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YASS HIGH SCHOOL W e v a l u e r e s p e c t , r e s p o n s i b i l i t y , s a f e t y a n d l e a r n i n g .

Principal: Linda Langton Deputy Principals: Andrew Facer & Ruth Riach

Pink Day!

Once again Yass High School joined together for an amazing Pink Day,

with over $6,500 raised for the national Breast Cancer Foundation and

the local Can Assist. This is a wonderful effort from the whole Yass

Community with around half of this being raised through the stall in the

main street, and Berinba Public School also raised a significant amount

with their own Pink Day.

Thank you to Ms Bills for her outstanding organisation, Ms Halley-

Barberis and her Hospitality students, the Community class, our very

own Superhero Jess Dunn and all the students and teachers who

participated in such and enthusiastic, inclusive and caring manner.

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Captains Corner

Hi everyone, we hope you’ve all had a great start to Term 4. We have been busy

over the past week filming for our Captain’s Corner intro for assemblies. We can’t

wait to show you all and embarrass ourselves every assembly.

Earlier this week we celebrated Pink Day; it was great to see everyone dressed in

pink. We would like to take the opportunity to thank Miss Bills and her community

classes for organising this event and for everyone digging deep to donate to this

great cause. The day was a huge success!!!!!

Our teacher of the week is Mr. Wilkinson. We would like to thank Mr. Wilkinson for

all his hard work in maintaining the school. He often goes unnoticed, but his work is

very much appreciated by all staff and students. Some of the recent endeavors

include: setting and packing up the exam rooms for Year11 yearly exams and HSC

exams, assisting in moving classrooms, garden maintenance and spending his

holidays at school organising for future projects.

Thank you Mr Wilkinson!

Joke of the week: What did the ground say to the earthquake? You crack me up

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SheLeads Conference

Some of YHS finest young female leaders enjoyed the SheLeads conference at the

University of Canberra on Friday 1st November. The girls participated in workshops

on leadership, finding their voice and the empowerment in speaking up for others.

The event was organised by the ACT YCCA.

Zara Vale wins Human Rights Essay writing competition

Zara Vale was awarded 1st prize in the recent Yass

Human Rights Film Festival competition, with a 1000

word essay about Article 20 of the Charter of Human

Rights – The right to peaceful assembly. The essay

centered on the current political situation in Hong

Kong. Zara was praised by the event organisers for

the high quality of the essay, and was rewarded with

$120.

Students are invited to get thinking about their

entries for next year – organisers are calling for a

short film, poem, essay, or short story on the theme

of human rights.

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Staff Development Days

Staff at Yass High School have participated in 4 x 3 hour professional learning

Twilight Seminars throughout the year on topics such as:

Quality Teaching Rounds Trauma in Adolescents Faculty Programming for New Syllabi Clickview CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) Google Classrooms Literary and Numeracy Progressions ALARM (A Learning And Responding Matrix) Writing in the Middle Audio-visual technology - how to set up and use this at Yass HS PBL (Project Based learning) NESA - Developing Quality Stage 6 Assessments

As a result, teachers are not required to attend the last two Staff Professional

development days at the end of this term (19th and 20th December). The school will

not be operational on these days, although there will be a minimal staff presence in

the front office.

Yass High School - School Spectacular

The students from Yass High who are heading off to Sydney for the School

Spectacular have been working hard learning all the songs, and also raising money

to get themselves there. For some students it will be the first time travelling on trains

and being away from home for such a long time. The chance to perform in such a

professional show, telecast on commercial television, is very special.

The staff and students have been very grateful for the support they have received

from the community in their fundraising efforts. Murrumbateman Mechanical and

Electrical, Clementine Restaurant, Hoyts Belconnen, Yass Valley Council, Aldi,

Woolworths, Trader and Co, Bernadette Collins from the Yass Wellness Centre and

Yass Rotary have all supported us financially. We have run a raffle, and a cake sale

here at school, and next weekend we have a bric-a-brac stall.

We have 24 students going to Spec this year, plus two staff members and we will be

away from Tuesday the 19th of November until Sunday the 24th.

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Murrumbateman Field Days

What a marvellous weekend we had out at the Murrumbateman Field Days! After

setting up all our beautiful displays and new banners it was time to open the show

and get people in and looking. We nearly got blown away on Saturday but there

were many hands to keep the tent firmly in place. Not as lucky were some of our

neighbouring tents, but in true Yass High Spirit our students ran to their aid.

Full credit to our great captains and vice captains who led by example in their flashy

blue blazers, welcoming people in

to our display and distributing

flyers and brochures. Some

sneaky handing out of M&Ms also

helped lure in the young ones.

Thanks to our choir students,

plenty of raffle tickets for School

Spectacular were sold out halfway

through Sunday before the big

drawing of the prizes.

Many people commented on our

beautiful displays which included

work from STEM, textiles, metal

work, woodwork and photos of our talented students. We put on a good show and

thank you to all the students and staff involved.

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What’s Happening in English

With Term 4 well underway and final assessment tasks looming, students are

working diligently on a variety of English projects. Year 7 have been studying how

ideas can be represented in sophisticated ways in visual texts. Their Visual

Representation tasks are due in Week 4. Year 8 (pictured) have been producing

their animation films. The finished products are due in Week 5.

Year 9 are preparing to write their Anime Film

Study essays, and Year 10 are engaged in a

novel study in preparation for their test.

Both tasks for Years 9 & 10 are due in Week

4.

Year 8 Animation

Year 8 students are currently engaged in a

film making unit whereby they are making a

short stop-motion animation film. In addition

to learning about conveying narrative through

film students are developing vital skills in

group work. The unit started off with students

learning about various film making and

production techniques, before forming groups

and developing stories. Most groups are

currently editing the final products. We

cannot wait to see these fantastic films!

