The Canobolas Rural Technology

High School

Thursday 8th September 2016 Term 3 Issue 13

Icely Road Orange NSW 2800 Ph: 02 6362 1677 Fax: 02 6362 4481

Website: www.canobolas-h@det.nsw.edu.au

INDUSTRIAL ARTS PROJECTS Industrial Technology Timber Major Projects 2016

The 11th of August was the final date to hand in the Industrial Technology Timber Major Projects for the Year 12 students. Six students this year have been working hard since the beginning of Term 4 2015 to design, plan and finance these works of art.

It is a massive undertaking and involved many long afternoons and days in the holidays to ensure every aspect of the projects where finished, polished and shined to perfection.

On behalf of all the TAS Industrial Arts department I would like to congratulate all the students on their efforts and wish them well in their HSC Examinations

Mr Mal Kay Teacher, TAS Industrial Arts

From the

Principal’s Desk Welcome to the Week 8 Newsletter. Term 3 is fast drawing to a close yet it continues to be a very busy time for staff and students.

Examinations

Year 12 completed their Trial HSC Examinations last week and their Year 12 final report is almost ready to be sent home. I reiterate that the next few weeks are a very important time for Year 12 students to consolidate their learning and make final preparations for their HSC examinations.

Year 11 Yearly Examinations start next week and go through to the 21st September. Good luck to all Year 11 students over the next two weeks.

Year 12 Final Assembly

The final assembly for Year 12 will be held on Thursday 22nd September at 10am. At this special assembly the school and staff have the opportunity to farewell Year 12 and major award recipients and also the incoming school captains for 2017 are announced. It is often a very joyous but sad occasion where Year 12 students and staff say goodbye to each other. Parents of Year 12 are most welcome to attend and Andrew Farley, our Canteen Manager, would like me to inform parents our Canteen will be open for coffee and muffins.

The Canteen

Over the last two weeks our canteen has continued to receive accolades and wide-spread recognition. Andrew was sought out by the ABC Radio State Wide Drive Program for a radio interview on how he has implemented a profitable canteen, stocked with healthy food choices which teenagers want to consume. Additionally, our Canteen will be featured in a two-page spread in next month’s Healthy Kids magazine.

Clontarf

The Canobolas Clontarf Academy has been running in the school for nearly two terms now and they have proved to be very popular with their program offerings and general approach leading to 65 Aboriginal boys signing on. This terms highlights have been the successful early morning training sessions, rugby league and union matches against other Academies and overnight camps. I know many of the boys are benefitting significantly from the Clontarf involvement in our school and already many boys are showing improvement in the areas of leadership and attendance. Well done Jimmy and Ben.

I hope you have a wonderful fortnight and I look forward to speaking with you in Week 10.

With my warmest regards

Stuart Riles Principal (Relieving)

TCRTHS

Calendar Look at what’s coming up...

Friday 9th September Bathurst Eisteddfod

Monday 12th September Yr 11 Yearly Examinations begin

Monday 12th September Yr 7 Vaccinations

Friday 16th September CKC Cup vs Kelso HS @ Bathurst

Thursday 22nd September Yr 12 Formal Assembly

Thursday 13th October Yr 12 HSC Examinations begin

Friday 18th November Yr 12 Graduation

Monday 14th November Yr 7-10 Examinations begin

Wednesday 7th December Presentation Night

A lovely prunus tree in full flower at the front of the school administration office. Spring definitely has sprung!

CLONTARF NEWS 

On Wednesday afternoon our Yr 7 and 8 boys hosted Chifley Academy from Mt Druitt and had a game of 9-a-side rugby league against them which ended in a draw with our boys playing very well but more importantly, played with our Clontarf spirit. All boys were outstanding on the field and their sportsmanship was evident. Several boys who should be mentioned are Richie Williams, Isaiah King, Lachie Wallace and Shae Newman who all played above their weight.

In the evening our Yr 7 and 8 boys joined the Mt Druitt academy for an overnight camp and a cooking competition.

On Tuesday afternoon several of our boys hosted the Orange City Council representatives in our room with General Manager Gary Styles, Deputy Mayor Chris Gryllis and Councillor and ex-student Jason Hamling attending.

General Manager, Gary Styles along with councillors address the boys, Ms Hutchinson and Toni Gibbs. Deputy Mayor Chris Gryllis learns table

tennis the Clontarf way.

