Dubbo College South Campus “A Successful, Innovave and Caring Educaon for your Child” Find us at: Boundary Road DUBBO 2830 T: (02) 6882 3744 F: (02) 6882 3213 E: [email protected]Term 2 20 May 2016 Caring and supportive teachers specialising in middle schooling In Term 1, our year 10 texle students were required to design and create a series of Fancy Snail Mail using a range of different Texle Fabric manipulaon tech- niques. Students had a prerequisite that they had to include 3 surface decoraon techniques that were learnt over the term on each of their postcards. Students were all very enthusiasc and engaged in this assessment task and have completed some high quality products. Term 2 will see the students focusing on their own line of fash- ion. They have begun learning to sketch fashion figures and will soon be learning to add clothing to them and also rendering techniques to make them more realisc. Each student will then design their own fashion line and construct one piece of clothing.
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Dubbo College South Campus “A Successful, Innovative and Caring Education for your Child”
Caring and supportive teachers specialising in middle schooling
In Term 1, our year 10 textile students were required to design and create a series of Fancy Snail Mail using a range of different Textile Fabric manipulation tech-niques. Students had a prerequisite that they had to include 3 surface decoration techniques that were learnt over the term on each of their postcards. Students were all very enthusiastic and engaged in this assessment task and have completed some high quality products. Term 2 will see the students focusing on their own line of fash-ion. They have begun learning to sketch fashion figures and will soon be learning to add clothing to them and also rendering techniques to make them more realistic. Each student will then design their own fashion line and construct one piece of clothing.
Term 2 20 May 2016
Successful learning in dynamic, well managed classrooms
As you are aware there are insufficient uniforms at the College Uniform Shop. South Campus has organ-ised with LOWES to stock the green winter top, all sizes will be available.
We are happy to hear from any parent who would like support from the school.
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This newsletter has provided information about a wonderful range of student programs, activities and successes. These op-portunities have provided students with experience in the fol-lowing areas.
Textiles: Mrs Sharkey’s Year 10 class has received wide acclaim for the quality of their design and create series. The quality of work is displayed on the front cover of this week’s newsletter. French: Mrs Austin’s Year 8 class has introduced a French pen pal program with students from Collège Lucien Gachon. The first batch of letters arrived this past week and students are endeav-ouring to respond in French to their new friends in Cunlhat,
Agriculture: Ms Mrowka’s Show Team continues to provide sig-nificant opportunity for the amazing students in her program. They freely give up many hours to help feed, groom, prepare and train animals for parade. The continued involvement of parents and community members is of significant benefit to the school and Ms Mrowoka has asked me to acknowledge Allison Martin and Denis Gray. The new Show Team Uniform was also on dis-play for the first time and they were a real standout. Congratu-lations to the students and staff for their continued success.
Contarf: Our boys have continued to visit and support Dubbo Central Public School. The boys display the positive behaviours that are expected of all our students. Homework Centre: The students are being offered the oppor-tunity to have teacher and Clontarf staff supporting students every Tuesday afternoon 3.30pm to 4.30pm.
Science: The range of student activities is highlighted and the images of cells (page 10) are indeed an innovative way of providing engaging learning.
Food Technology: Mrs Wood invited Mrs Wake and Mr Ah See to demonstrate the blow of emu eggs which were then the main ingredient of the quiches that followed. Some students pre-ferred the emu egg when judged against the common chicken egg.
Uniform: As previously announced, Dubbo College will NOT be introducing a new uniform for 2017. To allow families to pur-chase student winter tops, LOWES have stocked green tops for our students. The green tops do not have the badge, but that is not a concern. They are available for $29.95. Black track suit
pants are $19.99. Please take note of the form which is to be completed and retuned to the school if you would like support with uniform. We urge any parents or carers to take the oppor-tunity to have the uniform provided by the school.
Year 10 Jerseys: These specific Year 10 tops are not far away and until then the students are expected to wear the school green tops or a plain black, green or red sloppy joe.
Examination: Year 7 to 10 examinations begin this week and most will be held in the school’s assembly hall. The students have been briefed as to the expected behaviours and staff ex-pect some very pleasing result this term.
It’s been a busy start to the term for the English faculty with NAPLAN Literacy examinations taking place for year 7 and year 9 on the 10th and 11th of May. The literacy levels of these stu-dents were assessed across three areas; language conventions, writing and reading. Teachers and classes worked very hard ex-amining and completing practice tests in the weeks leading up to NAPLAN. Both year groups are to be congratulated for their excellent behaviour and conduct during the examination pro-cess. We look forward to receiving feedback on student perfor-mance soon.
