Aldridge State High School - Aldridge Newsletters - Edition 08

Aldridge Newsletters - Edition 08 - 21 May 2008

From the Principal

Thought about joining the P&C?

How about doing volunteer work at the tuckshop?

Perhaps being available for three or four times a year to help prepare for set functions?

Great schools and excellent education is built on relationships.

Our P&C needs to revitalise after the loss of some long term members - with the hall finally being paid off and their children finishing Year 12.

Our P&C allows members to know more about what is happening at school, it allows a say in the direction in P&C funds and a chance to be involved in decision making about school policy and direction.

Meetings are on the second Tuesday of each month - next meeting being Tuesday, 10 June 2008. Meetings are held in the Administration Block starting at 7.00 pm and finishing at or before 9.00 pm.

The P&C and Tuckshop provide a great way to be involved with our school and the community without the big investment in time. Please give it some thought.

Please phone the school on 4120 8444 and ask for Mr Ed Manley and I will direct you to the right folk and answer any questions.

Show Some Respect!

‘Kids have no respect for anything these days.”

This appears to be a common lament from many adults, but it is not true.

Children and young people may not automatically respect their elders as they once did, however, the notion of respect is still the basis of civil behaviour. Those children and young people who act respectfully toward others have a huge advantage over their peers in terms of social acceptance and cooperative work skills.

Showing respect means that child protects the basic human rights of others to safety and fair treatment. The most basic way to show respect for others is by the use of good manners. In fact, manners are ‘respect in action.’

The use of good manners is the most important social skill that adults can teach children. Manners help children navigate effectively through their social world and also help them influence others.

Good manners begins with the use of ‘Please’, ‘Thank you’ and calling people by name. It extends to an array of social conventions, including: how to eat in public, how to win and lose gracefully and how to answer a telephone call.

Sometimes adults need to insist that children treat us in respectful ways. This means that we don’t respond to disrespectful treatment. So if a child yells at his mother to get some food, a wise parent would remind that child that cooperation only comes with respectful treatment. We need to get across to children that treating others like doormats is not an appropriate way to get their needs met.

Respect also needs to extend to the treatment of the environment. It is reasonable to expect children to treat their home, their neighbourhood, their school and the natural environment in ways that ensures that they are protected and preserved.

Self-respect is also important for children. When they treat themselves respectfully they tend to be more careful about how they allow others to behave towards them as well as being mindful of how they treat their minds and bodies.

Respect when shown for others, self and the environment is the basic value for all successful interactions in a civil society. It is definitely a value that parents should preach and live by, and a value that children should practice.

What is Your Child Like?

Does your child show respect?

Does He/She:

1. Generally use manners when he/she interacts with others?

Yes—2 No—0

2. Let others finish what they have to say rather than interrupt?

Yes—2 No—0

3. Leave toys and things around the house rather than respect the rights of others?

Yes—2 No—0

4. Alter his/her behaviour when around older people or those having difficulty or ill-health?

Yes—2 No—0

5. Focus on his/her own needs at all times at the expense of the needs of others?

Yes—0 No—2

SCORE:

10 Shows healthy respect for himself/herself and others.

6-8 Maybe not be aware of what is expected at all times.

0-4 Very self-aware but may need to learn a little about respectful treatment of others.

Try This . . .

PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE

To ensure your children develop social conventions and understand the notion of respectful treatment:

1. Insist that they use ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ and variations of these terms in all family interactions.

2. Practise communicating with each other using eye contact. The notion of eye contact ensures openness and understanding and leads to respectful treatment.

3. Discuss the ways that people should be treated at home and at school. Help children identify and elaborate on respectful behaviour and what is means to them.

4. Establish some simple rules with your children to ensure that they, you and your home are treated respectfully.

Quote

‘Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners no matter what fork you use.’ Emily Post

SRC Report

Thanks to all the new and old members who showed up to our meeting. If you are interested in any of these Clubs just see the relevant person for more details.

