Campus Principal Ms Sharon Biggins Assistant Principal Mr Shane Ezard Email: northern.bay.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Northern Bay P12 College, Peacock Avenue P-8 Campus. Visit us www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/peacock/index

TEL: 5245 3900

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Newsletter

Peacock Avenue Campus Newsletter

Principal’s Report

Student Absence Please call the Campus to advise that your child is absent.

Important Dates

Issue #12 21 August 2015

Dear Parents, This week we welcomed a world class performance group to Peacock Campus to share their music and culture with our students in Years 3-8.

The 26 students from multicultural backgrounds are students at St John’s College in Zimbabwe and have been conquering music awards not just in their home country but even as far away as Scotland where they won the Pipe Band Championships. The 2015 Eisteddfod organized by the Zimbabwe National Institute of Allied Arts saw St Johns obtain honours in a number of categories: Best Gospel Choir , Best African Contemporary, Best Traditional Choir and Best Jazz Band. Having gained honours for the previous 5 years, the marimba group missed out in 2015 but will be out to prove that they are pure quality during their Regional Victoria tour. Their performance was magical and had everyone enthralled. We did our best to demonstrate our sense of rhythm by clapping in time with the 26 voices - with mixed success. The marimba players were amazing, clearly showing how much the players loved creating music together. I’m sure you will enjoy the photos and students’ writing included in

this newsletter . To see more and a video go to the college website http://www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/news/hakuna-matata Cybersafety Parents Do you know who your child speaks to online? Cybersafety refers to the way in which people behave safely and responsibly to keep themselves and their friends safe online. Children and young people are no longer passive recipients of information that is available on the internet. They actively produce web content and publish their personal details, creative works and comments on sites such as YouTube and Facebook. Cybersafety issues include, but are not limited to: cyberbullying, digital reputation, sexting, social media use and problematic internet use. Child psychologist, Andrew Fuller, advices the teaching of the ‘nana rule’. Online actions have real life consequences. If you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it online. Use the ‘nana rule’—if you wouldn’t want your nana to know about it, don’t put it on the web! Future employers, friends and partners can and probably will, trace your cyber-trail.

Sharon Biggins

District Athletics

Yr 3-6 Qualifiers

Goldsworthy

Friday 21

August

Prep-Year 2

Bravehearts

Education Program

Tuesday 25

August

PA5 PA8

Collingwood

Children’s Farm

Thursday

27 August

Student Led

Conferences

Thursday 3

September

State School

Spectacular at

Hisense Arena

Saturday 12

September

2015 Geelong FATHER of the YEAR AWARD

Children and teenagers, you are invited to submit in 150 words or less why you think your father (grandfather, uncle or someone who is like a father to you) deserves to be Geelong’s Father of the Year. Why is this person special to you?

How does he help others?

Each student who enters the award receives their entry back along with a certificate to take home in time for Father’s Day.

Entry forms are available at the office.

Prep Enrolments for 2016 are still being taken for Peacock campus. We would like to finalise numbers by the end of

August in order to begin planning for transition sessions and staffing. Please pass this message on to any families you know who have yet to enrol their child for 2016.

Student Led Conferences will be conducted on Thursday 3 September.

All notes requesting conference times should be returned by Tuesday 25 August

In preparation for the conferences students are:

collecting and presenting their learning data

gathering evidence of their learning

considering what they need to learn next

considering what strategies they will utilize

practicing using the language of learning, and

role play running the conference

We encourage everyone to attend at the designated time to celebrate student’s achievement and learning growth.

