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Katherine High School TERM 3, WEEK 9-10SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Key DatesTerm 4Week 1 • Year 12 Trial Exams KHS Mon-Wed October 8-10 • Whole School Assembly KHS Gym, 8:20am Thursday October 11 All Welcome! • SLC Whole School BBQ Lunchtime KHS Canteen Friday October 12Week 2 • SSS Camp Jabiru Mon - Tues October 15-16 • Year 7 and 8 Rugby Darwin Wednesday October 17 • SEN Year 6 Transition Day Wednesday October 17 • Year 12/Staff Morning Tea KHS Staff Room Wednesday October 17 • Year 12 Farewell Assembly KHS Gym 12:00pm Wednesday October 17 • Year 12 Graduation Evening KHS Gym 6:00pm Thursday October 18 • Year 12 Formal Thursday October 18

Year 11/12 UpdateYear11 I am very excited about hav-ing taken on the role as the Year 11 Coordinator and I am looking forward to getting to know each student and help-ing them achieve their goals. They have shown themselves to be a great group consisting of bright, energetic and pas-sionate students. Planning is al-ready underway for a number of exciting events, and I can’t wait. Year 12 School life is coming to an end for the year 12s. It has been a busy year and I am extremely proud of all the year 12s. Year 12 is not an easy year, but will be a year to be remembered. We only have a few but excit-ing things left for Term 4. We have the Year 12 Presentation Night, the Formal Dinner and a number of other fun events to look forward to. Students in examinable subjects will also have exams to study for. For the last four weeks of this Term teachers have been running study sessions in the library for Stage 2 students. These went really well and with a good turnout of students. Fi-nally, a gentle reminder that Trial Exams are in the first week back from holidays.

Cara FulwoodYear 11 and 12 Coordinator

Musical RehearsalsMusical rehearsals are continu-ing with the final performance date looming near. Holiday re-hearsals will be Saturday 29/09 8:30-11:30, Monday 01/10 and Tuesday 02/10 8:30 – 12:00 and Saturday 06/10 8:30-11:30.We are also looking for wood-en barrels to use as props. If you have one or more bar-rels that you would be willing to loan to the musical, please contact Sarah Earle ASAP.

Principal’s UpdateIt has been a busy term with many highlights.Thank you to all the staff and students for their contributions.Term 4 starts with our Stage 2 Trial Exams, so good luck to our Year 12s in their final weeks of School.I hope everyone enjoys their break and comes back fresh for what will be a very busy Term 4.

Nathan Baunach Acting Principal

Term Three Reports Teachers have been working hard to complete reports for their students. Student reports will include assessment items that have been submitted and marked up to and including Week 7. Students who are com-pleting Stage 2 subjects, this will be the final report for these subjects for the year. Students in Year 7 and 9 and who com-pleted NAPLAN earlier this year, their results have been released and will be included in the mail out. We thank all the teachers for their hard work.

Kylie MurphySpecialist Teacher

NanotechnologyA nanometre is a billionth of a metre (10-9m). Nanotechnol-ogy deals with particles of that magnitude. Paul Lyons from CSIRO visited the School to present a workshop on Nano-technology on 21st September. Students and staff who par-ticipated in the event found it highly useful and interesting. There were two hands on ses-sions done with two selected classes from Year 9 and Year 10.

Roy JosephScience Senior

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• Anne White (Principal) • Jodie Locke (KHS Council Chairperson) (08) 8973 8200 khs.council@ntschools.net anne.white@ntschools.net

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The Smart Handed Program The Smart Handed Program is a new hands-on initiative offered to a number of Middle School boys as a means of increasing their understanding and enjoy-ment of Science as well as pro-viding numeracy and literacy through real world applica-tions. Community support in the form of expertise and advice has been gratefully provided by Katherine Watershed™ and Katherine Repco™. In addi-tion, an enormous thankyou is given to the Katherine Emer-gency Services for giving per-mission for the program to ac-cess wrecked vehicles and for providing safety instruction and advice. Additional community members have offered to sup-port the program next term. Please refer to the KHS website for the full article.

Frank HollandTeacher

Rugby 7sOn Wednesday September 12, 9 students attended the NT Rugby 7 aside tournament at Marrara.Game One saw KHS take on Taminmin and run out victors 22-14 with 2 tries to Matt Govan and several try saving efforts in defence to Matt Travers.Game Two saw a 33-27 loss to Marrara Christian College. Dar-en Alimboyong scored 2 tries in the heart breaking loss.Game Three was the knock out Quarter Final against Ca-suarina Senior College. KHS led 19-7 at half time. Unfortunately the Katherine team added no further points in the second half losing 24-19.A great day had by all, and with a little training, this team could well come home with the silverware next year.

Nathan Baunach

Turn It UpKHS recently hosted ‘Turn It Up’ a celebration of Primary School and High School student par-ticipation in music, drama and dance. KHS performances included:- Phoebe Hooper and Taylor-Rae Bailey singing as part of the Cantabile Kids Choir - Ellen Monsi dancing up a storm- Shawn Soundron singing and accompanying himself on gui-tar - Nick Osborne performing his own guitar composition.Thank you and well done to Harrison Dawes and Karan Symes for hosting the evening.