English classes have been critically delving into a variety of different texts representative of the breadth of the Australian Curriculum. Year 7 are investigating persuasive writing and how to compose an effective written argument for a letter to the editor. Year 8 are also learning how to be persuasive and will have the chance to convince their teacher of their point of view within a viva voce during weeks 5 and 6. Year 9 are currently reading the enlightening and inspirational memoir “The Happi-est Refugee” by Australian comic Anh Do with the aim of analys-ing how Do has represented his experience within a critical es-say. Year 10 are also composing essays as part of their assess-ment preparation and are examining the representation of the charity organisation UNICEF within the documentary “Cold Chain Mission.” All assessment tasks can be found within your child’s assessment booklet. If you have any questions involving the task or seek clarification in any way please contact the school and speak to your child’s English teacher.
Certain students in year 7 have been trialling the interactive online Literacy program “Wordflyers”. This program allows stu-dents to collect points by completing comprehension, grammar, punctuation and writing activities based on a variety of text types. These points allow students to engage in interactive “travel” around the world. This program has been particularly useful for NAPLAN preparation. Students appear to enjoy the program and we are looking forward to analysing the data at the end of the trial period to see whether or not it would have merit across the year groups within the English curriculum.
Class teachers are currently distributing permission notes for
the International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS). Students have the opportunity to sit examinations in English, Science and Mathematics. The official sitting date for the English examination is the 2nd of August. The cost per child is $8.80 and can be made to the top office.
Miss Friend and Mrs McLachlan are currently advertising for any student teams interested in participating in the popular “Book in a Day” competition. Teams work together to write and illus-trate a book in one day! This massive task is rewarded by the knowledge that the book will be used to brighten the day of sick kids in hospitals around NSW. Students are urged to form teams and see Mrs McLachlan or Miss Friend for more information.
At time of printing, both the year 7 and 8 and the 9 and 10 De-bating teams are preparing for debates against Trangie and Dunedoo. The teams consist of hard working, experienced and strong speakers so Debating Coordinators Dr Anderson and Miss Ward are looking forward to the season. More information next newsletter!
Ms L Ward HT English
ENGLISH FACULTY NEWS
Outstanding range of opportunities for individual success
Unique, innovative middle years programs within a wide and diverse curriculum
HOH Dubbo Show Update. Thank you to all who stopped by to meet our new life size healthy ears puppets or donated in some way to us as the feature charity.
Our volunteer Audiologist flew in from Melbourne provided 109 ear health checks which resulted in more than 30 children to be referred on for further treatment.
HoH is making a difference in our community. As we are funded purely by donations and volunteers we are needing your help to continue this free service. Please consider joining our charity. Contact us at www.hearourheart.org or Facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/hearourheartproject2012
Term 2 20 May 2016
Positive Levels These are currently being developed for implementation.
Level 0: Green All students start on green level
Level 1: Yellow
(10 Days)
Following classroom interventions and contact with parents students may be moved on to Yellow Lev-
el. (Yellow classroom monitoring sheet completed by classroom teacher).
Completed each lesson for that particular class.
Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory lessons recorded.
3 Unsatisfactory lessons will see student moved to Orange Level.
Level 2: Orange
(10 Days)
Intensive monitoring by Head Teachers (Orange Monitoring Booklet issued).
Student behaviour monitored every lesson.
Unsatisfactory or satisfactory lessons are recorded daily.
3 Unsatisfactory lessons will see student moved to Red Level.
Student is not to attend non educational excursions.
Level 3: Red (5
Days)
Intensive monitoring by Deputy Principals. (Red Monitoring Booklet issued)
Formal Caution issued to student and parents.
Student behaviour monitored every lesson.
3 Unsatisfactory may lead to further sanctions.
Student is not to attend non educational excursions.
Below is a brief summary of the levels system.
Positive Levels System
If you require further more detailed information please do not hesitate to contact the school to discuss the specific details of the system.
