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CASINO H IGH SCHOOL

90 Queensland Road, Casino NSW 2470 Phone: 02 6662 3077 Fax: 02 6662 6390 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.casino-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Individually We Achieve, Together We Excel

Newsletter Issue No 19, Term 4, 29th November, 2019

Principal’s Message

This week we have been lucky enough to meet our

Year 7 cohort for 2020. On Monday afternoon

parents attended an Information Evening and

experienced lessons in PDHPE, English, Agriculture

and HSIE. It was great to see the number of parents

who supported this and it was good to receive some

positive feedback from those who attended.

On Tuesday close to 120 Year 6 students from our

local primary schools participated in Orientation Day.

They toured the school, participated in lessons and

watched a concert featuring some of our talented

students. A special thanks to Bridget Swan who

coordinated the programs during the week and also

to the staff and students who volunteered their time

to ensure that the visiting students had a positive

start to life at Casino High School.

I would like to congratulate all of those Year 12

students who have received offers of Early Entry to

a number of universities in their chosen courses.

This is a fantastic opportunity for these students to

excel in their particular area of interest and enjoy the

tertiary years of their education.

I would also like to thank our Careers Adviser, Mrs

Weir and our Senior Learning Centre Teacher, Mrs

Parker who have both assisted these students with

their applications for University Early Entry and

Scholarships. Mrs Weir, in particular, continues to

work with students in Years 10, 11 and 12 to access

work experience and other opportunities in the local

area.

The final day for students this year is Wednesday 18th December. We have organised an activities day which provides students with a fun day of alternate activities. We encourage all students to attend, participate and make the last day of the school year an enjoyable one.

Week 8 Term 4 Week A

Monday 02.12.19

Year 10 Work Experience

MMA Camp - Thunderbird Park

Tuesday 03.12.19



Year 10 Dinner Dance - 6pm Casino Golf Club

Wednesday 04.12.19



Thursday 05.12.19



Royal Lifesaving Bronze Medallion- Casino

Pool

Friday 06.12.19



Week 9 Term 4 Week B

Monday 09.12.19


Tuesday 10.12.19


Quicksmart Assembly - 10.25am in The Len

Walsh Hall

Wednesday 11.12.19


Thursday 12.12.19


Friday 13.12.19


Visual Arts GOMA Excursion - Brisbane

Calendar Events


SRC NEWS

Get to know our newly inducted SRC Presidents and Vice Presidents

Blair Haynes

I am the 2020 SRC President at Casino High School. I have lived and been educated in Casino my

whole life. I have been an active member of Evans Head-Casino Surf Life Saving Club for four years,

doing regular patrols. I am a keen and enthusiastic soccer player who enjoys long walks on the beach. I

have a positive attitude to the education of myself and others with a personal goal to study medicine.

Tallulah Mohammed

I am the President of the SRC of Casino High School. Both my Mum and Dad went to Casino High

School and I am very proud to continue that tradition. My interest is sport and currently I represent the

First Nation’s Rugby 7s Team. I play in the forward pack. I would like to support events that make

Casino High School a welcoming place for all.

Declan Ellis

I enjoy kayaking, learning new skills and watching Netflix. This year as the 2020 Vice-President I hope

to contribute to the SRC by increasing the number of fundraisers and always listening to the concerns of

other students. I’m very keen to see what 2020 will hold.

Jesse Noll

I am very sporty, almost too sporty. I am always up for a laugh and a joke and I’m very approachable. If

you ever feel like you need a friend or just someone to talk to, you’ve always got me. I hope this will be

our best year at Casino High School and you remember me as the coolest Vice-President you’ve ever

had!

Remembrance Day

Our SRC Presidents Blair Haynes and

Tallulah Mohammed and Vice Presidents

Declan Ellis and Jesse Noll proudly

represented Casino High School at the

Casino Remembrance Day Ceremony at the

Mafeking Lamp.


SCHOOL NEWS

Uniform Shop Opening Hours - January 2020

Tuesday 21st 8.30am - 3pm

Wednesday 22nd 8.30am - 3pm

Thursday 23rd 8.30am - 3pm

Friday 24th 8.30am - 3pm

Tuesday 28th 8.30am - 3pm Teachers, Year 7, 11 & 12 students return

Wednesday 29th 8.30am - 3pm Year 8, 9 & 10 students return

Thursday 30th 8.30am - 2pm

Friday 31st 8.30am - 1pm

Academic and Equestrian Success - Isabella Ennever Year 10 This week has been huge for Isabella Ennever both academically

and in the equestrian field.

