UNIFORM UPDATE

Sport Science Wheelchair Basketball

Kevin Faulkner from ParaQuad Tasmania visited BHS recently with his trailer full of purpose built wheelchairs for basketball. Kevin works with people all over Tasmania to educate them about spinal injuries, risk taking and the consequences of injuring the spine. He also helps people access sport and is an international archer. As part of his demonstration to the Sport Science class, Kevin showed off his effortless wheelchair basketball skills, the best being the way he used his rolling wheel to pick up the ball in one fluid motion. We were all very impressed with that! Students soon realised that not only was it really difficult to push and steer the chair but including the skills of basketball only added to the difficulty. After some driving practice around some markers, many of which were very squashed from being run over, students practiced passing, dribbling and Kevin’s cool ball pick up skills. We were soon ready to put all of those skills into a game but to say the game was low scoring would be an understatement. We realised pretty quickly that it takes a lot of concentration and arm muscle to be in the right spot to receive and shoot the ball. The afternoon was a great example of sports being modified to allow everyone to be included and we all appreciate how talented wheelchair athletes are to play with so much skill. Thank you to Kevin for coming to BHS and taking such a great session. We look forward to him visiting again in 2021.

Abbey Pennington
Health & Physical Education Teacher

BHS shines at the Burnie Youth Art Challenge 2020

Burnie High School students have again been very prominent in the awards presented at the Burnie Youth Art Challenge and have secured the shield for the best school at the challenge for the 10^th year in a row.

Awards are given in 2D and 3D Visual Arts sections as well as a separate Photography section. The prize winners from BHS are as follows:

Grade 7 - 8 3D     Second Place          Molly Wilson

Grade 7 - 8 3D     First Place              Noah Ranson

Grade 7 - 8 2D     Third Place             Jase Chapman

Grade 7 - 8 2D     Second Place          Flynn Williams

Grade 7 - 8 2D     First Place              Lexie Mott

Grade 9 - 10 3D   Third Place             Tabryn Binstadt

Grade 9 - 10 3D   First Place              Jessenya Bergman

Grade 9 - 10 2D   Special                   Mckenzie Wells

Grade 9 - 10 2D   Third Place             Luke Thorne

Grade 9 - 10 2D   Second Place          Jazmyn Chalmers

Grade 9 - 10        Photography           Finlee Sayer
                          First Place  

 Results

1^st           Cam    7903

 2^nd          Blythe  7753

3^rd          Inglis    6876

4^th          Emu    6602

New Records

Grade 8 Boys 100m        Cougar Beamish – 12.00 secs

Grade 8 Boys 400m        Samuel Plapp – 56.81 secs

Grade 7 Girls Javelin       Ella Scolyer – 21.82m

Grade 7 Boys Shot Put    James Cornish – 10.58m

Grade 10 Boys Shot Put  Lachlan Martin – 12.39m

Grade 7 Girls Shot Put    Taya Munday – 10.59m

Grade 8 Girls Shot Put    Abbey Weller – 8.47m

Grade 7 Girls Discus       Taya Munday – 24.53m

Grade 8 Boys 200m        Samuel Plapp – 25.12secs 

Grade 8 Animal Studies

Grade 8 Animal Studies students participated in the Dairy Australia Cows Create Careers competition. There were several challenges/categories that students could attempt / enter. One was to rename the Dairy Australia calves. On Monday Dairy Australia announced that they are now called Mozzarella & Brie thanks to Matilda Luttmer and her quirky sense of humour!! She has won a $100 iTunes prize.

Steph Prendergast
Agricultural Studies