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Friday, 18th August 2017 Issue 10 - Term 3 - Week 5

EXTENDED STAFF MEETING Last week saw our staff undertake an extended staff meeting. These extended meetings are in lieu of the last two days of the year and allow us to provide training as staff need it. The staff went through two sessions on the evening. The first session focused on Health and Safety and provided staff with training on how to complete the departments risk assessment process and the when and how of risk assessments. The second session introduced staff to the process of ordering under the new LMBR process.

VARIETY NIGHT Last week saw our annual variety night. Once again this evening showcased the amazing talent that exists within the students at Deniliquin High School. A big congratulations to all of those students who performed on the night. I would also like to thank all of the staff who were involved in the lead up, preparation and running of the evening, a special mention also needs to go to Matt Kiley for all of his planning and coordination of the evening.

SCHOOL PLAN We are in the process of evaluating the current school plan which is due to expire at the end of 2017. We are also starting preparations for the 2018-2020 school plan. Some parents would have been approached by our captains on the Variety Night and asked to complete a survey aimed at providing us with some information to assist in our planning. These surveys were also available on the Year 10 subject evening and will be available at the front office. If you are able to provide us with some information it would be greatly appreciated. The survey should not take up too much of your time but it will provide us with some important information for the future directions of the school. I have also attached a copy to the end of this newsletter so please feel free to complete a survey and drop it in to the office.

LMBR TRAINING WRAPS UP Our training for LMBR has now all been completed but we still have our “L” plates on as we come to grips with the new finance and administration system. I would like to thank our office staff who have done an amazing job and especially Lisa Wishart our SAM. As I have previously mentioned this change is the biggest in the office for at least 30 years. The new SAP system is a completely new system with all new ways of doing tasks. As we come to know the system better we will be able to update many of our processes. Please have patience with our office staff as we transition this new system in the school.

SUBJECT SELECTION PROCESS UNDER WAY Our Year 10 subject selection evening was held on Wednesday night. This night provided parents with information to assist the child in the decision making process in regards to Year 11 subjects. It was great to see all of the parents who attended the evening and I am sure that the information provided on the evening will greatly assist in the decision making process.

BRAINSTORM PRODUCTION FOR YEARS 7,8 & 9 Tuesday of this week saw a visiting production entitled– The Hurting Game. The Hurting Game is about what we need from our friends and how easy it is to be caught up in destructive patterns and behaviours.

Samantha and Jimmy are two Year 12 drama students who are devising a comical computer game which explores the issues they face during adolescence. It includes;

- Peer pressure - Name calling and rumours - Playing the fool and ‘dumbing down’ - Body image and media pressure - Under-age drinking - Homophobia and harassment - Cyber-bullying through mobile phones and social websites - Cyber-safety and cyber-footprint

The performance ran for 50 minutes plus there was a short 5-10 minute discussion with the students. This live performance was presented by young actors who are using technology in their day to day lives, this presentation was aimed at complementing our other school anti-bullying programs. Those who presented were professional actors, trained to run the discussion. We also had counselling staff on hand if any student required any extra support.

Glen Warren

Principal

Deni High News Principal: Glen Warren Deputy Principal: Peter Astill

Harfleur Street, Deniliquin NSW 2710 T: 5881 1211 F: 5881 5115 E: [email protected] W: www.deniliquin-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Issue 10 - Term 3 - Week 5 Friday, 18th August 2017

CALENDAR

Week 6 Term 3

21th-25th August 2017

Year 12 Trial Higher School Certificate Examinations

Week 7 Term 3

29th-30th August 2017

CHS State Netball


Name: Anthony O’Donnell Years at Deni High School: 1990-1995 Where do you currently live: Deniliquin What is your occupation and who do you work for: Chief Radiographer – Deniliquin Hospital MLHD .

Pathway from Deni High to now: Education 1996 - The University of Melbourne – Agricultural Science 1

st Year

1997 – 1999 Charles Sturt University Wagga Ba. App Sci (Medical Imaging) 2001 – 2005 Masters of Business Administration – Charles Sturt University Wagga 2006 Graduate Certificate Financial Management & Accounting – Charles Sturt University Wagga Employment 2000 - 2002 Border Medical Imaging – Albury Radiographer 2002 - Current Deniliquin Hospital – MLHD Chief Radiographer Current Justice of the Peace (NSW) Reg 189770

Advice to Current Students: Create yourself and set goals. Pick your subjects carefully. Keep your options open as to desired careers. Be thankful of everything you have, someone else will always be worse off, particularly health.

