THS NEWS

NEWSLETTER OF TEMORA HIGH SCHOOL

Principal's Perspective
ANZAC Day
Our senior History students led a magnificent whole school ANZAC Ceremony last
Wednesday. The stories and poems the students contributed reminded us all of the
commitment, sacrifice and camaraderie between people when our society needed it. Thank
you to the staff and students who attended the local Temora ANZAC Day commemoration
at the Cenotaph. We should all be proud to march and remember those before us and what
we stand for as a country.

Athletics Carnival
A great Athletics Carnival was held on the last day of term. After rain threatened to ruin the
day in the days leading up, it was a perfectly calm, partly cloudy athletics weather. Many
records were broken and congratulations to our record breakers and age champions. It was
a privilege to see so many students participating and enjoying having a go. Mr Groth’s
mathematic must be good as the scratch race calculations made the race amazingly close
and exciting to watch. The staff v Year 12 tug-o-war was pretty even until the students
gained the numbers advantage to take an overall win. Thank you to Mrs Pattingale and the
PE staff for organising. Thank you staff and students for a great day.

Attendance
Thank you to all the students that have an attendance level of more than 95%. Certificates
were handed out to students in year assemblies this week in recognition of strong
attendance. Every day matters and students must attend school every day. Thank you to
parents that ensure their child attends every day.

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Principal's Perspective
Olympic Speaker – Nicholas Timmings
Stage 5 students were privileged to meet Australian Olympic Skeleton champion, Nicholas
Timmings. Students and staff learnt about the sport of skeleton, Nicholas’s pathways to the
Olympics and positive messages. Nicholas encouraged us all to work hard, be passionate,
take opportunities and follow what you love to do. Great advice.

Mural Painting
Visiting Artist, Alex is working with our students to design and paint some murals around the
school. The work so far looks amazing. The Aboriginal Education Team will be working with
Alex to represent our school’s journey in the last five years on the water tanks near the
Yarning Circle. Great to have Alex with us to brighten up and capture stories for our school.

Congratulations
Grace Krause, Australian Athletic Champion and Commonwealth Youth Games qualifier.
Isabelle Slapp, was selected as a reserve for the State Dance Ensemble.
THS Dance Group who will be representing our school at the Riverina Dance Festival.

Trivia Night
Remember to register for the Year 12 Trivia Night. I’m sure the questions will not be too hard
and it will be an enjoyable night. Thank you for organising Year 12.

Have a great week – Ian Pattingale

Well done to the students who were awarded Attendance

Awards for Term 1 2023. Great effort THS. Attendance matters
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Goldenfields Study Day - 10th May
Quantum Leaps - 19th May
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Love Bites Yr 10 - 22nd May
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Students and staff proudly represented Temora High
School at the Anzac Day Ceremony. It was great to
see so many of our students as well as teaching
staff attend and march in honour of our soldiers
who fought so bravely for our country. The sun was
shining throughout the wreath laying ceremony in
what was a moving tribute. Lest we forget.
ANZAC DAY
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SPORT
Lara Curry recently represented
THS in the U15 Riverina Touch
Football team. The team finished
3rd in the State, defeated by the
Hunter in the semi final. Lara was
awarded the Riverina Medal for
her outstanding performance.
Congratulations Lara.

It was wonderful to welcome back to our school last week former THS
Teacher Librarian, Ms Beth McLaren. Mrs Roots, as she was known
LIBRARY NEWS

then, grew up in Barmedman and came to THS from Dubbo, running

our library from 1970 to 1973. She enjoyed seeing the changes to the
library space since then and our students really valued the
opportunity to chat to Beth and her husband, Phil, about our school
as well as the importance of reading for learning and life. It was
fascinating to hear of Beth’s career achievements, after leaving THS,
in school libraries in Northern Sydney, in various Department of
Education libraries, TAFE libraries as well as Hornsby Shire Council
Library, where she was Executive Manager of Library and Community
Services. One of the highlights of Beth’s career was her role leading
the team responsible for developing, and supporting the roll-out, of
software which allowed the automation of school libraries, to over
2000 NSW Department of Education schools.

