CHELTENHAM GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY NEWSLETTER
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TERM 2, 2012
News from the PDHPE Faculty
PDHPE
Welcome to our
newsletter!
Our PDHPE Faculty have
had an extremely busy
start to the year.
Our term 2 newsletter
reports on our proudest
achievements from semester one!
Our students are well underway with their PDHPE studies this year! Year 7-10 have studied various
units, both practical and theoretical and our senior students are working hard in PDHPE, CAFS and
SLR.
Some highlights so far include our Year 11 camp to Yarramundi, Year 11 Crossroads camp to Narrabeen and MADD night where our Dancers performed their 2012 pieces.
A reminder to parents and students of year 10, 11 and 12 to read over our CGHS Assessment Policy
for 2012, and to read carefully our policy relating to illness/ misadventure applications.
Our Faculty
Ms Amy Harriman– Head Teacher and Whole School Sport Coordinator
Ms Amy Harriman joins
our faculty as newly appointed Head Teacher, as
well as Mr Bill Gavathas–
our new Head Teacher
Admin and member of
the PDHPE Faculty.
We said a sad farewell to
Mrs Larcombe at the end
of term one. We wish her
and her family all the best
wishes as they head off
to sunny QLD!
Ms Simone Hope– Head Teacher Administration
Mr Bill Gavathas– Head Teacher Administration
Ms Rebecca McLachlan– SRC Coordinator
Miss Rebecca Wade– Sport Coordinator
Mrs Kim Vanden Hogen– Transition Coordinator
Ms Samantha Parkinson– Dance Coordinator
Mrs Jane McInerney– Year 7 Year Advisor
Ms Cathy Gray– Year 7 Assistant Year Advisor
Mrs Trudi Mowll– Classroom Teacher
I am delighted to report
on so many wonderful
things in this newsletter,
which covers all things
PDHPE, Sport and Dance!
Rachel Marangon, Emily Davie, Tomacin Spring, Nic McInerney– Casual Teaching Staff
Ms Amy Harriman
Ms Amy Harriman
HT PDHPE
HT PDHPE
I am very excited to be working with such a hardworking, committed and talented PDHPE staff at
CGHS. I look forward to reporting on many more achievements over the course of the year!
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News from the PDHPE Faculty
CGHS School Carnivals
Our three carnivals have already taken place this year! Each went off with a bang! The students in
the Sports Council and PASS classes played an integral role at each carnival assisting with various
duties including marshalling, time keeping, runners and encouraging participation from other
student. The cost of the venue for each carnival was generously paid for by the P & C. We thank
them for their support of our school carnivals.
Below is a summary of the results from each carnival.
SWIMMING
CROSS COUNTRY
ATHLETICS
12 years age champion
Keara Carbonell
Olivia Kear
Amy Court
13 years age champion
Ashleigh Thomson
Maya Leverett
Maya Leverett
14 years age champion
Bronte Aiken
Stefanie Aisbett
Emily Dawkins
15 years age champion
Jessica Teasdale
Rebecca Muir
Sharron Chen
16 years age champion
Kathryn Ramsay
Kathryn Ramsay
Kathryn Ramsay
17 years age champion
Emilie Glasson
Sophie Edmondstone
Rachel Horwood
Sub Junior champion
Ashleigh Thomson
Amy Court
Junior champion
Bronte Aiken
Sharron Chen
Senior champion
Emilie Glasson
Kathryn Ramsay
House
Petarli
Champion of the School
Bronte Aiken
Mirrabooka
Mirrabooka
Isabella Hemming
Zone Swimming
A team of 30 girls represented the school at Zone Swimming at Drummoyne Pool. Bronte Aiken
competed in the Champion of the Zone event. Bronte Aiken was 14 years age champion and
Keara Carbonell was 12 years age champion. Cheltenham placed second behind Riverside in
the overall point score. This is the best overall result we have had in a number of years. From
zone 17 girls were selected to represent the zone at the regional carnival. Keara Carbonell was
12 years age champion. North West Metropolitan Girls' Zone was placed first in the girls
zone point score and Cheltenham Girls' was placed third in the girls schools point score.