ENGLISH NEWS In Week 3 Year 8 had the unique opportunity to listen to Mr Matthew Hof from Charles Sturt University talk about his work in the advertising industry. This talk coincides with their current study of advertising. Mr Hof provided students with a broad examination of the types of advertisements and the creative planning and decisions behind ideas. Student assessment tasks are due next week, we hope they take on the advice from Mr Hof in creating unique and effective advertisements. Student comments “I really enjoyed it I thought the information was helpful and interesting.” “I liked that we saw different advertisements and explained how they reflect different points and opinions.” “The talk was very insightful and entertaining.” Students in Years 7 to 11 have all received their assessment tasks notifications and should be working on their tasks at home and provided class time. We wish Year 12 the best of luck in their exams next week.

DENILIQUIN HIGH SCHOOL

EX-STUDENTS

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Next P&C Meeting

22 August 2017

6pm, Meeting Room

Administration Building

All Welcome to attend

Wanted

Lemons

Home Economics would love lemons

donated.


ACCIDENT SPECIFICS: MULTIPLE VEHICLE ACCIDENTS From this NTI sample of claims, there were many disturbing multi vehicle fatal incidents investigated in this report that involved third party car and light vehicle drivers, some with passengers. Given our records are specific to the accident scene, and that time immediately following the incident, there may well have been further fatalities during and following the emergency evacuation and transportation of those seriously injured. Of these fatal accidents, in 93% of the incidents the driver of the car or light vehicle was found to be totally responsible. If this finding is consistent with national data, there is perhaps a role for agencies and media when quoting road toll statistics for ‘fatalities involving heavy vehicles’ for incorporation of an ‘at fault’ statistic, otherwise the perception will always be that the truck was at fault.

Passenger and light vehicle interaction with heavy vehicles needs a renewed focus by Federal, State and Territory road safety regulators.

Short of mandating driver education programs for new and existing licence holders and an emphasis on sharing the road with heavy vehicles, our deeper concern extends to driver attitude and general behaviour. Indifference, preoccupation and lack of respect for the road rules also breeds complacency which leads to multiple traffic violations and increased road incidents. This along with driving at speed, irrespective of the conditions and the use of mobile telephones, particularly texting whilst driving, has now reached an epidemic level. There are fundamental social issues that now need to be addressed or the road safety gains introduced in the past generation will be lost.

To the extent of NTI major incidents that occurred in 2015, in the category of fatal collisions involving third party drivers, where they were found to be totally responsible, 80% occurred on the highway network with 36% being female drivers. Tragically 63% of female drivers involved in these fatal incidents were 21years or younger. In all fatal losses involving female third party drivers, the average age was 32 years 1 month.

Fatalities involving male drivers accounted for the balance with 63% of losses with fatalities. Male drivers under the age of 21years represented 5.2% whilst 37% were aged over 50. The average age was 39 years 9 months. Overall, 40% of losses occurred between the hours of 12pm and 6 pm whilst third party drivers over 70 years accounted for 20% of these collisions with heavy vehicles.

Again and assimilating the above findings from fatal crashes reported to NTI in 2015, this result does raise the issue that for young and or inexperienced licence holders’ driver training and skills evaluation does not adequately cover highway applications where road speed and driving to the conditions is also a critical competency.

U15S BASKETBALL GALA DAY On Tuesday 13

th of June Ms Barker and Ms Hatton

supported our DHS Girls and Boys U15s teams when they went up against Barham and Finley in a highly competitive day of basketball at the Stadium.

With Graci away somewhere in South-East Asia, the rest of the girls put up a strong contest against Barham taking the win 30-8. Their next game against Finley HS was hotly contested with a physical game unfortunately resulting in an 18-26 loss.

The boys played with exceptional physicality and skill against both Finley and Barham. Standout performers on the day were: Raymond (Year 7), and, Cody (Year 9) and Ben (Year 9). The results from both games: Deni v Finley 60-6 Deni v Barham 65-4

The U15s boys’ team now progress to the next stage of the competition to be held at a later date.

Many thanks to Sid for being the coach for both teams he displayed great leadership and encouragement on the day.

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ALBURY ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Deniliquin High School was well represented at the recent regional athletics carnival in Albury on Friday 28

th July. With a total of 22 students from DHS

competing and doing the school extremely proud with almost every student in every event improving their times/distances from the zone carnival in Finley. In total nine students have successfully qualified (1

st/2

nd) for the state carnival at Homebush

Sydney during week 8 (6th-8

th September).

