THE PIPELINE ISSUE 8 Wednesday 22nd May 2019 PUBLISHED IN WERRIMULL SINCE 1995 Erin Fush, Principal - [email protected]www.werrp12.vic.edu.au hps://www.facebook.com/Werrimullp12 From the Principal Welcome to the middle of Term Two. It has been five weeks of varied experiences and again has been busy every day. We are sll experiencing both students and staff with flu like symptoms and also gastro therefore I remind you if your child is unwell and they need to stay at home please contact the front office by 9:30am so as we can record it, this is a state wide expectaon. If we have not had a message or phone call we will try to make contact with you before the end of the lunch break. Last Friday night Djanaya hosted a Movie Night for the community as part of her VCAL cerficate and it was a fantasc evening. She had to not only plan the event but had to cost it, organise it and then run it, fine tuning all skills that employers are looking for in employees. She sll has follow up work to finalise the event but she deserves to be proud of herself for a job well done. Evie and Johnny are enjoying themselves at Leadership School this Term and are also pung a lot of effort into organising a community event, there will be more informaon when they return to school in third Term so please keep this in the back of your minds so as the two students are successfull in bringing the whole community together. Just a reminder that due to Miss Smith and myself being in the classroom more we are unavailable to meet with parents without an appointment. We will make ourselves available for appointments but need advance warning to be able to be free at a specific me of the day. We are also available before school from 8am – if this suits any parents and most evenings we can be released from meengs. Auskick is being offered to all the Primary students during Monday lunchmes and they are able to bring their footy jumpers and boots to parcipate in these sessions. The students don’t officially have to sign up to the program but can join in the skills sessions. Gus Rowe has been a fantasc help being able to demonstrate all the skills and give feedback to support the younger students’ learning of the game.
Welcome to the middle of Term Two. It has been five weeks of varied experiences and again has been busy every day. We are still experiencing both students and staff with flu like symptoms and also gastro therefore I remind you if your child is unwell and they need to stay at home please contact the front office by 9:30am so as we can record it, this is a state wide expectation. If we have not had a message or phone call we will try to make contact with you before the end of the lunch break.
Last Friday night Djanaya hosted a Movie Night for the community as part of her VCAL certificate and it was a fantastic evening. She had to not only plan the event but had to cost it, organise it and then run it, fine tuning all skills that employers are looking for in employees. She still has follow up work to finalise the event but she deserves to be proud of herself for a job well done.
Evie and Johnny are enjoying themselves at Leadership School this Term and are also putting a lot of effort into organising a community event, there will be more information when they return to school in third Term so please keep this in the back of your minds so as the two students are successfull in bringing the whole community together.
Just a reminder that due to Miss Smith and myself being in the classroom more we are unavailable to meet with parents without an appointment. We will make ourselves available for appointments but need advance warning to be able to be free at a specific time of the day. We are also available before school from 8am – if this suits any parents and most evenings we can be released from meetings.
Auskick is being offered to all the Primary students during Monday lunchtimes and they are able to bring their footy jumpers and boots to participate in these sessions. The students don’t officially have to sign up to the program but can join in the skills sessions. Gus Rowe has been a fantastic help being able to demonstrate all the skills and give feedback to support the younger students’ learning of the game.
Next week Cameron Symes is hosting the BIGGEST MORNING TEA at Werrimull P-12 School on Thursday May 30th at 11am. He is putting together a selection of cupcakes and hot drinks to offer staff, students and anyone in the community that is able to come and join in the fundraising efforts. As you are well aware this is a fundraiser that supports people impacted by cancer and there are very few of us that haven’t been touched by cancer in some way – whether it be a family member or friend – therefore Cam is trying to raise as much as possible as every little bit counts in the fight against this horrific disease.
Next Friday is our REVIEW and all parents should have received a letter in regards to a parent session. If you are available it would be greatly appreciated if you could make the time to have a conversation with our review panel as this sets the tone and pathway for the next four years at Werrimull P-12 School. I have already had a few apologies due to other commitments and I thank these parents and will pass this along to the review team.
We don’t have formal interviews at the end of this Term so if you would to catch up with any teachers please make an appointment through the front office or directly with the teacher via their email address.
Enjoy the next half of the Term and I implore you to keep up-to-date with the calendar both in the Pipeline and posted regularly on our school Facebook page as the days are full of activities and extra-curricular events.
Naplan
Well done to Max and Abby for completing the
Naplan testing this year. For the first time, all stu-
dents had to complete the testing online. Max and
Abby demonstrated excellent persistence and re-
silience to complete the tests and continue with
their learning in the classroom. Great effort guys!
Debating
The 3-6 students are getting involved in online
debating with several schools across Victoria. Our
first online debate will be on May the 29th with the
topic ‘Sports stars are paid too much’. We are the
affirmative team.
P-6 Information Reports
All students are currently learning how to write an
excellent information report. Our younger students
are learning about animals whereas the older stu-
dents are focusing on researching their own topic
choice to develop their information reports.
Our ‘Fin’tastic Learning...
STEM DAY 2019
Our 5/6 students will again have
the opportunity to participate in
the Henderson College ‘STEM
Day’ this year. Students will
have the opportunity to show-
case their leadership and team-
work skills to work together to
solve a STEM challenge.
