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1st May 2017 No. 11

1st May 2107 29 th AprilNo.11 2019 No.9 Murtoa College is a child safe school.

IMPORTANT DATES April Term 2 Monday 29 th Senior Girls GW Volleyball finals - Warrnambool May Thursday 2 nd VCE Top Design Excursion - Friday 3 rd Years 7-10 Golf Competition - Ararat Years 4-6 Dunmunkle Football/Netball Lighting premiership - Birchip Tuesday 7 th Years 7-12 BR Athletics - Stawell Wednesday 8 th Years 4-6 BR Cross Country – St. Arnaud Thursday 9 th Years 5-12 House Cross Country Friday 10 th Lions Club Deb ball - Murtoa

New Term I would like to extend a warm welcome to term 2, 2019 to the whole Murtoa College community. It is great to be back. I am looking forward to working with the community to continue the good work that occurred in term 1. As we now head into the cooler weather, I will enjoy seeing the good teaching and learning that goes on at the college being continued by students and staff.

Ken Daggett Award Congratulations to Tom Dunlop who is this year’s Ken Daggett Award winner. The Ken Daggett Memorial Award established in 2012 is an annual recognition of a senior student at Murtoa College who embodies the qualities displayed by Ken Daggett and other Returned Services personnel. The student who receives this award must live in the local area. Tom was part of the Anzac parade at . He also spoke at the ceremony and received his award from Daggett family as part of the RSL service. Congratulations Tom!

Volleyball Victoria - Affiliate Awards Volleyball Victoria had their Affiliate Awards night last Saturday, April 27. Murtoa College’s volleyball program featured heavily. It is great recognition for the hard work that goes into this program. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shaun Bray for the work that he does and congratulate him on being nominated for the most outstanding teacher in a volleyball program. The college also was nominated in the category of the most outstanding school program and the most outstanding junior program. We did receive one award on the night and that went to Mrs Jo Baker who received the volunteer achievement award. Congratulations to Jo, and Shaun, and the whole program on being recognised at these awards and for what this program does for the young people of this college.

NAPLAN (Tuesday May 14 th to Wednesday May 22 nd ) Naplan testing is coming. The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. This year Murtoa College students will be doing their NAPLAN testing on-line. Would parents and guardians please note that the expectation is that all students in these year levels participate in the tests?

Cleo Baker Congratulations to Cleo on her selection in the Australian Youth Volleyball Team. Cleo will represent her country at the 2019 Amateur Athletic Union USA championships in Florida in June this year. It is fantastic recognition for all the hard work and serious training that Cleo has undertaken recently. The Murtoa College community wishes her all the best and will be interested to know how it goes.

The week that was! (Week 10 Term 1 and week 1 of term 2)

ANZAC Day Last Thursday was ANZAC day. I would like to thank all the students and families who represented Murtoa College and showed a mark of respect at whatever dawn or morning ceremony they attended. At Murtoa Teneille Nitschke and Lori Young spoke at the service and at Rupanyup Tom Dunlop spoke as the winner of the Ken Daggett award. The services attended by students and families in Murtoa, , Rupanyup and Horsham had student representatives lay flowers. Thank you to all for your efforts and ‘LEST WE FORGET’!

Dunmunkle Cross Country Congratulations to all the grade 4, 5 and 6 students who participated in the Dunmunkle Cross Country. It was held here in Murtoa last Friday April 26, in the afternoon. The students competed in 3 age groups, 10, 11 and 12 year olds and ran from Rabl Park around the lake to the finish at the rotunda near the swimming pool. This was a three-kilometre course.

