5th November, 2015 : Term 4 Week 5

The Orange High School band was invited to perform at this year’s Remembrance Day at Robertson Park. Year 11 student Danni Saunders sang “I am Australian” accompanied by the concert band.

All the students donned a poppy which was hand knitted by Mrs Julie Peck, a long time supporter of the school and the music program. Thank you Mrs Peck for your generous donation and giving up

your time and skill to make the band look great!

Mr Irvine

Principal

David Lloyd

Deputy Principals

Kathleen Maksymczuk (Rel)

Helene Hamilton

Head Teacher Admin

Kylie Winslade (students)

Joanne Cormack (Rel) (staff)

Head Teacher Welfare

Kerrie Chopping

Year 7 Adviser

Cassie Coates

Year 8 Adviser

Alice Bright

Year 9 Adviser

Sophie Healey

Year 10 Adviser

Sarah Townsend

Year 11 Advisers

Taara Wilson

Aaron Routh

Year 12 Adviser

Daniels Wait

Careers Adviser

Glen Pearson

School Counsellors

Susanna Brown

Gai Torshavin

Sport Co-ordinators

Anthony Wharton

Tegan Dray

Student Representative

Council Leader

Peita Mages

Congratulations to Jemma Pilossof from Year 12 on the award of the Victor Chang Science Medalion. The award is recognition of Jemma’s high level talent and application in all of her science subjects. Jemma will have the award presented at a special ceremony next week. Part of the award is a tour of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, a state of the art high level scientific research laboratory.

This week our school hosted sports leaders from other schools across the district as part of the 2015 Premiers Sporting Challenge. Students rotated through a wide range of sports to allow the further refinement of their sports leadership skills. The day was incredibly smooth and positive.

Goods news this week that the tender for the much anticipated and planned for rebuild of the schools’ Basketball Courts has been signed. The successful tenderer, local firm L-Don Sports will begin work in the near future and have the job finished by mid to late February ensuring we have state of the art multi-purpose courts with all the bells and whistles. Students should be playing tennis, basketball, netball and volleyball on the new courts at the start of the 2016 school year. This project has been a long time in the fundraising and planning phases and it is exciting to see all the work finally come to fruition. I would like to commend the many parents who have made donations and the P&C who together have collective raised most of the money required. This facility once complete will be an asset for many years to come. Pictured below are the courts in their existing dilapidated condition.

David Lloyd Principal

On Tuesday the 10th of November, twenty year eight and nine Premier Sporting Challenge students were involved in the ‘Leading with Action’ workshops. A variety of development officers travelled to OHS to educate, inform and upskill our students in building leadership skills, running a coaching session, designing modified drills and designing lesson plans. The sports that were offered on the day were; football, rugby union, rugby league, tennis, netball, touch football, cricket, softball and sailing. The enthusiasm and involvement from all students involved was exceptional. They are all to be commended on the respect they showed to the officers and visiting staff members, their engagement and participation, and their inviting nature as they welcomed fellow students from surrounding schools to OHS. The next stage of this program takes part in early 2016, and involves our newly skilled and trained Premier’s Sporting Challenge team to teach, guide and educate younger students from surrounding primary schools. This will be a great opportunity for our students to put their newly developed skills into practise and to experience the role of a coach.

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A kindly reminder?

ASSESSMENT TASKS DUE WEEK 7 Term 4 - 16TH Nov to 20th Nov 2015

Year 7 English (speaking task - yarn up of own myth)

Year 8 ----------

Year 9 Dance (performance Jazz/Hip Hop), Visual Arts (Body of work and diary)

Year 10 Visual Arts (body of work and diary, progressive mark)

Year 11/12 Engineering St (practical), Food Tech (Case study), Industrial Tech Metal & Eng (Folio & project), Japanese Beginners

(speaking, reading, listening, writing), Maths General 1 & 2 (in class test)

If you have outstanding school fees, could you please pay them before the

end of this month. You can pay by cheque, eftpos or cash - you can pay

over the phone, online or at the school office.

If you require any financial assistance with school fees please contact our

Head Teacher Welfare, Mrs Kerrie Chopping