Term 3 Week 9 Duke of Ed Practise Trek - Mendooran...Zone with pride and distinction! Harry Tobin, Nicholas Sweeney, William Duce and Ashton Harvey performed exceptionally well in

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: [email protected]

Term 3 Week 9

Learn to Live

Mendooran Central School

Monday 12th September 2016

Duke of Ed Practise Trek Good luck to our boys heading out on the Duke Of Edinburgh Practise Trek this

morning with Max Neal (OAM) and David McKechnie.

The boys will trek fifteen kilometres to Beni Crossing, make camp and hike back to

school on Tuesday. The boys headed out this morning in great spirits at

approximately 9:30am armed with their packs and even one fishing rod!

More on The Duke of Ed trek to come in next week’s newsletter.

Pictured above, from left: Mr David McKechnie, Tom Yeo, Jaike Mitchell, Liam Haron, Lachlan McKech-

nie, Mr Max Neal (OAM). Front: Connor Hughes Tincknell and Jacob Howarth.


PRINCIPAL’S NOTES Regional Athletics Success Congratulations to our Primary students who competed at North West Athletics last week. They represented our school and Zone with pride and distinction! Harry Tobin, Nicholas Sweeney, William Duce and Ashton Harvey performed exceptionally well in the Junior Boys Relay, Alexander Yeo in the Junior High Jump and Victoria Monk in the 11yrs girls 200m. Bailey Thompson was selected to compete at the Para Athlete State Carnival in Homebush in October. He will compete in 100m, 200m, Shotput, Discus and Long Jump. We wish him well as he continues training (see Athletes Profile). Mandy Eyles is at present, with the support of the school working to fundraise to help fund the costs of travelling and accommodation. What great community spirit! 7/8 Touch Our Years 7&8 Girls and Boys Touch teams competed in the All School’s Touch Trials in Dubbo last week. The girls played Wellington High twice as well as Parkes Christian School and one other school. Kiera Turnbull scored a try. The boys played Mudgee High, South Dubbo, St Mary’s and Bathurst High. Try scorers were Jacob Howarth, Jesse Dennis, Connor Tincknell, Tom Yeo, Carter Swan and Brian Hellyer. Links to learning Our RSA and RCG courses run last week were very successful, with students gaining valuable credentials for their resumes and portfolios. On Wednesday, we have “Project Rockit” working with Years 5&6 and 7&8 targeting bullying and resilience training. These will be two hour sessions for each group. Duke of Ed Liam Haron, Jacob Howarth, Lachlan McKechnie, Thomas Yeo, Connor Tincknell, Caitlin Houghton and Jaike Mitchell are currently taking part in a two day orienteering walk, camping overnight. Mr Neal is the Duke of Edinburgh co-ordinator. We hope the weather holds out! Roald Dahl Tomorrow is Roald Dahl day and students have been encouraged to dress as their favourite Roald Dahl character. This is the culmination of the library units on Literacy this term. Mrs Davis and Mrs Archer have been working on this event. There are prizes for the best dressed, colouring in competitions, as well as Roald Dahl activities in the Library. Spelling Bee This Wednesday our finalists in the Spelling Bee competition will be competing in the Regional Spelling Bee. The finalists are Ezra Geesu, Kaitlyn Quick, Harry Tobin and Jaxson Mitchell. We wish them the best of luck and congratulations to all students who participated in this competition. Infants Tabloid Day Thirty-three of our Infants head to Coolah for the Infants Tabloid Day with neighbouring schools. This is a wonderful social and sporting opportunity for our students. The supervising teachers are Mrs Elith and Miss Kenny, as Mrs Peter will be relieving Principal on the day in my absence.

Mrs Julie Waters

Assistant Principal

Lynda Peter

Captain Secondary

Kaitlyn Thomson

Becci Sciberras

Captains Primary

Kaitlyn Quick

Bailey Tincknell

HTSS

Troy Newberry

Vice Caps Secondary

Lachlan McKechnie

Alana Leaney

Vice Caps Primary

Joe Frohmuller

Hailey Quick


Kindergarten/Year One Class News The students are looking forward to attending the Infants Tabloid Sports Day at Coolah Central School this Friday 16th September. All students need to bring a packed recess and lunch with at least two drinks each as we have been informed that there will be no canteen facilities available on that day! Students will also require a hat as we will be out in the sun for the majority of the day.

