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Message from the Principal Open for Business!

This edition of Hawk Chat is published on the eve of our 2019 Open Afternoon.

I look forward to seeing many new faces during the afternoon, and also many ‘familiar’ faces, those of parents/carers who already have stu-dents attending our fabulous school.

The afternoon is primarily for current Year 6 students and their families, but there may also be additional ‘potential Hawks’ seeking enrolment for 2020 in year levels other than Year 7. All are welcome.

Our Year 7 enrolments have continued to increase every year, from 273 in 2015 to 369 for this year. It is thrilling to see this increasing interest in students attending our school.

I look forward to seeing you this week, or on other occasions very soon and, dare I say it, “Go Queensland!”

Ken Green Executive Principal

Event Calendar

Open Day Afternoon Tuesday 4th June

Deadly Trackers Careers Day

Thursday 6th June

Get Set 4 Success Emu Gully

Friday 7th June

P&C Meeting Tuesday 11th June

Toowoomba Chest

Competition 15th –16th June

Year 12 Exam Block

17th – 21st June

Senior Ball Friday 21st June

Year 12 QCS Practice Test

25th - 26th June

Athletics Trials Tuesday 26th June

C-Gen Final Rehearsal

Friday 28th June

QLD Ballet Workshop Friday 28th June

Term 2 Concludes

Friday 28th June

Sixty Eighth edition 3rd June 2019

Red Food Day - Tuesday 18th June

Becoming a Hawk in 2020? Come along to our Open After-

noon to see how you can “Engage, Achieve and Excel” at Har-

ristown State High School. Information sessions and stalls in

the Auditorium from 3.30pm and school tours through out the

afternoon.

Tuesday 4th June

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Executive Principal Ken Green

Deputy Principals

BALKUIN - Craig Forknall BARANG - Leanne Monagle

BONDA - Ian Brackstone - Dale Potter Helen Parker

Business Manager

Elaine Fickling

Guidance Officers Judy King

Sue-Ellen Taylor

Student Managers (First point of contact

for Parents/Carers)

Junior Secondary BALKUIN - Adam Forknall

BARANG - Ian Jibson BONDA - Daniel Schick

- Liam Capewell

Senior Secondary BALKUIN - Melissa Hollman

BARANG - Sue Burns BONDA - Ben McDonald

- Gavin Priest

Year Level Coordinators Year 7 - Lachlan Smith

Year 8 - Valma Cahill Year 9 - Tegan Krause

Year 10 - Jamie Krisanski Year 11 - Peter Dayus

Year 12 - Nick Clarry

P&C Shop 46368714

Monday-Friday 8:15am-3:15pm

2019 QLD Training

Harristown High is proud to announce on behalf of Retaj, in the history of the Queensland Training Awards, she is the first student to ever be nominated for all three categories and more importantly, she is the first student to take out “Top 5 Semi Finalist” for each Category. A remarkable achievement, well done Retaj.

Queensland Training Awards Finalists will be announced on June 3rd , therefore we take this opportunity to again congratulate Retaj on her advancement so far and wish her all the very best for progressing into the finalist stages.

EVERDAY COUNTS!!!

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12 years Cross Country

On Friday 3rd May Angus Canning, Brayden McKee & Aliviah Gill represented HSHS at the 12 years cross country trials held at Kearneys Spring. All three students ran strongly, with Angus Canning coming in 3rd to be selected to attend the 12 years Darling Downs trials.

SPL

Harristown SHS travelled to play

Aspley in a trial and versed

Chancellor at home.

Aspley teams proved to be too

strong and HSHS didn’t get the

results they had worked so hard

for. After a long bus trip Junior

Girls recorded a 5-1 loss against

the home team who managed some incredible goals through a sin-

gle scorer. Senior Girls went down 2-0 after a couple of early goals

but fought hard to challenge Aspley in the second half. Junior and

Senior Boys were up against a sharp side but showed great deter-

mination.

Chancellor is a top side in the SPL and Harristown teams were able

to record some very close scores. The Senior Boys went down 2-1

after a late goal from the travelling team. The Junior Girls also con-

ceded late goals to finish with a 2-0 loss. Senior Girls and Junior

Boys fought hard until the final whistle.

Football Academy Update Bill Turner

The Boys and Girls Football Academies recently participated in the Bill Turner Cup. Harristown teams were undefeated on the

cluster day with the boys moving through to the semi-finals where they faced St Josephs and were knocked out of the competition.

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THE ARTS TALENTED HARRISTOWN ARTISTS

SHINE AT JUNIOR ART EXPO

The Toowoomba Art Society/ The Chronicle Junior Art Expo is a popular visual art competition open to primary and secondary students from public and private schools in the region. The selectors of the competition had the daunting task of choosing less than 100 artworks from over 680 entries. The Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery provided the prestigious venue for the opening and the announcement of awards. An impressive eight Harristown Visual Art students were selected, receiving a certificate of commendation for their work that is now exhibited in the gallery.

