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Principal’s Report

Grandparents and Special Friends Day

An open invitation to all grandparents and special

friends of our Year F-6 students to attend the

school and join in with activities in classrooms has

been extended. Join us at school on Monday, 17th

June, between 9.30 and 11.30am in the Silver and

Grey Buildings. Parents’ Club will supply morning

tea around 11am.

Play on the Oval

Over the last few weeks we have had some minor

injuries due to football games being played on the

oval. Please note that staff members patrol the oval

at recess and lunchtimes and students are asked

not to tackle. Older students are also asked not to

become involved with the games of younger

students. We do not want to go down the path of

stopping this play but we will remain vigilant and

again point out to all students the rules governing kicking balls and contact sports.

Exams

Year 11 exams started on Friday, 7th June and will continue through this week. The Year 12 (and

some Year 11) students sit the General Achievement Test on Wednesday, 12th June. Good luck to

all our Senior students as they complete their first semester of work.

Year 12 Parent/Teacher Interviews

Information for parent teacher interviews will arrive home tomorrow with students. These

interviews are only for students studying a Year 12 subject and are designed to inform parents

about what is coming up and strategies for their students to employ as they head into the final

semester. All Year 12 students and those Year 11 students studying a Year 12 subject will be given

the information regarding making online bookings. Please contact the school if you have any

queries.

DIARY DATES

JUNE

12th GAT

12th Finance Meeting

12th Hockey 7’s Bendigo

14th Report writing day – pupil free

17th – 19th Graffiti Camp

17th Grandparents & Friends Day

19th School Council Meeting

21st Try VET day NCTTC Yr 9 & 10

23rd – 28th Year 11 Trip

24th – 28th Bogong Trip

27th Pie Orders Delivered

28th Whole School Assembly

28th Last Day Term 2.30pm Finish

JULY

15th Term 3 Begins

SSV Cross Country

June 12th 2019 Issue 18

Boort District P -12 School 9-27 Malone St

BOORT, 3537

Ph: 03 5455 2201

Mobile 0477 741 594

Email:

boort.district.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.boortds.vic.gov.au

VISION STATEMENT

Our vision is to empower our students and staff to work together to become active

and valued community members. We provide a safe and supportive learning

environment, which fosters independent, resilient lifelong learners.

BDS Motto: ‘Achieving Excellence Together’

BDS Beliefs and Values: Acting with Integrity and Honesty

We ask that students are not on the school grounds before 8.40am each day as supervision is not provided

before this time.

mailto:boort.district.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Busy End of Term

Over the last two weeks of term we have the following activities – Graffiti Camp, Biology camp,

Work Experience, Try a VET Day, Bogong Camp, Grandparents’ Day and Parent/Teacher

Interviews (Unit 3 subjects only). This is a busy end to our term. School will finish at 2.30pm on

Friday 28th June.

Family Accounts

For those families who have chosen to pay fees, excursions or camps by instalments, the accounts

have been sent out today and are due for payment.

Lee-Anne Sherwell

Principal

Principal’s Availability over the Next Week

Thursday Friday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

At School Report Writing day –

no students

At School At School At School

Save the Date: Grandparents and Special Friends Day F-6 students will be hosting Grandparents and Special Friends Day Monday 17th June 9:30-11:30am Silver and Grey buildings, Boort District School Morning tea in Silver building 11-11:30am BDS PIE DRIVE ~ 2019

A big thank you to everyone who has ordered products from this year’s BDS Sharps Bakery Pie Drive.

Orders can be collected, Thursday, 27th June 3:30pm at Boort Sports Club.

A special thank you to Cindy Brown for donating a mail out of order forms to the Boort Community. Your

donation is greatly appreciated.

Any queries please contact Sarah Featherby.

