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Page 1 Temora High School Newsletter Anzac Street Phone: (02) 69771988 Temora NSW 2666 Fax: (02) 69774197 Email [email protected] Website – www.temora-h.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 4 Week 9 Wednesday, 2 nd December, 2015 Respice Finem “Look Toward the Goal” Principal’s Perspective While Mr Pat Nethery is on Long Service Leave, I am fortunate to be the Relieving Principal. I want to thank Mr Simon Gaynor for his ability to step up into the Deputy Principal role and for Mr Liam Hackett who has stepped up into the Head Teacher TAS role. Their commitment to public education and our school is exemplary and they continue to do a fantastic job. This year, I have enjoyed seeing our teaching staff work so hard from School Development Day onwards. Congratulations to all students and their families who we recognise at the annual Presentation awards ceremony in Week 11. We look forward to seeing many students and family and friends at this important event. Beautification Day Wednesday 16 th December is the last day of school for students. The day has been developed over the past few years to be a Beautification day, with many projects identified by students to make the school a more beautiful place. This has included gardening, updating posters and resources in rooms, renovating areas and painting. Similar projects will occur again this year. Students will be offered to be involved in projects of their choosing. After lunch, students will proceed to the pool with swimming for sport. 2016 Start of the Year THS staff will return to school on Wednesday, 27 th January. Students in Years 7, 11 & 12 will return on Thursday, 28 th January. Students in Years 8, 9 and 10 will return on Friday, 29 th January to join the rest of the school. On Saturday, 30 th January THS teaching staff will join with teaching staff from other local government schools for a professional learning day with Ian Luscombe, ex- Principal of the Redbank School and expert on behaviour management. This learning opportunity will continue to help teaching staff with the many challenges of working with students in assisting to keep them safe and learning.

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Temora High School

Newsletter

Anzac Street Phone: (02) 69771988

Temora NSW 2666 Fax: (02) 69774197

Email – [email protected] Website – www.temora-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 4 Week 9 Wednesday, 2nd December, 2015

Respice Finem “Look Toward the Goal”

Principal’s Perspective

While Mr Pat Nethery is on Long Service Leave, I am fortunate to be the Relieving

Principal. I want to thank Mr Simon Gaynor for his ability to step up into the Deputy

Principal role and for Mr Liam Hackett who has stepped up into the Head Teacher TAS

role. Their commitment to public education and our school is exemplary and they

continue to do a fantastic job.

This year, I have enjoyed seeing our teaching staff work so hard from School

Development Day onwards.

Congratulations to all students and their families who we recognise at the annual

Presentation awards ceremony in Week 11. We look forward to seeing many students

and family and friends at this important event.

Beautification Day

Wednesday 16th December is the last day of school for students. The day has been

developed over the past few years to be a Beautification day, with many projects

identified by students to make the school a more beautiful place. This has included

gardening, updating posters and resources in rooms, renovating areas and painting.

Similar projects will occur again this year. Students will be offered to be involved in

projects of their choosing.

After lunch, students will proceed to the pool with swimming for sport.

2016 Start of the Year

THS staff will return to school on Wednesday, 27th January.

Students in Years 7, 11 & 12 will return on Thursday, 28th January.

Students in Years 8, 9 and 10 will return on Friday, 29th January to join the rest of the

school.

On Saturday, 30th January THS teaching staff will join with teaching staff from other

local government schools for a professional learning day with Ian Luscombe, ex-

Principal of the Redbank School and expert on behaviour management. This learning

opportunity will continue to help teaching staff with the many challenges of working

with students in assisting to keep them safe and learning.

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UNIFORM: please remember that THS is a uniform school, with students expected to

wear uniform each day. Any student out of uniform should see the Deputy Principal

with a note from a parent/carer. Shoes need to be leather, covered and supportive.

Mr Scott Frazier – Relieving Principal

Fraze’s Phrase

“Always remember, your focus

determines your reality” Qui-Gon Jinn

- Star Wars

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SCHOOL NEWS

Annual Presentation Day Temora High School Presentation Day will be held on Tuesday, 15th December starting

at 9.30pm sharp in the MPU. All parents and community members are invited to

attend. All students must attend wearing full school uniform.

Student Requirements 2016 Included with this Newsletter is a detailed list of student stationery requirements for

2016. Please ensure your child starts 2016 prepared with the requirements for the

school year.

