HEATHMONT COLLEGE

21 February 2013 ~ PRINCIPAL ~ No. 2

Year 7 Camp Celebration Evening FEBRUARY 2013

22 Fri Sport: Senior Summer – Selected students only On Thursday night we had a celebration of the Year 7 Excursion: Girl’s Program – Selected students only camp held two weeks ago at Phillip Island. Our young 25 Mon Camp: Year 11 Outdoor Ed – Lorne Surfing & Mountain students performed an enthusiastic and lively cheer Biking – Group 1 departs leading display. Photos of the camp were also 26 Tues School Council Meeting – 7:30pm – 9:00pm projected to an audience in the background while 27 Wed Camp: Year 11 Outdoor Ed – Lorne Surfing & Mountain some of our up and coming Year 7 public speakers Biking – Group 2 departs & Group 1 returns talked about the camp. In addition, the Year 7 students Year 7 & 9 Immunisations selected for Ambassador roles were presented with a Year 12 – Michael Carr Greg Evening, 7:30pm Deakin University certificate of recognition. MARCH 2013 Overall, it was a wonderful night for parents, students 1 Fri Camp: Year 11 Outdoor Ed – Lorne Surfing & Mountain Biking – Group 2 returns and teachers and reflected well on our Middle School Excursion: Girls Program – Selected students only team. Thanks should be extended in particular to 6 Wed Governor’s Visit Haroula Christodoulou and Alison Richards for Sport: Group Swimming – All Day – Selected students organising both the night and the camp. Agi Birchall only was an inspiration to many of the students, along with 7 Thur Incursion: Year 11 – Shape Your Destiny all the other staff involved in the proceedings. Thanks Excursion: Year 9 City Experience – 091, 092 & 093 is extended to our wonderful student leaders who 8 Friday Excursion: Girls Program – Selected students only helped make the camp a great success. 11 Mon Public Holiday – Labour Day German Exchange Students arrive MEC Year 12 Day Swinburne Lilydale 13 Wed Camp: Year 12 Outdoor Ed – Departs 14 Thur Sport: Intermediate Summer – Selected students only Our Year 12 VCE students spent last Friday at 15 Fri Camp: Year 12 Outdoor Ed – Returns Swinburne’s soon to be closed Lilydale campus with 18 Mon Sport: - All years 19 Tue College Athletics Day – All students students from Ringwood, Norwood and Melba Sport: Zone Swimming – Selected Students only Secondary Colleges. It was an important day for our Excursion: Year 11 VCAL senior students where they were given valuable advice 20 Wed Camp: Year 10 Ace Hi Camp Departs focussing on how to maximise outcomes for VCE. 21 Thur Excursion: Year 9 City Experience – 091, 092 & 093 22 Fri Camp: Year 10 Ace Hi Camp Returns The central themes of organisation, consistent study, Sport: Year 8 Summer - All Students exam practice, collaboration in study groups, getting 25 Mon College Cross Country – All Students plenty of sleep, maintaining organised notes and a list 26 Tue School Council Meeting – 7:30pm – 9:00pm of other practical ideas need to be followed through by 27 Wed Sport: Year 7 Summer – All Students students. If our Year 12 students take the advice and 28 Thur Final Day Tem 1 – Students dismissed at 3:01pm

put it into action, then they will make a noticeable impact on their final TER score at the end of the year. School Swimming Carnival

Following on from this day, we have the Michael Carr- What a day the Swimming Carnival was! We were Gregg presentation coming up next Wednesday night lucky that the temperature was in the low twenties. It at Deakin Burwood. As I wrote in our previous didn’t rain and we enjoyed the refurbished Croydon newsletter, if there is one evening that I recommend Memorial Swimming Pool. Students were dressed up Year 12 parents to attend, it is this one. It is so in their house colours and there was a great festive air important and students will know this when they to the proceedings. Thanks is extended to the staff attend. It has made a positive impact on many who organised the day and the students for making students who have attended over the past 5 years. Heathmont College proud. Please make the effort and come along. We are arranging a bus to take parents and students to the venue. If you are interested in booking a seat, please contact Senior School asap. Michael Fitzgerald College Principal

