No 10 Newsletter July - Junee High School
No 10 Newsletter July - Junee High School
No 10 Newsletter July - Junee High School
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■ 2013 ■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 1 and 2<br />
■ Principal: Matthew Brown<br />
On the Job<br />
Director General for a day<br />
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1666<br />
To Dream. To Create. To Succeed.<br />
■ Fax: (02) 6924 1798<br />
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
■ Email: junee-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au<br />
52 Lydia Street<br />
■ Website: www.junee-h.schools.nsw.edu.au <strong>Junee</strong> NSW 2663
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
■ Principal: Matthew Brown<br />
To Dream. To Create. To Succeed.<br />
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1666<br />
■ Fax: (02) 6924 1798<br />
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
■ Email: junee-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au 52 Lydia Street (PO Box 141)<br />
■ Website: www.junee-h.schools.nsw.edu.au <strong>Junee</strong> NSW 2663<br />
■ 2013 ■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 1 and 2<br />
■ <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
Calendar<br />
Term 3, Week 2<br />
Tues 23 <strong>July</strong> Trial HSC<br />
Step Out Program<br />
Wed 24 <strong>July</strong> Trial HSC<br />
Fri 26 <strong>July</strong><br />
Regional Athletics @ Albury<br />
Term 3, Week 3<br />
Mon 29 <strong>July</strong> EDUCATION WEEK<br />
Wed 31 <strong>July</strong> SKI Trip<br />
Thurs 1 August GEO BIG Breakfast<br />
Fri 2 August Pink Ribbon Day<br />
In this issue ...<br />
Principal’s Message… .................................................................. 3<br />
Tourism ........................................................................................ 3<br />
The Show Must Go On .......................................................... 3<br />
Feature Photo<br />
Yr 11 student Elisha has been chosen from many for<br />
the ‘Director General for a day’ program<br />
Looking for school documents?<br />
Please note that most of our school documents such as<br />
newsletters, excursion notes, information booklets etc<br />
can be found on our school website:<br />
Staffing changes ...................................................................... 3<br />
Lions Honours Assembly ...................................................... 3<br />
Aspire UC (University of Canberra) ................................... 3<br />
Report and Parent Teacher Night ..................................... 3<br />
Year <strong>10</strong> into Year 11 (2014) Information Night –<br />
Monday 7 August .................................................................... 3<br />
Elisha McDermott - Taking the Lead ............................... 3<br />
Take a shot! ................................................................................ 4<br />
You can find us at: www.junee-h.schools.nsw.edu.au<br />
Or scan the following code with your smartphone or<br />
laptop’s webcam for our current newsletter.<br />
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> – Playgroup returns!............................. 4<br />
Small Steps Program................................................................... 4<br />
Year 12 Hospitality ....................................................................... 5<br />
Students impress guests with gourmet menu and<br />
table service……. ....................................................................... 5<br />
JHS Ag Farm Fundraiser ............................................................ 5<br />
<strong>School</strong> Breakfast Next Week<br />
Tuesday & Thursday<br />
8:20am All Welcome
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Principal’s Message…<br />
Tourism<br />
There is a <strong>Junee</strong> tourism and lifestyle promotion<br />
happening at present. The timing is connected to<br />
Laurie Daley’s coaching NSW State of Origin teamas<br />
well as using Ray Warren for the voice overs. One of<br />
the features of the advertisements is a glimpse of our<br />
students and the school. We are, after all, an important<br />
part of the community. The tourism advertisement can<br />
be found at https://vimeo.com/68359864 while the<br />
lifestyle advertisement is https://vimeo.com/68359878<br />
The Show Must Go On<br />
At the end of Term 2 we finally got the opportunity for<br />
our students to perform our “This Isn’t Kansas”<br />
production. The two week delay had been caused by<br />
the fallen air conditioning duct in the MPC. The<br />
students worked hard to prepare the show, under the<br />
direction of Ms Hyland and with the support of many<br />
other staff. Our thanks to all those who came to see<br />
the show and congratulations to all those who<br />
participated in the production.<br />
Staffing changes<br />
Our new Head Teacher TAS, Ms Emma Turvey<br />
commenced work at <strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> last Monday.<br />
She brings with her a wealth of teaching and<br />
