28 June 2019

Newsletter Articles

Our School Values

Reminder what’s coming up

June

24 – 28 Block Exams Year 12
27 Year 9 Stem Futures Day
28 Whole School Musical Rehearsal
29 – 13 July School Holidays

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From the Principal

Dear Helensvale State High School Community

ACE Assemblies Date Claimer:

In an attempt to minimise disruptions to class learning time, our ACE Assemblies will be held after school next term on TUESDAY 13th August.

Junior ACE Assembly (Years 7-9) - 5.00pm till 6.00pm
Senior ACE Assembly (Years 10-12) - 6.15pm till 7.15pm

Our ACE assemblies are a wonderful way to celebrate the success of our students so we are hoping that you will be able to join us.

Reports

The End Semester 1, 2019 reporting cycle will commence shortly with the following dates to note:

Week beginning 24th June – Year 11 Unit 1, 2019 Senior Reports emailed home
Week beginning 22nd July – Year 7 to 10 and Year 12 End Semester 1, 2019 reports emailed home

Wednesday 31st July, 3:30pm to 7:30pm – Parent Teacher Interview event, to be held in the SAC and the PAC. An email with instructions on how to book this will be sent to all parents / carers during the week beginning 22nd July.

Business Department – Market Day!

Market day was a showcasing of students collaboration of entrepreneurial skills. There were over 20 stalls selling a wide range of food, drinks, plants, games, keyrings, candles, popcorn, scrunchies, raffles, video game competition and many more.

The $20 boss programme supported by the Commonwealth Bank and Helensvale State High School give the students the opportunity of running a business and equipping students with the ability to build skills that make them enterprising:

• Creativity and innovation
• Confidence
• Digital and financial literacy
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Communication and teamwork
• Become autonomous and self-directed learners

We would like to thank everyone for their support for all making the day a great success; the students, the staff and the community. We look forward to sending AWL a nice donation cheque in the near future.

Mrs L. Campbell (HOD), Mrs A Perry (ENT09), Mr H Volzke (E4E) & Mr M McKague (E4E)

Year 10 Accounting

Students have achieved competency in:

• Knowledge of the MYOB v19.11 Command Centre
• Knowledge of the MYOB v19.11 Menu Bar
• Using manuals to solve operational problems
• Entering receipts and expenditure from source documents
• Recording recurring payments

Well done everyone, certificates have been handed out to all students for their resumes and portfolios. Mrs Anna Perry, Teacher

Cert II in Business

Building your computer, organisational and people skills, and enhance your career opportunities in diverse fields such as management, IT, HR, and public relations. Valuable day-to-day skills for life.

Gaining skills in various specialist areas;

• Customer service and people skills
• Staff supervision and team management
• Computing and software applications
• Database management
• Basic finance and bookkeeping
• Legal administration or paralegal
• Office management
• Government or business administration
• Project management
• Professional development
• Conference management

Mrs Anna Perry

School Musical

Don’t forget to buy your tickets ASAP

Vale World Cup

The Year 7 & 8 ‘Vale World Cup’ Indoor Soccer (Futsal) tournament kicked off during first break last week in the SAC.

17 teams are participating in the lunch time tournament that involves 15 student teams and 2 teachers’ teams all vying for the title of ‘Vale World Cup Winners!

Spain and France have opened their campaigns with resounding victories over Australia and Croatia respectively but the big question is…will anyone be good enough to beat the teachers?

Good luck to all students involved!

Year 10 school vaccinations happening soon!

The Gold Coast Public Health’s immunisation team will be providing vaccinations to all year 10 students on 22 July 2019.

You should have received an email from admin.immunisegc@health.qld.gov.au.

If you haven’t received this email you can complete a consent form to enrol your child here:

Alternatively you can contact Gold Coast Public Health’s immunisation team on 1800 940 750

Note: You will need to complete a consent form even if you do not wish to have your child vaccinated.

Homestay Families Required

Would you like to make a new friend? Would you like to learn more about Japan and Japanese pop-culture? Why not host a student from our Japanese Sister School this year?

We urgently require more homestay families for our group visiting July 26 - August 1.

These students will likely look after our own students who visit Japan on our school trip. If you've ever thought about going to Japan one day, this is a rare chance to make a friend that could look after you in the future.

If you are interested in sharing your home with a student from Japan for 6 days, then please come and see Mr Middleton in DS09 or email bmidd32@eq.edu.au, and collect an Expression of Interest letter.

Holiday Programs

Earn and Learn

Dear Parents/Caregivers – The school is collecting Woolworths Earn and Learn stickers again this year. Thank you for your support last year which enabled us to choose sporting equipment that all students have access to. The SEP Unit was also given equipment which is vital to enhancing student movement. Please take stickers to the front office or to Sharon Skennar in the HPE Office near the SAC.

Parent Tools for Cyberbullying

Please see the Australia Government eSafety Commissioner website for tips and tools to assist your child.

From the Guidance Officers

Support Staff

As part of our Learning and Well-being framework, we have created a Well-being Hub for students and parents, which can accessed through the Helensvale State High School webpage. The hub includes links to other websites and apps which can help to support student well-being, as well as provide information on career pathways. To access these ‘well-being hubs’, click on the icons below, or, go to the HSHS website, scroll down the page and click on the relevant icon.