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EAST LODDON P- 12 COLLEGE PARENT NEWSLETTER TELEPHONE -03 54368300 FAX -03 54368321 E-mail: [email protected] College Website: http://eastlodd12.vic.edu.au/ Principal’s Blog: http//stevenleed.edublogs.org/ School Councillors : Richard Hicks, Darren Welsh, Micheal Lawry, Ash Davis, Jodie Demeo, Steve Leed, Scott

Wilkinson, Andrew Cameron, Laura Muller, Nicole Hocking, Natalie Rose, Lynda Cartwright.

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Our College respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout

Australia and pay our respects to the ongoing living culture of Aboriginal people

From the Principal

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Newsletter No 31 Date: 12th October 2017

Did You See Us In The Addy?

The College had the first of its feature articles in the Bendigo Advertiser on AFL Grand

Final day during the holidays, and we were quite impressed with the 3 pages of expo-

sure we received. For those that did not see the feature, you will be able to find it at the

following link - http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4956027/the-school-in-the

-fields-an-insight/?cs=80

Interested in Completing a First Aid Course at the College?

In recent years the College has hosted a first aid course for senior students, staff and

interested community members. We are looking into the possibility of doing this again

towards the end of the year, but would require at least 16 participants if this was to take

place. The course would run for the best part of a full day and would cost approximately

$150. If you would be potentially interested in being part of this course, please contact

the College Office to express interest asap.

Student Teachers – Welcome to the College!

This week the College has welcomed two student

teachers from La-Trobe Uni Bendigo onto staff.

Miss Louisa Ross and Miss Carmen Thomson will

spend the next 3 weeks predominately in the

Year 6 classroom with Mrs Muller, as part of a

Multi-disciplinary Science & Technology Integrat-

ed Experience (MSTIE) program that will see our

students learn about major components of Sci-

ence and Technology.

We hope that both Miss Ross and Miss Thomson

have a fantastic experience whilst at our College!

Parent Opinion Survey – This is What You Said About Us…

As mentioned in the last Newsletter of Term 3, 37 randomly selected families took the

time to complete this year’s Parent Opinion Survey. This was the greatest response that

we have ever had and we are very thankful for the open and honest feedback that we

received. There was also a section for additional comments, of which I am sharing with

all staff tomorrow. Please take the time to look over the tables that follow to gather a

sense of the general feel for the College, from a parent perspective.

OCTOBER

9th Term 4 begins

10th IAAF Kids Athletics

12th Loddon Mallee

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13th Yr 10 Keys Please

Yr 11 Fit2Drive

Yr 12 Look After your

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Yr 10 Advance Pyramid

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16th Zone Athletics Pri-

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17th Yr 7/8 Big Picture

Excursion to LaTrobe Uni

Yr 6 & 7 Melbourne Arts Centre Excursion

IAAF Kids Athletics

Yr 9/10 Loddon Youth Helath Expo

Parents Association Meeting 8.30am Serpen-tine Hall

18th Walk to School

Program

20th Yr 5/6 German Day

Bendigo

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Eating Time at the College – Please Discuss With Your Child/ren

For the first part of lunch, leading up to 1:00pm each day all students sit in designated eating areas to consume

their lunch. In the first couple of days of this term it has been noted by staff that a great deal of sandwiches have

been found in the accompanying bins at the completion of eating time with only small parts eaten, and on some

occasions, nothing eaten at all. It is important that students have a healthy and hearty lunch each day and whilst we

will endeavour to monitor this closely as a staff, I would also encourage parents to have a chat with their child

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Production – DVD available

A DVD of the evening performance of the production is currently being edited and will be available to purchase from the College office next week for $15 each. Office staff will keep a list of students who have paid and I will deliver these DVDs to students once they become available.

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Congratulations Hugh!

Congratulations are extended to Year 9 student Hugh C, who recently won first place in

the Novice Category Quick Shear at the St Arnaud Show. Hugh finished with a time of

just over 5 mins and received 20 ‘board points’, along with 32 ‘out the back’ points.

Super effort Hugh!!!

Private Speech Sessions

Availability will shortly open up for another 2 students of kinder or school age to under-

take private speech sessions with Laura-Jane of Talk It Up Speech Pathology. These sessions take place at the

College on a fortnightly basis, assisting families in accessing this much sought after service, and preventing the

need to take a full day off school to attend an appointment in Bendigo or Echuca. Laura-Jane has established a

tremendous rapport with all students who currently attend sessions, and the positive results gains that have

been noted with current students have been most positive.

If this service is something that you would like to know more about, please do not hesitate to make contact with

our College Office, or alternatively you may wish to talk directly with Laura-Jane on 0438 006 445.