‘Water-s’ Going On??
‘Turtle-y’ Radical News!
Year 7 Maths - Decimals Science - Mixtures & Pure Substances English - Comparing Online Newspapers Geography - Deserts Year 8 Maths - Binary Project Science - Mixtures & Pure Substances Geography - Deserts English - Comparing Online Newspapers Year 9 Gnurad Gundidj Year 10 Chemistry– The Periodic Table English - Analysing a Short Story Accounting– Cash Books Maths - Statistics MIPS - values & Attitudes Year 7-8 PE - Cross Country STEM - Coding
Community Engagement - Project Planning Textiles– Intro to the Sewing Machine
VCE General Maths– Linear relations And Equations Unit 1 Physics– Electrical Physics Food– Origins of Food Unit 1 English – Creating a Text Response Unit 1 Accounting– Income Statements PDT– (Yr 12) Production (Yr11)Woodworking Skills Studio Arts– Illustration Techniques
VCAL VCAL English (Foundation) - Practical Communication VCAL English (Senior) -Practical Literacy Numeracy for Interpreting Society Foundation-Data Senior– Travelling Project
- Dates to Remember -
Term Two
MAY
29th May 3-6 Debating
30th May Cuppa for Cancer at School
JUNE
3rd June 5/6 STEM Day
4th June Region Cross Country, St Arnaud
10th June Queens Birthday, Public Holiday
13th June 5/6 Inter Schools Sport
17th—21st June Yr 7 Camp
26th June Pupil Free Day
28th June Last day of Term Two
JULY
15th July First day of Term Three
25th July School Photos
AUGUST
2nd August Werrimull P-12 School Athletics
29th-23rd August Yrs 4-6 Camp
SEPTEMBER
2nd-6th September Yr 10 Camp
11th September Primary MAC Excursion
2oth September Last day of Term Three
OCTOBER
7th October First day of Term Four
NOVEMBER
4th November Pupil Free Day
5th November Melbourne Cup
28th November P-3 Sleepover
DECEMBER
6th December Pupil Free Day
17th December Awards Night
20th December Last Day of Term Four
No Birthdays this Fortnight
SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE 6th May to 17th May
P-2
3-6
7-9
10
VCE
97%
100%
86%
84%
82%
Please note: The school must
be notified of all absences - if
your child is absence please
phone the front office on
5028 1251
Congratulations
To the P-6 for
getting over 95%
Attendance
Mungo Camp
By Grace, Keiara, Dawson-LBJ, Cheyenne, Michael, Mr Whittle and Mim.
We left school at 10:30am and had maccas on the way! We headed to 2019’s Mungo Youth
project. When we got there we had to setup our tents, in the wind! It was hard and we all gave
up! Eventually we set them up with our mattresses and sleeping bags. After that we had to
meet up in a circle. We learnt about the history of Mungo and the aboriginal people as well as
the tribes from around the area. The tribes are Paakantji and Ngyiampaa as well as the Mutthi
Mutthi. We had to walk through smoke that was made through eucalyptus and gum leaves.
This was to welcome us to their country and cleanse ourselves. Before tea we had to put a
thumbprint on a mat and explored the sand dunes and marquees. We had tea and went to bed
at 8:30pm.
During Wednesday we did team building exercises, Dawson’s team won (cheated). Jacinda
(GWS player) and Aaron (local tribe member) were Mungo mentors for the games we did. We
took the bus to Pastoralistis and Zanci to see the old shearing sheds. Dawson, Cheyenne and
Keiara were very impressed with Killing Kevin’s comedy that night.
On Thursday we visited the walls of China. That was where they found the remains of Mungo
man and Mungo woman. We followed Mick Kelly and his guide to see the large Mallee fowl
that was drawn in the sand with white ochre around it. We listened to stories from Auntie Ber-
ryl. On Thursday night it was pouring rain and was forecast to flood!
On our final day we said goodbye to our friends that were from Hunters Hill, Sydney. In the
morning we had to wait for permission from the head camp leader to see if it was okay to
drive back to Mildura due to the rain. It was okay, so we left at 10:30am. We enjoyed Maccas
at Irymple on our way home.
Millewa Pre-School
What’s Happening
This Term at the Millewa Pre-School we are exploring science, natural history and dinosaurs through our dramatic play area and a range of experience and experiments. It’s always interesting to see then engage with challenging materials outside of what they know so we look forward to in depth conversations around a variety of topics.
We’ve been busy these past two weeks getting involved in a range of learning through play both indoors and outdoors when the weather permits. The children have been challenging themselves to try new things such as going across the rope scramble bridge or balancing on the see-saw to develop their gross motor skills. They’ve also been expanding on their verbal skills, engaging in deeper levels of conversation with their peers and the adults they encounter throughout the kindergarten day. They are taking more control of their learning and are becoming more confident learners as a result when things get a little bit tricky.
If you have any questions regarding any kindergarten matters please don’t hesitate to contact me on either [email protected], 5028 1251 (M, W, Th or F) or 5028 1293.
Dates to Remember
28 May Koorie Pre-School Assistant (KPSA) visit with P-2 group from Werrimull P-12 School
