CLARE HIGH SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Volume 5 06/04/2017

‘To Seek a Worthy Goal’

ACHIEVEMENT ● EDUCATION ● INVOLVEMENT ● RELATIONSHIPS ● RESPECT

Principal: Sharryn Daly

Deputy Principal - Middle School: Nina Thomas

Assistant Principal - Senior School: Matt Linn

IMPORTANT DATES

April 2017

3rd—7th—Year 10 Work Experience

7th—St Joseph’s Sport Day—CHS northern

oval

11th—SSSSA Athletics—Adelaide

12th—Year 8 & 10/11/12 Immunisations

13th—End of Term—dismiss 2:25pm

17th April to 5th May—UK/Ireland Trip

May 2017

1st—Term 2 begins

4th—SAPSASA Winter Hub

5th—Generations of Jazz tour to Mt Gambier

5th—Cross Country run

19th—LN Cross Country—Burra

22nd-24th—Year 8 Camp

29th—31st—Henley High Netball

Exchange

29th April—2nd May—Reconciliation

Week

June 2017

1st—LN Cross Country

5th—9th—District SAPSASA Netball and

football

7th—CHS Open Day

9th—PUPIL FREE DAY—staff T&D

12th—Public Holiday

20th—Year 8 B & G Immunisations

26th –30th—SAPSASA District Soccer/

Hockey

Elliot Street Clare SA 5453

Phone: 88422788 Fax: 88422153

Email: dl.0773.info@schools.sa.edu.au

www.clarehs.sa.edu.au

T/A South Australian Government Schools

CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

On Monday 3rd April, the Minister for Education, Hon

Susan Close MP, visited Clare High School. She was

welcomed by our Head Prefects, Travis Kuchel and

Etabez Donato, who were our hosts for the afternoon.

The School band performed on the front steps on her

arrival before the Minister and her entourage moved

down to see the site for the new STEM development.

She embraced the opportunity to visit the Learning

Centre and the Agricultural Program before catching up

with the Year 12 Society class. We were able to talk

openly about the extensive curriculum offerings we

have at Clare High School, the collaborative work

around transition that is supported across our

Partnership, and the successful inclusion of Year 7s

into a Secondary site. With the support of the Year 12

Food and Hospitality class, a small gift basket,

containing home-made sweets, was presented to the

Minister before she departed. This was a terrific

opportunity to showcase Clare High School, our

dedicated staff and wonderful students.

The Year 12 Formal was held on Saturday evening.

Thank you to Mrs Rowe and the Formal committee for

all their organisation of this event. The use of Mr Micks’

front garden for the student photos was a huge

success and to have a couple of familiar faces, Mr

Walker and Lachie Smith as the chief photographers,

made for some spectacular shots! All students and

their partners dressed to impress, looking glamorous

and handsome! It was obvious a good time was being

CANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWSCANTEEN NEWS

Thank you to the following people for their

support for the canteen and for donating

produce:

Shannon Robinson & Diedre Earle for

volunteering and for produce donation.

Clay Reid for produce.

If you have some time or produce you can

donate to the canteen, we would love to

have it. Thank you.

The canteen staff

had by the large number of attendees up on the

dance floor throughout the evening.

Congratulations to all involved!

It is an opportune time to remind everyone of the

importance of attendance. We know that there is

a direct positive correlation between attendance

and student achievement. Our school target is to

have all students achieve 95% attendance in

2017. That equates to attending all but 10 days

across the year. Unfortunately there are a

number of students who have already missed 10

or more days within Term 1. I can only

encourage parents and carers to support your

child’s opportunity to improve their learning and

life outcomes by maximising their attendance

over the next three terms. Please contact your

child’s roll class teacher, Year Level Coordinator

or a member of the Leadership team for support

if you require.

Clare High School was once again successful at

the Lower North Athletics Carnival a couple of

weeks ago. The CHS Athletics team travels to

Adelaide next week to compete at SANTOS

stadium in the Secondary Schools’ Athletics

competition. Wishing everyone all the best!

Medication Procedure:

Included in this week’s newsletter is a copy of

the Medication Guidelines (Draft) for 2017 and a

Medication Authority form for your information.

Please read the document carefully and make

contact with the school to discuss your child’s

needs if they are required to administer

medication either temporarily or as part of an

ongoing plan.

Australian Curriculum (AC) – Assessment

and Reporting:

Included in this week’s newsletter is a parent

information document that explains the DECD

expectations and requirements in reporting your

child’s academic achievements against the AC

Achievement Standards for Years 7 to 10.

Although there will be a written report for Year

12s sent home in week 11, all other year levels

will receive a written report at the end of

Semester 1 (Term 2, week 10) and Semester 2

(Term 4, week 9).

Have a great holiday break, and enjoy time with

family and friends!

Sharryn Daly Principal

Trinity Interschool Gymkhana

Trinity Interschool Gymkhana was held on Friday the 24th of February. Clare High School

had two representatives competing: Savannah Gilbert and Phoebe Seneca. Both girls

had good results and out of 39 schools Clare High finished 8th overall. A huge

congratulations go to both girls who demonstrated the school values, good sportsmanship

and of course rode well. We are looking forward to next year and hoping to get more

equestrians involved.

We would also like to mention St Joseph’s Clare and Blyth Primary who had

representatives competing well.

