Thursday 26th March 2020 Term 1 Issue 3

PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL MEDIA Senior photography students have made a great start to the year with a Year 11 class running

and Year 12 are continuing on in 2020. Year 11 have been investigating the elements and

principles of design and have undertaken a series of minitasks that required students to look at

some of the building blocks of how photographs are put together. Some of the themes for the

minitasks were line, colour, shape, tone and texture.

Jade Colwell Year 11 Tone

Cian Lang Year 11 Colour

Madison McLachlan Year 11 Colour Logan Hodges Year 11 Line

Kenya Lacey Year 11 Texture

Caitlin Radnedge Year 11 Line photocollage

Year 12 Photography have also been busy working on

a critical and historical presentation about an

innovation that has changed photography for the

better. So to keep them motivated we invited Chewy

the school dog to the class. Kyah Moore really

enjoyed the visit and we are hoping for a few more

visits to photography.

Kyah Moore, Amber Harding, Andrew Carter and Teagan

Patrick working on their presentation.

There are big things happening in photography in 2020 and

we will be including some of the students’ photographs here

in the newsletter on a regular basis.

Ms Peta Coulston, Photography teacher

Below is Mr Caulfield’s photo of the hay bales that were

delivered to the Ag farm recently, what beautiful colours.

YEAR 10 CREATIVE EXPRESSION

Year 10 are currently working on “Altered Art Books”. The books are based on a personal

interest theme. All students have been learning new techniques and applying them to create

the wonderful results you can see in the images below.

Mr Matt Caulfield, Art teacher

Year 10 Big Picture Student, Kenneth Apps, gained a lot from the presentation by Luke Kennedy when he spoke to junior students in Week 7. Below is the personal reflection he completed as part of his Big Picture Folio of work, demonstrating the impact and importance of taking opportunities to learn from the experiences and perspectives of others beyond our school setting.

Motivational Speaker Reflection Luke S. Kennedy

Luke Kennedy was an overweight, drug and alcohol addicted criminal who was too busy trying to impress his mates

to realise the actions that he had been a part of weren’t the path to enlightenment. But after the unfortunate

deaths of his friends and his near-death experience, he had turned his life around for the better. On the 10th of

March 2020, Years 7 through to 10 students were fortunate enough to hear the inspirational story of Luke Kennedy

and how he turned his life around for the better.

Luke had a happy childhood and was open to the thousands of opportunities that would be presented to him each

day, but as he entered his teen years, anxiety took control. He wanted to be liked and hated to be criticised and so

he allowed others to corrupt his mind and become someone that no one would ever want to be. He wanted out of

the situation he was in. He never wanted to be dragged into negative situations, but still, he listened to his so-called

“Friends” and took in drugs and alcohol to silence the thoughts of his true self. They gave him labels, they dragged

him into violence and crime. The near possibility of a prison sentence without his mate’s concern was what pushed

him to notice just how useless the actions he was a part of were. It was a clean slate and after a while earning funds

in a handbag shop and eventually becoming the business owner of the Punchy’s Gym in Sydney, he became a best-

selling author of A Stabbed Ego and continues to speak all over NSW.

The purpose of this talk was to encourage others to make their own decisions and not to take after your mates,

especially if you’re amongst the wrong crowd. Create positive labels and live by them, create a goal and stick to it. If

you end up with a negative label, make the small changes to switch it up and help yourself out. There have been

many speakers come to the school but Luke’s story was very specific to me. I haven’t joined a gang… yet… but I

have been shaped into the person I am (Loud, easily distracted and obnoxious) by the mates that I hang around and

so I am making small changes by almost completely blocking out the outside world and meditating each night and

eventually I will be able to stop being so distractive to others and balance my school and home life.

The end result of this fantastic afternoon of watching and listening Luke Kennedy speak was going home with a

smile on my face knowing that I can make a change… and get a good ol’ selfie.

Last Wednesday, 36 Year 10 students went to Gosling Creek Reserve to complete some

geographical field work. They spent the day examining the different types of Flora and Fauna

found at the reserve, completing field sketches, gathering information for their assessment tasks

and identifying human alterations to the environment.