Ornamental & Fruit Tree Fundraiser

Our annual Fruit and Ornamental Tree Fundraiser is on again for 2019. Please find the current order form at

the end of the Newsletter. We have added a few new varieties of trees plus all the favourites. Please contact

either Kim or Jo if you want a certain tree species that is not on the list. It may be available from the nursery

on request. Trees are normally delivered to the school around late July. Trees are always of high quality and

low cost – a great opportunity to begin an orchard or enhance your home garden.

This year funds raised will assist in purchasing our new football goal posts for the school oval.

For any further queries please feel free to contact either Jo (0408 578 211) or Kim (0447 554 203)

Ten read-aloud commandments by Mem Fox

1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth! 2. Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand

stories before they can begin to learn to read. Or the same story a thousand times!

3. Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and do not be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.

4. Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners 5. Read the stories that your child loves, over and over, and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for

each book: i.e. with the same intonations and volume and speed, on each page, each time.

CANTEEN CLOSURE The school canteen will be closed on Monday, 17th June. No food or drinks will be available on

this day (including lunch orders) at recess or lunchtime.

6. Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way;

or be noisy together doing clapping games

7. Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short. 8. Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and

finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a

fabulous game.

9. Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books. 10. Please read aloud every day because you just adore being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to

do.

Loddon Mallee Region Cross Country

On Tuesday last week, eleven students represented the school at the Loddon Mallee Region Cross Country.

Congratulations to all students on performing their best in very chilly conditions on the day. There were

over 1000 Year 7 – 12 competitors on the day, and it was great to see the excellent standard with some very

impressive times ran throughout the day. In each age group, our students competed against approximately

sixty others in the senior years and up to eighty in the junior years. Results:

16 year Male, 5 km – Jake Boyd 23rd in a time of 19.36. (1st place ran a time of 16.40)

15 year Male, 3 km –Fergus Bear 54th in a time of 14.05. (1st place ran a time of 10.57)

15 year Female, 3 km – Ella Lanyon 11th 14.36, Lily Hosking 31st 16.27 and Isabel Coutts 41st and Kate

Beattie 42nd in a time of 17.09 and 17.10. (1st place ran a time of 12.32)

14 year Male, 3 km – Kobie Streader 21st in a time of 12.55, Jacob Mulquiny 25th 13.04, Jesse Rye 29th

13.13 and Sam Barraclough13.41.(1st place ran a time of 10.47)

13 year Male, 3 km – Alex Cockerell 63rd in a time of 15.37.

Granites

On Monday, 27th and Tuesday, 28th of May the Year 8 Outdoor Education class rode out to the Granites. The

weather didn’t treat us overly well and we rode into a headwind the entire way out and back in as well. The

students enjoyed camping in their swags or tents, cooking in the fire or trangias (cooking stove), scrambling

over rocks, looking for caves and hidey holes and having a go on the slackline set up. Well done to everyone

for your efforts. Thank you to Adrian Grogan for riding out with the students, Peter Nickless and Tom

Bleicher for being the support vehicle drivers and staying overnight respectively and Hayden Rowley for

assisting with camp set up. Here are the student comments about the trip:

“Overall it was pretty good, the ride out there was very hard with head winds but the ride back was chill”-

Bridie Doyle I enjoyed the ride overall on the way there although there was a lot of headwind and side wind but the way

back was much calmer”- Jesse Rye

“The camping bit was fun just not the riding. We had head winds the whole way and it was freezing cold”-

Grace Hall

“I enjoyed the ride home as it was faster and there was less wind”- Griffin Lanyon

“I think riding to the Granites and camping overnight was a fun experience. I would recommend it to anyone

that enjoys being outside”- Emma Zanker

“The ride was hard”- Alyssa Boyd

“Camp was fun, all the rock climbing, views, animals and having a good time with my friends”- Jacob

Mulquiny

“It was cold, wet and windy but we had a good time”- Phoebe Malone

“The Granites trip was very cold and the rock climbing was quite fun”- Carissa Haw

“One of the best parts was when we told campfire stories after tea”- Charlotte Alison

