28 June 2019

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From Our Principal

AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS WEEK – everyone a winner!

This week over thirty of our Year 11 students have been involved in Australian Business Week – along with teams from Eudunda Area School.

It has been fabulous to observe the high level of energy, engagement and enthusiasm as students have focussed on working together as a team to make good ‘business’ decisions, prepare for a trade display, make a video ‘advert’, write a company report and prepare for an oral presentation.

In fact, the whole week’s learning typified what education should be about:

• There was an intellectual rigour as the students came to terms with the concepts that are central to the world of business and enterprise.
• Students had to draw on their higher order thinking skills as they applied and evaluated their learning to create a new business.
• They were required to do be involved in substantial communication through company meetings, preparation of written company reports, the production of a video ‘advert’ and the final oral presentation.
• There were high expectations of all students. They had made a commitment to being involved and success depended on everyone contributing.
• There was strong social support and students felt comfortable taking risks with their learning. ABW took many out of their comfort zone.
• Students were self-directed and self-regulated. They didn’t need a teacher ‘controlling’ them.
• There was a strong sense of engagement. Students were far more than just ‘on task’. There was a real ‘buzz’ as students worked through break times to get the job done.
• There was a strong sense of significance and connectedness to the ‘real world’.

Kapunda High School has been involved in ABW for many years. It is a fabulous programme but also requires considerable organisation at the ground level. Thank you to our local co-ordinator, Erin Carpenter and teachers Greg McLachlan, Adele Butler and Beth Trigg.

YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES GRADUATIONS

Next Monday and Tuesday evening sees the Youth Opportunities graduations. Youth Opportunities is a personal leadership programme for year 10 students. Students nominate to be involved and go through a selection process.

Students are selected for many reasons – sometimes they lack motivation with their learning, sometimes they are looking to develop extra confidence, sometimes they are looking to develop a clear idea of their pathway beyond school, sometimes they want to improve their relationships with others.

Facilitated by two trainers, students come out of classes for one day per week during term 2 to participate in the programme.

A special thanks to Mrs Madeleine Hart who has been one of our Youth Opportunities Trainers this term.

THANK YOU AND FAREWELL

At the beginning of the term we welcomed Ms Sarah Molloy to teach Physical Education for the remainder of the year. However, the best laid plans sometimes change and Sarah is now moving back to New South Wales with her family which means that she is leaving us.

Many thanks, Sarah. You have developed good relationships with our students and been a great member of the Health and Physical Education faculty.

END OF TERM ARRANGEMENTS

Friday, July 5 is the final day of the term. There will be lessons in the morning and after lunch we will have our customary end-of-term assembly prior to dismissal at 2:15pm. Buses (apart from the Gawler Link SA Service) will leave shortly after.

At assembly we present Personal Best Awards for students who have achieved ‘excellent’ effort in all or most of their subjects.

Hard copy reports will be issued at the end of assembly. They will also be available on Day Map from the end of the day.

The first day of Term 3 is Monday, July 22.

Kristen Masters
Principal

Immunisation Session – Year 10 & 11

The next immunisation session will be on Wednesday, 31 July (Term 3, Week 2). This is the second vaccination for Meningococcal, involving students in Year 10 and 11.

Canteen News

The convenience of EFTPOS has arrived at the Kidman Kafé for purchases over $2.00.

Careers Information

Successful Tafe Training Dinner

It was a great pleasure for some Kapunda High School staff to attend the Barossa Tafe Campus Training Dinner. We indulged in some delicious food and received outstanding service. This year, Year 11 student, Anais Morris is undertaking a Certificate II in Hospitality (Front of House). She received outstanding feedback from her trainer, Jennifer Lennon, on the night and has since participated in two more training dinner evenings.

Anais’ training occurs one day per week across the year, where she gains specialised training for serving food, waiting tables, making coffees and beverages, taking orders and understanding other employer requirements of the Hospitality Industry such as Work Health and Safety. Along with developing accredited learning and qualifications that will assist her to achieve her career pathway goal of becoming a flight attendant, she has also accumulated 50 Stage 2 SACE credits so far. When subject selection processes begin, Anais will explore the opportunity of undertaking a Certificate III in Hospitality (Front of House) which can provide Stage 2 credits towards her SACE completion and/or replace one Stage 2 subject, towards gaining an ATAR.

