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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, Adam Bish, Dustin Pascoe, Steve Leed, Scott Wilkinson, Andrew Cameron, Jackson Clayton, Nicole Hocking, Natalie Rose, Lynda Cartwright, James Verley, Jo Cartwright
Respect - Resilience - Responsibility - Relationships 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
Dates for Your Diary
Newsletter No 35 Date: 8th November 2018
East Loddon Remembers – Exciting Event Tomorrow!
We simply cannot wait for the
Remembrance Day ceremony and
grand opening of the East Loddon
Remembers World War One
Memorial Site tomorrow at
10:45am. This event will be held
at the entrance to our College
and is sure to be a thoroughly
impressive ceremony. The actual
memorial site has now been
almost entirely completed and it
looks simply amazing. Do yourself
a favour and get along to the
ceremony if you are at all able to. It is sure to be worth it!
Thanks For The Terrific Pics and Footage Jamie!
At our recent College Athletics Sports I mentioned the presence of a drone, which was
being flown by Jamie Columbus. Jamie has now provided the College with amazing
images and footage at two sporting
events, with our staff and students
always intrigued by the aerial views
that he and his drone provide for
us.
Thanks Jamie!!!
NOVEMBER
9th Specialist Maths
1, Physical Education
Exams
KFC
10.30 am for a
10.45am start
Remembrance Day Service Grand Opening 12th VCE Specialist Maths Exam 2 13th VCE Chemistry
and VCD Exams
14th VCE Physics Exam Parents Association AGM 16th VCE Australian History, Computing Informatics Exam KFC
19th-23rd Year 10/11 Exams
20th VCE German Exam
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Compass Progress Reports Progress Reports outlining your child's Progress on Class Activities, Use of Class Time, Behavior and Homework will be available from 4pm today on Compass for your child's classes that are reporting through that system in 2018. If you would like assistance with accessing Compass online, please call the school office, or email [email protected].
Year 12 Exams
Our Year 12 students have continued to impress with their preparedness for exams this week, with many students
continuing to meet with College staff to go over notes and give themselves the best possible chance to succeed.
Exams last for approx. another 2 weeks and we appreciate all that our staff and students are doing to ensure that
our Year 12’s can have a successful exam period.
College Advertises For A 2019 Business Manager
As mentioned last week, the College is currently advertising for a 2019 Business Manager, with applications
closing this week. There has been a very pleasing level of interest in this position and we are very confident in
appointing a tremendous applicant to the role. On completion of the recruitment process, the successful applicant
will be announced to the College community.
Respectful Relationships – Would You Like To Help Us With A Quote?
During Respectful Relationships time next week, students and staff will be focussing on what Respectful
Relationships (RR) means to them. This will involve us asking all College staff and students to provide an
‘inspirational quote’ or statement on RR. If you would like to help with this also, then please do!
We would like to use some of these quotes around the College towards the end of the year and in 2019 as a way
to further help us all to focus on the importance of being respectful to one-another.
The Mo’s Have Appeared…
There was a great deal of discussion take place in the lead-up to November and as of this morning we have had a
few moustaches fashioned for the Movember campaign. Whilst we will not be pushing terribly hard on the
fundraising cause, we will certainly be endeavouring to raise awareness of men’s health.
First Aid Course For Students and Community Members – Running From The College
Murray Mallee Training will be running a first aid course at our College on Tuesday 27th November for interested
students and community members. Participants will need to ensure that they have a USI number, and the course
will cost $105- per participant. Please have a think about whether you would like to take part in this course, as
names will be requested shortly.
Participants will also need to complete a booklet and associated forms prior to the course.
I hope you have a great week!
Steven Leed
College Principal
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P-4 Update
Building Strong Foundations
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Student of The Week
Prep—Jimmy for great spelling result and
improved writing.
Year 1—Travis for completing his reading program
and developing new skills and confidence.
Year 2—Noah for working hard at being a good
friend to everyone in class.
Year 3—Paige for working hard to improve
handwriting and being a good friend to others.
Year 4—Joseph for always being thoughtful
towards others.
You Can Do It! Awards
CONFIDENCE
Prep—Charlotte for always being
confident enough to try new
things.