leadership experience from her previous school,<br />
Broken Hill <strong>High</strong>. She was the Head Teacher Welfare<br />
and the principal was very sad to lose Ms Turvey’s<br />
experience, skills and leadership. Their loss is our<br />
wonderful gain.<br />
Lions Honours Assembly<br />
We held our Semester One Lions Honours Assembly<br />
on Thursday last week. It was absolutely wonderful to<br />
see so many students receive their Credit and<br />
Distinction Awards. Four students deserve particular<br />
praise for having reached Credit Status: Benjamin Cook<br />
(Year 8) Henley Hamilton, Chloe Middleton and<br />
Elizabeth O’Regan (all in Year 9).<br />
We thank Knud Hanson (President) and Peter Logan<br />
for their attendance and the ongoing support from the<br />
<strong>Junee</strong> Lions Club.<br />
We hope and expect to see many, many more students<br />
strive for success and recognition, with more standing<br />
up at the end of the year and for the higher awards<br />
and status updates at the school’s Presentation Night<br />
in December.<br />
Aspire UC (University of Canberra)<br />
Our two representatives from the University of<br />
Canberra completed their series of workshops with our<br />
students in Year 7-<strong>10</strong> in the last week of Term 2. They<br />
remained impressed with the commitment and active<br />
participation of our students in the program. Thanks to<br />
Mrs Bunyan as the coordinator and to the students for<br />
their positive response to this opportunity.<br />
Report and Parent Teacher Night<br />
All Year 7-11 Semester One reports were issued in the<br />
last week of term. We hope our students took the<br />
opportunity to work with parents to look at what has<br />
worked well and perhaps what needs to be improved<br />
to achieve better results at the end of the year.<br />
There will be another Parent Teacher afternoon and<br />
evening held towards the end of Term 3, Wednesday<br />
11 September, starting at 4:30 pm. Please reserve this<br />
day and time to meet with your child’s teachers and<br />
discuss ways we can support each other more<br />
effectively.<br />
Year <strong>10</strong> into Year 11 (2014) Information<br />
Night – Monday 7 August<br />
All Year <strong>10</strong> students and their parents and caregivers<br />
are invited to attend an Information Night to be held<br />
at the <strong>Junee</strong> Ex-Services Club on Monday 7 August.<br />
The nature of senior school has changed dramatically<br />
(even over the last two years,) but especially by<br />
comparison with the time when our Year <strong>10</strong> parents<br />
were at school. There is almost no comparison<br />
between the course offered in the 1980 and 1990s,<br />
with the possibilities and opportunities that are<br />
provided in 2014. Please join us to hear and learn<br />
about some of the details.<br />
Elisha McDermott - Taking the Lead<br />
The Director General for a Day program is run by the<br />
Department of Education and Communities. Each year<br />
only a handful of students are chosen from the many<br />
hundreds of public secondary schools in NSW, to<br />
experience the management challenges of the largest<br />
bureaucracy in the southern hemisphere.<br />
We are very proud to have Elisha McDermott selected.<br />
She will shadow Martin Graham, Deputy Chief<br />
Executive in Sydney on Monday 29 <strong>July</strong>.<br />
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Elisha’s success follows on Amelia Patterson’s equally<br />
prestigious selection in this program in 2012.<br />
Take a shot!<br />
There are all types of student successes that we<br />
recognise each year but Kyle Dunstall from Year 9 has<br />
been hugely successful in his chosen sport, shooting.<br />
His grandfather has been his mentor and coach. He<br />
takes this sport extremely seriously and his efforts,<br />
determination and skills have been rewarded with<br />
outstanding results in the State finals held during the<br />
last school break.<br />
Kyle secured 4 th place in the U18’s and 5 th place in the<br />
U25’s. Given that Kyle is only 15, these are remarkable<br />
results. The website’s official scoreboard has been<br />
‘grabbed’ to highlight his success.<br />
Small Steps Program<br />
During the last week of Term 2, Miss Fritsch and I had<br />
the pleasure of attending the Good Start Early Learning<br />
Centre in <strong>Junee</strong> for the presentation of certificates to<br />
our first graduates of the Small Steps program. This<br />
program involves students working at the centre for<br />
one day per week for a whole term. During this time<br />
they have to design, make and deliver an activity<br />
suitable for the age group of children they have been<br />
working with. Congratulations to Kaitlin Lawson and<br />
Natalie Puttock on their efforts. This term sees Hannah<br />
Stapleton, Chloe Middleton and Jaime Johns undertake<br />
the program.<br />
Natalie all smiles with her Small Steps certificate presented<br />
by Elizabeth Robbie .<br />
Mr Matthew Brown<br />
Principal<br />
<strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> – Playgroup<br />
returns!<br />
Child Studies students in Years 9 and <strong>10</strong> are busy<br />
planning new and fun activities to use in this year’s<br />
playgroup. After a successful introduction last year, the<br />
students are keen to see Playgroup up and running<br />
again this year.<br />
The playgroup will be for pre-schoolers and will run for<br />
five consecutive weeks starting on Friday 16 August.<br />
Parents and carers are invited to attend and share a<br />
cuppa whilst the young children enjoy the activities<br />
provided by the older students.<br />
If you would like your child involved in this program,<br />
please contact <strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> to make a booking.<br />
Miss Andrea Fritsch<br />
PDHPE<br />
Kaitlin with her Small Steps Certificate<br />
BIG THANK YOU<br />
Mrs Elaine Bunyan<br />
Careers Adviser<br />
Thank you to GEO for once again<br />
providing JHS with the GEO BIG<br />
Breakfast program.<br />
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Year 12 Hospitality<br />
Students impress guests with gourmet menu<br />
and table service…….<br />
The five Year 12 Hospitality students greatly impressed<br />
the 35 guests who attended their function on Monday<br />
evening during the last week of Term Two. It was an<br />
opportunity for them to showcase their Food and<br />
Beverage Skills. It was a very ambitious plan for five<br />
students to provide a delicious alternating three course<br />
menu as well as undertake the compulsory table<br />
service assessment. It is a task designed for two<br />
separate classes at TAFE.<br />
Many of the guests were current staff at <strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>, parents of the Year 12 students and we also<br />
welcomed some former <strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> staff: Mr<br />
Carl Doherty, Mrs Lisa Kells, Mr Andrew Denham and<br />
Mr Chris Payne. We thank them all for taking the time<br />
to support the work of our Hospitality students.<br />
It was of credit to the students to have two entrees,<br />
two mains and two desserts of such high quality.<br />
Guests were also greeted with a mock-tail and Turkish<br />
bread to dip in olive oil and dukkah. All yum. Students<br />
had to practise silver service for the bread roll and<br />
filling the guests’ glasses with water and a range of<br />
non-alcoholic ciders.<br />
The students did an extraordinary job transforming the<br />
Textiles room into an ambient restaurant. They also<br />
had to set the tables to industry standard; something<br />
they did meticulously.<br />
The menu of Potato, leek and bacon Soup, Creamy<br />
Pumpkin Soup, Red Current Glazed Rack of Lamb,<br />
Poached Chicken Breast with Creamy mustard sauce,<br />
Chocolate Baskets filled with homemade Vanilla Bean<br />
Ice Cream with berry coulis, strawberry fan and toffee<br />
shards and Rose Water Pavlova Nests with cream,<br />
strawberries, blueberries, berry coulis and rose water<br />
Persian fairy floss. It was just delicious. Guests greatly<br />
appreciated the experience and gave full credit to the<br />
students for a very pleasant, enjoyable evening.<br />
Well done Tayla, Ben, Kara, Keely and Kayla for doing<br />
such a fantastic job and giving up a Sunday to prepare<br />
the menu. Mrs Lee Cooper was also a very valuable<br />
member of the team, donating her time on Saturday to<br />
purchase stock and assisting all day Sunday with the<br />
preparations, we couldn’t have done it without her. The<br />
students certainly appreciated Mrs Cooper’s support as<br />
they presented her with a lovely bunch of flowers on<br />
the evening.<br />
We wish all the students our best for their future<br />
endeavours either in the Hospitality Industry or in<br />
whatever field they decide on. They will certainly be an<br />
asset to their chosen field.<br />
Diners enjoy the hospitality from the Yr 12 students<br />
Thank you so much for the opportunity to work with<br />
you all and see how you have developed over the two<br />
year course to enable you to work together as a team<br />
to complete this huge task. I will treasure your<br />
achievement and the lovely memory at the end of my<br />
time at <strong>Junee</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
JHS Ag Farm Fundraiser<br />
Ms Sarah Jones<br />
Hospitality<br />
A warm invitation is extended to all community<br />
members to join us at the Railway Café on Friday 26<br />
<strong>July</strong> at 6:30pm for a Lamb Roast Dinner followed by<br />
dessert. The cost is $25.00 per head. Please contact the<br />
school on 69241 666 to book your seats, bookings<br />
must be made by Thursday 25 <strong>July</strong> for catering<br />
numbers to be finalised, dietary needs will be catered<br />
for.<br />
JHS Playgroup<br />
Mrs Sandra Heffernan<br />
Ag<br />
If you would like to involve your child in the JHS<br />
Playgroup please contact Andrea at the school on<br />
69241 666<br />
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