NASHS Newsletter

Term 2 Week 5 2022


Canteen Ordering

Spriggy Schools

 You can now order and pay for Canteen items online. The cut-off for ordering is 9.00 am on the day.


It will take you a few minutes to set up an account. You can add as many children as you want to the account. You can either add the exact payment amount or allocate some funds to your account and the charges will be deducted after each purchase. Payment methods are Direct Deposit, Credit Card or PayPal. 

To get started please click on the page below. This will take you directly to the Spriggy Schools website. Follow the instructions to create an account. After the initial registration, you can download the Spriggy Schools App on your phone and complete your canteen orders from the App.

To view or print our menu, click here Canteen Menu

Spriggy Schools website

 

 

 



Canteen News

Our Year 11 VET Cert II in Hospitality class is preparing the lunches for the “Canteen” service in our recently opened Commercial Kitchen.
A big thank you to this class and Ms Anderton for providing food service for our staff and students while our regular canteen transitions to a new service next week.
The school will forward information on the new service to parents once things are finalised this week.












Principal's Message Week 5 Term 2 2022

Thank you to the families who have kept us informed of their positive test results. Although schools are no longer required to report all positive test results to the Department of Education, we are able to draw some perspective for our planning from the reports you have provided to us.

Please be assured that we are very capable of managing the challenges we face as a school, and the continuity of our student’s education will remain our priority.

The local Albany schools have agreed on Friday the 3rd of June as the Staff Professional Learning day for Term 2. This Friday backs on to the long weekend, so it could make a convenient four-day weekend for families to spend some time together.

Unfortunately, the P&C was unable to secure the necessary executive positions in the last elections and has therefore relinquished the responsibility of providing a canteen service to our students. The new menu and food service arrangements will be managed by the school and will be published on the NASHS Website next week.

Principal
Mr Peter Hurle




NASHS Cross Country

CROSS COUNTRY PHOTO GALLERY

The NASHS Cross Country Carnival was held on Thursday 7th, April. With the weather being fantastic for running, there were some hotly contested races and some very slick times recorded in all divisions across the day. Congratulations to the following students who broke NASHS school records.


NameEventDistancePrevious RecordNew Time Record
Charlie FindlayYr 8 Boys2km7:24:987:11:14
Declan Reid, Brock Lathbury, Reece Thomas, Jesse OwensYr 9 Boys Relay4 x 1km13:56:5113:41:11
Finlay Robertson, Blake Tysoe, Mitchell Paine, Jonti CatterallYr 10 Boys Relay4 x 1km14:34:1813:58:91
Vonli Coetzee, Vaghla Hill, Nyiah Attwell, Ava VidinouYr 9 Girls Relay4 x 1km16:59:0616:55:47


Interschool Cross Country

Last week, approximately 65 NASHS students participated in the Interschool Cross Country carnival at Great Southern Grammar. Year 7-9 students completed a 2.5km course and senior students (Year 10-12) ran 5km. NASHS students produced some excellent results with a solid team effort resulting in us winning the Lower School Shield and Overall Shield, whilst we came a very close second in the Upper School competition. Several NASHS students placed in the top 5, with the following students receiving medals for finishing in the top three of their respective races.


NameEventPlaceTime
James TaylorYear 8 Boys1st10:04
Georgia WhitelawYear 8 Girls1st11:07
Harvey TaylorYear 10 Boys2nd19:55
Cohen JoyceYear 11 Boys2nd20:10
Angus BowlesYear 12 Boys2nd19:49
Ellie McTavishYear 8 Girls3rd12:15
Ella RammYear 10 Girls3rd27:28
Jonti CatterallYear 10 Boys3rd20:48


Physical/Health Education Teacher
Dan Smith

Save the Date Drama Parents!

Assuming we don't have another massive change in Covid rules, we will have our Drama performance night on Tuesday the 14th of June, Week 8.

Every semester, my students slowly build up their tolerance to performing in front of a group, and this is the culmination, performing in the spotlights in front of a large but extremely friendly audience. The students choose a scene from their fave movies or books to perform, and it is always highly entertaining to see their version of a well-known scene.

The show starts at 7 pm, and at 6:30 pm, Mrs Anderton and her year 11 VET students will be providing light refreshments. RSVP to Darian Le Page if you can come on Darian.LePage@education.wa.edu.au




Performing Arts Teacher
Mr Darian Le Page

Year 9 Career Taster Program

The Year 9 Career Taster Program (CTP) is an exciting and innovative program designed for Year 9 students to become ‘career curious’ and taste different career options, education and training pathways. Students can explore career pathways, try hands-on industry-based activities and see occupations in action. 

The program is also designed to challenge the way students think about their post-school options and help them make more informed decisions on their subject selections for Years 10, 11 and 12.

The new Career Taster portal includes a database of industry experiences with information and resources for students, schools, parents, carers, and industry.

Career Practioner
Heidi Benson

To find out more about the program, click here.



Vaccination News

Dear Parents, we have now completed the first round of year seven vaccinations. If your child missed out at school and you would like them immunised, you can book them into the Immunisation Clinic on Tuesdays on 98922499. Or you can take your child to your family doctor. 

Next term, we will be offering vaccination for meningococcal ACWY to all year ten students, so please look out for consent forms. These will be sent out soon, please return them to school ASAP, or you can register your child on VaccinateWA and give your consent online.

If you have any questions, you can ring the school nurse, Cathy Watson on 98920622 (Monday to Thursday) or SMS 0437287706.


School Nurse
Ms Cathy Watson




Image curtesy by cromaconceptvisual from Pixabay



Science News

Mr Ireland has been busy planning the year nine camp to Perth to visit the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. Perkins is a leading research centre dedicated to accelerating the delivery of life-saving breakthroughs to improve the health of all West Australians.

