Galen Catholic College Newsletter Wednesday 19th June 2013 Issue 10 Year 9 Night of Year 10 Work the Notables Experience From June 11 to 14 all Year 10 Galen students were involved in Work Experience at many different workplaces in Wangaratta, surrounding districts, Melbourne and interstate. Educationally, work experience is very important as it helps with subject selection which students will be doing in the second week back after the term break. There are four stages to the careers education program, stage one is work experience, stage two is a careers education day, stage three is the tertiary trip to Albury/Wodonga, and the fourth stage is the VCE 2014 Informa- tion Night. Student insights into Work Experience 2013 will be included in the next newsletter. Over the past few weeks the Year 9 Discovery students have been completing the My Place unit of work, which has a strong focus on history. As one of the assessment tasks the students researched the life of an Australian notable and prepared a display to be used on the night. Both parents and staff were very impressed with the wonderful performances from the year nines. They all dressed in costume on the night, spoke in the first person as their notable and were extremely knowledgeable. The parents were able to vote for the best costume, the best performance and the best visual display. The winners were: Best Dressed: Ethan Barnes: in the role of Nancy Bird Walton Best Visual Display: Maddison Smart in the role of Sister Ellen Savage Best Performance: Declan Taylor in the role of Peter Lalor Congratulations to all of the students, we were very proud of your wonderful achievements. Wendy Chuck - Integrated Studies Convenor Year 7’s go wild at Fauna Park - Page 3 Year 8 Readers Cup - Page 3 Year 9’s entertain at Illoura - Page 4 What’s On From the Principal • Wed June 26 - Yr 9 ‘Circus Oz’ Dear Parents and Guardians, • Fri June 28 - Last Day Term 2 Finish at 2.30pm We are rapidly approaching the end of a very full first semester. One of the great things about Galen is the broad range of opportunities afforded to your children and, as always, • Mon July 15 - Commence Term 3 it has been vey rewarding to see the way in which they have embraced those • Mon July 15-17: Yr 8 Camp 1 opportunities. • Wed July 17 - Yr 10 Careers Info Day • Fri July 19 - CREW Liturgy Of course, the end of a semester brings with it summaries of work achieved, • Wed July 24 - Yr 10 Tertiary Trip assessments undertaken and formal reports. As you would be aware from several • Wed July 24 - VCE (2014) Info Night previous notifications, this year our assessment and reporting is undergoing a significant • Wed July 31-Aug 2: Yr 8 Camp 2 development in that we are reporting to you on a progressive basis. • Wed July 31 - Yr 9 Careers Day • Thu Aug 1 - Maths Comp By the end of this semester, your child/children will have at least three detailed • Tue Aug 6 - VTAC Info Evening assessment comments per subject. For those with internet connection at home or work, • Wed Aug 7 - Yr 10 (2014) Info Night these assessments can be accessed online via P.A.M. (Parent Access Module). For those • Mon Aug 19 - Yr 8 and 9 (2014) Info without internet access, there has been the option to contact Mr Peter Girolami at the Distributed college to request hard copies of these assessments. • Wed Aug 21 - Founders’ Day Assembly • Thur Aug 22-23: Yr 10 Melb Trip This means that the end of semester reports will not include detailed written comments • Mon Aug 26 - CREW PD Day as in the past (because these have been superseded by the progressive assessments), but • Wed Aug 28 - Junior Production 7pm will still provide the usual progression points, S or N, and in some cases, A-E. • Thur Aug 29 - Junior Production 7pm • Thur Aug 29-30: Yr 10 Melb Trip The net result is that you as parents receive far more detailed and immediate assessment • Tues Sept 10 - Yr 10 Formal information than has been the case in the past. You also have the added advantage of • Tues Sept 10 - Festival of the Sacred receiving this information online in live time if you have access to the internet. • Thurs Sept 12 - Parent/Teacher Evening • Fri Sept 13 - Parent/Teacher Morning Staffing news • Wed Sept 18-20: Italian Camp We have a number of staff about to take leave: • Thurs Sept 19 - Injections: Yr 7B/G Yr 9 B • Mrs Rachel Froude will be on leave for the last two weeks of term • Fri Sept 20 - Term 3 Ends 2.30pm • Mr Mick Grogan will be on leave from 20 June (Thursday of second last week) until the start of week three next