On Tuesday Isabella received the Southern Cross University

Deputy Vice Chancellor’s Year 10 Academic Excellence Award in

Lismore representing Casino High School.

On Friday Isabella travelled to Warwick Qld to compete in the

Warwick Horse Trials International One Day Event, in the 60cm

Class and won both the Junior Rider and Open Rider Class in that

event. A massive achievement for her and her horse Tommy Tails.

Isabella has also successfully gained a position to attend the

Lizard Island Research Facility hosted by the Australian Museum.

Isabella will conduct laboratory experiments, undertake field work

on the reef, observe coral reef investigations as well as snorkelling

and studying native wildlife. She will have the privilege of working

beside internationally recognised marine biologists.

Isabella will travel to Lizard Island next April

and will be accommodated at the Lizard

Island Resort. Isabella’s application for this

opportunity was based on her personal

reflections on the Great Barrier Reef in the

form of an untitled poem and an informal

essay.

Congratulations Isabella!

Untitled Poem by Isabella Ennever Year 10

Nestled in the bosom of Queensland’s coast

There is a place of natural beauty

One of Freedom!

One of precious vulnerability!

It’s off this coast where the meeting place resides

Where the tentative wandering hands of terrestrial nature,

And the confident demand of the ocean’s voice

Connect in an unequalled, perfect picture.

Past this vicious debate over land and sea

Further into the ocean's tides,

One can see under the blanket of placidity

An ancient civilisation resides.

Within this society millions roam free

Moving from place to place,

Never bound by past or present,

But facing the future with patient pace.

This civilisation has faced cyclones!

Predators of the deep!

It’s faced Mother Nature’s wrath

With determination and upkeep.

Even with the threat of trawlers and oil

And the tentacles of human endeavour,

It upholds integrity and diversity

Withstanding the harshest stormy weather.

The Great Barrier Reef is a sacred sight of nature

The world biodiverse suture,

It is the key to our past

And perhaps so to our future.

The Great Barrier Reef may be swaying

Pressured by the stress of potential catastrophe,

But it’s up to us who have jeopardised it

Who have damaged it’s essential anatomy.

It’s up to us to mend it’s cuts

To cool it’s fever,

To bandage it’s wounds

And to help it recover.

It's up to us to protect it’s irreplaceable value,

And to allow it to flourish once more.


SCHOOL NEWS


When Colin Fardon was a Year 10 student at Casino High School he attended work experience with cabinet-maker Geoff Hannah in Lismore. This was at the suggestion of the school’s wood technology Teachers and Careers Advisor. (Geoff, a master wood craftsman who is known worldwide for his absolutely incredible fine furniture making talent, has sold pieces of work for up to one million dollars). This work experience changed the path of Colin’s life and from the first day Colin knew that this was without any doubt his future career path. Colin immediately enrolled in Geoff’s classes to learn this much specialised trade. He then spent one day each week learning the art of design, build, carve and inlay timber and stone, French polishing and also joined the local Lapidary Club to learn how to slice and polish his own stone for inlaying in his designs. At age 19 Colin won the ‘Exhibition of Excellence’; an annual exhibition of fine works that was held in Grafton with a cabinet that he designed and built.

In 2010, aged 24 years, Colin held his own solo exhibition at the local Casino ‘Platypus Gallery’. His designs featured timbers and veneers from countries all over the world. His solo exhibition was extremely successful and he sold almost everything that he had on display in the exhibition. Colin has been involved with several exhibitions of fine furniture over the past few years.

Now aged 31 years, Colin’s grandest design to date features along with Geoff Hannah’s exquisite latest creation and the amazing works of Geoff’s other students at the Lismore Art Gallery in an exhibition titled ‘Chesta Drawz and The Lowboys’ which runs until 1st December 2019.

Colin has made an impact at the ‘Chesta Drawz and The Lowboys’ exhibition with the sale on the first day of the exhibition of his collector’s cabinet for $68,000.00. The cabinet which took up to 1200 hours to design and build features exotic timbers from many different countries, 40 drawers, 3 secret compartments and intricately drawn and inlaid birds and scenery inspired by his childhood on his parent’s property. It is also French polished. It is believed that this is the largest commissioned sale ever made at the Lismore Art Gallery.