James Grant: Director ‐ M: 0437 111 018 E: james.grant60@det.nsw.edu.au Ben Benton: Opera ons‐ M: 0437 156 527 E: ben.benton@det.nsw.edu.au 

LUMINOSITY LAUNCH 

On Wednesday 31st August, the Luminosity launch was held at the PCYC. Luminosity is a festival of art, music, dance and light that will be held at the Orange Botanic Gardens on the 25th November.

Many talented Canobolas students are involved in Luminosity. Jack McGinley (Big Picture, Year 10) is currently creating a series of metal animals, one of which was displayed at the PCYC. Our Aboriginal Girls Dance Troupe will be performing an interpretive dance to the retelling of the Rainbow Serpent as well as teaching young adults with disabilities a dance routine that will be performed on the night. Students from the Support Unit will be creating the Luminosity sign with the assistance of students from TAFE.

During the launch, Kiea Wise (Year 10) and Teminya Wise (Year 8), assisted by Ashlee Vito (Year 8), confidently led a group of over 60 young adults with disabilities through a series of dance moves. Students and staff also participated in vocal workshops and started some amazing lanterns using old coat hangers and some wool.

A special thank you to Mrs Hurford and Ms Foran for bringing down our Year 9 and 10 Canobolas Dance Troupe to perform for the crowd. They did a great job and all the participants were amazed by all our talented students.

After having to postpone our hosting event against Cowra High School we now have to travel to Bathurst to compete against Kelso. This visit occurs next Friday 16th September. A large team of Canobolas High School students will make the journey…..

Friday 28th October (Week 3) 

    VS 

Friday 16th September (Week 9) 

       VS 

@ Orange 

@ Bathurst 

Team training is happening now!  

Remember: 3 Nega ve sentral 

entries = No CKC  

# Hockey, Soccer, Netball and Softball teams will be required to wear Canobolas team socks, If you require a pair they are $10 payable to the office and available from PDHPE. Ankle and crew socks available for other sports too. 

What’s an excursion without a li le drama?? We started the day off 

with playing shirts M.I.A and a departure 45 minutes later than 

planned, the day could only get be er. Trailer loaded and food galore, 

we finally set off on the epic trip to Maitland. Through rain, fog, fast 

cars and overtaking trucks we made our way across the Blue 

Mountains in the heavy li le Hi‐Ace, with tradi onal McDonalds stops 

(purely for the playground at Gosford) and the occasional serve of 

sustenance. We arrived at the motel at 5pm, with enough  me for 

rooms to be allocated and the crea on of some ‘man caves’ for 

comfort. A trip to the supermarket saw enough food purchased to 

feed the armies –with the token red delicious apple and navel orange 

added to the pile at the last minute. A er a quick return to the hotel 

to clean up and get changed, we were off again to dinner at the Newcastle Panther’s bistro. Dinner was short lived 

with the distrac on of car racing and pool to keep the boys occupied for the best part of two hours. Upon returning 

to the motel we se led into our rooms ‐ well, Georgia and Miss Bruton did anyway. For the boys it was knee cricket 

championships which unfortunately was called off due to the motel atmosphere.  

With an early wake up call, everyone was ready to go and on the bus at 8am. Thankfully it was only a short trip 

down the road to Stevenson Park  where the day would be spent in the sunshine and ‘warmth’ of Maitland (some 

people were a touch ambi ous in their a re for the day). With Aiden Kelly and Mac Reith‐Snare taking the lead, 

the team warm‐up commenced in prepara on for the first game of the tournament against Glenmore Park High 

School. With the guidance and exper se of Geoff Kelly, and support and encouragement from Pam Kelly and 

Justene Priest, the day could only have started off well. Trent Wilde had a strong game at 2nd, while Hugh Farley, 

Lachlan Griffith and Luke Wilde made short work of the ou ield.  

A er a tremendous first game winning 17‐6, the boys were bright and happy about their form; an op mis c 

outlook essen al at this point for their next game was to be against the overall winners of the tournament in both 

2015 and 2016 —Woolooware High School. With a handy start to the innings, Canobolas reduced the runs 

Woolooware put on the board, but when it came to our turn to bat it was quite a difficult feat as Woolooware’s 

pitcher also happened to pitch for the u19’s Australian team earlier this year. But that didn't scare Mac, who 

managed to hit one over the fence to get a homerun—our one and only for the game. Georgia Kiel spent the day 

over on Diamond 4 on home plate as an official, represen ng Canobolas. She is a well recognised figure at so ball, 

and her consistent umpiring was recognised on the day by those who worked with her and watched from afar. 

