Educating For Success

975 Karadoc Avenue Irymple Vic 3498 Ph 03 5024 5407 Fax 03 5024 6631

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Principals Report EISTEDDFOD – please keep a look out on the ISC Official

Facebook page for our students’ results. We have record

numbers of students participating throughout the

Eisteddfod weeks. I would like to publicly thank Noeleen,

Beth and all our staff for their support of the students over

this very busy time.

Yesterday we got word that our Year 10 student Joshua

Maloney was awarded the Drama Scholarship and asked

to perform at the Gala Concert.

This photo is of Josh 30 seconds after Noeleen told him he

had won the scholarship.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE WEEK ALTERNATIVE TIMETABLE – next week (12th -15th June) Just like last term our staff will be participating in curriculum groups for their

professional practice days. To allow this to happen, we will have an alternative

timetable for next week which will include excursions to the Trade Training Centre

and Riverside Training Centre, Latrobe University, Ten Pin Bowling, Tree Planting and

activities such as peer mentoring, creating Indigenous Artworks, Hypotheticals, etc.

The alternative timetable will be posted on our facebook page as well as on the

XUNO portal. Please keep an eye out for it and ensure that you are prepared for the

week.

Whilst the students are enjoying the week, the staff will be making visits to Sunraysia

schools, participating in professional development with experts flying up from

Melbourne, and working together to develop viable curriculum. YEAR 6 DISCOVERY DAYS – take place next Thursday and Friday (14th-15th June)

We are welcoming over 200 Year 6 students to visit our school for a short period of

time to experience a secondary school setting. Mrs Symes has been working very

hard to ensure that our visitors will enjoy their time, thanks Anne. NORTH WEST REGIONAL PRINCIPAL CONFERENCE – (12th-13th June)

Anne Symes, Gregor Allan and myself are attending the conference in Melbourne

next week along with all of our colleagues from our huge Region. There are

international speakers and opportunities to network and participate in workshops.

Gregor, Fi Arnold (Nichols Point PS) and myself will be presenting a Peer Learning Lab

at the Conference to up to 100 of our peers. We look forward to sharing the work

and learning we have been undertaking for a number of years now around Buildling

Leadership Teams and Positive Workplaces.

Thurs 7th June 2018

NEWSLETTER

IMPORTANT DATES

Mon 11th June – Public Holiday

Wed 13th June- Enrichment Round 2

Tues 19th-Thurs 21st June – Miss Meyer’s Bush Adventure Camp

Mon 25th – Fri 29th June – Year 9 Camp Fri 29th June – Last Day of Term 2

PAGE 2 Educating For Success LADY PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN – 21st June

Please get around this and support our staff

and school by purchasing a ticket for what

will be a huge, fun-filled night with friends.

Our staff along with some students have

been rehearsing for the past few months on

Thursday afternoons as well as on weekends

and making props for the performance, it

would be great if they were able to perform

to a full house.

Jo McQuinn

Principal

Enrichment Round 2

Our second round of

enrichment saw over one

hundred students from a

number of local primary

schools participate in a

subject of their choice.

The choices range from

drama, wood, canoeing,

writing, maths, science,

art/print making etc. Here

the kids are fuelling up

with snacks before their

workshops.

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MARKET DAY – YR 10 BUSINESS

On Friday the first of June, Mr Andrews’ Year 10

Business class ran their Market day. In glorious

sunshine, students plied their trade selling

condiments and fast food.

Hearty congratulations to all of the students

involved who managed to turn a profit on the day.

A special thanks to the ongoing assistance of Adrian

Taylor, Sally Corless, Loretta Clyne and Noeleen

Davis who provided assistance on the day.

Getting On Country

This term we took some of our Indigenous students out of school for the day

to continue their cultural learning and awareness. It was great to see some

new kids getting on country this time round and we all learnt some

important lessons about connection, culture and collective support. Thanks

to Byrnsie for organising a great BBQ lunch. We look forward to the next

opportunity to get out on country, which will be early in term 3.

Great Community Support for our Local Sporting Events

Our senior students have been actively involved in some great community

work this term. Our kids umpired both sporting carnivals at Nichols Point

Primary School in Football, Hockey, Soccer and Netball, which provided

the teachers with valuable time to coach their teams.

“Your students helped make this

day a success for both our teams.

Without their expert umpiring skills

and enthusiastic feedback to players I would have had to umpire

each game, instead I was able to coach my team and provide

them with the guidance they needed to make their day

enjoyable…Thanks ISC”. - Irymple P.S Team Coach

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Rich Tasks and Investigations in Maths Our focus this year is to include more rich tasks and investigations where

students work together using their maths skills on an unfamiliar problems.

Here’s Louisa and Shakara working on a

rich task using Linear Equations in Year 10

Maths.