The following students were selected to represent Sydney North at CHS Swimming: Kathryn
Ramsay, Emilie Glasson, Keara Carbonell, Alicia Fornito, Kelsey Hocking, Ashleigh Thomson,
Stephanie Harris, Anna Lee, Ellie Jongma, Lucy Jongma, Bronte Aiken and Jessica Teasdale. At
CHS Keara won a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke and a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke. She was also part of the all age relay team with Ellie, Bronte, Jessica, Kathryn and Emilie
who won a gold medal. This team went on to compete at NSW All Schools. Against some strong
opposition they were placed 6th at All Schools.
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Zone Athletics
Cheltenham once again represented at the Zone Athletics carnival on June 6th. A team of over 60 girls
represented the school at Zone Athletics at Homebush. Emma Veevers and Isabella Hemming competed in the Champion of the Zone event. Amy Court was 12 years age champion and Kathryn Ramsay
was 16 years age champion. Cheltenham placed third behind Riverside and Asquith in the overall point
score. Thanks to the Year 9 PASS classes who acted as officials on the day. A number of girls have been
selected to represent the North West Metropolitan Girls’ Zone at the regional carnival in July.
Miss Wade does a tremendous amount of work organising carnivals. I would like to especially thank
Miss Wade and our PDHPE Faculty for their wonderful work organizing these events.
Our CGHS Zone Swim Team for
2012.
CGHS Zone Athletics Team for
2012.
Zone Cross Country
60 students represented the school at the Zone Cross Country Carnival at Macquarie University
Sports Fields. Cheltenham was placed second in the overall point score. 15 students have been
selected to represent North West Metropolitan Girls' Zone at the regional carnival in Gosford
this week.
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CGHS Representatives
A number of girls have been selected in other representative sporting teams this year.
Kiara Farquhar- Football
Lauren Stephenson-Netball
Nicola Maitland- Softball
Kate Rowlison- Softball
Emily Read- Softball
Kaitlin Christmas- Tennis
Claire Mackay- Tennis
As a result of their performance at the CHS softball carnival, Nicola Maitland was selected as captain of the CHS blue team and Emily Read was selected in the CHS red team to compete at NSW All
Schools. Following this, Nicola was selected in the NSW All Schools team for the second consecutive year. At the start of May this team played at The Australian All Schools Championships in Canberra where she scored the winning runs for her team in the final. Subsequently she has been selected in the Australian Schoolgirls Team to compete in the International Series in Blacktown in
May. Well done, Nicola on these fantastic achievements!
Congratulations also to Lauren Stephenson on being selected in the Open Sydney North Netball
team. She was one of ten to be selected out of 50 students! From this team she has now been selected for the Combined High School Netball team to represent NSW. This is an outstanding
achievement!
Knockout Sport 2012
A number of Knockout competitions have commenced. Competition has finished for the open waterpolo, basketball and touch football teams. Competition continues for the hockey, football, netball, softball and tennis teams.
The waterpolo team again entered the Barker invitation waterpolo competition. This team played
each Tuesday night in Term 1 and had mixed results.
Open Touch Knockout 2012
The Open Touch team played against Carlingford High School in a Round 1 match on Monday 20 th
February. Cheltenham came out firing, showing their skill and strength in offence. We lead the
game in the first half. The second half was extremely close with the scoreboard showing 4 all with
3minutes to go. We all thought a drop off in extra time would be played. Unfortunately Carlingford
scored a try with 30 seconds to go on the clock. The score board showing Carlingford 5, Cheltenham
4. It was a disappointing finish, however, the girls played a competitive match. Congratulations to
Fran Looby, Tessa Hillig and Lauren Stephenson who all scored tries.
Well done to the following students on a great game and wonderful sportswomanshipLauren Stephenson, Nicola Maitland, Fran Looby, Kirra-Lee Scott, Taylor Crum, Eloise Argent, Sophie
Edmonestone, Charolotte Dinan, Brittany Talty, Chantelle Larkin, Lauren Lai, Tessa Hillig, Rhiannon
Evans, Kathryn Ramsay, Caitlin Wood and Amelia Vitek.
