Term 3 - Week 8– 2nd September 2015

Mortlake College Newsletter 10 Hood Ave

Mortlake, Vic, 3272 Ph: 03 5599 2204

Fax: 03 5599 2503 Email: mortlake.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.mortlakep12.vic.edu.au SMS Mobile: 0427 841 239 (Text Only)

Principals Report - Congratula�ons to Lachie Wareham!

Well done to Lachie Wareham on his selec�on in the Under 17 Victorian Country cricket team. The team will be

compe�ng in the Under 17 na�onal championships to be held in Brisbane commencing on September 28. Lachie

has been training and playing in trial matches in Melbourne over recent months and it’s a fantas�c achievement to

be selected in a state representa�ve team. Congratula�ons Lachie and all the best in the championships.

Pupil-Free day: Friday 30th

October

All families are advised that Friday 30th October will be a pupil-free day to enable all staff to undertake professional

development.

Mortlake Kinder visit

On Monday we welcomed the Mortlake kinder children, staff and parents. They joined us for our Monday morn-

ing assembly where the school choir performed and then the children par�cipated in a range of small group ac�vi-

�es. A big thank you to Jane Gough, staff and parents for facilita�ng the visit.

School Choir

On Tuesday the school choir performed for members of the Mortlake community. They sang at the Uni�ng

church, Abbeyfield and the kindergarten. Well done to all members of the choir and thanks to our choir coordina-

tor Kath Tanner for all her work with a very large group of singers.

P-4 Produc�on

I would just like to remind all our families that �ckets for the P-4 Produc�on of ‘The Bunyip of Tea Tree Lake’ are

on sale at the school office. The ma�nee will be held on Tuesday 15 September, commencing at 12:00pm and the

evening performance will be on Wednesday 16 September commencing at 7pm. The performances will be held in

the BER building.

Appropriate use of mobile devices at school

As I’ve men�oned before technology has the capacity to assist students in their school work both at school and at

home. We understand that most secondary age students will bring a mobile phone to school. However there

needs to be a clear understanding that mobile devices must be used responsibly at all �mes. Students are not to

use mobile phones during class �me unless the device is being used as part of the learning and the teacher has

requested that they be used. Students who don’t use the technology responsibly will have their devices confiscat-

ed for the day.

Happy Fathers’ Day!

Best wishes to all our fathers for Sunday! Hope you have a fantas�c Fathers’ Day!

Graeme Good

MORTLAKE COLLEGE BIRTHDAY’SMORTLAKE COLLEGE BIRTHDAY’SMORTLAKE COLLEGE BIRTHDAY’SMORTLAKE COLLEGE BIRTHDAY’S

Happy Birthday to the following students for this week . We hope you have a wonderful day.

September

3rd—Lilly Stapleton 5th—Mary Kain

6th—Will Anders 7th—Amy Hughes

8th—Mia Richie 9th—James Williamson

Family Change of Address/Phone Numbers

It is important that family details are always correct at all times.

If there is a change of address/phone number/emergency contacts, parents need to

contact the school asap to inform of any changes.

Woolworths Earn & Learn Promotion

The Woolworths Earn & Learn promo�on is concluding, so if families s�ll have

any s�ckers, can you please hand them into the general office by Monday 7th

September at the latest.

INSPIRE CHARITY DAY!

In May Inspire held a fundraising day to raise money to support the Taksenkangbloung Commu-nity Centre in Cambodia. We raised over $500.00 and received many items to send to the com-munity Centre from our very generous Mortlake College families. We received the following email of thanks.

Dear Graeme and Mortlake College School Community,

We would like to acknowledge the wonderful donation your whole school community made re-cently to the Taksenkangbloung community centre in Siem reap, Cambodia.

We particularly thank Sue Amos for suggesting and co-ordinating the project also for sharing her interest in our centre and letting you all know about the needs of the children attending the cen-tre.

