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- New changes to COVID-19 isolation
- Hygiene Care Packages for St Vincent de Paul
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- Burnie Pump Track Launch
- HIVE Holiday Activities
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School Satisfaction Survey 2022 – Thank you
Thank you to everyone who participated in the School Satisfaction Survey 2022, your feedback is very important to help us inform our school improvement planning and decision-making.
The survey is now closed, and schools will receive summaries of the results in Term 4.
NAPLAN Results show we are on the right track
Our school recently received some of our 2022 NAPLAN testing data. We are very encouraged to see that our grade 9 students scored well above similar schools in all the test areas which are Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar & Punctuation, and Numeracy. Our grade 7 students also scored well above similar schools in all test areas. We will continue to build on these strong results by investing our school finances and teaching expertise in both intervention and extension programs. Our goal is for all students to make more than 12 months growth for each year they are at Burnie High School no matter where they start out on the learning continuum.
2023 Grade 10 Course Selection Meetings
Thank you to the parents/guardians who accompanied their grade 10 Burnie High student to their course selection meetings this week on Monday and Tuesday after school. The feedback from our Hellyer Course councillors was very positive. Thank you to Mr Thompson and Mr Fisher who made sure that our students were well prepared with their Transition Plans, and that the afternoons ran smoothly. Burnie High has a record of excellent retention from Grade 10 to Grade 11 due to this commitment by our staff.
Attendance Achievements
As of today 279 students at Burnie High School have attendance OVER 90%. Congratulations to these students and families for this awesome achievement. With many students currently sitting just under 90% I am hoping that with better weather and less sickness ahead in term 4 we can work together to make this number 350! I will report back to you at the end of Term 4 to let you know how we went.
Have a safe and happy holiday and I look forward to students returning on Monday 17 October for the start of Term 4.
Trudy Durkin
Contacts:
Principal | Trudy Durkin | trudy.durkin@education.tas.gov.au |
Assistant Principal | James Thompson | james.thompson@education.tas.gov.au |
Assistant Principal | Sheree Hodgetts | sheree.hodgetts@education.tas.gov.au |
Schoool Business Mananger | Lois Cameron | lois.cameron@education.tas.gov.au |
School office | 03 6431 2744 | burnie.high@education.tas.gov.au |
Hands on Learning at Burnie High School
We have had a very busy term in H.o.L and have completed the chicken houses, fencing and gates for our new broods of chickens and our beautiful pure-bred roosters.
We have also completed the Pizza Oven – the H.o.L boys adopted this project, as the H.o.L girls group turned their hands to some other projects. We are all looking forward to our first H.o.L pizzas next term.
We would love for other classes to be able to come over and use this facility from time to time – creating healthy home made pizzas from all of our school grown produce.
We have also assisted St Vincent de Paul Society with some community projects and the students also lent them a couch for a day to support the recognition of homelessness in our community.
Senior Agriculture Studies.
We finally had the opportunity for an excursion! They are back on the agenda! Due to COVID-19 excursions have been few and far between in recent years. Students were so excited to be able to attend AGFEST this year. Fifty four Senior Agricultural Studies students attended this exciting Agriculture Expo and had a terrific time learning about all things agricultural. They earned compliments from other staff as well as members of the public about their exemplary behaviour. Burnie High School should be proud of how each and every student demonstrated, respect, punctuality (at designated meeting points) and courtesy to each other and those around them.
Junior Agriculture Studies.
This term has been jam-packed with exciting (animal husbandry) and not so exciting (weeding/raking out chook houses) things at the farm and in class. We had two bull calves (yet to be named) arrive for our Cows Create Careers study module (sponsored by Dairy Australia) – due to foot and mouth disease rules and regulations we cannot return the calves to the dairy, so we will fatten them up as yearlings and hopefully sell some off for the meat, as well as use some in Home Economics.
We have had a number of roosters hatch which has also assisted the Home Economics Department with making soup and stock. These excess birds also mean we can do real-life process and preparation of meat – plucking and gutting the old-fashioned way – which is either cooked at the farm or sent to the school kitchen. These classes also double as biology lessons.
We have bought another two pigs to fatten and process – Edwina and Eleanora. Hopefully the girls will be ready by January, for school and student use.
With all the fun stuff comes theory and the never-ending repair, rejuvenate and rehabilitate – gardens, grounds, fences and farm equipment. Weeding, fertilising, germinating seeds, composting cleaning chook houses and preparing gardens for planting.
Much of the produce is given to students and the Home Economics Department as well as donated to charities such as the soup kitchen and Vinnies meal hub. Students know that if they need fresh eggs, vegetables, meat or want to take seedlings to grow at home they are most welcome to reap the benefits of their hard work.
Steph Prendergast.
Students participate in a range of activities at the BHS Learning Hub, some of the literacy, numeracy and science learning tasks have a brought range of practical applications. We have studied science through the world of Bees – biology, ecology and botany as well as Food and Fibre through – agriculture, horticulture, nutrition and textiles. In collaboration Ms. Prendergast and Ms. Smith and the students, have cultivated a variety of produce for use in the school kitchens. This is well supported by the Agriculture and H.o.L students – who support their peers in this program.
Students designed and produced colourful (courtesy of the Art Department) pots in which to plant bee attracting herbs and flowers, they also produced health meals such as wraps and soups from lettuce, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, turnips, herbs, yakon and chickens all grown at the school farm.
During Term 4 students will enter the Food Ladder School Recipe Challenge – this is a National competition where the students will be require to grow Choy and Basil. They are tasked to create the most interesting recipe, and prepare a delicious dish or condiment, utilising their choice of either of these as the hero ingredient! Watch this space!
Steph Prendergast and Georgina Smith.
New changes to COVID-19 isolation
Public Health has recently changed the mandatory COVID-19 isolation period from seven days to five days.
This means COVID-19 cases can leave isolation, provided they:
- are no longer displaying symptoms on Day 5 of their isolation period, and
- have had no fever for 24 hours prior to Day 5.
People that leave isolation on or after Day 5 must wear a face mask in all settings for Days 5, 6 and 7 – even if they are not displaying symptoms. People are strongly recommended to wear a face mask indoors on Days 8, 9 and 10.
Students under the age of 12 and all primary school students are not required to wear face masks when leaving isolation.
To read more about this change, please visit the Tasmanian Government Coronavirus website.
For any COVID-19 enquiries, please contact the Tasmanian Public Health Hotline on 1800 671 738, or Department of Education COVID-19 Support Hotline at COVID19support@education.tas.gov.au or on 1800 816 057.
If you need support translating or interpreting this information, contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.
Hygiene Care Packages for St Vincent de Paul
On Monday September 19, Nicci Skerl the St Vincent de Paul Community and Youth Services Manager (North-West), visited BHS to speak with the Grade 8 Class Captains about the work that St Vincent de Paul (and other organisations) do in our community. The Grade 8 Class Captains are currently (until the end of term) running a drive to collect hygiene items to create hygiene packages which will be distributed by St Vincent de Paul in our local area and statewide. Nicci discussed with the students how, where, when and why the van (and volunteers) go out into the community to provide food, goods, company and the hygiene packages.