term • Mr Peter and Mrs Michelle Hill will be on leave for the last week of this term until the start of week 4 next term ICT @ Galen • Mr Brian Carr and Mrs Leanne Carr will be on leave for third term • Mrs Amanda White will be on leave for third term • Mr Jim Samon will be on leave for the first three weeks of next term • Mrs Rosemary Helmond will be on leave for the first two weeks on next term • Mr Terry Magree’s leave continues across the term break until the end of third term Attention • Mr Peter Watson and Mr John McKenzie return from leave at the start of next term • Mr Peter Brien returns from leave at the start of next term. Parents! • Mrs Cassandra Douglas completes her short-term appointment at the end of this term I look forward to seeing you all in second semester. Best wishes, Galen ICT department are offering an adult computer literacy course running from July Bernard Neal 29th for 8 weeks. The course will run from Principal 5:30 to 6:30 Monday Nights in the main IT room. This winter course is designed as an introduction to the Macintosh Computers. The course will cover: 1 - Introduction to the MacIntosh System Student Wellbeing 2 - Word Processing 3 - Using Spreadsheets Fact Sheets for Parents 4 - Creating Websites 5 - Using multimedia tools Being a parent is rewarding, but it’s also hard work! From time to time we all need a little extra support and advice to assist in nurturing and supporting young people. Please note that this will be a fee for service To assist parents, the Galen website now features several fact sheets to provide guidance course with a teacher student ratio of 1:5. on many issues that we all encounter through life. Several of the articles are from Michael If you are interested please email: Grose, a well-know professional parenting educator, and other sources. Make sure you [email protected] visit the link below, and bookmark it in your web browser for future reference! Further information will be provided in www.galen.vic.edu.au/parenting-info the next newsletter. - From the Wellbeing Team - 2 | Reflections - Issue 10 Junior Bands Mid-Year Concert Kyabram Fauna Park Both the Year 7 and Year 8 Concert Bands will perform to an enthusi- As part of the Year 7 Science curriculum, students study the astic audience at their end of term concert. The concert will be held classification of organisms and how those organisms interact in in the Max Fletcher Auditorium on Monday 24th June beginning at ecosystems. To assist students to observe first-hand and under- 7pm. This will be the first opportunity to hear the 34 students in the stand classification and relationships within ecosystems, Year 7 Year 7 Band who began in term 1. It will be the Year 8 Bands second Science classes visited the Kyabram Fauna Park. At the Park performance for the year after joining the Senior Band at the Anzac students participated in an Education Session run by the Assemblies held earlier this term. Supper will be provided so come Education Officer of the Park where the emphasis was on and support these young musicians. classifying reptiles. Students were given the opportunity to Mr David Ashfield - Director of Music handle a number of lizards and python. After the classroom session students were able to wander the park observing a wide range of Australian fauna while collecting information for their Classification assignment. Timor Leste Applications Yr 8 Readers Cup Champions Dear parents and families, There has been information presented to An entertaining 2013 Year 8 Reader’s Cup was held on Wednesday Year 10s about the Timor Leste Immersion experience for 2014 when last week with much enjoyment. Each homeroom team chose a these students will be in Year 11. The current plans are to depart in book and then created a book trailer that represented the spirit of the last week of Term One and return on the middle weekend of the the book. Many teams used fellow classmates in the productions. school holidays before Easter. There has also been an information These trailers were presented to the junior school during night and students and teachers have spoken to classes about the extended homeroom on Wednesday morning to much hilarity. immersion. This is a wonderful experience for students, who work The competition was of a high standard and the judges had great as team leading up to the immersion and on the trip as we well. It difficulty determining an outright winner. Eventually it was certainly opens students minds to better understanding life in a declared a tie between 8/1 and 8/5.