Newsletter No. 13 8th September 2017

Calendar

Please go to the McGuire College Website to view all Term 4, 2017 calendar dates. http://www.mcguireco.vic.edu.au

Important Dates:

� September

Year 7, 2018 Information Night – Thursday 14th – 7.00pm

Junior Summer Sport 1 – Tuesday 19th

School Council meeting – Thursday 21st – 7.00pm

Year 7 Immunisations – Friday 22nd

Last Day Term 3 – Friday 22nd

� October

Term 4 begins – Monday 9th

Year 7, 2018 – State School Relief Uniform Packages Applications for 2018 State Schools' Relief uniform packages are now available to families who are currently in receipt of Camps and Excursion funding. Please contact the general office at the College for further information

McGuire College STEAM Fair! STEAM is an educational approach to learning that uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics. On Wednesday, 13th September, all Year 7 students will have the opportunity to participate in a project which will be presented to peers, Wilmot Road PS and families.

Principal: Mr Brad Moyle

Assistant Principals: Mrs Megan Michalaidis

Mr Brendan Kenna

92 – 100 Wilmot Road, Shepparton 3630

Telephone: 03 5858 9800 Email: mcguire.co@edumail.vic.gov.au Web: http://www.mcguireco.vic.edu.au

“Every child has a right to learn and can achieve in learning; everyone has an obligation to contribute to their success.”

Respect Environment Accountability Learning

Principal’s Report

Student Achievement: Reading

At McGuire College we are extremely proud of the achievement of our students in a whole range of subjects and endeavours but have recently been able to celebrate the achievements of our students in relation to their achievements in the National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). One of the key measures for any school is the growth of student learning over time and NAPLAN provides us with an ideal measurement tool for student learning between Year 7 and Year 9. One of our goals over the last two years has been to increase the number of students that demonstrate a high level of growth between their NAPLAN results in Year 7 and their second sitting of NAPLAN in Year 9. At the same time we have been endeavouring to decrease the number of students that demonstrate a low growth rate between these two assessments. I am delighted to report that we have meet this goal in Reading for the last two years and in fact achieved stronger “high growth” rates than the State Average and smaller “low growth” rates than the State average. Our students should be really proud of their achievements and the work they have done to make this goal of the College a reality. Our achievements and those of our students in this space has been possible due to an unrelenting focus over time on developing all students as readers and all teachers, as teachers of literacy. Our work has been focused over the last two years around our partnership with the University of Melbourne, via the Network of Schools, and a specific focus on building our practise around independent reading, vocabulary and comprehension. Congratulations are extended to our UMNOS Success Coordinators, Stacie Lundberg and Jamason Lopez, on their outstanding presentation of our reading capacity building work at the latest UMNOS seminar in early September. Student Engagement: Athletics

Well done to all the students who attended our Athletics Day on Monday 4th September and put in a big effort to ‘have a go’ at the different events that were on offer. Despite the wind and the cold our students all had an opportunity to actively participate in various athletics events. Our staff have been full of praise for the level of participation and behaviour of our students in such trying conditions. A big thank you to the staff for their hard work on the day, for our parents/carers for coming along and supporting your children and to our students who were once again wonderful ambassadors for themselves, their families and our College.

College Development

The College has a number of facility development projects currently underway, with the most recent being the commencement of works on our new netball and basketball courts. The excavator has been in over the last week preparing the new site, adjacent to the Wilmot Road Primary School oval. If the weather is kind to us, we look forward to students, staff and the community being able to access these new facilities in mid-November. I must also extend thanks to our staff team, ably lead by Trevor Wilson, who have been preparing the majority of F Block for demolition. A large number of classrooms and staff offices have now been moved and we are just awaiting the finalisation of tenders before moving to demolition of F Block, creation of a new Food Technology Room and roof replacement on A and B Blocks. Staff Development

Our staff team spent Wednesday 6th September working on building their capacity around creating a positive College climate with a specific focus on student and classroom engagement strategies. Staff revisited our approach to our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support system and how our College Values support staff to develop expectations, reinforce student positive behaviours and to manage students who are not meeting the required expectations here at McGuire College. Thank you to the large team of staff presenters on the day who engaged and inspired our team to commitment to a consistent, student focused approach to building a positive College climate for students and staff.

Attendance

Our attendance rates have taken a dip over the last reporting period, 21st August to 5th September, largely due to a huge number of students suffering the winter colds and flu’s. We hope the last two weeks of Term 3 sees our students all striving to achieve an attendance rate above 90%. Once again, we must congratulate our Year 12’s on their fantastic attendance record over this period of time.

College Hats

It is time to start searching for the hats in the back of your wardrobes. Students are required to wear hats when outdoors in Term 4. If your son or daughter does not have a McGuire College hat, please drop by the office to purchase one for $11.00.

