BNSHS Newsletter 11th May 2022

From the Principal's office

Thank you to the parents who attended the Student Progress Conferences in our hall on April 28^th to meet with teachers and discuss term 1 progress.  Parents/carers are able to contact teachers at any time to discuss progress but it is a good opportunity at the Progress Conferences to meet with a number of teachers at once to work together to support our students.

NAPLAN begins this week for Year 7 and 9 students.  NAPLAN testing will be conducted online using school devices and students will be working in their classes to complete the suite of NAPLAN tests over a number of days.  Reading, Writing, Grammar and Spelling and Numeracy will be tested. 

Last week we conducted a 3 day Year 7 camp to Garapine in Gympie.  Congratulations to all the students who attended and a big thank you to the Mrs Gray for her organisation of the camp and to our teachers Mr Quinn, Mr Hogan, Mrs Foskett, Ms Knight and Mrs Hearn for attending and working with the students.  The students returned buzzing with excitement and having made some new friends.

Last week we had our Reach for the Sky Awards recognising the excellent behaviour and effort of students in Term 1.  I would like to congratulate all those who achieved a Bronze, Silver or Gold award.  Well done.

Last week also we began our GP in Schools program.  I would like to welcome the clinic staff to our school.  They will be taking student appointments each Tuesday and bookings can be made through our school website, by emailing GP@bundabergnorthshs.eq.edu.au or by visiting the G Block student counter.

Finally, I want to notify you of the concerns with students having access to vapes at school.  Vaping has been in the news of late and causing nationwide concern for young people.  We have had several incidents with students bringing and using vapes at school.  Vapes are not permitted to be brought to or used on school grounds.  This is detailed in the Student Code of Conduct.  Students will be given consequences if vapes are brought to or used at school.  I ask that parents/carers discuss this with their children so that we can work together to support the health and wellbeing of our students.  I also encourage students to let us know if they see or know of vaping occurring so that we can best support our students.

Robyn Kent, Principal

Winter uniform warmers

As the weather turns cooler, parents begin to ask us about winter uniform options for their student.  This year we have added some new winter options to our school uniform and these can be purchased from SHAWLINE EMBROIDERY, 17 Walker Street, Bundaberg - Ph: 41528139.

There is a new jumper/sloppy joe, a zip-up jacket, track pants, and a bucket hat, all of which carry the approved Bundaberg North State High School logo.  

Friday 5 registration - Term 3

Friday 5 - Students remaining at school until 3pm Term 3, 2022

The Watson Report

Earlier in the term, I spoke with students on a Teams Parade about organising their weekly study planner. Now in week 4 students should have set up their weekly study plan to complete homework, assessments and revise work. It is important for students to have a study routine and employ different study skills for different subjects and tasks. There are many different ways for students to ‘study’. Please see the list below. If students need support to set up a weekly study routine, please contact their RAS Coordinator.

GOTCHA UPDATE

Exciting news…  new pink Gotchas from today! The pink Gotchas are special Gotchas given out by school leaders. They will be recognising students who follow the school values of respect, responsibility and safety. When students receive a pink Gotcha, it can be handed in with other Gotcha to their RAS Head of Department, but will be added to a special Parade draw for the end of term.

Hot chocolates are coming!

Starting next week students can ‘cash in’ 30 Gotchas in exchange for a hot chocolate voucher (see photo). Students take their voucher to the tuckshop to receive a free hot chocolate. Yum!

Available times: Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday 8am – 8:30am.

Mrs Watson, Deputy Principal

Year 7 camp

On Wednesday 4^th May an intrepid group of Year 7 students and a group of nervous teachers set off on a grand adventure – our first year 7 camp!

We had a fabulous two nights exploring the Garapine campsite, building and racing billy karts, climbing a stack of crates, kayaking the Mary River and practising survival skills with shelter building, fire making and damper cooking. We were certainly tired after all these adventures, especially with all the mountain hiking between activities.

Camp tested our resilience, took us out of our comfort zones and forged new friendships and on the third day we loaded up the buses and trekked home, tired but happy with lots of new memories.

Some of the students' favourite moments - in their words:

• Getting to know others and what they like
• The best thing about camp was going kayaking and spending time with my friends.
• We got to learn new things
• Mrs Hearn’s friend the stick insect
• Seeing a snake outside the bunkhouse and a possum at the mess hall
• Crate stack!

Thank you to our school and amazing P&C for their support to generously subsidise the cost of camp so that so many students could participate.

We are already excitedly planning for 2023!

Mrs Gray, Head of Department

Year 7 camp

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CQU Schools Business Challenge 2022

On Tuesday evening 26^th April, Year 12 Business students Byron, Vanessa, Jake and Shae represented our school at the annual CQU Business Challenge held out at the Bundaberg campus. Whilst BNSHS did not win, we placed 3^rd in the competition and our team did us proud with their enthusiasm, presentation and teamwork. Well done students and thank you to CQU for continuing to host such a worthwhile competition for Business students in the district. We look forward to participating in it each and every year.