Well done, Anais! You looked so confident on the evening and we were all very proud to hear about how well you are doing in your Vocational Education and Training Course.

I am always available to provide information or some direction about different career pathways students may be interested in discussing. Book an appointment through DayMap!

Apprenticeships Australia Presentation

This week, Paul Seawall, from Apprenticeships Australia came to present to our Year 10 students. He explained a range of different career pathways and provided links to some fantastic resources that students can access to explore potential career pathways further.

He discussed a new website which provides information on over 350 different occupations and this will be explored further in PLP. Other students are certainly able to follow the link and undertake a career quiz to see if any occupations are suggested that they hadn’t even thought of!

Follow the link here:

I am always available for discussions about pathway and career ideas too!

Barossa Tafe Campus Tour

Meanwhile, Year 9 students attend Barossa Tafe campus for a tour of the facility and to learn more about courses on offer through TafeSA and potential pathways that could lead from them. Students explored Viticulture, Horticulture, Agriculture and Land Conservation training facilities and learned about the new technology that is being brought into these fields. They explored the automotive and engineering hands on learning workshops. The state of the art aged care/community care/hospital training facility was viewed, where we all met Grandad Edmund. Students learned about the Hospitality training facilities and the range of career pathway and opportunities that can arise from training in these areas.

It was a great learning experience and hopefully sparks some career pathway thinking, planning and discussions.

Penny Chancellor
Assistant Principal (VET, FLO, Careers)

Year 9 Visual Design

STEAM Project Presentations

This term, the Year 9 Visual Design class were given the challenge to reduce the level of sound within the Art/Design room. The room itself has no soft furnishings and general talking and discussion can cause an echoing mash of sounds making learning more difficult. The students decided to create acoustic tile designs that would be installed on the ceiling because of the messy nature of art where carpeting is not an option.

In this STEAM project, students learnt about sound and how sound works within small rooms, learning about acoustic reduction methods of absorption and deflection. The students created a design brief to guide the project, making function, target audience, aesthetics and safety the requirements needed to make an effective design. After this students made models of possible acoustic tile forms which were tested by one of the Year 9 Science classes to see how effective certain forms were at reducing decibel readings. From the finding, students adapted their ideas and worked towards the design brief. The students presented their ideas to their class, Ms Masters and I displayed a good level of knowledge on the subject. The hope is that one of the designs may be made and used in the classroom to solve the sound issue. Before this can happen though, further testing and a budget would need to be created. This may become a project for another class to continue the work to make this design solution a reality.

These students received awards for their efforts:

Visual Art Projects

The Year 9 Art class have also been busy this term creating an array of artworks. The students have created some fantastic landscape paintings where they could choose a famous painting to recreate or find a photo of landscape to make into an artwork. The students displayed good observation and technical skills.

Later, the students looked at the Day of the Dead festival to inspire a clay task. This saw students sculpting forms, with one student creating a 3D printed skull. There were some mistakes - usual for the learning process, with one student creating their artwork three times to get it right, only to be completely destroyed in the kiln (along with a few others!) - most likely due to moisture or air being trapped in the clay. However, the students displayed resilience and perseverance to come up with alternative ideas for their final artwork.

Well done class!

Akira Selway-Glaister

Jennifer Ahrens
Visual Arts teacher

SPOTLIGHT! The Musical – Tickets Available Now!

Operation Flinders 2019

Over the past week, five Kapunda High School students took the opportunity to travel to the northern Flinders Ranges to engage in a program called Operation Flinders. The program involves spending eight days hiking through the rugged terrain of Yankaninna Station in order to help the participants to develop their personal identities, attitudes and to grow as individuals. It is described by the organisation as an outback intervention program and has been running for 28 years. Along with five participants from Nuriootpa High School, they engaged in a range of activities and challenges and formed a supportive community of women, who were able to conquer many physical, psychological and emotional challenges over the length of the experience. Our group was named Tango three. Kapunda High School nominated Mikayla Pratt, Letitia Martin, Michelle Lindsay, Abbie Francis and Jasmin Castaneda to engage in this program accompanied by Miss Jessica Read, and all girls shone throughout the eight days.

