

Unacceptable dress for Bellingen High School:

Stretch skirts (this is not negotiable). Girl’s shorts that are too short. Ripped clothing Singlets, string shoulder tops as shirts, sleeveless shirts Low cut necklines or armholes, blouses/shirts that are indecent in a school

environment; midriff tops (see skin, not in) Slogans or pictures excepting brand names (as in small pocket sized logo) No underwear as outwear (e.g. petticoats). Hoodies Coloured ties Long coloured / striped socks Sandals, crocs, thongs, high heels, ugg boots or slippers

Students wearing unacceptable dress will be either asked to change into school clothing or sent home.

Safety: NO long hanging bracelets, necklaces or earrings, excessively loose garments in practical subjects and sports activities.

Establishing and maintaining safe working environments is fundamental to the work of teachers. Footwear is an important safety item. Good soles provide a sound grip on the floor preventing accidents from occurring. Footwear can also protect feet from mechanical or chemical damage. DEC policy clearly states that it is mandatory that students carrying out practical activities using chemicals or equipment in schools wear enclosed leather footwear. This includes all Science, Industrial Arts and Home Economics classes. Our new Bellingen High School commercial stainless steel kitchen began operation last year and no student will be allowed in without leather footwear.

Leather shoes can now be purchased for as little as $20. Leather skate shoes and leather joggers are now readily available trendy options other than the traditional school shoe.

We urge parents to provide their children with leather upper shoes so that we can meet our OH&S obligations.

Remember that if students are out of uniform they are

required to bring a note from home AND/OR see

the Deputy Principal for a red uniform slip.

Are you a parent of a teenager in the

Coffs Harbour area? This may be useful for you

Monday 2 December 2013 9:30am to 2:30pm

@ Headspace Coffs Harbour Shops 27-30. Northside Shopping Centre

81 Park Beach Road, Coffs Harbour

For more information and/or to register to attend please ring and talk to

Bec White on 6651 1788 or email becwhite@midcc.org.au Bookings are

essential. Places are limited.

This is a joint project of the Mid Coast Communities

in it Together (iiT) service, CRANES FRSP and Headspace.

Workshop for Parents of Teenagers

Understanding Anger

in Your Family

This FREE workshop is for parents/significant adults of young people aged 12-17 years

old who live in the Coffs Harbour Area.

Is Anger a problem in your family?

Staying calm when kids stress out.

Help your young person understand and express their anger in healthy ways.

Understand the dynamics of anger in your family.