Yarriambiack Shire Young Achievers Awards – 2019 The 2019 Yarriambiack Shire Young Achievers Awards were announced in the last week of term 1. Murtoa College did very well this year receiving four different awards. Councillor Tom Hamilton to present the awards at the whole school assembly last Tuesday, April 23. The awards received are as follows: o 1/ Group/Club Achievement in the Community award – Murtoa College SRC o 2/ Health and Wellbeing award - Immigin Fischer o 3/ Business achievement award - Lachlan and Connor Weidemann o 4/ Endoreic Short Film Festival - Bailey Young and Rhys Pidgeon

Years F-6 Dunmunkle Athletics The Murtoa Community joined all the F-6 students at this year’s Dunmunkle Athletics Carnival. Murtoa College hosted the carnival at the Murtoa football oval on Friday April 5. The first event commenced at 9.00am and the last concluded at 12.30pm. The students then participated in respective relays. Overall, they Athletics Carnival went very well and the students thoroughly enjoyed themselves. A big thank you to Mrs Nicole Noonan for organising the event and the F-6 students and staff as well as Mr Shannon Argall for organising the year 9/10 sports management students and some year 9/10 students to help run all the events at the carnival. Another thank you to all the staff and the extended community members who joined us and helped make the day a real success.

Top Arts and Top Design Excursion Our VCE Art and Technology students and staff went to the Top Arts and Top Design exhibition on Tuesday April 2. All students doing these VCE Art, Food Technology, Product and Design or Visual Communications were given the chance to attend with their teachers, Mrs Anne Sudholz, Mr Shane Williams and Ms Anne Randall. Those that chose to attend travelled to Melbourne to visit the National Gallery of Victoria or the Melbourne Museum. The NGV hosted the Top Art exhibition and the museum was hosting the Top Design exhibitions. This exhibition was a showcase of the top 10% of folios from the 2018 VCE students in these technology subjects. It was a long day but a worthwhile one for all concerned.

Casual Clothes day Friday April 5 was the last day of the term. As part of the conclusion to this busy term, it was a Casual Clothes day for the College Community. Students were allowed to wear casual clothes to school and are encouraged to donate a gold coin to the ‘Good Friday Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal’. The college community help to raise nearly $200. Well done! Note: The Royal Children’s Hospital appeal raised $6,388. Congratulations to Mrs Mandy Murfett the area coordinator for the fund raising activities, it was a huge effort. Well done Mandy and thank you Murtoa for helping the young people of Victoria.

2019 Ken Daggett Memorial Award

Our congratulations go to Tom Dunlop, who is the recipient of the 2019 Ken Daggett Memorial Award. The award rewarded Tom’s display of the school values, excellent attitude and achievement, leadership and active participation within his community. Tom received his award and spoke at the Rupanyup RSL’s ANZAC Day Ceremony on Thursday 25 th April. A fantastic achievement, Tom!

The 2019 Yarriambiack Shire Young Achievers Awards Councillor Tom Hamilton presented these. o 1/ Group/Club Achievement in the Community award – Murtoa College SRC  Noah Collins-Clarke and Angus Matthews received the award on behalf of the 2019 SRC. o 2/ Health and Wellbeing award  Immigin Fischer o 3/ Business achievement award  Lachlan and Connor Weidemann o 4/ Endoreic Short Film Festival  Bailey Young and Rhys Pidgeon

U12 MM v SAINTS

An exciting game for the under 12 boys last week under lights at the Murtoa oval. The boys ran out of the change rooms through a guard of honour made up from our senior players. A special sight to see and a reflection of the Burra’s dedication to the junior players.

The boys played the whole ground, a low scoring game was had with plenty of work getting the ball up either end of the oval. While the Saints were first to put a score on the board, young Burra Seth Callaby was the first to put a goal on the board.

Lewis Thomson played a ripper for his last game of the season, as his family has headed off to channel their inner Griswold’s on tour of .

Cousins Tosh Lennon and Noah Coutts showed off their family skills kicking and marking, and brothers Jack and Jess Fischer also displayed tackling runs in the family. Another set of brothers Johnno and Barney Baker made their debut on the field together.

The team is off to a great start and we look forward to seeing the kids enjoy their footy in the season ahead.

Incentive Award – Johnno Baker Maccas Awards ; Tosh Lennon, Finn Delahunty and Alex Dertilis

Final Score SAINTS 10 def MM 7

On Friday of the second last week we had the Athletics Carnival at Dudley Cornell Park in Horsham. What a fantastic day it was to see everyone in their house colours, supporting each other and competing in the track, field and novelty events. Well done to all those that attended, who did their best and had a go and thanks to all the teachers, parents and family who supported the running of the athletics carnival.

