28 November 2016
Newsletter Articles
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Year 12 Special Edition
Welcome to this special edition of the Maleny State High School newsletter. This edition celebrates the departure of our Year 12 students.
Over the past few weeks our students have been involved in their senior formal and graduation celebrations and they have excelled themselves, yet again, at both of these events. Throughout this newsletter we have included a number of highlights of these celebrations, along with their achievements at our Presentation Evening, so both parents and students can reflect back on their last days at Maleny State High School.
At graduation I highlighted a number of predicted outcomes for our students and we will all wait in anticipation for the release of our students results in December. I am confident we will have further successes to celebrate once these results are released.
On behalf of the entire school community I would like to congratulate our latest group of graduates and wish them every success for whatever they decide to pursue in their future.
We done to the Year 12 Class of 2016!
Regards
Deborah Stewart
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Absence Line: Ph: 5499 8101
Please leave a message before 8am if your student will be absent from school on that day.
Collection of Students during school hours:
If you wish to collect your student(s) during school hours, please ensure that all arrangements are made prior to the student attending school, as we do not have phones in classrooms. Please provide a note or a phone call to the school detailing/outlining the departure time, reason and who will be collecting the student.
Office Hours
Our office is open from 8am to 4pm daily.
All payments are to be made between 8am and 12.30pm,
daily.
PRESENTATION NIGHT
The 30th Annual Presentation Night was held on Thursday 27th October 2016. Please enjoy some of the photos taken on the evening.
Swimming and Cross Country Winners – BUNYA
Athletics Winners - Mellum
Overall House Winners - BUNYA
Sporting Service Award – Lachlan White
Sportspersons of the Year
Our talented students
Special Guests
Jenny Harding Memorial Art Award – winner Ajuna Bahloo-Chambers
The University of the Sunshine Coast Community Award - Kye Yamaoka-Chapman
Rotary Best All-round Student - Lachlan White
Principal’s Award - Evie Barnes
Chaplaincy Award – Aimee Corkin and Madelin Powter
Cauley Electrics Student Service Award – Tom Moser
RSL School Citizenship Award – Tara Macdonald-Parker
Andrew Powell MP Encouragement Award – Georgia Fea and Patrick Davis
Sound Engineer/Technician Award and Zonta Club of Blackall Range Award – Sholto Muir
Some of our ex-students from the Australian Defence Force - Corporal Paul Mays and Able Seaman Jayo Stenz presenting the ADF Australian Defence Force Long Tan Leadership and Teamwork Awards to recipients Isabella Gray and Kylen Skipper.
Interact Winners - Jessica Webb and Alannah Brown
Here are the Year 12 Subject Award Recipients
Authority Subject - Recipient/s
AIP Certificate of Excellence in
Physics - Georgia Fea and Ivy
Fisher-Elshaug
Ancient History - Humphries and Fisk
Real Estate - Heather Noble
Art (Visual) - Maleny Arts and Craft
Group - Ivy Fisher-Elshaug
Biological Science - Medicine on
Maple - Heather Noble
Chemistry - King Ludwig’s German
Restaurant - Heather Noble
Dance - Headings Bus
Lines - Evie Barnes
Drama - Maleny Amateur Drama
Group - Moriah Hudson
English - Maleny APEX
Club - Heather Noble
Geography - Doonan
Dental - Alannah Brown
Graphics - Ray White Real
Estate - Benjamin Clerc
Legal Studies - Easton
Lawyers - Ariana Pameijer
Mathematics A - Maleny
Bookkeeping - Evie Barnes
Mathematics B - Susan Diefenbach Mem.