Attention: Parents of Year 11 students Does your son/daughter require extra help in the classroom for assessments? If so,

s/he may qualify for a reader or writer for the BOSTES HSC examinations. The process

is to enable students with a learning difficulty to be able to show what they know in an

examination situation. If you would like more details, consult the website

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/disability-provisions/and then have a chat to

Jenni Lewis before the end of the year.

Year 12 Graduation Dinner

The 2015 Graduation Dinner was held on Thursday, 5th November at the Temora Golf

Club. It was attended by 45 of our 51 graduating students and their families, together

with a number of staff members to wish the students well in their future escapades.

Many students took advantage of the professional photography before the class

gathered for their official photo. The formal proceedings, capably chaired by Year 12

Year Adviser – Mr Graham Angel began with a welcome to the guests, followed by the

last official calling of the roll by former year advisor, Mrs Nicole Crawford. Each

student, beautifully attired, was greeted by Principal, Mr Patrick Nethery and Deputy

Principal Mr Scott Frazier, who presented the students with the customary Temora

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High School Key Ring as a memento of their time spent at the school.

Grace was delivered by Nikola Henman prior to the meal (catered by Mrs Helen Moses

and her team of workers). The evening continued with Mr Angel delivering the Year

Adviser speech, accompanied by a pictorial projection which ran throughout the night.

SRC members, Bethanie Durham and Jack Murphy responded on behalf of their fellow

students, and together with the other members of the SRC; Lauren Inch, Hugh McLaren

and Cecilia Drumore, cut the farewell cake. Last but not least to take to the rostrum

was Mr Nethery, who gave an amusing anecdotal delivery about each of the Graduates.

Once the official proceedings had concluded all who attended enjoyed the rest of the

social evening, with many laughs and sharing of memories.

I would especially like to thank the four Year 8 students, Ellise, Emily, Lauren and Peta,

as well a great representation from the Year 12 students who helped to set up for the

dinner. Your help was greatly appreciated.

Julie Mueller – Graduation Organiser

Mentoring Program 11 Year 9 boys have been developing their mentoring skills, working with selected

students from Years 4 & 5 from TPS in the third year of our mentoring group. These

boys have been fantastic in their patience, communication, problem solving and

encouragement of the younger students. So far, the group has played initiative games,

worked on “minute-to win-it” games, solved brain-bender puzzles as well as toured the

High school. This program will continue next year with the same group, with all boys

benefiting. We start with Drumbeat at the Temora Community Centre with Anne

Macauley, then working on their project building skills at THS.

Mentors: Adam Prentice, Blake Hargrave, Ben Cooper, Tom Lawrence, Tom McGrath,

Jeff Mannell, Tyler Madden, Nic Moulas, Bryce Wiencke, Adam Ferguson, Bailey Walker.

I look forward to working with these boys to create another strong mentoring group.

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Year 7 2015 Orientation

Ms Crawford ran an excellent Year 7 2016 Orientation program, with 5 secondary

sampling lessons and a Sports Gala Day part of the program. The program concluded

on Wednesday 25th November, with many excited young students and their parents in

attendance, with some parents recalling their high school days.

Thanks to our guest speakers for giving the group their time and knowledge to allow a

successful transition to high school next year. Thank you Patrick Nethery, Tracy Harper

(Year Advisor stepping in for Nicole Crawford), Helen Tyack (SASS), Jenni Lewis

(Learning Assistance), Greg Newham (President P&C) and all the staff during our tours

to speak with parents and students. Also thanks to the SRC for the BBQ and tours for

the students.

If any parent was unable to make the tour on the day, please contact the school for an

alternative time.

Year 11 Orientation For new students to THS in Year 11 2016, we held another successful transition

afternoon for them on Wednesday, 11th November. Nearly 20 people toured the school

with us and then partook in afternoon tea. Head Teachers spoke with small groups of

students, beginning the mentoring program that we manage for all senior students.

Thank you to all staff who spoke with the new students and families, as well as to the

canteen for catering and the Year 10 & 11 students for their tour guide and catering

skills!

STARS Our end of year STARS excursion is set for Friday, 11th December with students

selecting either to stay in Temora for the pool and movies or to go to Wagga for

movies, jump and putt or laser tag.

Congratulations to all students able to attend this excursion.

Unfortunately not all students are eligible to attend. Our criteria excludes students who

in the second semester have not kept up their behaviour, attendance, uniform or

completion of work. Staff will be rostered on at school for these students to still attend

school and meaningful learning activities will still occur for students.