Just to recap on the results:

1st Waterson – 3,616 points 2nd Meier – 3,326 3rd Degenhardt – 3,123

Today we will be recognising the Age champions. Age champion is calculated on performance in an individual’s age group. If an individual competes in a higher age group, their house receives the points but not the individual.

Age champions

Male Female Grade 5/6 Noah Coutts Mikaela Wright 12-13 Connor Weidemann Azayleah Novely 14 Oscar Gawith Grace Turner Bailey Mathrick 16 Lachlan Weidemann Molly Fagan 16 Thomas Wilde Cleo Baker 17-18 Blake Turner Lily Horvat Laelah Robertson

We would also like to take this moment to present the Newman award. This award is presented to the most outstanding performance overall at the Athletics Carnival. The Newman Award is presented to Connor Weidemann. Connor competed in six main events (in his age group), winning all six.

The next level of completion for Athletics is the Black Ranges carnival at Stawell in two weeks’ time. Please listen out for announcements from Mr. Bray regarding this carnival as it approaches.

F-6 News Upcoming Events Thursday 2 nd May Year 5/6 Assembly Friday 3 rd May Winter Sports @ Birchip (select Yr 5/6) Wednesday 8 th May Black Ranges Cross Country @ St. Arnaud (select Yr 4/5/6) Thursday 9 th May Year 5-10 Cross Country Friday 10 th May Mother’s Day afternoon tea from 2:30pm Tuesday 14 th – Friday 24 th May NAPLAN Thursday 16 th May Year 4/5 Assembly Wednesday 22 nd May CEP performance ‘The Barber of Saville’ @ Thursday 30 th May Year 2/3 Assembly Thursday 6 th June F-6 School Social 4:30pm – 6pm Friday 7 th June Student Free Day Monday 10 th June Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend – No School

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F-6 DUNMUNKLE ATHLETICS On the last day of Term 1, Murtoa College hosted the Dunmunkle Primary Athletics at the Murtoa oval. With the earlier timeslot in the year, we were able to take advantage of the warmer weather. Nearly 200 students participated in the day’s event, which included track and field events. The results were 1 st OLHC, 2 nd Rupanyup PS, 3 rd Minyip PS and 4 th Murtoa College. A new feature this year was the enormous effort by the Middle Year students led by Mr Shannon Argall, in running of each event. This allowed for the day to run like clockwork. The students showed great leadership and encouragement towards others. Well done!! A huge thankyou to everyone that was involved in the set up and running of the day.

Yr 4-6 DUNMUNKLE CROSS COUNTRY All students in Year 4-6 were involved in the Dunmunkle cross country last Friday. All 9/10 year old students completed a 2km course and 11/12 year old students a 3km course. It was great to see most students run the entire course. Some students will have qualified for the Black Ranges cross country in St Arnaud on Wednesday 8 th May. Information regarding this will go home soon.

WINTER SPORT @ BIRCHIP On Friday 3 rd May 18 students in Year 5/6 will be involved in playing either football or netball at the Winter Sports competition at Birchip. Students will be leaving at 8:30am and returning by the end of the day. Forms for this will go home today.

MOTHER’S DAY AFTERNOON TEA We will be having a Mother’s Day afternoon tea on Friday May 10 th at 2:40pm in the Primary building. Pop it on the calendar now so you don’t forget. Students to bring a plate to share.

Award Winners

TOP Arts Melbourne Excursion On Tues 2 nd April, Yr 9 &10 students from Art Mojo and Y11 students from Studio Arts visited both venues of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne to view the MC Escher X Nendo “Between Two Worlds” exhibition and TOP Arts. Escher explores the crossover of mathematics, perspective and illusion with printmaking. Nendo made it an amazing interactive experience. The Studio Arts students also gained insight into the folios from a lecture and folio viewing sessions. The Art Mojo students visited exhibitions such as “Darren Sylvester”, “Liquid Light”, “From Bark to Neon” and the “Krystyna Campbell Fashion Collection”. Although a long day, it was fantastic to see our students enjoy all the famous artwork.