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Our Communities Update

This week the 6-8 community was privileged to be able to witness a stunning performance of Zimbabwean music from the St John’s School band as a part of their ‘Hakuna Matata’ tour. We were treated to beautiful, rhythmic singing and movement, as well as heart pumping Marimba playing. The students, staff and parents of NBC Peacock were mesmerized and uplifted by this wonderful experience. The young men in the band were charming, friendly and engaging. They have a concert at Costa Hall this coming Saturday night and we highly recommend seeing them in action. “The Zimbabwean St John’s School ‘Hakuna Matata’ tour to Australia visited our school on Tuesday and played some beautiful music. It was very exciting and I enjoyed it very much. I think everyone had a good time!” Nyawarga M “The singing and music group from Zimbabwe visited our school on Tuesday and showed us their talents in singing and performing. They had just arrived in Australia and we were the first school they visited. We were very fortunate to see them!!” Chol J

To St Johns College Thank you for your lovely performers it was so cool because it wasn’t like our music. My favorite part was when you guys played the marimbas.

From Tahlia K

Dear performers from St Johns College in Zimbabwe. Thank you for the brilliant talent and also thanks for coming to Australia and I love the beautiful voices that you guys have. When you guys were playing the instruments I was full of amazement the whole time! And I was clapping my hardest at the end of the performance and that was my favourite performance ever!

Dear performers from ST Johns college in Zimbabwe. Thank you for your brilliant performance at Northern Bay College. I loved how you guys played the marimbas, I also liked how everybody put so much energy into it. You guys were so good for words to describe! My favourite part was when you gave out Hi-Fives and how is it in Zimbabwe sincerely, Aziza. Peacock Campus VIC

To the performers from St Johns college in Zimbabwe, thank you for performing and coming to Australia. I really enjoyed your performance at our school and your voices are amazing. The thing that im-

pressed me the most was the co-ordination with the marimbas, you all stayed on tempo and did

everything on time. That’s why I’ll give you a number 9/10

Sincerely Ethan. G

To the performers from ST Johns College in Zimbabwe.

Thank you for coming to Northern Bay

College Peacock Ave and

performing. I loved everything.

Sincerely, Cooper

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Dear performers from ST Johns in Zimbabwe, Thank you for performing at our school first and doing a fantastic job of performing. I loved your beautiful voices and amazing marimba skills, rhythm and being able to go in sync, with one person starting and everyone else joining in, in time. I especially liked it when you sang in sync and made it sound like one person with an extraordinary loud voice with several different sounds being made at once, but it’s not one person there’s all of you sing the same song making it sound like many. You did such a good job it would be in the top five things in my life and I hope to see more of you. Thank you sincerely, Aidan C

NBC Music/Concert band news As we roll into term three I would like to keep the parents informed of happenings in the Instrumental Music dept. Just last week, the Concert band played in front of hundreds of people at the GPAC in Geelong as part of the Annual Geelong Schools Music/Movement Festival. It was a great success and featured the band which boasted over 30 young musicians. Some students were playing for the first time with the band and were thrilled to be out with the band and performing three songs in public. Our performance season has now begun and the next term brings more performances with the NBC campus tour and the “Music, Count us in” Day. Forms will go out for these in term four with all details. I would like to remind parents that the music students should be doing regular home practice as part of their commitment to music and this is something parents can take an active role in by reminding and encouraging the kids to get their instruments out and heard at home! Practise makes perfect!

Prep-2 Learning Community This week is National Science Week! The theme has been "Making Waves: The Science of Light". In 3-5 and 6-8, we have been ex-

ploring what happens to plants grown under different colours and controlling light with mirrors and lenses. We would especially like to thank our super enthusiastic 3-5 students for coming into the science lab to do some real experiments! Great work! In P-2 we combined light with the theme of 'Where does our food come from?' and made an edible candle, a disappearing glass and some fantastic mess with bicarb and vinegar explosions! All the prep to 2 students were fantastically behaved and very polite, even though they were very loud and excited! On Tuesday the 18th of August all the P-2 students participated in a science demonstration for National Science Week. Mr Bayard, the science teacher from the 6-8 Community came and did the presentation. Here are what some of the children had to say about the experience. Caitlen J “My favourite part was when vinegar and bi-carb soda got mixed and exploded and made a big mess”.

