Issue 03 ClearView 8/3/2016
Term 1 Principal’s report by Lynita Taylor
Term one is sailing by very quickly with only two weeks left after this week, and Easter just around the corner. We are delighted that our students have made such a positive start to 2016. I would like to encourage all students to make sure they remain focused and ensure all tasks are submitted on time for assessment, ready for staff to complete Interim Reports.
I hope you enjoy reading about the fantastic sporting achievements of our students on Compass. In particular, congratulations to our swimming team who performed so well at the interschool swimming carnival and to our Age Champions. Congratulations to all students who have made it through to the next round, for their outstanding achievements against very strong competition. We hope you achieve your personal best regardless of where you are placed.
Thank you to Mr Cameron Dole for organising his team of helpers, and for supporting our students on the day.
Next week we will enjoy another wonderful day together at our Annual Mount Clear Athletics Carnival. I’d like to invite parents to join us on this day, even if only for a short time it would be great to see you there. Our sports carnivals are very special community events for us and it is always great to see the colourful mix of highly competitive focussed athletes, combined with the many students who put their hand up for events, just for the fun of joining in on the team spirit to gain points for their team……each role of equal importance! The winning team usually gets there through having higher number of competitors on the day volunteering to fill each and every event.
A reminder to all students that ‘COMMITMENT’ is of one of our very important College values. So if you sign your name up for an event for Athletics Day, this is an opportunity to demonstrate this value. Make sure you turn up on the day and complete the event, so as not to let your team down. We had many disappointed students return from the interschool Swimming Sports feeling that Mount Clear College would have won on the day, if it had not been for the many students who did not bother to turn up and meet their commitment to the team. Some students have sadly adopted the opinion as they have grown up, that if they don’t think they will win the event, they pull out. With parents help we are trying to turn this attitude around, asking students to adopt a ‘growth’ mindset where we all push ourselves to support our growth and development without focussing on whether we win or lose.
Hopefully your child has been sharing with you the discussions and work they have started in their Mentor teams about the Resilience Project. This will be rolled out at different stages for each year level. The aim of this program is to enhance the resilience and wellbeing of our students. We believe that the resilience of a child cannot be left to chance, nor dependant on the luck of having significant adults in their world to support their development in this area. As Educators we now know that there are a set of skills that can be taught and this is now a significant component of our Mentor program. We are very excited to have been the first school in Australia to sign up at the start of 2016, to deliver this specific curriculum to our students. If you have any queries about this program please do not hesitate to contact Student Services Leader, Fionna Wooller. PrinciPal’s rePort by Lynita TaylorContinued page 2
Clearview - Community of Learners working together SENIOR SCHOOL REPORT JUNIOR SCHOOL REPORT
Every day I am pleasantly surprised at how the Senior Our Year Level Co-ordinators have had a busy School is forming its own identity and how all members time over the last few weeks as they have of our community contribute to this in small and large gone through the process of selecting our 2016 ways. student leaders for years 7-9. Well done to all Since the last Clearview we have successfully run our applicants and congratulations to those who Elevate Day. All students in Years 10, 11 and 12 have were successful. These students will be had the opportunity to further develop their study and awarded their leadership badges at our final time management skills in regard to successfully com- assembly for the term and will receive training pleting their studies at school and at home. I would like from our senior leaders in preparation for them to congratulate and thank the members of the 25 families running year level assemblies, being the voice that attended the Parent seminar after school to learn for the student body and representing the Col- about the skills covered with the students during the day. lege in external activities. Parents can assist their child(ren) with their study habits We had another successful Information Even- by checking that they have a study schedule, have a des- ing last week with many primary school fami- ignated area for study at home, are using “trigger words” lies coming to look at Mount Clear. A big thank in their study notes and are re-reading their notes regu- you to all of those students who helped out larly. These tools will assist our students to effectively with this night, especially to our year 7 use their study sessions to improve their long - term speakers, Liam Ryan, Shallan Pompe and memory and improve their understanding of the concepts Cooper Littlehales who spoke to such a large covered in class. crowd after being at our school for only a few Linked to our focus on “effective learning time” is our weeks. Well done everyone! focus on supporting all College members to feel positive Finally, our Athletics Day is coming up on and be able to cope with the stresses on the senior years Thursday 17th March and it’s looking to be a of secondary education. Mount Clear College is partici- very exciting day after Canadian’s victory at the pating in the “Resilience Project” as a means of achiev- Swim Sports. If anyone would like to sign up ing these goals. All students have had the opportunity to for events but hasn’t yet had a chance to do attend a seminar with the “Resilience Project” staff so, please see your mentor teacher. members and they all have a “Wellbeing” diary which is to be used as their regular study diary and as a reminder of the tools and ideas covered in the seminar. Please take the time to have a conversation with your child about how they are using the “Resilience Project” ideas to feel grateful for their lives and what they have achieved so far. At last week’s assembly I took the opportunity to speak to the students about looking out for each other and how Liam Ryan and good friends can be the best resource a person can have. Shallan Pompe
This links in with the “Gratefulness” concept of the Re- silience Project. I have encouraged the students in the Senior School to assist each other in making wise choic- es around study habits, punctuality and organisation as a start to being a good friend. I encourage families to also encourage your child to think of ways they can assist others as we progress through the year. Cooper Littlehales
David Stuchbery Senior School Assistant Principal Nicole Quinney Junior School Assistant Principal
Clearview - Community of Learners working together 2 STUDENT LEADERS 2016
Congratulations to all of our Student Leaders for 2016. Parents and guardians are invited to attend our Whole School Assembly on Monday, 21st March at 9am to see them receive their Leadership badges.