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What’s been happening in in Year 8 Textiles?

Year 8 have just finished a rotation and made some awesome cushions. Their brief

was to make a cushion which was inspired by their relationship with the land. They

learn lots of sewing and decorative techniques and to be able to design their own

unique cushion and then make it.

Some inspirations came from the indigenous flag, holidays at the beach, trees,

autumn leaves, rain, clouds, the galaxy and the night sky. Activities done in the

environment were a theme as well such as horse riding, motor bike riding, bull

wrestling and riding in the good old county ute. Students are to be congratulated for

working hard to produce great results.

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Students from top left: Gus Hinds, cushions by Gemma

Phillips, Ashleigh Lane, Jess Field and Arielle Robinson,

Tony Davis and Damon Shoard, Coby Yates, Lucy Petty,

Tana Waine, Taylor Doyle, Lucy O’Sullivan and Katie

Livermore.

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Albury Show

Last week, Show Team attended Albury for the last show of the year. This is a very

large show with schools competing from both Victoria and New South Wales in the

Cattle Judging and Cattle Parading sections.

While our senior students were unsuccessful in qualifying for next year’s Sydney

Royal Easter Show, Damon Shoard came third in the junior cattle parading

competition on the Friday. On the Saturday, the students had the opportunity to see

how the school's steer, Shakespeare, performed in the Hoof and Hook competition

against cattle from other schools. Shakespeare came fourth in the heavy weight

division with the Hook part of the competition occurring this Tuesday. Once

this competition was over the students then said goodbye to Shakespeare and

headed home.

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What’s Happening in Year 10 Textiles

Year 10 Textiles Technology students had an art quilt challenge to design and make

a decorative textile project with the theme of culture. Students researched a culture

and textile techniques particular to that group of people.

Silk painting, indigo dying and hand embroidery were some of the new skills they

learnt. The culture of Japan featured in a number of quilts, where cherry blossoms,

koi fish, street scape of Tokyo, and dragons were motifs.

Students’ family heritage featured in quilts based on Dutch and German aesthetics.

Personal cultures such as life in Australia and horse riding further personalised the

highly individual items. The Year 10 students are to be congratulated on such

wonderful quilts produced with considerable skill.

Katelind Kelley, Jorja Rawson, Anthony Chambers, Rose Lawrence, Emily Fuller, Hannah Makin,

Darcie O’Sullivan. In front Stacey Whyte.

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Tori Wilson – inspired by blue and white

patterns of the Netherlands

Jorja Rawson – inspired by Cherry Blossoms

of Japan

Rose Lawrence made three dimensional

Silk Cherry Blossoms and used fabrics

from Japan

Darcie O’Sullivan featured barrel racing on

her quilt

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Equestrian

Darcie (Year 10) and Lucy (Year 8)

O'Sullivan, recently competed at the

NSW Police and Emergency Services

Equestrian Games in Camden. They

were representing the NSW Police on

behalf of their father who was in the

Police Force. They did really well and

came home with loads of ribbons,

medals and prizes.

Lucy placed 1st in the Junior Division

for 3 Dressage Tests and an 80cm Show Jump. Her highlight of the weekend was

beating all the adults to win the 80cm Eventing. She also won her 2 riding classes in

the Hack Show. Darcie won the Junior Division in 1 Dressage Test and 2nd in the

other. She then came away with 12 medals winning all the Western Youth Classes,

Champion Western Youth Horse and Reserve Champion Western Novice Horse.

This meant she took out Highest Individual Point Score over the whole weekend,

again beating all the adults!!

Last weekend, Keely Owen, Darcie O’Sullivan, Lucy O’Sullivan, Kelaya Bogan,

Charlotte Burke and Maddie Vallender represented Yass High School in the ACT

Sport Equestrian School Championships in Braidwood.

All the students competed

well in their chosen

disciplines in dressage,

show jumping and sporting

events over the 3 days.

Darcie was the Year 10

Champion Point Score,

Keely was runner-up for

Year 9, and Lucy was

runner up for the Year 8

Champion Point Score.

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Stage 4 & 5 Problem of the Fortnight

Stage 4: In this subtraction, the first number has 100 digits and the second

number has 50 digits

What is the sum of the digits in the result?

Stage 5: It takes Nicolai one and a half hours to paint the walls of a room and two hours to paint the ceiling. Elena needs exactly one hour to paint the walls of the same room and one hour to paint the ceiling. If Nicolai and Elana work together, what is the shortest possible time in minutes in which they can paint the walls and the ceiling of the room?

Y Tally:

Congratulations to the following

students receiving the most Y’s

for the fortnight

Year 7: Liam Barlow

Year 8: Hayden Smith

Year 9: Nigel De Silva

Year 10: Tori Wilson

Year 11: Talissa Polsen

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Coming Events

Date Event

Thursday 7th November P & C Meeting 6pm – All Welcome

Monday 11th November Remembrance Day Assembly

Tuesday 12th November Links 2 Learning Girls Laser Tag – Rewards Excursion

Thursday 14th November GRIP Leadership – School Leaders

Friday 15th November Year 12 Formal

Monday 18th November Everybody Wins – Life Ready – Hall 9:00am – 3:20pm

Tuesday 19th – Friday 22nd November School Spectacular - Sydney

Thursday 21st November STEM – Goulburn 8:15am

Tuesday 26th – Wednesday 27th November

Year 9 Peer Support Leader Training – Memorial Hall 9:00am – 3:20pm

Thursday 28th – Friday 29th November HSC Urban Field Study – Sydney 7:30am

Thursday 28th November Junee Licorice Factory – 8:45am

Tuesday 3rd December Year 7 Orientation Day

Click on the school website for the online calendar

Remember assessment tasks dates due are available on school website assessment calendars