Award - Heather Noble
Mathematics C - Quota Club of
Maleny - Coby Cole Stegman
Modern History - Maleny Historical
Society - Tara Macdonald-Parker
Music - The Steer Family of
Mapleton - Moriah Hudson and Oliver
Whitaker
Physical Education - Ray White Real
Estate - Lachlan White
Physics - Maleny Medical
Centre - Georgia Fea
Science 21 - King Ludwig’s German
Restaurant - Kye Yamaoka-Chapman
Authority-Registered Subject - Recipient
Early Childhood
Studies - Goodstart Early Learning
Centre - Mollie Beckmann
English Communication - Maleny
Newsagency - Ancily Shaji
Hospitality Practices - Colin James
Fine Foods - Madelin Powter
Industrial Technology
Studies - Bunnings Warehouse - Patrick Davis
Pre-Vocational
Maths - RSL Maleny Sub Branch - Ajuna Bahloo-Chambers
Recreation Studies - Remax Hinterland
Real Estate - Aimee Corkin
Vocational Ed. Subject - Recipient
Certificate II in
IDMT - Lions Club of Maleny in memory of Stirling
Shields - Chelsea Laws
Certificate II in Music
Industry - Lions Club of Maleny - Oliver Whitaker and Wyatt
Nicholls
Certificate II in Rural
Ops - Maleny Veterinary Services - Ryan Warren
Certificate II in Tourism - King
Ludwig’s German Restaurant - Tara
Macdonald-Parker
Certificate II in Visual
Arts - Zonta Club of Blackall and
Oxlades - Paige Bevege
YEAR TWELVE
Merit
Paige Bevege
Alannah Brown
Coby Cole Stegman
Benjamin Hocken
Nikita Lanphier
Natasha Mills
Distinction
Benjamin Clerc
Patrick Davis
Georgia Fea
Mathilda Muller
Ariana Pameijer
Oliver Whitaker
Excellence
Evie Barnes
Tanesha Faulkner
Ivy Fisher-Elshaug
Lochlan Higgins
Moriah Hudson
Tara Macdonald-Parker
Thomas Moser
Heather Noble
Georgia Siddals
Kye Yamaoka-Chapman
Year 7 DUX – Rhoen Kennedy
Year 8 DUX – Kassie Smith
Year 9 DUX – Sally Park Weir
Year 10 DUX – Rosie Skull
Year 11 DUX – Owen Stewart
Year 12 DUX – Heather Noble
YEAR 12 SENIOR FORMAL
The Year 12 Senior Formal was held on Wednesday 16th November at the Caloundra Events Centre. Please find attached some photos of the evening, including pictures from the Photo Booth.
Glasshouse Country & Maleny News were also at our Formal. Please go to the following link to see more photos of the students arriving.
https://www.facebook.com/GlasshouseCountryNews/posts/1611467805546088
Valedictory Speech
By Lachlan White
The word “valedictory” comes from two Latin words “vale” which means goodbye and “dicta” which means to speak.
To be asked to deliver the Valedictory Speech at any school farewell is a great honour and a privilege.
This year the students chosen to deliver the Valedictory Speech on behalf of the Year 12 cohort is Lachlan White. This is Lachlan’s speech:
So when I was writing this speech I had a lot of trouble starting, I sat there staring at a blank Word document for hours before finally I gave in and asked my dad. “Dad, how do I get everyone involved?” and he said “Son, if you want people to remember you when you speak you have to move the audience”.
For the last time we have run, swum, jumped, screamed and competed for our houses: Obi, Mellum and Bunya. These Houses have become almost like a family. We were prepared to sweat, bleed and in Bunya’s case, do anything to ensure the win. I will never forget the countless amazing presentations of house spirit. My personal favourite being during the athletics carnival where Sholto screamed, “I’d do anything for Bunya” so hard he failed to see the hill was ending and rolled his ankle, quickly following it down the rest of the hill.
During our time at school we have been influenced by many amazing people who have shaped us into the young men and women we are today, teaching us many life lessons along the way. I think you would all agree with me in saying Chappy was definitely one of these people. In the short time I’ve known Chappy he taught me many things, from how to bring out the best in myself and others, to the ability to make completely and udder-ly horrible jokes. Even though you weren’t able to be with us all of this year Chappy, you taught us an important lesson - that every cloud has a silver lining. We are so overjoyed to hear that you are now incredibly happy and that your modelling career is finally taking off. Basically, on behalf of all of us, I’d just like to thank you for all the work you have done. You deserve nothing more than to be happy. Thank you.