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Issuing of School Reports - Procedures Students usually receive their reports at 3:15 on a given day

Reports are to be issued earlier if:

On the day of issuing a parent comes to school requesting the report

On the day of issuing, a student comes to school with a note from parents

requesting the report if they are leaving school before 3:15. The student will receive

the report

The decision to issue a report to a parent or students earlier than this day is the sole

responsibility of the Senior Executive.

Mobile Telephones Update Temora HS is informing parents of important information regarding mobile phones

and sexting. Although we experience very small number of incidents of this issue, we

want to keep parents and students aware of this development.

As of the 2nd of December 2015 the Wagga Wagga Local Area Command will be

adopting a policy where phones used in relation to sexting offences will be destroyed.

This is the only guarantee that photographs are permanently destroyed and cannot be

retrieved from the devices.

There is a 24 hour 'Parent Line' for seeking advice on sexting from highly trained and

experienced counsellors - 1300 130 052

Parents can also obtain further advice in relation to sexting on the following websites:

www.schools.nsw.edu.au/click www.community.nsw.gov.au

Year 8 Sydney Excursion All the students gathered at the crack of dawn (well before it actually), packed the bus

and were ready for the trip to the big smoke, Wreck it Ralph was the pick of the movies

and 2 DJs helped to keep everyone

entertained on the double decker

monstrosity of a coach. The first stop

was Taronga Zoo where we saw the

Seal show and the bird show and

Henry even got be in the bird show

(Check out facebook for the video).

After the zoo we caught the ferry out

to Manly for a play in the sand and

some dinner on the boulevard then

onwards to the Quarantine Station for

a ghost tour. Just enough to spook a

few before putting them all to bed.

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Day 2 of the trip saw all the students prepare their own breakfast and lunch for the day

and catch the light rail into Darling Harbour where we visited the fish at the Aquarium,

learnt the history of Fort Denison on a great tour that included the one o'clock cannon

and checked out all the famous people at Madame Tussauds (I think this was the

students favourite stop). As it was a particularly hot day we skipped the powerhouse

museum (and the 20min walk each way) and had a very relaxing paddlepop in Hyde

park before heading into the city for dinner and onwards and upwards to the Sydney

Eye Tower (Centrepoint). After many attempts at getting the lifts to work ...apparently

you have to press the button, we caught the light rail home and everyone went to

sleep, for the record the girls won the getting to sleep competition.

Day three had the students make their breakfast and lunch again with a few opting out

of the tomato and beetroot options. The students all worked really well together to get

the bus packed and be ready to head out for the day. The coach dropped us off at the

bottom of the Harbour Bridge and we walked up to the very top of the South Pylon,

learning some very interesting history of the bridge along the way. We then crossed

the bridge and headed into Luna Park.

The DJs cranked it up a notch on the drive home and had the whole bus grooving and

singing along.

Big Thanks must go to the teachers that attended the Excursion, it can not happen

without you!! So big shout out to Mr Hackett, Mrs Wallace, Mrs La Trobe, Mr Angel and

Ms Thomson your expertise and awesome generosity with your time made this a great

trip for all the students.

Mrs Liz LaTrobe – Excursion Organiser

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SSSCCCHHHOOOOOOLLL CCCAAALLLEEENNNDDDAAARRR

TERM 4

December

Friday, 4th

Final Newsletter 2015 distributed

Tuesday, 8th Official Opening of the PAC by Minister for Education, Mr

Adrian Piccoli

Friday, 11th STARS Excursion

Years 7 – 10 Reports issued – 3.15pm

Riverina Sport Blues Presentation (Wagga)

Monday, 14th Presentation Day practice – 2.10pm

Tuesday, 15th Presentation Day – 9.30am (MPU)

Wednesday, 16th Last day of 2015 school year for students

Beautification Day

Sport - Swimming afternoon

January 2016 Wednesday, 27th Staff return for the start of 2016

Thursday, 28th Years 7, 11 and 12 return to school

Friday, 29th All students to attend for the beginning of the 2016 school year

February Wednesday, 3rd

Annual Swimming Carnival

Tuesday, 9th Motivational Media visit

Thursday, 11th Year 11 Dance – Callback Excursion

Friday, 12th Year 11 Dance – Callback Excursion

Thursday, 18th Year 11 RYDA Driving School Excursion (Wagga Wagga)

Thursday, 25th School Photos

March

Tuesday, 15th

Year 7 – Dept Health 1st Vaccination Round

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School Spectacular

A group of 23 students travelled to

Sydney Friday, 27th November to watch

the 2015 Schools Spectacular. An amazing

array of music, dance and drama items

were performed by some of NSW most

talented students. Highlights included

spotting Carly Turner (choir member) on

the big screen and country music stars.