Keri Jensen, Year 12 Business Teacher

2022 Cross Country

The 2022 Cross Country was held on Wednesday 20^th April. Around 70 students battled either the 3km, 4km or 6km circuit. The open course provided a great spectacle as the runners made their way through variety of terrain around the challenging circuit.  With house pride on the line, many athletes pushed themselves to the limit in order to complete their race, while others took the more social approach, but still gained valuable house points.

 As a stepping stone to the District Cross Country, many competitors returned to the course with some retaining their age champion medal, Paige, Liam and Angus. The race also threw up a few surprise results for age-champions. Well done to all age champs

 The 2022 House points were very close, emphasising how much ‘team spirit’ and ‘having a go’ can really make a difference! CONGRATULATIONS to MONDURAN House who were triumphant on the day.

Mr Thatcher, Sports Coordinator

AGE CHAMPIONS

HOUSE POINTS

•  1^ST  MONDURAN 144
•  2^ND TIRROAN 124
•  3^RD  WALLA 123
•  4^TH  MABBRO 41

Year 11 Tourism excursion

On Wednesday, 4 May the two year 11 Tourism classes ventured off to Moore Park Beach.  The aim of the excursion was for students to look at Moore Park Beach through the eyes of a tourist.  The students were taken to the park beside the old Surf Club and told to walk around the area (safely), take photos and experience what it is like for people who go there as tourists.  The second part to the excursion was that the students will now have to write an assignment on ways to improve tourism for Moore Park Beach.  They are able to either propose a new tourism venture (permanent structure), tourist attraction or tourism idea for the area.  Students in the past have made suggestions such as Stand up paddle board hire business or remodelling the surf club to include a café.  It will be interesting to see what this group of students come up with.  The Bundaberg Tourist Information Centre have said they would be keen to read our most interesting suggestions.  Mrs Richardt and I look forward to reading these reports.  A most enjoyable time was had by all as Moore Park is a very relaxing place to visit.  I personally would encourage you to go and have a look if you haven’t been before.

Mrs Burrell, Toursim teacher

ZONTA

On Tuesday 3rd May, the ZONTA club of Bundaberg held their Annual General Meeting and Business Dinner Meeting held at Rowers on the River. ZONTA international is a leading global organisation empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy. ZONTA advocates against gender inequality and are committed to achieve a world free of violence against women. The ZONTA club of Bundaberg are involved in numerous global projects and I was extremely grateful to witness the incredible work of the club behind the scenes. ZONTA offers many awards and scholarships globally to recognise women in service and advocacy, including the Young Women in Public Affairs Award. The criteria for the award includes active commitment to volunteerism in leadership and subsequent achievements and knowledge and support of Zonta International's mission. Upon meeting the wonderful team of ZONTA Bundaberg, I had received the great privilege of being awarded the Young Women in Public Affairs award, presented by ZONTA Bundaberg president, Le-Anne Allan. I look forward to keeping in contact with the club as a potential member for the 2022 year and beyond.

Vanessa Van Rooijen, 

Planeteers celebrate composting week

May 1^st to May 7^th is International Composting Awareness Week. The North High Planeteers decided to invest some money in starting up some compost bins at our school. We have placed two compost bins beside the rainforest memorial garden for food scraps and garden waste in our school. Look out for the green lidded compost caddies in student kitchens in the coming weeks for students to use in cooking lessons. The amazing tuckshop crew are collecting their compostable scraps for us too. Disposing of compostable waste in compost bins instead of general waste bins means less going into landfill, and the scraps eventually break down into nutrient rich compost that can be used on our gardens. It's not too late to start your own compost bin at home too. Help us to reduce landfill and recycle our food and garden waste into something useful!

Mrs Roberts, Planeteers Coordinator

Retail Immerse Day

Amber Lutter of Bundaberg Jobs Commitment, an initiative of the Bundaberg Regional Council, initiated the inaugural Retail Immerse Day for Bundaberg Schools. Four local schools were represented including Bundaberg North and Bundaberg State High School along with Kepnock and ISIS District State High. 60 students in total attended and participated in 5 different retail experiences such as careers in retail, visual merchandising, resume writing, customer service and the art of selling. 

Mrs Alisha Prince,  VET Coordinator/ Work Experience / Industry Liaison Officer  

International Opportunity

Japan’s Hakuo High School Students are Coming this Year  

It has now been confirmed that a group of 20 students aged 14-17 years old will be coming from Japan during the fortnight 27^th July – 8^th August 2022.  They will spend 5 days in our school, 3 days at CQU and a day trip to Isis’ Snakes Down Under to cuddle a snake and take a photo with a koala. It will be good to have the international friendship after not being able to do so over the past two years. Our students may be involved as host families or school buddies; be part of classes with Japanese students in attendance. It is all part of the experience for both our North High and the Japanese school students.