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Senior School Middle School

SACs and assessments for the upcoming weeks

Year 11 Welcome to the students, families and staff of Middle 18 February Senior Sport (Fri) College Swimming School for 2013. The students have begun the year to Sports (Tues) enthusiastically and seriously, arriving at class with 22 February Business Management SAC (OU1 1 their books and equipment, in correct uniform and session) ready to learn. The staff have commented on how Chemistry SAC (OU1 1 session) willing the students are to answer questions and work General Maths SAC (OU1 1 session) to a high standard. Any students who are still sorting Legal Studies SAC (OU1 1 session) out folders and textbooks need to have this organised Legal Studies Outcome tasks due as quickly as possible and ask their Learning Group Psychology poster SAC (OU1 2 teacher and coordinator if they need support. sessions) Introducing the Middle School team for 2013: 25 February MEC Evening with th to Michael Carr-Gregg (Deakin 27 ) Head of Middle School Ms Alison Richards 1 March Unit 1 OES Lorne (Mon – Wed) Biology SAC (OU2 1 session) Year 7 Coordinator Ms Sabrina Luciano English SAC (OU3 3 sessions) General Maths SAC (OU1 1 session) Year 8 Coordinator Ms Sabrina Luciano ICT practice SAC (OU1 2 session) Media Poster due Year 9 Coordinator Mr Gavin Ferrier Physics SAC (OU2 1 session)

4 March Shape Your Destiny Yr 11 Transition Coordinator Ms Haroula Christodoulou to English Outcome task due 8 March Food Technology SAC (OU1 1 session) Please contact the relevant coordinators if you have Health & Human Dev. SAC (OU1 1 any concerns. We look forward to an enjoyable and session) successful year working together. History SAC (OU1 1 session) Maths Methods SAC (OU1 1 session) Alison Richards Outdoor Ed SAC (OU2 3 Session) Head of Middle School Psychology SAC (OU2 3 sessions)

Year 12 Transition

18 February Senior Sport to Accounting SAC (OU1a 1 session) Two weeks ago all 22 February Chemistry SAC (OU1 & 2 - 2 sessions) the Year 7’s and 35 Chemistry excursion student Leaders set Food Tech SAC (OU1 1 session) off to Phillip Island, Psychology Outcome 1 (test) for the Year 7 Transition Camp. 25 February MEC Evening with Michael Carr th On camp the to Gregg (Deakin 27 ) students were able 1 March Biology SAC (OU1 3 sessions) to experience many Design Fibre SAC (OU1 1 session) challenging Design Wood SAC (OU1 1 session) activities such as PE SAC (OU1 1 session) high ropes, giant Psychology Folio Task 3 due swing and raft 4 March Business Management SAC (OU1b making. Also they to Case Study 1 session) were able to 8 March Biology SAC (OU1 1 sessions) develop team Design Fibre – SAT (OU3 Part A and building skills in 1Ž2 Part B) activities such as Design Wood - SAT (OU3 Part A and raft making and 1Ž2 Part B) sporting games English Outcomes due (text) which were run by Health and Human Dev SAC (OU1 1 our Student Leaders. session) Many students Legal Studies questions (OU1 1 experienced surfing session) for the first time and Maths Methods SAC (OU1 1 session it was such a delight test) to watch each Outdoor Ed SAC (OU1 3 sessions) student succeed in Physics SAC (OU1 1 session) standing up on their Psychology Folio Task 4 due surf board, even if it Nina Ling was for a few Head of Senior School seconds.

