Term 2 - Week 3– 29th April 2015 Mortlake College Newsletter 10 Hood Ave Mortlake, Vic, 3272 Ph: 03 5599 2204 Fax: 03 5599 2503 Email: [email protected]Website: www.mortlakep12.vic.edu.au SMS Mobile: 0427 841 239 (Text Only) Principals Report - Anzac Day commemoraons Last Friday’s Anzac assembly was a very special occasion for all at Mortlake College. Our school captains, Brooke El- dridge and Tristan Webster-Bamford welcomed members of the Mortlake RSL branch and President, Merv Hampson spoke about the importance of the occasion and how the acons of those who have fought have helped make Austral- ia the country it is today. We were also very fortunate that the Federal member for Wannon, Dan Tehan, was able to join us at the assembly and he also spoke about the legacy of the Anzacs. Mr Tehan presented Brooke and Tristan with a ‘Message from the Prime Minister’ which is included in this newsleer. The message is now on the wall in the school foyer for all to see. On Anzac Day it was wonderful to see so many Mortlake College students proudly represenng their school in the Mortlake march. It was very fing that we had over one hundred students marching on the centenary of the Gallipoli landings. Our school captains, Brooke and Tristan, had the privilege of placing a cross in the ground to mark Mortlake’s first and last known casuales from the Gallipoli campaign. Shona McGuigan had the honour of addressing the large crowd and reflecng on her family’s involvement in the services. Thank you to all the students who aended and also the parents who ensured that their children were able to parcipate in such an important occasion. Educaon Week celebraons As menoned last week, Educaon Week is being celebrated in the week May 18-22. The highlight of the week will be a special assembly on Wednesday 20 May commencing at 9:10am in the BER. At this assembly Charmarelle McCarroll, our 2014 Dux, will be presented with her McPherson Smith Rural Foundaon scholarship. Presentaons will also be made to rering school council members, Kate McGavin and Ross Quail and the cast of CATS will perform as will the school choir. The assembly is expected to conclude at approximately 10am and will be followed by open classrooms and morning tea at recess. Other acvies will be conducted throughout the week and informaon will follow in the coming weeks. Mid-West Complex Athlecs sports Congratulaons to all those who competed in the MWC Athlecs sports held on Tuesday. It was great to see our ath- letes compeng so well and challenging strongly for both the overall and handicap shields. NAPLAN tesng: May 12-14 This year’s NAPLAN tesng program is only a fortnight away so it is opportune to refer to the following details that are provided by the VCAA, parcularly for parents of Year 3 students who may not have been involved with NAPLAN be- fore. “The Naonal Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It has been an annual event for schools since 2008.
on the day of the absence or days prior to the absence.
If no contact has been made to the school, a text message will be sent to the
parent/guardian asking for an explana�on for any absences.
If an explana+on has not been received by the school, a le/er indica+ng the unex-
plained absence will be sent home that needs to be signed and returned ASAP.
It is a department direc+ve that we have an explana+on for all absences from school.
We ask for your co-opera+on with this ma/er.
Any student arriving a8er 8.55am will need to come to the office to get a late pass
which they then hand on to their teacher. If they do not get a late pass from the
office, it is presumed that they are not at school and will therefore be marked ab-
sent for the day.
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Dear Parents and Students.
The response to the ‘LionKing’ trip has been overwhelming and we now
have a full coach going. We have, however, run into a dif�iculty. When we
went to book the extra tickets, there were not enough on that day. The
only real option we had was to move the date, and although it is very
close to our own production of ‘Cats’, we had little choice.
The newdate is now WednesdayJune17th.
All other details will be the same. We’ll send out �inal arrangements and student permission forms before
the excursion to complete the process.
If you have any problems with this date, please let us know as we do have a waiting list for tickets.
Yours Sincerely,
Lyle Russell Lyle Russell Lyle Russell Lyle Russell ———— PerformingArtsCoordinator
New Procedure for Mortlake College Bus Passes
Mortlake College was required by the Department of Education to complete a review of policy & process regarding bus travel. In order to be compliant with Public Transport Victoria’s requirements for school bus travel a number of changes have had to be made.
The most significant change affecting our travellers concerns students wanting to travel on a bus that they normally don’t travel on.
The new process for students wanting to travel on a bus they normally don’t travel on will commence on 1st May 2015 and is outlined below.