Sarah EarleTeacher

VET UpdateStructured Work PlacementMany of our VETis students have been participating in Struc-tured Work Placements. These SWPs enable our students to work in local industries in con-junction with the course they are studying and their chosen career choice. Our thanks to all the industries in Katherine who have supported our students.Certificate 1 in Rural OperationsA number of our Year 9 students have been attending CDU Ru-ral Campus for the past two weeks to undertake their Cer-tificate 1 in Rural Operations. Whilst at CDU the students will learn how to prepare for work; operate basic machinery and equipment; assist with routine maintenance of the machin-ery and equipment; follow ba-sic chemical safety rules, and support extensive livestock and horse work

Sheryl FotakisVET Coordinator

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School Ready Camp Last week 6 boys from the Tier 1 School Ready class travelled to Ngukurr for a night. Whilst at Ngukurr the boys participated in the program run by Ngukurr School about horses. The boys learnt to saddle a horse, brush a horse, wash a horse and many got to ride a horse for the first time. Overall a great trip which the students enjoyed.

Racheal WatsonFP Assistant Principal

CongratulationsNIDAEthan Grahek, James Hewitt and Ian Arguilles are off to Syd-ney for an all-expenses paid course at NIDA during Week 10. These students won a national Cyberbullying competition with a video they made. Well done to these students.NIDADenis Barritt, Ian Arguilles, James Hewitt, John Bolesworth and Owen Soundron have tak-en part in the National Com-puter Science School (NCSS) Challenge. This is a competi-tion using the computer coding language of ‘Python’. Students are presented with various problems and have to write a program to provide a solution

SLC HandballThe SLC handball competition was a great success with many students participating and more wanting to so an extra day of competition was added. The fi-nal winner of the Tuesday com-petition was Luke Scattini who was given a run for his money by Year 7 students Scout Park-er, William Ashley and Robert Henderson. Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Sarah EarleSLC Coordinator

ACHPER – Come and Try DayOn Thursday 13th of Septem-ber a number of Year 7 stu-dents took part in a ‘Come and Try’ day held by ACHPER. The students gave every-thing a go, trying their hand at many new sports, games and activities including : AFL, BluEarth, Dance, Golf, Orien-teering, Rugby League, Touch Rugby and Ultimate Frisbee.

Nick Abbott

Enrichment UpdateThe Enrichment Faculty con-tinues to work with students in a wide range of learning activities. Our performing arts students in Year 7 are currently preparing for a performance at the presentation night next term. Video students are film-ing peer interviews and these will be screened at our fort-nightly Assembly.Technical Studies students are creating some interesting de-vices to clean BBQs. PE students are focusing on basketball and oztag with an-other class commencing golf in partnership with the Kather-ine Country Club.Art students have been creat-ing some wonderful work using screen printing techniques. Ceramics students are current-ly discovering the whims of the potting wheel and enjoying every minute of it.Home Economics continues to influence our students’ at-titudes to food and nutrition. Students have been using herbs and vegetables grown in the school garden which is sat-isfying for those students who study in both areas. The Stage 2 students are about to com-plete their final practical and we wish them every success.

John Green Enrichment Faculty Senior

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A Note From Middle Years Middle Years students have worked hard this Term and I encourage families to look carefully at the Term 3 Progress Report. This Report should be seen as a snap-shot of your child’s progress, keeping in mind that much teaching will be happening in Term 4. Students in Years 7 and 9 also receive their 2012 NAPLAN results. Again, I encourage families to carefully read the results. Middle Years teachers will begin analysing the data next term in order to improve student outcomes. Parent Teacher Meetings will be Wednesday 24 October where families can discuss their children’s progress with teachers.

John SarevMiddle Years Assistant Principal

NAPLAN ResultsThe NAPLAN results have been obtained from a limited testing situation and therefore provide a ‘snapshot’ of the child’s achievement. They do not replace the more extensive, informative and on-going classroom assessment made by class teachers. It is important to note that a different writing scale has been used to score the 2011-2012 persuasive writing. For this reason, a comparison cannot be made of the child’s writing performance with previous narrative writing assessments from 2008-2012. Examples of reports and a short two minute animated video on how to understand the student report are available on the ACARA website: www.nap.edu.au/Test_Results/Student_reports/index.html.

John SarevMiddle Years Assistant Principal

Year 10 Rewards LunchTo celebrate our Year 10 Students academic achieve from Semester 1, nine of our Students went down to the Katherine Country Club for a lunch in light of them achieving an ‘A’ grade. It was a great afternoon to sit down and have a lunch listening to their stories and what they wanted to achieve as they grow up. The most exciting things of the day though came from the jumping pillow which really had the Students on the edge of their seats to jump on. Well done to Dezlyn Coetzee, Bekky Millikan, Darcy Lye, Ian Arguilles, Denis Barritt, Aidan Carusi, Lauren Dawes, Tasha Dack, John Bolesworth, Chantelle Brennan, Eugene Ferreras, Clar-issa McLennan, Asha Tonkin-Reeves and Georgia Walker.

