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Woolgoolga High School

Newsletter Issue 19 . December 2 , 2016

CENTENARY DRIVE WOOLGOOLGA 2452 . 6654 1500 . [email protected] . www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

From the Principal P.2

ACE Citations P.3

Important coming dates P.4

Prefects 2017 P.4

Work Placement Survey P.5

WHS Art Smart Competition P.6-7

Year 7 Tech Mandatory P.8

Sport P.9-11

2017 Sport Dates P.11

Community News P.12

Congratulations to three of our high achieving staff. On 17th

November, John Elliott, Larry Hancock and Noel Whitton re-

ceived recognition by the Australian College of Educators for

their outstanding teaching practices.

Please go to page 3 to read their citations.

Pictured above left to right: Larry Hancock, Guy Wright,

John Elliott, Noel Whitton

Australian College of Educators

World Teachers’ Day Awards

Woolgoolga High School Newsletter 2 December 2, 2016 . Issue 19


Woolgoolga High School is urgently seeking

two homestay families to host German

students Janina (female) Year 10 for Term 1

only and Artur (male) Year 10 for Terms 1 & 2.

Families are paid $270 per week for providing

bedroom and meals. Should you have a spare

bedroom and feel it would benefit your family

having a German student stay with you early

next year, please contact Helen Young

(Relieving Deputy Principal) urgently on

66541500.

Congratulations to three of our high achieving

staff. On 17th November, John Elliott, Larry

Hancock and Noel Whitton received recogni-

tion by the Australian College of Educators for

their outstanding teaching practices. The

recognition comes as part of the celebrations

around World Teachers’ Day. The Awards

Ceremony was held at the Osprey restaurant

and certificates were presented by the head of

Southern Cross University Campus, Professor

David Lynch. The Australian College of Educa-

tors is a leading educational group of profes-

sionals that influences education across Aus-

tralia. It was a real honour for three of our

teachers to be nominated for these prestigious

awards – their citations are included in this

newsletter. The event also gave recognition for

preschool, primary, high school, TAFE and

university teachers.

From the Principal’s Desk

Woolgoolga High School is urgently seeking homestay families to host two German students.

Please note that our Year 7 Orientation Day on 6

th December begins at 9.00am and our

Annual Presentation Assembly will take place from 9.00am on Wednesday, 14

th December.

All parents, caregivers, community members are most welcome to attend.

Until next time

Guy Wright

Principal



schools across Australia.

Australian College of Educators World Teachers’ Day

Citations



Pictured above left to right:

Simon Radford (Year Advisor), Ellissa

Enersen, Elliotte Hyder, Awal Bol

Maker, Hana Truban (Vice Captain),

Lani Goodman (Captain), Luke Gus-

tafson (Captain), Bayley White (Vice

Captain), Eden Redshaw, Isaiah

Koopmans, Braeden Malone, Kaela

Twiss, Ashley Wake, Guy Wright

(Principal)

PREFECT OATH

I am proud to accept the position of Prefect at

Woolgoolga High School.

As a Prefect I make a commitment to be a positive role

model for other students and be an ambassador for the

school.

I will actively contribute towards promoting a positive

image for Woolgoolga High School.

IMPORTANT COMING EVENTS

Dec— 5 to 9 Year 10 work experience

Dec—Tue 6 Year 7 orientation day

Dec—Tue 6 Year 8 excursion Movie World

Dec—Tue 6 Year 7 excursion Coffs Coast Beach School

Dec—Thurs 8 Year 9 excursion

Dec—Wed 14 Annual presentation assembly

Dec—Fri 16 Last day for students

Dec—19 to 20 Staff development day

Jan 2017 —Mon 30 Years 7, 11, 12

Jan 2017 - Tue 31 Years 8, 10

Year 6 Orientation

Tuesday 6th December

An Orientation Day for incoming Year 7 students will be

held at Woolgoolga High on Tuesday 6th December

2016. Parents are invited to attend an information ses-

sion in the hall from 9.20am for approximately an hour

while students stay on to experience a day of high

school. Students will be able to take the bus home in

the afternoon.

