Date for Your Diary..... 13th December 2013

The TED Reward Social will be taking place on Friday 13th December. Keep your eyes open for further details posted around the school.......

2012 Student Leadership Group

                                            Jessie, Rasharnda, Shania, Ashlea, Jim and Dylan

                     Looking through some photos I found this of the Fortis students from 2012.

Learn to Live Semester 2 2013 - Week 8

This week the Year 9 Learn to Live Class have been making sponge cakes as part of their assessment task for this programme. It was an interesting set of classes with some unique approaches to the practicalities of cake making. Actually reading a recipe properly - or maybe at all - would be a great staring point. Despite this the results were all rather impressive and as Carys Gee, Casja Davies and Chloe-Lee Short can confirm, rather yummy.

Week 8 TED Point Leader Board

The week 8 TED points have been counted and there are some changes at the top of the leader-board with Kyle Kjellgren leaping to the top with 20 points. That is a great effort Kyle and you are throwing down a challenge to those behind you.

Kyle Kjellgren      20
Aniheta Te Rangi 18
Dyland Gray and Zoe Muller 13
Weilin Chen 12
Bethany Sealey and Chloe Lee Short 10
Emily Davies, Imogen Foskew, Shania Grant, Michael Piontek and Mikaela Schoenfeld  9
Sarah-Kate Alley, Matthew Hewinson, Jim Hoang and Shania Hutchins  8
Ammaarah Ali, Courtney Campbell, Katerina Denglis and Cameron Perrett  7
Taykea Boogaard, Sarah Fishwick, Jack Foster, Jack Kirby-Wray, Faith Preston, Janever Watson, Danielle Woodcock-Lawrence, T'Kiea Smith  6
Alannah Astone, Aleeshia Baldoni, Courtney Pritchard, Riley Robert, Sophie Stoner 5

Year to Date:
Ashlea now has a rival as Michael Piontek joins him as the year leader both with 44 points with Matthew Hewinson hot on their heels with 43 points.  Curtis, Bodhi and Mikaela are closing the gap on the three ahead of them amassing points quickly to create an interesting situation in the lead up to see who will be the first Fortis TED Champ.

Michael Piontek and Ashlea Tunbridge   44
Matthew Hewinson   43
Curtis Dansey-Smaller   37
Bodhi Watkins 34
Mikaela Schoenfeld 33

Great work everybody and just remember T E D - Treat Everyone Decently. 😃

10 pin bowling 28th August 2013

On the 28th August 9 Fortis Flyers -  students from our gold and silver academic achievers from Semester 1 - accompanied by Mrs Harrison Ismay joined Miss Panikoula and her group of Blaze high achievers for a fun afternoon 10 pin bowling at the local bowling alley. With some friendly rivalry and varying degrees of skill [expertise?] and some very interesting techniques - two handed, through the legs, throw the ball as hard as we can, roll gently... it was game on :)
With the incentive of a TED point for every strike scored bowlers tried to score that elusive all pins down with the first ball. Weilin, Shania and Ashlee all managed to score 1 apiece and Weilin scored the highest score to be the Fortis champ for this round. We look forward to a return competition when the semester 2 awards are presented.

It was a lovely afternoon and all the students were a credit to the school and themselves. Thank you for a lovely afternoon.

Fortis Rugby Team: RSHS v Darling Range

Ashlea Tunbridge: Top Academic Achievement student in Semester 1 2013

Congratulations to Ashlea Tunbridge for his consistent hard work which resulted in him being the top academic student and leading TED point winner for Semester 1.

Bendigo Bank Competition

Well done to all the Year 9 students who participated in the Bendigo Bank competition. The standard of presentations was very high. Congratulations to the finalists: Cameron Perrett, Dylan Petersen, Jack Kirby-Wray, Tristan Bullock, Madison Flack, Sarah Fishwick, Maia Nepia, Janever Watson, Weilin Chen and the winners Imogen Foskew and Emily Davies wjo will now present with winners from other schools in October.   Sarah Warner [HOLA English]

10 pin bowling reward excursion for Gold and Silver Badge inners

On Wednesday 29th August 15 students from the Fortis Sub-School will go 10 pin bowling as a reward and acknowledgement of their effort and hard work in gaining either a gold or silver academic achievement award.

