Anson in Review

National Reconciliation Week (cont. from issue 5)

Recently we culminated our Reconciliation Week activities with a damper cook off! We are so grateful to our judges Deputy Mayor Cr Gerald Power Orange City Council - Wiradjuri Country, Alivya Powell Wambinya Enterprise and the boys from TAFE NSW Orange Kurt Beahan, Kane Smith and Jarrod Williams. Campus judges were Jake Kelly and Murray Gorham from Clontarf and Boyd Griffen.

The effort put into recipes and presentation was mind blowing. Our guests struggled to make a decision with the standard so high! The winners were:

Stage 6 - class 1

Stage 5 - class 9

Stage 4 - class 16

Primary - class 11

Campus - Team cheese and bacon

The overall winner was Class 11!

Congratulations to all winners!

A big thank you to Miss Emma for organising, along with Anthony and Maurice for cooking the BBQ.

Jodie Pritchard

Aboriginal Education Coordinator and

Deputy Principal

Junior AECG

We are very proud to announce that Evelyn Parkes and Toby Jones are our Junior Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) representatives.

The Junior AECG is a student committee established by our Local AECG. Today, Toby and Evelyn participated in a Storylines workshop run by Aunty Lyn Brown, which involved being filmed talking about an elder who has had an impact on their life. Miss Emma was blown away by how well Toby and Evelyn expressed their ideas and interacted with others. The videos will appear on the Storylines website soon.

Check out https://storylines.com.au/

Jodie Pritchard

Aboriginal Education Coordinator and 

Deputy Principal

Student growth

Class 8 have been working on short story writing activities. There have been different genres such as “Write about a scar you have”, “A long journey interrupted by a disaster”, and free choice. Students have been encouraged to use expressive, descriptive language and creative structure.

Evelyn Parkes initially found it difficult getting her ideas out of her mind and onto paper. With much persistence over this term she has greatly improved to the point of writing an engaging 6 page story. She received a Deputy Principal award from Ms Pritchard for her efforts - well done Evelyn!

Georgie van Bockom Mass

Class 8 SLSO

Dental van visit

Each year the Australian Dental Health Van visits our school to offer free dental checkups and treatments. This is a very valuable service offered to our students and there were many toothy grins coming out of the van over the 3 days.

Julie Hudson

(Rel) Principal