Thankyou also to the parents club who made the gorgeous bags and to Anthea and Inspire House for collecting donations and money for items.

We will distribute the bags to the children when we go to the centre later this year and you can be assured the presentation will bring much excitement to these children. This will be their first per-sonal possession ever and will be very much appreciated. (Photos will follow!)

Thankyou all for your generosity.

Kind regards, Jenny, Bec and Emma—Taksen community centre

Grand Final Breakfast: WEAR YOUR FOOTY COLOURS

Students have the op�on of wearing their footy colours on Friday 18th

September, there will be breakfast available in the undercover area

from 8:00 – 8:55 , the cost will be: $12:00 per family

$5:00 per secondary student or $4:00 per primary student

If families can donate any of the following please �ck and write quan-

�ty and return form to the General Office.

All dona�ons need to be at school by

Wednesday 16th

.

Thank you

P-4 Team

………………………………………………………………………………………………

Name_________________ no. aJending_____________

Please fill out & return by Friday 11th

September.

eggs plain flour

juice buJer

jam bread

honey fruit

lemons

Years 5-7 Over the last week we have had some very cute animals

brought in for show & tell.

ENDEAVOUR 5-7

What Went Well – Endeavour 5 – 7

Friday 28th August 2015

Tasha – I got a pet lamb called Gummy.

Sarah – We’ve got gymnastics this term.

Ruby – I have 100% attendance

Sophie – Sharks have been doing some netball

training at school for finals.

Ali – It was my birthday on Monday and Mr D gave me a hug.

Alice – We’re going to Hawaii.

Charlotte – I got a Mathletics award

Claire – Our puppies are walking

Amelia – I’m going to bring the ragdoll kittens in on Tuesday!

Will – The new truck is coming from Mount Gambier

George – We’re going to the Northern Territory in 28 days.

Zach – I’ve done my homework.

Thomas – I’m going to the footy today.

Liam – I’m having Tom to stay tonight.

Robert – We made muffins in Home Economics.

Noah – I’m almost finished a Mathletics Gold

level award.

Shayne – I taught a budgie a trick.

Jack – My goats horns are growing

P-4 PLACE

On Monday, we had a visit from the Mortlake Kinder Children. They enjoyed listening

to the choir at assembly. The preps and kinder kids then had fun participating togeth-

er in a variety of activities, such as stamping or sticking stickers on the letters of their

name, jigsaw puzzles and some maths games on the computers. In the library Mrs

Tanner read a story about Edward the emu and we all made an emu mask!

MortlakeCollegeP-4Studentspresent

The Bunyip of The Bunyip of The Bunyip of The Bunyip of

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Matinee: Tuesday15thSeptember12.00pm

Night:Wednesday16thSeptember7.00pm

TICKETSONSALE:

MONDAY24thAugust2015

Adults: $8Students/Children: $2Under5yrs FREE

Three weeks ago, 8 students from Mortlake College went on a koorie excursion to the bioLAB centre in Geelong. First we did a program called skin deep, in this we got a deeper understanding of the function and structure of skin. We also looked at the effect of exercise on body tem-perature and did a couple of experiments to provide evidence. The second program we did is called beat that, in this program we looked at the heart and human circulato-ry system. We used and made graphs to analyse our own body's response to exer-cise. The day was very enjoyable and definitely worth while. I'd like to thank everyone for organising it especially Kerry and a big thanks to Steve who ran the excursion. Olivia Anders.

Mortlake College is now in to the eighth week of (HOL) “Hands on Learning Program” which runs on a Wednesday. The program will run for the remainder of the year. HOL takes eight students out of class one day a week fostering teamwork and leadership. Students and two artisan-teachers share breakfast and lunch and work together to create valuable building structures for the school and com-munity. Some of the specific tasks to date have included repairing stairs in the Western Quadrangle and working with the Parents Association to construct school fete structures. Some students in the program have been pulling apart timber pallets to use for garden sculpture and to have a base of ma-terial on hand.