Thank you to all parents who were able to attend the Kindergarten Information afternoon last Wednesday and to those who sent in apologies. Parents who were unable to attend can receive an information package by contacting the School Office.

The orientation sessions for the new Kindergarten students will commence in early Term 4. Dates are in the information package and also in the Mendooran Pride.

The students have enjoyed bringing in “Light and Sound” items from home to show.

L Peter

Left: Tristan Carey

demonstrating his light and

sound item for K/1.

Right: Eloise Tobin and Rihanna Hunt

reading to Mrs Waters.


Years 3/4 Class News Week 9 and we are rolling into our final weeks of the term. Year 3/4 will work towards their Writing and Maths in class assessments next week. We will continue to revise key concepts. We are still reading our class novel; The BFG and look forward to the Roald Dahl dress-up day on Tuesday and a week of activities to celebrate this great author. Homework and footy tipping as per normal this week. Have a great week!

V McIntyre

Years 1/2 Class News Years 1/2 Class News Years 1/2 Class News

We had a busy week in class with the Paralympics starting. Students had the opportunity to see a small part of

a wheelchair basketball game, and some athletics events. We did some more work on Rio in class where we

learnt about carnival and celebrations. Students are excited for the Roald Dahl dress up day tomorrow here at

school and have been talking about some of their favourite characters in class. We have had more clothing

turning up on the veranda outside our room (jumpers, new tracksuit pants, hats and water bottles). Please

make sure your child’s name is on their belongings so they can be easily returned. Friday is the Infants

Tabloid Day in Coolah, and parents are reminded that there is no canteen on this day. Students will need to

bring a packed morning tea and lunch as well as plenty of water for the day. We will be away from school for

the entire day so students will need their school bags packed with their food and drink.

S Kenny

Regional Spelling Bee This week we have four students attending the Primary Premier’s Spelling Bee Challenge.

We wish Harry Tobin Jaxson Mitchell, Ezra Geesu and Kaitlin Quick all the best. This will be

on Wednesday 14th September at Dubbo West Public School.

V McIntyre


Years 5/6 Class News PROJECTS!!!!

Welcome to Week 9 and the delivery of our student projects. I am looking forward to seeing what our students will deliver this week as they have had around eight weeks to prepare their presentations. If the students have been presenting their weekly class talks on athletes then they should feel more than confident to stand in front of the class and present their projects. Our talks will commence today and will continue through the week.

Now the Olympics have finished our learning has now shifted onto Brazil and South America with both a cultural and geographical focus. We have begun by looking at the Amazon Rainforest, its structure and some of its animal and indigenous inhabitants.

Some of our senior girls went on the Touch Football Day last week, with the Secondary girls and had a great day. From all reports they tried their very best and represented our school with pride. Congratulations Ainsleigh, Victoria and Kiera (scoring the only try on the day!) on your efforts.

There is a lot of illness going through the region at present so if it is possible please keep your children home if they are unwell so we can try and put a stop to this bout of viruses hitting us all at the moment. Something as simple as regularly using hand sanitiser, which we are remembering to use in class each day, can go a long way to killing off the germs and bacteria being spread through physical contact.

Bring on Project Week!!!!

D Palmer

ROALD DAHL DAY! We’re celebrating 100 years of the world’s No. 1 Storyteller

Many tremendous things are in store and wonders await …

We’re celebrating 100 years since the birth of the world’s number one storyteller. It’s going to

be more giant than James’s peach, more enormous than a crocodile and more marvellous

than George’s medicine! Join the biggest global birthday party ever on

13 September 2016

Here at Mendooran Central we will be having our own splendiferous party and all week there

will be marvellous and fantastic phizz-whizzing experiences.

It’s true, Week 9 of Term 3 will go down in school history … and to top it all off we will be

holding a Dahlicious Dress-Up Day where you choose which Roald Dahl character you want to

come as.

Oooooh! Its just going to be gloriumptious!