As mentioned in a previous newsletter, the Science team has won funding to take 20 students on an all-expenses-paid trip to learn about cutting edge research. Students will travel and stay in Perth to experience a day in the life of a scientist.

We will leave school on Thursday the 20th of October to travel to Perth by bus. On the first night, we will have some time to look around our accommodation in East Perth. Then get some takeaway dinner before getting a good rest to prepare for our big day in the lab.

Friday will be an early start with breakfast provided before getting on the charter bus to Nedlands, where we get into our STEM project: Diagnosing Diabetes.

Here we will step into the shoes of a Pathologist and use a range of procedures to determine the glucose levels in patient samples. Once the tests are complete, students will decide which type of diabetes the patient has and what treatment options are available.

The top 10 male and top 10 female students will be selected based on their Science marks and invited to attend at the end of term 3. Please talk to your Science teacher closer to the date for more details.

Awesome work, Mr Ireland; it looks like you will enjoy this camp just as much as the students!

Science Teacher
Ms Jessica Lewis

Library News

Premier’s Reading Challenge 

Ninety of our students from Years 7 to 10 have registered for the challenge to read 12 books by 9 September 2022. Four of our students – Brianna Patterson, Olivia Silver, Elaina Patterson and Zalita van Eijk have already surpassed this total!

The benefits of reading have been well-researched and widely acknowledged, and Premier Mark McGowan’s endorsement for this challenge, plus the chance to win some fantastic prizes from Tourism WA, provide additional incentives to explore all of the places and times that reading can take you to. An Exmouth primary school student won a prize last week to swim with whale sharks; what will this week’s prize be?

Students can register at school or home via the website, Home - Premier's Reading Challenge (premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au), choose their own avatar and log all the books they read over the course of the challenge. Weekly prizes will be awarded to students who log a book that week, with major prizes drawn when the challenge ends.

Books don’t have to be in English – families are encouraged to read books in their first language.

There are extraordinary tourism prizes to be won each week, as well as NAV points to be won for NASHS students.

For more information and some great book ideas, please come to the library.  

National Careers Week

Ms Benson, our Career Practitioner created a great game …Guess Who? Students and staff were invited to come to the library to check out our display, and guess which person matched which career profile. It was trickier than it at first seemed, but with lots of NAV points up for grabs it proved a very popular competition.



National Sorry Day & Reconciliation Week

Every 26 May marks National Sorry Day, a day to acknowledge the strength of Stolen Generations Survivors and reflect on how Australians can all play a part in the healing process for the people and nation. While this date carries great significance for the Stolen Generations and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it is also commemorated by Australians right around the country.

This leads into National Reconciliation Week, with the 2022 theme “Be Brave. Make Change.” This is a challenge to all Australians - individuals, families, communities, organisations and government—to Be Brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation so we can Make Change for the benefit of all Australians.

National Reconciliation Week—27 May to 3 June—is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. The theme features at our library entrance and continues with our book display for the Premier’s Reading Challenge.







Head of Library Services
Mrs Barbara McNeill



Maths News

On the 4th of May-STAR WARS DAY- a group of intrepid students participated in The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Competition. 

An extract from the AMT (Australian Maths Trust) website outlines the competition:

The Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT) competition is a one-hour problem-solving competition designed to encourage student curiosity and promote multiple modes of thinking.

Neither teachers nor students need computer programming ability, but the competition helps identify students’ computer programming potential. 

The competition is an ideal activity to encourage students to solve real-world problems. It is suitable for any mathematics class, and the process helps students become more confident as they take on interesting new challenges. 

The competition has multiple-choice and integer answers. It incorporates unique ‘three-stage tasks’ that encourage students to develop informal algorithms and apply them to test increasing size or complexity data.

The original problems are designed to be quick to solve and highly approachable. They range in difficulty from very easy to challenging. Some questions test the ability to perform procedures; others require logical thought. In contrast, the more challenging problems require identifying and applying algorithms.

Well done to these students: 

Year 7 

Zoe Lyon 
Harry Sedgewick 
C
hloe Coxall 
Jeremy Tschabota

Year 8

Olivia Cameron
Joanna Dennison 
Tabitha Freeman 
Lauren Green 
D
uvan Oosthuizen 
Noah Torr 
Aidan Scott 
Frazer Smith 

Year 9

Oakley Boyd 
Ethan Gardner 
Lachlan Dixon 
Mattey Duncan 

Year 11 

Nathan Havord 
Finn Lynam 
Malcolm van Burgel 

Results have not come through yet, but students received a Goldie and NAV points for their participation. WELL DONE TO ALL.

Students and staff at NASHS can now access Problemo, a website developed by AMT that includes Computational and Algorithmic type problems.

Below are two problems to be submitted for a chance to win a $20 voucher for this edition of the newsletter - entries to the box outside the Maths office within the next three weeks.

In a binary coding system, the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are represented by 1, 10, 01, 11, 111, 101, 0111 and 110 respectively.

Which of the following pattern does not represent a string of the letters A,…,H in this system?

Multiple Choice




Answers to problems from the last newsletter: 


Congratulations to Leif Wright, Year 11, who won the voucher and to the other entrants, you will find some extra NAV points in your account. 





HOLA Maths
Mrs Jo Stevens

Stormtrooper Image curtesy by Andrew Martin from Pixabay.



Make a Wish Foundation Visit

The Year 11/12 Foundation class with guest speaker Sherri Willock; Sherri is from the Make-a-Wish-Foundation and came in to tell them about the Foundation's group in Albany.

She had the students engaged with her stories of children they had been involved with helping here in the Great Southern. She also gifted the students with tiny teddies and pens.

English Teacher
Ms Leanne McLaughlin