GETTING ORGANISED… With only two weeks until holidays, the first term has flown by but not without some new skills being learnt and some new habits encouraged. As is the case every year, the first few months see a focus on improving student organisation and Mentors have paid particular attention this year to encouraging students to use their Diary more effectively. Students have been asked to write each subject for each day in their Diary, noting down homework if it is given or simply writing ‘No homework’ if there is none. Diary use can be a challenge for students – they are sometimes misplaced or left in lockers, or the student believes that their memory is sufficient for recalling what needs to be done and by when – meaning that homework or other key dates and deadlines can be overlooked. For this reason, greater emphasis has been placed on its merits in establishing a clearer process for making sure that things get done and for prioritising tasks based on deadlines, habits that will be vital in later years. As parents, you can support your child by checking the diary on a weekly basis and signing it. It is a great way to start a dialogue with your child about their progress and what is happening in their classes, and to help them manage their workload. Sharing your own strategies about prioritising different tasks can help your child with their own time management and build their discipline with setting aside appropriate time to complete tasks without leaving them to the last minute. In addition to the use of the Diary for homework, it is also a fantastic source of information about the School for both students and parents. Ask your child to talk a little about the School Values on the inside front cover and what they mean to their day-to-day lives as a student; ask them to discuss their Learning Behaviours using page 11 and to outline what their goals are for sustaining or improving each one; or, with most Bayview classes having now completed their Class Charters, ask your child about their Charter and RULER using page 18 to 22. While students might ultimately end up using electronic reminders or other ways of setting up their study program in the future, in the middle years the diary teaches them the process for establishing routines that are visible to teachers, parents and themselves, enabling all to be involved in supporting these important habits. ISSUE 8 - TERM 1 22 MARCH 2019
GETTING ORGANISED… With only two weeks until holidays, the first
term has flown by but not without some new skills being learnt and
some new habits encouraged. As is the case every year, the first
few months see a focus on improving student organisation and
Mentors have paid particular attention this year to encouraging
students to use their Diary more effectively. Students have been
asked to write each subject for each day in their Diary, noting
down homework if it is given or simply writing ‘No homework’ if
there is none. Diary use can be a challenge for students – they are
sometimes misplaced or left in lockers, or the student believes
that their memory is sufficient for recalling what needs to be done
and by when – meaning that homework or other key dates and
deadlines can be overlooked. For this reason, greater emphasis has
been placed on its merits in establishing a clearer process for
making sure that things get done and for prioritising tasks based
on deadlines, habits that will be vital in later years.
As parents, you can support your child by checking the diary on a
weekly basis and signing it. It is a great way to start a dialogue
with your child about their progress and what is happening in their
classes, and to help them manage their workload. Sharing your own
strategies about prioritising different tasks can help your child
with their own time management and build their discipline with
setting aside appropriate time to complete tasks without leaving
them to the last minute.
In addition to the use of the Diary for homework, it is also a
fantastic source of information about the School for both students
and parents. Ask your child to talk a little about the School
Values on the inside front cover and what they mean to their
day-to-day lives as a student; ask them to discuss their Learning
Behaviours using page 11 and to outline what their goals are for
sustaining or improving each one; or, with most Bayview classes
having now completed their Class Charters, ask your child about
their Charter and RULER using page 18 to 22.
While students might ultimately end up using electronic reminders
or other ways of setting up their study program in the future, in
the middle years the diary teaches them the process for
establishing routines that are visible to teachers, parents and
themselves, enabling all to be involved in supporting these
important habits.
ISSUE 8 - TERM 1 22 MARCH 2019
BAYVIEW CHESS CLUB Chess Club is up and running every Friday lunch
time in Rm B110. It’s free and everyone is welcome to attend either
for a fun game with friends, to do some more serious work with our
coach Matt Cheah to improve their game against Tournament
players.
Mr P
YEARS 5 & 6
CHELTENHAM DISTRICT SUMMER ROUND ROBIN On Friday 15 March all Year
6 students attended the Cheltenham District Summer Round Robin,
where they competed against other local primary schools. A great
day was had by all, as can be seen from the reports below.
TENNIS Finally, we were on our way to a day of fun, excitement and
tough competition. After all the enjoyable but difficult training
we were on our way to the 2019 Cheltenham Districts Summer Sports.
All of the Mentone Tennis team hopped off the bus we couldn’t wait
to start playing matches and scoring points for our team.
Many of us were nervous but we were all rushing with excitement.
Yes! We had scored a point. We were all winning games left and
right, with a smile on our faces and always demonstrating good
sportsmanship.
After a day full of sunshine and tough tournaments we finished off
in 3rd place in the ‘A’ division. We couldn’t be more proud of how
hard we worked! And I now believe that this will be one of the most
fun days of my life!
Eve Opie 6A
CRICKET The Year 6 Girls’ Cricket team played at the Keysborough
Playing Fields on Friday. Our first few matches we played were
hard, however, we all gave it our best efforts. We lost two games
and won the last one by around 40 points, so we were all very
pleased with ourselves. With a team effort we took four wickets and
hit 104 runs in our last game. We even managed to hit the ball out
of the circular boundary to get more points. By the end of the day
we were exhausted, however, we were all very proud of
ourselves.