Michelle Heaslip, HSIE teacher

YEAR 10 GEOGRAPHY

In the mid 1960's a new high school was proposed for Orange to be located on the eastern side

of the city. The Department of Education named the proposed high school "Orange East High

School".

The choice of name for the new school created much public interest and many suggestions

were placed before the Principal, Fred Dobbin and the P & C Association. Before making his

decision on which name to recommend the Department of Education, Mr Dobbin conducted a

secret ballot of students and staff and the result was conclusively in favour of “The Canobolas

High School”. Mr Chown’s P & C Association had unanimously supported the idea. Mr Dobbin

then recommended this name to the Minister for Education and also local member for

Orange, Charles Cutler, who gave his approval for its use.

No doubt those who favoured the name “Canobolas” were partly influenced by the fact that

from the school, the magnificent view to the west is dominated by the age old Mount

Canobolas. Kevin Chown recalls Allan Hatswell insisting on the school being named ‘The’

Canobolas High School as Orange was part of The Canobolas Shire at the time.

Other choices included A.B. Paterson High School

East Orange High School

This pink cupboard was recently moved out of the Counsellor’s office to be relocated in the new

CEPP (Canobolas Engagement Plus Program) room above the Canteen. Lo and behold, look

what was written on the back of the cupboard!

THROWBACK THURSDAY

NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

Don’t forget students can borrow from our ebook

platform. Log on using your DET username and

password.

https://canobolasrths.wheelers.co/

CONGRATULATIONS to our Open Girls Cricket team who have won Round 1 of the Western

Knockout vs Orange High School today at Max Stewart oval on Thursday 12th March.

Captain, Montana Griffith won the toss and we fielded first. Some tidy bowling from Lara

Bennett (0/7) Heidi Bell (2/6) and Montana Griffith (2/6) saw OHS finish their innings on 81

An amazing opening partnership between Montana Griffith (36) and Tahlia Miller (11) and also

with some handy runs from Caitlin Cox secured the win for Canobolas in the 14th over! Thank

you to Alex Walker and Mitchell Jackson for umpiring the game. Thank you to Mrs Anderson

and the Anderson family for the cricket whites! Congratulations and well done girls! Bring on

Round 2!

Miss Morrissey

Well done to Year 11 students who attended the RYDA driver education workshop today at Towac Park.

Students took part in a range of highly engaging and practical workshops from NSW Ambulance, Police,

Orange Driving School, John Davis Motors and more! A big thank you to the Rotary volunteers and all the

presenters for a wonderful, informative day out! Big thanks to Mrs Hurford, Mrs Bunworth and Mrs Rose for

coming along.

Attention Principals/Sports Organisers

Western School Sports Association (WSSA) advises that due to the COVID-19 outbreak and ‘social distancing

strategy’, all WSSA programs for Terms 1 and 2 are now cancelled including knockout competitions and Teacher

Professional Learning.

The health and wellbeing of everyone involved is paramount and at the heart of this decision. We recognise the

pressures that schools are currently experiencing and supporting staff and students is our highest priority.

Western SSA advises that the following trials are cancelled:

Term 1

1. Secondary Girls Basketball trials

2. Primary Divisional Rugby Union trials

3. Primary Boys & Girls Football trials

4. Secondary Boys Football trials

5. Primary Girls Hockey trials

6. Primary Divisional Boys Softball trials

7. Secondary Rugby League trials

8. Secondary Girls Football trials

9. Primary Divisional Girls Softball trials

10. Primary Rugby League trials

11. Secondary Bowls trials

12. Primary Boys Hockey trials

13. Secondary Touch trials

14. Secondary Golf trials

15. Secondary Squash trials

Term 2

1. Primary Boys Softball

2. Greater Region Rugby League

3. Primary Rugby Union

4. Secondary Gymnastics

5. Primary Netball

6. Primary Girls Softball

7. Secondary Boys Tennis

8. Primary Boys & Girls Touch

A big congratulations and farewell to our amazing Dance

teacher– Miss Krissy Lee.

