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Canberra Trip Singapore Trip Principal’s Update Next week is Week 5. The term is quickly passing and before we know it term 4 will be here. A reminder to all Stage 2 stu- dents your focus for the next 8 weeks needs to be completing your work. Seek help and work hard and you will be rewarded. Goodluck! Anne White Principal Canberra. . . August 19, 2011 1 2 3 4 70% 75% 80% 85%
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Knowledge, Honour, Success
Katherine High School TERM 3, WEEK 3 - 4 August 19, 2011
Key DatesWK 5 (August 22-26) • DET Careers Expo KHS Gym August 22• Parent Teacher
Meet and Greet
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KHS Gym 5:00 pm - 6:30pm August 23• Try A Trade Katherine Training Centre August 23• Girls Oztag Darwin August 24• 40 Hour Famine August 24-26• Yr 10 Reward Camps Edith Falls August 23-30• Whole School Assembly KHS Gym 8:20 am August 25WK 6 (August 29 - September 02)• Athletics Carnival KHS Oval August 31WK 7 (Sept 05 - 09)• Pupil Free Day September 5• Whole School Assembly KHS Gym 8:20 am September 8WK 8 (Sept 12 - 16)WK 9 (Sept 19 - 23)• School Council Meeting KHS Conferance Room September 21• Whole School Assembly KHS Gym 8:20 am September 22• Jump Rope for Heart KHS Gym
Every Child, Every Day
SOSE SnapshotYear 7’s are studying Life in Me-dieval Times. Throughout the term students will undertake two assessment tasks: “A Me-dieval Madness Board Game” and, “A Medieval Fayre and Banquet”. “Endangered Means There’s Still Time” is the program of study for Year 8’s this term. This program aims to increase stu-dents knowledge of local ani-mal species that are endan-gered and ways in which we can help. Year 9’s are studying “Groovy Global Geography”. Through-out the term students will learn about political geography, physical geography, environ-ments (including water), popu-lation geography and climate.The SOSE Faculty would like to thank our pre-service teacher Peta O’Connor for all her hard work this term with the Year 7 SOSE and Year 12 Society & Culture classes.
Jane Harvey MandezSOSE Senior
Sports UpdateAthletics CarnivalThe Annual Katherine High Ath-letics Carnival is being held at Katherine High School on Wednesday August 31. Stu-dents are expected to attend and are encouraged to dress in their house colours and cheer on their teams. Parent and carers welcome!!
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Principal’s UpdateNext week is Week 5. The term is quickly passing and before we know it term 4 will be here. A reminder to all Stage 2 stu-dents your focus for the next 8 weeks needs to be completing your work. Seek help and work hard and you will be rewarded. Goodluck!
Anne White Principal
Singapore TripUnfortunately the Singapore Trip planned for the Year 11’s in November this year has been cancelled as only a very small number of students paid the deposit by the cut-off date. I know that there will be some very disappointed students, however we will now be put-ting our efforts into planning a trip to Cambodia for them next year.
Cara FulwoodYear 11 Coordinator
Canberra TripThe 33 Year 9 students who par-ticipated in the recent Canber-ra and Melbourne trip had a very successful and enjoyable “trip of a lifetime”. They spent time exploring Canberra and visiting Parliament House be-fore heading off to the snow-fi elds of Mount Hotham. From the snowfi elds the student went onto Melbourne to visit the many historic sights as well as a University and College. The students had the opportunity to enjoy the shopping, mov-ies, dining and street art in Mel-bourne before returning home. Thank you to all the staff and students for being wonderful ambassadors for KHS. (A full report is available on the intra-net). Finally a very big thank you to to the Federal Govern-ment through PACER Funding for making this trip possible.
Jen WattsYear 9 Coordinator
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• Anne White (Principal) • Jodie Locke (KHS Council Chairperson) (08) 8973 8200 [email protected] [email protected]
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Year 8 News It’s a welcome return to all our Year 8 students this term. It is a long and busy term and we hope that we can work togeth-er to ensure that we support each other and produce work to the best of our ability. This means that all of our students have to make a special effort to be at school and in class on time, ready to learn with all the materials they need. Please en-courage your child to use their diaries so that they remember to complete all homework and assessment tasks. Year 8 students have been returning their forms to attend our Year 8 Camp to Kununurra. At the moment we have approxi-mately 30 students who have paid the deposit. A reminder to parents/guardians that you will need to pay any outstand-ing money by the end of Term Three. Also, could you please let me know if your child is able to take a tent with them?
Jo StewartYear 8 Coordinator
Music CornerSpecialist music theory lessons are starting at Katherine High School. If you would like your child to be a part of this pro-gram or to fi nd out more please contact Sarah Earle. ([email protected])
The Freshwater Mermaids Sports and Cultural CarnivalThe Carnival was held in Kath-erine on June 20-23, for the fi rst time this year. Teams came from all over the Territory and Katherine High School was rep-resented by more than 40 stu-dents. The week was a huge success and you can fi nd the full report on the website.
