6 June 2016

Newsletter Articles

What's happening in Week Eight and Nine – Term 2:

Week 8

30/05/16

31/05/16

• English Night Class catch up – students will participate in a catch up night class
• 'Suit it Up' at Southern Cross University day – interactive university day to allow students to find out more about relevant courses and uni life.
• Drama Festival Rehearsals

01/06/16

• Dance Troupe Rehearsals

02/06/16

03/06/16

• Deadly Choices
• Year 11 Legal Studies Supreme Court Excursion – watching and analysing court cases at the Brisbane Supreme Court.

Week 9

06/06/16

• Year 7, 2017 Enrolment information evening – 6pm start

07/06/16

• South Coast Cross Country
• Year 11 Certificate III Sport and Recreation Primary School Officiating day – students to help officiate and set up Primary School athletics events.
• Year 12 Certificate II Visual Arts Police Forensic Talk
• Drama Festival Rehearsals

08/06/16

• Year 7 Immunisations
• GIPSA Crossover Finals
• Dance Troupe Rehearsals

09/06/16

10/06/16

• Deadly Choices
• Year 12 Dance Eisteddfod

Helensvale Highlights - Humanities

This week in Humanities Club, students experienced Japanese music appreciation with Mr Middleton.

Our mummified apples are coming along nicely as well…

In senior Geography, students have been out collecting primary data to help with their field trip reports. Mr Pride's Year 10 Geography class ventured through Surfers Paradise and headed up the Q1 to see what has changed and what has stayed the same in the 'heart of the Gold Coast'.

Mr Steenson and his Year 11 Geography class explored the Broadwater and surrounding areas with Mr Owen and Miss Green to interview the locals and decide whether or not it would be appropriate to develop the areas with a cruise ship terminal and/or entertainment precinct.

Students in Years 7 and 9 also enjoyed viewing the contents of the Queensland Museum Kits. Pictured are students from Miss Slogrove's Year 9 History class with World War 1 artefacts:

Helensvale Highlights – Arts Department

Miss Chambers' Year 7 Drama Academy Students working collaboratively on planning, researching, devising, creating and writing scenes for their Gold Coast Secondary Schools' Drama Festival Entry on the topic of Resilience. They are very excited to put together and transform the knowledge gained from guest speakers, Long Bradley, Chaplain and Jordana Kelly, Guidance Officer and from research into original dramatic moments.

Congratulations to Zoe Davies and Samuel Oaten-Trickey in Year 8 who put Mr Blackshaw through his paces interviewing him for their Drama Assessment on the topic of Social Media and Teenagers.

Zoe and Samuel planned and delivered their had hitting interview which had Mr Blackshaw stumped when they asked him whether he knew how many people accessed Facebook in the world.

Mr Blackshaw did share some great words of wisdom on the use positive and negative influences of Social Media on Teenagers. Zoe and Samuel's interview was filmed by Mr Burnim, Film and TV teacher and will be edited for their final assessment.

We would like to say a big THANK YOU to our sponsors Mortgage Choice for supplying our students with a Polo Shirt to wear during their performances in Townsville. Our kids will look extremely smart!!

The first Helensvale SH Band Tour is fast approaching and we would like to acknowledge all of the students and teachers commitment to rehearsals to ensure our performances are flawless.

These are the amazing Dance Studio's our students will be visiting and participating in workshops during our first ever Helensvale SH Dance Tour to Melbourne. What an awesome opportunity!!!

Helensvale Highlights – Information Technology

Paul Carr, Senior IT teacher at Helensvale State High School, attended the media launch of the Mayors' Telstra Technology Awards to prepare for this year's competition. Helensvale hopes to field several teams this year after their 2015 team developed the creative idea of the 'Life Watch', a device worn by medical professionals used to read patient biometric data.

Paul Carr, Senior IT teacher at Helensvale State High School, and Darren Clark, Telstra's Gold Coast Area General Manager ( Photo Courtesy of Stefani Triemstra, Telstra Community Engagement Specialist)

Helensvale Highlights – Netball Academy

Congratulations to the Netball Academy athletes who competed in the INFQ Secondary Schools Netball Competition last week. Helensvale had 6 very strong teams in divisions 13s and 15s who were victorious in both.

Helensvale Highlights – Senior Schooling

It was wonderful to see a large turnout of Year 12 students attend the student led study session in SWELL this week. Students worked in small groups to collaborate and brainstorm ideas.