I’d also like to make a special mention of Mr Mills. I could easily say you are extremely similar to Chappy, except for the fact that he’s slightly better looking. From the first day I arrived in Year Ten to my last day in Year Twelve, you have been there to make sure I was travelling well and keeping up with everything. I know a lot of people wouldn’t be here today without you. I don’t think you realise the impact you have had on so many of our lives and it will be so hard to say goodbye to someone we have grown so close to. You have set a great example of who we should aspire to be in life and, along with Mrs Fredericks, I could easily say you two have been like my school parents. Could you all join me in thanking Mr Mills for the amazing work and effort he has put into shaping us into the people we are today.
The hardest part in finishing any relationship is letting go of the memories you have created. Now, I could finish by going back over the last four years. Instead, I think it’s more important to focus on where we will be in the next four years. Whether it’s baking great bread, cooking up laws in the senate, teaching future generations, or creating new music, all of us must make sure the word ‘success’ is associated with what we do.
We must concentrate on enhancing our futures and setting great examples for those who love us and for those who will follow us. We must be tomorrow’s positive images. Our actions must make a statement and send a clear message. One that says, wherever we come from, whatever we have or don’t have, whatever our colour, sex or cultural background, we can be partners in success and we can achieve greatness together.
In order to have high self-esteem, confidence and motivation we must be willing to work diligently and have a keen understanding of how far we can go. Ralph Emerson once said, “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Let us leave a trail others will be proud to follow.
And, if you feel at any point that life is becoming too hard and that obstacles are coming from left and right, please don’t panic. Remember that life can get better if we have the right tools to work with, tools like a positive attitude, an education, the right friends and fierce determination.
My class of 2016, it is up to all of you to make a difference, to have people say honourable things about you and leave the impression that you never gave up on yourselves. Society is counting on us. Excellence is never an accident- it’s the result of hard work. Go forward, work hard, and attain excellence; the kind of excellence that will make your dreams a reality. A secure future can be reality, you must visualise tomorrow — a safe, happy, prosperous tomorrow and make it happen.
To all of you, I wish you all good luck and remember, graduation is only the beginning.
YEAR 12 FINAL DAY
CLAP OUT
This is a tradition where the Year 12 students come to school for their final parade which involves the rest of the school, parents and teachers forming a guard and clapping the students on their final exit from Maleny State High School. Students are presented with a certificate of completion from the school and the ceremony concludes with a morning tea for Year 12 students and their parents.
Farewell speech given by the Principal, Ms Deborah Stewart
Our school captains concluded their official duties by giving the welcome and farewell speech to their fellow students and guests. Their speeches are below:
Welcome speech
Good morning everyone! I would like to begin today's celebration by saying how excited everyone looks today. Actually let me rephrase that; my fellow Year Twelves, you all look very excited. Parents, friends and family, I see mixed emotions. For some of you, this is your first child to be graduating, for others your middle or last. My other peers, I see some of you are bored, waiting for morning tea to hurry up so you can eat. Trust me, I know. The Year Twelves have attended five clapouts.
In Grade Eight it was so difficult to sit still because all we wanted to do was eat food and hang out with our friends, although during most school assemblies I can admit that we all still think that. We didn't think much of the fact that all those older people were about to become adults and leave SCHOOL. After all, this is all we have ever known.
In Grade Nine, we began to care more about what we looked like. We wore unblended makeup, wraparound skirts that JUST met school requirements (that was questionable), and we just wanted to be older. I'm not really sure about the rest of my grade, but it still feels like we're just going on school holidays. One of my teachers told us that, for a lot of people, it doesn't really hit that we're aren't coming back until back to school season next year. She also mentioned that it feels like you have left a club that you no longer have membership of.
Today I am here to present the welcome speech, but when I was writing this, I found that there is no way to say our final welcome at Maleny State High School, and express everything that has contributed to our schooling career. We can't just THANK everyone for attending today; they have done so much more than just attend our lives as we know it. We have all had late nights and mental breakdowns. We've been so poor because we spent our last $20 on fuel to get home and then asked our parents for tuckshop money. We’ve learnt many lessons from our mistakes. I think the most memorable mistake was when we didn't do our readings in Mrs Fredericks’ class and she went on strike. That was traumatic. Please take my advice, just do what she says.
