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EAST LODDON P- 12 COLLEGE PARENT NEWSLETTER TELEPHONE -03 54368300 FAX -03 54368321 E-mail: [email protected] College Website: http://eastlodd12.vic.edu.au/ Principal’s Blog: http//stevenleed.edublogs.org/ School Councillors : Richard Hicks, Darren Welsh, Micheal Lawry, Adam Bish, Dustin Pascoe, Steve Leed, Scott Wilkinson, Andrew Cameron, Jackson Clayton, Nicole Hocking, Natalie Rose, Lynda Cartwright, James Verley, Jo Cartwright

Respect - Resilience - Responsibility - Relationships Our College respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia

and pay our respects to the ongoing living culture of Aboriginal people

Help Us Shave Rod

Dates for Your Diary

Newsletter No 32 Date: 18th October 2018

OCTOBER

15th—19th Cancer

Awareness Week

22nd State Athletics

24th Last day for

Year 12

25th P-12 Athletic

Carnavil

30th LaTrobe Uni

Experience

Workshops

31st VCE 3 & 4

English Exam

NOVEMBER

1st VCE Psychology

Exam

2nd VCE Biology &

Further Maths 1

Exams

5th Further Maths 2

6th Melbourne Cup

Holiday

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*** BREAKING NEWS….. OUR COLLEGE CLEANER ROD BIGGS WILL SHAVE HIS HEAD AND BEARD TOMORROW

IF WE CAN RAISE $5000!!!! ***

In breaking news, College cleaner and local identity Rod Biggs has today committed to shaving his head and beard

at tomorrow’s greatest shave if we can raise over $5000, before the event. We are currently about $1000- short

of this amount and have 24 hours to meet our target.

Rod has had his beard for that long that I do not believe that any of his children have seen him without it and I am

worried that his wife may not recognise him when he arrives home at the end of tomorrow!

Good on you for being a great sport Rod!!!

East Loddon – Greatest Shave!

Tomorrow we see the conclusion of

Cancer Awareness Week at East Loddon

and what better way to conclude the

week, than with a big event! Lunchtime

will be shortened and the end of the day

assembly time extended so that the

heads of a variety of staff and students

can be shaved for a terrific cause. If you

are able to attend the event, please do

so. The greatest shave takes place in the

College gym from 2:30pm.

New P-4 Sub-School Leader in 2019

Before the Term 3 holidays, the College advertised for an internal P-4 sub-school

leader for the 2019 school year. After a process of application, shortlisting and

interview, I am very pleased to be able to announce that Mr Jackson Clayton has

been appointed to this role. Jackson has been a valued member of staff for the

past 2 years, teaching mainly Mathematics and Digital Technologies to senior

classes. What most parents and community members would not realise is that

Mr Clayton has actually predominately taught in primary classes. In fact, he has only taught in the secondary area

during his time at East Loddon, teaching only in the primary years for his previous 5 years of educating.

Mr Clayton has taught in a range of Victorian schools as well as in the Northern Territory, being offered

P-4 co-ordination roles before returning to Victoria. Mr Clayton is a very impressive educator and we thoroughly

look forward to him leading our Junior Sub-School in the absence of Mr Vernon, who will be taking leave in 2019.

University Visit For Our Year 7 and 8 Students

On Monday Year 7 and 8 students visited La Trobe University in Bendigo as part of the School Partnerships

Program. Students spent the day exploring the university campus and learning about what studying in a

university setting might be like. Students undertook a variety of activities with La Trobe University students

including a race around the campus and a Science and Engineering workshop. Year 7 students talked with LTU

students about their university studies and life as students, while Year 8’s completed a career quiz and began

thinking about potential career pathways. The students thoroughly enjoyed the day and many are now enthused

about the idea of university studies in their future!


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) 2nd Hand Uniform Request

We have had a few requests for second-hand uniform of late and after selling almost all items at the recent

College Fete, I am placing a ‘call-out’ to any families who have uniform items that could be donated to the

College. If you or your family has any item of uniform that has been outgrown by your child, please consider

donating this back to the College so that it can be used once again. Any donations can be forwarded to the

College Office.

Termite Works To Begin Shortly

Building works for the termite affected areas of the College (VCE room, Home Economics room, Wellbeing Office

and College Canteen) will begin on Monday 26th November and will conclude towards the end of the Christmas

holidays. During this time the College will not be able to access these rooms at all and provisions will be made to

accommodate this. College Council began talks around the canteen, which we will not have access to during the

building works and in coming weeks we will make alternative arrangements which will be communicated to

families.