Feel free to also take a look at Talk It Up’s website - http://www.talkitupbendigo.com/

I hope that you all have a great Term 4!

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P-4 Update

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Student of The Week

Prep—Zali for working with enthusiasm in all

areas.

Year 1—Oscar for his tremendous effort with

spelling and mathematics.

Year 2—Reid for his thoughtful act towards an-

other student.

Year 3—Colin for working hard during maths and

literacy sessions.

Year 4—Nathan for his confidence in performing

his lines for the Production.

You Can Do It! Persistence (Working Tough)

Prep—Caitlin

Year 1—Ruby O

Year 2—Matilda and Jake

Year 3—Tristyn

Year 4—Kathleen

Reading Clubs

Prep Sound in Focus

The focus sound is the voiced ‘th’ sound as in ‘this’ and ‘that’.

Prep Words To Fluency

Our words to fluency are ‘you’ and ‘all’.

225 Nights of Reading Y4-Ava, Marley, Molly, Mia, Chloe and Jo-seph Y3-Keira, Emily and Tori Y2-Kyen Prep- Zali and Lucy

200 Nights of Reading Y4-Drew and Marissa Y3-Riley Y2-Angus, Allira, Logan and Jake Y1-Sarah Prep-Travis

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Our students have seen some tremendous achievements over the last three terms and together we look forward

to finishing off the last few months with enthusiasm and excitement, achieving personal learning goals and ensur-

ing each individual attains their personal best. We know and appreciate the hard work and dedication put in by

families to support their child and hope that, like us, you will maintain the momentum. Teachers, students and

families working together can achieve incredible things, as most will have seen over the last 9 months.

Please maintain the love of learning by providing your child with valuable experiences: first hand, through

books or through media or conversation. Talk is the foundation of all our literacy learning so engage your

child in quality conversation whenever you get the opportunity. Model and expect good grammar and

nurture a rich vocabulary by introducing them to new words.

Remember it is essential to maintain daily reading so that students have opportunities to practise skills learnt

at school.

Practising spelling with your child as skills reinforced are readily transferred into both reading and writing.

Our children grow up so fast so please take the opportunity to make the most of every precious moment you have

together.

Little Visitors

This morning Lisa and Abby organised for us to see and learn about two ped-

igree Kelpie puppies, which are bred and trained by Luke. It was a tremen-

dous language enrichment activity which will generate work on writing In-

formation Texts.

Grandparents/ Special Friends Day

This event is scheduled for Tuesday 31st October from 8:45 until 11:30. We

hope that invitations have made it to your child’s special guest and that as many are able to attend the morning as

possible. Please remember, we need replies returned to school by Friday 20th October as the Parents Association

would like to know how many guests will be attending the morning tea so that they can cater accordingly. The $5

contribution for morning tea can be made on the morning.

P-4 Excursion November 14th

This Term we will be visiting Echuca for a guided tour of the wharf area, followed

by a paddleboat ride up the Murray River. The focus will be Humanities (Early Eu-

ropean settlement), although it remain important to acknowledge first Australian

history, and English language. The cost of the day is $18 per student. A note and

Permission form will be coming home soon. Next year, ScienceWorks, Melbourne

will have completed its refurbishment and we look forward to returning to that

component of our Excursion cycle.

College Athletics Sports

The College Athletics sports are on Thursday 27th October. It would be great if you can attend the day but we un-

derstand that some parents will have commitments (such as work) they must attend to.

Peter Vernon

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Term 3 Maths Pathway Champion Class

The title of Maths Pathway Champion Class is awarded to the class with the highest average growth rate for the term, and there was no doubt about the winners in Term 3! The Year 6 class achieved an outstanding average growth rate of 166%, well in front of the Year 8 class who had an average growth rate of 135%. All of the other classes have improved their results this term as well, and the Year 9 class are the ones to watch out for if they can keep up their most recent class average! The Year 6 class was presented with the MP Champion Class Cup at the Middle Years Sub School Assembly in recognition of this fantastic achievement.

Deutsche Nachrichten

This week Frau Mac was notified that the film made by Klasse 6, “Zwei Picknicks im Wald 2011 und 3017” has

been short-listed in the primary section of the German Schools Film Competition. Gut gemacht, Klasse 6. The

theme ‘Germany in 3017’ used film from when Klasse 6 when they were in Preps, ‘Ein Picknick im Wald’ and

mixed it with how they thought a picnic would be in Germany in 3017. Presentation of the winners will be held

next Thursday down in Melbourne. This clashes with the School’s Athletics Day, therefore Frau Mac will be

going down to Melbourne and hopefully collect a prize. Chelsea H and Jessica D in Klasse 10 are beginning to

think about their exchange to Germany. They will be leaving for Germany near the end of November (Hate to

be the person to tell them that they can only have 20 kilos for luggage). Klasse 5 have been practicing the song

‘Kleiderkauf’, which they will be preforming at the German Day. The song ‘Tanz in die Lederhosen’ is also being

learnt by Klasse 5. Permission forms have been giving out to the students in Klasse 5 und 6 who do German. I

have been successful in my application for funding to help cover some of the costs for the excursion.