Year 1—Tom for being a confident speller.
Year 2—Coal for showing confidence in talking in
front of the class and working hard during Reading
time.
Year 3—Ella for growing confidence with her
literacy and numeracy.
Year 4—Colin for having a ‘never give up’ attitude
and being so happy.
Assembly News-
As part of our Respectful Relationships program we talked about bullying and taking a stand against it, supporting
friends by reporting incidents. We have a zero tolerance when it comes to bullying.
Check out these links to learn about the theme and the language being learnt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnGP0dAm5JI&list=RDQMe_7kt4j2SFg&start_radio=1 and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrorCWpvlxE
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Prep Sounds in Focus
This week our Preps are exploring the long ‘o’ vowel sound as in the digraphs: ‘oa’ (boat) and the ‘o-e’ split digraph
(home). The SoundWaves verse is ‘Row the boat.’
Prep Words To Fluency
The word theme this week supports the spelling and includes: boat, road and home.
EXCURSION REMINDER- Swan Hill
Thanks to parents who have promptly return permission forms for Swan Hill. A reminder
that if you need help with the financial component of this excursion, please feel free to
contact our College Business Manager to make confidential arrangements. If you have not
already done so, please try to get all forms returned ASAP to assist us with our planning.
Students travel to school on their normal bus.
Uniform- Students are required to wear their full school uniform, including their hat.
Lunch This will be eaten on arrival at 11 am. Please provide a substantial healthy lunch, including either juice or a
bottle of water. All items named and in a disposable bag with name and LUNCH marked.
Afternoon tea- This will be eaten at 3pm just prior to leaving. It should be sufficient to sustain them until their
evening meal and should also include either water or juice. All items named and in a disposable bag with name and
AFTERNOON TEA
*Please note that ‘junk food’ and cordials are not acceptable as students need to sustain their energy levels for
both walking and concentration, and we do not want any cases of ‘sugar highs’ that may impact on behaviour.
Please collect your child from school at 5:30 pm (Estimated time when we arrive back).
Literacy Hints
Bump It Up! To improve your child’s vocabulary, and therefore reading and writing skills, use and encourage the
use of more sophisticated words (call items by their proper names) and use adjectives and adverbs to make lan-
guage more descriptive. Books are a tremendous avenue for language development so remember to read regularly
to your child and discuss the meaning of new language.
Peter Vernon (On behalf of the P-4 Teaching and Learning Team)
275 Nights of Reading Y4-Emily Y1-Jessica and Logan Prep- Jack
250 Nights of Reading Y3-Georgia Y2-Sarah
225 Nights of Reading Y4-Joseph
200 Nights of Reading Prep- Ruby
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Outdoor Classroom Day
Last Thursday many of our classes participated in activities for Outdoor Classroom Day. While many of us wished the weather was a little nicer, students still made the most of getting outdoors. Activities ranged from reading in Literacy to making political speeches in Humanities and running dictation in German. We were also fortunate to have Simon Penrose, our Koorie Inclusion Support Officer, here to run Aboriginal games and a string making workshop.
Sarah Clare- Curriculum Leader
Middle Years Parents, please join Bloomz to get regular updates from your child’s classroom.
Middle Years Captains Report
Tomorrow we have the Remembrance Day event at 10:45 am, all parents are welcome to
come. As Middle Year sub school captains we are starting to prepare the 2019 election to all
of the Year 7s who are interested in running for sub school captain next year. We would also
like to welcome Mrs McCarthy into the sub school, she is teaching Year 8 English, Year 8
Health and Year 5 Humanities for the rest of the term. Have a good weekend.
Alicia and Levi
Bloomz Snapshot
Book Recommendation
Brandon C from Year 7 recommends “Stories for Boys Who Dare To
Be Different” by Ben Brooks.
“On each page of the book is a different story about people who
dared to be different and changed the world because of it. My fa-
vourite story is about a pilot who’s plane was going down, but managed to land the
plane in a river, saving all passengers. I’m really enjoying this book and recommend
it from Year 5 and up.
