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Issue No. 6 [email protected] Friday 3rd May, 2019 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT CALENDAR OF EVENTS Welcome to Term 2 2019 Hope everyone had a very good Easter break. The staff at Monday 6 May WEEK A Belmont High School have prepared for a very productive and General Assembly engaging term. It was great to see so many parents and VET Surf Camp, Wye River carers attend the Parent Teacher Interviews during the last Barwon Division Athletics week of term one. Teachers commented about the large Yr 11/12 Vis Com, Top Designs excursion, Melbourne CBD number of appointments that they completed and the very rich Parents Association meeting, 7.15pm, all welcome discussions held to support the students and our learning Tuesday 7 May program. Many goals were set by students and I am confident Yr 11 Legal Studies, County & Supreme Court visit, Melbourne that they will be well supported by our staff throughout this VCAL Youth Workers Roadshow year. Wednesday 8 May WMR Snr Tennis final/Int volleyball, softball, baseball finals Fun Run VET Surf Camp, Wye River On the last day of term one, we held our annual Fun Run. The Fun Run was well attended with many of our students gaining Thursday 9 May good times in their long distance running. This was followed Yr 11 Theatre Studies excursion by a relaxing time in the oval, where our parents organised a Finance Committee meeting, 7.45am sausage sizzle and students and staff played a variety of ball Friday 10 May games while one of the student bands entertained us. Again, SEALP 2020 intake testing we were given very positive feedback from the Queenscliff Yr 7&8 Art/Tech Trimester 1 ends canteen at the reserve, who commended our well-behaved Monday 13 May WEEK B and respectful students. General Assembly WMR Int Tennis final/ Snr baseball, softball, volleyball finals Athletics Carnival Tuesday 14 May This term started with our Athletics Carnival at Landy Field. I NAPLAN Testing, Yr 7 & 9 was very proud of the great participation of our students, the TOP Arts excursion work of our teachers and support staff and the overall energy Yr 8E, 8G, 8N, 8B, Squizzy Taylor Walking Tour, Melbourne SSV Snr Football throughout the day. Students showed their house spirit through their costumes, their participation of the day and their Wednesday 15 May support and encouragement of the participants in their House. Yr 8M, 8R, 8P, 8S, Squizzy Taylor Walking Tour, Melbourne NAPLAN Testing, Yr 7 & 9 Congratulations to Mango House who were the overall winners for the day. There were a number of records broken. Thursday 16 May Congratulations to Year 12 students, Olivia Hobbs and Joshua NAPLAN Testing, Yr 7 & 9 Larcombe-March who broke long-standing records on the day Friday 17 May in running and high jump events respectively. OUT OF UNIFORM DAY, $2 donation to Performing Arts Centre “SHOWCASE”, 5.30-8.30pm (see advertisement in this newsletter) Well done to Mr David Healey and Ms Emily Cave for their excellent organisation of both the Athletics Carnival and the Fun Run Day. I would like to also commend all the staff who IMPORTANT DATES: worked together to make the two events very enjoyable and a School Council meeting—21st May, 6pm positive experience for everyone. Queens Birthday Public Holiday—10th June ANZAC Day and Our Commemorative Assembly Curriculum Day– 12th June On Monday 29 April, our School Community honoured and General Achievement Test (students studying Unit 3/4) - commemorated ANZAC day with The Geelong Rats of Tobruk 12th June, 10.00am-1.15pm, at BHS Association which saw the hand-over of their Banner into our Report Writing Day (Student free day) - 18th June care and custodianship eleven years ago. During our School Assembly, our special guests from the Junior Rats of Tobruk Association were present as we paid tribute to the many soldiers who fought or are fighting for our country and our way of life. One of our teachers, Mr Craig White worked with our school leaders who organised and led the assembly. Each 24 hr STUDENT ABSENCE LINE student and teacher was reminded of the importance of ANZAC day and the values that remain pertinent to being 5241 0090 Australian. The student leaders attended a morning tea with Parents only to call to report student’s name, house/ our special guests and they had the opportunity to listen to the form, reason for absence, and date. many stories about the Rats of Tobruk. Parents can also report absences on Compass. Cont…. _____________________________________________________________________________ Rotherham St Belmont Vic 3216 Ph: (03) 5243 5355 Fax: (03) 52432420 www.bhs.vic.edu.au On ANZAC day our School Captains, as well as other students and staff, took part in