Matthew Magann – Sportsman of the Year
 Matthew Magann, of Year 8, has been named local sporting champion with a $500 grant.
Matthews excels in the sport of Hockey and was recently recognised and awarded the grant by local MP Joel Fitzgibbon.
The grants are designed to assist players with their sporting development and help them with the ongoing costs associated with representative sport.
Matthew represents Newcastle in the U13’s and U15’s Hockey Team and has a goal to try out for the Hunter Academy of Sport.
Congratulations and well done Matthew.
(Picture courtesy of The Hunter Star)
COLES SPORT FOR SCHOOLS PROGRAM
 Spend and Collect
Every $10 spent at Coles Supermarkets, Coles Online, Bi-Lo and Pick ‘n Pay from 2 September to the 31 October 2010 will earn a Coles Sports for Schools voucher.
* Excludes purchases on gift cards, mobile recharge, calling cards, iTunes, tobacco and tobacco related products.
Students can collect vouchers from their family, friends and neighbours and drop them into the voucher collection box in the MGHS front office.
It's pretty simple: the more vouchers we get, the more sports gear we can get!
The program ends on Sunday 31 October 2010.
Emily Most Outstanding Female Athlete
 Emily Coppins was as shocked as anyone to find she’d been named the most outstanding female athlete following the Hunter Region Athletics Championships.
The year 10 student from Maitland Grossmann High School was named 16 years female champion following the event, which attracted more than 1200 Hunter athletes. She also walked away with the highest individual honour the carnival offers – the David Helmore Trophy for the most outstanding female athlete.
Emily will compete in six events at the State Secondary Schools Athletics Championships in Homebush from September 9 - 11. She has been competing at Thornton Little Athletics Club for 13 years and is also a member of the Hunter Academy Athletics team.
Coppins claimed a silver in the 400m at a state Little Athletics meeting in March this year in the under 17s, an improvement on her third in the same event at the state championships in 2009.
Teachers warn against cutting student hours for technology and design
 AUSTRALIA risks losing future technologists, engineers and designers if the hours that students study design and technology at school are cut, teachers warn.A draft timetable by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority devotes 80 hours to design and technology in years 7 and 8.
But NSW technology teachers say this is a big reduction from the total of 200 hours now taught in years 7 and 8.
Paul Copeland, a member of the Institute of Industrial Arts Technology Education and the head teacher in industrial arts at Sydney Technical High School, said: ''If you cut it by 60 per cent it's very hard to do meaningful practical projects.
''The rigour would go out of the course and we wouldn't be able to do such a wide variety of technologies.
''If you cut off a significant part of a course and we don't expose kids to as many different forms of technology, it limits what they are going to think about as a career.''
The president of the institute, Dave Macpherson, said technology offered students more than just ''chalk and talk'' - it offered them literacy and numeracy skills. ''Kids want to get their hands on things, they want to see a rocket explode, they want to see things breaking, they want to be able to make a cutting board, they want to be able to cook a cake and taste it, they want to be able to sit at a computer and design a system, they want to make things and understand how and why,'' he said.
The general manager of curriculum at the authority, Robert Randall, said the design and technology curriculum would be developed in phase three of the national curriculum, and writing had not begun.
''Time allotments represent minimum learning entitlements for all students. States, territories and individual schools can choose to allocate more time or a higher priority to a subject or learning area.''
But Mr Copeland said: ''By the time we get to phase three they have already created two phases of subjects and have used up most of the hours. It's a bit disingenuous''.
A technology lecturer at the Australian Catholic University, John Barlow, said he would expect to see fewer students aspiring to be technology teachers, engineers and designers if teaching hours were cut.
JESSICA MAHAR SMH
Nikola Blumer
 In July 2011, Nikola Blumer of Year 12 will participate in a volunteer gap year program with a “non for profit” organisation called “Lattitude”. They offer placements in fifteen countries for various durations for people aged 17-25. For Nikola’s placement, she has chosen to stay in Australia. The Australian placements are based in one of five all indigenous or part indigenous boarding schools. Nikola will be a “schools assistant” which will include duties such as ; assisting teachers in classes, boarding duties, tutoring, coaching, transporting boarders to appointments, Library and clinic duties. These boarding schools house students from numerous rural communities, most of which do not have local schools. For many students, these schools are a last resort because of difficult family situations, previous expulsions etc. Nikola’s placement will be for five months where she will learn an immense amount about indigenous culture and the challenges that young indigenous students encounter.