Sub-School Graduation
The Year 4 and 8
Sub-School Graduation
ceremony will take place
on Thursday 6th
December at 2:30. All
Year 4 and 8 parents are
invited to attend.
Year 6—Bridge to Terabithia
models
Year 5’s watching the
movie “How to eat
fried worms”
Year 8 Science—
Sound energy
research
Big Picture—Keith
making a circuit as part
of an open investigation.
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Senior School News
Year 9 Humanities: Outdoor Classroom Political speeches Mr Rudkins As part of their Civics and Citizenship studies Year 9 students formed political parties based on shared perspectives on current political is-sues. The parties represented a cross section of views and highlighted concerns about the environment, drought and climate change, de-fence, education and health. Students presented a 3 minute speech on the central lawn as they do at Speakers corner in Hyde Park, London. There was an absence of rotten tomatoes, much to the speakers de-light! Students also made a 1 minute political advertisement promising to do all sorts of things for the good of the country. Party names in-cluded the Skinny legends fighting against obesity, the Good Life party and Australian Environment party addressing health and environmen-tal issues and the Aus Action party looking to solve the drought and shore up our defence. The Fundamentals campaigned hard on pro-moting education and health in rural regions while the Ag Tech party looked to offer long term action on drought and climate change while trumpeting the benefits of new technology. All were willing to spend your dollar in the chase for votes. The students spoke well and showed some creativity in their exercise of political voice. All went about the process in true democratic fashion although the Skinny Legends did ad-vocate for an end to democracy and offered themselves as autocratic rulers on the basis that knew what was best for all of us!! Year 10 Driver Education Camp
Are you attending?
If yes, please return your consent form and payment to the office by Nov 12th
Year 11: Future school captain?
Please submit an expression of interest letter to SB by Fri Nov 9th. This process also involves an interview with Mr
Leed and SB and students are required to participate in the Lions Youth of the Year competition.
Federation University Excursion
Friday 7th of December: Initial invite for Year 10 & 11 students, pending participation numbers. If there is room Year
9 students are also welcome. Please let me know if you are interested in attending.
Level 2 First Aid
$105: Tuesday 27th Nov
Please sign up with SB – notice on the office door asap.
Year 10 & 11 Practice Exam Timetable Monday 19th Nov: Y11 HHD, Y11 Accounting, Y11 PE and Y10 Science Tuesday 20th Nov: Y11 English, Year 10 English, Y11 Chem, Y11 Biology & Y11 Vis Com. Wednesday 21st Nov: Y11 Maths, Year 10 Maths, Y11 Studio Arts. Thursday 22nd Nov: Year 11 Spec Maths, Y11 Bus Man, Y11 Psych. Friday 23rd Nov: Year 10 Humanities. Catch up exams can be organised by students or staff for Thursday 22nd Nov or Friday 23rd Nov. Sarah Byrne Senior Sub-school Leader
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KFC – Kids Friday Club – Term 4 2018
KFC is set to start tomorrow, Friday Nov 9th, and continue on Nov 16th, 23rd and 30th with our breakup as part of
the Community Christmas BBQ and Carols on Sunday Dec 2nd.
All prep to Year 6 children welcome. Come and give it a go.
This term we’re going to have some fun exploring the Christmas story, making a nativity scene and much
more.
A KFC newsletter was distributed last week with more details and is still available from the office.
Please fill in the bus note below and send to the office.
Kids – remember to bring a gold coin, a snack to share (nothing with nuts) and a smileJ
Contacts for enquiries - Robyn Falls 0429368242, Leanne Welsh 0447689309,
Judy Mountjoy 0488379222, Wendy Twigg 0427807124, Anne Baker 0429368453
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Bus note for KFC Term 4 2018
My child/children.........................................................will be attending KFC on Friday Novem-
ber 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th . Can you please take his/her name off the bus roll. I will arrange pri-
vate transport for him/her to be taken home at 5.00pm following KFC by…
Nominated person to sign out……………………………………… Ph…………………………..
Parent/Guardian name..............................................................
Parent/Guardian signature.......................................................Ph…………………………………
Date....................................................
Parents Association
A.G.M.
