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Our Thoughts are with those in Christchurch

As a community and extended family valuing peace and harmony, we would like to extend our deep sympathies to everyone affected by the tragic events that took place in Christchurch on Friday. Our hearts go out to everyone affected, especially our New Zealand friends, their families, and those directly involved in this distressful experience.

For those who may need support and assistance, and to reach out and speak to trained mental health professionals, the following wellbeing and support services website links and contact numbers are provided:

Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 Kids Helpline Australia 1800 55 1800 For those able to lend a hand, support for the victims and their families can be provid-ed via funding and donation services, including: Victim Support Launch Good’s United for Christchurch

Give a Little’s Christchurch Shooting Victims Fund May we all continue to support and care for each other.

Ken Green Principal

Event Calendar

Toowoomba Royal Show Holi-

day Thursday 28th March

Clontarf Yr 11&12

Rewards Camp (Noosa) 1st - 3rd April

Yr 7 Adventure Day

Tuesday2nd April

Clontarf Yr 9&10 Rugby League Carnival

1st - 3rd April

Interhouse Cross Country Wednesday 3rd April

Musical Rehearsal Thursday 4th April

Yr 9 Camp Emu Gully

Friday 5th April

Final Day Term 1 Friday 5th April

First Day Term 2

Tuesday 23rd April

ANZAC Day Commemorative Ceremony

Your P&C Association is a group of like minded people, parents and citizens, who take

on a more formal role to assist Harristown State High School in providing feedback on

school policies and activities.

The Harristown State High School P&C raises funds from three business units within

the school (P&C shop, Canteen and Facilities Hire) to purchase resources to enhance

student learning.

Our AGM was held last week and the position of Treasurer has yet to be filled. We ask

parents/carers/citizens of the community with finance skills to please nominate for

the position of Treasurer. Please contact Damien McAleer P&C President or drop in to

the P&C shop and speak to our Operations Manager Louise Ryan 07 46368747 .

The new QCE System information session #2

Monday April 29 @ 5.30pm

Sixty Fifth edition 25th March 2019

Harristown

State High School

P & C ASSOCIATION

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Executive Principal Ken Green

Deputy Principals

BALKUIN - Craig Forknall BARANG - Leanne Monagle

BONDA - Ian Brackstone - Dale Potter Helen Parker

Business Manager

Elaine Fickling

Guidance Officers Judy King

Sue-Ellen Taylor

Student Managers (First point of contact

for Parents/Carers)

Junior Secondary BALKUIN - Adam Forknall

BARANG - Ian Jibson BONDA - Daniel Schick

- Liam Capewell

Senior Secondary BALKUIN - Melissa Hollman

BARANG - Sue Burns BONDA - Ben McDonald

- Gavin Priest

Year Level Coordinators Year 7 - Lachlan Smith

Year 8 - Valma Cahill Year 9 - Tegan Krause

Year 10 - Jamie Krisanski Year 11 - Peter Dayus

Year 12 - Nick Clarry

P&C Shop 46368714

Monday-Friday 8:15am-3:15pm

Current Year 10 students were presented

with their Junior Certificate of Education at a

Ceremony on Wednesday 13th March.

Executive Principal Ken Green welcomed all

successful recipients and congratulated

them on being the first students to receive

the Harristown SHS Junior Certificate of

Education. All students were commended

for reaching the standard required to

graduate with a JCE. They were reminded

that they have made the first step in

preparing to graduate Year 12 with the

Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE).

We thank parents and carers who attended

on the day to celebrate with their students.

We know our students really appreciated

your efforts to be there on the day. It was

rewarding to see everyone enjoyed a piece

of Celebration cake to mark the occasion

and students celebrating with their peers

and family.

Ke

THERE WILL BE

AN EXCURSION

FOR HARRISTOWN

STUDENTS

TO CGEN

ON FRIDAY,

19TH JULY.

WATCH FOR DETAILS

The Contemporary Ensemble and Stage Band’s fabulous performances at Newtown fete.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE ARTS?

Creative Generation Parent and Student Information Meeting

Wednesday 3rd April from 5.30pm - 6.30pm in the theatre

“Grease” compulsory full day rehearsal

Thursday 4th April 9am—3pm

Congratulations to The Arts Bronze leaders:

The Harristones - Amy Jensen and Quinn Macdonald

Symphonic Wind Ensemble - Bonnie Wilson and Malachi Hallas

Stage Band - Bonnie Wilson and Quinn Macdonald

String Ensemble - Ana Malferrari

Performance Ensemble - Ella Dwyer

Contemporary Ensemble - Quinn Macdonald

Musical - Jorjina-Rose Andreadis, Paige Bowtell,

Isaac Budde and Georgia Escobar

Tech Crew - Amy Jensen and Quinn Macdonald

Creative Generation - to be announced in Term 2

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Cross Country/Hawk Walk

The 2019 Interhouse Cross Country will take place on April 3 at Kearney's Spring.

Participating students will be bussed to venue. Students must return medical form to Mr

Burchardt to be able to participate. Race events start at 1pm and will conclude by 2:30pm.

Student's not travelling to Kearny’s Spring will have to get their walking shoes on and head

to the school oval for the annual Hawk walk. Prizes will be presented to the form class with

the highest participation.