Shell QuestaconShell Questacon Science Circus visited Katherine High School on Tuesday August 9. Questacon members performed entertain-ing and informative Science Shows for our Year 7 students. The students enjoyed all of the performances regained an in-terest in Science. The culmina-tion of the day’s activities was a well organised Science Exhi-bition for the public held in the school gym that evening.
Pre-Service Teachers A huge welcome to our pre-service teachers from Victoria and Deakin Universities. • Nina Jones will be work-ing with Jen Watts (Drama) and Alicia Stanley (PE) for the next three weeks.• Denise Clair will be working with Sheryl Fotakis and Jennifer Olszak (SOSE/Humani-ties) for the next six weeks.• Vajra Castles will be working with Jen Lipscombe (Vertical Boys using IT for litera-cy) and Rod Cremona (PE) for the next six weeks.• Jacqui McMaster will be working with Cara Fulwood, Roy Joseph and Josh Dean (Sci-ence) for the next fi ve weeks.• Paul Hellwege will be working with Aneeka Nicholls (Vertical Boys using IT to teach numeracy) and Vicki Mannion (using IT to teach English) for the next six weeks. We hope that they enjoy their time at Katherine High School and wish them every success in their pursuit of a teaching ca-reer.
Star EmployeeThis fortnight’s “Star Employee” is awarded to Matt Hamdorf for the great work he does for The Clontarf Program. Keep up the fantastic work Matt!
Science . . . Clontarf Carnival
Proudly Supported by Katherine Regional Community Bank ® Branch
Katherine High School
Community NoticesHave your represented your school, region or club in Triathlon? Are you keen to further develop skills and understanding of the Game? Would you like the op-portunity to represent Northern Territory? Then nomi-nate now, before August 29th to attend the 19 and Under Triathlon Development/Selection Camp. Age of participation is 13 to 19 as at 31/12/2011.This 3 day event comprises games and development activities. To conclude the event a NT representative side is selected. The cost for this event is $250; this covers School Sport levy, lunch on Friday and Satur-day and travel costs. If you require private billeting there is an additional $50 that will go to the billeting family. Pick up nomination forms from your school offi ce, complete and return to your school offi ce. If you require further information please contact Daryl or Bronwyn on 8971 2643 or email [email protected].
16 and Under Boys Cricket
Development/Selection Camp
September 30 - October 2, Darwin, NT
Have your represented your school, region or club in Touch?Are you keen to further develop skills and understanding of the Game? Would you like the opportunity to represent Northern Territory? Then nominate now, before September 16th to at-tend the 16 and Under Cricket Development/Selection Camp. Age of participation is 13 to 16 as at 1/9/2012.This 3 day event comprises games and development activities. To conclude the event a NT representative side is selected. The cost for this event is $250; this covers School Sport levy, lunch on Friday and Saturday and travel costs. If you require private billeting there is an additional $50 that will go to the billeting family. Pick up nomination forms from your school offi ce, complete and return to your school offi ce. If you require further information please contact Daryl or Bron-wyn on 8971 2643 or email [email protected].
Katherine Junior Australian Rules
Football Council
PLAYERS & COACHES WANTED
Katherine AuskickFor boys and girls from 5 to 8 years of age. A weekly program that allows children to develop through skill based drills fol-lowed by a modifi ed game.Katherine AFL JuniorsFor boys and girls from 8 to 16 years of age. Weekly training session and gameVenue: Katherine Town Ovals 1 & 2.Season: Saturday 13th August from 8.30 -10.30 am to late October.Registration Days: 8.00-10.00 on Saturday 30th July and Saturday 6th August at Kath-erine Town oval 1 or visit www.afl auskick.com.auPresident: Daryl Grahek Phone: 0400 478 513 Email: [email protected]
In September the Katherine Region is very lucky to have two very high quality
speakers coming to town…..
Monday 5th September 9am – 11am Dr Ian Lillico
This session covers boys and their school-ing. It gives parents strategies to help boys in their growth into adults and compares childhood and adolescence. The role of the teacher, nature and other factors im-pacting on boys’ success are explained.
Cost: $50per individualVenue: Katherine High School
Monday 5th September 6:30pm – 8:30pm Sue Hyde (Educator / Consultant)
Cool Parents: Positive strategies for deal-ing with the behaviour of young children Cost: $20per individual / $30per coupleVenue: Clyde Fenton Primary SchoolTo Register phone Clyde Fenton Primary School 89721122 or email: [email protected]. RSVP by 26 August.
Earn and Learn with WoolworthsOur school is taking part in Woolworths Earn & Learn commu-nity program. This year, they are giving away more than $5 mil-lion worth of educational resources for Primary and Secondary schools all over Australia, including ours! Until September 18th 2011, Woolworths will give you one Earn & Learn point for every $10 you spend in store. Points will auto-matically appear on your shopping dockets. All you need to do is save these dockets and bring them to school or place them in the box provided at the Woolworths service desk. There’s no limit to the number of points we can collect, so your participa-tion will really make a difference. The more points we earn, the more resources we can order!
