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HEIGHTS 9
NOVEMBER :: TERM 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
Juniour Secondary & Languages Update Sport Report HPE Update
Social Performing Arts Update Moo Baa Munch SEP Night in October
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
Dear Families
Year 12 Graduations and Formals their capacity to perform in all academic
were a major success. The situations.
celebrations began with our Flexi
School Campus Graduation Thursday
Families of our Year 7, 8 and 9 students – on the
morning 14 November and Formal on the same
last 2 days of this term Thursday 12 and Friday 13
night. Both events were held at the Empire Church
December our Canteen staff will be both cleaning
Theatre, the most beautiful venue, and attended
and stocktaking and so our Canteen will not be
by representatives of our Flexi School main
open. Please plan for this and provide your
community partners, Toowoomba Regional
children with lunches for these days. My sincere
Council, University of Southern Queensland,
thanks to our Canteen volunteers and our
Toowoomba East Rotary Club, and Toowoomba
Convenor and Assistant Convenor – such a great
Older Men’s Network. Our families and friends and
band of people who love their work with our
our staff were ecstatic at the volume of
students. If any of our family members have time,
achievement attained by our 12s and their myriad
2020 would be a great year to start work with our
of positive pathways going forward. I laud our
staff at Flexi for their superb organisation of both Canteen staff. We have many grandparents
events and their total commitment to our young come in so certainly a role of worth!
people.
Student attendance at the end of this year – it is
Our mainstream campus Year 12 Graduation held imperative that our young people are in
at HumeRidge and Formal held at Picnic Point attendance through to the end of their gazetted
were a delight for all. Assistant Head of Year 12 school time. Absences impact their overall
Tiffany Beck again excelled in her high quality attendance % which does not work well not to
organisation of both events and Picnic Point staff mention the need for teachers to return assessment
commented to me throughout the night on the and go through it with students to ensure it
fact that, out of all formals held there this year, our enhances their learning going forward. Meaningful
students were the most respectful. It was so work continues in classrooms all the way through
wonderful to again view the depth of relationship with end of year trips for relevant students ending
between our students and their teachers, on show their time – last day for Years 10 and 11 is Friday 29
as our teachers formed the guard of honour as November and for Years 7, 8 and 9 it is Friday 13
our students exited the HumeRidge auditorium. December. On the Friday 13 December, classes
remain scheduled with some variation to learning
throughout this day.
Recently the Gold ceremony for our Year 10 and
11 students was held at HumeRidge - a ceremony
attended by many of our families as they Farewell to our teachers approaching retirement
celebrated with their children the acknowledgment – Janelle Duane, Sandy Feldman, Mike
of their respect for themselves and others both as Hetherington, Jon Ikin, Garry McMahon and Mike
people and learners. This event was punctuated Tracey. Words are just not sufficient to express the
by straight class and my sincere thanks to Assistant commitment of these good people to the lives of
Head of Year Christine Hindmarsh for her stellar so many young people over the years. They have
organisation and aspiration for high quality. Gold been the most wonderful of colleagues,
ceremony for our Year 7 and 8 students is coming completely dedicated to their ongoing learning in
up on Wednesday 11 December! order to deliver the best for our students and their
positive relationships with students have formed
the platform for success in the lives of our young
Year 12 Queensland Core Skills Test [QCS] results people. Simply outstanding!
have recently been released and, yet again, our
students have excelled. I acknowledge here our
students’ application to their learning and the Best wishes
efforts of their teachers throughout Years 8-12 who
have so positively influenced our young people in Maryanne Walsh, Principal
MOO BAA MUNCH
Recently our students from the Agricultural With Agriculture at the heart of our economy,
Science and Rural Operations classes went to students completed a range of workshops
spend the day at the annual Moo Baa Munch from breeding and sorting cotton boll worms
held at Downlands College. For secondary to selecting rations for effective meat chicken
school students, the event provides a valuable production. MLA brought the paddock to
insight into the broad range of agricultural plate experience of beef cattle production
career paths relating to science, animals and giving students a first-hand look at the beef
plants. Moo Baa Munch takes learning out of supply chain.
the classroom, corresponding with units
related to agriculture, food and fibre, As always students were engaged and
geography, society, environment and science. enjoyed all the experiences that were on
It is so important for all students, whether offer.
studying agriculture or not, to gain exposure to
important messages about the agricultural
supply chain and their place within it
With government funding to the School to
Industry Partnership Program (SIPP) cut last
year, Ag force has stepped in to ensure
students are exposed to the cutting edge of
agricultural technology and the opportunities
for careers post school.