“Camp was fun but I think we needed more practise on the riding. The camping and cooking was really good

too”- Zarlie Featherby

“Camp was fun and cold. The rock climb was the best and the ride was cold and a little bit hard”- Tom

Potter

“Overall I think that camp was good and the wind was a pain when we were riding and it’s a good idea not

to leave stuff out at night because it will get wet”- Kobie Streader

“The camp was good but it was cold and wet and the ride was tough because we had a head wind. It was

great and I would do it again if weather was better”- Frasier Holland

“It was freezing cold and really wet when we were setting up our swags. We had a head wind the whole time

we were riding to and from the Granites”- Annie Perryman

“I can’t say much because I could not ride but the stuff I did was pretty good”- Zac Mayberry

“The Granites camp was cold and everyone was tired from riding. I was surprised at how many graves there

were at the cemetery”- Emma Gawne

Art Instagram Account

The school now has an Art Instagram account. This is a great place to share the amazing artwork that is

being produced in the Art Room.

Check out the great art at Instagram: boortdistrictschoolart

Foundation to Yr.6 Hockey Program

Over the past three weeks, students from Foundation to Year 6 have had the opportunity to receive

professional hockey coaching from Ellie Reid of Birchip - Watchem Hockey Club. Students have focused on

everything from grip and stance, pushing trapping and tackling, whilst engaging in games and activities to

promote development of skills. Some of our older students have even played a game of hockey 7’s. All

students have engaged very well with the sessions and it has been fantastic to see the energy and enthusiasm

from students involved in the program and the subsequent improvement in all students has been great. Thank

you must go to the classroom teachers who have accompanied them and assisted with the operations of the

sessions.

Student Name

Foundation Josh Willis For being cooperative during reading group activities.

Amanda Barsdell For good work when comparing numbers in maths.

Year 1/2 Serenity Field For taking the time to do her neatest handwriting.

Eva Perryman For being a helpful classmate and finishing her work in a timely manner.

Year 3/4 Harry Darmanin For a terrific job at spelling using ‘Wordies’.

Desiree Leersen For a terrific job at spelling using ‘Wordies’.

Jake O’Flaherty For working well on procedure writing.

Anna Lanyon For a positive approach to addition tasks.

Liberty Field For working hard on literacy tasks.

Finlay Arnold For asking questions during numeracy.

Community News Healthy Heart of Victoria 2019

Active Living Census......

By now, all Boort residents would have received this census in the mail. When filling out this census you

have the opportunity to write suggestions for our wonderful town to help encourage healthy lifestyles. What

better way to begin healthy lifestyles than start with our youth! If you would like to support the idea of Boort

having a recreation area encompassing a MODULAR PUMPTRACK, HALF BASKETBALL COURT and

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT etc. please add this to the space provided on the Census Form. It may help with

funding for such a project!

Thank you for your time

Jacqui Verley

Boort Tourism Development Committee.