We congratulate Nikola on her display of social justice, humanity and goodwill. Good luck and we hope you find you experience worthwhile and challenging. Best of luck!
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Year 11 Hospitality Workplacement (K.Goward)
Date: 30 August 2010 00:00 to 03 September 2010 00:00
Year 10 Work Experience Week
Date: 30 August 2010 07:00 to 04 September 2010 17:00
Design & Technology Assessment Task 4 Prelim Year
Date: 3 September 2010
Summary: Minor Project 35%
Industrial Technology Assessment Task 3 Prelim
Date: 3 September 2010
Summary: Free Choice Design 40%
2011 TVET courses
Date: 3 September 2010 09:00 to 00:00
Summary: TVET applications Round 1 close at TAFE
Careers Advisers District meeting(L.Osborne)
Date: 6 September 2010 12:00 to 16:00
Combined district Careers Advisers Meeting(L.Osborne)
Date: 6 September 2010 13:00 to 16:00
Paul Wade Presentation in Hall(L.Osborne)
Date: 7 September 2010 09:30 to 12:45
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3 Motivational Media Presentations for selected years
Date: 7 September 2010 09:30 to 12:30
Volunteering Awards meeting(L.Osborne,B.Skinner,Heather Arms)
Date: 8 September 2010 10:00 to 11:30
Peer Support Training (Y9)
Date: 9 September 2010
Summary: Maitland Goal (W.Stephan)
Laptop Workshop for Careers Advisers,Newcastle(L.Osborne)
Date: 9 September 2010 09:00 to 16:00
Industrial Technology - Wood Assessment Task 3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 2 40%
Industrial Technology - Construction Assessment Task 3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 2 40%
Industrial Technology - Electronics Assessment Task 3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 2 40%
Industrial Technology - Engineering Assessment Task 3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 2 40%
Vet Construction Assessment Task 3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 40%
VET Metals & Engineering Ass3
Date: 10 September 2010
Summary: Practical Task 2 40%
Skills Training for Career and Transition Teams,Kurri TAFE(J.Heaney,L.Osborne,J.Sellers-Fogarty)
Date: 10 September 2010 08:30 to 16:00
Year 10 & 11 Exams
Date: 13 September 2010 00:00 to 24 September 2010 00:00
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Welfare Day-Tuesday 7 Sep
Yrs 8,9 and 10 students have the opportunity to attend two presentations on Tuesday 7 September as an initiative of the school welfare team. Motivational Media’s presentation True North, will be held in the BTS and involves giant screens and music. True North contains valuable messages about the value of planning, making good choices and friendships.
Paul Wade, ex-socceroo, will also be talking to some of the students about his experiences as an athlete, employability skills and his diagnosis of epilepsy. Paul will talk to all Yr 8 and also the Yr9 and 10 sports elective classes.
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Industry Scholarships 2011
Following is a list of scholarships available through the University of Newcastle Industry
Scholarship Scheme (UNISS). Scholarships are available for students commencing
undergraduate studies in Semester 1, 2011.
Civil Engineering, Civil/Surveying, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Surveying.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
8 October 2010
For applications and further detail please visit:
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P&C Meeting
 The Next P&C Meeting is this Thursday 2nd September at 7pm in the School Library - the guest speaker is Alison Gill from Daylight Sportswear and everyone is welcome to attend
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ICAS International Competition Dates
Computer Skills Tuesday 24 May 2011
Science Wednesday 8 June 2011
Spelling Tuesday 21 June 2011
Writting Tuesday 21 June 2011
English Tuesday 2 August 2011
Mathematics Tuesday 16 August 2011
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Lacking in real vision
 Proposed changes to how the arts are taught in schools risks dumbing down the curriculum. Attached is an article by Kerry Thomas, as it appeared in the Sydney Morning Hearld. 9/8/2010
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2009 Annual School Report
During last term Yr 11 Information Technology students, Shane Humbles and Luke Smith, have been working on the Living Library project. They have interviewed several people who have had a connection with the school, recording their memories. Click here to view their work.
Financial Supporters of MGHS
If you take out a loan at the Westpac Bank in Greenhills and mention Maitland Grossmann High School, the school will receive a monetary contribution from the bank.
Become a Club Fit member at the Athletes Foot at Greenhills or Charlestown and receive a 10% discount on each purchase. If you mention the school it will also receive a monetary contribution from the Athletes Foot.
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