The weather was perfectly sunny and warm which I hope to hear from you if there is any reason or need. made the cam even more enjoyable and comfortable I believe if we all work together your child will gain a happy experience from their time at Heathmont I enjoyed sharing these College experiences with you all on Thursday 21 Sabrina Luciano February 2013 at our Year 8 Coordinator Camp Celebration Evening. Year 9

Haroula This year as one of the Year 9 level captains I am Christodoulou looking forward to working with all Year 9 students and Transition Coordinator getting to know them better. As a captain I had the opportunity to go on the Year 7 camp as a leader. It Year 7 was a great way to build up my leadership skills and get to know the other leaders in the school better. On the camp we got to participate in activities such as a A very big WELCOME to our Year 7 students and high ropes course, raft making, a trip to Cowes and parents. surfing. Everyone enjoyed surfing and learning to stand up on the board. I’m really looking forward to What a brilliant start to the year! Well done on getting representing our year level this year along with the through your first few weeks at Heathmont College. other three Year 9 captains. The camp was fantastic and it was great to see Shannon Pauer students get involved in all the different fun activities. So far we have been back at school for almost 3 I am impressed to see how well students have learnt to weeks, and I have really enjoyed being in Year 9. I am use their new combination locks and how organised really looking forward to Year 9 and HIPE. I am they have been in sorting their equipment and books getting to know my new home group and new teachers out. and subjects. We are currently learning about sustainability and global warming which is really A reminder to keep your lockers neat, clean and in interesting and is making us all more aware of what’s good condition. Make sure you get to your lockers on happening in the world and what we can do to change time, in order to prepare yourselves for class. it. I am really looking forward to City Experience which starts next week, we have some great things planned Some exciting events this Term include our Year 7 such as aquarium, Zoo and lots more. We get to make Camp Celebration Night on Thursday 21 February our own way to the city and we are in our own groups 2013. It included highlights and awards for the and it’s more independent. We are learning a lot of students. We hope you were able to attend. new things and I am really happy to be back. Violet Eaton Let’s get ‘Ready for Learning’ and work together, with your teachers, to have a fabulous year! Student Leadership

Sabrina Luciano This year, just as in the past couple of years, the Year 7 Coordinator Student Captains of Heathmont College, as well as our new Year 7’s took part in a conjoined camp at Phillip Year 8 Island Adventure Resort.

There were many activities that both the Year 7’s and It has been a fantastic start to the year for the Year 8’s. Student Captains were able to take part in: ranging from high ropes to a Cowes visit to the giant swing to A number of our Year 8 leaders had the opportunity to raft making and even surfing. Although the Captains participate in a fantastic leadership camp held at Phillip were apart from the Year 7’s, doing leadership building Island last week with students from other year levels. skills exercises and sessions, it did not stop the growth They represented the Year 8 level as leaders with of a relationship between the two. maturity and pride, well done and congratulations. During meal times the captains would divide Plans are also well under way for organising themselves up and sit and mingle with the Year 7’s. excursions relevant to the curriculum such as the visit They didn’t act as if they were older and that they were to the Shrine, which is related to the students “Soldier their leaders, they acted as their peers, as their friends Boy” novel. and that ultimately made the camp an experience that the Year 7’s as well as the leaders, one that they will I wish to thank all the parents on preparing your child not forget. for school this year. The students look wonderful in their uniforms and they are fully equipped with books, On the first night of camp Mrs Birchall and the leaders Laptops and stationary to do their personal best in all organised a sports night for each of the different areas of study this year. groups of Year 7’s. The theme of the night was