Congratulations to the following Darling Downs Representative

Volleyball

Rachel Burns

Alexandra Cartwright

Annabella Fraser

Kaitlyn Lindenmayer

Tahnee Madden

Molly Paech

Sophie Quade

Abigail Budden

Elise Cuskelly

Tayler Gillies

Kylie Janes

Gabrielle Rowe

Jayden Castles

Kynan Haddock

Jordan Horsey

Thomas Waterson

Nicholas Gollan

Clancy Leadbetter

Preston Merritt

Harry Naumann

Jack Oster

Swimming

Taliah Asgill

Brodie Hilt

Hayley Castles

Ashlea Gray

Football

Rudolph Gabuogi

Josue Kalenga

Ibrar Raza Hussain

Jahrem Richardson

Marissa Gabuogi

Emily Buckland

Elyse Reeves

Savannah Moon

Schools Premier League Football (HSHS v Masrden SHS)

At the start of March, HSHS Football Academy travelled to Brisbane to play Marsden SHS in the Schools Premier League (SPL). In warm conditions, Harristown recorded wins in the Senior Boys 3 - 2, Junior Boys 5 - 2 and Junior Girls 2 - 1. The senior girls narrowly went down 1-0 after suffering some injuries which saw them finish the game with 9 fit players.

Afternoon Sport PRIDE AWARDS

Each term, teachers who take a sport class are asked to nominate students from their sport group, who have displayed PRIDE values during the term. Our thanks to Kathryn O'Brien, former Hawk and athlete of the Girls Basketball Academy, and now Manager of Zarraffa's Northpoint, for the donation of Zarraffa's vouchers for our PRIDE award recipients.

Congratulations to the following students: Brayden Thompson Bella Fraser Izabella Gibson Brooklyn Silooy Jessica Ostrofski Annabelle Richmond Ashleigh Hohn Gemma Walker Anjelika Waters Chloe Carseldine Kyra Ford Shae Johnson Tony Galvin Teyanah Colley

FUTSAL CHAMPIONS

The Harristown Girls’ Football Academies competed in the South West Futsal Titles on the 14th of March. Both teams made the finals with the U16 Girls winning their final against Toowoomba Christian College and the U19 Girls placing second to Downlands.

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LAUNCH INTO LEARNING with Library Online databases

Student Resources In Context offers hundreds of thousands of trustworthy sources that make searching and

citing a breeze. Get started!

Access to all databases is through Library Online. If you have yet to create your login to Library Online, click

forgot password and use the reset link sent to your school email.

Tech Tips

Students have access to email and other Microsoft products including 5TB of cloud storage on OneDrive.

From school, enter your email address (username@eq.edu.au) in the sign in screen and use the links in

Student Central.

From home, use the Student Central link

on the school website. There will be an

extra login screen where you need to

re-enter your username and password.

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What to do if your teenager is experiencing Bullying

If your teenager is experiencing bullying, it’s important to stay calm and let them know it’s not their fault, that you are

there for them and that will do anything you can to help them. By talking with your child openly you can find out more

about what’s going on, and help your child understand bullying and the kinds of things that will help them cope and

respond.

What can you do?

How is your child coping with bullying? It can be difficult to know what to do or where to start when your child is being

bullied. Below are some ways that you can work with your child to help them with the bullying they are experiencing:

Have an open conversation. Discuss the way it has made your child feel and react. This will help them to label their own emotions and assist with building self-awareness. Talking about it will help them process the emotion.

Make an action plan with your teen if they are experiencing bullying. What friend can they turn to? What teacher do they trust? If bullying occurs, will they respond or not? Break the action plan into manageable steps and play out possible scenarios.

Get informed about the ways to stop bullying. We don’t put up with bullying at work, and our teenagers shouldn’t have to put up with it at school or online. Schools have anti-bullying policies and are required to respond to bullying incidents.

Get a copy of the schools anti-bullying policy, then contact the school principal or year adviser and ask them about the policy and how they are going to follow it in this instance.

Read up on how to contact social media providers to address cyberbullying and ensure you and your child know how to block, delete or report anyone who is upsetting them online. Social media providers are required to remove offensive content or you can contact the children's e-safety commissioner.

Think about contacting the other child's parents and address the issue between families.

Learning the signs of bullying and how to handle bullying helps your child develop some essential conflict resolution

skills. However, in some circumstances it just isn’t safe for your teenager to handle it on their own, or the person who

bullied isn’t interested in changing their behaviour. If that’s the case, and the bullying is serious or has been going on for

a while, involve their school, other parents or authorities if it’s appropriate.

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The Queensland Government is conducting its annual statewide survey of all students who completed Year 12 in 2018.

The Next Step survey is a brief, confidential survey that gains a comprehensive picture of the employment, study and life

choices made by Queensland school completers in the year after they finish Year 12.

Between March and June, all our students who completed Year 12 last year can expect to receive instructions to complete

a web-based survey or a telephone call from the Queensland Government Statistician’s Office. Please encourage them to

take part. If their contact details have changed, please assist the interviewer with their updated details or forward the sur-

vey to their new address so they can participate.

Thank you for your support of the Next Step survey in 2019.

Further information on Next Step is available online at www.qld.gov.au/nextstep or on toll free telephone 1800 068 587.