First Aid Course For Students and Community Members – Running From The College

Murray Mallee Training will be running a First Aid Course at our College on Tuesday 26th November for interested

students and community members. Participants will need to ensure that they have a USI number, and the course

will cost $105- per participant. Please have a think about whether you would like to take part in this course, as

names will be requested shortly.

Participants will also need to complete a booklet and associated forms prior to the course.

Go Beast Loddon!!!

A group of male staff members have formed a basketball team

known as BEAST LODDON and joined in a competition at

Bendigo Stadium. Our abilities range from ‘absolute novice’ to

‘Air-Jordan’ (with Mr Young actually attempting a slam-dunk dur-

ing our first week), but we are sure to have a great deal of fun!

During our first week we were placed in division 2 and actually

scored a win!

Thanks are extended to all who have supported the Cancer Awareness Week activities and fundraisers this week!

Steven Leed

College Principal

Tremendous Effort Keira and Georgia!

Both Keira and Georgia did an absolutely

amazing job last Saturday, lifting for half an

hour at Bendigo RockHard Kettlebells in the

Kettlebell Marathon Australia - Ultimate

Girevik Cup Stage 3.

Results - Women's Snatch event: Keira L

with a 10kg kettlebell - 452 reps - Overall

winner of Women's Snatch

Results - Womens One Arm Long Cycle event: Georgia W with a 16kg kettlebell -

360 reps - setting a PB

It was reported that both girls "smashed" it out of the park and were exciting to

watch. What an amazing effort!


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P-4 Update

Building Strong Foundations

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Student of The Week

Prep—Penny for the support and helpfulness

offered to a new student.

Year 1—Caitlin for making Loom Bands for all the

members of the class. A tremendous act of

thoughtfulness.

Year 2—Charlie for a great start to Term 4 and

being a good friend.

Year 3—Emma for consistently trying her best at

everything she does and for being a good friend

to others.

Year 4—Logan for being a considerate, positive and well mannered student.

You Can Do It! Awards CONFIDENCE

Prep—Neko for developing confidence and ‘having a go’ and for subsequent success she is enjoying. Year 1—Oliver for the confident

responses with his reading text.

Year 2—Angus for increasing

confidence in Maths, especially time.

Year 3—Kiara for working hard and developing

confidence.

Year 4—Keira for the brilliant presentation of

her writing.

Reading Clubs - Last week we celebrated with the following students and their families:

250 Nights of Reading Y4-Keira and Oliver Y3-Kyen, Miles, Ella, Kiara, Emma, Emily, Georgia and Alex. Y2-Ruby C. Y1-Logan, Zali and Jess Prep- Shania and Jack

225 Nights of Reading Y4-Will Y3-Paige and Logan Y2-Sienna, Oscar and Sarah Y1-Lucy and Caitlin

200 Nights of Reading Prep- Neko and Harvey


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Year 3/4 Anglesea Camp Payment Plan

Date Amount

Friday the 24th August (if unpaid on the booklist) $90.00

Friday 14th September $70.00

Friday 28th September (all monies paid to this date

are non –refundable due to the Colleges financial

commitment to the camp).

$70.00

Friday 12th October $60.00

Friday 26th October $60.00

Prep Sounds in Focus

This week the Preps are learning the long vowel sound ‘a’. This is made in a number of ways in our English lan-

guage: the ‘a’ as in ‘baby,, the ‘ai’ as in ‘snail’, the ‘ay’ as in ‘tray’ and the split digraph ‘a-e’ as in ‘take’. The little

Sound Waves rhyme to reinforce the sound is ‘Snails play’.

Prep Words To Fluency

The words this week are ‘should’, ‘could’ and ‘would’. In these words the ‘ou’ makes the ‘oo’ sound as in ‘book’.

It’s a tricky language to learn, thus the importance of visual memory to support phonemic spelling.

College Athletics Sports

This coming Thursday our students are participating in our Ath-

letics sports. We encourage all our students to fully engage in

the House spirit by dressing in their team colours and bringing

streamers and the like to build team spirit. We also look forward

to seeing you on the day. Please remember to name all clothing,

especially hats, provide lots of cool drinking water and a sun-

screen suitable for your child’s needs. Remember that sun-

screen deteriorates over time and loses effectiveness.

Below are pictures of Long house team members practicing their

House chants with great enthusiasm.

Literacy Hints

Levels are an important guide when teachers are matching students to texts (Just right

books) and for reporting progress against expected Sate Benchmarks but it is important

not to chase levels at the expense of everything else. It is important that children develop

a love of reading if they are to become ‘lifelong readers’. Children must be well and truly

ready before they move onto the next level (Remember the FACES acronym we talked

about last week, then add enjoyment onto that). Help them to find books they enjoy to

read and share some of your own favourites.