Welcome to the staff. Most of you have seen us at our best and our worst. Thank you for putting up with us when we whinged about how tired we all were. We know that you were all tired too, but we’re sorry for not acknowledging it at the time.
Many staff members have left along the way and I would like to mention a few of them because of some of the incredible memories they have helped us create. Thank you Chappy, who is not only a model, but a legendary instigator of pranks and Wilko, whose voice breaks made the hard floor that we sat on at parades bearable. We couldn't help but giggle. For the staff members that are still here, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to grow not only as people, but as a grade.
Millsie (or Buzz to some of us), I would like to give you a special welcome to say thank you so much for always doing the best you could. You have been a great Year Level Coordinator and guided us through so many things. Ms Stewart, although we have been a tiresome, persistent, grade, we would like to thank you for working alongside Mr Mills and assisting in our many achievements. There are so many more people that I would like to thank, but this speech would go for at least a day. So I won't put you all through that because, as time goes on, we are getting closer and closer to leaving.
We have so many memories in this place. We will miss it, but we're ready. We are finally at our last box on the "Last Things" checklist. We made it and I can guarantee that every single person in this room has had some form of impact upon each of us along the way. This school and its community has guided us this far and moulded us into the people that we are. Thank you Maleny High. Thank you friends and family.
Dr. Seuss has written many, many great books, each being so incredibly relatable to this grade. These quotes from different Dr. Seuss books are worth remembering.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.
Good luck Year Twelves and thank you, everyone, for coming to the end of our beginning.
Evie Barnes
Cutting of the Cake
As part of their last official duties the School Captains were asked to cut the cake for the Graduating Class of 2016.
Mishy Truscott and Ashley Howlett from the Formal Committee, gave their thanks to everyone who had helped them with their Senior Formal and throughout their time at Maleny State High School.
Mr Darren Mills gave his final speech to the Year 12 students he had looked after, as Year Level Coordinator, during their 5 years of high school.
Farewell speech
I've been asked a lot about change recently. "Do you like change?" Huh, No, I don't like change. But, somehow I always find myself curled up in the corner of the room thinking about the meaning of life and the impact of change upon my own. Do I like change? What if I don't like change? Or what if change might change me? I've come to the conclusion that we can argue as much as we like about whether change is bad for us, or if it's good for us, but whether we like it or not change is inevitable. It's a universal truth that each and every one of us must face in order to grow into the people we are today or perhaps the people we aspire to be in the future.
I've brought a card along with me today. It was written for me last year during leadership camp that basically says what people admire about me the most. This card holds great value in my life. I've kept it in an envelope ever since the camp because I'm hoping that, in times where I feel I've changed, this simple, tiny card will remind me of who I really am. Let's have a look hey?
"Too funny for money."
"You are always funny at the right times and always make me feel better." "You are always in a good mood...crackin' jokes... You are number 1 bud." Ok, let's find something different.
"You are an awesome friend … and always know when to make jokes."
Ok, we get it. I'm pretty sure most of the other guys were told they had a great bod or an awesome smile. But I guess being funny is fine. It's fine. I don't care. Really. I just find it funny how there is literally nothing else on this card other than me being funny.
Things are going to change from here on for better or worse, and I know it's scary. I know it's daunting but we must never forget who we are.
Finally, I'd like to thank everyone who played their part in our lives during the school. To our teachers, to our coaches, to our fellow students, to our friends and, most importantly, to our beautiful parents. Thank you! With your guidance and support we have grown, learnt and evolved into the amazing young people here today who are ready to step out into the big world and to create lives of our own making.
I'd specifically like to acknowledge one man who would go to infinity and beyond for any of us. Mr Mills, dad, we are so grateful for everything you do for us. Love ya heaps Sir.
To the class of 2016, it's been one heck of a ride.
So, for the last time, the skipper of this ship is out. Peace.
Kylen Skipper
Some of the Year 12 students at the airport, heading to the Whitsunday’s to have a week of fun and relaxation on a yacht.
Some students have gone to the Gold Coast for their week, whilst others have chosen other destinations.
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, remember: have fun, look after each other, be safe and make great choices.