LATROBE HIGH SCHOOL

Department of Education

Issue No. 15 22 October 2015

Principal’s Report

Student Leadership

It has been a settled and busy start to the Term; students have come back to school refreshed and ready for

learning. I have had the pleasure of reading 51 student nominations for Student Leadership in 2016. It is pleasing

that 51 students from a possible 115 Grade 9 students are aspiring to become a Student Leader. Each student will

have the opportunity to present a five minute speech to interested staff and students. This has started to occur in

the library during lunch hours, and will continue over the next couple of weeks. Staff and students will be voting

on Tuesday 10 November, with the announcement of the 2016 Student Leadership Team during a Whole School

Assembly on Tuesday 1 December.

Latrobe High School Master Plan

During the school holidays, the School Association and the DoE ratified our Master Plan for the ten million dollar

redevelopment. We are extremely pleased that nearly all of our wishes and priorities have been met. I have

attached the Master Plan for your perusal. With a tight timeframe to complete the schematic design and putting

the project out to tender, we have delayed the information evening where parents and the wider community will

have the opportunity to view more detailed plans and be briefed further by ARTAS Architects. I am hoping that

we will be able to give you a definitive date in the next newsletter.

Student Free Day – Moderation

Friday 23 October (tomorrow) is a Student Free day and required Professional Learning Day for teachers and

school staff across the state. We are working with all the other local high school in our area to moderate samples

of work and plan teaching strategies to move individual students forward in their learning. Students will no doubt

enjoy a long weekend!

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High Expectations for Learning

As the year has progressed, a number of students have misplaced, lost or used the equipment they require for class.

Students cannot learn to their fullest and fulfil their assessment requirements without the correct equipment needed for

class. During homeroom this week, students have been reminded to restock their equipment and I reinforced this

message at a short assembly this morning. If students do not have the required gear for class, starting on Monday, they

will be asked to spend their lunch hour supervised in the library. If you require any assistance in making sure your son/

daughter has the following equipment, please contact your Grade Coordinator:

pencil case blue and red pens

ruler colouring-in pencils

calculator grey –lead pencil and eraser.

Thank you for supporting your son’s/daughter’s learning.

Grade 6 Transition Morning and Grade 10 Don Information Evening

Yesterday morning we welcomed our 2016 Grade 7 students to a transition morning. It was the first time we have had

the majority of Grade 6’s together. Parents would have been very proud of their willingness to participate in all the

learning activities and socialise with students from other primary schools. Miss Angela Sheahen (Transition Coordinator)

and our Personal Interest teachers have done a marvellous job in coordinating the morning. I would also like to thank

our feeder school Principals and Grade 6 teachers for assisting us with a smooth transition to high school.

I trust Grade 10 students and parents enjoyed the Don College Information Evening last night. I have been very

impressed with the support and guidance Don College staff have given our students throughout the transition process.

On Monday 16 November and Thursday 19 November, Don College staff will be visiting LHS to conduct enrolments with

students, by asking students to choose their subjects. If you would like any more information about the enrolment

procedure or you would like to be there during the enrolment interview, please contact Mr Karafilis (Grade 10

Coordinator) to book in a time.

Dates to Remember

Friday 23 October – Student Free Day

Tuesday 27 October – Kakka Challenge at Don College

Monday 2 November – Recreation Day Holiday

Thursday 5 November – Whole School Assembly (2pm in the school Gymnasium)

Tuesday 10 November – Student Leadership and School Association voting

Monday 16 November – Don College Enrolments (11:45pm to 2:30pm)

Tuesday 17 November – Day 1 LHS Athletic Carnival at Latrobe Football Ground

Wednesday 18 November – Day 2 LHS Athletic Carnival at Latrobe Football Ground

Brent Armitstead

Principal

GRADE 7 REPORT

Grade 7 students have had a good start to this term. We cannot believe Term Four is here already. This

term will be very busy with carnivals and extracurricular opportunities for students. During the term, stu-

dents have the opportunity to improve on their current assessment. We strongly encourage students to

set learning goals for the remainder of the year as this will give them focus in the last term of Grade 7.

Congratulations to the Stars of Grade 7 listed below:

7A Sarsha Flack

Sarsha has made a wonderful start to the term. She is organised, working hard and achieving pleasing

results in Basics.

7B Molly Carter

Molly is a positive student who always works to the best of her ability. She is a great team member and

readily assists others whenever possible.

7C Shanaye Barnes

Shanaye has been trying her best this term with all English activities and has voluntarily read our class

novel ‘Misery Guts’ aloud to her classmates.

7D Luke Shegog

Luke has been working well in class. He sets a good example for his classmates and is willing to help them

out when they need it.

Congratulations to Tannah Goss and Josh Poulton who have received a Strength Award since our last

newsletter.