We said goodbye and good luck to Miss Lee on Friday of Week

8. We are looking forward to hearing the exciting news in the

next few weeks. Miss Lee will return in 2021.

From Term 2, Mrs Hurford and Mrs Abrahams will be taking on

the Dance classes to ensure the amazing work that Miss Lee has

done is continued for our students.

CHESS REPORT On Friday 13th March the school chess team consisting of Brock Anderson, Sean Morial,

Jayden Christoff and Tyler Gilbey along with reserves Cooper Smith, Oscar Knight, Damien

Christoff and Zak Moss competed against Orange Anglican Grammar School in the first round of

the NSW Junior Chess league inter school competition.

This year the games were played in the fantastic newly renovated learning space above the

canteen. While the tie was lost, all games played were highly competitive with Brock's board

one game lasting almost an hour and half. The final results saw Tyler come away with a win but

losses to Jayden, Sean and Brock in his epic match.

The team and reserves are looking forward to their next round

opponents, Trundle High School, once their tie can be

organised. Being mainly juniors, the team knows that these

matches are great building blocks to team success in the

future.

Chess players meet in the Library at

Recess on Monday's for practice games

and coaching. The boards are also

available all week during lunch for

students to practice this clever sport.

Mrs Anderson, Chess Co-ordinator

Miss Lane is taking over the role of Year 9 Advisor for Miss McRae effective immediately. Miss

Lane has been working at Canobolas High School for 12 years across different faculties. She is

currently working in the HSIE faculty and teaching some English classes. Miss Lane is excited to

take on the challenge of working closely with our year 9 students for the foreseeable future.

Please do not hesitate to introduce yourselves or make contact with Miss Lane via email or a

phone call.

My email address is: kirsten.lane2@det.nsw.edu.au

School phone number: 6362 1677

YEAR 9 ADVISOR

As Year 8 Advisor I

would like to encourage parents for the cohort to touch base with me between now and the

holidays. I am willing to offer assistance with concerns about school or issues at home.

Some temporary online learning methods are available for students who can no longer attend

face to face classes due to health concerns. Email is the best means to contact me.

We are all in this together, and with patience and understanding we can work through this

situation.

My email address is: Craig.Edwards21@det.nsw.edu.au

ONLINE LEARNING Student requirements for remote learning can be found on the following link Microsoft Teams

It can also be accessed via the student portal, using the Microsoft 365 link

https://portal.det.nsw.edu.au

All students in Year 7-10 will have access to Education Perfect https://epforlearning.com/

Username: CRTHSFirstNameSurname

Password: firstname

If any student has questions on access. Please email

craig.edwards21@det.nsw.edu.au for assistance.

Any student that is interested in learning how to code in any of the following programming

languages: Arduino, BBC microbit, CSS, HTML, JavaScript,

Python, SQL, Turtle.

Please send an email requesting account access to

craig.edwards21@det.nsw.edu.au

https://groklearning.com/

YEAR 8 ADVISOR

In response to the COVID-19 virus and the NSW Premier’s advice

for students to stay at home, CRTHS has developed work

packages for every child in Years 7 – 10 for the coming weeks.

We will be emailing these work booklets to every student, via their

education email account on Monday 30th March. However, we

recognise that many of our families do not have reliable access

to technology or the internet at home.

These work packages will be printed and ready for collection for

any student who requires them. We ask parents and caregivers to

call the front office by 2pm Thursday 26th March to notify our staff

of whether your child requires these booklets in printed format.

They will be ready for collection on Monday at staggered times

for each year group to allow for social distancing measures to

continue.

Times for collection are as follows:

10-11am Year 7

11-12pm Year 8

12-1pm Year 9

1-2pm Year 10

Any parents that miss these times are encouraged to phone the

office as we will have additional copies available in the coming

weeks.

PLEASE REMAIN SAFE AND KEEP

YOURSELF UPDATED WITH INFORMATION

ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE

WORK BOOKLETS AVAILABLE