South Grafton High School Excellence and Innovation

Week 8 – Term 1, 22 March 2018 Principal: Mrs Megan Johnson

South Grafton High School, Tyson Street, South Grafton, NSW, 2460. Telephone: 6642 1466, Facsimile: 6643 2027,

Email: sthgrafton-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au, Website: www.sthgrafton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Page 1

New Principal Appointed Ms Kristine Pizarro, former Deputy Principal at Alstonville

High School has been successful, through merit, in being

appointed as the new principal of South Grafton High School. Ms Pizarro commences permanently as principal at

SGHS on Monday 30 April 2018. We welcome Ms Pizarro

with great anticipation for an exciting future at our school

and wish Mrs Johnson all the best in her new role in the Department of Education.

Harmony Day SGHS celebrated this important event to promote

friendship and reject racism by holding a sausage sizzle at

recess. The feeling was definitely harmonious with lots of hungry students and staff enjoying a lovely hot sausage

sandwich, expertly prepared by the SLIKK team.

Term 1 Parent Teacher Night. Our first parent teacher meetings will be held Tuesday 10

April 2018 (Week 11) and will run from 4:30pm-6:30pm in

the school hall. Parents can book an interview time via Sentral or on the evening at the door. This is for students

in Years 7-12.

Years 10 & 11 Meningococcal Vaccinations

Vaccination forms have been handed out to all Year 10

and 11 students. Please complete and return the form to the front office ASAP. If you did not receive a form they

are available from the front office. Vaccination date is the

14 May, 2018. Year 7 catch-up vaccinations will also be on

this day.

Diary Dates

Monday 26 March MNC v LNC Rugby League

Macksville

Tuesday 27 March

Yr. 10 ‘Career Role Model

Day’ Workshop – Hall North Coast netball trials

Friday 30 March

GOOD FRIDAY

Monday 2 April

EASTER MONDAY

Wednesday 4 April

Whole School Social Yr 10 Geography excursion –

Wooli Beach

Tuesday 10 April

Parent/teacher meetings

4.30pm-6.30pm SGHS hall. Science & Engineering

Challenge – Woolgoolga HS

Friday 13 April

Last day of Term 1

South Grafton High School, Tyson Street, South Grafton, NSW, 2460. Telephone: 6642 1466, Facsimile: 6643 2027,

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South Grafton High School Newsletter, Week 8, Term 1 - 22 March 2018

Bangarra Dance Workshop

South Grafton High School was represented well by 17 students attending

the Bangarra Dance Workshop held at

Coffs Harbour High on Monday. All 17 students worked extremely hard and

made the day a great success.

Congratulations to Tristan Boney, Travis Gardiner-O'Connor and Jaxon Kairupan for

being selected for a possible position in

the State Aboriginal Dance Company. Cate Duroux told her English teacher that she

was exhausted but had a great time!

Scooter Racks

The school and SRC have installed scooter

racks for student use. Locks have been provided free of charge and the area is

under camera surveillance to protect the

scooters. The scooter area is outside the library at the front of the school.

The scooter kids have embraced the

initiative wholeheartedly and we look

forward to continued use and successful solution to an ongoing storage problem.

Students are reminded to lock their

scooters away BEFORE school.

School Lockers

Lockers are available for students to hire at $30 for a year. The lockers are located

outside the school library and are big

enough to fit school books, laptops or your school bag. Application forms are

available from the library.

SRC Leadership Camp

The annual SRC leadership camp was held last week at Camp Koinonia, Evans Head.

37 members of the SRC along with Mrs

McBeath and Mr Martin attended the camp. Students participated in 2 days of

activities such as rock climbing, vertical

challenge, beach initiative games, laser tag and other group challenges. Day 3 of

the camp was dedicated to school

business with the SRC undertaking to support many charities and issues within

the school.

Ms McBeath celebrated her last SRC camp

by conquering the high wall (with a lot of help from the SRC muscles). She was also

very surprised and really delighted by the

wonderful video/ photo tribute featuring marvellous messages from past school

captains, all prepared by SRC and Mr

Martin. We thanked Ms McBeath for all the great SRC Camps over the years.

Year 10 Role Models Careers Day

Tuesday 27 March Next week Southern Cross University,

Clarence Valley Council and North Coast

TAFE will attend South Grafton High School to discuss with student's their

vocational journey and elements of their

current role. Students will be exposed to 8

different vocations and activities. This program aims to build confidence and

motivation towards a future career.

South Grafton High School, Tyson Street, South Grafton, NSW, 2460. Telephone: 6642 1466, Facsimile: 6643 2027,

Email: sthgrafton-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au, Website: www.sthgrafton-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Page 3

South Grafton High School Newsletter, Week 8, Term 1 - 22 March 2018

School Social

The first school social for the year will be held on Wednesday 4th April. The theme

for the social is ‘Fair Dinkum Straya’.

Tickets are $5 and are available from the Library or $10 at the door on the night.

Twilight Teacher Training

Teachers and SASS staff attended

workshops at school on Tuesday evening as part of their professional development

training. Extra training was undertaken

concerning the support of low literacy and

life skills students and also techniques on dealing with students who display

challenging behaviour in the classroom.

Other topics included the School Plan, online teacher training and a new program

called ‘Mathspace’.

Congratulations Hollie Fuller, Year 7,

won the CHS North

Coast girls golf trials at Yamba on

Tuesday. Well done

Hollie!

South Grafton High Trades Skills

Centre

Recently the Year 12 VET Construction class have undertaken their mandatory

work placement activities.

The students within this course are working towards Certificate II in

Construction Pathways. These students

develop and build skills and knowledge

within this industry. Throughout the week

of work placement, students are exposed to areas within the construction industry

that evolve around work health & safety,

hand and power tools, measuring and calculating, handling materials and

equipment and conditions within the

industry. Thanks to all businesses that offered

placements for the students: Paul Cureton

Building, Clarence Coast Construction, McGrath Electrical & Data, Dougherty

Construction, CB Construction, Grafton

Gas & Plumbing, DLH Glass and B&S

Kitchens.

Bailey Chalker – Clarence

Coast Construction

Darcy Henderson – Grafton

Gas & Plumbing

Josh Tompkins –

Paul Cureton

Builder

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South Grafton High School Newsletter, Week 8, Term 1 - 22 March 2018

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Monday 26 March – Julie Anne Brett

Tuesday 27 March – Wendy Rogers

Wednesday 28 March – Help appreciated

Thursday 29 March – Wendy Rogers

Friday 30 March – GOOD FRIDAY

Monday 2 April – EASTER MONDAY

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