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Principal’s Message

Volume 21—21 December

2018

Special points of inter-

est:

Futsal Achievement

All Schools Athletics

Achievement

Individual Sporting

Achievements

Lost property


Telephone: 96344199 Facsimile: 9899 6527 Email: [email protected] Website: www.castlehill-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

Wonderful HSC Results I am so thrilled and proud to inform you of the HSC results of our 2018 HSC class. They were magnificent. And they were so well-deserved. Placed 83rd in the state – we’re maintaining that top 100 status – we are the 7th ranked comprehensive school in NSW. This is a mighty achievement. A decade ago we had aspirations for this and slowly, slowly it has been realised. The following snapshot while not a detailed analysis, will give you a sense of the achievement: Known as “Top Achievers”, we had three students placed in the state:

Josh Henderson 4th in French Beginners, Rachel Hogan 9th in PDHPE and Melvern Kurniawan 9th in Business Studies. It should be noted that Melvern was in Year 11 when he completed this exam. Additionally, Har-rison Inshaw was placed 11th in the state with his personal interest pro-ject (PIP) in Society and Culture.

The school gained 224 “Distinguished Achiever” awards (Band 6 re-sults)

There were five All Rounders which means these students gained band 6 in 10 units or more : Marie Echevarria, Joshua Henderson, Rachel Ho-gan, Thomas O’Reilly, Sarah Rosolen

State vs school mean greater than 1.0 Ancient History, Business Studies, Chemistry, CFS, Dance, Design & Technology, Drama, Engi-neering Studies, English Standard, ESL, Geography, Industrial Technol-ogy, IPT, Legal Studies, Mathematics General, Mathematics 2 unit, Mathematics Extension 2, Music Extension, PDHPE, Senior Science, Society and Culture, Software Design, Textiles and Design, French Be-ginners, Hospitality, Entertainment

State vs school mean greater than 2.0 Ancient History, Business Studies, Chemistry, CFS, Dance, Design & Technology, Drama, Engi-neering Studies, English Standard, ESL, Geography, IPT, Legal Studies, Mathematics General, Mathematics 2 unit, Mathematics Extension 2, PDHPE, Senior Science, Society and Culture, Software Design, Textiles and Design, French Beginners, Hospitality, Entertainment

Subjects above the state in band 6: Ancient History, Business Stud-

ies, Chemistry, D&T, Drama, Engineering studies, English Advanced, ESL, English Extension 1, IPT, Legal studies, Mathematics General, Mathematics Extension 2, Modern History, Music 2, Music Ext, PDHPE, Senior Science, Society and Culture, Software Design and Develop-ment, Textiles, French Beginners, French Continuers.

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Particular congratulations go to:

Textiles & Design 85% gained a band 6 or 5, and had a school versus state mean in double figures. This course hasn’t been run in several years so it’s a great result.

English Advanced had a greater percentage of band 6 compared to the state and this is the first time in a long time.

Legal Studies had 78% at band 6 or 5, maintaining this excellent standard over a number of years.

IPT had 70% with a band 6 or 5 and a school versus state mean in double figures – again continuing a trend of excellence over a number of years

Music 2 - 91% (4 students) gained a band 6 or 5 – an extraordinary result Music Ext 1 had 100% 94 students) in E4 – again, an extraordinary result French Continuers and Beginners achieved both band 6 and 5 well above the state.

The biggest difference in band 6 compared with the state – Business Studies, IPT, Le-gal studies, Mathematics General, Music Ext, PDHPE, Senior Science, Society and Culture, Software Design and Development, Textiles, French Beginners, French Continuers

The dux with the highest ATAR was Marie Echevarria with 99.7

We should all be very proud.

Josh Atkinson – what an athlete and what a result Josh Atkinson in year 9 recently attended the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships held in Cairns. He won the 400m and 800m under 16years event making him the fastest boy in Aus-tralia for his age. This is a wonderful achievement and we are so proud. We look forward to watching Josh’s athletics career as he grows. Congratulations Josh.

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Farewell Donna Wood

We farewell someone who has dedicated her career to this school - for 3 decades, no less. She is the Head Teacher Languages, Donna Wood who will retire at the end if the term. Donna is the head of one of the few languages faculties in the state. Sadly and unbe-lievably, languages are dying in schools across the state and the nation - but not at CHHS. I’m so proud that this school continues to offer French and Japa-nese to stage 4, 5 and 6 students delivering a quality, rigorous, exciting curriculum that enriches student lives and challenges their minds. And this year Josh Hen-derson gained 4

th in the state in French Beginners in

Illone Windrim’s French Beginner course. How won-derful is that. Donna has led this faculty with passion and energy. This is her legacy to us. Our job after she has gone is to protect that legacy. She is thanked for her service to public education, fine teaching and her commitment. We will certainly miss her. She is such an institution here it will be hard to imagine life at CHHS without her. I know she will find quality time to spend with her mother, her grandson, Woody, husband Rod, travel-ling and finding the joie de vie in all that she does.