Year 7 Year 10 Shallan Pompe Mitch Miller Liam Ryan Dana Hall Lola-Rose Radford Riley Jones Amber Townsend Amelia Prewett Kasey Bishop Karissa Cribbes Tarryn Egerton Vanessa Amedegnato Kyla Thompson Jakob Giammatteo Matthew Flind Brayden Loverso Molly Coleman Mitchell Marmo-Kenna Chloe Smith Hannah Storey Larrah Vigor Zaire Wilson Adele Snibson Nicholas Bell Kyla Marbella Bridget Dyer-Sharplin Adam Dawes-Randall Phoebe Porter Zach Stanley
Year 8 Year 11 Aurora Snibson Hannah Barnet Rashid Arab Brayden Crutchfield Sarah Bromley Kaitlin Eden Tiarna Thornbury Cate Sullivan Danae Bellingham Ruby Wragg Lochlan Curtis Joel Murphy Jessica Ockwell Lucy Stoel Nikita Gribble Alison Kemp Bridgette Hobson Tess Flynn Jess Anderson Kody McKay Phoebe Harrison Sinead Shearer Edna Mahina Kaitlyn Wilkie Zoe Hunt Sarah Stuart Callum Parkinson Jordyn Hatfield Sharnee Hitchcock Gwen Anderson Levi Morgan
Year 9 Year 12 Tayla Green College Captains: Sophie Sherritt Maggie Murphy Ashley Chamberlain Scott Walker Sam Readhead Vice Captains: Josh Pinch Yuxiao (Henry) Zhang Mikaela Howard-Bush Olivia Pegg Georgia Young Leaders: Jamison Jessop Genevieve Zlatkovic Alice Wood Biana Netherway Morgan Di Domenico Liam Berrigan Felicity Dean Kate Bawden
School Wide Positive Behaviours Pop Up Shop Come and redeem your Reward Points at our School Wide Positive Behaviours Pop Up Shop! All rewards from 2015 and this term can be redeemed for a range of items – vouchers, sta- tionery and movie tickets just to name few. Lunchtime, Wednesday, 23rd March. More information to follow soon.
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The adventure begins again! On Wednesday 24th February, 17 enthusiastic girls attended the first regional rehearsal for the annual Spectacular being held in September. We learnt the beginnings of four dance routines and now have time to practise these before the next round of rehearsals in Term 2. The students involved this year are: ->Aurora Snibson, Brooke Fry, Tiana Spiteri, Tahlia Howard, Maddie Grixtie, Macy Mather, Ashleigh Coburn, Chloe Smith, Rachael Young, Zoe Hunt, Sylvie Walker-Corbet, Molly Coleman, Lola Radford, Aviva Eldridge-Foley, Chloe Walker, Poppy Ball, Mon- tannah Bruhn.
Fantastic breaking news is that Wakaba Shudo will once again be a featured dancer in the show as a member of a spe- cialist ensemble of dancers that have been through a gruelling audition process – Congratulations Wakaba!!
Judi Eppingstall Arts KLA Leader
MCC Year 11 CVCAL Work Related skills
During first semester in Year 11 VCAL Work Related Skills we have invited some guest speakers in to talk to the students about ca- reer pathways and educational options. We asked Amy from Australian School Based Apprenticeship to talk to the students about School Based Apprenticeships: what they are, How they fit into a student’s school timetable Support on finding a suitable employer Provide mentoring and support during employment Preparing the student for employment If you require more information about school based apprenticeships please search www.asapjobs.com.au or phone Ally 0457927465.
Our second guest speakers were form Highlands LLEN, we had Brendan O’Connell and Asha Buckmaster speak to the students about Structured Workplace Learning. The services offered by Highlands LLEN is to support the students finding suitable employers and who are willing to take on young people in SWL.