Kind regards Brad Moyle Principal

The Parent and Student Portal contains information regarding your child’s progress at McGuire College What you can view

• Attendance

• Timetables

• Incidents and achievements

• Calendar of upcoming events

• Reports Quick link to the Portal https://portal.mcguireco.vic.edu.au If you are having issues with your log in detail please contact the College on 03 5858 9800

Book Week - Escape to Everywhere McGuire College embraced Book Week this year with a range of activities to get students excited about reading. The library was truly the hub of book week with various art work displays by the students to celebrate literary characters. Also in the library there were golden tickets hidden throughout the books for students to stumble across, rewarding students for reading books. Congratulations to the following students for finding a golden ticket: Nikea Waldron x5 Kade Hardy x3 Joshua Hesselberg Austin McNair Ashton Stack Hemang Bheda Tahlia Duca Nof Alfawazi Roy Whitlock Rowan Farren Jamie Roberts Cody Crossland x2

Logan Corrin-Chalmers Skylar Waldron Katrina Charlton Tristan Phipps Damyn Coomber Zahra Alsalem Emma McManus Caitlyn Suter Seemeet Almisidawee x5 Kani-Lee Donald-Binns x9 Hussein Hamood Hannah Martin x6 Ryley Trickett

Around the school there were little book clue’s that students needed to decipher to get a prize. Congratulations to the following students for finding and working out the clues: Elizabeth Vincetic Jasser Salem Tim Runciman-Forster Amy Lyle Chelsea Coonerty Blake Torney

Leizal Hawking Jade Chalmers Emma Bacon Nick Brereton Moara Smith

The main event for the week was the dress up day on Wednesday where students and staff were encouraged to come to school dressed as a character from a novel. At lunchtime students took part in a costume competition looking for the best dressed and most creative costume. The winners were: Summer Keane - dressed as the Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra Damyn Coomber- dressed as a Dalek

Honourable mentions to: Lauren Miller- dressed as Belatrix Lestrange Lachlan McMellon- dressed as the Cat in the Hat Rachel Cooper- dressed as a hippy It was an amazing effort from staff and students at the school. This week proved that a love of reading and adventure never gets old.

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book”- J.K. Rowling

Nicole Craighead

Year 10 Level Leader

Maths Competition Results Earlier this term McGuire College had eighteen students from Years 7-11 sit the Australian Maths Competition. This annual competition is of a very high standard and we wish to congratulate the following students for their excellent results and all our students for working so hard! We hope next year will be even more successful! Rob Steer

Maths Coordinator

Year 7

James Bucktin (distinction) Angelina Mason (credit) Rachel Cooper (proficiency) Kade Hardy (proficiency)

Year 8

Moara Smith (credit) Lachlan Mcmellon (credit) Benjamin Okely (proficiency) Blayde Campbell-Ware (proficiency)

Year 9

Summer Keane (distinction) Farid Hassani (credit) Fadul Alsaber (credit) Emily Chalmers (proficiency)

Year 10

Hemang Bheda (proficiency)

Year 11

Elizabeth Smith (proficiency)

Library News

Author Visit

It was exciting to have author Fleur Ferris visit during August. Fleur’s three books Risk, Black and Wreck are available in the library. Over one hundred students enjoyed her presentation and asked lots of really insightful questions at the end of her talk. Thank you to Helen Sofra at Collins for organising this event.

EBOOKS

There are over 30 new eBooks that have been added during August and students can read them here at school or at home on their devices. There are now over 1100 titles available students are encouraged to download the ePlatform App from Wheelers or read them through the link in Xuno. New Books

We have purchased lots of new books for the shelves here in the library this month and students are busy borrowing them. Below are some cover images.

Faye Andrew and Di Steele

(Library)

Year 9 Outdoor Ed Camp Last Thursday the Year 9 Outdoor Education class ventured up to Mt Buller for a day filled with downhill skiing and snow activities. After an early start we made our way to the top of the mountain and from 10-11:30 all students participated in a lesson about the skills needed to successfully downhill ski. When the lesson finished the students split into groups with some of the stronger skiers tackling the ABOM express and others enjoying the village and fantastic cover of snow. All of the students had a real crack at learning the skills and should be proud of their efforts.

Tatura Junior Cricket Tatura Cricket Club will again be fielding teams for boys & girls of all age groups this summer, the season kicks off in the second week of October, with training starting in the last week of term3, on Wednesday September 20th. The club currently has a small group of junior girls who are very keen to see more girls playing cricket. Girls are able to play 2 years over the normal age limit. IE 16 year old girls can play in the U14 grade if they so desire. The club is also seeking a coordinator or team of coordinators for Milo In2Cricket program, the program runs for just 10 weeks and can be run at a time that suits the coordinators. If anyone is interested please contact Rohan Forster 0427 443400

The Age Groups as of the 1st of September are:

U16 – Played on Saturday Mornings Training Wednesdays at 6pm

Coaches: Simon Russell 0407 366497 & Matt Cornwall 0422 068069

U14 – Played on Saturday Mornings Training Wednesdays at 5pm

Coaches: Daryl Phillingham 0438 659430 & Barry Benjamin 0488 751874

U12 – Played on Friday Evening

Training Wednesdays at 4pm

Coaches: Nathan Saddlier 0438 572 611, Glenn Walker 0409 862396 & Heath Fidock 0418 618 403

U10 – Played Wednesday evening

Contact: Rohan Forster 0427 443400

Milo In2Cricket (5 to 10 year olds) – To be advised

Contact: Rohan Forster 0427 443400

2017 Great Moooving Art Round Up - It’s a Treasure Hunt for Cows!

Explore Greater Shepparton’s Moooving Art herd, track down the answers to the clues and go into the draw

to win an iPad! Entry forms available from Saturday 23 September 2017 and can be collected from the Shepparton Visitor

Centre, 33 Nixon Street Shepparton, onsite at KidsFest or downloaded from the website - http://www.visitshepparton.com.au/moooving-art/2017-great-moooving-art-round-up.