Book packs will be available for purchase at the school

canteen, there is also a limited amount of book packs

available from the current year for sale at the school

office at the discounted price of $20, these packs con-

tain most of the stationery requirements for 2017.

Woolgoolga High School is a school uniform school,

you can purchase uniforms from the school’s uniform

shop which will be open on the Orientation Day. A

brochure is enclosed with other operating hours.



Work Placement Survey

with Oona Nicholson

Oona developed a questionnaire with which she interviewed

business managers, students on work placement and staff

members around the School. The purpose of the exercise was to

become familiar with workplace options and experiences people

have in the work place.

Oona interviewed Mrs Megan Hart, Mrs Lena Inness and Mr Rick

Burton in the Library; she also sought the views of Mrs Jackie Hall

in the canteen and Mrs Catherine Riley in our front office. From

there she interviewed Ross at Riviera Coffee shop, Cameron from Absolute Tattoo and Tonia who

manages Second Best Friend Fashion Boutique. From there she questioned students Bradyn who is

gaining experience at IGA and Tim at the Gym, So Fun Gymnastics.

By asking about the businesses, the duties performed by each person, if they wear protective clothing or

a uniform, do they enjoy the work and what do they like the best; Oona was able to make informed

choices about which work placement positions she is interested in experiencing for herself.

Year 9 PASS ( PE elective ) students enjoy some campfire cooking as part of their outdoor activities unit



Winners for the annual Woolgoolga High School Art Smart competition have been announced at this

week’s assembly. Categories include sculpture, painting and drawing and photography. This year has

seen a very high standard of entries which is a credit to the creative students of Woolgoolga High

School.

The following students have achieved an outstanding number of votes and are the winners and place

getters for 2016. First place category winners received a cheque of $25 and second place were award-

ed a prize of art materials. A big thank you to staff of Woolgoolga Art Gallery, who kindly judged and

donated funds towards this great opportunity. Congratulations to the following students for your wonder-

ful achievement!

Artist: Isabelle Hill

Title: Whole lotta Pump

Place: 3rd

Sculpture

Artist: Patnaree Rojviboonchai

Title: Cosmic sausage

Place: 2nd

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE JUDGE’S CHOICE

Junior Paint & Draw

1ST Kaylee Parker Erin Dalton

2ND Taryn McCarthy Kristy Golsby

3RD Annabelle Cummings Fynn Robins

Senior Paint & Draw

1ST Imogen McPherson Patnaree Rojviboonchai

2ND Ashley Wake Luke Gustafson

3RD Isabelle Hill Isabelle Hill

Sculpture 1ST Elissa Enersen Komalpreet Kaur

2ND Jasmin Hovermann Patnaree Rojviboonchai

3RD Michael Chetwood Isabelle Hill

Photography 1ST Oskar Ramirez- Sheen Georgia Kelsall

2ND Georgia Kelsall Zoe Batty

3RD Zoe Batty Oskar Ramirez- Sheen



Artist: Patnaree Rojviboonchai

Title: Still life with lemon

Place: 1st Senior Paint & Draw Judges Award

Artist: Luke Gustafson

Title: Our Hugh

Place: 2nd

Senior Paint & Draw Judges Award

Artist: Oskar Ramirez- Sheen

Title: Bazza Mate

Place: 3rd

Sculpture Judges Award

Artist: Isabelle Hill

Title: Many Faces

Place: 3rd

Senior Paint and Draw People’s

Choice Award



This term Year 7 Technology Mandatory have been designing and creating. They created a placemat and

bandanna to use in their cooking lessons. They were able to use innovative fabric decoration techniques.

Through the use of ‘Genesis Dyes’’ they were able to create a design on their placemat that created differ-

ent tones using the sun to deepen the colour in areas on their fabric. They used these dyes in a different

dyeing technique for the construction of their bandannas. They used the salting technique which produced a

mottled effect. They then hand embroidered their initials onto it learning traditional embroidery techniques

such as running stitch and French knots….old and new techniques in the one project. They also learnt how

to do a rolled hem using our air threaded overlockers.