PRIMARY ASSEMBLY AWARDS

WEEK 8

Merit Award

Mathew Foggett

Merit Award

Jacqueline Rogers

Student of the Week

Eloise Tobin

Merit Award

Ebonie Jolly

Merit Award

Xanthia Turnbull

Student of the Week

Bailey Thompson

Merit Award

Hollie Carey

Merit Award

Shellby Adams

Student of the Week

William Duce

Merit Award

Hailey Quick

Merit Award

Joseph Frohmuller

Student of the Week

Trevor Martin


Athlete Profile

Bailey Thompson

Para-athlete On Monday 5th September Bailey

competed at the North West

Primary Regional Athletics Carnival

in Tamworth. He represented our

Zone in long jump, shot put, discus,

100m sprint & 200m sprint.

Bailey did exceptionally well and

has qualified to compete in all

these events at the NSW Primary

State Athletics to be held in

Homebush later this year.

Congratulations Bailey!!

Fun Facts about Bailey:

Bailey’s favourite

event is the 100m.

Bailey is not only

very talented at

athletics but also

enjoys swimming. Bailey’s impressive new shoes which he will

wear when he competes at Homebush.


FUNDRAISER for BAILEY THOMPSON

To go to Homebush for State as a

PARA-ATHLETE.

Bailey is competing in five events over two

days.

Thursday 22nd September — Sausage

sizzle at Mendooran Central School, lunch time.

Saturday 24th September — Car Wash - car

park Mendooran Central School, 9am.

Thursday 13th October — Cup Cake / Mufti day at Mendooran Central

School, recess and lunch.

100 Club — being sold mid week at Mendooran Post Office,

Friday nights at Royal Hotel Mendooran and Saturday nights at

Mendooran Memorial Club.

Raffle — Mendooran Merrygoen Memorial Club, tickets available at the

Club.

Anyone with any enquiries or to make a

donation, please contact Mandy Eyles — 0467 666 701.


7/8 Touch Football Day On Tuesday 6th September nineteen of our students travelled to Dubbo for the All Schools 7/8 Touch Football

Competition. We had three of our amazing Years 5/6 girls join us in order to get enough players for a Girls team.

Both our Girls and Boys teams played very well and came up against some very good teams such as Red Bend

Catholic College. All of our students conducted themselves very well and should be very proud of their efforts.

Our girls team should be especially proud of themselves as this was the first time they had ever played in a

competition like this. It was great to see them getting in and giving their best effort on the day, especially our

younger members of the team, Ainsleigh, Victoria and Kiera. Great work girls we are all very proud of you! Our

Boys team played extremely well and should be very proud of themselves, there was only a couple of tries

difference in each game and the score line did not reflect the level of effort they were putting in. A huge thank

you to all of our parents who provided transport on the day, without them the day wouldn’t have been possible.

We are so lucky at Mendooran Central School to have such amazing and supportive parents in our school

community.

A Langes

Above: Amy Adams, Anna Ward, Ekala Geesu,

Jordan Mitchell, Ainsleigh Dunbar, Victoria

Monk and Kiera Turnbull.

Above: Klayton Campbell, Stephen Eyles, Oscar Monk, Tom Yeo,

Connor Hughes-Tincknell, Brendan Poyser, Jesse Dennis, Jacob

Howarth, Carter Swan, Malcolm Hellyer and Brian Hellyer.

Primary Regional Athletics Congratulations to those students who competed in the Primary North

West Regional Athletics Carnival in Tamworth on Monday 5th

September; Bailey Thompson, Victoria Monk, Alexander Yeo, William

Duce, Nicholas Sweeney, Ashton Harvey and Harry Tobin. Well Done!!!!

Left: Jnr Boys Relay

Team: William Duce,

Nicholas Sweeney,

Ashton Harvey and

Harry Tobin.

Right: Victoria Monk


FACEBOOK? FRIEND OR FOE?

Facebook is a funny thing. On the one hand it is this amazing resource-a

place to stay connected, keep up with what's happening in the world, a

place to be encouraged and get new ideas, and to find out what's going

on.

Of course, on the flip side, it can be a really painful place too, a place of

comparison and insecurity, a place of snarkiness and cyber-bullying, a

place where people dare to say things they would never say to your

face, and a place where people try very hard to present the image of

perfection when their reality is anything but.

This week, be nice people! Use your cyber-speak to build up your friends, not knock them down. Remember

that you are Mendooran Central School students and are proud of it!!!

WANTED

Boys and Girls in Years 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

Want to learn to play Touch Football???

Available on a Thursday afternoon from 5.15pm to 5.45pm

Mendooran Touch Football Club needs you!!!

If this is you, please put your name down outside Miss Macs Room.