This all started with woodwork classes at Casino High School. Colin has spent many night time hours in the shed building this cabinet whilst working a day time job for a local joinery and playing in a local band to fund the purchase of the machinery and equipment required to start his own business. He is currently building a shed and is now ready to work in his own full-time business doing the work that he is so passionate about as well as furniture restoration. This is a great example to all young people of what a dream, a passion and lots of hard work can achieve.

EX-STUDENT COLIN FARDON


SCHOOL NEWS

FACULTY AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who received HSIE Faculty Achievement Awards this

week for ‘Diligence In All Areas’ :

Quicksmart Certificate Presentation

Parents, carers and community members are invited to attend the Quicksmart

Presentation Ceremony for 2019 on Tuesday 10th December commencing at

10.25am in The Len Walsh Hall.

Details of the Quicksmart Programs at Casino High School will be shared and

certificates will be presented to students who have attended lessons regularly and completed

the final testing requirements of the program. Afterwards morning tea will be served by our

Technology students on the lawn area in front of Rooms 9 and 10. Students will need to attend

their Period 3 lessons following this celebration.

We hope that many parents, carers and community members will be able to attend this

occasion to acknowledge the achievements of Year 7 and Year 8 students who have been

involved in the Quicksmart Programs in 2019.

Please reply to the invitation letter that was sent home with your Quicksmart student earlier this

week. For catering purposes your reply needs to be given to the office or to one of the

Quicksmart tutors by Monday 2nd

December .

Kind Regards

Christine Bell

Quicksmart Co-ordinator

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING HOURS

Tuesday 11am to 2pm

Friday 8.30am to 11.30am

Jess Smith-O’Rouke

Payton Lotz

Isabelle Sharp

Stephanie Choi

Sara Cole

Elleemae Nolte

Michaela McGregor

Zoe Lassig

Emma Jacobsen

Isabella Ennever

Brielle Wenham

Lincoln Close

Taleah Jackson

Ma Jessa Salceda

Faith Bartimote

Casino Lions Club wish to advise that the date of the Casino Carols by Candlelight event

which was to be held on Saturday 30th November has been changed to Sunday 8th December.


GENERAL INFORMATION

CORTYA & MERIT WINNERS

Cortya

Kiara Doughty Year 7

Lloyd Johnston Year 7

Neil Rivera-Schneider Year 8

Justin Trickett Year 9

Merit

Chloe Robson Year 11

Jesse Noll Year 11

Griffith University Future Leaders Retreat

Blair Haynes has been selected to participate in the

Griffith University Future Leaders Retreat from the

20th to 22nd January 2020.

Blair will be participating in an assortment of

university based activities including sitting in on a

lecture focusing on medicine. This is a great

opportunity for Blair to network with other future

leaders and to participate in cultural activities offered

by university life.

After high school Blair wishes to study medicine.


SCHOOL INFORMATION

CANTEEN ROSTER

Week 8 Term 4 Week 9 Term 4

Monday

02.12.19

L Roberts

Monday

09.12.19

L Roberts

Tuesday

03.12.19

R Fleming Tuesday

10.12.19

E Rosolen

G Rosolen

Wednesday

04.12.19

J Carbis

L Miller

Wednesday

11.12.19

J Carbis

L Miller

Thursday

05.12.19

L Roberts

A Welsh

Thursday

12.12.19

L Roberts

Friday

06.12.19

E Rosolen

G Rosolen

Friday

13.12.19

G Rosolen

OFFICE HOURS FOR SCHOOL RECEIPTING

The school office is able to receipt money from students from 8.30am - 9am, 11.10am - 11.45am

Monday to Friday. Parents/Carers may personally come to the front office anytime between 8.30am and

1.30pm.

NO MONEY MAY BE RECEIPTED AFTER 1.30PM.

Payments may be received at the office via cash, cheque, EFTPOS and payments may be made online

through the School Website.

What expenses can be paid online?

Voluntary School Contributions, Subject Contributions, Excursions

How? Log onto School site at

www.casino-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Click on “Make a Payment” and follow the prompts to make a payment via Visa or MasterCard.

Visual Arts GOMA Brisbane Excursion

Ref No. 488847 $30

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