Regards,
Brendan Johnston
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The First Korean Short Term Study Tour visited Mount Clear College from 9 of Feb to 26 of Feb 2016 Mount Clear College has hosted the first Korean Short Term Study Tour students, teachers and a principal who are from YongSung Middle School at CheougJu, South Korean. During this visit, two school principals had signed a MOU about working together to establish an international exchange program between two schools. All students and teachers have expressed that they had a good time at school and in Ballarat. Mount Clear College has prepared a program for Korean students to experience Australian school and life, such as visit- ing the Town Hall, Sovereign Hill and Wildlife Park; attending buddy class and some special classes, like English, Wood- work, Earth Ed Science. Sport coordinator Mr Cameron Dole organized a soccer competition between Mount Clear Col- lege soccer and Korean students. Korean students demonstrated a high level of skill during the match. Thanks to Mount Clear College, Korean students’ buddies, all teachers at Mount Clear College and host families for sup- porting this short term study group of 25 students.
HOUSE UPDATE
Mount Clear House Update
The Athletic Sports are on Thursday 17th March and this is also the next major House event. All students have had the opportunity to sign up to individual events in House meetings. If students have not yet signed up to any events they should see Mr Dole in the Year 11 and 12 staff room.
For the Athletics Day all students should dress up in their House colours, there will be a “Best Dressed” competition that all Houses can enter students into.
There have been a trickle of sports team lists com- ing through to Mr Clark so that House Points can be allocated. It has been pleasing to see a number of Positive Behavior points increasing the numbers.
It would be great to get some more Academic points awarded by staff, so students should contin- ue to aim high in their work efforts.
Remember that students doing great things around MCC can earn their House points (which is worth a free BBQ at the end of the year for the winning House!)
Jarrad Clark
Clearview - Community of Learners working together 5 STUDY HALL BAS Sport Term 1 Draws
Monday to Thursday there will be a The BAS draws have been done for Term 1 except JG Volleyball staff member in the library to provide as entries are yet to be confirmed. CODES: students with the opportunity to do BCC = Ballarat & Clarendon College (Sturt St) BG = Ballarat Grammar (Queen St Wendouree) supervised study. Study Hall takes BHS = Ballarat High School (Sturt St) DC = Damascus College place in the Library from 3.30pm to LC = Loreto College (Sturt St) SPC = St Pats College (Sturt St) 4.30pm. Lawn Bowls (Monday at 4PM, travel details to be determined as yet) RD 2 (Feb 15) LC V MCC at Webbcona 906 Grevillea Rd Wen- This term we will have the following douree staff on each night. This will change RD 3 (Feb 22) MCC V SPC at Central Wendouree 1330 Gregory St Wendouree next term. RD 4 (Feb 29) BHS V MCC at Ballarat Memorial 89C Cuthberts Rd Alfredton (rec reserve) RD 5 (Mar 7) MCC V DC at Sebastopol 213 Albert St Sebastopol
Monday – Kelsy Brown Year 7 Boys Cricket (Tuesday 4 PM all transport is via Gold Bus Tuesday – Terry Brady which leaves Language Centre at 3.20 PM DO NOT BE LATE!!) Wednesday – Scott Brown RD 2 (Feb 16) MCC V BHS at Vic Park 1&2 (MCC to set up grounds). - Simone Cisar RD 3 (Feb 23) MCC V BCC at Vic Park 9&10 Thursday – Andrew Cook (MCC to set up grounds). RD 4 (Mar 1) BYE - Vic Djajamiharada RD 5 (Mar 8) BG V MCC at BG RD 6 (Mar 15) BCC V MCC at Vic Park 9&10.
Junior Girls Volleyball (?Tuesday 4 PM all transport via Gold Bus which leaves Language Centre at 3.20 PM DO NOT BE LATE!!) CHESS CLUB No draw as yet as teams are yet to be finalised. Train- ing again next week but this time at normal venue of Loreto. Mount Clear Chess Club will be held on Wednesdays after school from 3:30 pm to Intermediate Boys Tennis (Tuesday 4 PM all transport via Gold 4:30 pm in the library with Rob Loveband. Bus which leaves Language Centre at 3.20 PM DO NOT BE LATE!!) All are welcome to come and play or learn RD 2 (Feb 16) BCC v MCC Black and MCC Red V SPC both at how to play. SPC RD 3 (Feb 23) MCC Black v SPC and MCC Red V BG Blue both at SPC After we are up and running, we will be RD 4 (Mar 1) MCC Black V MCC Red at MCC (no bus required) RD 5 (Mar 8) MCC Black V BG and MCC Red V BCC getting a qualified chess coach in to get a both at BG team going to train for inter-school RD 6 (Mar 15) MCC Black V SPC and BG Blue V MCC matches. Red both at SPC
Junior/Intermediate Boys/Girls Baseball (Wed at 4 Jason Squires will be running Chess PM at Prince of Wales) Travel on City Bus 3 and meet Mr. Jones at POW. in the library on Fridays at lunchtime. Get involved! Junior Girls Basketball (Thursday 4PM, travel on City Bus 3) RD 2 (Feb 18) BG V MCC at DC (no bus required) YEAR 7 IMMUNISATIONS RD 3 (Feb 25) MCC V BHS at BHS RD 4 (Mar 3) DC V MCC at DC (no bus required) RD 5 (Mar 10) BCC V MCC at BHS Dates for Immunisations for 2016 RD 6 (Mar 17) LC V MCC at LC
th Senior Girls Cricket (4PM NOTE CHANGE IN DRAW) Tuesday 15 March RD 2 (Feb 18) MCC V BG at MCC Wednesday 25th May RD 3 (Feb 25) LC V MCC at Vic Park 1 rd RD 4 (Mar 3) BCC V MCC at BCC Tuesday 23 August RD 5 (Mar 10) BG V MCC at BG RD 6 (Mar 17) GF (if we make it)
Clearview - Community of Learners working together 6 OTHER NEWS
Payment Plans Any families wanting to organise a payment plan can book an appointment on Compass or Phone the school office on 5330 1500.