Mon 12.09.16: A Martin & K Yeo

Tue 13.09.16: Closed

Wed 14.09.16: S Gray

Thu 15.09.16: Closed

Fri 16.09.16: S Abbott

Mon 19.09.16: S Abbott

Tue 20.09.16: Closed

Wed 21.09.16: S Gray

Thu 22.09.16: Closed

Fri 23.09.16: S Abbott

CANTEEN ROSTER

Mendooran/Merrygoen

Amateur Swimming Club The Mendooran/Merrygoen Amateur Swimming

Club are having their Annual General

Meeting Friday 23rd of September at 6.30pm at the

Community Centre. Everyone is welcome.

Michelle Ward

0428 621 345

Mendooran Pony Club

There is a Rally day this Sunday 9 am for a 9.30am

start please bring fruit to share and a packed lunch.

Hopefully the grounds wont be too wet to run our

Rally day but I will keep you informed as the week

goes by. Nominations for Coonabarabran Pony Camp

close today.

J Smith


COMING SOON TO

MENDOORAN CENTRAL

SCHOOL

You will be notified once we go live


After School Study Session To allow our students to perform to their potential, Mendooran Central School has decided to implement an afternoon study session at the school. This time is designed to allow students access to their teachers to help them with any homework, assessment tasks and assignments that they may be having issues with, as a revision session, or to seek assistance with any work they may be experiencing problems comprehending.

These sessions will take place after school for 90 minutes straight after the finish of the school day. There will be at least one teacher in attendance and they will occur in the school computer lab to allow all the students access to the internet should their work require it.

In the introductory stage of this program these sessions will be offered to the Secondary students to begin with, and if successful hopefully a Primary afternoon will be established.

In order to maximise the number of students who are able to take advantage of these sessions we are asking any interested parents and students to supply us with the best day to run the program. To that end we would ask any interested students and parents to fill in the form below and return to the school so we can begin these afternoons in Term 4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please detach and return to the school

Student Name _________________________________________________________

The best day for the after school study sessions for me is

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday Friday

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS

Voluntary School Contributions for 2016 are:

$ 25.00 per Primary/Infant student

$ 50.00 per Secondary student from Years 7-12

with a maximum of $80.00 per Family (not including electives)

Compulsory Fees in 2016 are

Year 7/8 Electives:

$20.00 Technology Mandatory (Textiles/Food Tech/Technics)

$20.00 Art / Music

Year 9/10 Electives:

$40.00 Industrial Technology- first project ($30.00 per project thereafter)

$80.00 Food Technology

$20.00 Design & Textiles

$10.00 Agriculture

Year 11/12 Electives

$40.00 Industrial Tech (first project. 2nd project depends on cost)

$20.00 D&T Mixed Media

$90.00 Year 12 Hospitality

$120.00 Year 11 Hospitality

School fees are now due!


Parish of Dunedoo-Coolah-Mendooran-Elong Elong

24th September 2016

Breakfast till 2pm

SPRING FAIR

Stalls, plants, coffee, jumping castle, BBQ, food, $2 stall

LOTS OF FUN TO BE HAD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

To book a stall please ring Louise 0426 211 179


Mendooran Touch Football Inc.

Registration

THIS WEEK:

SUNDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 3PM

@ ROYAL HOTEL

WEDNESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER

6:00PM – 8:00PM @ Royal Hotel

Teams must to be submitted at the Sunday registration or prior to [email protected]

Mendooran Touch Football is a mixed sex and age competition held every Thursday from 6:00pm sharp

at Mendooran Oval. We boast having almost a quarter of the towns population participating!!!

We are always welcoming new players to our competition and all levels of experience.

Looking to form a team?

Maximum number of 17 players (we highly advise you only submit 15 to allow for an extra 2 players to

be added with players who are not in a team)

Rules changes for 2016/17 season

7 players on field

2 MUST be female compulsory

1 Junior on field minimum at all times

There will be 2 POINTS AWARDED FOR A FEMALE SCORING A TRY!!!! This is an incentive for females

to be included further!

This year a Junior session will be running, with the assistance of Kristal Norwood, every Thursday from

5:15pm – 5:50pm. Plans will be finalised and more information will be distributed through Mendooran

Central School.

This is not a competitive session, this is an opportunity for children to learn the rules and have fun with their friends, and establish the basics to move into our mixed competition and participate in possible

opportunities through the school in the future!