Students who qualified. Tom Bradley 13yrs. 100m 1

st, 200m 1

st , Long jump

2nd

Cameron 16yrs 800m 2

nd

Rachel 14yrs 1500m 1st, 800m 1

st

3000m 1st

Kyle 16yrs 400m 2nd

Ella 14yrs 3000m 2

nd

Harry 15yrs 1500m 2nd

Emma 15yrs 800m 1

st

Charlotte 13yrs 800m 1st

Anna 16yrs Discus 2nd

, Shot put 2nd

NEWS FROM THE STUDENT SUPPORT OFFICER The 31

st July, saw the Premiere of the “Kolety

Delights Story.” It was documentary that was made by a group of Year 10 boys whom had been attending the Growing Images Program at Vinnies Services. The Growing Images program was about building social emotional intelligence in a fun and interactive way. The boys learned about empathy and how to go out of their comfort zone to interview people from other walks of life. Congratulations to Luke White, Mitchell Saunders, Dylan May, Ryan Bartholomew and Jon Marshall for a fantastic documentary and a special thanks to Nick Robinson and Sally Wright at Vinnies Services for their support, encouragement and guidance in creating this documentary. In Week 3 this term the Drumbeat program started for a group of Year 9 students. The students will attend Vinnies Services every week. It is a relationship based program and students work in a drum circle it is a safe place to explore human relationships and practice skills that enable healthy social interactions. The program covers, peer pressure, dealing with emotions, bullying, identity, problem solving, social responsibility and team work. All students in Year 7 to 9 watched Emily and Jack from Brainstorm Productions perform “The Hurting Game”. “The Hurting Game” is a live, interactive theatre experience that captures the dizzying highs and crushing lows of high school and growing up. From teen cliques, coping with peer pressure, teenage insecurities and bullying. The production, tells the tale of how destructive relationships at school and online can affect students’ self-esteem and their future wellbeing. But the characters soon realise that caring for others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. The program aims to inspire students to develop healthier and happier relationships, both online and in the real world. The Hurting Game is part of our student wellbeing curriculum and the program has been developed in consultation with teachers, psychologists, as well as real-life student experiences. The methodology of the program is safe, supportive and nonjudgmental and designed to provide students with positive and useful tools that they can use in their everyday lives. The feedback received from the students was all positive and comments were “Talk to someone with they are struggling.” “Facebook is bad.” “Be your own person and be nice”. Teacher’s comments included “It held most students attention and was relevant and modern enough for students.” It was well acted.” “There were some valuable examples in some very different ways.”


TAS NEWS DHS COOK OFF

THE WINNER IS - PAIGE GRANT! Last Wednesday night, as part of Variety Night, we held our 6

th DHS Cook Off. The quality of the dishes

reached another level this year. We again, kindly thank our sponsor SunRice, for supporting this event. Paige went home with a $250.00 cash prize for her efforts! Thank you to all the staff who helped in the planning of this event and on the night itself.

The Cook Off finalists and their cooking partners: From left: Mitchell (Isabel Michael’s assistant), Paige, Holly (Paige’s assistant, Isabel, Peta and her assistant Shay.

WOODWORK CHALLENGE 2017 The Wood Show Challenge started in 2008 to showcase the practical skills of Year 9 students work as a team, and are from a variety of high schools from across the state. It has since been expanded to include a Year 10 competition. This year Deniliquin High School students travelled to Finley for thea regional competition. The challenge has many benefits for both the school and the students involved:

• It is a fantastic opportunity for students to develop project management and team work skills whilst further developing their practical skills. • It helps students develop these skills whilst enjoying themselves in a safe, supportive and encouraging environment. • It gives the TAS Faculty an opportunity to showcase the talents of their students and staff • to increase public awareness of the significance of Technology Education in secondary schools.

The students from DHS that took part in the day were Year 9 Harry Hillier, Tom Hills, Alex Rose and Josh Currie. Year 10 Dylan Rotherham, Reece Hussey, James Aked and Mitchell Saunders. A big thankyou to Mrs Tobin from Finley High School for organising the day and we now hope to hold this event in the last week of each term.


DENI CABINET MAKERS The Year 11 Industrial Technology Timber class do an industry study each year on a local Cabinet Making Business. This year we visited Mark and Maria Everitt at Deniliquin Cabinet Makers and were given a tour of the workshop and time to ask questions about the industry. We had a fantastic time and students were extremely impressed with the machinery and technology being used in the workshop. We are extremely lucky to have local business like this willing to give up their time and help our students at DHS. Thanks Mark and Maria


CAREERS NEWS

YEAR 12 FUTURE OPTIONS EVENING – AUGUST 30 A reminder to all parents and students that the school will be holding our annual Future Options evening up in the school library on Wednesday the 30

th August, commencing at 6.30pm. It would be

fantastic to see as many of you as is possible to discuss your child’s post-secondary options. Information about apprenticeships, TAFE, university and scholarships will be disseminated.