Congratulations and a HUGE well done to the following students:
Gold Badge Winners:
Ashlea Tunbridge, Daniel Masterman, Simone Hunter and Lance Dennis

Silver Badge Winners:
Cameron Perrett, Shania Hutchins, Emily Davies, Mustafa Saeed, Morgan Sandison, Joel Pearson, Luke Bain, Kara Wilburs, Imogen Foskew, Weilin Chen and Heather Edmonds.

Keep up this great work guys and enjoy your bowling.
Watch this space for action photos next week!

We also acknowledge an amazing number of students who achieved their bronze award: -
T'Kiea Smith, Maia Nepia, Maya McGrath, Jessie Collard, Rakheem Tuuta Edwards, Zandalee Murphy, Kayla Ihaka, Leah Brushett-Punter, Sophie Stoner, Brock Clark, Rebecca Selby, Matthew Jordan, Taykea Boogaard, Dakota Stubbe, Jack Foster, Quentin Farrell, Brenda Dorogi-Kaposi, Kristie-Lee Cameron, Mikaela Schoenfeld, Serena Bartkowski,
Fraser Ball, Eryn Smeed, Zoe Fairhead, Emma Brushett-Punter, Georgia Tew, Lisa Day, Janever Watson, Jessica Sainsbury, Tayla Innes, Shanaya Fairey, Ammaarah Ali, Kyle Kjellgren, Mikayla Fielding, Charlie Cooper, Hayden Hewat-Lawrence, Krysten Tootill, Brianna McIntosh, Zach Fisher, Jonathan Chudleigh, Dayna Van Krieken, Katelen Newell, Chloe Merrigen, Gavin Heggs, Courtney Campbell, Emilyn Eggins, Patrick Hill, Zoe Muller, Jim Hoang, Chloe-Lee Short, Damien Pini, Zoee Hoefel.

Great effort to you all and keep up the good work and strive to achieve the silver award.

Week 4 TED Leader Board

Week 4 TED Point's Leader-board
We have a brand new entrant on the leader-board just to shake things up a little. :)
1. Aniheta Te Rangi 18 points
2. Kyle Kjellgren 12
3. Chloe-Lee Short, Imogen Foskew, Shania Grant 9 
6. Dylan Gray, Emily Davies, Jim Hoang, Sarah-Kate Alley, Shania Hutchins, Weilin Chen, Zoe Muller 8
13. Katerina Danglis 
14. Bethany Sealey, Danielle Woodcock-Lawrence, Faith Preston, Jack Foster, Janever Watson
19. Cameron Perrett
20. Bridget Lee Roberts, Connor Sattler, Conrad Kerton, Jack Kirby-Wray, Jake Sletten, Riley Robert
26. Alannah Astone, Braydon Elliott, Michael Piontek 3 Points

Get those points in the box ready for this terms movie excursion in week 8.

Year to Date Leader-board
1. Ashlea Tunbridge 44 points
2. Michael Piontek 38
3. Curtis Dansey-Smaller and Matthew Hewinson 37

Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3 - halfway through year 9 already. It is shaping up to be another busy term with many things happening the most notable being WAMSE testing which will take place in week 3 and Yr 9 exams at the end of the term. 

A reminder that, as the cooler, wintery weather is upon us, that all students are expected to be in correct school uniform every day. This is either the designated RSHS uniform available in the school uniform shop or plain black bottoms, a school shirt and a plain black top with no logos or patterns blazened across them. Footwear should be closed in and appropriate for school. Leggings, Thongs, coloured sweatshirts etc are not suitable and should not be worn.

Date for your diary: The TED Reward excursion will take place on Wednesday 11 September 2013. Get your points in the box in the Sub-School and keep looking at the leaderboard, blog and Edmodo to see where you stand on the ladder. Dont forget you can also will the individual awards for achieving 5,10,20,50 and 100 TED points over the year. Who will be the Fortis TED point champion for 2013?

Term 2 TED Points 2013

Congratulations to all the TED point recipients from Term 2. It has been fantastic to see so many of you collecting points and getting your name up onto the leader-board. There are lots of new names appearing on the list.

TED Point Champion for Term 2: 

Curtis Dansey-Smaller. Well done Curtis that is a great achievement.