While the end of the day may not have finished on the most posi ve of notes, the boys were keen for some more 

ac on and an a ernoon of laser tag seemed to be quite a fi ng ac vity. With 2 hours of unlimited games there 

were mul ple courses—individual, team, zombie apocalypse infec on, and life limits just to name a few. An hour 

into the session Harry Pearce led the charge with the 

most kills and points accumulated over the various games, 

but  it was not to last. Luke Wilde and Max Pearce soon 

dominated the arena—no way was one of the young kids 

going to be on top of that leader board! A quick trip back 

to the motel and with the organisa onal skills (and 

tokens) of Justene Priest we ordered in for dinner: double 

bacon cheese burger pizzas by the dozen (slight 

exaggera on). What every good sportsman needs! 

Wednesday morning’s game started at 8:30am against Nepean High School. 

We had a strong start in the first innings holding Nepean to a single run 

home to our 6. Things were looking good! But with a sprinkling of rain the 

Nepean team picked up their game in the second innings, managing 7  

homeruns and keeping our tally the same as the first innings. Braydon 

Quigg took one for the team in the second innings, taking a massive hit on 

the elbow from the pitcher—lucky the boy doesn’t bruise! So the Canobolas 

boys found themselves in the same posi on as 2015 in the playoff for 7th  

and 8th place, with Cherrybrook High School as their opponents for the last 

game of the tournament. A strong and consistent game saw just about 

everyone from Canobolas make it to the home plate, mixing up the pitching 

with Mitch Kelly taking the spot and doing some wonderful work. A er 

umpiring two games earlier in the day, Georgia joined the support team 

and provided some comedic value retelling events of her morning.  

Congratula ons to all our students from Canobolas High School as you were 

fantas c sportsmen and representa ves of your school and community, so 

much so that staff and parents from other schools made the effort to get in 

touch with Mr Riles (as ac ng Principal) to affirm what we already knew—

Canobolas is fantas c and display great sportsmanship. As always, Georgia 

Kiel did a fantas c job as an official for the event and should be proud of 

her contribu on to So ball both at a school level and beyond. A huge thank 

you must go out to Geoff Kelly, Pam Kelly and Justene Priest who were 

insigh ul, pa ent and suppor ve to the students, and even more to myself! 

Without the support of our parents our job would be quite isolated. So 

thank you for your assistance and commitment to Canobolas and the kids. 

Farewell to our Year 12 students; Aiden Kelly, Luke Wilde and Max Pearce, 

who have had their last game for their school career, but we hope to see 

your faces at future events! 

The Canobolas High Performance Athletes continue to work closely with their partners in PhyzX, Charles Sturt University and Jacqueline Jasprizza Nutritionist. Workshops have been conducted on social media awareness, time management and organisation and media skills. Weekly Pilate’s classes and prescribed exercise from PhyzX Pilate’s instructors and exercise physiologists are assisting the athletes to improve their functional movement skills and minimise the chance of injury. Individually prescribed exercises target the needs of the athlete to correct any muscle imbalances and build on weaknesses. This time of the season is finals time for many of our winter team sport athletes, with difficult conditions, wet fields and fatigued bodies it is essential that athletes be at their peak to not only perform at their best, but to perform safely.

2016 has also seen the launch of the CHPA Team ‘app’ a communication and events schedule platform for smart phones and or computers. The CHPA app provides the athletes group, parents, supporters and staff with the most up to date and live information regarding weekly events, news and scheduling. It also assists staff to monitor attendance and will be used in the athlete’s awards process for 2016.

CHPA will farewell 6 of its athletes as they complete their HSC year and commence their HSC exams in the coming weeks. Samantha Coppock (Dance), Aiden Kelly (Softball), Emily Melnick (Softball), Emily Merchant (Softball), Bradlee Roberts (Lawn Bowls) and William Christopherson (Rugby League). The Canobolas Rural Technonly High School is proud of the achievements of these students and wish them all the best for the future. These leaders in CHPA have been fine ambassadors for Canobolas High School and CHPA.

We wish you all the best!!

HANDS ON

HEALTHY EATING

WORKSHOP

CHPA nutritionist Jacqueline Jasprizza worked with the athletes and led them through a “Hands on Healthy Eating Workshop”. Jackie taught the athletes to prepare two of her favourite and most effective recipes for nutrition whilst travelling and having a busy weekly sport and family schedule. The students prepared Jackie’s Best Banana Muffins and Glennergy, her secret recipe for protein ingestion whilst training and competing. The athletes managed to display some skills in the kitchen that many parents had not been aware of in the kitchen at home. Students were provided with some instructions, a group to work with and the ingredients. Skills such as group work, communication, culinary skills and time management were required to complete the task.