Annette Burgstett German Co-ordinator

Our Middle Years Newsletter has changed! All teachers have begun to communicate with parents regularly via a

program called Bloomz rather than updates in the school newsletter.

If you are a Middle Year’s parent and have not joined Bloomz, please contact your child’s homeroom teacher.

Some general Middle Years information will still appear in the newsletter occasionally.

Middle Years Captains Report

This week we have started practicing for the athletics, Next week on Monday there is a

Year 7/8 excursion to Latrobe university and there is a Year 7 science excursion on

Tuesday. We hope you all had a great holiday and start to the term.

Oscar and Zoe

Year 4 Transition begins

This week our Year 4’s kicked off

their transition to Middle Years

with reading pairs with the Year

7’s. These classes will buddy up

for the rest of the term to begin

familiarisation with classes and students they’ll be with in 2018. More to come.

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Year 12 Last Day of Classes

As you are aware the Year 12 students school days are fast coming to an end, with their official last school day

scheduled for Friday 27th of October. To complete thirteen years of schooling is a fantastic achievement. As a

school we would like to congratulate and celebrate the achievement of completing thirteen years of schooling

by inviting the Year 12 students, their parents & staff to be involved in the following activities;

On Friday 27th of October Year 12 students, parents/guardians and staff are invited to a morning tea in the

Year 12 room at recess time (10:40-11am). Staff and parents/guardians are kindly asked to bring a plate of

food to share for morning tea also.

Students will then be transported to Bendigo with Mr Wilkinson and Mrs Clare to participate in some fun ac-

tivities in town. Notices were distributed to students about this on Monday. Students need to confirm their at-

tendance by Friday 13th of October by returning the attached consent form to the office.

Parents/guardians if you have any photos of your adorable children prior to school that can be used for the

Valedictory Dinner powerpoint please pass them onto myself or Mrs Cutting.

Valedictory Dinner is Friday 17th of November. Details will be distributed next week.

Year 10,11&12 VCE students Edrolo access trial

At present Year 10, 11 & 12 VCE students are being given free access to an Edrolo program. It is an online

program where students can access revision materials, exam style questions and video clips relating to their

subject areas. I strongly encourage students to utilise this program. I will encourage feedback from students

and parents post the trial period (Nov 20th).

Road Safety in our school tomorrow

As in previous years and as part of our Health and Road Safety Education students will participate in programs

relating to their year level tomorrow. Notices were distributed to students on Monday. The only need to be

returned if your child is not attending the session. Parents/guardians are also welcome to attend. Please let me

know prior.

Year 12 Looking After Your Mates Friday 13th October at 12:50pm in the Year 12 room.

Year 11 Fit 2 Drive Friday 13th October 9am – 12:40pm

Year 10 Keys Please Friday 13th October 1:40pm-3pm

Thanks again for your support in encouraging these programs to occur.

Year 11 & 12 VCE Units 3 & 4 exam meeting

On either Monday or Tuesday this week I met with Year 11 & 12 students who are studying a Units 3 & 4

VCE subject and consequently will sit an exam in November. We discussed exam timetable, procedures, rules,

equipment and other important details. I encouraged students to show their parents/guardian their exam timeta-

ble, hopefully, they have done this.

Special mention to our senior students who at the moment are working hard, revising course content

and sitting practice exams. I have been constantly impressed with their efforts, keep up the great work.

Last chance for any Year 9 students to express an interest in a VET subject at Char lton or Go TAFE.

Please see me as soon as possible if you are interested.

Thanks for your time,

Sarah Byrne

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WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK Next week is “Walk to School Week” and to celebrate this at East Loddon P-12 College, Mr Young has organ-ised some walking activities to be held at lunch time on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Loddon Shire in conjunction with the Victorian Institute of Sport are sponsoring the following Olympic Ath-letes to attend our College on Wednesday, Rio bronze medallist ALEC POTTS (archery), and Australian Under 23 hockey player (and Tokyo Olympics aspirant) HAYLEY PADGET. It is also planned for a third athlete to attend and we awaiting confirmation of who it is. This is an exciting opportunity for our students to meet with professional athletes and receive some tips and encouragement on how they can excel in their chosen fields.

