High School
Year 10 Bell Shakespeare Incursion
On Monday 14 August, Year 10 students will be attending a performance by Bell Shakespeare’s ‘The Players’ titled Macbeth: The Rehearsal. The performance has been scheduled to enhance their learning experience with the Shakespeare Play, Macbeth, this term.
School Based Immunisation Programs Catch-up Session
The Hobart City Council immunisation program will be providing catch up immunisations on Wednesday 15 November 2023. Any Year 7-12 students who have not had all their adolescent vaccines are able to be immunised at this session, providing a consent form has been returned. Students for whom consent was received earlier in the year, but were unable to be immunised on the day, will be contacted by HCC and can attend.
Students who did not return an immunisation form last time may collect another one from the High School Office. Please complete and return the consent forms even if your child will not be receiving the vaccines by Thursday 31 August 2023.
Term 3 High School Aquatics Program
Week 1 - Week 6
In Term 3, all students in Years 7 - 9 will participate in an Aquatics program in Weeks 1 to 6 inclusive. This is a compulsory unit of our Years 7 - 9 Physical Education Curriculum. Students will access Friends Health & Fitness one lesson each week to use the swimming pool and facilities. The focus of these programs is to develop students’ swimming and water survival skills so they gain the confidence and fitness to be able to enjoy activities in aquatic environments in the future.
In Year 10, students self-select to complete competencies towards the Life-Saving Bronze Medallion Award run by certified staff and supported by Royal Life Saving Tasmania. Students are encouraged to remember their swim gear for these sessions which includes: swimmers, goggles, swim cap and towel.
It is anticipated that all students will participate in this program unless parents have discussed this with the respective PE teacher.
For more information please contact Trish Menadue.
2023 Battle of the Bands
Thursday 31 August - 6pm - 9pm
The 2023 Friends’ School Amnesty Battle of the Bands is being held in The Farrall Centre on Thursday 31 August. The event will commence at 6.00pm and conclude at 9.00pm and will feature student bands from Years 7 – 12. Entry is gold coin donation and soft drinks will be available for purchase with all proceeds going to the schools Amnesty group.
Attending students are to be dropped off and collected from the venue.
This is an ‘in house’ event for school students and parents only. Any non-school student/adult arriving will be asked to leave as The Friends’ School cannot accept responsibility for non-Friends’ students. There will be no pass outs and there are to be no bags brought into the venue by students other than that required by the performers.
School parents are welcome to attend and will be seated upstairs of the The Farrall Centre, students (Years 7 -12 only) will be situated downstairs. We would love to see you come along and support the students at this evening of musical celebration.
For enquiries, please email David Wilson
2023 Term Dates
Term 3 Tuesday 25 July - 29 September
Monday 4 September – Wellbeing Day, as part of Wellbeing Weekend (no K-12 classes)
Term 4 Monday 16 October - Tuesday 12 December
High School – Years 7 to 10 Office
6210 2235 | hsoffice@friends.tas.edu.au
8am – 4pm Monday – Friday