Rod CremonaYear 10 Coordinator

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Sandy Creek Fishing TripWords by Leith WaterburyPhotos by Leith Waterbury

The Katherine Academy ventured out to Oenpelli with our Year 11 boys to experience the fishing of the Top End coast.

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We made the trek up the Kakadu Highway to meet up with Marius Clarke (Gunbualanya Academy) and some boys from West Arnhem College who were eager to show us their country at the tip of Cobourg Peninsula.

Once we made it across the East Alligator River into Arnhem Land it was a short drive to Oenpelli to pick the boys from West Arnhem College and head straight out to the coast.

Marius Clarke form Gunbualanya Academy took us to a camp spot that his family has been use for many generations.

We all slept out under the stars with a great sea breeze all night.

With boys all catching fish in the morning we had a big cook up of Barra and Mangrove Jack for lunch.

A big thank you to Marius Clarke and the boys from West Arnhem College for a great trip all the boys had a ball.

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Whole School Parent Teacher Interviews

Wednesday 24 October 2012 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm

Parent Teacher Interviews to discuss student progress will be held on Wednesday 24 October 2012 between 5:00pm – 6:30pm. Please make arrangements for interviews by emailing teachers directly (see names overleaf) or alternatively you can make a time on the night. If you are unable to attend this evening please contact the teachers directly to arrange a time to meet on another day. Tea and coffee will be available. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 24 October 2012. Anne White - Principal

White Anne anne.white@ntschools.net PrincipalBaunach Nathan nathan.baunach@ntachools.net SY Assistant PrincipalSarev John john.sarev@ntschools.net MY Assistant PrincipalWatson Racheal racheal.watson@ntschools.net SR Assistant PrincipalHarvey de Mendez Jane jane.harveydemendez@ntschools.net SP Teacher - LiteracyMurphy Kylie kylie.murphy@ntschools.net SP Teacher - Numeracy

Fotakis Sheryl sheryl.fotakis@ntschools.net Administration Senior TeacherGreen John john.green@ntschools.net Enrichment Faculty SeniorJoseph Roy roy.joseph@ntschools.net Science Faculty SeniorMônfries Purins Dominie dominie.monfriespuri@ntschools.net English Faculty SeniorPurins David david.purins@ntschools.net Maths Facutly SeniorWhitty Haydn haydn.whitty@ntschools.net SoSE Faculty Senior

Lloyd Jenny jenny.lloyd@ntschools.net Year 7 CoordinatorCharleston Damien damien.charleston@ntschools.net Year 8 CoordinatorElliott Caroline caroline.elliott@ntschools.net Year 9 CoordinatorCremona Rodney rodney.cremona@ntschools.net Year 10 CoordinatorFulwood Cara cara.fulwood@ntschools.net Year 11 and 12 Coordinator

Abbott Nick nick.abbott@ntschools.net SoSE/PEArbon Helen helen.arbon@ntschools.net Science Barnes Julie julie.barnes@ntschools.net Teacher LibrarianBarrington Sue sue.barrington@ntschools.net Science/MathsBrown Rae rae.brown@ntschools.net Home Ec/SSSBishop Jayne jayne.bishop@ntschools.net School ReadyDannatt Sarah sarah.dannatt@ntschools.net SoSEDean Josh joshua.dean@ntschools.net MathsEarle Sarah sarah.earle@ntschools.net Music/Leadership CoordinatorEdge Amanda amanda.edge@ntschools.net ArtFerrier Ken ken.ferrier@ntschools.net ArtGolding Kathleen katie.golding@ntschools.net SoSE/Outdoor EdHohn Joel joel.hohn@ntschools.net MathsHolland Frank frank.holland@ntschools.net ScienceKahl Pam pam.kahl@ntschools.net Careers AdvisorLawrence Rosie rosie.lawrence@ntschools.net EnglishLong Sally sallyanne.long@ntschools.net English/PELouwrens Kimberley kimberley.louwrens@ntschools.net ScienceMannion Vicki vicki.mannion@ntschools.net EnglishMargetts Stephen stephen.margetts@ntschools.net Year 7 CoordinatorMason Freya freya.mason@ntschools.net PEMcGillivray Wayne w.mcgillivray@ntschools.net EnglishMeure Tom tom.meure@ntschools.net SENMlilo Justin justin.mlilo@ntschools.net ScienceNeyland Claire claire.neyland@ntschools.net EnglishPannifex Sally sally.pannifex@ntschools.net MathsSadler Rhonda rhonda.sadler@ntschools.net SIPStanley Alicia alicia.stanley@ntschools.net PETipene Phillip phillip.tipene@ntschools.net SoSEWelch Deane deane.welch@ntschools.net School ReadyWolkenberg Gaby gabrielle.wolkenberg@ntschools.net SoSEWoods Denese denese.woods@ntschools.net English

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