HANDS ON

HEALTHY EATING

WORKSHOP

Open  Boys Wrap up Local Interschool's Soccer Compe on  

Over  the  last  two weeks our Open Boy’s  soccer  team played  their  remaining  games of  the  interschool’s  soccer 

compe on. Due to the wet weather Orange has received throughout the last few months, this season has finished 

later than scheduled. 

On Tuesday 30th August Canobolas faced Kinross at home. The boys played well, lead out by our co‐captains Jack 

Lang and Jeremy Boulton. There were streaks of cra y play with some great passing and the defence held the line 

well. We managed to convert a penalty spot but it wasn’t enough to take out the match, unfortunately going down 

5‐1.  

On Monday 5th September our boys played our final match of the compe on against our local rivals Orange High 

at home. The boys played one of  their best games  for  the  season and held  the  talented Orange High  side out. 

Orange High had plenty of shots on goal, however our keeper Fabien Leonard played  incredibly well not allowing 

them  to  concede.  They  were 

lucky to slot one in the first half. 

Our boys con nued  to play well 

with  again  some  outstanding 

passing  and  our  strong  defence 

held  them  back.  Unfortunately 

Orange  High  conceded  another 

goal later in the 2nd half to take 

out the match 2‐0.  

Huge  congratula ons  goes  to 

ALL  the  boys  who  have  played 

this year. Your commitment and 

hard  work  that  has  gone  into 

school  sport  is  to  be 

commended. Big  thank you and 

well  done  goes  to  our  student 

referees  Jake  Skelton,  Becky 

Gibson  and  Kaleb  Masila. 

 

Thank  you  to  all  the  staff  and  parents/ 

carers for assis ng the boys in making the 

games  and  suppor ng  them  from  the 

sideline. 

We  sadly  say  goodbye  to  many  Yr  12 

students  who  have  commi ed 

themselves  to  school  sport–  Jack  Lang, 

Brad  Roberts,  Talon  Frost,  Jake  Fiene, 

Fabien  Leonard,  Jayden  King,  Daniel 

Smith  and  Regan  Priest.  Your  efforts 

throughout  the  years  have  been 

admirable and thank you for being strong 

role models for the younger players.  

Well done Canobolas! 

 

The  Girri  Girri  spor ng  academy  have  been  busy  in  the 

kitchen this week.  

The girls par cipated in a cooking class that was a follow up 

from their healthy ea ng workshop earlier  in the term. The 

girls  whipped  up  some  home  made  burgers  which  were 

accompanied with fruit smoothies.  

PDHPE TOPICS Next Term most PDHPE years will be commencing a new topic and most years will have an assessment task associated with the topic. To support your child in the completion of the classwork and the assessments please check over their bookwork and discuss the tasks or revision for tests that they require.

Year 7 ‘Commit To Be Fit’

Year 8 ‘Live Strong, Live Long’ – Lifestyle Diseases: to be continued

Year 9 ‘R.E.S.P.E.C.T - Respectful Relationships

Year 10 ‘Reduce the Dead Load, Be safe on the Road

** Year 11 ‘Core 2 / Option 1’- First Aid

** Year 12 Completing Revision for HSC

Year 12 SLR Outdoor Education

PDHPE Assessment Reminders Many of the PDHPE classes across the years are currently working on assessable items both in class and at home. A reminder that if your child does not complete an assessment task and hand it in on time for marking, it will affect the overall grade they are awarded for PDHPE. This grade also has a practical effort, attitude and participation mark for lessons where students participate in practical games, sports and various physical activities. Please note that this component of the course is compulsory and students may only be excused from these classes with a medical note during the time of injury recovery.

  Task  Due 

Yr 9 PDHPE  Respec ul Rela onships  Week 8 

At CRTHS we get our notes and

money for excursions and activities in

on time to make it e

asier for our

coaches and office staff!

Mark Skein

Head Teacher PDHPE

TOURNAMENT OF THE MINDS On Sunday the 28th August two teams of AcTal students participated in the Tournament of Minds (TOM). This program requires students to solve a problem as a team and creatively present their solution in front of a panel of judges and an audience.