Outstanding range of opportunities for individual success
Term 2 20 May 2016
Rugby League U 14’s Buckley Shield
The U14’s Rugby League Team played Wellington on the 4
May in the 2
nd round of Buckley Shield. The game was
always going to be a tough game being a Wellington home game. South started off strong, scoring two tries in the first half. Connor Watts scored first, followed by Cooper Whackett who scored from dummy half. At half time it was 12-8 our way. In the second half, Wellington gained strength and went on to defeat Dubbo College South Cam-pus 42-12. Player of the match was Macauley Ryan be-cause he pulled off some great tackles on boys three times his weight and never gave up. U 16’s Tom Kemp Shield The U16's Rugby League Team took on Kandos in the se-conds round elimination game of the Tom Kemp Shield. Missing a large number of players due to the Greater Western Trials being held on the same day, South Campus was forced to play a large number of young and inexperi-enced players. The more experienced players led by ex-ample in defence with Todd Deveigne and Ben Carolan making some crunching tackles on the much bigger Kan-dos Team. With the ball in hand for most of the game, the speed from Wallace Bruce and Rhys Martens in the back line led to 6 tries, all converted by Alex Randall. South Campus were the winners 38 - 22 and progress to the next round versing Orange. Mr Smith (Coach)
Soccer- Bill Turner Competition Dubbo College South Campus U 15’s soccer girls and boys travelled to Cowra to compete against St Raphael’s Catholic School in the second round of the Bill Turner Competition. The girls worked together as a team to move the ball around the park and capitalise on the gaps left by a depleted 9 player St Raphael’s team. Brianna Trappett and Alex Couley scored amazing long shot goals, Jorja Fuller picked up a hat-trick and Ebony Furner, Kate Duffy, Mackenzie Schulz and Matilda Irvine all got on the score-board resulting in an overall 11-nil win at St Raphael’s. The boys started off strong scoring many goals to take them into the second half ahead, by 8 goals. Ethan Hyde scored a hat trick, Hamish Grant and Jessie Spang scored two goals, and Ryan Simpson, Ethan Willetts and Connor Dwarte all found the back of the net to take their team to an 11-nil victory over St Raphael’s.
Both teams will now travel to Forbes to take on Red Bend College in the third round of the Bill Turner Competition.
What’s coming up In Sport?
Week 4 Athletics Carnival- 20/5/16
Week 5 Girls Rugby 7’s, Dubbo - 25/5/16 Yr 9/10 All Schools Touch State Final, Penrith- 26/5/16
Week 7 College Cross Country- 7/6/16
Week 8 Western Cross Country- 15/6/16 Yr 7/8 All Schools Touch- 16/6/16
Term 2 Sport
Creating mature and responsible citizens
Term 2 20 May 2016
French Connection Letters from France Year 8 French students were excited to receive handwritten letters from their new French pen friends last week. 8LOT1 re-ceived a parcel containing 20 letters from students studying English at the Collège Lucien Gachon, Cunlhat, a small rural school in the centre of France.
Mrs Austin, French teacher at South Campus, organised the exchange with the help of her French pen friend from high school and the English teacher at the French school, Madame Valerie Basset.
From photos sent by Madame Basset, the students enjoyed discovering exactly where the school was located and what differences they could identify between their schools and class-rooms.
The students are currently preparing their replies in French to the English letters. The cultural exchange will help broaden stu-dents' perspectives whilst giving them the opportunity to devel-op their letter writing skills and their written French.
Nisarg Amin was the first student to open his letter.
School community engaged in lifelong learning
Term 2 20 May 2016
Dubbo Show: On the 23 April eighteen students, three teachers and a handful of parents set up the sheep pavilion of the Dubbo Showground. The students work ethic and motivation to do an excellent job was outstanding. The chief steward of the sheep section com-mended the students on their efforts. Thank you to all parents who attended.
We had twenty four students attending Dubbo Show with four head of cattle. The students have been preparing the steers for a number of weeks leading up to the show. On the Friday of the show ten students were entered into a junior competition. This entailed them parading an animal and then later in the day jun-ior judging classes of animals. South Campus handling skills have improved vastly and were very competitive with more experi-enced handlers. In the junior judging Victoria Prince and Kevin Martin made the final to speak on a class of Fleckvieh Heifers. Victoria placed fifth and Kevin placed sixth overall in their age group.
Saturday of the show encompassed terrible weather but all stu-dents showed up in high spirit. The lead steer competition start-ed and finished in the rain. Jack Knaggs, Cyle Wood, Kevin Mar-tin and Kate Tucker handled our 4 animals in the class with Jack Knaggs’ steer making the final and placing in the line up.
We would like to thank Allison Martin for her involvement and skills over the two days and enriching our cattle showing vastly and Mouse for driving the bus!
Coonamble Show: Twenty students and four steers left on Tuesday afternoon and camped at Coonamble showground to prepare and exhibit their steers on Wednesday morning. We exhibited two animals in the domestic steer (300-400kg) and two in the export steer (400+kg) classes. In the domestic steer class we placed fourth and fifth whilst in the export steer class we came up against some heavily muscled steers and placed sixth.