Parents/guardians must contact the school not later than one school day prior to request the travel. If seating is available, a bus pass will be sent home with the child. The bus pass must be signed and dated by a parent/guardian, returned to the school office on the morning of the travel arrangement.
Please note that bus passes may be requested in the week prior to the travel but cannot be approved if made on the day the travel is requested.
It is important to keep in mind that we cannot always guarantee a pass as it is dependent on the seating capacity of each bus.
If you have any concerns at all about this change please contact the school.
Mortlake College Uniform ShopMortlake College Uniform ShopMortlake College Uniform ShopMortlake College Uniform Shop
OpenOpenOpenOpen
Tuesday Afternoons 1pm – 4pm
Thursday mornings 8.30am –12Noon Or
You are welcome to fill out a uniform order form, attach payment and return to General Office where orders will be filled and handed to students.
Dear Parents
The office hours set out below for the uniform shop give parents the opportunity to
come in during the allocated +mes.
Please understand these +mes need to be adhered to because at other +mes office
staff are unable to leave the office to a/end to uniform du+es.
Regards
Dot Jenkins—Business Manager Mortlake College
Dates for Mortlake College Parent Association meetings for the year on Friday morn-ing at the school in the BER
- FETE sub-committee meetings also held throughout.
Term 2 1st May 5th June
Term 3 31st July 4th September
Term 4 9th October 20th November
11th December ( dinner meeting)
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All orders to be returned with payment to the General Office by 15th May 2015
P - 4 PLACE
Jump Rope for Heart Dear Parents,
All children in Years Prep – 4 will be participating in Jump Rope for Heart for the rest of this term as part of our House Groups fitness program. This will mostly be lead by our Junior House Captains and supported and supervised by the P-4 teachers.
Our emphasis will be on participation, skill acquisition and having fun. There will be a ‘Jump Off’ on the last Thursday of term, June 25th, in period one.
The Heart Foundation have provided 50 new skipping ropes, a DVD of skills and a CD of suitable skipping music. This package is worth in excess of $200 and in return they ask that each child seeks some sponsorship, even if it’s only $5 each, to be donated to the Heart Foundation.
There are some lovely prizes to be awarded for children who raise $30 or more. You can also go online for bonus prizes.
Please encourage your child to participate and support this very worthy cause.
All sponsorship forms and money needs to be returned to school by Monday 22nd June.
With thanks,
The P-4 Team
"This term P-4 are doing Jump Rope. Jump Rope is where you get to learn to skip with skipping ropes and learn new ways to skip. At the end of the term we will be showing what we have learnt in our class to everyone who can come to watch us".
Damien Goddard & Ruby McDowall
Mothers’ Day StallMothers’ Day StallMothers’ Day StallMothers’ Day Stall
The Years 3 and 4 students will once again hold their Mothers’ Day Stall on Friday 8th May in room 21. The P-4 classes will be taken to the stall during their class time by their teachers to purchase gifts for their mothers and/or grandmothers/carers. All students P-4 are contributing hand-made or wrapped items for the stall. Gifts will range from 50 cents to $5 and there will be plenty for all to buy. Please support the stall by allowing your child to bring some pocket money, in a named envelope, on the day.
**URGENTLY Needed!**
Small, clean jars with lids (mustard jars or similar) for our Mother’s Day stall. Please send them to Mrs Storr’s room ASAP.
P - 4 PLACE
Homework Years 3 & 4
The homework format has changed for this term in Years 3/4. We are trialing something a bit
different that is hopefully going to engage students a bit more. It involves some of the day to
day activities from school as well as incorporating some practical activities within their home
environment. The students get to choose four activities per week which need to be signed by
an adult as proof that it has been completed. The homework sheets will change each fortnight
and it is important that they still read each night and write this into their reading journals in
their homework books. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
NAPLAN
This year NAPLAN Testing for all Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students will be held on Tuesday 12th, Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th May during the morning. If you have any concerns about the testing, please talk to your child’s grade teacher ASAP.
Year 3 students are currently completing a few practise tests to get them used to the conditions of the test, i.e. sitting in one place and not talking for an hour. This is a skill some of them do not yet have! All Year 3 students, unless exempt, are expected to participate in these tests. Please
Bike Ed.
Our annual Bike Ed program for Years 3 and 4 students will be held during the week 11th – 15th May. If you have any queries, please contact Mrs Storr or Mr Vangeninden
A couple of weeks ago, 11 of the year 5/6 students were lucky enough to go to the Somers
Camp for 9 days. The Somers Camp has 160 kids from all over the south west and we only
get the opportunity to go every 2nd
year.
