6270 6262706 1 st May 2017 No. 11 1 st May 2107 No.11 IMPORTANT DATES Term 2 May Tuesday 28 th Year 9 BR Girls Football - Horsham Friday 31 st Casual Dress day June Monday 3 rd Greater Western cross country - Warrnambool Thursday 6 th School Socials Friday 7 th Staff PD day – student free day Term 2 Week 6 Aspirations The Murtoa College Community are extremely proud of what our students and staff have been able to achieve in recent times. The College has cemented its reputation as being a caring school that knows its students and knows where they are in their learning. We continually push our students to aspire for success and to strive to improve. On occasions, it is important to remind students and families that this success is due to a culture of expected values and behaviours. We explicitly teacher and reward the values. Our students learn behaviours through our culture and the expectation is that they live these values and behaviours. Our community understands the opportunity education provides and will continue to push our students to aspire for greater things. NAPLAN Congratulations to all the Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students who participated in the NAPLAN tests over the last two weeks. The on-line testing went off without a hitch and all students coped very well with the process. I was very impressed with the grade 3 students who approached it as if they had done this before. It is not something worth stressing over. Well done! Again, I would like to remind the community that the College uses these independently collected results to show our teachers what we need to focus on to help improve learning outcomes. School Social Thursday week June 6 th is the whole college social. The format will be the same as previous years. The F-6 students will attend their social from 4.30pm-6.00pm in the multi-purpose room. The Year 7-12 social will follow from 7.00pm -10.00pm. The SRC is organising the social and other college staff who will be attending. The theme for the F-6 social will be ‘Crazy Colours’ and the theme for the Years 7-12 will be ‘StereoTypes. Please note: Buses have been organised to assist the year 7-12 students. One will run from Horsham and a second bus will run from Minyip to Rupanyup then to Murtoa. National Sorry Day This annual event in Australia on May 26 is to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country's Indigenous population. During the 20th century, Australian governments' policies resulted in a "Stolen Generation" which was described by John Torpey as "Aboriginal children separated, often forcibly, from their families in the interest of turning them into white Australians". Thank you to the college community that remembered this day last Sunday and to the respective organisations (AFL) across Australia that celebrated our Aboriginal heritage over the past few days and in the near future. 27th May 2019 No.13 Murtoa College is a child safe school.
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6270 6262706
1st May 2017
No. 11
1st May 2107
No.11
IMPORTANT DATES
Term 2
May
Tuesday 28th Year 9 BR Girls Football - Horsham
Friday 31st Casual Dress day
June
Monday 3rd Greater Western cross country - Warrnambool
Thursday 6th School Socials
Friday 7th Staff PD day – student free day
Term 2 Week 6
Aspirations
The Murtoa College Community are extremely proud of what our students and staff have been able to
achieve in recent times. The College has cemented its reputation as being a caring school that knows its
students and knows where they are in their learning. We continually push our students to aspire for
success and to strive to improve. On occasions, it is important to remind students and families that this
success is due to a culture of expected values and behaviours. We explicitly teacher and reward the
values. Our students learn behaviours through our culture and the expectation is that they live these
values and behaviours. Our community understands the opportunity education provides and will continue
to push our students to aspire for greater things.
NAPLAN
Congratulations to all the Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students who participated in the NAPLAN tests over the last
two weeks. The on-line testing went off without a hitch and all students coped very well with the process.
I was very impressed with the grade 3 students who approached it as if they had done this before. It is not
something worth stressing over. Well done! Again, I would like to remind the community that the College
uses these independently collected results to show our teachers what we need to focus on to help
improve learning outcomes.
School Social
Thursday week June 6th is the whole college social. The format will be the same as previous years. The F-6
students will attend their social from 4.30pm-6.00pm in the multi-purpose room. The Year 7-12 social will
follow from 7.00pm -10.00pm. The SRC is organising the social and other college staff who will be
attending.
The theme for the F-6 social will be ‘Crazy Colours’ and the theme for the Years 7-12 will be ‘StereoTypes.
Please note: Buses have been organised to assist the year 7-12 students. One will run from Horsham and a
second bus will run from Minyip to Rupanyup then to Murtoa.
National Sorry Day
This annual event in Australia on May 26 is to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the
country's Indigenous population. During the 20th century, Australian governments' policies resulted in a
"Stolen Generation" which was described by John Torpey as "Aboriginal children separated, often forcibly,
from their families in the interest of turning them into white Australians".
Thank you to the college community that remembered this day last Sunday and to the respective
organisations (AFL) across Australia that celebrated our Aboriginal heritage over the past few days and in
the near future.
27th May 2019
No.13
Murtoa College is a child safe school.
Casual Clothes Day - IDAHOBIT Day
This Friday is the last Friday of the month and that means CASUAL clothes day for all students. As I have already mentioned we will be
celebrating IDAHOBIT Day (International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia). We will celebrate this day to
recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion. This is a student driven event and I look forward to the whole community enjoying
the celebrations. I ask that students dress or wear something to recognise the rainbow colours. The SRC will collect a gold coin
donation from all students who wear casual clothes with a rainbow flavour.
Year 9 Girls AFL Football
Good Luck to the year 9 girls who will represent the college at the AFL 9’s football competition in Horsham. The girls will be out on
Tuesday. Ms Caitlin McQueen will coach the team and Mrs Jan Dunlop will be assisting. I look forward to hearing about their day of
competition.
The week that was! (Term 2 week 5)
Volleyball
Last week was the SSV Volleyball finals in Melbourne. Murtoa College had a senior girls’ team competing on Friday. The team played a
great final series. They won their three pool games but lost their semi-final to Monbulk. This meant they finished equal 3rd in the state
which is an amazing achievement! A BIG thank you to Mr Shaun Bray for organising and coaching the team. Also, thanks to Mrs Jo
Baker and the other staff and parents who have helped along the journey this year.
CEP
The F-6 students had their term 2 CEP program on Wednesday May 22 at Warracknabeal. Students from OLHC, Minyip PS, Rupanyup
PS and Marnoo PS joined the Warracknabeal schools at Warracknabeal Primary School for the ‘The Barber of Seville’ performance. It
was a very educational program and the students and staff had a great day. Please see the article later in the newsletter.
Black Ranges Football and Netball
Congratulation to our years 5 and 6 students who travelled to Stawell on Wednesday May 22 to compete in Black Ranges Football and
Netball competition. Both teams competed well on the day and represented the college with commitment and enthusiasm. The
Dunmunkle football team came 3rd and the Murtoa College netball team also came 3rd. Thank you and well done to all staff, Mrs
Noonan, Mrs Shields and Mrs Jordan as well as the parent supporters for a great day. In addition, a special mention to Matt Downer
who coached the football team and to Emily Hotker for umpiring Netball games on the day.