They were fortunate enough to be able to enjoy the use of our refurbished kitchens to create Blueberry

Swirls, Raspberry, Vanilla and White Chocolate Spiders and Banana paddle pops. The aprons they made

this year in Technology Mandatory were put to good use!!

Year 7

Technology

Mandatory

with

Mrs Fluechter &

Mrs Donnelly



Taylar Briley of Year 10 received a prestigious North Coast Sporting Blues Award

last Monday at the annual North Coast Sports Awards Luncheon held in Ballina.

She won

Gold for the 50m and 1OOm Backstroke and Freestyle events, and

200m Individual Medley, and Silver medals in 50m Butterfly and Breast-

stroke.

Congratulations

Taylar

AMBULANCE SCHOOL COVER

EXCURSIONS

We have been advised that the Ambulance Service of

NSW has reciprocal health care agreements with all

Australian states except Queensland and South

Australia.

This means that, even though Woolgoolga High has

Ambulance School Cover for students who have an

accident or fall ill whilst at school or at an organised

school activity, they are not covered while on school

excursions to Queensland and South Australia.

Only students whose parent/guardians hold a Com-

monwealth Government Health Care Card or have

private health insurance (including ambulance-only

cover) are possibly covered when on a school excur-

sion to Queensland or South Australia.

It is strongly recommended that parents/

guardians who do have cover with a private health

fund, check their family’s eligibility with regards

to travel to all the states.

Pediculosis (Head lice)

Usual time between infection and illness – eggs of

lice usually hatch in a week and reach sexual ma-

turity in approximately two weeks.

Symptoms and signs – the scalp itches. Lice and

nits (eggs) are found on the scalp. Scratches may

become infected and swelling of the glands of the

neck can occur. Nits look like tiny white specks

stuck to the hair.

How long to keep your child away from school be-

cause of the risk your child may infect other chil-

dren – until appropriate treatment is begun. It is not

necessary to shave the head.

Whether to keep contacts home from school – it is

not necessary to keep those in contact at home.

You should inspect all close contacts regularly for

lice and nits. All other family members living in the

same house should be treated at the same time

when you are treating the affected person.



A huge thank you to the Woolgoolga District Net-

ball Association committee for their never ending

support of our netball teams, coaches and um-

pires. They manned the canteen, supplied eagle-

eyed umpires, provided equipment, first aid and

valuable coaching advice (and cheering).

Most importantly, three cheers to the players:

Rachel Henry, Pavan Singh, Sarah Goodman,

Amy Decent, Sienna Hill, Jaide Topp, Eliza Smith,

Candice Constable-Love, Dayna Moss and Tali-

sha Harboe. You are fantastic representatives of

Woolgoolga High School, displaying good sports-

manship and camaraderie.

On Friday 11th November, Woolgoolga hosted the

Mid North Coast Zone Netball Gala day to play the

first three rounds of the Combined High Schools

knockout draw. This is an excellent way for

schools to gain valuable experience playing each

other; play multiple rounds to avoid long travel

times/distances while lessening time students are

absent from school; catch up with sporting friends

and showcase our fabulous local facilities at the

newly refurbished Woolgoolga Netball Courts.

A strong team of 10 girls from Years 7, 8 and 9

were selected, trained and coached by our senior

netball leaders, Samantha Sadlier and Mackinley

Taylor. Unfortunately, a loss in the first round

against a formidable Grafton High side meant that

Woopi High got knocked out of the draw early in

the day. Under humid conditions, the girls fought

hard, keeping a close game all the way, with

Grafton High only pulling away in the last quarter.

Grafton went on to win all of their games on the

day and will now proceed to Macksville to play

against Wauchope, the Lower North Coast Zone

winners. Woolgoolga High then continued to play

‘friendly’ games against Coffs Harbour and Orara

High Schools to expand their experience and

teamwork skills.

