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Last week, students in Years 11 & 12 were given their mid-course reports. These reports are a reflection of the hard work and effort students have been putting in to their different courses.

Dear parents/carers of our Year 8 students,

This is a gentle reminder that the Course Preference (Subject Selection) Information Evening for Year 9 students 2020 will be held on Wednesday evening, 12th June from 7:00 pm-8:15 pm.

The night will commence with a presentation in the Hall (7:00 pm to 7:25 pm) followed by you and the students visiting KLA displays in A block (7:30 pm to 8:15 pm).

The presentation in the Hall will give you and the students an overview of the demands and requirements of Stage 5 study as well as ways and means we, as a school, can support you and the students.

The visit to the classrooms will give you and the students an opportunity to meet with KLA coordinators and teachers to clarify and ask questions about courses, particularly the Electives available for Stage 5 study.

Looking forward to seeing you on the night.

Kind regards,

Mrs Ramchandra

Dear parents/carers of our Year 10 students,

This is a gentle reminder that the Course Preference (Subject Selection) Information Evening for Year 11 students 2020 will be held on Wednesday evening, 12th June from 6.30 pm-8:15 pm.

The night will commence with you and the students visiting KLA displays in A block (6:30 pm to 7:25 pm) followed by a presentation in the Hall (7:30 pm to 8:15 pm).

The visit to the classrooms will give you and the students an opportunity to meet with KLA coordinators and teachers to clarify and ask questions about courses.

The presentation in the Hall will give you and the students an overview of the demands and requirements of Stage 6 study as well as ways and means we, as a school, can support you and the students.

Looking forward to seeing you on the night.

Kind regards,

Mrs Ramchandra

SPORT REPORT TERM 2 - 2019 Round 4 vs Magdalene

SPORT NEWS TERM 2- WEEK 2

On a cool Autumn day on the 28th of May the John Therry boys teams were scheduled to play against Magdalene, whilst our girls teams and Frisbee teams all had a BYE.

With a total of five matches played we came away with two wins, two draws and one loss. With limited players in our 11-12 girls netball team, and senior girls soccer team (Year 10-12). I am asking for our senior girls to step up. Any interested players please email Mr Goodhew or visit the sports office to discuss.

Numbers in detention are also still too high, reminder to bring your hats for sport and ensure you read your emails and daily notices regarding buses.

GOOD LUCK

Soccer:

Patrick Picot, Baxter Sparks and Olivia Sloan were selected in the Opens Diocese soccer teams and will represent the Diocese at Valentine Sports park in just under 2 weeks time. We wish our students the best of luck!

Cross Country:

Bridget Shearer - 6th

Paul Salmond- 3rd

Olivia Southby- 4th

Will go onto represent the Diocese at the next level CCC. Well done and best of luck.

Our goal next year is to make our school carnival more competitive and increase participation (particularly of our senior girls) to ensure we have maximum competitors in all races.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Bill Turner Round 3 game TBA

Week 7 - Wednesday 12th June Dio CCC Football Playoffs

Week 8 - Thursday 20th June Dio CCC Basketball Playoffs – Jnr + Int

Week 9 - Thursday 27th June JT Athletics Carnival

NSWCCC SPORT REGISTRATIONS 2019

Registrations for the following sports are now open on the NSW CCC website. (https://www.csss.nsw.edu.au/nswccc-home.aspx).

NSW CCC can be followed on the Google calendars. (https://www.csss.nsw.edu.au/nswccc-calendar.aspx )

Instructions on how to create a NSW CCC account, can be on the JT SPORTS PAGE, under the NSW CCC tab.

Please note that some sports are selected by individual trials, and these can be held throughout NSW.

Selection in the following sports: Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics, Touch Football and Football are done through the Wollongong Diocese carnivals by way of representing John Therry at these respective carnivals.

Selection in the following sports: AFL, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket – Girls,  Golf, Hockey, Netball, Rugby League, Rugby, Softball, Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball will need to be done via individual nomination and selections.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

This term we also have our athletics carnival in on Thursday in Week 9. Four weeks to go.

Currently Conolly house hold a strong lead in the sporting house championship, can anybody catch them? If you did not bring back your swimming/ athletics note you are required to do so. Spare notes can be collect at the sport office.

Finally, please ensure all sport permission notes are returned to the sports office or your team's coach (not your LG teacher), reminder there is now a permission note mailbox if the office is unattended.

Looking forward to a great term 2 in sport.

For more sporting information, please visit the John Therry Sport Page

https://sites.google.com/dow.catholic.edu.au/johntherrysport/home

Regards

Mr Daniel Goodhew

Congratulations to Jessica Whelan (year 11) who was featured in the Macarthur Advertiser on the 22nd of May. Below is the story captured by Joshua Bartlett.