Arshi Kaur 6A and Grace Sibbald 6A
T-BALL In the first game we played Heatherton Christian College. We
took a while to get used to playing as a team; we lost 3 to 5. We
had more success in the second game, we played OLA and won 7 to 5.
In the third game we played Kingston Heath; they were good, we lost
7 to 14. In the last game we split into two teams. The boys played
Southmoor boys and our girls played Southmoor girls. Both our teams
won: the boys 10 to 7 and the girls 9 to 7.
The main highlights of the day were Michael Di Tirro’s catch, when
the ball accidently fell into his glove; Caitlin Smith’s hit, when
the ball went into the carpark; Will Douglas finally hitting the
ball for a home run after getting strikes all day; and Emma Adam’s
catch on first base. Everyone had a great and exciting day at
Keysborough.
Caitlin Smith 6A & Ryley Finnis 6E
VOLLEYBALL Friday sport playing Volleyball was at first a challenge
because we weren’t allowed to catch the ball. Instead we had to
serve, hit, spike, and dig. We lost the first game because we were
still adapting to the rules. The second game was a win, when we
played better as a team and got our first ball over the net. The
third game we won with a better score than the second game but it
was still a close one. We lost the final game because one tall girl
smashed the ball. Overall, it was a fun day with the boys coming
first for Pool B and the girls achieving their best.
Zoe Richmond 6B & Josh Villanti 6C
YEAR 5 DESCRIPTIVE WRITING PIECES Year 5 students have been working
hard on adding detail to their writing. They have investigated
using sen- sory imagery to enhance the visual image for the reader.
Some have even managed to add relevant similes and metaphors to
their descriptions.
I was tapping my fingers anxiously against the table. I could only
hear my breath and the fast thudding beat of my heart. I felt
dizzy, almost like I was tumbling recklessly down a hole trying to
save myself from the fall. I kept tossing and
turning...
I opened my eyes and took a breath. I was BLINDED by the
white beaming hot headlights. They were so clear I could almost see
my reflection in them. I stepped outside the door. Wind and rain
gushed at my face trying to blow me away.
We had finally arrived inside the huge towering building -
Crown.
I was STUNNED!
Ella Whittaker 5A
I felt nervous. I sat down in the smooth, snakeskin seat. I
squeezed my eyes shut. I knew I was doing this for a good
cause.
“Are you ready?” Anthony the hairdresser asked.
“I think I’m ready.” I replied, my voice shaking.
Brrrrrr… It sounded like there were a million buzzing bees next to
me. I could feel the shaver vibrating, causing me to feel a
sensation that I’ve never felt before. THUMP! I felt something long
and hairy on me. My heart starting to beat faster. I opened my eyes
and I saw my hair, but not ATTACHED to me
anymore! Brrrrr… Thump! There was the other side. I
looked in the mirror, and I was stunned-but not in a bad way.
“Oh my gosh,” I said, not knowing what to say, “Oh my gosh,” But
then… A grin started to etch across my face. I looked at my parents
who looked shocked but happy. I looked at my reflection again. My
hair started to puff up. I smiled. I’m was now officially a mini
mushroom girl.
Natalie Nomikos 5B
It was a boiling hot Friday afternoon. Mum and I were driving home
from school and we had the cool, refreshing air con up to full. We
pulled the car up at the shops outside the Supermarket, I opened
the door, it was silver and glimmering in the sun like the top of a
bald person’s head. I slammed my car door and unexpectedly my thumb
had got in the way. It felt like 1000 volts rushing through my body
but mainly in my thumb!
I screamed and cried, I could taste the salty tears rolling down my
face. We rushed into the Supermarket bought a cold drink, to use as
an ice pack but my thumb kept throbbing horrifyingly. Underneath my
fingernail was purple like Thanos and a little bit of blood turning
it into a violet sort of colour. It felt like an elephant had
stepped on my thumb and it felt like that for weeks. I kept
screaming and crying like a galah for the whole night.
Campbell Brown 5C
I was feeling scared but excited, simultaneously. I had been
preparing this speech for what felt like decades. “Ok relax, you
got this” I whispered to myself silently. My head was throbbing as
I shuffled slowly up to the very top of the podium. I clenched the
glistening microphone in my right hand, holding my crinkled sheet
of paper in my left hand. I raised the microphone toward my parched
mouth and began my long speech. Oh no, just at that point in time I
realised that I had been crazy enough to drink a full can of Fanta
just before arriving. I forgot to tell you that this was a
leadership class and I was about to graduate from Miss Anderson’s
class with my Junior PhD in Leadership for boys. Sitting in
front of me were about a hundred people (the parents and
siblings of all my class members). I looked across at my peers who
were all shaking and looking extremely nervous. As for me, I
started to feel a tremendous rumble coming from my stomach up
towards my parched throat. All of a sudden, I let out a ginormous
burp. BUUURP!! I died of embarrassment.