BEN FELDMAN

Rostrum Public Speaking

Last Tuesday night Stefanie Wical and Tayla McGrath competed in the Local Rostrum Public Speaking competition. Stefanie had to speak for eight minutes and as a Junior Tayla had to speak for six minutes. Both speakers represented their school well and were very entertaining. Tayla won the Junior competition and went on to take out second place in the Wide Bay Regional competition.

ANTHONY GOTT

Chess

On Thursday last week a group of boys competed in the second round of the Wide Bay South Chess Competition. In the High school league we had two teams and Aldridge 3 made up of Ben Sama, Paul Hoggard, Alex Stephensen and Darcy Kuilboer came third. There is also a Premier league and we qualified to have two teams in the premier league. Aldridge 1 made up of Nathanael Tomlinson, Lyall McDonald, Duncan Barber-Sperling and Thomas Feldman won the Premier League and will now go on to represent us at the Wide Bay Final. In the individual placings the boys also took out 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Premier League—1st Nathanael Tomlinson, 2nd Thomas Feldman, 3rd Lyall McDonald, 5th Duncan Barber- Sperling, 7th Mitchell Emery, 17th Sam Nagel, 25th Alex Morrison-Craig, 32nd Perry Nelson.

High School League—3rd Paul Hoggard, 5th Myles Hinkley, 15th Ben Sama, 20th Darcy Kuilboer, 25th Alex Stephensen.

THOMAS FELDMAN

Junior Council

On ANZAC day as well as marching in the parade the Aldridge Junior Council helped out the RSL Ladies Auxillary. Every year these ladies host a luncheon at the town hall for 120 Returned Service Men. The ladies are now finding it a lot harder to do this as they get older and as one lady pointed out, their husbands who used to do the washing up, have all passed away. We helped set up, serve and wash up afterwards. It was a great experience to work with these ladies and also make contact with the Returned Services people who came to the lunch. The students were Courtney, Alec, Rowan, Brooke and Jackie.

JACKIE WHITAKER

Apex Debating

Aldridge debating teams have been competing in the APEX debating competition. They compete in teams of three with a sub and each student has to speak for six minutes. APEX is a knockout competition which means you have to win to stay in the competition. Our first team debated twice and did an exceptional job both times. They are Aldridge 2 Alec Callja, Connor Jacobsen, Brodie Dombrow and Kye Laycock. Our second team which are all Year 8’s and were competing against Year 10’s also did really well to get to the third round. They are Mikayla Gimson, Claire Gourley, Mitchell Dodd and Kyle McGrath. Our last team competed in the local final last week and are now the Maryborough Hervey Bay winners. They then competed against Isis High for the Wide Bay Championship and won that as well. They are now set to take on Lockyer Valley in Nambour next week. They are Aldridge 1 Tayla McGrath, Georgina Gott, Amanda Milzewski and Rachael Vandersteen.

ANTHONY GOTT

Robotics

The next Robotics Competition is coming up on Friday, 13 June in Rockhampton. Any one interested in participating should see Mr Ethell for details. Many prizes can be won for you and the your school.

DAVID PIERSON AND CLAYTON FORKNALL

HPV

At the moment it looks like we have six teams in the Maryborough Technology Challenge and at least three teams are attempting to build their own bikes. Some teams are already training and now that the specifications are up on the web site things are starting to move. A big thank you to Ferg who is helping out two of our teams.

CAMERON POPPI AND TRENT SENGSTOCK

Zenith

We are still very interested in Sponsors for our pages in the magazine. Please contact Ms Keim if you have any ideas or contacts. We also will be running a cover competition soon so watch out for that if you are a graphic artist or just an artist.

GEORGINA GOTT

Photography

We are looking at putting some of our students work in the show. We are still looking for more photographers, so if you are interested see myself or Mrs Harris

REBECCA BRADDOCK

Fraser District Cross Country

On Wednesday 07 May, 60 students from Aldridge State High School travelled to Hervey Bay Senior College to compete in the Fraser District Cross Country carnival.

The only disappointing thing about the day was the fact we had NO girls representing Aldridge in the 14 years division. Every other age group was well represented and we had some fantastic individual results.