Peter Vernon On behalf of the P-4 Teaching and Learning Team

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Middle Years Parents, please join Bloomz to get regular updates from your child’s classroom.

Middle Years Captains Report

On Monday the year 7s and 8s went to La Trobe University in Bendigo. We learnt lots about

the university and what you can do there. On Tuesday the 5/6s went on a German excursion

to the Bendigo Art Gallery, thanks to all of the teachers that helped organise both of these

excursion. Yesterday was Pink Day, good job to everyone that came dressed in pink to raise

money for Breast Cancer Awareness. On Friday the greatest shave is on which involves some

teachers and students shaving their heads to raise money, including shaving off Mr Aurisch’s

beard! Have a good weekend.

Alicia and Levi

Bloomz Snapshot

Book recommendation

Fynn recommends Garfield Gains

Weight—Jim Davis

“This comic book is about Garfield the

cat doing lots of funny things including

Odie and Garfield fighting and Garfield

sleeping a lot. Garfield has a teddy-bear

called Pookie. I like Garfield because it is

funny. I’d recommend this for Year 3 to

7 students who like funny books”

SEE YOU AT THE COLLEGE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER

Yr 7 Performing Arts—Upcoming

performance to the Preps

Year 7 Big Picture—La Trobe

University and TAFE excursion.

Year 8 Science—Energy efficiency

experiment—exploring efficiency

of ball rebounds.

Emotional Literacy On Wednesday morning in Reading Time each Middle Years class spent some time brainstorming different emotions and thinking about what the definition of an emotion is. This was the first lesson in our Respectful Relationships program where students are exploring how to identify and empathise with others. Emotions are how our brain informs us of our progress towards a goal. The more important the goal, the stronger

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KFC – Kids Friday Club – Term 4 Dates

Dates for KFC Term 4 will be

Friday Nov 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th with our Community Christmas BBQ and Carols on Sunday Dec 2nd. More

info soon.

All prep to Year 6 children welcome.

Contacts for enquiries - Robyn Falls 0429368242, Leanne Welsh 0447689309,

Judy Mountjoy 0488379222, Wendy Twigg 0427807124, Anne Baker 0429368453

Deutsche Nachrichten On Tuesday Klasse 5 und 6 went down to Bendigo and participated in the German Day at the Bendigo Art Gallery. The activities included learning about German Expressionists, making a Lebkuchenherz and participating in an Art trail. In the German Expressionists activity the produced a Self-Portrait using pastels. Some very good examples of future artists. One of the foods which you can eat at the Oktoberfest are the Lebkuchenherzen (gingerbread hearts). Students made a Lebkuchenherz, these were finished off during German lessons this week. The Art trail involved answering some questions about colour, people and artists in the Gothic Beauty exhibition which is being held at the Bendigo Art Gallery at the moment. A big Thank you to Helen Attrill (education Officer) for taking the German Expressionists and Gothic Beauty Art trail. Klasse 6 performed the song Drei Kleine Fische during lunch. The students were treated to Krapfen, which are small donuts which you can also get at the Oktoberfest. The Krapfen did not last long. Finally a Thank You goes to Henry who drove us down and returned us safely back to school and to Frau Mac and Herr Ferguson. Annette Burgstett German Co-ordinator

Library Overdue Books

The following students have items listed as overdue. We would appreciate parents/guardians assisting us by ensuring students renew or return these items by 25th October. Thank You.

PREP Yr 1-2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Yr 6 Yr 7 Yr 8 Yr 9 Yr 10