the Geelong Anzac Day Parade and Service as well as the ANZAC Day formalities with Geelong RSL. Our School Band played very well and were part of the parade. Thank you to Ms Rosemary Humphrey, our Music Director, who ensured that our students were well practiced for the event. I want to thank everyone involved for their commitment to and roles played in the ANZAC tradition, particularly thank Mr Craig White for his leadership and organisation of the events during this time. Annual Report We are proud to present the 2018 Annual Report to our community. The Report can be found on our Website and was presented at the last School Council meeting. If you would like to discuss the data in these reports or learn more about the schools priorities, I will be holding a presentation of the Annual Report on May 21 at 5pm till 6pm. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP Jenni Foot in the General Office. I look forward to a very positive term two for all staff and students. Sandra Eglezos Principal VCAL NEWS VET Health Year 12 VCAL students are continuing with the Certificate II VET Health Support Services run at the school by Antrick Education. Dimity Leech (Lead Trainer/Assessor) has been attending every fortnight as students work through the outcomes. There have been a range of hands-on activities to equip students with the necessary skills to work in the Health industry. This program will continue for the remainder of the year. ANZAC morning at Kalkee On Wednesday, April 24th a group of Year 11 VCAL students participated in an ANZAC morning at Kalkee Murray. Students read poems and short stories reflecting on times of war. Residents shared memories of war and the impact it had on Geelong and Australia. Following this, students, staff and residents joined in with singing songs from the war era. This was an engaging morning for the students listening to the residents talk about growing up with war and the hardships and friendships and values forged during this time. Well done to the students for your preparation for the morning and representing the school in a respectful manner. Literacy at Waurn Ponds On Thursday, April 4th all VCAL students headed out to Readings Cinema at Waurn Ponds to watch a movie for Literacy outcomes. Students had a choice of movie, US or Shazam. At the end of the movie students completed a success criteria work task around the plot and characters in the movie. Feedback from students was it was a different experience going into the movie knowing they were required to analyse the plot and characters. They said that having this perspective made them more engaged and able to elucidate important factors as the movie plot unfolded. Students will continue working on Writing and Reading for Knowledge as a focus in term two. Thank you to Mrs Shaw for organising the day. Darren Lynch VCAL Coordinator THE GOLD MINE REPORT FROM OUR SPORT CAPTAINS – LUCILLE & JAMES FUN RUN A great start to a wonderful sporting life at BHS for our outstanding Year 7 FUN RUN winners: 1 st place: Hannah Khan & 2nd place: Lucy Russell. I was so happy for them (even though they overtook me!) Ed Leishman was again a strong runner coming in 2nd place in Junior Boys with our Intermediate runners again excelling. Simon Kull 3rd & Reuben Dyer 4th. Charley Russell 1st, Perrie Sims 2nd & Ruby Leishman 5th. The FUN FUN also highlighted the work completed by a groups of our Year 12 GOLDIES who made up a sparkly GOLD Bandanna for all GOLD students. We also unveiled our new GOLD House banner! ATHLETICS Although we did not feature as a high ranking House overall, the number of participants across our House was quite good. Perrie Sims & Lucille Finley-McDonald were Age Champs! With Charley Russell & Ruby Leishman runner-up champs. We also had a number of great GOLD FEATS with Year 7 students participating in older age groups for the relays. Legends were : Amara Young, Jesslyn Airey & Emily White. AMAZING GOLD FEATS So many GOLDIES have been taking every opportunity to extend themselves in their lives. It was fantastic to peruse the Interim Reports at the end of Term 1 and witness all the outstanding results from our GOLD students. Many students were acknowledged by their classroom teachers for their efforts to be positive regarding their learning opportunities and we look forward to continuing to support them to have a growth mindset that builds on the belief that we can all grow in our knowledge and skills. GOLDIES were acknowledged for their outstanding results via positive entries on their compass home page. GOLD House was well represented at our annual Open Night to showcase our fantastic school and the feedback from the community has been outstanding regarding our students welcoming and enthusiastic nature.