They are as follows:

14 Years boys

Dylan Newbery - AGE CHAMPION

15 Years boys

Cameron Poppi - AGE CHAMPION

16 Years girls

Julia McNeilly - AGE CHAMPION

17 Years boys

Daniel Poppi - AGE CHAMPION

Jared Gaskell - DISTRICT TEAM

17 Years girls

Melissa Walker - AGE CHAMPION

Kayla Thomsen - DISTRICT TEAM

Kerri Mowat - DISTRICT TEAM

19 Years boys

Bryan McKenna - DISTRICT TEAM

The above students will compete at the Wide Bay Cross Country in Gin Gin on Tuesday 27May. Congratulations and good luck!

Congratulations to all students who attended and participated in the Aldridge colours. Effort and behaviour was very good.

JIM MCKEE

Sportsmaster

Semester 1 Meritorious Certificate Awardees

Year 8

Jenna Anderson, Kerrod Appleyard, Jessica Bates, Alex Beatty, Shenae Bellert, Jonathan Bennett, Kiah Bennetts-Swinburne, Tyler Biggs, Ryley Blackman, Codie Boot, Mallory Booth, Rebecca Braddock, Matthew Brain, Shaun Brake, Alek Calleja, Luke Carter, Ricki-Lee Chapman, Liam Charlton, Summer Cunningham, Melissa Currey, Steven D’Amico, Mitchell Dodd, Alexander Edwards, Curtis Edwards, Rebecca Eisel, Hayden Emery, James Ethell, Tegan Ferris AKA Donaldson, Kirsty Frehmann, Laura Gatenby, Kandi-Lee Gees, Patricia Gerardo, Mikayla Gimson, Dana Hand, Bianca Harris, Morgan Harris, Ashleigh Harvey, Casey Hayes, Scott Hodgetts, Paul Hoggard, Jamie Holz, Rylee Hough, Lachlan Houston, Kurt Howard, Danniell Howell, Lauren Iversen, Hannah Jamieson, Joshua Jarius, Nathan Jorgensen, Brendan Kildey, Sarah Kroning, Rachael Larner, Zoe Lawrence, Madison Linderberg, Perri Lohrisch, Sara Lowe, Montana Lowrey-Palmer, Tyler Luff, Kyle McGrath, Jessica Mollee, Amy O’Brien, Erica Patrick, Justis Peters, Zoe Peters, Bradley Phersson, Caitlyn Polzin, Tristan Prendergast, Nicholas Quinn-Ward, Samantha Rabbitts, Jack Reinikka, Chelsea Relton, Louise Richmond, Jacinta Riley, Tessa Robertson, Sacha Romanov, Mitchell Sama, Jay Scriven, Mitchell Seefuss, Brodie Smith, Tabetha Smith, Morgan Stevenson, Amy Thompson, Brodie Tidy, Sherry Wain, Ashleigh Walker, Annie Ward, Emily Ward, Luke Wardell, Briana Watterson, Emily Wheeler, Becky Wical, Brooke Wood, Susanna Wroe.

Year 9

Jayde Baker, Tahlia Bennetts-Swinburne, Teale Burroughs, Tessa Burroughs, Bronte Clarke, Rebecca Cockburn, Robert Coleman, Rowan Collins, Billy Connell, Tara Conway, Tegan Costello, Brenley Cronau, Nicole Crowe, Jacinta Dargusch, Irene Davenport, Ian Dickinson, Courtney Edwards, Sherri Fletcher, Scott Foskett, Carolyne Gibson, Kyle Heselwood, Sarah Hill, Kahla Hohlweck, Lynece Horne, Mitchell Horton, Riley Jackson, Cullen Kenny, Marlee Klein, Mickeelie Kunst, Dorislen Lakin, Lachlan Langeberg, Dana Lowrey-Palmer, Katie McMillan, Karlie Morrison, Tamara Muller, April Mundy, Dylan Newberry, Ariana Nioa, Beau Oliver, Tiffany Peters, Lisa Petersen, Abi Pfeiffer, Kate Power, Courtney Prove, Stacey Reinikka, Emileigh Rice, Brooke Robertson, Brendan Rockemer, Jonathan Rowe, Karla Simpson, Lianna Sticklen, Nathanael Tomlinson, Sarah Tydd, Kate Walker, Ashley Ward, Kristie White, Jodie Zagami.