Somers camp is at the end of the Mornington Peninsula so its about a 4 hour bus trip from
here. On our bus we had kids from Derrinallum and Camperdown and Koroit and Warrnam-
bool.
The camp is right next to the sea so we got to go for beach walks as part of our environmen-
tal studies and we also did some boa+ng in the inlet beside the beach.
One of the goals of the camp is to overcome personal fears so they have a giant swing, a
high ropes course and an abseiling wall that gave everyone a chance to feel a bit scared but
also proud of themselves for ge2ng through it.
Another great part of the camp was the environmental centre were they have lots of birds
and fish and guinea pigs that you can look aLer.
At night +me we had ac+vi+es like a disco, bush dancing, campfire and concerts.
We slept in big huts with 20 kids in
each group so it was a bit hard to
get to sleep some nights.
Being on duty group was great be-
cause even though you had to
clean up it meant you got bacon
and eggs for breakfast.
Somers Camp was an awesome ex-
perience and I would highly recom-
mend it to the next lot of year 5/6s
who get a chance in 2017.
Taine De Manser
On April 14th, 11 kids from Mortlake College went to Somers camp.
It was about a 4 hour drive on a bus with about 4 other schools. There were 4 buses going to this camp. A,B,C & D. We were on bus C. Our bus was the first to arrive at Somers and we got free time on the asphalt. There was a giant climbing rock, which everyone loved. Around an hour later the other buses started to arrive.
We went into the cinema where we have meetings and sing every morning and got split into our huts. We got a tour of the campus then went and got our bags to get settled in. That night we had roast lamb, potatoes, vegetables and gravy, YUM (except for the veggies) then we had diary writing time, after that we had new games, we found out each others names in a group and played some games.
Our wake up time was 7:00 AM, we had shower time and then at 7:30 duty group would go and get breakfast ready and at around 7:55 AM the rest of us went to breakfast, there was two dining rooms. We were then sent back our huts to get our books for morning activities. Our choices were..... Mini Golf, Bouldering, Archery, library, animal feeding, or table tennis. The most popular was probably Animal feeding because you get to cuddle the guinea pigs, feed the goats or go into the Bird Avery.
Then we go to the cinema to sing songs and write the weather in our books, we also have hut in-spections everyday and we write our points in at assembly as well. After that we go to our first session, we then have a 15 minute break, then we go to our next session, after that duty people go to do lunch and we have free time for half an hour.
We have our last lesson then have shower time, duty group goes to get dinner ready at 5:00, at 5:25 we have dinner then the canteen opens and also some activities, then at 6:20 we have diary time and then we have evening activities. These included ; New Games, night hike, bush dance, concert, tabloid sports, disco, concert, & campfire.... These are in order from day 1.
We have different lessons including, boating, environmental studies, drama, high ropes course, rock climbing, low ropes course, group activities, archery, biking, orienteering, bush cooking, flying fox, challenge swing, library, art and scrap booking. YES we had homework to complete and hand in..... In environmental studies we learnt about Marine life, birds, the Coolart homestead and much more, we learnt to care for guinea pigs and had our own favourite one to look after.
Orienteering was fun because we got to choose our own partners, we got a map and went to look for our words, letters or stamps. Biking was a lot of people's highlight! We got put with a bike and get a helmet and then went outside to work on stoping starting our power start and more, then we went on a BMX track. I know that it's safe to say we all enjoyed Somers.
Each week students complete ac+vi+es on Mathle+cs to
prac+se the ideas and concepts that they are working with
in class. Each ques+on answered correctly earns points to-
wards the weekly total. 1000 points in a week = 1 bronze
cer+ficate. Students can only earn one cer+ficate each week. Once they have collected
five bronze cer+ficates, they receive a silver award. A gold cer+ficate is earned when
they have collected four silver cer+ficates. This means that a gold award is the equiva-
lent of 20 bronze level awards or the result of 20 weeks worth of work.
The following students this week received their Mathle+cs gold award medallions for
their effort and work through the first term.
Zoee Boyden
Oliver Mar+n
Ruby Schuuring
Ma+lda Hetherington
Ali McKenzie
Charlie Calvert
Congratula+ons guys what a great effort. So far this year students at Mortlake College
have achieved more than 250 bronze awards across the school which represents a fan-
tas+c level of involvement.