Savannah Gilbert

3rd 45-60cm Show-Jumping

1st Top score Show-Jumping

1st Rider years 8 and 9

1st Youth hack

1st Pleasure hack

Champion Hack

Phoebe Seneca

3rd Rider years 10, 11 and 12

2nd Hack over 16hh

3rd Hack suitable for a beginner

2nd youth Hack

2nd Pleasure hack

Results:

Dealing with Pressure – or the perception of pressure

Could you walk the length of a 10 metre bench that is 50cm wide without falling off? Of course. So could

you still walk across that same bench if it was all that linked two skyscrapers? For most of us the answer

would be no way. Why not? If the day wasn’t windy, surely it should be the same thing...

If you had the ability to unlock the mind in that way, then sportspeople, students with exams, job

applicants going for interviews etc would be knocking your door down. When I am teaching PE and

students are working on skills I often hear a student say to me, I was doing it perfectly until you started

watching. Somehow pressure or even the perception of pressure makes an enormous difference to an

activity. So in fact completing the same task, with or without pressure is not the same task at all. Is there a

way to chase away these anxious thoughts that prevent us from performing to our potential?

There are many different strategies. Here are a few suggestions.

Reframe pressure – I’m nervous about this test. That’s good because I always concentrate harder when

I’m nervous.

Reduce external pressure – Don’t put pressure on yourself (what’s the worst that can happen?), or take

on someone else’s nervousness. Surround yourself with calm influences.

Listen to your body – Feel the increased heart rate, the butterflies, observe them, realise what they mean,

note that your body is alert and ready. But breathe slowly and stay in control.

Welcome opportunities to practise dealing with pressure. Replicate the situation that makes you nervous

and face it.

Have a routine that gives you confidence. So when you are under pressure, just keep to your well

practised routine that takes minimal mental effort.

Worth a try

Mr Rimmer

Pastoral Care worker

CLARE HIGH SCHOOL

GRAPE PICKING AND

CRUSHING

Jamie Hart, Gill Paxton and Winemaker for Knappsteins, Ben

Overall Championship Shield

Clare 1176

Kapunda 1124

Balaklava 930

Riverton 812

Burra 635

2017 LOWER NORTH ZONE

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL REPORT

On Thursday 23rd

March the Lower North Interschool Athle3cs Carnival was held at Riverton High School

with Burra Community, Balaklava High, Clare High, Kapunda High and Riverton & District High compe3ng.

It was a great day with many parents and spectators in a8endance. The Clare High team narrowly won

their 14th

straight Overall Championship Shield over Kapunda High. Kapunda collected the Championship

Boys Shield and Clare the Championship Girls shield. Riverton & District High also had a very strong day

on the track winning the Handicap Shield. The Balaklava team came away with the Improvement Shield

on the day.

Final scores on the day were:

James Goddard (Kapunda) broke the 1994 U16 200m record on the day.

Age Champions were:

A huge thanks to all Steve McDonald and Michael Liebelt for running the CHS Athle3cs team and to Shar-

ryn Daly, Luke Mensforth and Ben Seymon for their assistance on the day. Thanks go to Heather Lymburn

and Katrina Sanders who helped out with officia3ng, to the many parents who supported our team, and

to Vicki Couch for a fantas3c job on data entry. The sportsmanship and efforts of the CHS students was

most impressive - go Clare High! We look forward to Adelaide Athle3cs on Monday Week 11.

Congratula�ons to our super team: Billy Francis, Henry Packer, Jackson Moller, Wez Paule�, Henry Warner, Joel Bertelsmeier,

Graeme Yorke, Alex Ngann, Jeopard Draper, William Hoddle, Thomas Lymburn, Tom Cross, Angus Kenne�, Kyle Stocker, Dylan

Parker, Adam Degenhardt, Je� Maunder, Owen Jenner, Fos Cunningham, Zac Pink, Will Nickolai, Josh Slade, Tom Hall, James

Hams, Charlie Dinning, Flynn Nicholls-Wilson, Sco� Hombsch, Lorenzo Johns, Adam Olssen, Charlie Helbig, Thomas Couch, Nalia

Boud, Mackenzie Johnson, Rachel Sanders, Kasey Bigg, Isla Baum, Lucy Meyer, Jaz Liddy, Bella Rawlings, Molly Ross, Chloe

Goodwin, Elyssa Aucote, Carly Neill, Alyssa Pawelski, Taylah Wurfel, Ma�lda Jacka, Nich Pringle, Alexia Bache, Chelsea Couch,

Chloe Smith, Olivia McInnis, Tash Liddy, Jess Aucote, Ka�e Lewcock, Kellie Smith, Mikayla Lawrie, Phoebe Graham, Georgia

Meyer, Gracie Ross, Amber Warner, Chloe Bolitho and Steph Walker.

Ka3e Liebelt - CHS HPE & School Sport Coordinator

U14 F Champion Darcie Brown (Kap) U14 F R/Up Ella Legge8 (Kap)

U14 M Champion Jesse Allan (Riv) U14 M R/Up Josh Wimpress (Kap)

U15 F Champion Taylah Wurfel (Cla) U15 F R/Up Casey O’Toole (Riv)

U15 M Champion Chase Webster (Bur) U15 M R/Up Alex Ngann (Cla)

U16 F Champion Jess Aucote (Cla) U16 F R/Up Ka3e Lewcock (Cla)

U16 M Champion Lane Cur3s (Kap) U16 M R/Up Kalai Waters (Bur)

U21 F Champion Tayla Meaney (Kap) U21 F R/Up Tayla Williams (Bal)

U21 M Champion Charlie Helbig (Cla) U21 M R/Up Morgan Ellery (Kap)