We congratulate: Mai Lan Ruhle ( Yr 7),

Nosieba Abousnina (Yr 8) , Jillian Bonell (Yr 8),

Georgia Deeth (Yr 9), Marie Domat (Yr 11),

Farah Al-Najafi (Yr 12), Asifiwe Tatine Faustine (Yr 12),

and Vicki Andrews ( Yr 12).

Celebrations continued at the announcement of winners and runners-up for each section of the competition with our Hawks dominating the list of award recipients. Runner-up for the Open Drawing sec-tion went to Asifiwe Tatine Faustine. Winner of the Open Printmaking and Photography section went to Farah Al-Najafi. Vicki Andrews took out two awards, winning the Open Drawing section and Best Picture for her incredible drawing of a newborn baby. The exhibition will be on display at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery until 17th June.

Open Printmaking and Photography winner

Best Picture winner

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THE ARTS THE ARTS

Open Drawing runner-up

ASIFIWE TATINE FAUSTINE

Finalist

MARIE DOMAT

Finalist JILLIAN BONELL Finalist NOSIEBA ABOUSNINA

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THE ARTS

Finalist MAI LAN RUHLE

Finalist GEORGIA DEETH

Open Drawing winner

VICKI ANDREWS

Watch out for a wrap up of ‘Grease’

in the next edition of Hawk Chat.

This week we have shelved

over 20 new Manga titles.

We have added to several

series including Attack on

Titan and Seraph of the

End. In Fiction over the

next couple of weeks you

will see the Funny Kid se-

ries appear and several

other great novels. Check

in and see what’s new.

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It’s that time of year when assignments and exams loom.

The following may help?

Effective Research and Assignment Writing.

1. Plan ; Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.

Map a time line for information gathering,

organization of information and writing.

2. The library has an extensive range of authoritative

texts.

3. Check the marking criteria. Does what you have

written meet the criteria. Unsure check with your

teacher.

4. Write in a simple, frank manner, avoiding clichés.

Avoid jargon. Write so that your younger sibling and

your parents can read it and make sense of your work.

5. Traditionally one idea per paragraph. State the main

idea in the first sentence and expand on it in the rest

of the paragraph.

6. If dealing with figures; graphs and tables display

information in a way that makes it easy for the reader

to digest and understand.

7. Always proofread a printed copy of your writing. Ask a

classmate to read it, get mum or dad to look it over.

Check spelling and grammar.

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Indigenous Education News The past couple of weeks have seen our Indigenous students engaged in a number of exciting activities. Ten students from

Years 10 to 12 are currently participating in the Harness Energy Training Course held over five weeks each Wednesday. The

course is very much hands on and gives students the opportunity to complete a number of industry relevant competencies, as

well as gain insight into the many and varied apprenticeships available to them after finishing Year 12. There are three days

left of the course and students are reminded to be at school by 7.45am sharp each Wednesday to catch the bus. Alternatively,

parents can drop their students at the training venue by 8am—(the address is on the Training Program previously sent home).

Our Indigenous Student Leadership team has been very busy throughout

Reconciliation Week. Jakiah Boyle and Shanice Duncan, represented

HSHS with PRIDE as they participated in the USQ Deadly Ways Camp

which saw them involved in creating and performing a musical piece that

stirred the hearts of those present in the audience on Friday morning.

Thank you to Dre Robinson and Mackenzie Docherty who presented the

school’s Reconciliation Week address on assembly, outlining a brief

history of this event and why the issue of reconciliation is significant in all

of our lives.

Congratulations also goes to those students who have displayed significant improvement/achievement at school and so are

the lucky recipients of tickets to Djuki Mala, performing at the Empire Theatre on Sunday – it should be a great show!

QATSIF News: Round 11 QATSIF applications will be sent out early next term. In order to qualify for this fantastic oppor-

tunity, parents/carers of Yr 10 and 11 students are urged to encourage their child to work hard. An invitation to apply will be

sent to those students who achieve a C standard or better in all their subjects, along with good results for effort and behav-

iour on their Semester One report. If you would like more information about QATSIF, come along to the open afternoon on

Tuesday, 4th June from 3.45pm or contact Bonny Jones at the school.

Tutorial sessions for Year 11 General maths will be conducted in K003 each Thursday from 3.15pm-4.30pm. Students from any Year 11 General Mathematics class are welcome to attend. There will be a sign-in book to register attendance.

Calling all Year 11 Gen-

eral Maths Students

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