Term 3, Wk 10 2012 - Matraville High School

Issue 6 - Term 3 – Week 10
Several senior students
Daniel Robinson and
Hayden McCulloch in
Year 11/12 Metals
Engineering and
Construction were
fantastic helpers.
These senior students
worked with the primary school students assisting and
guiding them with practical procedures and techniques.
The final process was the cleaning up procedures which
is a workshop requirement.
All of the students enjoyed their time in the Industrial
Arts workshops.
Mr Dawkins (Industrial Arts Teacher)
Support Faculty Department Update
Busy! Busy! Busy! That’s the only way to describe the
hive of activity that has been the Support faculty during
term 3.
As I speak the entire Support
faculty is on its way to a Special
Olympics event at Marrickville
PCYC to participate in a
Basketball and Athletics
competition against students
from other support faculties and
special schools from the surrounding area.
Unfortunately, the only photo we have for today’s
event is of the excitement on the bus just before
leaving so I’m including some
photos from last term’s Special
Olympics skills training session
at the same venue to give you
an idea of the fun we had.
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Monday, 8 October 2012
Assembly item (S1) ‐ On
Tuesday this week S1
performed the “Recycling”
song for the school
assembly. S1 are in charge
of school recycling as part
of their Science activities.
They constructed a recycling truck and musical
instruments out of recycled materials and played a
recorded voice‐over (incorporating the student’s voices)
prior to the item. Isaiah Carter played the didgeridoo as
students assembled in
the hall and Christopher
Averkos played the piano
beautifully as students
dispersed from the hall.
Daniel Hilliar‐Hayes
(guitarist extra‐ordinaire)
and Monica Tinoco‐
Eusebio (vocalist) were unable to do their item due to
time constraints but we’re really looking forward to
hearing them at a future assembly.
Work Experience updates ‐ Below are some pictures
taken recently of support students at work experience:
Tyson Gold at East Coast Smash Repairs; Maddison
Miller‐Holmes at “PetsRus” at Eastgardens; Kevin Jessop
at Windgap horticulture group where he uses the lawn
mower and leaf blower as part of his activities with the
gardening group.
STOP PRESS – I’m advised Matraville has come first in A new Support faculty work experience group will start
the Javelin and Relay competitions and has won 2 in term 4 at Coles, Eastgardens under the supervision of
Basketball games with more to come. Special mentions Ms Malouf. The students participating will be Hamish
were made of: Isaiah Carter (Relay), Felicity Carr Thorp and Christopher Averkos.
(basketball) and Blake Errington (Javelin).
The Franklins work group is now being supervised by
Ms Elder (S3) while Mr McGrane returns to school to
supervise an “in school” work group consisting of S3
students (Daniel, Rhys, Tyisha, Jarrod) who are unable
to participate in “community‐based” work experience
because of mainstream commitments or other reasons.
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