Zak Rahhali 5D
YEAR 8 ENGLISH - Gennie McNair
Both analytically and creatively, in Year 8 English, we are working
on the wonderful novel The Running Man by Michael
Bauer. We have explored characters, themes, annotations,
connections and are beginning to explore the background of the
author and how his childhood has influenced his writing of the
novel. Now we have finished our first assessment we are
beginning to move into creative writing where we will ‘step inside’
one of the minor characters of the novel and write a piece based on
their perspective of the story. Students are discovering how
we develop character motivations, what the character might see,
observe and understand about the world and therefore find an
authentic voice for this task.
You will notice we are coming to the end of our annotations as
Literature Circles come to a close and we begin to look at the
novel as a whole.
Ebony Phelps - In English we are focusing on annotating The
Running Man and how to embed quotes from the book. We highlight the
parts in the book that we find important and then we share our six
main ideas in class with our Literature Circle groups. We are also
focusing on finding theme and structuring our writing using the
narrative arc layout. This helps when writing creatively and
narratives.
Olivia Parkes - Currently in English we are focusing on themes and
characters in the book, The Running Man. We have been annotating
our books week by week with inferences, connections, themes and
meta-language. To help us with our skills in annotating and
understanding the text we have been looking at the narrative arc
and watched a short film called ‘Go Fish’ to enhance our
understanding of how the structure of a story can change the way we
think.
HUMANITIES - Elli Monro
Our study of Medieval Europe in Humanities this term has been
stimulating and dynamic. Next week the unit concludes with an
essay. This formal writing skill helps students organise their
thoughts, and structure their communication in a clear and logical
way. It involves students learning to develop their points more
thoroughly and to undertake purposeful and reflective analyses to
reach conclusions. The students will be asked to analyse the
functions and role of the Catholic Church in medieval Europe. They
will be required to write an introduction, two main body paragraphs
(each following the TEEL format), and a conclusion.
The Mentone Grammar Social Service Team has set aside Friday 29
March to shave heads and raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundations,
‘World’s Greatest Shave’. Bayview volunteers will have their heads
shaved at recess in the courtyard.
HELPING LOCAL FAMILIES BEAT BLOOD CANCER Each year, the Leukaemia
Foundation helps more than 750 families from regional and rural
Australia by pro- viding free accommodation in our capital cities
so they can access life-saving treatment at major hospitals.
Their transport service also helps thousands get to and from
medical appointments, driving more than one million kilometres each
year to ensure people get the medicines they need to beat their
blood cancer. Thanks to its supporters, the Leukaemia Foundation is
also able to provide counselling, comprehensive information,
education and support programs and financial assistance to help the
60,000 Australians who are currently living with a blood
cancer.
They are committed to supporting initiatives and
research that improve health outcomes for blood cancer
patients, including improved access to new drugs that may be more
effective than those currently available.
BAYVIEW KEY DATES Week 9
Wednesday 27 March Communion Service
Australian C & L Olympiad
Cre8tive Dance Rehearsal
Performing Arts Concert
Week 10
Junior AGSV Swimming Years 4-6
Tuesday 2 April CAT Maths Competition
AGS/APS Summer Rep Sports Day
Summer Sports Awards Night
Bayview Easter Service
Years 7-8 Sports Training
Year 6 Sport
End of Term 1
Today, on National Ride 2 School Day, I am thrilled to announce
that our Target200 sustainable transport campaign has been an
enormous success with 257 students changing the way they
travel to school – and we’re only three months in. Our
staff departments have also been in friendly competition for the
most sustainable team and have been spotted by our students on the
trains and bike tracks.
While this hits our original target out of the park, it
wouldn’t be very Mentone Grammar of us to stop there, so…
We’re going for 200 more! Lucerne and the surrounding streets are
still under heavy pressure in the mornings and afternoons, so we
will continue to encourage this positive change in
lifestyle. Stay tuned for an exciting announcement at the
start of Term 2…
Special thanks to the Target200 Student Committee who have been
actively recruiting their peers and Teachers to ditch the car for a
bike, stroll or bus. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations to Mentone Grammar Community. We are so proud of
this achievement!
Kind regards,
Event
Mentone Grammar & Holland Foundation
TRIVIA NIGHT MENTONE GRAMMAR FUNCTION CENTRE DATE: Friday 17 May
TIME: 7pm for 7.30pm start
• Nibbles and soft drinks provided
• Amazing spot prizes, gift hamper prizes, lucky question prizes,
auction prizes
• BYO ‘picnic baskets’, bring a share plate
• BYO wine/beer
• $25 per head
• 50% of proceeds will go to funding new Mentone Grammar student
equipment as nominated by parents and students!
• 50% of proceeds will go to Holland Foundation employment training
programs
BOOK HERE: trybooking.com/BBIKH
VENUE: Woodlands Golf Club, White St, Mordialloc
TIME: 7am Registration & Breakfast 8am Shot Gun Start 1pm
Presentation and Lunch
EVENT: Ambrose Maximum Handicap: Men 24/Women 36
COST: $125 per person $470 per team
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THURSDAY 28 MARCH