CHS U15 Girls Netball Knockout

Congratulations to all Friday night Coffs Harbour Basketball Association players for an excellent season! Well done to both Woolgoolga High School teams for semi final and final wins! Special mention to Sukhraj Tiwana, voted MVP by the referees in the final! Players representing WHS are: Levi Davison, Kane Crisdale, Conan Brisley, Sukhraj Tiwana, Jaali Wilder-Gillic, Kobey Styles, Ethan Pursch, Joel Garrett, Jack Meale, Mitchell Della, Peter Co-hen, Sam Hodgson and Adam Peutrill.

The players as individuals showed considerable improvement over the course of the season and played exception-ally well in their teams. Special thanks go to Terry Garrett, Bryan Davison and Ken Meale for their expertise and commitment throughout the season with coaching, running the bench and management of the teams.



SPORT DATE CARNIVAL VENUE TERM

SWIMMING

Wed 1 Feb

Wed 8 Feb

WHS Swimming Carnival – Whole School

WHS Swimming Carnival – Competitors Woolgoolga Pool 1

Wed 1 March MNC Zone Swimming Carnival Coffs Harbour Pool 1

Tue 7 March NC Regional Swimming Carnival Kempsey Pool 1

Sun 2 Apr to

Tue 4 Apr NSW CHS State Swimming

Home Bush Aquatic

Centre 1

CROSS

COUNTRY

Fri 7 April School Cross Country Woolgoolga 1

Mon 15 May MNC Zone Cross Country Grafton 2

Fri 9 June NC Regional Cross Country Murwillumbah 2

Fri 21 July NSW State Cross Country Eastern Creek 3

ATHLETICS

Wed 3 May

Thur 4 May

School Athletics Carnival - Day 1

School Athletics Carnival - Day 2

Woolgoolga Sports

Ground 2

Thur15 June MNC Zone Athletics Carnival Coffs Harbour Interna-

tional Stadium 2

Fri 4 Aug NC Regional Athletics Carnival Lismore 3

Wed 6 Sept to

Fri 8 Sept CHS State Athletics Carnival Homebush 3

2017 SPORTS DATES

PLEASE NOTE: DATES AND VENUES ARE CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING BUT

ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. PLEASE CHECK CLOSER TO EVENT.

Congratulations to Raman Phoonie (Year 11) who has been

selected in the North Coast Regional Open Boys Cricket team.

Raman will compete at the NSW Combined High Schools State

Championships in Wollongong during Term 1 next year.

Good Luck!



Woolgoolga High School Silver Awards

are generously sponsored by:

Years 7, 8, 9 receive vouchers from

McDonalds Restaurants

Pacific Highway Coffs Harbour

Years 10, 11, 12 receive vouchers from

Riptide Pizzeria

Fawcett Street Woolgoolga

Phone: 6654 8989

Woolgoolga Pizza Place

Beach Street Woolgoolga

Phone: 6654 2744

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Now Available At Woolgoolga High School

A secure Westpac banking facility has now been added to the Woolgoolga High School website to

allow parents/carers to make online Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card payments for things like

voluntary school contributions, excursions, sporting activities or sales to students.

Look for the $ Make a Payment button next to Contact Us at the top of our homepage.

For those experienced in paying online, the process will be familiar. Detailed instructions are availa-

ble by opening the Parent Online Payment Instructions on the Information tab on our website.

We hope that you will find this payment option convenient. Payments can still be made at the Wool-

goolga High School Office by cash, cheque or EFTPOS before school and during break 1.

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

Volunteers needed to serve in only 1 hour increments:

8.30am - 9.30am

11.00am - 12.00 noon

1.00pm - 2.00pm

If you can help please ring the school on 66541500 or fol-

low the link on the school’s website to complete the expression of inter-

est.

http://www.woolgoolga-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/parent-information

See menu with price list on the school’s website

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



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