Miss Sheahen

Grade Coordinator

ALL STARS GYM

SLEEPOVER

WHEN: 6 November 2015

WHERE: All Stars

Gymnastics Club, Nichols St,

Devonport

TIME: Friday 6 November

7pm until Saturday 7 November 10pm

WHAT TO BRING: Sleeping bag, pillow, plate of nibbles

to share (lollies, biscuits etc.)

PROVIDED: Separate sleeping areas for boys and girls,

adult supervision, trained gymnastic coaches, and

drinks.

COST: $10 CONTACT: Kathryn Lapthorne on

0409813425

SURF GROMS Surf Groms – Devonport are running their courses again this year. The weather is warming up and they have their first course of the season scheduled for next week.

This is a fantastic opportunity leading into summer for our Grade 7 & 8 students. It is open for beginners through to those who have done it before and is aimed at improving the fundamental skills of surfing.

You can expect to have a lot of fun on the beach with some warm-up games, then the specialised coaching will be done, firstly on the sand and then in the water.

So grab some friends or come on your own and meet some new people and sign up for Surf Groms!

WHERE: Coles Beach, Devonport

WHEN: Wednesday 29, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 October.

TIME: 3.30pm – 6.00pm (time may be changed to 3.45pm if LHS students sign up to allow travel time.

COST: $150 (includes a backpack, rash vest, cap, Weetbix bowl, sunscreen and wahoo toys to take home, 8 hours of specialised surf coaching, wetsuit and board hire.

CONTACT NUMBER: 0400276725 for further details and to put your name down, then you must register on line at: http://www.surfgroms.com.au

BUSES We are currently concerned that some students catching a bus to school are disembarking the bus at bus stops in Gilbert St. This is in breach of our policy and we ask that all students remain on the bus until they are at the school bus stop. Students catching buses after school must also catch the bus at the school bus stops either in Last St or Percival St.

The manager of the Mersey Link buses has contacted the school and indicated they will not pick students up from alternative bus stops.

Sally Oakley

Acting Assistant Principal

GRADE 8 POETRY

Last term, Grade 8 A completed a unit focusing on various types of poems: acrostic, haikus, limericks,

cinquains, sonnets etc. Below are some examples of the students’ poems.

Autumn Leaves

An art of nature

Under the trees they fall,

Telling of summer’s end.

Up I stand on my tiptoes, admiring the scenes above me.

Mountains of leaves lay on the ground.

Nagging at the trees comes the wind, north bound

Leaves fly all around

Evening begins as the sun starts to set

Alternating colours,

Vibrant colours,

Evening sun,

Shines down upon the autumn leaves of the trees.

By Darcy Miller

Blue Hot Sky

Blue clouds, watery sky,

Yellow sunshine glowing through the day,

Turning hotter each minute of the summery day, going by.

By Chloe Dale

Basketball

Basketball,

Fierce, talented

Running, shooting, passing

Hits a 3 bomb

NBA

By Will Spinks

Books

Peaceful, delightful

Reading, learning, knowing

Flipping the paper pages

Reading.

By Kate Carey

Music

Music,

Soft rock,

Singing, stringing, drumming,

She rocked the music.

Song.

By Jaime Francombe

Happiness

Smiles filled with joy

Smiley faces everywhere

Everyone’s happy

By Bronte Duniam

Tornado

Twisting and turning

Air spinning over the land

Destroys everything.

By Lachlan Stainz

LIMERICK

The was a guy called Jack

He had a very sore back

He had a few cats,

They always wore hats

But he had a good six pack.

By Chloe Lomax

A SONNET

How is it fair that you caused me so much pain,

You ruin my life and destroy my home.

Can you not see us outside in the rain?

They walk past and ignore my helpless moans

I scar and I bleed like everyone else

You can walk by us, like nothing is wrong

You think I’m disgusting, look at yourself

I tries very hard, I tried to be strong.

You sit with it all and I with nothing,

You sit in your fortress and watch us weep,

Please have a heart and promise me something

And this promise is one that you must keep.

Use your power to give us our homes back.

You have wealth, but it’s a heart that you lack.

By Kaycee Hering

GRADE 9 REPORT

Welcome back to the final term of 2015. The Grade

9 students have returned from their holidays

refreshed and ready to take on the final weeks of

the year.

Congratulations to the following students who have

received strength awards: Connor Reed-Delaney,

Kaleb Richards and Zac Enright.

Congratulations also go to the fifty students who

nominated themselves for the role of Student Lead-

er for 2016. Currently students are working on, and

presenting, their speeches leading up to voting

which will take place on Tuesday 10 November.

Good luck to all students involved in this process.

Student wearing of school uniform has been a lot

better over the past few months. Well done! Please

look out for a letter being sent home regarding the

Grade Ten hoodies for 2016. We would like to have

these ordered and ready to go at the beginning of

2016. There is a slip that needs to be returned to

the office, with payment, next month. The pur-

chase of the hoodies is optional.

If you have any questions regarding your child,

please email me or contact the school.