5-7 NEWS
VCE DRAMA
YOU'RE INVITED
As one of our major assessment tasks for Unit 3 Drama, the six of us thespi-
ans from Mortlake College's Drama class, including Cooper Lower, Jake
Tanner, Lillian Cummins, Cohen Ahearn, Asha Kelly and myself have created
and are presen+ng a drama�c presenta�on based on the 9/11 a/acks.
We invite anyone interested to a/end the presenta+on which will be located in the BER building of Mortlake College
on Friday 1st May and urge that the arrival �me be in between 6:15 and 6:55 for a strict locked door at 7. There is no
entry fee and it is requested that there be no passouts as we hope to create a performance atmosphere alike to a
professional company's.
Please note that some of the content may be confron+ng due to our base s+mulus, 9/11, and that the running +me of
the performance may prove too much to bear for younger children. For these reasons we recommend the viewers
should be 15+ unless under a special considera�on.
There will be tea and coffee provided aLer the performance and mingling between the cast and audience is encour-
aged. You may have a lot of ques+ons regarding the composi+on of our performance and about play making tech-
niques as the style of our performance is non-naturalis�c/physical theatre with aspects of Epic theatre. These styles
can cause confusion among first-+me viewers but as the cast we will endeavour to answer all your ques+ons.
Please RSVP by 28th of April - 0431 625 066 (Lillian Cummins) Hope to see you there!
Bree Anna Cummins
NON-NATURALISM
This style of performance aims to comment on real-life rather than try to imitate it accurately on
stage. It is comprised of a range of styles of theatre that originate from a broad set of traditions of
theatre and performances from around the world (Especially Artuad's Theatre of Cruelty, Brecht's Epic Theatre and
Grotowski's Poor Theatre). It is hard to define modern non-naturalism as it draws from a broad range of
theatre styles. The style borrows aspects of both European and non-western ancient/modern styles. At
first it was introduced and developed as a reaction to naturalistic theatre (theatre that uses dialogue,
plot/story, acting and stagecraft to create a 'slice of life' on stage) or as an anti-naturalism. Non-naturalistic performances are visual and physical representations to enhance the essential ideas of the
performance. Elements of this style include disjointed time sequences, use of symbol for dramatic effect,
selective use of naturalistic dialogue, exaggerated movement, use of props/expression/multimedia/
gestures, etc. to transform time, place, character and/or prop.
EPIC THEATRE
Epic theatre was a form of political drama intended to appeal to reason rather than the emotions. It was a theatri-cal movement arising in the early to mid-20th century from the theories and prac+ce of a number of theatre
prac++oners who were responding to the poli+cal climate of the +me through the crea+on of a new poli�cal
theatre.
SPORT SPOT
P-12 Sport Dates Term 2
May
6th May 3-12 House Cross Country 2.15pm-3.10 pm
20th May 7-12 MWC Cross Country
22nd May 3-6 District Cross Country
29th May 3-6 Regional Cross Country
June
12th June GWR Cross Country (Secondary)
18th June 7-9 MWC Football/Netball
24th June 5-6 District Tri Sports
STATE NOMINATION
Informa+on regarding state nomina+ons and other sports can be found on the School Sport Victoria website.
www.ssv.vic.edu.au
CONNECT
Parents and students can connect to School sports Victoria via Facebook and Twitter. Just follow the follow-ing links
http://www.facebook.com/SchoolSportVictoria
https://twitter.com/@SchoolSportVic
Nathan Jones Year 7-12 Sports Coordinator
HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY
A reminder to students that the Year 3-12 House Cross Country will be held Wednesday 6th
May 2015
Students will get changed at 2:15pm
Year 9-10 age group will start at 2:25pm (1.8km course)
Year 11-20 age group will start at 2:35 (3.7km course)
Students must wear house colours
If primary students (Years 3-4 ) have PE on this day then they should bring a change of clothes to
change into aLer the cross country in case they get wet during the run.
Students not running must have a medical / parent note.
This must be given to Mr. Jones or Mr. Boyden.
This event will proceed as normal except due to extreme weather
A special thankyou to those staff who assisted with duties on the day, as well as students who filled in for events at the last minute.
Nathan Jones
CONGRATULATIONS -Well done to Lachlan Wareham on being invited to try out for the State Cricket U17 team.
On Tuesday, Years 7-12 students traveled to Warrnambool to compete in the Mid-Western Complex Athletics. It was a cold day especially with the track events running a little behind starting time. All students involved participated well and did their best rep-resenting the school well.