Movie excursion invitees for term 2: 

The following students are the top point winners for term 2 and are invited to attend the excursion to see Monsters University on Wednesday 3rd July are:

Curtis Dansey-Smaller who has gained 25 points

Bodhi Watkins, Mikaela Schoenfeld, Michael Piontek, Robert Riley, Teagan Matthews, Trewyn Tehira, Michael Sara, Ammaarah Ali, Matthew Hewinson, Sarah Lansdowne, Shanee Holmwood, Sydney Hutana-Ngateau, Katerina Danglis, Brenda Dorogi-Kaposi, Jack Kirby-Wray, Neponsein Irankunda, Riley Allison, Alysa Sarich, Gavin Heggs, Conrad Kerton, Jack Foster, Alannah Astone, Bethany Sealey, Charlie Cooper, Jayvie Sagnip, Kingston Te Aotonga, Jake Sletten, Jessica Sainsbury, Jim Hoang, Mustafa Saeed and Rasharnda Long

Semester 1 winners:

TED lunch for achieving 20 points:

Ashlea Tunbridge, Michael Piontek, Bodhi Watkins, Riley Alliison, Matthew Hewinson

Canteen Voucher for achieving 10 points:

Term 1

Ashlea Tunbridge, Matthew Hewinson, Michael Piontek, Bodhi Watkins, Riley Allison, Conrad Kerton

Curtis Dansey-Smaller, Shania Hutchins, Paul Shuttlewood, Jean Pu

Term 2

Sarah Lansdowne, Triston Bullock, Conrad Kerton, Brenda Dorogi-Kaposi, Jesse Lawson,

Alannah Astone, Ammaarah Ali, Jack Kirby Wray, Shanee Holmwood, Charlie Cooper, Damien Pini

Jack Foster, Katerina Danglis, Robert Riley, Sarah Fishwick, Teagan Matthews

Certificate for achieveing 5 TED points:

Term 1:

Ashlea Tunbridge, Matthew Hewinson, Michael Piontek, Bodhi Watkins, Riley Allison, Conrad Kerton, Curtis Dansey-Smaller, Shania Hutchins, Paul Shuttlewood, Jean Pu, Jesse Lawson, Sarah Lansdowne, Ahlia Marriner, Alannah Astone, Kalsum Wazir, Marcus Rodrigues, Tristan Bullock,

Tyler Tann-Green, Damien Pini, Dylan Gray, Emma Brushett Punter, Jack Kirby Wray, Jessica Sainsbury, Mikaela Schoenfeld, Sarah Fishwick, Charlie Cooper,Chris Garlett, Courtney Campbell,

Daniel Masterson, Jonathon Chudleigh, Joshua Shiner, Katelen Newell, Leah Brushett Punter,

Simone Hunter, Sydney Hutana Ngateu, Weilin Chen

Term 2:

Brenda Dorogi-Kaposi, Ammaarah Ali, Shanee Holmwood, Jack Foster, Katerina Danglis, Robert Riley, Sarah Fishwick, Teagan Matthews, Teariki Rawiri, Bethany Sealey, Emilyn Eggins, Aleeshia Baldoni, Gavin Heggs, Kyle Kjellgren, Krysten Tootill, Zandalee Murphy, Zoe Muller, Bridget-Lee Roberts, Courtney Campbell, Franklin Mhovsa, Janever Watson, Joel Peterson, Mikayla Fielding

The Fortis Flyer Soars Again

In 2012 as the year 8, soon to be christened Fortis, coordinator I wanted to create an archive of events and highlights of the students journey through Rockingham Senior High School in the form of a termly newsletter. The Fortis Flyer was born. Unfortunately after three editions, which generally ended up strewn around the school, it became a time consuming labour of love with no real value at the end of it and despite my intentions and attempts to revive it the Flyer has somewhat crashed.

Over a similar time frame I have been learning more and more about creating a digital presence and began to think of how this could be incorporated into reviving the Fortis Flyer as a paperless, digital 21st century resource and so The Fortis Flyer is going to become a blog, updated on a regular basis as things happen rather than once a term and linked to the school website so that parents, friends and family can see the great things that the Fortis Students are involved in. It can be accessed as a link from the RSHS website and will, over time, become a record of the journey of the Fortis Sub-school.

#FortisFlyer