We’ve had a good initial response to our request for host families but more are needed. “Families” may be from students at this school or from the wider community who would like to participate. Perhaps there is someone that you know, extended family or friends, who has a spare bed and would be good at hosting an international student for the fortnight. Please note that host families will receive a small payment for hosting students and are responsible for their food and transport to school.

It is planned for this to be an annual event so if you are unavailable this year but would like to be considered as a host family, for future events, please let us know so that you may be added to our registry of host families.

We will select families by:

1. Homestay Family application form
2. Blue card check (school can organise a card at no cost to you – needs to be done a.s.a.p.)
3. House inspection (guests need to have their own bed but may be sharing a room)
4. Matching students with families eg. interests, non-allergies to pets ..

To express your interest or to proceed further with application forms, please email krayn24@eq.edu.au or phone 41300315

Katrine Rayner

HOD Humanities/LOTE/International Relations

Katrine Rayner, HOD Humanities/LOTE/International Relations

GP bookings now open!

Appointments are now available to visit the GP each Tuesday at North High.  Students can make bookings by scanning the QR code above, which takes them to the school webpage, where they click on the MAKE A BOOKING box.  Alternatively appointments can be made simply by emailing GP@bundabergnorthshs.eq.edu.au.  

Bookings are completely confidential, as are all emails sent to this address.  So, if you would like to provide feedback you can also do this by emailing GP@bundabergnorthshs.eq.edu.au

Discover your path

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Hospitality School Based Traineeships (Zarraffa’s Coffee – Bundaberg

Zarraffa’s are committed to their product, service, freshness, convenience and genuine love of coffee that makes their Zarraffa’s experience more than just a cup of coffee.  To join the Zarraffa’s family they look for candidates that are confident, well-spoken, outgoing, not afraid of hard work and good fun! If this sounds like you then please apply.

Days available: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday

This is a School Based Traineeship. To be considered, you must be currently enrolled in Year 10, 11 or 12 for 2022.

White Card Course – Bundaberg TAFE Campus

The QLD White Card course is a mandatory requirement for anyone who wants to work in the construction industry. This course focuses on how to keep yourself and others safe when working on a construction site.

Please get them to apply as below.

1.       Go www.tafeapply.com
2.       Enter code TQEC22PWS
3.       Fill in application form, select ‘Construction Safety White Card’ as the course and ‘Bundaberg’ as the campus

Once form is submitted & approved by school, students can come to campus to organise the final steps of enrolment.  They will need to have their 3 x ID at the time of enrolling and payment of $65 to the TAFE directly.  We will close this class by 13^th May unless class is full earlier.

If you are needing more information please

Contact- Alisha Prince VET Coordinator for Information- aprin52@eq.edu.au

IS YOUR STUDENT INTERESTED IN A CAREER IN THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE?

All students are welcome to attend a Question-and-Answer session with representatives from the Australian Defence Force.  Student should go to G4 at big lunch/second break from 1.10pm - 1.40pm on Tuesday, 17^th of May.

Students are given the opportunity to speak to the ADF guest speakers and ask questions regarding a career in the Army, Navy and Air Force. 

See you there! 

Students learn 'responsible service'

Senior Hospitality students participated in training this week to complete units for the Responsible Service of Alcohol and Responsible Gaming Services. The course was facilitated by a trainer from Blueprint Career Development. 

Mrs Harney, Early Childhood, Hospitality, Lifestyle Technology Teacher

Alliance visits North High

James May from Alliance Airlines spoke to interested students during a lunch time career information session. The presentation introduced Bundaberg North High students to the many careers in the aircraft industry including maintenance and repair. 

Alliance Airlines are in the process of constructing an aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility at Rockhampton Airport for a fleet of almost 80 aircraft. There will be local jobs and apprenticeships from this new facility starting at the end of this year and into 2023. 

We look forward to the next visit. 

Miss Helen Coulton, Guidance Officer

From the Sports desk

A huge congratulations to Year 12 student Ruby who was selected into the 16-19yrs Girls Football Queensland team. This is an awesome achievement and one which Ruby thoroughly deserves. Ruby will now head to the National Championships in Canberra during September.

We wish her all the very best.

P&C News

Our tuckshop is looking for volunteers. Please email Jacky our convenor if you are able to offer any help jburt144@eq.edu.au 

We are always looking for new Committee members. The P&C meets once each month to discuss matters of concern to the school and the school community.  If you would like to connect to the P&C but are not able to attend meetings in person, we are happy to have you join the meeting via Teams or phone.  Meetings are held on the second Thursday of every month in the conference room in A Block and commence at 6:00pm.  You will find meeting dates on the school websites event calendar. 

www.facebook.com/bundabergnorthhighpandc

pandc@bundabergnorthshs.eq.edu.au

Mrs Shelley Hansen, P&C President 

Pathway to Medicine

Friendly reminder for any students who are interested in studying Medicine have until the 17^th May 2022 to lodge their application for the UCAT ANZ. 

This is an entry requirement for the CQU Bachelor of Medical Science (Pathway to Medicine) and other universities. 

Support for families & community

Important dates