Two teams entered the competition, one team solved the problem of conversation between very different characters in the language and literature challenge. The team, Mikayla Van Doorn, Lockie Carpenter, Emma Klose, Lauren Sanders and Ayoub Mostafa, worked hard on their script and costumes for their performance. In their solution the Mad Hatter hosted a tea party that was crashed by the Nimble Bunny, Wenda from where's Wally and Mrs Banks.

The Science and Technology team were faced with the challenge of sending and receiving a message while trapped in a school after losing their hearing. Jesse Kelly, Harry Betts, Heidi Bell, Isabelle Kent, Josh Martin and Kaitlin Parish all worked very hard to complete this challenge. They received a message from a carrier pigeon who met an untimely end and so they had to try again to send their coded message while surrounded by hoards of those infected with a virus.

Both teams did extremely well and impressed the judges, they should be congratulated for all of their hard work and effort.

Mrs Boardman

NEW BOOKS IN THE STEM CENTRE Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim is based on a true story about two boys who swim from mainland China to Hong Kong to escape the oppressive regime of Mao Zedong’s era. After the death of his father, life has been little more than backbreaking labour and starvation for village orphan Ming, until he meets Li, a former Red Guard sent to the village as part of Mao’s re-education program. Thanks to their daily swimming and political lessons, the pair form an unlikely friendship. As the political climate grows more treacherous, they find it harder to ignore the possibility of a vastly different life, just a few kilometres away. There is so much dignity and beauty in the writing and it’s a wonderful story that shines a light on an era of Chinese history not known to many teen readers.

Becoming Aurora is a great debut novel by Elizabeth Kasmer. Following the death of her father, Rory finds herself in a gang that racially targets the migrant community in her hometown of Nambour. Being the only perpetrator of the gang to be caught during an attack on a local Indian restaurant, Aurora (Rory) is sentenced to community service at an aged care facility which is where she meets Jack. Rory learns much from the recalcitrant Jack, who teachers her about life, death and resilience. In a journey of healing and self-discovery, she learns how to deal with her grief, let go of her guilt and finally become Aurora.

The Call by Peadar O’Guilin is an edgy, much darker Hunger Games, but set in Ireland and with wicked faeries as the conductors of the terrifying hunt. You have three minutes to save your life. A horn sounds. The Call has begun. The Sidhe are close, they’re the most beautiful and terrible people you’ve ever seen. And they’ve seen you. Nessa will be Called soon and no one thinks she has any chance to survive. But she’s determined to prove them wrong. Can she survive the Call. There’s a huge buzz about this book—destined to be a best-seller.

Letter to My Teenage Self is a collection of life experiences by 50 well-known Australians including Missy Higgins, Guy Sebastian, Adam Gilchrist, Layne Beachley and Stephanie Rice.

The Book that Made Me is an immensely appealing collection of stories by well-known authors such as Markus Zusak, Fiona Wood and Will Kostakis and features cartoons by Shaun Tan. They are about the books that made them—fall in love, made them think, laugh, made them angry and made them feel challenged.

Two students to perform with Sydney Philharmonia Choir this weekend

Kaitlin Parish (Year 7) and Ellena Hicks (Year 11) have been participating in a series of choral workshops in the lead up to the performance of "This Secret World" concert at the Orange Regional Conservatorium at 6pm this Saturday 10th September. The girls have been learning a new repertoire by Australian composer Dan Walker that they will perform with the Sydney Pilharmonia in the concert.

Tickets are $25. Good luck girls and enjoy this amazing opportunity to sing with a wonderful choir. 

Major Works Exhibition

Year 12 Music combined with Creative Arts and Industrial Arts to showcase students' major HSC works submitted this term. Laura Alexander and Caitlin Masila wrote their own music for the topic Music for Radio, Film, TV and Multimedia which were part of the exhibition.

Laura Alexander and Mikayla Sampson each performed a song from their HSC program. Both girls gave one of the best performances ever which is encouraging as the HSC Markers arrive Monday afternoon for examine the HSC Music 1 students performances.

The Year 12 Music students will have final rehearsals this Saturday at school with Miss Aldrick before the HSC on Monday. We wish them good luck for the big day.

♫ MUSIC NOTES ♫

AROUND THE GROUNDS 

After some wet, wild and windy weather recently the school grounds took a beating and it was necessary to call the services of a qualified tree surgeon to remove a large gum tree that had fallen over. Also heavy rain caused havoc not only with sporting activities but with flooding noticeable around the school grounds in low lying areas. General assistant, Mr Felstead has been busy lately attending to these problems.

 

SCHOOL NOTICES