The McClymonts and singer Joe Moore

from The Voice. A big thank you to Mrs

Gil Bett for driving the bus and to all the

students for being such wonderful

ambassadors for Temora High. After 32

years this is the last Spectacular at the

Entertainment Centre so we wait to see

where the new home for this wonderful

event will be.

Emma Cox's Major Study intro

"Skyhigh" was choreographed by HSC

dance student Emma Cox as her HSC

Major Study Composition work. Inspired

by the experience of skydiving. The piece

will be performed by Hannah Howard-

Gilchrist and Emma, with one symbolising

the instructor and the other the student

the jumper. The work is in 4 sections: the

preparation; the climb; freefall and the

parachute flight to landing. We hope you

enjoy the performance.

Mrs Sheree Elwin – Dance/PDHPE Teacher

On Thursday 27th November Year 9

students attended the University of

Canberra’s “Aspire program”. Students

travelled to Canberra and were welcomed

by the Aspire Ambassadors. Year 9

students were given a tour of facilities and

accommodation. Students completed a

treasure hunt (one team was awarded a

record high score for the whole year) and

interacted in the careers expo. The

students were broken into two groups

and attended a workshop. The two

workshops were in the areas of nursing

and journalism. These workshops were

hands on and highly entertaining. 2015

Aspire was a highly successful event

sponsored by the University of Canberra.

Rotary Mock Interviews

Rotary Mock Interviews were held on the

30th November for interested Year 10

students. It was great to see the diverse

range of business people supporting this

event organised by Rotary. Students had

nominated an interest in the following

career areas - Electrician, Veterinarian,

Lawyer, Civil Engineering, Auto Electrician,

Museum curator, Architect, Primary

School Teacher, Hairdressing/Beauty,

Photographer and Language Teacher.

Students dressed for success and

FACULTY NEWS

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completed a half an hour interview with a

business person in a career area they had

specified. The students found the process

a bit nerve racking but would all agree

after their interview that it was really

worthwhile. I would like to thank Rotary

for their ongoing support of this initiative

and Mr Brendon Fritsch for his

organisation.

Miss Sharon Kenaly – Careers Adviser

Retiring Teachers

Next year will see some changes in the

Mathematics staff at Temora High School,

with the retirement of 2 long serving staff

members. Barry Flakelar has been a

teacher in Temora since 1980 – 25 years at

St Annes and then at Temora High for the

last 9 years.

Also retiring is Neville Byrne who has

been teaching at Temora High School for

the same amount of time.

Both are looking very stressed about this

prospect but hopefully they can occupy

some of their spare time on improving

their golf game and seeing a bit more of

the country.

Enjoy the break and see you next year.

Mr Roger Bradtke - Head Teacher

Year 8 and 9 PE classes have commenced

going to the pool for lessons, and classes

are reminded that they need to bring

swimmers, towel and money or a season

ticket. Year 10 PDHPE classes are participating in

a number of recreational activities,

including swimming, for the remainder of

the year.

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Students are also reminded that lifesaving

will be the first topic for 2016, so

swimming gear will be needed for PE

classes from day 1 2016.

Mr Stringer – PDHPE Teacher

Lachlan Reichstein - Temora

High Victor Chang Award

recipient

The Institute was represented at the

awards ceremony by Dr Romaric Bouveret

who delivered the occasional address and

presented awards. Lachlan Reichstein was

a Victor Chang Award recipient.

Thirty-four promising young scientists

from across the Riverina were on

Wednesday 11 November recognised at

the 2015 Victor Chang Awards hosted by

Junee High School. Both Moira Burns and

Mr Nethery were lucky to be invited to

attend as were Lachlan’s parents.

The Victor Chang Awards were

established to continue Dr Chang’s legacy

and to promote and inspire students to

pursue a career in science or health and

medical research. It is the first time that

the awards will be presented in the

Riverina.

Recipients recognised at the award

presentation were from nearly all High

and Central schools in the Riverina.

Lachlan represented THS with distinction

and now gets the chance to visit the

Victor Chang research Labs in Sydney on

November 30.

Congratulations and well done Lachlan.

Scientific Models In Science

One important use for scientific models is

to explain complex scientific concepts.