For further information please contact Lucy Pickering 02 6886 2094 / 0447 839 973

Like us on Facebook for regular updates & share with those not on Facebook!

Senior members: 18 & over $40

(turning 18 before April 2017)

Junior members: 17 & under

$25

All welcome, if you don’t have a team

don’t fear we will fit you in!

All levels of experience included!




2016 CALENDAR

September/October

Week MON TUE Wed THU FRI SAT/SUN

Nine

12

Duke of Ed

Practise Trek

13

Roald Dahl

Dress Up Day

Duke of Ed

Practise Trek

14

Premier’s

Spelling Bee

Dubbo

L2L Project

Rockit

Cyber.com

Premier’s

Spelling Bee

Dubbo

15

Yr 7

Vaccination

Clinic #3

16

Infants Tabloid

Day Coolah

17/18

Ten 19

L2L

Barista

Course

20 21 22

Sausage Sizzle

Fundraiser for

Bailey

Thompson

23

Last Day of

Term 3

24/25

School

Holidays

Car Wash

Fundraiser for

Bailey

Thompson

Term 4

One

10

Students start

back

11 12 13

HSC English

Std - paper 1

10.20 - 12.30

Mufti Day &

Cupcake

fundraiser for

Bailey

Thompson

14

HSC English

Std - paper 2

9.25 - 11.30

HSC Hospi

1.55pm - 4pm

15/16

Two 17

Kindergarten

Orientation #1

HSC Senior

Science

9.25am -

12.30pm

18

19

HSC Modern

History

9.25am -

12.30pm

20

HSC Biology

9.25am -

12.30pm

21

HSC

Mathematics

Gen 2

9.25am -

12.30pm

22


Dear Parents/Guardian

At the last School Council meeting Mendooran Central School sporting area was discussed. At present Mendooran Central

School is affiliated with the North West Region for all our sporting events. This includes any representation with swimming,

cross country, athletics and individual sports. I, as the Sports Organiser of the School, am proposing to change our region from

North West to Western. I have compared the two regions in a table below and believe changing to Western would be

beneficial for our School, enabling more students the best chance in attending all levels.

Mendooran Central School will still be involved in Binnaway 4 Way Sports and Infants Tabloid with the local towns and I would

like to see Secondary become more involved in social competitions within in our local area.

Yours Sincerely

Kristal Norwood

Sports Coordinator

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North West vs Western Area

Please consider whether to keep Mendooran Central School in the North West Area or to change to Western. If you would like

your vote to count, please place a tick in ONE box below and return to the School Office no later than 16th September and a

decision will be made at the next School Council meeting.

Agree to change Mendooran Central School to Western Area

Keep Mendooran Central School with North West Area

North West Western

Swimming Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd Zone Binnaway 3rd Regional Armidale 4th State Sydney

Swimming Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd District Dubbo 3rd Western Dubbo 4th State Sydney

Swimming Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Regional Armidale 3rd State Sydney

Swimming Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Western Dubbo 3rd State Sydney

Cross Country Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd Zone Coolah 3rd Regional Coolah 4th State Sydney

Cross Country Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd District Geurie 3rd Western Geurie 4th State Sydney

Cross Country Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Regional Coolah 3rd State Sydney

Cross Country Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Western Geurie 3rd State Sydney

Athletics Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd Zone Coonabarabran 3rd Regional Tamworth 4th State Sydney

Athletics Primary 1st School Carnival 2nd District Dubbo 3rd Western Dubbo 4th State Sydney

Athletics Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Regional Tamworth 3rd State Sydney

Athletics Secondary 1st School Carnival 2nd Western Dubbo 3rd State Sydney

Primary/Secondary Individual Team Trials Zone Coonabarabran North West trials Tamworth, Gunnedah, Inverell, Armidale

Primary/Secondary Individual Team Trials Dubbo, Mudgee, Bathurst, Orange, Lithgow


MCS NOTICE BOARD

Please return your North West vs Western Area Surveys before

Friday.

Roald Dahl Day

Tomorrow

All visitors to the school must sign in and out at the Front Office.

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Term 3 Week 9 Duke of Ed Practise Trek - Mendooran...Zone with pride and distinction! Harry Tobin, Nicholas Sweeney, William Duce and Ashton Harvey performed exceptionally well in