Upwey High School Newsletter

12 October 2018 - Issue Seventeen

Welcome Back to Term 4!

Welcome Back!

We trust that the Spring Break allowed batteries to be recharged! Students have all arrived back in classrooms with energy and enthusiasum.

Year 7 and 8 students have been involved in special programs this week (Year 7 - Tree of Life and Year 8 - The Smoothie Project)

Year 12 students are full on into revision mode. Their Valedictory Assembly is during Period 2 next Tuesday 16 October in the Stadium. Parents are most welcome to attend their final assembly. We wish the Year 12s well in completing work and preparing for exams over the next few weeks.

Congratulations to Mr Andrew McNeil!

Our Assistant Principal (Later Years) Mr Andrew McNeil has been appointed Principal of Reservoir Secondary College and leaves us immediately to take up the new position.

Andrew has been at Upwey High School for 6 years; successfully leading the Later Years levels and overseeing the School Operations and Facilities portfolios. He has also been the convenor of the School Council's Marketing Committee and Facilities and Resources Management Committee.

We thank him for all of his many varied contributions at Upwey and wish him well in his new role at Reservoir.

Well done Andrew!

Japan Homestay Tour

Year 11 Queensland Trip

Over the Spring Break a group of our Year 11 students undertook a bus tour to Queensland.

I had the best time on this Tour and have made memories I will never forget
Thank you for an amazing Tour
Thank you for the Tour and helping me make friends
This Tour has been memorable. I’ve gone outside of my comfort zone and thoroughly enjoyed myself
The Queensland Tour was an unforgettable experience and I loved every second of it.
I had the best time on the tour and it was because of the staff.

These are some of the comments from the 44 students who attended the Queensland Tour in the first week of the school holidays. Feedback from students was overwhelmingly positive. The Tour involved Kayaking with the dolphins and whales at Byron Bay, an aboriginal program with Delta., visits to Dreamworld, Movieworld and Wet N Wild on the Gold Coast, a beach day as well as two 24 hour bus trips and camping in tents. Highlights were many but particularly building relationships with old and new friends and bonding for year 12.

The students were fantastic and as teachers we were very proud of them (as we so often are). They were a really great group!

Thanks also to the magnificent, hardworking school staff who gave up a week of their holidays to run the Tour and made it such a success – Pat Nichol, Judy Andreola, Maddy Turnbull and Nick Somervaille.

Grant Nichol and Stafford Smith

Tour Coordinators