Wendy Leonard

Grade 9 Coordinator

National Bandanna Day is CanTeen’s largest fundraiser and will be held on Friday 30 October. This year,

Latrobe High School’s Junior Leadership team is rallying support to assist young people living with

cancer. Every year, another 23,000 young people (63 a day) have to deal with the challenge of cancer.

That’s why we need everybody to get involved this National Bandanna Day. Bandannas play a significant

role as a symbol of hope and empowerment for people who are affected by cancer and are worn during

their cancer journey. Bandannas will be on sale at the front office for $4 each and every day up to

Friday 30 October. Please show your support by wearing your Canteen bandanna.

PE HOTSPOT

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 November, the Latrobe High Athletics Carnival will be run at the Latrobe Recreation Ground. A wide variety of track, field and novelty events will give all participants the opportunity to earn valuable house points for the AK Watts Shield. It will also give them the opportunity to be chosen to represent the school in the Interhigh Athletics Carnival held on December 8 in Penguin.

TOUCH FOOTBALL

The first games of touch football will be played at Meercroft Park today. Make sure you go along to sup-port our seven teams of boys and girls from all grades 7-10. Good luck and do us proud.

SUN SAFETY

It is getting to that time of the year again where the UV rays are at their harshest. Be sure to protect your-self and your family with the correct skin protection. Even on cloudy and overcast days, the UV rays can harm your skin.

The PE team will be providing sunscreen for all students for PE lessons.

REMEMBER

- SLIP on a t-shirt (long sleeve).

- SLOP on some sunscreen (SPF 50+).

- SLAP on a hat (wide brim).

- SEEK shade and

- SLIDE on some sunglasses.

STATE RUGBY UNION REPRESENTATIVES Last weekend, 3 students from Latrobe High represented Tasmania in the Tasmanian Rugby Union tour of Victoria in Under 14 and Under 16 teams.

Harley Hyde and Mike Kahura (both under 16) had mixed results in their games, defeating their oppo-nents in the first game 34-7 in a comfortable victory. They didn’t have the same luck in their second game going down 27-42. Mike Kahura, however, was a shining light in the loss scoring two tries for his team.

Leon Kahura in the Under 14 team had a tough weekend losing the game to their more fancied oppo-nents.

Congratulations to Harley, Mike and Leon on representing Tasmania and Latrobe High with such sports-manship and skill.

LEADERSHIP

Term four is a very exciting time for all of us as there is so much happening. The Grade Nine students who have

nominated for next year’s Leadership Team have begun presenting their lunchtime speeches. Although many of

them are feeling nervous about this it is a great opportunity to introduce themselves to students who don’t know

them. With 51 nominees it will take the best part of three weeks to get through all their speeches. At this stage we

plan to hold the elections on Tuesday 10 November.

Our second school social for the year is being held tonight. These are great events that allow students to build and

develop friendships outside normal school times. The theme this time is ‘Halloween’ and lots of students enjoy the

fun of dressing up in costumes for the night. It is also the last school social for our Grade Tens.

Yesterday we welcomed a large group of Grade Six students to LHS to take part in a transition program. It was great

to see them all here and we hope they had a good time. It is a really good way to help get over their concerns about

starting here next year. We hope they will have as wonderful a time at LHS over the next four years as we have had

over the last four years.

As Grade Ten students, we know this will be both an exciting term, and a sad term. We are looking forward to all

the special events coming up but also sad that we will be moving on at the end of the year. It is really important

that we make the most of these last two months and get involved in everything that is happening, so we can make

some great memories together.

Kayla Sheehan and Lilly Jenkins

Gavin Gee

Leadership Coordinator

Over the last few terms some of the leaders have been working closely with the grade seven classes to teach them

about bullying and find ways to stop it. So far we have talked about ‘what bullying is’, ‘what to do if you are a victim

of bullying’ and ‘what to do if you are a bystander/witness of bullying.’ One of the activities that we did was to run

an anti- bully poster competition.

We asked the Grade Sevens to create a colourful and eye catching poster that had to include the 4 steps. Be a

buddy, interrupt, speak up and tell someone. The winning posters will be displayed around the school.

Third prize goes to Inneka Enright and Connor Thorpe.

Second prize goes to Ashlee Woolley.

First prize goes to Maggie McHendrick.

Congratulations to all the winners, it was great to see so much participation and we had a very hard time choosing

the winners. The posters were colourful and eye catching as well as having some great messages.

Lilly Jenkins and Kayla Sheehan

TONIGHT

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CONTACT DETAILS

Percival Street, LATROBE, TAS 7310

PO Box 105, Latrobe 7310

Phone: 03 6426 1061 Fax: 03 6426 2242

Email: latrobe.high@education.tas.gov.au

Web: www.education.tas.gov.au

Mental Health Support Services

Support is available from the

following 24 hour telephone services:

Lifeline 131114, Kidshelpline

1800 55 1800 and Headspace for

online and telephone support –

6335 3100 or headspace.org.au.