Sienna K “It was really good because there was a cup with oil in it and we didn’t know there were 2 cups because it looked like they were floating!”. Xzavier M “We learnt about what coke cans were the heaviest and lightest by putting them in a tank of water. The red can was the heaviest because it had more sugar in it”. Jack B “ I thought the bubbles from when the vinegar and bi-carb soda exploded would be hot but it wasn’t”.

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PREPPREPPREP———2 LEARNING COMMUNITY2 LEARNING COMMUNITY2 LEARNING COMMUNITY

Ilda D For becoming more independent with her writing by having a try before asking for help.

Krystal P For joining in all classroom activities and trying her best.

Destiny S For excellent counting—well done!

Jordan C For listening attentively to others. You put your had up

Mehdi H For showing great improvement in your reading and spelling. Well done.

Zeinab S For always giving her personal best with her work and writing a fantastic information report on the cow.

Kahn O For excellent attentive listening and concentration while

completing tasks. Well done Kahn.

Bailey S For making an effort to improve his handwriting and trying

6-8 LEARNING COMMUNITY

Luke P For being supportive to all his class mates and his teachers. Well done.

Zak G For doing his best in Maths. Well done Zak.

Alannah H For a positive attitude to her learning and willingness

to give challenging tasks a go.

Kristijan P For his improved effort in term 3. Great attitude and great results, Kristijan.

Tanisha H For doing her personal best. Well done.

Brandon S For outstanding results in his recent reading assess-ment. Great job.

3-5 LEARNING COMMUNITY

Hayden

Brock

For treating each other with mutual respect.

Alex B For working hard to achieve his personal best in all areas

of his work! Well done Alex!

Reihaneh S

For a great improvement in her PAT Maths Test results.

Unesa I For being a positive role model in our classroom. Keep up

the great work Unesa.

Lily S For keeping a good attitude in tough times. Keep up the great work!

Katie J For your dedication to the States School Spectacular and the NBC Band. Well done!

Ryan B For the interest he shows in his school work at home. He and his mum work hard everyday.

SPECIALIST PROGRAM

Kye A For a terrific Volleystars trial and better attitude. Well done!

Teresa I For giving up lunchtimes to take extra keyboard practise and tuition. Your dedication and determination is paying off and your playing skills are improving dramatically. Well done!

Dylan T For his creative collage of a cityscape using tape, colour and design. Great job Dylan.

Community News GEELONG TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION THURSDAYS 6PM—7PM Geelong Table Tennis Centre

84 Church Street, North Geelong Cost $5 /Session Enquiries 0406 300 477

KOORIE NEWS Another great session was held last

week at AIME (RMIT University).

The strength of this program was

evident when a group of our young

men travelled by train to Mel-

bourne with Mr Massari. These

students did not have any classes

this day and were not expected at

school. However they still wanted

to participate in the AIME experience, what deadly students!

Next AIME session is on 3rd September involving all year 9, 10 and 11

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Students.

There is a concert at GPAC

on Sunday and any family

would be thrilled if they

could find time to buy tick-

ets and attend.

Call GPAC or go on line

The last of the Campus opportunities

to have access to the Bunnings BBQ in

North Geelong is Goldsworthy’s

VCAL and VCE strudents. If you are

passing buy say hello—or even better

still have a sausage.

Northern Bay P12 College, Peacock Avenue P-8 Campus. Visit us www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/peacock/index

Northern Bay P12 College, Peacock Avenue P-8 Campus. Visit us www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/peacock/index

Northern Bay P12 College, Peacock Avenue P-8 Campus. Visit us www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/peacock/index

Northern Bay P12 College, Peacock Avenue P-8 Campus. Visit us www.northernbaycollege.vic.edu.au/peacock/index

Northern Bay College was well represented in the U/16 Geelong League Best & Fairest vote count tonight. (18/08/15) Jacob Sammut-Miljevic was Runner-Up in Div 4 (great effort considering North Shore did not win many games) and Titit Nyak (North Geelong) Winning the B&F in Div 3. Great Sports the both of them.

Congratulations for effort

outside of school activities