There is little doubt that the human

placenta is certainly complex. 8.3 Science

showed great ingenuity in construction

models from a diagram. This model was

then used to explain the problems

associated when dangerous substances

such as alcohol and drugs across the

placenta.

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Goldfish Capillaries

Mr Irvine is doubtless a man of infinite

patience. Recently he placed a live gold

fish under a microscope to view blood

flowing in its capillaries. The microscope

image was projected to the students.

Unlikely as it may seem and despite the

presence of two year 8 classes for the

“viewing” the goldfish was not harmed

and students were able to see the blood

flowing through the capillaries.

Mobile Phones and Microscopy

Mobile phones can be a scourge or a

blessing. A spectacularly good use for a

mobile phone is for enhancing the image

from a monocular microscope. Year 7

were recently viewing plant cells and

students with a steady hand and rapid

shot capacity on their mobile phones

were able to capture the image.

Year 10 were studying cell division and a

number of students were very successful

in capturing images of chromosomes at

different stages of cell division.

Agriculture Report

The agriculture students are once again

looking at the effect of melatonin to

artificially alter the breeding cycle of

sheep. The ewes receive a melatonin

implant under the supervision of Mr

Williams. This has the effect of bringing

the sheep into oestrus at a time of the

year that better synchronises with the

school calendar. Because of the

compression of oestrus it can have the

additional benefit of increased twinning.

Mrs Moira Burns – Head Teacher

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Food

Technology

and

Hospitality

News

All classes are

finishing their

current

assignments and work books with most

classes being able to cook their own

recipes with anything from Pikelets with

passionfruit sauce and Plum Crumble

through to Chicken Wraps and Kangaroo

Burritos.

Mrs Debbie Englert – Food Tech Assistant

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Tumut High School Visit - F1 in

Schools Inspection

Temora High students travelled to Tumut

High to inspect their amazing CNC Lathe

that is used in the production of student’s

F1 Cars. The F1 in Schools program can be

checked out at www.rea.org.au.

With complicated rules to be met in the

designs it is a challenging programme

that sees students learn the Autodesk

Inventor software and produce amazing

3D cars. Tumut is the only local school

with the facilities to produce the cars from

the balsa wood blanks. The lathe is a very

expensive piece of equipment and can

turn the ideas of their 3D designs into

reality.

The Tumut High School TAS department

were great and showed us through the

equipment required for the competition

and the methods used to produce a

physical model from the student’s

designs. Actually seeing the lathe in action

allowed for an appreciation of the way in

which the cars need to be shaped and the

tricks to getting a legal and workable

design.

The lathe was set up and the students

were able to see the cutting of the blank.

In twenty minutes 90g of balsa was turned

into a 55g car. Everybody was very

impressed and Temora High will be

getting more involved in this exciting area

of technology.

Mr Jason Milnes

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Representative sport has continued into

late Term 4, with the boys and girls cricket

teams still being active in their respective

knockouts.

The Open Girls’ team was defeated by

Wagga Wagga High School in the Riverina

Semi-Final in an exciting game played at

The Oval, while the Open Boys team

defeated Wagga Wagga High School in

the Semi-Final of the Alan Davidson

Shield in late November, and will travel to

Albury to play Murray High School in the

Final on the 2nd of December, in an

attempt to become Riverina champions

for the first time in over 10 years.

The Year 9 boys and girls abseiling trips

were conducted in late November, and

were highly successful days for all

involved. More can be found on these

trips elsewhere in the newsletter.

Congratulations go to Jack Harper, Max

Harper and Blake Harper, who were all

chosen to play in the Riverina Open boys’

cricket team early next year. The three

Harper boys have been playing high

quality cricket leading up to the trials, and

all deserve their place in the team. This is

the first time in memory that the High

School has had three players in this team

at the same time, and certainly the first

time that there have been three players

carrying the same surname.

Several members of the THS staff have

been elected to positions in Riverina sport

for 2016. Vicki Breust has been selected as

tennis convenor and manager for the

fourth year, while Ian Groth was elected

unopposed to the position of lawn bowls

convenor for the 10th year. Tony Stringer

was elected Riverina athletics

convenor/manager, swimming manager,

as well as being a member of the Riverina

Schools Sports Association executive for

2016.

The school swimming carnival for 2016

will be held on the Wednesday of week 2,

February the 3rd.

