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Warrnambool College Newsletter Warrnambool College Newsletter School President: Glenistair Hancock May 2015, Issue 7 This Issue http://www.wblcoll.vic.edu.au/ Assistant Principal Report 2-3 Career Report 3 Open Night Information 4 Upcoming Events Careers News 5-6 Barwon Prison excursion 7 11th— Year 11 History Indonesian Trip 8 12th May Camp Music Report 9 May 13th Wise Choices Sport Report 10 Leadership Report 11 May 13th Path of Life Paralympian presentation 12 May Year 12 outdoor ed RCD Brain awareness 13 14th— canoe camp Community notices 15th Principal Report and useful information 14-17 May 17th Netball academy trip to see the Michael Fitzgerald Vixens In the big scheme of things, our Grafton Road May 18th– Year 10 city We experienced an aboriginal smoking buildings have not been around for that long. 20th orientation camp 1 ceremony to cleanse all participants, and then Our current school was officially opened on watched our Kalay Academy girls perform a May 18th Year 9 Lake Pertobe th 18 May, 1961, a little over a half a century traditional welcome/cleansing dance. Excursion ago. May 19th Junior winter sports We listened to Lucas Mackley, Taylem Wason, Our school first opened in 1907 at the other Shania Pridham and Oceania Henry read out May 20-22 Year 10 city end of town only 50 years before that. It is the stories from the stone which explained the Orientation camp 2 difficult to comprehend that before schools symbology of the message poles. We heard existed in Victoria, before Cook landed at Shane Howard, a father of one of our May 20 Path Of Life Botany Bay, before Shakespeare wrote his students, sing of the love story of eels, their May 20 Wise choices plays, before the Roman Empire and the migratory patterns in South West Victoria and Egyptian Pyramids, before modern recorded the link with aboriginal culture. May 21 Year 9 Lake Pertobe history, more than 20 thousand years ago, people walked on this same land. We heard Adam Matheson present a narrative May Year 10 City that linked the various elements of the 25th— Orientation Camp 3 People walked on the hill that our school now ceremony to our ongoing commitment to local 27th occupies. A people and a culture that is one of culture. May 25th World Vision Youth the oldest on this planet. Our indigenous Conference history is part of what makes us who we are It was a great day for our school with May Year 10 City and was the basis of an uplifting ceremony at the new stone, the message poles, the 27th— Orientation Camp 4 Warrnambool College last week. Gnatanwarr welcome message on our gate 29th and the aboriginal flag flying proudly beside May 28th VCE Top Arts and The unveiling of the message stone the Australian and Warrnambool College flags Top Design was both symbolically important and acknowledging the past and welcoming all visitors to our school. a celebration to our school, our aboriginal May 28th Dream time at the students and our community. It was a moving I thank all involved in the ceremony and look MCG event where we heard from Marcus Clarke, an forward to the next 20,000 years at May 29th Year 12 Top designs ex-student, talk about his time as a student at Warrnambool College. food and technology Warrnambool College and the changes in indigenous education over the past few June 3rd Try a career day Year decades 9 PhoeniX Check the College Website for all updates & further information Grafton Road, Warrnambool Vic 3280 Ph: 5564 4444 email: [email protected] www.wblcoll.vic.edu.au Parents please note: Students are supervised between the times of 8.45am until 3.45pm daily Assistant Principal Report Adam Matheson, David Clift, Emma Miller, Danny Finn NAPLAN- The National Assessment Program– Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2015 for years 7 and 9 students will be held on Tuesday 12 May, Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May. NAPLAN tests assess student knowledge and skills in Writing, Reading, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy. Adam Matheson The results of the tests provide information for students, parents, teachers and principals which can be used to improve student achievement. All stu- dents are expected to participate in the NAPLAN tests. During test week, catch up tests will be available to students who are absent on test days. Catch up tests can be taken during the week in classes after scheduled tests, up to and including Friday 15th May, 2015. Support can be arranged for students with disabilities, if the student regu- larly uses similar support for classroom assessment tasks. Exemptions may be granted to students with significant intellectual disabilities. If your child is eligible for support due to disability or an exemption, you should discuss David Clift this with their classroom teacher prior to the tests. Parental consent is re- quired before any support due to disability or exemption is granted. Students may be withdrawn from NAPLAN by their parent or guardians. This is a matter for consideration by parents and guardian in consultation with the principal. If, after consultation, you decide to withdraw your child, you must sign a withdrawal form. These forms are available by contacting the College. Later in the year all year 7 and 9 students who completed the testing will receive a report. The report will describe a child’s particular skills in Read- Emma Miller ing, Writing, Language Conventions and Numeracy. The report will also show how a child performed in relation to national minimum standards. We are confident that the information parents receive as a result of their child’s participation in the NAPLAN tests will be valuable in helping them to assess their child’s progress in literacy and numeracy. If you require more information regarding the tests, please visit the VCAA website at www.vcaa.vic.edu.au or the NAP website at www.nap.edu.au. Danny Finn At Warrnambool College we achieve success through persistence, resilience and mutual respect Page 2 Continued... COLLECTING STUDENT FROM SCHOOL Heywire- If you need to collect your child early from school, we ask that you please come to the office to meet them. All students leaving early The ABC’s Heywire competition is need to sign out at the office. currently calling for stories by year 10, 11 and 12 students from regional For security reasons we CANNOT allow parents/guardians to col- lect them from classrooms. areas of Australia. They are encour- aged to submit text (400 words), If you have arranged to pick your child up and they don’t turn up to audio, photos or video about life in meet you, one of our office staff will collect them from the class- “their neck of the woods”. There are room for you. some great prizes available for stu- dents. More info can be found at abc.net.au/haywire. Jackets- Last year we had a successful trial with a windproof jacket that has now been made available to students. This created problems with our supplier, Dobsons, as they would not embroider House logos on the sleeve of the jacket until 15 for that particular House had been ordered. To rectify this situation we instructed Dobson’s to lower the price of the jack- et and we would have the sleeve embroidered locally. A large order of jackets was received last weekend and from our understanding parents were contacted via Dobson’s to advise that jackets were ready for collection. The school was not contacted nor have we had an opportunity to embroider the sleeves. Many students have been quite disap- pointed not to have the House logo. The College will cover the cost of the House logo embroidery on the arm of the jacket. If students would like the College to organize this for them, please drop your jacket into the main office (ensure it is labelled or put a name on a piece of paper in the zip pocket) at the end of the school day on Friday. Alter- natively, parents can take the jackets directly to Joroni Embroidery, ph: 5562 0756. Messages The office staff will do their utmost to pass on any emergency messages to your child. However, in the case of miscellaneous messages, we can only PA your child during recess or lunch time to pass on these messages on. If your child does not respond to the PA, your message may not be delivered. This is especially the situation if your child is playing sport. We ask that you please make any arrangements with your child before they leave for school to avoid any confusion. We are aware that things pop up throughout the day and again stress that the office are happy to deliver emergency messages. At Warrnambool College we achieve success through persistence, resilience and mutual respect Page 3 On Tuesday the 19th of May we will be opening our school to prospective families from our community. This is a wonderful opportunity for people to get a direct insight into how our College operates. In response to parental feedback we are altering the context of the night. Previously we have run large group tours of the campus and visited classrooms to hear an overview provided by the head of the teaching area. The negative feedback was that the quality of the night was very much dependent upon the tour guides provided. People were also unhappy with the length of time it took to see the school and reported that often, they still did not get to visit the areas of direct interest to them.
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