“One Campbelltown teen is making big strides towards her dream of playing in the AFLW. Jessica Whelan represented the AFL NSW/ACT Rams Australian rules football team at the NAB AFL Women's Under-18s Championship in Coffs Harbour earlier this month. Jessica impressed on the wing for the Rams, which finished the tournament undefeated.

The Rams secured wins over the Gold Coast Suns Academy, Northern Territory and Brisbane Lions Academy. Jessica's highlights included kicking two goals against Northern Territory. The 16-year-old said she enjoyed the chance to compete at a national level. "It was pretty fun and I learned new skills along the way," Jessica said. "It was a step up [to play at that level] and most of the girls played really well."

Jessica plays for the Camden Blues under-18s girls side in the GSJ Western Sydney competition. The John Therry Catholic High School student said she loved to play the sport and dreamed of competing in the AFLW. "I like to play on the wing or a little bit in the middle too," Jessica said. "I like Collingwood, but I would love to play for the GWS Giants one day."

*If you have any sporting news you would like to share with our community, please contact Mr Daniel Goodhew daniel.goodhew@dow.catholic.edu.au

https://sites.google.com/dow.catholic.edu.au/johntherrysport/home

Regards

Mr Daniel Goodhew

IMPROVING TYPING AND HANDWRITING SKILLS

So you don’t have much homework tonight? Assignments and study notes up to date? Have you ever thought about spending a bit of time each night learning touch typing?

Touch Typing is when you can type without looking at the keys while you type. This means you can type much faster than if you had to look and see where each key is, and it means you can keep looking at whatever it is you are typing instead of the keys. This is an incredibly useful skill to develop – it will help you at school and later in life as well, improving your efficiency and speeding up work on assignments and essays. Once you learn touch typing, you will know where the keys are located on the keyboard through your sense of touch and you will be able to look at the screen or whatever you are typing rather than the keyboard.

On www.studyskillshandbook.com.au [studyskillshandbook.com.au] there is a section to get you started on your journey of learning touch typing. Click on unit Technology Tools and on the Learning Touch Typing page you will find links to lots of free software to help you develop your touch typing skills as well as some great tips to get you started. There is also a discount voucher to the professional TypeQuick course. Being able to touch type will definitely make life easier for the students in the senior years and beyond. 10 minutes practice a day could end up making a big difference.

But don’t neglect your handwriting skills either. As long as you have to submit handwritten work or handwrite for tests and exams it is also important to improve the legibility and speed of your handwriting. Go to www.studyskillshandbook.com.au [studyskillshandbook.com.au] and visit the Writing Skills unit and click on the Improving Handwriting section. You’ll find some excellent strategies for improving your handwriting as well as some special pens that can assist you with this.

Should students type or handwrite their study notes?

Short answer, they are better off doing whatever the exam or test will be. So if the exam is handwritten, it is better to handwrite notes. This creates muscle memory, it sets up a pattern in the brain of what they will be doing in the exam. If they do not have exams, then it does not really matter, they can choose to either type or handwrite their notes.

For students who do have written exams, they are better off getting used to writing as much as possible, especially as students do less and less pen to paper and more and more on the keyboard.  It is also argued that by writing the information, you set up pathways of familiarity and recognition in your brain that will kick in when you are in an examination situation.

On the other hand, some subjects have so much content that to try and wade through it with handwritten study notes would take forever.  A good compromise for students who would prefer to type is to start making initial notes on the computer as this allows you to cut and paste, group information and rearrange it with ease. Once you have a core set of notes completed, you may like to further summarise some sections on paper using a more graphical or visual form of note-taking such as mind-mapping. And when you are learning the notes, read a section, then see what you can write without looking, this way you will be testing if the information is in long-term memory and practicing your handwriting at the same time!

Given that students now have to be masters of both the pen and the keyboard it is important to develop both legible handwriting and touch typing skills. When exams all go to typing at some stage, which they will inevitably do, everything will change.

As a Marist school, we have been asked to support two schools in Vanuatu this year by Marist Solidarity:

• St Anne’s Port Orly Santo Vanuatu
• St Michel’s Technical College Santo Vanuatu

Three John Therry Staff (Mr Martyn, Mr Forshaw, his wife Bernadette  and Mr Strojny) will be visiting these schools in the July 2019 holidays.

In Term 3 we will continue to fund-raise for Marist Solidarity.

In Term 4, Year 10 students will commence the process to apply to go on an Immersion to Vanuatu in July 2020 to these schools.

The eight students selected from this application/interview process will accompany six JTCHS staff in 2020

Come along to our movie night and show your support.  Tickets on sale for three weeks in the SCHOOL OFFICE at lunch (card or cash)

Venue:  Event Cinemas Macarthur Square – Tuesday 25th June at 6.30pm

There are two packages available:

• $20.00 includes the Toy Story 4 Movie, drink, popcorn and donation
• $10 includes the Toy Story 4 Movie and donation.

Many thanks,

Mr Martyn