Boort District School 2019 Fruit Tree Fundraiser Order Form

Variety Maturity Quantity Price Total

ORNAMENTAL TREES PRUNUS

P. cerasifera nigra pink 22

P. versicolour white/pink 22

P. blireana dble pink 22

P amygdalus burgundy 22

CRAB APPLE

M. floribunda white/pale pink 22

M. ioensis rubra wine pink 22

M.florabunda purpurea rose 22

ASH

Claret 1.5 m 22

Golden 1.5m 22

ORNAMENTAL PEARS 1.5m

Manchurian 22

Cleveland 22

Capital 22

Red Spire 22

Winter Glo 22

Japanese Maple 1.5m 22

London Plane 1.5m 22

Silver Birch 1.5m 22

Paulownia 1.5m 22

Gleditsia

Sunburst 1.5m 22

Ruby Lace 1.5m 22

Lilac

Alice Eastwood mauve/pink 22

Charles Jolly burgundy 22

Missimo purple 22

Oliver de Serres dble mauve/blue

22

Corabrandt white 22

WEEPERS ornamental

Mop Top 45

Cherry – cheals double pink 45

Cherry – falling snow white 45

Page 1 Total

Variety Maturity Quantity Price Total

TREES IN CONTAINERS 200mm pot

Jacaranda 1.5m 25

Crepe Myrtle – tuscarora 25

Pittosporum – silver sheen 25

Daphne - pink 25

Melia azedarach (Cape Lilac) 25

Ginkgo 25

Camelia sasanqua 25

Bay Tree 22

Chinese Elm 1.5 22

Portwine Magnolia 20

Blueberry 20

Olive – fruiting 140mm pot 20

Fruit Trees

APPLES

Gravenstein Jan 20

Royal Gala Feb 20

Delicious Late Feb 20

Five Crown Late Feb 20

Jonathon Mid March 20

Golden Delicious March 20

Granny Smith April 20

Fuji April 20

Snow Apple April 20

Pink Lady May 20

PEARS

Red Sensation Late Jan 20

Packham Feb 20

Corella Feb 20

Beurre Bosc Mar 20

Josephine March 20

Winter Nellis Apr 20

NASHI

Ya-Li Mar 20

MULBERRY

Hicks Fancy 25

QUINCE

Champion 25

APRICOT

Trevatt Late Dec 20

Moorpark Early Jan 20

Hunter Mid Jan 20

PLUMCOT Jan 20

PEACHES – clingstone

Tatura 204 Mid Jan 20

Golden Queen Early Mar 20

Pullar Mid March 20

Page 2 Total

Variety Maturity Quantity Price Total

PEACHES – white flesh

Anzac Late Dec 20

Bendigo Beauty Jan 20

Wiggins Late Jan 20

Flat peach (donut shape) Feb 20

PEACHES – yellow flesh

Flavourcrest Late Dec 20

Red Haven Mid Jan 20

Blackburn Elberta Feb 20

O’Henry Late Feb 20

NECTARINES

Fantasia Mid Jan 20

Goldmine Mid Feb 20

Flavourtop Mid Feb 20

Fairlane Early Mar 20

Peacherine Jan 20

Fig – Preston Prolific Feb –Mar 20

Pomegrante – Wonderful 20

PLUM – Japanese

Santa Rosa Jan 20

Mariposa (blood) Late Jan 20

Elephant Heart (blood) Early Feb 20

Black Amber Feb 20

Ruby Blood Mar 20

PLUM - European

Angelina Feb 20

Damson Feb 20

Victoria Mar 20

CHERRIES

Sunburst * Early Dec 20

Stella * Mid Dec 20

Lapins* Late Dec 20

*self fertile

ALMONDS

California Papershell* 20

IXL* 20 * Self Pollinating

CITRUS

ORANGES

Washington Navel 30

Valencia 30

Late Lane Navel 30

Blood Orange 30

LEMONS

Eureka 30

Lisbon 30

Meyer 30

Page 3 Total

Variety Maturity Quantity Price Total

MANDARIN

Imperial 28

Emporer 28

Ellendale 28

Honey Murcott 28

GRAPEFRUIT

Ruby 28

Marshes Seedless 28

LIME

Tahitian 28

Kaffir 28

LEMONADE 28

TANGELO

Minneola 28

Cumquat

Nagami 28

DWARF CITRUS

Orange - Washington 35

- Blood Orange 35

Lemon Eureka 35

Meyer 35

Mandarin Imperial 35

Emperor 35

Lime Tahitian Lime 35

Page 4 Total

Page 3 Total

Page 2 Total

Page 1 Total

Grand Total

Please note – Orders cannot be confirmed until final delivery from the nursery. If required, refunds will be organised. Orders for over 5 of one tree variety will need to be confirmed by Nursery before ordering.

Orders due Monday, 17th Ju ne, 2019 (no late orders accepted) Delivery will be late July (in 3rd Term). Name:________________________________________ Contact Details: ________________________________

Payment details: NO BPAY PAYMENTS WITH THIS FUNDRAISER Amount: ______________ Cash Cheque Eftpos