Next students paraded animals in a junior handling class. Kate Tucker made the final of the over 15 years and came away with a swag of prizes. In the under 15 years group it was highly com-petitive. Nickeya Owers, Jack Knaggs, Marcus Morley and Sam Bass all made the final of their age group. Sam made the line-up and placed fourth overall. Massive congratulations to all stu-dents who made finals.
Later in the day all students competed in a junior judging compe-tition. They were asked to judge Merino Sheep, Border Leicester Sheep, Grain, Wool Fleece and Domestic Steers. All competitors were thoroughly involved and learnt a lot over the several hours. A special mention to Kate Tucker who came away with a huge amount of awards and prizes in her age group. Students in the younger age group won a various array of prizes and the win-nings were shared over the entire team.
Thank you to Allison Martin and Denis Gray again for their in-volvement.
Ms Mrowka TEAM COACH
AGRICULTURE
Term 2 6 May 2016
Caring and supportive teachers specialising in middle schooling
Term 2 6 May 2016
clontarf foundation
A group of Dubbo South Academy students and staff were on hand to assist the Central Public School with their sports activi-ties last week.
Last Wednesday afternoon 17 students from the Clontarf Acad-emy participated in a game of Bubble Soccer.
Reminder - Training is each Tuesday and Thursday
at 7 am at South Dubbo Oval
Let us know if you require a pick up.
Week 4
Monday afternoon activity – check the board in the room.
Tuesday Morning Training
Afternoon – The Homework Centre 3.30 – 4.30pm (Homework centre now worth $50.00 Clontarf Dollars.)
Wednesday – Afternoon Activity
Thursday –Training
Friday – Lunch for trainers.
Successful learning in dynamic, well managed classrooms
EXAMS NEXT WEEK Parents/carers of students who are eligible for disability provisions are responsible for providing evidence to the school.
The evidence eg. paediatrician report, must be current (within 12 months).
If you have any concerns, please contact the Learning and Support Team to discuss.
Term 2 6 May 2016
What's been happening in the Science Labs?
Year 7 have been learning the proper use of micro-
scopes by looking at onion skin slides and other slides of
the human body.
Year 8 studying ecology has seen students testing soil
in the school yard and planting seeds.
Year 9 are testing sound waves with oscilloscopes and
tuning forks.
Year 10 Laws of motion , how fast can you run? Find-
ing out speed from distance overtime.
Outstanding range of opportunities for individual success
Term 2 6 May 2016
This term in Year 9 Elective Food Technology we are studying bush tucker. As a part of this unit I sourced Emu eggs locally and asked the Aboriginal Educa-tion Officer, Mr Rod Ah See and HSIE teacher Virginia Wake to demonstrate to our year 9 clas-ses how to blow them out. Both classes were very interested and engaged in the process, they then made mini quiche from the egg, which all students enjoyed and some preferred over chick-en egg. We sourced kangaroo mince from DMC and made kan-garoo sausage rolls. Throughout the term we will be using a range of bush herbs and spices including lemon myrtle and bush tomato spice. Later in the term as we look towards multi-cultural foods Miss Hemvititum will demonstrate how to make a yellow curry paste from scratch.
Unique, innovative middle years programs within a wide and diverse curriculum
Term 2 6 May 2016
Education
The program places a dedicated coordinator into school with the aim of keeping students in school and improving their en-gagement with the school process. Students pledge to engage with the program. Early detection and one-on-one intervention is proved to have tangible effects for entire communities. Coor-dinators work with students, families, teachers, services and business to find the best way forward for disaffected students. Participation in the program also confers students a level of protection form antisocial and criminal activity. Example: A dis-affected angry and violent young man wanted to leave school early in Year 10. After intervention he completed Year 12, won a cadetship with an engineering company and is now a successful engineer. He is now a happy and contributing member of socie-ty.
Health
Another aspect of the program is the focus on student health and wellbeing. Students cannot learn and progress if they are unwell physically, mentally, or emotionally The coordinators work beyond the school gate to engage families and external services when problems are apparent. Students welcome the opportunity to discuss health, safety and welfare issues with an independent adult, especially when they take an interest, demonstrate they care and find ways to help.
Closing the Gap “For every year an Aboriginal child spends engaged in second-ary school … they increase their life expectancy by 2 years … and they increase the life expectancy of their own children by 4 years” . Therefore if we can keep kids engaged in education through to Year 12 - we close the 17 year mortality and morbid-ity gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in one generation. It closes the gap between rural and urban health differentials as well.