Students develop critical skills and abilities to succeed in work and life in the 21st Century:

Self-esteem, friendships, and a sense of belonging grow as students become more content at school. Motivation, focus and the ability to set goals increase when they return to class - building the plat-form for improvements in literacy and numeracy. Students have been undertaking instruction on the correct use and handling on a range of both hand and electrical tools. Some of these tools include the carpenters saw, cordless drill and a range of finishing tools.

collaboration

problem solving

communication

resilience

empathy

creativity

SPORT SPOT

PHYSICAL EDUCATION WEEK 7th

– 11th

September

In week 9 of term, a whole week of physical education will be hold through-

out the school for all year levels. This is to encourage those to step up and get

involved. Timetables will be displayed around the school for you to see what

your eligible to play in. sports will include; Newcomb, boot ball, kick in a bin,

basketball, daily quizzes, and a boxing circuit; even a colouring competition.

Some prizes will be awarded at the end of each day for some of the activi-

ties. More information will be provided to class teachers and house mentors

on Friday.

P-12 Sport Dates Term 3

September

7th-11th Physical Educa�on Week

14th 3-4 AFL 9’s

17th MWV 7-9 Basketball

Lunch time sport results after week 7

Lunch �me sport results aMer week 7

Senior Boys Table Tennis

Inspire 6 points

Succeed 4 points

Endeavour 2 points

Junior Boys Netball Overall

Endeavour 6 points Inspire 22 points

Inspire 4 points Endeavour 20 points

Succeed 2 points Succeed 18 points

This week is junior boys basketball and junior girls table tennis. Students must be in a full change of

sports gear to par�cipate.

Actions shots of

lunch time sport.

SPORT SPOT

RUNNING GROUP Yrs 5-8

Running group for Years 5-8 run every Thursday lunch�me.

SHOOTING There is a clay target compe��on for Year 7-9 students in Warrnambool on

Monday 12th

October. See Mr. Jones for further details.

T20 Blast Cricket

Students from Years 7-10 will have the opportunity to try out this term

for our T20 Blast cricket teams for Year 7/8 as well as 9/10 (boys and

girls teams). Try outs for Year 7/8’s will be held this Friday at recess.

GWR ATHLETICS FRIDAY 9th OCOTBER

Training for this Year 7-12 carnival is on every Tuesday

lunch�me. Thanks to those students who have displayed

a commitment so far!

More informa�on will be provided soon.

SPORT SPOT

IN THE NEWS

IN THE NEWS

Congratulation to Mr Boyden who

was named WDFNL Hampden Region

Junior Coach of the Year

Parents and students can connect to School sports Victoria via Facebook and Twitter. Just follow the following links

http://www.facebook.com/SchoolSportVictoria

https://twitter.com/@SchoolSportVic

Nathan Jones—Year 7-12 Sports Coordinator

SPORT SPOT

CONNECT

Informa�on regarding state nomina�ons and other

sports can be found on the School Sport Victoria

website. www.ssv.vic.edu.au

STATE NOMINATION

Masquerade formal

Next Wednesday (9th of Sep-

tember)

All welcome please come along.

5-7 is at 4:30pm-6:30pm

8-12 is at 7:00pm-10:00pm

Security at the door.

All welcome to have a good

night.

Our Grade 2 Kids in the Kitchen students learning how

to make bread, while they leave all the cleaning up to

Mrs Maher

HOME ECO

Students from Mr Bennett’s Home

Eco classes have been cooking up a

storm this week.

Home eco seems to be a very popu-

lar class amongst our students.

Classes cover multiple skill sets, such

as food and nutrition, food skill prep-

aration, innovative food products

and much more .