Talia Lucas C Georgia Darcy Tyler R Charlize Tyler K Lily Will Dakota

Penny Caitlin Zane Aidan Lucas K Ryland Jye Levi Jack Jayden

Neko Tom Kyen Will Maris- Noah Makayla Issy Camer-

Ava Deisel Angus Joe Molly Madi Keith Hayley

Jake Charlie Joe Riley Nathan Mason Jemima Hugh

Lily Chloe Keira Chloe Cade Jackson

Angus Logan W Jorja Joseph Daisy

Alex Emily Matilda

Logan G Siana Lachlan

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Senior School News

Congrats to the Year 9 & 10 Outdoor Ed class Last week I had the pleasure and sometimes pain (regarding the steep kilometer long) inclines of walking the Great Ocean Road Walk with Mrs Arthur, Mr Smith and the students. We started at Blanket Bay and finished at Princetown. The guide book and signage indicated we had walked approximately 68km in 3 days plus travelled over 700km return. However, we thought it might have been closer to 80km and at times it felt like a 1,000km. I’m am extremely proud of these students they did a wonderful job, under some challenging conditions, eg steep kilometer on kilometer inclines with their entire back packs (eg tents, gas cookers, food, water, clothing, sleeping bag). It soon taught us what we could leave behind on the bus for a day or two. The views made the inclines worthwhile. We had gorgeous weather, although a little too gorgeous on Friday afternoon when it wasn’t just us that was liking the sunshine. We found some friendly brown snakes along the grassy paths, but thankfully they were as scared of us as we were of them. I will always remember this trip and the perseverance and resilience these students and my fellow colleagues showed. THANK YOU and WELL DONE! Level 2 First Aid Course The College is running a Level 2 First Aid Course for students and the broader community on Tuesday 27th of November. Ian from Murray Mallee Training will run the course. The cost of the course is approximately $105. Participants will be required to complete relevant forms, including a unique student identifier number (USI) and a workbook prior to the course date. At this stage we are taking expressions of interest. Please contact the College and or sign up on my Office door. Year 10 2019 Yesterday I spoke with our current Year 9 students about options and future pathways including VCE, VCAL and VET subjects. These students have a great deal of potential and diligently listened to all the information. It was a pleasure to share the information and answer their questions. Next year Year 10 students have the option of studying VCE Food Studies, VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies and VCE Specialist Mathematics as part of their subjects. Both VCE Food Studies and VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies would run during two of the three elective blocks. VCE Specialist Mathematics would run alongside the Year 10 Mathematics class. Year 9 & 10 2019 Electives The elective booklet and specific details regarding subjects is being finalised as I type and you reading. This information should be distributed to students on Monday. Well done to Soph H, Ella R and Jas C: Wow what an amazing week it has been at East Loddon P-12 College with these lovely students inspiring and organising a week long campaign to raise awareness and funds for cancer. I’m looking forward to seeing my new hair do Friday and seeing the other staff lose their hair. Sarah Byrne Sub-school Leader

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Canteen News

Pies, Pasties, School Pies, Potato Pies, Sausage rolls are available until stocks run out

2018 TERM 4

TERM 4 NOVEMBER

OCTOBER Monday 12th Margaret Hocking

Friday 19th Leanne Welsh Kylie Addlem Tuesday 13th Rachel Hay

Wednesday 14th Sue Pickles

Monday 22nd Belinda Clymo Thursday 15th Sue Pickles

Tuesday 23rd Michelle Diss Friday 16th Kylie Addlem Cheryl Green

Wednesday 24th Sue Pickles

Thursday 25th COLLEGE SPORTS Sue Pickles Monday 19th Lisa Twigg

Friday 26th Yoli Humphries Michelle Balic Tuesday 20th Sue Pickles

Wednesday 21st Nicky Lawry

Monday 29th Brian Duffy Breeanna Hocking Thursday 22nd Sue Pickles

Tuesday 30th Sue Pickles Friday 23rd Michelle Balic Toyah Ketterer

Wednesday 31st Penny Cockerell

NOVEMBER Monday 26th Karolyn Campbell

Thursday 1st Sue Pickles Tuesday 27th Mel Primrose

Friday 2nd Kate Duncan Louise Hocking Wednesday 28th Breeanna Hocking

Thursday 29th Mel Primrose

Monday 5th Karolyn Campbell Katherine Ellis Friday 30th Miranda Smith Leanne Welsh

Tuesday 6th MELBOURNE CUP

HOLIDAY

Wednesday 7th Mel Primrose

Thursday 8th Mel Primrose

Friday 9th Lisa Twigg Vivian Nicart


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College Calendar

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

22nd 23rd

State Athletics

24th

Last day for Year 12 students

25th

P-12

Athletics

Carnival

26th

27th 28th

29th 30th

La Trove Uni

Experience

Workshops

31st

VCE English Exam

NOVEMBER

1st VCE

Psychology

Exam

2nd

VCE Biology

and Further

Maths 1

Exams

3rd 4th

5th

VCE Further

Maths 1 Exam

6th

Melbourne Cup

Holiday

Student Free

day

7th

VCE Maths

Methods 1Exam

8th

VCE Maths

Methods 2

Exam

9th

VCE Specialist

Maths and

Physical

Education

Exams

10th 11th

12th

VCE Specialist

Maths 2 Exam

13th

VCE Chemistry

& VCD Exams

14th

VCE Physics Exam

15th

16th

VCE

Australian

History &

Computing

Informatics

Exam

17th

18th

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