Participants were required to carry a pack consisting of all of their personal items (clothing, toiletries etc.) as well as three litres of water for the day, their snacks, shared lunch items and their sleeping arrangements. These packs were up to 20 kilograms in weight, depending on the contents. The girls walked through tough terrain including long, rocky creek beds, bushland and up steep inclines. On the second day, the participants all abseiled from a 25 metre high cliff face, showing incredible courage and support for others. On their sixth day, the girls climbed the highest peak in the Flinders Ranges – Mount Rose. Mount Rose towers 744 metres above sea level and has many loose, rocky sections requiring the participants to show incredible guts and determination.

The girls each had a job each day including Navigator, Kenny (toilet duties), Fire Bug, Chef or Dishy. They each learned skills including how to set up a thunderbox (bush toilet), cooking on open flame and using a map and compass confidently. The participants slept under the stars each night in a small tent-like tarp (called a hutchie), with nothing but a thin roll mat covering the ground. They set these up themselves, often connecting two or more, making a large sleeping quarters.

This program has allowed the participants to reflect on themselves, create new connections, gain new skills and have a positive life change. With support from experienced team-leaders Charlee and Laura, participants showed that they are capable of overcoming any obstacle that comes their way, and are all working towards being the best versions of themselves.

‘No courage without fear.’

Tango three out.

Bethany-Kate takes on the Ration Challenge

Year 8 student, Bethany-Kate Phillips has taken on the Act For Peace, Ration Challenge to raise funds to support over 11 million Syrian refugees living in camps in Jordan, having fled eight years of conflict and violence in their own country. Funds are used to supply food ration packs, hygiene kits, medical help and psychosocial support.

Bethany-Kate’s maternal grandfathers were both affected by war; one a prisoner of war surviving on rations.

The Ration Challenge requires participants to follow a restricted diet and varies from three days to five, depending on age. Bethany-Kate ate rationed meals consisting of rice, red kidney beans, flour and 150gms of mixed berries, which she gained as a reward. ‘The second day was the hardest, especially when my family went out for takeaway food’ said Bethany-Kate.

Bethany-Kate continues to raise funds until the end of August and donations may be made to the link below.

For further information about the Ration Challenge, go to the link below.

Home Group Netball Competition Results

All but two Home Groups competed in the lunch time mixed netball competition, with the winners being; 8BD, 9SR, 10AG, 11BT & 12SF.

Thank you to the following umpires who gave up their lunchtimes; Ms Cocks, Ms Robinson, Chloe Dabrowski, Mackenzie Arbon, Jess Euing, Katlyn Brooks and Ailee Craig. There will be two Year 12 vs staff netball games next week.

Jill Nash
Home Group Netball Coordinator

Year 12 SACE Examinations timetable for 2019

Community Notices

Year 12 students - 2020 Hawker Scholarship

Applications for the 2020 Charles Hawker Scholarships open on 9 December, 2019 and close on 8 January, 2020. An application form and further information about C.A.S. Hawker and the scholarship is available from the link below or by contacting the secretary to the Trustees in Adelaide on 08 8127 1654.

Hawker Scholarships are valued at up to $60,000.00 over three years and are amongst the most generous privately funded residential scholarships available to Australian undergraduate and postgraduate students.

There are a number of scholarships awarded each year. The Trustees offer them to capable students of principle and character, who have demonstrated a committed to the wider community. Selection is based on personal qualities, as well as academic ability.

Since 1990, the Hawker Scholarship Trustees have awarded $6 million dollars to 126 Australian students, including a significant number from regional areas.

Vintage Cellar Hand Short Course – School Holidays

An opportunity for students to complete the Vintage Cellar Hand short course is available in the Term 2 school holiday period.

• This short course will provide you with introductory training in the wine industry, including an overview of the requirements and fundamentals for vintage cellar hand work.
• The course includes both theory and practical activities, along with winery site tours, and will focus on cellar hand basics of the wine production process, such as cleaning, transfers, additions and finings, as well as work health and safety (WHS) and food safety.

Course: Identify key operations in wine production (FDFWIN1001)

Click on the link below for course information and student registration page.

Tuesday, 9 July and Wednesday, 10 July
9:00am to 3:30pm
Cost: $300 per person

*Must be 16 years and over and have arrange own transport

For further information, contact: Brett Ancell, Business Development Account Manager (08) 7210 3089 or M 0472 808 191

Barossa Lantern Walk

This winter, we kindly invite all Barossa families with interest in some German cultural traditions to the Barossa Lantern Walk on 13 July, 2019, a free community event in Nuriootpa.