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Knockout Netball 2012
The Open Knockout Netball Competition was on Tuesday the 1st of May at Gosford. After proceeding straight through to Round 3, Cheltenham was more than ready to get on the court! We
started off really strong and with the great shooting, defence and mid-court skills we were feeling confident. We managed to hold our own despite some injuries and concluded the game with
a win against Henry Kendall 42-17. Thank you to Colette Teirney and Linda Talty who drove the
team and supported us on the day, and to Ms McLachlan our coach.
The team consisted of:
HAYLEY
LILY
RHIANNA
KATE
LAUREN
DANIEL
MCGANN
EVANS
BRADLEY
STEVENSON
KARA
BRITTANY
ASHLEIGH
GEORGIA
DANNI
TALTY
TALTY
JONES
TEIRNEY
ROSENBERG
-umpire
MADDISON
STEELE
-umpire
By Kate Bradley and Lily McGann
Round 4 was played against Gosford on their home ground. It was a tight game and all students
truely showed the Cheltenham spirit. Well done to the KO Open Netball team.
A big Thank you to Dannni Rosenberg who umpired both Round 3 and 4 and to Maddison Steele
who umpired round 3.
Tennis
The Open Girls' Tennis Team, represented by Kaitlin Christmas (11), Claire Mackay (10), Sofie Inwood (10) and Stefanie Aisbett (8), has now reached the Sydney North semi finals of the CHS
Knockout Competition. The team defeated Riverside Girls, Henry Kendall and Cherrybrook High
Schools in earlier rounds and will now play either Kincumber or Gorokan High Schools. As well as
their excellent tennis skills the girls are a cohesive and good-natured group and enjoy spending
time with each other. They especially enjoy their visits to Maccas for a healthy lunch after traveling to "away" games! We wish them all the best of luck for their next game.
Knockout Softball 2012
The Knockout Softball team competed at the CHS Knockout Final Series in Newcastle on June
5 and 6. This is the fifth consecutive year that the team has made the CHS Finals Series. The
team made the final against Westfield Sports High School. In a tough match and bad weather,
the team lost 7-6. Congratulations girls!
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Sport Aerobics Team 2012
Our CGHS Aerobics team have been training hard for this year’s competitions. 2012 has brought
us a new opportunity to compete at the Schoolaerobics State Championships– a competition
that CGHS has historically done very well at! So far this year our fitness team achieved success
at the Schoolaerobics State Preliminary Finals in the Secondary Aerobics Division, with a first
place ranking and subsequent berth to the NSW State Finals! The girls also won the gold medal
at the NSW FISAF Championships. They will now go on to compete at the FISAF National Championships in Adelaide in July.
Our 2012 Fitness Team:
Kathryn Ramsay, Jessica Du, Priyanka Sinha, Elisa Akdogan, Danielle Jenkins, Stephanie Werner,
Isabella Mrljak and Melissa Romer.
Congratulations to the girls and Miss Parkinson for all her hard work training the girls and supporting them at these competitions! Good luck in Adelaide!
Dance 2012
This year, 3 Dance Ensembles are being directed by Miss Parkinson. Our Year 7 Dance Ensemble,
CGHS Dance Ensemble and our CGHS Dance Company have all been successful in their audition
for the Sydney North Regional Dance Festival to be held at Glen St Theatre, Belrose in Week 9 of
this term. Ticket information will be available from next week to parents.
Congratulations to all dancers on their wonderful performance at our MADD Concert night on
Wednesday 30th May.
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Sydney Swans Visit
On Tuesday February 14, members of the Sydney Swans visited Cheltenham Girls High School as
part of their ‘Community Camps’ program. One of the AFL’s key objectives this year is to promote Youth Girls football. Year 9 students each participate in a term of AFL. The players spoke
to the girls about AFL and professional sport and also ran them through a number of skills and
at the end of the session they signed autographs. The girls all had a great time.
Upcoming Events!
Regional Cross Country, Gosford– Thursday 14th June
Regional Athletics, Homebush– Monday-Tuesday 23rd-24th July
On the Move PDHPE Dance and Movement Night– Wednesday 22nd August
CGHS Knockout Softball Team 2012
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