We also talked about the important work being done on the Trove
database https://trove.nla.gov.au, which comprises a vast
resource of digitised images, newspapers, archived websites etc.
Trove is being created through the collaboration of the National
Library of Australia and partners, such as University, Public and some
School Libraries. Beth, is one of the numerous Trove volunteers who
correct the digitised text on Trove to improve the success rate for
those searching early Australian newspapers which are freely
accessible to all users. Trove is definitely worth logging onto and
having a look!

Mrs Willoughby
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DANCE ENSEMBLE
Congratulations to Isabelle Slapp,
who has been selected on the
reserve list for the 2023 State
Dance Ensemble. This is a huge
achievement as students from
Years 9 to 12 can audition and we
are excited to see what the future
brings.

In 2023, Temora High School introduced a new educational

pathway called Ready to Work. The Ready to Work class was
offered to all students in Years 9 and 10 and includes a program
READY2WORK

called Hands on Learning. The Ready to Work class builds

wellbeing, engagement, and attendance by creating opportunities
for students to discover their talents and experience success
through significant and authentic hands-on projects.

The school employed a mentor who assists students to undertake

industry-based experience in the community on a weekly basis. We
would like to thank the following businesses for providing these
experiences to our students: Hutcheon & Pearce Temora and
Temora Truck & Tractor.

The students in the class are currently building their own classroom
and kitchen by refurbishing an existing shed. Students cleaned a
large storage shed and sorted out timber accumulated over time
at Temora High School. The students will be able to use this timber
for a variety of different projects.

Students have constructed their own toolboxes that they store

their own PPE equipment in, and a rustic table made from pallet
wood for their classroom.

If any community organisations would like the students to

undertake some work for them, please contact the school directly
to organise.
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WORK
AMAZING GRACE

Congratulations to Grace Krause, on her incredible performance at the

2023 Australian Junior Athletics Championships.

Grace had a successful campaign, gaining some personal bests,

received gold , silver and bronze medals in various events and qualified
for the Commonwealth Youth Games in U18 200m and U18 Long Jump.

Temora High School is extremely proud of this fanatstic achievement

and we wish Grace all the best for the Commonwealth Youth Games
selections.

Results
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STAFF SPOTLIGHT
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ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
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ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
We had wonderful weather and fantastic participation from
Temora High School students at our annual Athletics
Carnival on the last day of Term 1. The day started early with
a large contingency of students lining up to compete in the
1500m. Sasha Curry, the distance specialist, took out the
1500m with a new record for the 12-14yrs girls, with a time of
5:19.
Always hotly contended was the 100m sprint. Students
demonstrated patronage to their house as they sped down
the track. Grace Krause was a stand out taking out the 16
Years Girls 100m with a new record time of 11.84. Sienna
Botha also broke a record for the 12 Years Girls 100m, with a
time of 14.19.
Jocelyn Keith is now the new record holder for 14 Years Girls
Long Jump with 4.69m.
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Grace Krause took out other records on the day:

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
16 years long jump- 5.65m
16 years triple jump- 11.48m
16 years High Jump- 1.68m
16 years girls 200m - 24.97m
16 years girls 400m - 1:04.00

Year 12 were kept busy on the BBQ selling bacon and egg rolls and baked
goodies to raise funds for their up and coming graduation.
The highlight of the day was the Golden Gift style handicap race with the
mathematics carefully calculated by Mr Groth. The 8 fastest runners of the
day, male and female, lined up to see who could take out the Gift. It comes
as no surprise that Grace Krause was the victor for the girls and Daylen
Coleman was the victor for the boys! Whilst the points tally was extremely
close, Spitfire was the strongest house on the day, taking home the winners
trophy.

2023 Temora High School Age Champions are

12 Years- Josie Harris, Lachlan Manwaring
13 Years - Sasha Curry, Ruben Wiencke
14 Years - Jocelyn Keith, Max Wiencke
15 Years - Lara Curry, Connor Hawksworth
16 Years - Grace Krause, Daylen Coleman
17+Years - Claudia Cole, Eden Breust

Thank you to the wonderful staff and students at our school for
participating in this event.