encouragement and some leaders took it so far that “It was my very great pleasure to accompany Prema they lost their voices and bruised their hands from and Agi to visit to our sister school in Indonesia. I was clapping and supporting. These games weren’t based overwhelmed by the openness and genuine pleasure on skill rather on fun and could be enjoyed by shown by the staff and students. The highlights for me everyone. There was a cheerleading section, a beach included the music class where we had the opportunity team building exercise, a roller board run to try our hand at traditional instruments, and the and few more. It was night that everyone including the dance classes. We also taught the students a dance teachers enjoyed. creation by Agi and together with Agi, I taught them Aussie rules and . The enthusiasm of the The second day, during the breaks, we spent time students to try new things was infectious. Prema led planning and setting up a beach party disco night for us at many meetings with Principals, parents and the the Year 7’s. The night turned out amazing, everyone local communities. The visit to a Primary school was rocked up in costume and everyone danced the night also great fun. We felt like celebrities, as they wanted away. We played limbo, did the Nutbush as well as our autographs. I was also pleasantly surprised at the the Macarena, had a costume competition and almost open friendly relationships between the Christian and blew the roof off. Muslim students and the acceptance of the different religions. I feel very honoured to be included in this After such a full on night we all went to bed after first visit and I will do everything to support Prema on supper so we would be ready for our last day of camp such future exchanges”. and the bus ride home. Throughout this experience Jeanette Barton we learnt heaps of different skills that are not only Mathematics teacher useful for school, but skills we will keep with us for the rest of our lives. We know that as Year 12 leaders we “Professionally and personally the Heathmont College are so glad we went on the leadership camp because / Karangmojo Junior High School Bridge Partnership we know we will never forget the people, the skills we experience has become my richest and yet most learnt and fun we had at Phillip Island. challenging experience in my 26 years of teaching. The hospitality, energy, enthusiasm and commitment Catherine Choueiri, Caitlin Allen, Jordan Pauer and shown by the staff and students from our Javanese Ben Neve sister school “Karangmojo Junior High School” were College Captains overwhelming.

It was this energy as well as all our cultural differences Language that made teaching Physical Education in Java so exciting and very entertaining for all. Picture 37 Visit to Indonesian sister school degree heat, 90% humidity, deep black volcanic sand, goats chewing on a few blades of grass found in the During the last two weeks of school in December middle of our sports field/paddock, tall transmission 2012, three teachers from our College, Prema towers regularly sounding out Muslim prayers and Devathas, Jeanette Barton and Agi Birchall visited our using coconuts as boundary markers. It also took Indonesian sister school, SMPN 1 Karangmojo in some convincing that balls could be egg shaped and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This is part of the - that football and soccer in Australia were not the same Indonesia BRIDGE Project organised by the Asia sports. Once that was all sorted the Indonesian Education Foundation. It is a professional Indonesian students were so determined to learn how to kick, language and intercultural program that blends face-to- bounce and hand ball our egg shaped footballs across face and ICT-based engagement between students the paddocks. What a great job they did. To see the from both countries. Over the year, students from both smiles of success on the Muslim girls faces will stay schools have skyped and worked on online with me forever. collaborative activities. We exchanged more than just traditional sports and During our visit to Indonesia, we were involved in dances, music and folk tales, cuisine and cultural numerous intercultural, language and sports activities. experiences in the time that Jeanette Barton and our We were also involved in professional dialogues with hard working visionary Prema Devathas and l were the regional education department, principals from the there. We all exchanged an overwhelming desire to neighbouring regions and the local communities. build strong and wide bridges that will only unite Heathmont College students and students from our Javanese sister school “Karangmojo Junior High School” in the near future!

Year 9 Hampton Beach Excursion

My personal challenge remains that fear, racial You will be able to participate in interactive workshops, tension, language, financial, religious and cultural talk to over 80 exhibitors from engineering, science barriers never stand between us. and technological industries and attend inspirational engineering presentations. For more information, To Heathmont College and Prema Devathas for giving contact Sarah Cooke, 03 9321 1703, me this opportunity, thank you”. [email protected] or go to Agi Birchall www.engineeringexpo.org.au Physical Education/ Outdoor Education Teacher Considered pursuing a career as a Veterinarian? Not only did this visit further strengthen the bond The University of Melbourne is hosting their annual between our schools, but also expanded our insight, Veterinary Science Open Day on Sunday 17 March knowledge and appreciation of the diverse Indonesian 2013 at University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital, culture and people. The liaison established here will 250 Princes Highway, Werribee, . You will be further enhance the collaborative work between able to students from both schools. We also hope to . Encounter all kinds of exciting animals incorporate more cross-curricular collaborative tasks . Go behind the scenes of a world class Veterinary involving Indonesian, Mathematics and Sports Hospital between students from both schools. In the near . Attend public lectures, interactive displays and future, we hope to be able to host students from demonstrations Indonesia and also provide such language and cultural . Talk to veterinarians at the forefront of science experience to the wider college community. . Discover how to become a veterinarian The day provides prospective students and their Prema Devathas families the opportunity to learn about pathways into Indonesian Program Coordinator the Doctor of Veterinary Science program. Register