YEAR 11 MELBOURNE EXCURSION A reminder to all students who have signed up for the Melbourne Excursion, your payments must be completed and paid in full by September 1. Payment for accommodation has been made by the school so we cannot accept withdrawals from this point.

CSU FUTURE MOVES – YEAR 9 STUDENTS Charles Sturt University are running an aspirations course “Future Directions,” as part of their Future Moves program. This program aims to introduce students to the concept of university as a future study option and encourage them to explore it as a way to realise their dreams. On-campus events are a fantastic opportunity for student s to experience university first-hand, engage with university students and realise that university isn’t such a foreign place to be.

YEAR 10 SUBJECT SELECTION All Year 10 subject selection forms (gold coloured) should have been returned to the front office by Friday 18

th August. If you can see a form lying

around on your kitchen bench can you please return it ASAP as it is now overdue!

UAC – IMPORTANT DATES FOR YEAR 12:

Below are the dates you need to be aware of (and stick

to) for the 2017-2018 admissions process:

Fees and Charges:

$58 - From when applications open on August 2 until

Friday September 29, 2017

$183 - From Friday September 29, 2017 onwards

ACT OPEN DAY

Australian National

University

Saturday August 26

University of

Canberra

Saturday August 26

University of NSW

(ADFA)

Saturday August 26

Australian Catholic

University

Saturday August 26

Course

applica-

tions

Open Close Fees

Timely course

application

7 August

(9am)

28 September

(5pm)

$35.00

Currently

enrolled Year

121 timely

processing fee

$53.00

All other appli-

cants timely

processing fee

Late course

application

28 Sep-

tember

(5.30pm)

3 November

(5pm)

$103.00 (All)

Late pro-

cessing fee

Very late

course applica-

tion (not availa-

ble for gradu-

ate-entry

teaching cours-

es)

3 Novem-

ber

(5.30pm)

8 December

(5pm)

$134.00 (All)

Very late

processing fee

Mid-year 2018

application

Mid April

2018

Early June

2018

TBC


NSW Open Days

ASPIRE – LATROBE EARLY ENTRY SCHEME – APPLICATIONS CLOSE 31 AUGUST Applications are still open (til 31

st August) for this

early entry program offered by LaTrobe University. There’s more to being a good student than marks alone. Aspire rewards the skills and knowledge you’ve gained through your community contribution with a conditional early offer into your chosen course at La Trobe. The Aspire Program is designed to give you the tools you need to succeed at La Trobe and beyond. Year 12 students accepted into Aspire will get: ● a taste of university life at La Trobe with special on-campus events before the year commences ● the chance to meet and connect with like-minded students who share your goals and passions

● support for your exams with VCE/HSC revision lectures in the September school holiday ● access to our extensive library and campus resources ● induction into our Enrichment Program to prepare for what’s to come Follow this link to make your application today: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/study/aspire

POSITIONS VACANT We have had a number of employers contact the school looking for full-time and part-time employees. In order to assist these business houses we are running an employment register. Students can come to the Careers Office and provide their contact details and availability. Where possible we will try to match students to suitable employers.

GAP MEDICS: Gap Medics are offering an exciting project for students that are looking to apply for university courses in medicine, nursing, dentistry or midwifery. Gap Medics is a provider of short-term healthcare work experience placements abroad. Although based in the UK, its programs are open to students from all around the world. This organisation is dedicated to arranging hospital work experience placements for students who are applying to medical or nursing school in particular. So, what does the project involve? During weekdays, students shadow highly skilled doctors in their day-to-day work on a fully-supervised hospital placement. Students will also have the benefit of clinical teaching, safe and secure accommodation, food, transfers in Tanzania or Thailand, local orientations, 24/7 support from Gap Medics support teams overseas and in the UK and lots of help with preparations for their trip too. Google Gap Medics to find out more! DREAM JOB YOU NEVER KNEW EXISTED ….. NETFLIX TAGGER Duties: Netflix taggers are required to watch hours of latest contents on Netflix, then enter key describing words into the system for each show. This is done for Netflix users to search for shows more easily. Salary: Not indicated by Netflix but it is paid on good hourly rate and is a part-time job Other information: This is a part-time job which can work remotely (ie: at home!!) Netflix recently hired taggers to watch kids’ content, so, be ready to regularly check on Netflix to hunt on your dream job.

