Clarence High Food Drive

On Tuesday December 6th Clarence High will be holding a free dress day. Instead of gold coin donations students are asked to bring non-perishable foods. The foods will be donated to the Salvation Army for their Christmas Appeal.

Youth Build

Congratulations to Dylan Figg, who won the award as one of the two most outstanding students from all Youth Build programs in southern Tasmania.  

Teachers’ farewell

Coming towards the end of the year we would just like to say goodbye and good luck to all staff leaving this year. Teachers leaving include:

Mr Winter, who is retiring

Mr Maunder, who is going on long service leave

Mrs Wilson, who will be on maternity leave

Mr Winter is looking forward to travelling after his retirement.

“My best memory at Clarence high would be the establishment of the computer and robotics programs” –Mr Winter

Mr Maunder will be on long service leave for 65 teaching days.

He will miss the students, and some staff members.

“I’m looking forward to going on an overseas holiday for 7 weeks and the rest of my time I will be at home working in my vegetable garden. I collect bee’s to make honey. I will go fishing a lot, go swimming and look after my chickens.”-Mr Maunder

He won’t miss the noise in the corridors.

We would also like to welcome back staff who will be returning next year. Mr Wigger will be returning from long service leave, after having a lovely holiday in Europe.We also welcome all new staff who will be starting next year.

Kate & Pip

Personalised Learning exhibitions

Personalised Learning students are currently doing their exhibitions. They do this to show the work that they have produced and what they have learnt during the year to their teachers, family and classmates.

They present their work in their own individual ways such as power points, speeches, posters, magazines, collages, diagrams, practical etc.

INTER HIGH ATHLETICS

Inter High Athletics carnival, held on November 16th, was a huge success. Congratulations to all participants.  The day was great fun and for year tens it could have possibly been their last race.. We fielded participants for every event; we had people cover for others after injury.

 Congratulations to Matt Hosie for doing amazingly well and breaking two records. He is now the holder of the grade seven long jump and discus records for the south of the state. Also congratulations to Tim Coad for jumping a huge 1.8m in the high jump. Well done boys for the outstanding effort.

A huge thankyou to Mr Hughes for organising it and for all teachers and helpers on the day.

Emily & Alice

Work skills program

These things are available for the grade tens to do in December instead of being at school.
     
      ·         First aid – school based and gives you work place level one

·         Save a mate

·         Safe food handling

·         Bronze medallion

·         Barista

·         Responsible service of alcohol

Paid work – people have been able to increase their hours to gain more experience in the work place if they already had employment. Some people are working at Woolworths,  Target, Kmart, building firms etc.

Work experience – a real range of jobs have become available to come and try. These include such things as hairdressing, nail technicians, mechanics, cabinet maker, child care workers, dietician etc

Class assistant – at one of the local primary schools or Clarence High. 

“Work skills gives us opportunities that we wouldn’t have otherwise.” -Year 10
Lucy & Mikayla

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Youth Build

Year nine students need to get their applications into Ms Maher or Flo as soon as possible. There will be an interview for students on Monday December 5^th.

So... what is Youth Build?

Well throughout the year some of the grade ten boys were a part of a programme called Youth Build. Every Thursday the boys travelled together to Claremont College and built items for K&D Warehouse.
Youth Build is a fantastic way to gain skills in;

Matthew  said “I recommend Youth Build because it is a great opportunity and it was a lot of fun.”

·         Team work

·         Time Management

·         Building

·         Communication

Kelly & Paige

PREFECTS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN!

Next year there will be eleven prefects which is one extra compared to this year’s ten. The head boy and girl will be announced at Clarence Celebrates on December 20th. This is also when the prefect board will be officially announced. Next year’s prefects will be Sam, Mark, Geoffrey, Carmelina, Emma, Bronte, Georgina, Christie, Taylor, Elizabeth and Rubie.  Congratulations everybody.

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Band Taken to Another Level

The symbols clashed

The trumpet blasted

The band played…

In early October the Clarence High School junior and senior concert and stage bands competed in the Citywide Clarence Eisteddfod.

The Clarence junior concert band did very well competing in two different sections but did not place in either of the sections.

The stage band impressed coming second in their division. Some of the students were very nervous with it being the first time they had performed in the Citywide Clarence Eisteddfod.

“It was very nerve-racking and I was so glad when it was over.” _{Said a grade 7 student}

The Clarence Senior concert band did very well, earning a merit in their section. The senior stage band also did a good job. They competed back to back in two heats, scoring a merit in their first heat and a second in the senior stage band section.

Clarence impressed with the number of solos in their acts. Andrew on the drums, Hannah on flute, Loren on trumpet, Ollie on guitar, Jacqui on sax and Carmelina on vocals all provided great highlights and the audience really enjoyed it.

Carmelina