your attendance at www.vet.unimelb.edu.au/openday/

Pathways Universities and TAFEs often have events for future students to gain information and ask questions. Here Year 10: A reminder to Year 10 students that the is some information regarding events run by Monash (pink) planning form for work experience arrangements University and the University of Melbourne. should be returned to the Pathways Centre. Please return these promptly so that the official arrangement  At Monash Seminar Series, for a list of events, forms can be generated. www.monash.edu.au/study/life/student/seminars/  Meet Melbourne University, for the closest Year 12 students will shortly be given an appointment event, time for their pathways interviews. Please speak to http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/explore/event your student about this process and encourage them s/victoria_and_interstate/victoria/ to come armed with questions that they have (and any you may have). As always I am more than happy for students to make individual appointments to see me or for parents to Victorian Skills Gateway: This site is for students make contact. Please email me at and their parents who are interested in [email protected] or phone the apprenticeships, traineeships and vocational study in College on 9871 4888. Victoria. For information, go to www.education.vic.gov.au/victorianskillsgateway Linda Lopez Australian International Airshow and International Pathways Coordinator Aerospace & Defence Exposition: Events will take place between Friday 1 March – Sunday 3 March 2013 at the Avalon Airport, Geelong. You will be able to attend many events and watch displays. For ticketing and program information, go to http://www.airshow.com.au/ College Charges

Build your folio at the Australian Academy of Design: The Academy will be running a Build Your A reminder to all parents paying their College Folio Series day on Saturday 2 March 2013, 10:00am Charges by instalments that the remaining – 4.30pm in Melbourne. You can choose from one of instalment dates are as follows: 5 focus areas - advertising, fashion design, graphic design, photo media and visual arts. Cost is $85.00. Monday 6 May 2013

To register contact Joanne Brodie, 03 9676 9000, Monday 5 August 2013 [email protected], or go to www.designacademy.edu.au

Interested in Engineering? The Engineers Australia Careers Expo will be held Thursday 21 March 2013, 11:00am – 7:00pm at the Etihad Stadium, Melbourne.

Student Wellbeing

SELL YOUR SECOND HAND UNFORM ITEMS

KLAD sports will now off a second hand uniform service. Uniform items of good quality can be submitted for sale on consignment

How it works:

 Take your good freshly laundered, quality uniform items to KLAD Sports either at the uniform shop at the College or to their Rowville shop  Set a price and a sell by date  If the items are sold LKAD Sport will contact you and arrange payment  If unsold, you will be contacted to collect your items

For more information please contact KLAD Sports on 9763 0266

Lost Property IMPORTANT REMINDER

Students will be able to collect lost property every second Monday at lunchtimes from the Parents are requested to ring the General Office starting Monday 4 March 2013 College Absence Line before 9:00am if

their student is to be LATE or AWAY

due to illness or for any other reason.

Uniform Shop Hours Thank you for your ongoing cooperation in this matter. SCHOOL TRADING HOURS

Tuesdays 2.30pm – 5.00pm Phone 9871 4888 then select 1

Thursdays 12noon – 2.00pm

Uniforms can also be purchased directly from Klad Sports at their Rowville Shop MATHS HELP

SHOP TRADNG HOURS There will be maths help available to

Monday – Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm students of all year levels on Saturdays 9.00am – 1.00pm Wednesdays in the Library from 3:15pm

2/9 Macro Court, Rowville. 3178 until 4:00pm.

Ph: 9763 0266 Jeanette Barton Head of Mathematics