Year 10

Carly Armstrong, Duncan Barber-Sperling, Marcus Barnes, Amy Bates, Samantha Beale, Dillon Blair AKA McLerie, Cory Blinco, Felicia Bolderrow, Joshua Bouman, Erin Brabiner, Louisa Brain, Nathan Brake, Peggy Bray, Andrew Bretherton, Natalia Butler, Kayla Clarke, Bethaney-Rose Coombes, Talia Copley Tegan Cousins, Amy Cripps, Brodie Cronau, Joshua Cunningham, Hanna Dionysius, Matthew Eagle, Mitchell Emery, John Ethell, Bryen Faithfull, Thomas Feldman, Jacinta Fletcher, Emma Gambie, Kit Gidall, Georgina Gott, Zoe Gough, Colin Greentree, Kate Greentree, Breanna Hawken, Shani Heard, Stacey Heidenreich, Alec Higgins, Kelsey Hutton, Kelsey Jacobsen, Alischa James, Tyler Jocumsen, Rebecca Jurd, Vanessa Kaarsberg, Darcy Kuilboer, Daniel Lavender, Adrianna Lidbetter, Jessica McCall, Lyall McDonald, Katie McElligott, Tayla McGrath, Mary Mead, Jessica Melody, Bronwyn Miles, Amanda Milzewski, Katherine Morris, Rhani Morris, Merleea Munro, Jett Nickson, Kyle Phersson, Cameron Poppi, Elise Rampton, Keron Redman, Jordan Reynolds, Frank Richmond, Henry Robinson, Benjamin Sama, Alicia Smith, Jessica Stanberg, Hannah Van Den Berg, Rachel Vandersteen, Ellen Wallbank, Brenton Watterson, Kristie Whalen, Jacqueline Whitaker, Teagan Whitbread, Teagan White.

Year 11

Stacey Abbott, Chelsea Anderson, Claire Bailey, Ziea Baker, Katelyn Ball, Adam Bassett, Luke Beatty, Lucas Belz, Cameron Brooks, Ashlee Brown, Jamie Bryant, Elyse Burraston, Jai Burton, Danielle Bygrave, Louisa-Mary Cripps, Melinda Cronau, Tommy Curtis, Saphiye Davis, Luke Donaldson, Hayleigh Edwards, Brett Einam, Brogan Elliott, Francis Finnigan, Clayton Forknall, Jared Gaskell, Hannah Gibbs, Joshua Hagan, Stacey Horton, Jacqueline Irwin, Liam Jackson, Sarah James, Robert Jamieson, Patrick Kenny, Bryn Langeberg, Skye Lewis, Melissa Lidbetter, Kiarra Lynch, Samuel Manley, Julia McNeilly, Nicole Moore, Amy Morrison, Kerri Mowat, Bree Muchow, Caitlyn Muller, Lizzette Newman, Ashley Nicholson, Lauren O’Neill, Jessica Pavey, Alanna Paxton, Emmila Perry, Pauline Pierson, Sammi-Jo Polzin, Leah Rapley, Kailah Riley, Casey Robertson, Leah Rumbalu, Ben Sheppard, Lewis Sheilds, Melissa Simpson, Aby Taylor, Christopher Thew, Naomi Van Den Berg, Rebekah Van Den Berg, Nathanial Van Kampen, Hayley Westbook, Danni White, Aliesha Yeates, Nicola Zelow.