Lost Property
NB Lost Property will be kept in First Aid (next to the SHAAC).
First Aid operates between 10am and 2.30pm daily.
FIRST AID Please note if your child is feeling sick, has vomited or had diarrhoea please do not send them to school.
Sunday 20th March 2016 will be the 7th Annual Harvest Festival for the Ballarat Community Garden, Cnr Queen St and Dyte Pde, Ballarat East Between 11am and 3pm Enjoy a family day out! Thinking of starting your own veggie patch? Want to see what to do with your home-grown produce, need some easy and cheap ideas to help with the growing process or do you just want to come and be entertained? Come to the Ballarat Community Garden Annual Harvest Festival, meet our gardeners and be inspired by their abundant garden beds! There will be plenty of choice with pizzas, sausages and drinks, tea, coffee and cake! All this will be available while you sit and listen to a variety of live music played and sung by local artists. The Funky Turtles will start the day and the Bal- larat City Brass Band will perform in the afternoon. There will be other music and surprise events throughout the gar- den. A produce stall will be groaning with goodies, choose from the many plants and flowers available, enjoy preserves and plenty more. There will be a cake stall and activities for the children and a lucky dip. There will be raffle prizes to be won and a chance to learn a craft or two! We shall have our own John Ditchburn, the Urban Food Garden creator to educate us on growing food in our Ballarat climate. Angela Enbom will show you how she keeps bees and some local spinners will show you their craft. But wait….there will be more! Sunday 20th March is World Storytelling Day. We shall celebrate with stories for young and older than young, told dur- ing the day. Look for the Storytelling tent. Or you can just wander through the garden. See if you can find the demonstration garden that will inform you about what to do to improve your soil, how to start off a small veggie garden, what will help it thrive and ‘who’ will take over if you let them!
What more could you want? Well, come on down and just enjoy the relaxing atmosphere. Look forward to seeing you there!
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Clearview - Community of Learners working together 9 Community News
Clearview - Community of Learners working together 10 Current students performing in this are Uisce Goriss-Dazeley and Ally Stewart; past students Cathe- rine Pettie, Samantha Stewart, Aiden McHarg, Reuben Morgan and featuring Mr Scott Mangos in the orchestra pit.
Clearview - Community of Learners working together 11 IMPORTANT DATES 2016—Please refer to the College Website Calendar for up to date details care featuring excursions and other dates of importance go to web: http://www.mtclearsc.vic.edu.au/
IMPORTANT DATES 2016 commitment 14th March Labour Day Holiday 15th March Year 7 Immunisations 16th SEALP / Music Info Evening 6.30pm & 7.00pm respect 17th March MCC Athletics Sports Day
21st March Whole school Assembly (parents of student leaders invited to attend– student leaders will receive their responsibility badges) 23rd March Pop up shop Lunch time
23rd March GWR Swimming sports 9-3pm
24th March Thursday school finishes at 2.30pm
Easter 25th-28th March
Term 1 School Holidays 25th March—10th April
11th April Term 2 Commences
12th April The Resilience Project Information
Evening
14th April Parent Teacher Interviews 14th April University Cluster transition morning
Olympic Avenue Monday 25th April Anzac Day Holiday Mount Clear Wed 27-29 Yr 10 Outdoor Ed Forrest MTB Camp Tel: 5330 1500 Fax: 5330 2670
Email: COMPASS School Manager [email protected] Parents are reminded to report their child's www.mtclearsc.vic.edu.au absence or approve an absence by logging into COMPASS School Manager. Mount Clear Home Page http:// www.mtclearsc.vic.edu .au follow the link for compass
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