LODDON YOUTH HEALTH EXPO “HEAD TO TOE HEALTH” Just a quick reminder that around 150 young people in Years 9 and 10 from the regions schools will gather in Boort on Tuesday, 17th of October for the Biannual Loddon Youth Health Expo. The Expo in its 8th cycle provides the opportunity for Loddon youth to not only hear the latest health infor-mation and to encourage positive decision making but to also explore career choices and to ensure awareness of the local services available to them. This year’s Expo will feature keynote speaker, Sonia Karras from Whole New World. Sonia will share her vast knowledge in the area of drugs, alcohol, keeping safe and celebrating safely, she has a unique, no nonsense and humorous approach which leaves her audiences informed, entertained and with memories that will stay with them for years to come. Sonia has 10 years’ experience in the Hospitality Industry and almost 13 years presenting her award-winning program. Following Sonia’s presentation, local service providers will provide a range of workshops on mental health, relationships, body image, drumming, healthy eating/food choices and career decision making. The event is a partnership between local schools and services, including Northern District Community Health, Inglewood and Districts Health Service, Loddon Shire Council and School Nurses from the Department of Edu-cation. The Loddon Shire, Bendigo Bank, Cardboard Cartons, Inglewood, and District Health Service have pro-vided vital sponsorship this year. Students are attending from Boort District School, Wedderburn Secondary College, East Loddon p-12 and Pyra-mid Hill P-10. Permission forms have been sent home with all Years 9 and 10 students and these have to be signed and re-turned for your child to be able to attend. Students who are not attending are required to attend school in full uniform. Lunch and buses will be provided free of charge and students are expected to wear comfortable, casual clothing to enable participation in the activities.


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Parents Association News welcome back from holiday’s everyone.

Looking forward to a busy 4th

term – remember to keep informed by reading the weekly newsletter or checking out PA Facebook page!

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COLLEGE PRODUCTION FEEDBACK

Absolutely wonderful job everyone. Well done to all involved.

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P.A. Meeting

next Tuesday, 17th October 2017

at the

Serpentine Hall

Starting at 8.30am

This meeting will coincide with a catering job, making 160

Salad rolls for the Loddon Youth Health Expo at Boort

Any help gratefully appreciated and everyone welcome.

“Many hands make light work!”

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Leanne Welsh President 03 5436 6281 or 0447 689 309 [email protected]

Kaeler Grigg Secretary 0448 632 780 [email protected]

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Canteen News

TERM 3 OCTOBER

Friday 13th Michelle Balic Yoli Humphries Monday 30th Margaret Hocking

Tuesday 31st Sue Pickles

Monday 16th Bec Cullen NOVEMBER

Tuesday 17th Sue Pickles Wednesday 1st Karolyn Campbell Cheryl Green

Wednesday 18th Belinda Clymo Miranda Smith Thursday 2nd Sue Pickles Julie Hall

Thursday 19th Sue Pickles Friday 3rd Toyah Ketterer Lynda Cartwright

Friday 20th Kylie Addlem Natalie Rose

Monday 6th Lisa Twigg

Monday 23rd Michelle Diss Tuesday 7th Melbourne Cup

Holiday

Tuesday 24th Sue Pickles Wednesday 8th Sue Pickles

Wednesday 25th Kater Duncan Brian Duffy Thursday 9th Sue Pickles

Thursday 26th Sue Pickles Friday 10th Mel Primrose Leanne Welsh

Friday 27th Kaeler Grigg Sue Holt


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

16th

Zone Athletics

Primary

Yr 7/8 Big Pic-

ture Latrobe

17th

Yr 6 & 7 Mel-bourne Arts Centre Excur-sion

Yr 9/10 Loddon Youth Health Expo

IAAF Kids Ath-

letics

P.A. Meeting

8.30am Ser-

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18th

Walk to School

19th 20th

Year 5 /6 Ger-

man Day

Y11 Psychology

Excursion

21st 22nd

23rd

State Athletics

24th

IAAF Kids Ath-

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Melbourne

Kids Water

Conference

25th

Melbourne

Kids Water

Conference

Power of Engi-

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26th

P-12 Athletics

Carnival

Melbourne

Kids Water

Conference

27th

Yea 12’s Last

Day

Yrs 8 & 9

Cows Create Careers

Primary State Athletics

Girls Leader-ship Program forum

28th 29th

30th

Years 2-5

German Puppet

Theatre

31st

P-4 Grandpar-ents/ Special Friends Day

1st NOVEMBER

Yr 12 English

Exam

Year 8 Camp Melbourne

2nd

Yr 12 Psychol-

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Year 8 Camp Melbourne

3rd

Yr 12 Biology

and Further

Maths Exam 1

Year 8 Camp Melbourne returns

4th 5th

6th

Yr 7/8 La Trobe

Uni Partnership

incursion

7th 8th 9th 10th

P-4 ANZAC

story Incursion

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