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New Course Featured in Newspaper
Clarkson's new Kitchen Operations course was featured in this weeks North Cost Times.
Minor Fire Incident
A minor fire occurred today at recess in an evaporative air conditioner above the cooking room. All students were quickly evacuated to the muster point while the fire brigade attended. All staff and students are safe and sound and the fire has been successfully extinguished.
STEM News
This term Clarkson CHS has introduced robotics into the ICT program to provide practical applications for coding.
The Edison Robot is a versatile educational robot the can be operated from a simple drag and drop program up to text based coding involving multiple units acting together.
Currently our Year 8 and 9 students are trying to complete obstacle courses that get increasingly more challenging. One student described the experience as “frustratingly enjoyable.”
There will be more STEM news to follow later in the term.
CCHS Now Offers Certificate II Kitchen Operations!
The school would like to welcome our new VET trainer Claire Rowley who is a qualified Chef of 30 years industry experience including 5-star Hilton hotels around the world.
Clarkson CHS Literacy Support Club & Website
NAPLAN and OLNA literacy support sessions run on Thursday mornings at 8am in the library. All students are welcome!
The club will primarily focus upon writing, reading and language conventions instruction. There will also be weekly opportunities for student to practice past exam papers.
Please visit the support website at the link below:
https://sites.google.com/view/lscchs/
Introducing Mr Thomas Jones, Head of English and HASS
Mr Jones joins us as Head of English and HASS with curriculum and pastoral care leadership experience from a wide range of schools. Thomas began his teaching career in London and has since worked at Duncraig SHS as Year Coordinator and at Joseph Banks Secondary College as Teacher in Charge of English.
Thomas achieved Level 3 Classroom Teacher status in 2016 and recently completed his Masters of School Leadership qualification at the University of Western Australia. He is passionate about building collaborative teaching teams and providing students with equal opportunities to learn. His experience makes Thomas a valuable asset to Clarkson CHS and we welcome him to the school community.
New mobile-friendly website for Clarkson CHS
At Clarkson Community High School we have always aimed to be a technology-focused school with some of the best resources in the state school system. These resources include our school laptop program, media facilities, 3D printers, laser cutter, photographic equipment and of course the school drones to name just a few, but lets not forget our web services too!
You may not know this but we have several websites in addition to our public site. These include a staff portal, our in-house learning management system for students (Moodle), online booking systems for physical resources like rooms, computer labs and school buses and online booking system for parent evenings.
All of these websites are hosted on-site and designed and maintained by our ICT staff. Recently, we undertook major server upgrades to ensure our sites are secure, current, reliable and fast.
We decided to take this opportunity to produce new versions of our public and staff websites that are optimised for mobile devices. No more zooming in and out or squinting, our websites now perform like apps on any smartphone or tablet with easy to read pages.
Year 7 Transition Prospectus
The latest Clarkson Year 7 Transition Prospectus is now available to download for prospective parents.
This document outlines everything a new student to Clarkson would need to know, including information on pastoral care, learning ideology, facilities, technology and school life in general
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file.
The Learning Journey Updated
Since the release of the first Clarkson CHS Learning Journey document in March 2011, a number of conditions have changed which impact the school. However, the overall vision that encompasses decision making processes has not changed, as it is founded on what Clarkson CHS's Senior Leadership Team believe are fundamental truths about working with people in an educational setting.
To download the latest Learning Journey 2 document please visit this link