University

of NSW

Saturday September 2

(Kensington) Saturday Au-

gust 26 (ADFA)

Charles

Sturt Uni-

versity

See calendar for various

"My Day" events

University

of Technol-

ogy - Syd-

ney

Saturday August 26

Western

Sydney

University

Sunday August 27

Australian

Catholic

University

Saturday September 9

(Strathfield) Saturday Sep-

tember 2 (North Sydney)

University

of Notre

Dame

Saturday August 26

(Sydney)

CQ Univer-

sity

(Sydney)

Wednesday September 6

University

of Tasma-

nia

(Sydney)

Friday August 25 and Satur-

day August 26 – Rozelle & Darlinghurst

Taster

Workshops

University

of Sydney

Saturday August 26

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/study/aspire


VARIETY NIGHT 2017!

Last Wednesday evening, the wider Deniliquin High School community came together to see a spectacular showcase and to celebrate the talents of our students, for the annual Variety Night. Our Drumbeat dancers Bella Hammond, Naoka Owen and Billi-Jo Austin performed a traditional Indigenous Australian dance before Year 12 Music who performed a show-stopping rendition of the Bruno Mars hit ‘Locked Out of Heaven’.

The audience were treated to a select number of artworks on display from Year 7 through to Year 11, and lots of positive comments were made regarding the quality of the works and how impressive they were.

It is always nerve wracking when you get up in front of hundreds of people and Year 7 impressed the audience with their first ever performances as Deniliquin High School students. While Year 8 entertained with ‘Centuries’ by Fallout Boy and Bon Jovi’s ‘It’s My Life’. The it was Year 9 Music’s turn to perform and rocked out to Green Day’s ‘The Holiday’ and this year country pop hit by Keith Urban ‘The Fighter’.

This year’s drama ensemble, which has students from Year 7 through to Year 10 performed their original script title ‘Boys and Friends’, displaying confident vocal projection in an emotional performance exploring relationships.

To finish off the first half of the night, 10MUS1 performed Paramore’s ‘Ain’t It Fun’ and Aussie hit by Grinspoon ‘Don’t Change’. After, the interval 10Music2 group kicked things off with The Romantic’s classic ‘What I Like About You’ and Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.

Miss Brenda Norman launched her charity ‘Channel 4 Change’ and spoke of her goal to swim the English Channel to raise awareness and raise much needed funding for Mental Health initiatives in Deniliquin.

The DHS Sunrice Cook-Off was another success with three highly competitive finalists vying for the 2017 Cook-Off title. The students were all from Hospitality – Peta Jennings, Isabel Michael and Paige Grant. Each chose a partner for the evening and had to cook a main and dessert rice based dish. After much deliberation amongst the judging panel, Paige Grant and her partner Holly McKay were announced as this year’s winner!

Both senior classes showcased their talents and demonstrated to the junior performers the team work and cooperative skills needed for stage 6 music.

In their final Variety Night of their schooling, Year 12 music students closed the evening with the Jackson

5 disco anthem ‘Blame It on the Boogie’ and this brought the entire cast of performers together to celebrate their wonderful achievements in the performing arts.

Congratulations to all students who participated in this year’s Variety Night, your enthusiasm and commitment to providing a great night of entertainment was exceptional!

Thanks goes to all staff that were involved in the organising and management of the rehearsals and the evening, these events cannot happen without your support.

Ms Mandi Hatton


Deniliquin High School – School Planning Survey

The information collected from the responses to the following statements is to assist school staff, parents and commu-

nity members to assess the effectiveness of current practices in working collaboratively with the community to im-

prove student outcomes. No name is required.

Place a tick in the box

Culture Questionnaire Almost

Always Usually Sometimes Rarely

1. Our school regularly communicates information about activities and programs within

the school.

2

. Our school endeavours to create an environment that enables our students to achieve

to their highest possible potential.

3

. Our school endeavours to provide students with the necessary skills to be successful,

valued and effective citizens who respect themselves and their community.

4. Our school endeavours to prepare students for the challenges

of life in an ever changing, demanding and complex world.

5Our school has positive relationships between school, home and community.

6

. Our school endeavours to support student social and emotional

wellbeing.

What are the two most successful things that the school implements to improve learning for our students?

Wellbeing programs including Positive Behaviour for Learning PBL Sentral Parent Portal

Extracurricular activities – sport, music, drama,

Harmony Day Assembly etc

Workplace Learning – including VET and Careers

Case management of students to support learning Enhancement of community links through school

based events – BBQs, parent nights

What are two things that the school could do better to improve learning outcomes for students?

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