INGREDIENTS METHOD

Goat Cheese and Prosciutto Crostini

Two Ways

1 bagueJe, cut into 2cm slices

(cros�ni)

1 tbs oil

250 g goats cheese

100 g soMened cream cheese

Pea shoots for garnish

For the beet cros�ni:

4 beets, peeled, trimmed and

diced

2 tsp oil

¼ cup hazelnuts

3 thin slices prosciuJo

For the fig and prosciuJo cros�ni:

½ cup fig jam

3 thin slices prosciuJo

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Place cros�ni on a

baking sheet.

2. Brush tops of cros�ni with oil

3. In a food processor, add goat cheese and cream

cheese. Blend un�l fluffy and smooth. Season with

salt and pepper. Blend un�l combined.

4. For beet cros�ni: Increase oven temperature to

220. Toss diced beets with oil. Sprinkle with salt

and pepper. Roast in the oven un�l tender (about

20 minutes).

5. At the same �me bake prosciuJo un�l crispy,

about 10 minutes. Cool and chop into pieces.

6. Add hazelnuts to small pan over medium heat,

and toast un�l fragrant. Chop.

7. Spread goat cheese on half of the cros�ni, top

with roasted beets, a liJle bit of crispy prosciuJo

and toasted hazelnuts. Garnish with pea shoots.

8. For fig and prosciuJo cros�ni: Spread goat

cheese on half of cros�ni. Spread fig jam on top of

goat cheese. Top with a piece of prosciuJo. Gar-

nish with pea shoots.

VCE FOOD and TECHNOLOGY

FOLIO DISHES

MORTLAKE COLLEGE SCHOOL FORMAL

Classifieds

Mortlake Junior Sharks

Presenta�on Day

Sunday 13th September 10.30am start

Football and Netball Parent v kids matches

BBQ lunch—$20 per family or $5 individual

All families bring a salad or dessert

Camperdown Little Athletics Centre

Family, Fun and Fitness!

LiJle Athle�cs is back again for 2015-16

For all Girls and Boys, 5 to 16 years of age.

Registra�on pack collec�on and

Come and Try Night Friday 9th

Octo-

ber, 4pm.

Compe��on commences Friday 16th

October, 4.20pm

Venue: Aths Track, Fuller/Frederick St (behind

Basketball Stadium)

Please register online at www.lavic.com.au and click on

McDonalds Registra�on logo

(Cost $120 for en�re 15/16 season)

For addi�onal informa�on, contact

Mick Kavenagh (Pres.) 0407353923 or Kathy Hallyburton

(Registrar) 0419671300

MORTLAKE SWIM CLUB

GENERAL MEETING

The MSC will meet on

Thursday 3rd Sep-

tember at the netball

rooms, DC Farren Oval at 4pm to

decide the future of the club. All

interested parties MUST attend.

Thank you, Kate Calvert (Sec), mob:

0407873151

2015 CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER

Fri 4th Federation Uni Year 10 Experience

Tue 8th Biology Excursion

Wed 9th Mortlake College Formal

Mon 14th Yr 3-4 AFL 9’s

Tue 15th P-4 Production Matinee Performance

Tue 15th Yr 8-10 PE Excursion

Wed 16th P-4 Production Evening Performance

Wed 16th-Fri 18th Yr 5-6 Ballarat Camp

Wed 16th-Fri 18th Yr 7 Nelson Camp

Thurs 17th MWC Basketball

Fri 18th Grand Final Breakfast

Fri 18th Last Day of Term 3

OCTOBER Mon 5th First Day Term 3

Wed 7th Year 7 Immunisation

Fri 9th GWR Athletics

Wed 14th Super 8’s Cricket Years 7&8

Fri 16th Mortlake College Fete

Tue 20th State Athletics

Tue 20th Yr8-10 & Yr12 PE Excursion

Fri 23rd P-2 Tea & Sleepover

Wed 28th VCE Exams Commence

Thurs 29th Super 8’s Cricket Year 9&10

Thurs 29th DEAP Excursion—Anthea Good

Fri 30th Pupil Free Day

We hope all Fathers have

a great day on Sunday