Maths Challenge Students undertaking the Maths Challenge are reminded that the three

weeks will be up at the end of next week. See Ms Boyce if you need

some support on any of the six questions.

Maths Competition A reminder to pay the $5 entry fee before the end of term to enter this

annual competition.

Year Nine Ten Pin Bowling Tuesday 12th June All Year 9 students will be going to Ten Pin Bowling in the middle of day

next Tuesday. Please make sure your permission forms and $5 fee are

handed into the office by this Friday, 8th June

Year 10 Snow Camp

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Interschool Netball – Monday 4th June

Year 7 Team

The year 7 girls came away with 2 wins for

the day. Some great connections made

on the court for a team playing together

for the first time, especially between goal

shooters Ieesha Williams and Tahlia

Hudson. Charlie Scarrott was powerful in

defence using her height to advantage

and Mikayla Zappia made good space

through the mid-court. A great game by

all girls.

Coach: Rachel Thomas

Year 8 Team

The Year 8 girls faced some tough

competition for the day and

unfortunately did not come away with a

win. Jordyn Casey played a strong

attacking game, scoring most of the

teams goals, with Olivia Orwell, Keesha

Crilly and Zali Doolan working well in the

defensive end. Annabelle Nicholls,

Bethany Hartwig, Bree Hammence and

Kayla Burling demonstrated their

versatility, playing in a range of positions

on the day. Well done to all the girls on

their efforts and persistence throughout

the day.

Coach: Natalie Timmis

Year 7/8 Team

After a cold start to the day, the sun

finally came out and it was a beautiful

day to play netball. We won two games

and lost three and each player showed

great sportsmanship throughout the day.

They were all willing to try different

positions on the court is needed and the

girls were a delight to coach.

Coach: Fiona Zambelli

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Year 9 Team

The year 9 girls fought very hard all day,

but only managed to win one game.

Highlights of the day were Dekkotah

Irwin’s give and go plays which helped

her secure many goals, Makayla Lia’s

new fond love for the Centre position,

Skie Sherwell’s determination to push

through the pain of exhaustion, Paige

Atkinson’s ability to keep chewing that

chewy throughout the whole day,

Claudia Fangaloka’s never say die

attitude to intercepting balls all over the

court, Elyza Penny’s newly learnt move of the ‘front cut’, Bella Walsh’s

ability to just keep on running in the Centre and Tameeka Curreen who

was quite content just sitting back in that Goal Shooter position and

plugging away all day.

Coach: Michelle Beswick

Year 10 Team

This team looked good on paper, but were

even better when they were on the court!

No team could match their skills on the

day with the closest game being against St

Joes where they beat them 13 to 7. Louisa

Stevens was the little pocket rocket for the

day, who improved out of sight! This team

were undefeated all day and will now

progress on to the next stage next term in

Eucha. A big thank you must go to Alana

Mills who worked with all these netballers

during term 1 from Netball Victoria who

then came out and coached these girls on the day.

Coach: Alana Mills

Umpires

Thank you to Paige McLean, Hannah

Tippett and Sarah Reddy who umpired all

day for ISC.

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SPORT REPORT: Interschool Cross Country – Apex Park, May 23rd Our school produced some great individual and team efforts

on what turned out to be an overcast and cool day which

was an ideal one for runners.

We had 2 individual age group champions with Brooke Hards

and Ben Doherty (pictured below) first over the line in the 16

Yrs Girls and 13 Yrs Boys 3km run’s respectively.

We also had 2 other runners finish in the top 3 and a number

of runners finish in the top 10 for their age group. Students

who finished in the top 10 are listed below.

In the teams section, we had 2 teams win their division, those being the

13 Yrs and 14 Yrs Boys.

Congratulations to all the competitors on how well you performed, and

how well you represented the school.

As a result or their performances, we had a number of students who

competed at St Arnaud on Tuesday 5th June.

State Golf Championships

Boys Girls

13 Yrs Hamayun

Nasirie - 6th

Isaiah Bettess

- 9th

Hanna Zambelli -

2nd

Jorja

Delcastegne - 9th

14 Yrs Ben Doherty -

1st

Kade Baynes

- 5th

Bayley Kelly -

10th

Bethany Hartwig

- 5th

Annabel Nichols -

10th

16 Yrs Jordan

Stainer - 4th

Brooke Hards - 1st

Chloe Barker - 3rd

Natasha Parks -

4th

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Year 8 student Ben Doherty competed in the State Golf

Championships which were played at the Gardiners Run Golf

Course in Melbourne on Friday 25th May. Ben carded a score

of 87 for the 18 hole stroke event and finished 56th in a field of

80. Not a bad effort by Ben considering he was competing

against students up to and including Yr 9.

Congratulations to Ben on qualifying and representing the

college at the championships. Thanks also to parent Garth

Doherty for taking his son Ben to the championships.