We have had a terrific end to the year and a most productive, eventful year in general. I do wish you all well and hope that the holiday sea-son allows for the 3Rs : rest, reading and recreation. I certainly plan for this with my family. I’m also look-ing forward to some quiet, think time. I also desper-ately need to catch up on so many books. Can’t

Season’s Greetings

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Congratulations to the students who attended the Sydney West Futsal tourna-ment that was played at Penrith Sports Indoor Centre. The student’s behav-iour and attitude was outstanding. The boys and girls teams worked well to-

gether and supported each other throughout the tournament.

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Congratulations to Josh Atkinson who recently competed at the National All Schools Athletics Championships. Josh competed in the 400m and 800m

events at the championships. Josh finished 1st in the 400m and 800m events. Congratulations to Josh on this fantastic achievement.

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Year 7&8 Western Sydney Wanderers Football Coaching Sessions

On Thursday 6th December the Western Sydney Wanderers Development Officers completed a football coaching day for Year 7 and Year 8 students. The students were involved in a range of football skill drills in the areas of dribbling, passing, tackling and shooting. After completing the skill drills the students then participated in an active and competitive game of football. The Development Officers from the Western Sydney Wanderers all commented how well be-haved and self-motivated the students were when they participated in the different football based activities. The following comments regarding the Western Sydney Wanders coaching sessions are from some of the Year 7 students who participated in the coaching sessions.

“It was a great experience and gave a general and informative overview of Soccer” Abhay “I was surprised as to how much I enjoyed the soccer activity. I am not a big Soccer fan but they made it fun for everyone, even me” Brianna “It was a fun activity and taught me a lot” Daniel “I really enjoyed it. I usually like doing sport and it was really fun having training sessions with people from the Wanderers” Cara “The Western Sydney Wanderers clinic was a blast. I enjoyed it a lot since I love soccer” Shayan “It was a great experience participating in the soccer training session, they made soccer fun” Natasha “The training session was really enjoyable and taught me a lot of skills. I hope to do it again” Evie “The training was really enjoyable. They showed us a range of skills that we got to take part in. We all had a lot of fun as a class and learnt skills in different ways” Esha

Lewis Williams

PDHPE

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Congratulations to following students who were age champions at our school carnivals in 2018. Age Champions

Swimming 12yrs Sienna Covington, Shalin Dissanayake, 13yrs Kanako Delaney, Zane Capovilla 14yrs Jacinta Hogan, Aiden Hawron 15yrs Trinity Loader, Alex Weeks 16yrs Olivia Burns, Curtis Kraus 17yrs+ Jayme Cline, Simone Barlaam

X-Country U12yrs Josh McCahery, Libby Morris

U13yrs Sandip Srini, Catherine Richter

U14yrs Zac Bloem, Kayla Wong

U15yrs Josh Atkinson, Sidney Burrell

U16yrs Tim Organ, Gabrielle Gedny

U17yrs Charlie Rose, Georgia Garnett

U18yrs Garrett Swearingen, Carley Thomas

Athletics 12yrs Keya Ramaswamy, Hamish Bevan 13yrs Aleshia Atkinson, Spencer Ahenkan 14yrs Kayla Wong, Christos Lyberopoulos 15yrs Sidney Burrell, Joshua Atkinson 16yrs Sally Shokry, Bryon King/ Tim Organ 17yrs Carley Thomas, Garrett Swearingen

Swimming Carnival 2019 The school swimming carnival will take place on the 11th of February 2019 at Auburn Swim-ming Pool. The students will be required to be at school at 8am to get their name marked off by their Pastoral Care teacher.

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Here is just some of the items we have in the Administration Office Lost Proper-ty.

If you recognise any of this, please come and collect it, or it will be donated as at end of day Wednesday 19 December, 2018.

A number of school jackets are here as well with

no names on it to return, so a timely re-minder to

put your names in your clothing over the holidays.

LOST PROPERTY

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Monday 28 January Australia Day Holiday Tuesday 29th January Staff Development Day Wednesday 30th January Year 7, 11 and 12 Return Thursday 31st January Year 8, 9 and 10 Return Friday 1st February

Monday 11th February Swimming Carnival (Auburn) Tuesday 12th February Music Presentation Wednesday 13th February Year 11 Meeting (NESA check assessment booklet) Thursday 14th February School Photos Yr 7, 8 & 12 Friday 15th February School Photos Yr 9, 10 & 11

Monday 4th February Tuesday 5th February HSC High Achievers Assembly Wednesday 6th February Year 7 Camp—Tea Gardens Conviction Group Review meeting 2pm Thursday 7th February Year 7 Camp—Tea Gardens Friday 8th February Year 7 Camp—Tea Gardens

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