Employment If a student cannot be kept in school they are assisted to find employment and/or tertiary training. Consider the alterna-tives… The costs to support one unemployed person from 15 to 55 years of age on just 4 differentials is :- 1) Welfare - $4 million 2) Health - (chronic physical) - $3 to $7 million 3) Health (mental health & wellbeing) - $5 million 4) Justice system - $5 to 7.5 million.
This doesn’t take into consideration the lack of contribution, the personal misery and a growing family.
The costs may well be double this. Given we are on the brink of a shrinking workforce and an expanding retiree population— can we afford anyone not to work?
The Dubbo Business Partnership Consists of local business peo-ple who have a desire to enrich their community through ensur-ing employment opportunities are available for our youth. If you have a passion for our community and would like to be in-volved contact us and become part of the Partnership.
Our kids are valuable ! We cannot afford for them to languish in the misery of unemploy-able futures.
Our Program provides ... the “significant
adult” for many kids … who:
Troubleshoot barriers to school success - welfare, health, resources, motivation, accommodation, social/relationship problems, family etc
Address early school attrition & poor attendance
Help kids become positioned to learn to enjoy learning
Encourage and assist kids into life-long employment
Work with business to provide opportunities to experi-ence the world of work
Work with families with parenting, behaviour & socialisa-tion difficulties
Work with teachers to improve educational outcomes.
Work with services to fill the gaps enabling positive out-comes.
Funding Agencies: 2005 & 2006
Rowan Nicks Russell Drysdale Fellowship, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Sydney.
2007—2009
Department of Families and Community Services and Indige-
nous Affairs
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace relations
Ensuring our kids become healthy, wealthy and wise
School community engaged in lifelong learning
Term 2 6 May 2016
DUBBO
COLLEGE
SOUTH
CAMPUS
Principal:
Mr R Gorrie
Deputy Principal:
Mrs D Baker
Deputy Principal:
Mrs J Thompson
Head Teachers:
Mrs T Finlay
Administration
Ms L Ward
English
Mrs S Yaghjian
Science
Mrs B Livingston
CAPA
Mr J Austin
HSIE
Mr D Stuart
TAS
Mr C Pettit
PDHPE
Mrs R Smyth
Mathematics
Mrs H Jones
Special Education
Mr P Maher
Teaching and Learning
Mrs A Den
HT Wellbeing
Girls Advisor:
Mrs C Brown
Year Advisors:
Year 7
Mrs T Finlay
Mr T Long
Year 8
Miss H Friend
Mr M Smith
Year 9
Mrs W McLachlan
Mr B Madigan
Year 10
Mrs M Sharkey
Mr S Sampson
The P & C Associa-
tion meets in the
Library at 7.30pm
on the second Mon-
day of the month.
DUBBO COLLEGE SOUTH CAMPUS CALENDAR Term 2
Wk 2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5 MAY
23
EXAMINATION
WEEK
24 25 26
27
6
MAY
JUN
30
EXAMINATION
WEEK
31
1
2
AECG Meeting
- Yarradamarra
3
7 JUN
6 7
CROSS COUNTRY (Pds 3 & 4)
8
Speech & Drama - Dubbo Eisteddfod
9
Speech & Drama - Dubbo Eisteddfod
10
8
JUN
13
QUEEN’S
BIRTHDAY
14
15
ASTLEY CUP
ASSEMBLY
16
17
9 JUN
20
VACCINATION
CLINIC
21 22
6-7 Parent BBQ
23
Astley Cup
vs Orange in
Dubbo
24
Astley Cup
vs Orange
In Dubbo
10
JUN
JUL
27
28 29
Astley Cup
vs Bathurst
in Bathurst
Moran
Photographic Workshop
30
Astley Cup
vs Bathurst
in Bathurst
1
SEMMESTER 1
Presentation
Ceremony
Trivia Night is being held at the RSL Auditorium on Friday the 3
June at 6.30pm to raise money for selected Senior Campus students to travel overseas. Team Zircon (Sharik Burgess, Shivkrit Ram, Lucas Blatt-man, Bryce Cronin, and Chayan Debnath) to represent Australia in the 4 x 4 competition in London and Natalie McMahon to attend a Science Camp in Singapore. Bring along your teams of 8 and gold coins for activities. Entry is $5.00 per person with lots of prizes to be won, so come and show your support.
For more information, see the Team Zircon Facebook page and the event on Facebook.
Caring and supportive teachers specialising in middle schooling