Wednesday 14th November 2018
at 10am
To be held at the East Loddon P-12 College
- please sign in at the office and they will direct you to the right room.
Everyone is very welcome to attend. Morning tea provided.
All positions are open for the Parents Association in 2019 PRESIDENT - VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER - SECRETARY - FUNDRAISING CO-ORDINATOR Being a part of the PA is a great way to contribute to the growth of your child’s education, and keep up-to-date with the progress our school is making. A bonus is the lovely friendships you gain along the way. Our wonderful committee has done a great job (very grateful & thankful for your thoughts and discussions), but it’s time for new members to contribute their new ideas, and help continue the growth of our unique country school. Please consider taking a role next year. Even sharing a role might be an option. Please contact Leanne Welsh on 0447 689 309 if you would like any more information regarding these positions and overview of the tasks involved. Our current committee members are more than happy to provide a helping hand to any new recruit until he or she becomes established on the committee.
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People of ALL AGES need to protect them-
selves from the sun.
The motto remains the same —
Slip, Slop, slap, Seek Shade,
and Slide on Sunglasses.Wearing clothing and a hat is one of the simplest ways
to protect your skin.
Two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer in their lifetime and it’s never too late
to protect their skin from further
damage.
Deliberate excess sun exposure or
tanning are never recommended.
Sunscreen should always be
used with protective clothing,
seeking shade, a broad brim
hat and sunglasses.
Sunscreen should be reap-
plied every two hours, or after
swimming, sweating or towel
drying.
Any suspicious skin changes
or moles need to be checked
ASAP! www.cancer.org.au
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Canteen News
2018 TERM 4
TERM 4 DECEMBER
Friday 9th Lisa Twigg Louise Hocking Monday 3rd Margaret Hocking
Tuesday 4th Michelle Diss
Monday 12th Margaret Hocking Wednesday 5th Sue Pickles
Tuesday 13th Karolyn Campbell Thursday 6th Sue Pickles
Wednesday 14th Sue Pickles Friday 7th Michelle Balic Karolyn Campbell
Thursday 15th Sue Pickles
Friday 16th Kylie Addlem Cheryl Green Monday 10th Belinda Clymo
Tuesday 11th Sue Pickles
Monday 19th Lisa Twigg Wednesday 12th Brian Duffy Louise Hocking
Tuesday 20th Sue Pickles Thursday 13th Sue Pickles
Wednesday 21st Nicky Lawry Friday 14th Yoli Humphries Lisa Twigg
Thursday 22nd Sue Pickles
Friday 23rd Michelle Balic Toyah Ketterer Monday 17th Cheryl Green Karolyn Campbell
Tuesday 18th Activity Day NO CANTEEN
Monday 26th Karolyn Campbell Wednesday 19th Sue Pickles
Tuesday 27th Mel Primrose Thursday 20th Sue Pickles
Wednesday 28th Breeanna Hocking
Thursday 29th Mel Primrose
Friday 30th Miranda Smith Yoli Humphries
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College Calendar
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
5th
VCE Further
Maths 1 Exam
6th
Melbourne Cup
Holiday
Student Free
day
7th
VCE Maths
Methods 1Exam
8th
VCE Maths Methods 2 Exam Cows Create Careers Excursion
9th
VCE Specialist Maths and Physical Education Ex-ams 10.30am for a 10.45am start Remembrance Day Service Grand Opening KFC
10th 11th
12th
VCE Specialist
Maths 2 Exam
13th
VCE Chemistry
& VCD Exams
14th
VCE Physics Exam
Parent’s
Association AGM
10am At East
Loddon P-12
College
15th
P-4 Swan Hill
excursion
16th
VCE Australian His-tory & Compu-ting Infor-matics Exam KFC
17th
18th
19th
Year 10/11
Practice Exams
20th
VCE German
Exam
21st 22nd 23rd
KFC
24th 25th
26th 27th
Moggs Creek
Camp
28th
Year 8 Camp
29th 30th
KFC
DECEMBER 1st 2nd
3rd 4th
Year 10 Driver
Education
5th
TAFE Excursion
6th
Year 4 & 8
Graduation
7th
Fed Uni
Excursion
8th 9th