Presenters this year included Bayer Crop
science, TAFE Queensland, the Department of
Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) among other
industry bodies like Ingham Chicken and Meat
and Livestock Australia.
Matt Huth, Ag Science Teacher
chshs - Social
A Term 4 highlight for the whole school community Dance Off’s and Best Outfit were awarded with gift
was the Social – “GLOW IN THE DARK”. voucher prizes alongside of additional competitions
such as ‘Glow Limbo’ and Guess the Skittles.
The current 2019 Year 11 members of our Student
Leadership Group took charge of delivering what In addition to the Dance Pit students had access
was described as one of the ‘best socials ever!!’ to Game Zones with UNO, MANGA, Os and Xs,
(Quote- Lachlan Sharpe) and ping-pong on offer along with Chill Out Zones
for meeting up with friends and making social
The theme – “Glow in the Dark” – allowed students connections.
to come dressed in bright, fluoro colours and
complement their outfits with the ‘make your own A great night had by all and congratulations and
glow in the dark glasses and headbands’ and glow thankyou to all of the student volunteers.
in the dark bracelets and lanyards on sale. Glow in
the Dark face painting was also a highlight of the Special thanks to key staff members Jason Berry
night. The Photo Booth was able to capture the (School Chaplain), Tiff Story (Year 11 Head of Year)
‘glow’ of students on the night. and Kerri-Ann Frew (DP – Year 11) for work with this
event.
The Dance Pit was rocking with many classics such
as the Nutbush, YMCA, Macareena, the Git Up and Funds raised from the event are used to support a
Rocky Horror all led by DJ Chappo and MC Lachie. worthy charity as determined at a Student Leaders
meeting.
Jodie Beauchamp, Head of Year 11
JUNIOR SECONDARY & LANGUAGES UPDATE
Despite the end of year rapidly approaching there is still
so much going on. Our German and Chinese language
students recently completed the World Language
Championships with their outstanding achievements
recognised on whole school assembly. Our students
collectively spent 207 hours online successfully answering
a total of 160 079 questions. Sarah Lyon, Year 10 student,
answered over 17 000 questions on her own placing her
in the top 0.2% in the world. Well done, Sarah! Other Elite
Award recipients were Frances Wright and Tim Wright.
In week two of this term over 50 students, predominantly
from Year 7, ventured to Brisbane to participate in the
Oktoberfest 4 Teens – one of our favourite excursions. Lots
of fun and laughter with the majority not realising how
much German language and culture they were exposed
to on the day.
Tim O’Connell, Head of Department Junior Secondary and Languages
HPE UPDATE
The HPE Department have been busy completed units where they are using technology
implementing the Australian Curriculum into Year to assist their learning.
7 and Year 8 and are looking forward to Year 9
coming on board in 2020. The new curriculum The HPE staff are committed to ensuring a smooth
requires all students to participate in both health transition to the new Syllabus in Health and
and physical learning experiences. The challenge Physical Education. All senior staff continue to be
for students and teachers is to engage in this engaged in accessing resources and upskilling
integrated curriculum that will focus on key health knowledge and skills to ensure that we equip the
promotion. students at Centenary Heights State High School
with necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to
The year 10 Taster subjects have been a great achieve to their potential.
opportunity for our students to test their interest in
subjects that they might consider for Senior. 2020 is set to be another year of change with
the continued implementation of both the
Australian Curriculum for Years 7-10 and continued
The senior Health and Physical Education students implementation of the new QCE.
have been working hard and are well engaged
in their studies. The Health Expo again put the
We are looking forward to the final Term and
spotlight on the health of our school community
celebrating the outstanding year that 2019 was.
and gave the Year 12 students the opportunity to
learn more about the significant health issues that
they are currently facing. The Senior PE class have Sandra Hearnden, Head of Department HPE
SEP NIGHT IN OCTOBER
Wednesday 23 October 2019 saw the annual Night in October
held by The Special Education Program where students, their
families and staff came together to celebrate their Year 12
graduation. It was a wonderful evening and students did an
amazing job presenting their speeches.
A big thanks to all the families for joining us in celebrating this
wonderful occasion. Special thanks also goes to Aromas on
High Street for hosting our Night in October dinner. The food was
delicious and the service was fantastic.
Danni Ramia, Senior Teacher
PERFORMING ARTS UPDATE
CENTENARY’S GOT TALENT the best teachers in front of them day in and
Centenary’s Got Talent was yet another success day out.
this year through the hard work of our
Performing Arts Captains Juhee and Kirralee. The Performing Arts Showcase and Music
Both Juhee and Kirralee were keen to see Extension concerts were our first major events in
something different this year to allow a wider our Caldwell Performing Arts Centre. Both events
range of talents to be shown. Auditions were for very successful and enabled our students
held during Term 3 with a number of performers to shine on the stage that surpasses all theatres
selected for the finals. The finals were held on of its size and capacity in Darling Downs Area.
the last day of Term 3 with performances from Congratulations to all students who participated
Hayley Lutvey, Jordan Crank, Prayag Subedi, in these events.
Kyran Cook, Latai Matapa, Anastacia-Tayissa
Kennett, Tiana Skinner and Evie Morris-Newll. Our Performing Arts Captain Juhee Kim and Co
Prayag was the winner of the event with the Captain Kirralee Jeffery, have had a very suc-
Judges, Mr van Doresselaer, Mrs Beck and Mr cessful year leading a range of students and
Halley, all very intrigued with his magic card events throughout the year. I am so very proud
tricks. of all of their work and words simply cannot
show just how thankful we all are for their con-
stant hard work.
Thank you to all of the family members who
PERFORMING ARTS NEWS constantly support activities within the
As 2019 draws to a close, it is timely that I ac- Performing Arts. From running your child to and
knowledge the hard work and dedication of the from rehearsals, attending performances, to
Performing Arts Staff, Mrs Black, Miss Murphy, Mrs your kindly words, there is no way that our
Parker, Mrs Law, Mr Thomas, Mrs O’Mara, Mrs students would have succeeded without your
Stanley, Mrs Willson, Mrs Lodder, Mrs McKeon, assistance.
Mrs Johansen, Mr Poole, Mr Gray and Mr Jensen.
Their commitment to their students, either in Thank you all for an amazing 2019 and bring on
the classroom or with extra curricular activities 2020!
is outstanding. This coupled with their subject
knowledge means that our students truly have
Amy McAleer, Head of Department Performing Arts
PLEASE NOTE - Carparking Changes
The new car park at our Caldwell Performing Arts Centre will be constructed beginning December
2019 and into Term 1 2020. As a result the shoulder car parks and footpath in this area will be closed
from 29-31 January 2020 to comply with the council requirements for working on the footpath.
This will be clearly signed and marked out with bollards to inform the public.
SPORT REPORT
You would think that the school sporting for their involvements in either being Age
calendar would be beginning to die down in the Champions or involved in many of our school
final stages of our school year. This is definitely sports teams.
not the case as you can see by the sporting
activities in which our students continue to
be involved. Please enjoy reading about our QUEENSLAND ALL SCHOOLS TOUCH FOOTBALL
student accomplishments since the end of Term The first week back this term, six of our touch
3. football teams headed to Brisbane for the
Annual All Schools Touch competition.
STUDENT CONGRATULATIONS Students have been training for this event since
Term 1.
Congratulations to Ella Milne on her selection into
the Australian U17 Volleyball Squad that played
over the September holidays. Ella now has the Our 13 and 15 teams headed down on
chance to be selected into the Australian team Wednesday morning to have their 3 days of
to travel overseas in 2020. Well done Ella. play. All teams produced excellent results. You
literally have to win every game to make the top
16 finals due to the number of pools and teams
Congratulations to Lilly Hanssen and Kyrna playing in this massive competition.
Crump on their selection into the Queensland
Athletics teams based on their performances
at the recent State Championships in Cairns. A Our 13 girls lost one pool game by one try and
great effort from a number of our students who came in second. This sent them to the top 16
participated at this event. Congratulations to finals series. The girls played Rochedale SHS in
the following students who medalled in events at this final where they scored in the second last
this Championships: minute to win the game in very cold and wet
conditions. They then progressed through to
the quarter finals where they faced Cathedral
• Lilly Hanssen – Gold in 400m College. They put up a mighty effort but
• Kyrna Crump – Gold in 400m, 1500m, 800m, unfortunately went down. Cathedral College
Javelin and Bronze in Shot Put were the eventual winners of the carnival.
• Matthew Thomson – Bronze in Long Jump
Our Open teams headed down Friday and
We congratulate Campbell Jennings who played their 3 days into the weekend. Mixed
has been offered a position in the GOL Brazil results but both teams won some, lost some.
Australian Futsal Team. We would also like to Their losses were only by one or two tries. This is
congratulate Elle de Nooyer, Nate de Nooyer an indication of just how tight the competition is.
and Willis Harmon who recently participated in More detailed results are in our Maelstrom.
the Schools Mountain Bike Australian National
Championships held at Nerang on the Gold
Coast. Participants from all over Australia Special thanks to our staff who have coached,
attended this event so it was wonderful that given up their own time and supervised students
CHSHS was represented. Particular mention of over the 5 days. Thanks Mr Sykes for exceptional
Elle’s first in the Cross-Country Enduro, second organisation and to Mr O’Connell, Miss
in the Cross-Country Olympic and fourth in the Rackemann and Miss Peltz for your efforts.
Cross-Country Short Course. Wonderful results
from all three riders.
DARLING DOWNS
Congratulations to Joseph Fry (Cricket) and
Bridgette Wainwright (Water Polo) for their
selections into Darling Downs teams from
recent trials. We wish them well as they train in
preparation for their State Championships.
Current Darling Downs trials on offer are Triathlon
which close on November 6. Online registrations
are required for this sport and information is
available, as always, on our website.
We will be holding our Sport Presentation “Year
in Review” at our Yr 12 Final Parade in a couple
of weeks. This is when our students receive their
badges for representing our school in either a
Darling Downs or Queensland team. Students
are also acknowledged again at this parade
SPORT REPORT cont.
VOLLEYBALL Grand Final opponents were Emmaus College,
Our Volleyball teams have continued to play Rockhampton. This team had beaten St Mary’s
well on a Tuesday night at Harristown. Saphiras College 3 nil in the semi-final so were going to
won the BRONZE medal, winning all three sets in be tough to beat. An early goal by Emmaus
their final match! The team worked together with put them in front. At half time it was one nil to
some fantastic saves, quick reflexes and quick them. An inspirational half time speech by a
thinking! Wyverns won the SILVER medal - with a couple of our senior players spurred the boys
set each at full time the match win was decided on. CHSHS Scored with 2 minutes to go to even
by points (only one point between gold and up the game. They held Emmaus out and at full
silver)! Terrific effort all season, and they fought time it was one all. Another penalty shoot-out
hard to the very end. was in store. Unfortunately the boys were not as
Special thanks to Miss McKeon and Nick Von lucky as the semi-final and were unable to find
Xanten for their continual work with our volleyball the goal a couple of times and Emmaus had
teams. their eyes in. What a wonderful achievement
though to have ended up second in the State.
Congratulations boys. Special thanks to Mrs Kerri
STAFF V STUDENT NETBALL Jacoby for her time and effort with the teams
Our second Thursday back this term saw our preparing them for this state wide event. We
second staff verse student sporting challenge would also like to thank Bob Francis and Erin
in a game of Netball. Last term was our Touch McCurly-Ault for their support and assisting with
football game where the staff were victorious. coaching our teams. Thanks to Mrs Laverty for
This term saw the banter start early with the the donation of some wonderful bright hockey
Senior students predicting a win. True to form, balls.
they produced the goods on the day and were
convincing winners. Now tied up at one win Well done CHSHS Hockey teams on another
each, the deciding sport venture of a game of wonderful display of Centenary Heights spirit.
soccer is being held in the coming weeks. We It was wonderful to watch our lads singing the
will let you know who comes out on top. school song with such passion at the end of the
game.
QLD ALL SCHOOLS HOCKEY
Last weekend our two school hockey teams
competed at the Qld All Schools Hockey
competition held in Toowoomba. Our girls
competed well on the first day which meant
the reward being placed in the Division 1
competition. The team played well considering
they had depleted players as the tournament
approached. In their play-off game, they
narrowly went down 1 nil to Glennie.
Our boys team had a wonderful tournament.
Solid team work ensured a spot in the Semi Final
against Downlands. Nil all at half time. Nil all at
full time. A penalty shoot out required. James
Leslie’s nerves of steel and solid saves along with
Elijah, Ollie, Callum, Zac and Konrad scoring their
goals, proved that CHSHS were heading to the
Grand Final.
Chris Bartlett, Sports Coordinator
mark your diaries
NOV 29 Year 10 & 11 Last Day
15 Year 12’s Last Day & Year 12 Formal Year 10 & 11 End of Year Trip
Year 11 At Home Study Day DEC
19 P&C Meeting 11 Year 7 & 8 Gold Level Ceremony
20-25 Year 10 Exam Block 12 Year 7 - 9 End of Year Trip
21-26 Year 11 Exam Block 13 Report Cards Published to QParents
27 Free Dress Day Last Day of Term
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