Mr Tony Stringer – Sports Organiser

Temora High vs Wagga Wagga

High

1st XI Cricket - Davidson Shield

24/11/2015

Temora visited Wagga to play on a turf

wicket for some hopefully valuable

experience. It turned out to be a very

different surface than the team has been

used to. In the last outing vs

Murrumburrah the bat dominated and a

score of over 300 off 40 overs was

amazing.

The opening pair of Captain Jack Harper

and Ben Grant set a solid platform. This

was despite a green soft wicket making

batting very difficult.

SPORTS NEWS

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Some powerful shots from both openers

saw a 52 run partnership before Jack was

bowled for 33. Blake Harper came next

and could only add a couple before being

stumped. Bailey Robinson was out caught

for naught and to his credit walked off to

what could have been called a bump ball.

This was a collapse in the middle order

that Wagga High were hoping for and

Temora High lost 5-9 before Clancy

MacKay and Matt Gillard steadied the

innings. Their 45 run partnership was

fraught with danger from a vicious wicket

and consistent targeted bowling. The pair

did well and gave Temora High a total

that could be defended. Clancy finally fell

for 18 in an uncharacteristically slow

innings. Max Tidd was run out for one

shortly after. Matt was joined by the late

inclusion Josh Philp. Despite little cricket

Josh smashed a quick 15 supported by

Dave Murphy and notably Jacob Bell.

Jacob had dislocated his little finger badly

the night before and was selfless in his

decision to bat. Lasting 35 overs on this

green wicket was a strong performance

from this promising team and Wagga had

their work cut out for them.

Wagga opened on a drying track and had

the better of the conditions. Captain Jack

had other ideas and hatched a plan to

make the most of the surface. With Max

Harper bowling express from one end,

Jack bowled off spin at the other. The

variability in pace and bounce from Jack,

and controlled aggression from Max saw

Wagga struggle from the start. Wickets

fell constantly and by the time of the first

bowling change they were 5-13. Jack

bowled 6 overs 2-4 and Max 3-11. Max

Tidd came on and matched this with 3-11

in a solid display. Josh Philp chimed in

with two late wickets to wrap it up. Wagga

were dismissed for 65 in the 20th over.

They were gracious in defeat and the

game was played in great spirit.

It was an excellent performance with

character and heart from a Temora side

that was playing its first game on grass.

The next game will be against Murray

High in Albury and is the Davidson Shield

Riverina Final. The winner from the region

progresses to Sydney for the

championship wrap up early next year.

Mr Jason Milnes - Coach

Premiers Sporting Challenge

Camp – Leading with Change

camp @ Borambola

5 students from THS will join students

from Kooringal, Cootamundra, Junee and

Young high schools this week to be

involved in the senior camps at NSW

Sport & Recreation Camps for the third

part of the Premier’s Sporting Challenge.

They will further develop their leadership

skills in addition to more development in

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teaching and managing sports. We look

forward to hearing how they go.

Above: Thomas Davidge and Trent Bourlet at

Camp

Premiers Sporting Challenge –

Learning to Lead workshop @

Temora

Year 9 PASS elective class were involved in

the “Learning to Lead” Premier’s Sporting

Challenge last month. This involved

students from Mt Austin, Kooringal,

Cootamundra, Junee and Young high

schools heading to Wagga to participate

in dance, water polo, rugby league,

football, cricket, netball and softball. They

learnt from coaches in these sports and

further developed their leadership,

communication and coaching skills. They

will be putting these to use further next

year in more coaching opportunities in

PASS.

Sports Gala Day

Year 9 PASS elective also ran the Year 5 &

6 Sports Gala Day on Wednesday 18th

November. As part of the Year 6 transition

program, we also invite the Year 5

students from TPS and TWPS to join in,

with 6 groups of coaches coaching 1 sport

each to groups of 16 students. Primary

school students rotated through 3

different sports with PASS students

fantastic in their organisation and

coaching.

Mr Scott Frazier – PDHPE Teacher

P & C Raffle Tickets

All raffle tickets are to be returned to the

Administration Office by Friday, 11th

December. The raffle will be drawn on

Presentation Day, Tuesday, 15th

December. Donations of items would be

appreciated by parents and can be left at

the Administration Office.

Warbirds Food Stall

A big thank you to Dane Casey who

assisted with the cooking and sales on the

P & C Stall.

2016 Meeting

The 1st meeting of the P & C will be held

on Tuesday, 16th February in the Common

Room. It would be great to see new faces

attend these important meetings monthly.

Greg Newham – P & C President

P & C NEWS