We had a few stand out individual performers that won age group champions. They were JakeTanner -17 year old boys, Jackson Boyden - 14 year old boys, Luke Eldridge - 13 year old boys and Georgia Wareham - 16 year old girls. Jake also won equal over-all male champion.
Mortlake college finished second overall in the aggregate which is a great effort. Also a huge thank you goes to Mr. Jones and Mrs. Riordon for taking their own lunch time to help with individual and relay training over the past few weeks.
Tyler Fowler—Mortlake College Sports Captain
Deakin University (DEAKIN) August 2nd 2015 (Sunday) Warrnambool Cam-pus August 9th 2015 (Sunday) Geelong Waurn Ponds & Waterfront Campus August 23rd 2015 (Sunday) Melbourne Bur-wood Campus
La Trobe University (LATROBE) August 7th 2015 (Friday) (Shepparton campus) August 9th 2015 (Sunday) (Melbourne (Bundoora Campus)) August 19th 2015 (Wednesday) (Mildura cam-pus) August 16th 2015 (Sunday) (Bendigo campus) August 28th 2015 (Friday) (Albury-Wodonga campus)
Monash University (MONASH) August 1st 2015 (Saturday) Berwick and Penin-sula August 2nd 2015 (Sunday) Caulfield and Clay-ton
Swinburne University of Technology (SWINBURNE)
August 2nd 2015 (Sunday) Hawthorn 10am-4pm
University of Melbourne (MELBOURNE) August 16th 2015 (Sunday)
Victoria University (VU) August 23rd 2015 (Sunday)
Melbourne / Victoria Open Days 2015Melbourne / Victoria Open Days 2015Melbourne / Victoria Open Days 2015Melbourne / Victoria Open Days 2015
Please go to the ins+tu+on website for more details.
VCE NEWSVCE NEWSVCE NEWSVCE NEWS
Our current Years 12s competing in their final MWC Athletic Sports Day
Warrnambool Careers Expo (May 18, 19 & 20 – 2015) All Warrnambool and District Secondary Colleges in conjunction with the region’s Further Educa-tion providers will be combining to host the Biennial Careers Expo during Careers Week in May 2015. The primary aim of the Expo is to assist students and their parents to research a wide range of careers options in preparation for the important decisions students will make over the next few years.
The Careers Expo is conducted every two years and from past experience and testimonials, is an invaluable experience and extremely useful in assisting students in their career decision making and transition process. Research clearly indicates that families who research career options early have a greater degree of success in navigating through the many career options.
Guest presenters are current practitioners in their chosen vocations and they will outline the day to day tasks involved within their career, the career paths and education and training required to ob-tain employment in their field / industry as well as further career prospects / advancement opportu-nities. Students from Year 8 to Year 12 can attend the Careers Expo.
Expo Dates and Venues:
Each evening will commence at 7:00pm with an array of static displays. Presentations commence at the times listed below:
Students are able to choose up to three different presentations on each of the three evenings. As it is possible to attend nine different career presentations during the week, we encourage all students and parents to take full advantage of this schedule.
A program of presentations will be provided in the near future for you to be able to plan the session times you wish to attend.
Career preparation is vitally important to any child’s future prospects and students are encour-aged to do a little research prior to the Expo in order to ask relevant questions, enjoy and make the most of this opportunity. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me Yours sincerely Mark Croucher
Monday 18 May 2015 7:00 pm Emmanuel College
Tuesday 19 May 2015 7:00 pm Brauer College
Wednesday 20 May 2015 7:00 pm Warrnambool College
Session 1 Session 2 Session 3
7:15pm – 7:55pm 8:00pm – 8:40pm 8:45pm – 9:25pm
Introduction to
Shearing &
Wool handling program
D errinallum
Introduction to a potential career in the
Wool Industry
The objective of the program is to assist interested Year 9 to 11 students (or equivalent) to develop a sound understanding of the many different facets of the wool industry and in
particular expose them to each of the different roles performed in a working wool shed.
The training will be conducted over 3 days (in a shearing shed)
Key features of the 3 day workshop include:
•An overview of the Wool processing pipeline
•Occupational Health and Safety in the Wool shed
•The roles and responsibilities of shed staff
•Shearing demonstrations
•Shed hand duties
•Wool handling and wool classing techniques
•Wool pressing
•Experting
•Stock handling
•Visit to saleyards
•Dog handling demonstration
Presented by:
The 3-day workshop will be conducted in 2015 across the following dates:
