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Term 1 Week 3
WHS
NEWS
11 February 2021
Knowledge conquers all
WHAT'S ON?
School Photo Catchup
Day
- Monday 15 Feb
Year 7 vaccinations
- Tuesday 16 Feb
ON THE FRONT PAGE:
Swimming Carnival smiles!
Year 9 students enjoying a swim through
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DROP EVERYTHING
AND READ!
The need has never been greater to build the reading competency of our
students. To support this, Wauchope High School has implemented Drop
Everything and Read (DEAR) as a daily activity to support and promote the
skill of reading as a means to learn as well as a recreational activity.
We aim to support every student to use these valuable 15 minutes to
practice the skill and get lost in the art of reading. After roll call, all staff and
students spend 15 minutes reading quietly. A text of their choice is
preferable. As some students are not avid readers this is sometimes a
hurdle so we encourage those reluctant readers to come to the library and IN THIS
get some help in selecting an appropriate piece of reading material.
Students may read magazines, novels, comics, and instructional materials –
ISSUE
anything appropriate. PAGE 3
-Welcome Year 7
We encourage parents to support this initiative to maximise the students!
educational outcomes for students by having conversations about what
they are reading, helping them find and choose reading material, or PAGE 4
reading with them if the opportunity arises – we want them to succeed! -2021 House Captains
If you need help or want more information, contact the team in the library. PAGE 5
-Staff Spotlight
We are also seeking donations of material in good condition – in particular
sporting, motor bike and car magazines, other suitable magazines, shorter PAGES 6-7
novels and other suitable material. This material will become part of our -Swimming Carnival
“Power Up Street Libraries” which are popping up around the school –
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allowing students to grab material without loaning.
-Swimming Carnival Age
Champions
-Hogs for Homeless
Tour
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-University Roadshow
-Netball Come and Try
Day
POWER UP
noun
1. the action of switching on an electrical device, especially a computer.
2. (in a video game) a bonus which a player can collect and which gives their character an
advantage such as more strength or firepower.
3. Switching your brain into top gear by reading for at least 15 minutes a day!!
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WELCOME YEAR 7!
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2021 HOUSE CAPTAINS
KENDALL
Back: Luke, Blake, Mitch, Eva,
Montaya, Halli
Front: Jessie, William, Abby, Jade,
Jayden
GORDON
Back: Ben, Wayde, Abby, Laicy,
Emily
Front: Brock, Harry, Dean, Alivia,
Emily
LAWSON
Back: Hannah, Jordan, Cameron,
Joel, Kade
Front: Naykisha, Sheniq, Ellie,
Lucas, Sam
PATERSON
Back: Ella, Jack, Stella, Jeremy,
Wyatt
Front: Cooper, Tori W, Kearn,
Kelly, Tori S
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STAFF SPOTLIGHT
Miss Ashley Thomas is an English and
Drama teacher and Year Advisor for Year
7. Miss Thomas is one of only 30 teachers
across the country to be selected for the
Bell Shakespeare Program.
Interviewed by Year 7 students Kye, Rodney
and Spencer
What is the Bell Shakespeare Mentorship? “Basically they selected me to be one of 30 teachers
in Australia to go Sydney for an intense week of workshops and learning from the best Shakespeare
actors and directors. I’ll learn how to deliver Shakespeare in a school.”
When do you go? “It’s next month, the end of March. It’s very exciting!”
Top 5 Shakespeare plays? “My absolute favourite is Romeo and Juliet. My next favourite is Twelfth
Night, it’s a really good one. The next favourite would be Macbeth, then Taming of the Shrew and
Hamlet.”
Why do you like teaching? “I love teaching because I get to see students get excited about learning
new things.”
Why do you like English so much? “There are so many reasons! English is like the basis of
everything we do. We get to look at writers from over 500 years ago and see what their thoughts
were and where their brain and imagination went when they put words on paper. We get to read
that!”
Do you like books? “Love books, love reading. I’ve always been a big reader.”
Who’s your favourite author? “That’s a really great question but a really hard question. I have to
say for upper literature it’s definitely William Shakespeare. I love that he’s written plays, poems and
stories. He’s just written all sorts of things and his stories are still relevant 500 years later. For more
junior authors I absolutely love Anh Do. I think he’s a fantastic author.”
If you could have a superpower what would it be? “I’ve thought about this one so many times,
and it would definitely be the ability to read minds.”
If you were to write 3 books, what would they be about? “I love dystopian fiction. Usually we
write happy endings and I’d love to write one that’s not. The next would be a biography on someone
famous like Elton John. My third book would probably be a teenage fiction. I’d love to do the cliché
one where they go through hard stuff in high school, and they have a breakup but then they get back
together in the end. I think I’d have a lot of fun writing that one.”
Would you prefer acting or English? “That’s like asking me if I want cake or chocolate Spencer!
That is a really hard question. I think English just has the power to take you where you want to go,
and I would give up chocolate for a book. I really really would because I just love reading so much.”
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SWIMMING CARNIVAL
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SWIMMING CARNIVAL
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SWIMMING AGE CHAMPIONS
12 Years: Nate and Emilie
13 Years: Jethro and Talia
14 Years: Nash and Alivia
15 Years: Ben and Kate
16 Years: Harry and Zaliah
17+ Years: Cameron and Gretchen
HOGS FOR HOMELESS TOUR On Tuesday, Wauchope High School was visited by NSW
State of Origin Coach Brad “Freddy” Fittler, along with 10
other riders, including former Wauchope High student Ian
Schubert, as a part of a charity ride known as Hogs for
Homeless.
The reason for our selection as a part of the tour was so
that Fittler could do a live cross to another former
Wauchope High student, Allison “Ally” Langdon, who
recently took up a position as host presenter on the Today
Show, alongside Karl Stefanovic. Unfortunately, Ally
sustained quite a serious knee injury a few days earlier in
an accident during filming for the
show, and was not able to be on the show for the cross.
A number of our senior students, including the leadership
team and various sporting representatives, showed their
support for both the charity and Ally, as a former
Wauchope girl who is a great role model and inspiration to
our students.
Moments before the cross, Fittler, who is a noted joker,
lined Stella up with a line to “have a go” at Karl Stefanovic.
With no time to rehearse, Stella managed to deliver the
line to perfection, giving both Fittler and Stefanovic a good laugh. It basically
suggested that Ally should be paid very well to have work with, and “put up
with” Karl.
When the cross finished, all of our students received a football from the
NSW NRL Development Team, many of which Fittler personally signed. He
then had photos taken with a number of students from the Support Unit.
Ian Schubert took the opportunity to see his name on one of the school’s
Honour Boards, where he won Sportsman of the Year in 1974. He was
selected in the Australian Schoolboys Rugby League team whilst a
student at Wauchope, before moving to Sydney where he played what we
now can the NRL for the Roosters, Western Suburbs and Manly. Schubert
was Man of the Match in the 1975 Grand Final win by the Roosters and also
played 4 Tests for Australia. In later years, he became an auditor for the
NRL Salary Cap authority, famously finding breaches at the Melbourne
Storm which lead to them being stripped of two premierships.
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UNIVERSITY ROADSHOW
We were fortunate to have a powerful role model
in our ex-student Teresa visit our school this week
as part of the University Roadshow. Teresa is
studying at Charles Sturt University and shared
some insight into life at uni.
Students from years 10, 11 and 12 were given the
opportunity to attend the Uni Roadshow
presentation which involved presentations from
Newcastle, Charles Sturt, New England, and
Southern Cross Universities.
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