Year 12

Phoebe Ammenhauser, Jessica Barnes, Julie-Anne Beck, Veronica Bonnar, Jamie Bray, Deane Brieschke, Rebecca Coleman, Sally Collins, Candice Dennis, Matthew Donaldson, Jessica Donnelly, Thomas Einam, Michael England, Tegan Faithfull, Callie Fielden, Duncan Fraser, Chelsea Gibbs, Alexander Gibson, Sam Glazier, Anthony Gott, Nicola Hardman, Perri Hewson, Rhian Higgins, Georgia Hinkley, Sara Hose, Damien Hughes, Kristen Hughes, Damien Hyland, Oliver Kennedy, Monique Kopp, Alayna Kuilboer, Gareth Langeberg, Cassie Lewis, Cameron Lewty, Laura Lidster, Rebecca Linwood, Kristina Long, Alayna Lynch, Katherine Manz, Peter McElligott, Casey McMillan, Lorinda Medill, Kellie Milzewski, Jordan Minniecon, Anthony Mollee, Jason Moore, Alex Nagl, Tracey Oliphant, Amanda Petersen, David Pierson, Rebecca Porter, Carl Putzmann, Aimee Radunz, Kristina Ree, Amanda Renshaw, Fiona Revill, Caitlin Riley, Rebecca Riley, Nyaire Rose, Nathan Rowe, Justin Rudolph, Mikaela Sanders, Christopher Schulz, Jessica Scott, Anne-Maree Standen, Chrystal Summers, Kelsi Suurenbroek, Ashley Taylor, Jared Taylor, Scott Taylor, Ashlee Tong, Samuel Wain, Melissa Walker, Benjamin Wheeler, James White, Stefanie Wical, Alice Williams, Kelly Williams, Andrea Wockner.

Senior School Snippetts

Are you finishing Year 12 this year or next year? You have been issued with a QSA Learner Unique Identifier (LUI) in 2006 or 2007.

Did you achieve a result for studies in 2006 or 2007 for music, drama, singing, dance or sports officiating from any of the following providers after you were issued with your LUI?

Ø Trinity College London (TCL)

Ø Swimming Queensland

Ø Royal Academy of Dance (RAD)

Ø Queensland Rugby Union

Ø Commonwealth Society of Teachers of Dance (CommDance)

Ø Cecchetti Society of Australia

Ø Australian Speech Communication Association Inc.

Ø Australian Music Examination Board (AMEB)

Ø Australian Guild of Music and Speech (Guild Music)

Ø Australian College of Music

Ø Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts Ltd (ANZCA)

Ø Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM)

This result may be eligible for credit towards your Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE). To find out check the subject lists available online at http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/certifiates/1083.html.

If you find the achievement on one of these lists take your award or certificate to your school administration and ask for it to be recorded in the QSA Student Data Capture System (SDCS) before Friday, 30 May 2008. This applies to eligible QCE candidates with 2006 and 2007 results only. Other arrangements have been made for recording of 2008 results.

For more information contact your school administration or the QSA Recognition Unit by email— This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 3864 0321.

LYN MANLEY

Senior School HOD

Guidance News

Careers and Employment Expo

Don’t miss Australia’s largest Career and Employment event!

The National Careers and Employment Expo connects students with more than 300 exhibitors and is coming to southeast Queensland during May and June.

Students and their Parents can visit displays from leading business and industry groups, government representatives and educational institutions.

Admission is free to the Expo which provides education, employment and training opportunities to senior school students, school leavers, graduates, skilled workers and members of the mature workforce and general community.

Parents are welcome to attend, so why not explore career options for yourself as well as your child?

The Expo is coming to the following centres:

Ø Brisbane, 23 and 24 May.

Ø Gold Coast, 13 and 14 June.

For more information, visit the TAFE website (Events quicklink): www.tafe.qld.gov.au

New Mental Health Website

Queensland Health has a new Mental Health website which is available at www.health.qld.gov.au/mentalhealth

www.health.qld.gov.au/mentalhealth Is a one-stop shop for people whether they are trying to locate a mental health service, need information on mental illness or are looking at working in mental health.

The website also provides up-to-date information on mental health and wellbeing and information on the Government’s mental health programs and events, including information on COAG mental health such as the ‘Better Access’ and the ‘Personal Helpers’ and ‘Mentors’ Programs.

Surfing the Internet Safely

Young people use the Internet to access information regularly as part of their school work and social networks. For this reason, it is essential that they are provided with information on how to access the internet in a safe way.

The Queensland Police Service has developed the ‘Surf Safely’ initiative and other Queensland Police Service personal safety programs can be found at www.police.qld.gov.au/programs/personalsafety.

Responsible Gambling Awareness Week: Community Arts Project

The curriculum for term two Year 12 Creative Arts at Aldridge State High School explores Community Arts. The students are required to complete an art project, as a team, within the community. This involves negotiating with the community group, presenting ideas and making decisions as a group, to complete an arts based community project. This year we were lucky enough to be asked by Lifeline to be involved with the Responsible Gambling Awareness Week art display at Station Square in Maryborough and Centro at Hervey Bay.

The project took five weeks to complete. (A total of 15 periods). The students began with a general ideas search via newspapers, the internet and reference books in the library. Students sought out articles and images about responsible gambling and images associated with gambling in general. Once these search ideas were copied and printed, the students discussed and brain stormed these ideas. Their teacher, Ms Gunn, suggested the students stick to a ‘Pop Art’ style. The simplicity of layout and colours would work well with such a small group. The students then began drawing ideas as individuals and then combining these ideas until they had two poster designs to work on. The final ideas were then drawn onto the heavy card and work began on colour. The final artworks feature a combination of photocopied images, hand drawn gambling paraphernalia, homeless and destitute people and broken families. The students wanted to portray the idea that ‘gambling’ was

really ‘gambling with life’ and using the slogan “Know when to walk away” was very valuable advice.

The students involved were: Julie-Anne Beck, James Birt, Teagan Faithfull, Michelle McIntosh, Keith Scobles, Jared Taylor and Joel Winterton.

COARALIE GUNN

Art Teacher

Ritva Voutila Workshop

Tuesday 17 June 2008.

Session One 11.00 am—12.30 pm

Session Two 1.30 pm—3.00 pm

Australian artist Ritva Voutila was born and grew up in Finland, in a small industrial town. In the course of her artistic career, she has worked in many different areas of art: from jewellry design and sculpture, to graphic design and illustration, as an art teacher and lecturer, and as a performer. She has illustrated several books for children (see complete list on her website), and her illustrations have appeared in many advertising campaigns and magazines in Australia and overseas. We are very fortunate that she is able to spend a day in our school working with some of our students. I encourage all buffing cartoonists and lovers of drawing to attend at least one workshop.

Ritva Voutila will be holding two workshops on 17 June for our students. The first is a 90 minute cartooning workshop at 11.00 am forall our budding cartoonists and the second is for anyone who just loves to draw, it is a 90 minute illustrators technique workshop.

The workshops will also be open to parents if you are interested (and if space permits).

The cost per student is $10.00 per workshop. This covers all art materials and the tutors costs. Each class is limited to 25 students only. Students can collect an information package from any of the Art staff (Ms Raymond, Ms Chimes or Ms Gunn). Students need to return their permission slip and money to the AdminOffice by 30 May to secure their spot. (School Resource Fees need to be paid up to date)

For more information please see Ms Gunn in the Visual Arts Department.

Dates for your Diary

More important dates for your diary:

Ø Monday, 26 May—USQ Science & Engineering Challenge. PCYC Hall, Hervey Bay.

Ø Monday, 26 May—Wide Bay Futsal Championships, Gympie. Depart 7.00 am return 6.00 pm.

Ø Friday, 30 May— Reconcilliation Day at Maryborough State High School. 9.30 am—11.30 am.

Ø Monday, 09 June—Queens Birthday Holiday.

Ø Tuesday, 10 June—P&C Meeting in Admin Bulding at 7.00 pm.

Ø Wednesday, 11 June—Year 10 Legal Studies excursion to Courthouse.

Ø Thursday, 12 June—2008 Careers Expo at Maryborough Showgrounds.