Goroke P-12 College Newsletter
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<strong>Goroke</strong> P-<strong>12</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
PO Box 132 GOROKE VIC 34<strong>12</strong><br />
Phone: 03 53 861024 Fax: 03 53 86<strong>12</strong>83<br />
15th November 20<strong>12</strong> Volume 36<br />
Advance Graduation 20<strong>12</strong><br />
Students are pictured with Lucinda Nolan, Assistant Deputy Commissioner of the Victorian Police<br />
Force and Leading Senior Constable Jim Richardson at the Advance Graduation.
What a great week for <strong>Goroke</strong> P-<strong>12</strong> <strong>College</strong>. Not only did we have our<br />
largest class for Advance celebrate the conclusion of the program with<br />
a formal graduation at the Glen Waverly Police Academy, we also had<br />
2 successful Angela Taylor Scholarship winners thanks to the<br />
generosity of Club 41, a group of retired men and women who support<br />
and encourage the police service. Congratulations to Jaden and James<br />
for being the successful recipients of the scholarship worth $<strong>12</strong>00 over<br />
the 2 years of their VCE studies. We hope parents were impressed with their child’s<br />
participation in the graduation ceremony and it was so pleasing to see so many parents<br />
make the long journey to Melbourne to be part of the occasion, especially the Schultz<br />
family who were able to bring Tom down to part of the ceremony despite his leg injury.<br />
Special thanks to Michelle Lowe and Don McEachran who drove the buses and helped<br />
make the journey possible for many parents. Over the camp, students had the opportunity<br />
to meet with Search and Rescue Police in Williamstown and we were treated to a special<br />
visit to the camp by one of the Dog Squad members and his dog currently in training. We<br />
were lucky enough to be able to graduate in front of Victoria Police Assistant<br />
Commissioner Lucinda Nolan who inspected our students on the parade ground. Many<br />
hours of drill practice certainly paid off and our students were very impressive on the day.<br />
Many thanks to Leading Snr Constable Jim Richardson for all of his assistance over the<br />
camp. The Victoria Police Youth Corps programme is so successful because of his<br />
involvement and willingness to go above and beyond the ‘call of duty’ when it comes to<br />
supporting our students. Thanks also to Mr Wearne who has taken the Advance class for<br />
the 2 years and Michele Mulraney who accompanied us on the camp and has all the<br />
photographic ‘evidence’ that drill is not easy.<br />
Grades Prep, 1 and 2 are home from their Naracoorte camp today. They will be<br />
staying at the Naracoorte Caves complex and should have a great time discovering fossils<br />
and caves over the 2 days. Many thanks to Mr O’Leary, Christine and Mrs Walter for<br />
organising the camp.<br />
Another piece of good news is that we have been successful in our application for<br />
funding to improve some more of the facilities in our Home Economics and technology<br />
areas to be able to deliver Certificate courses for our students and the wider community.<br />
We have been given over $9000 to put towards specialist equipment in both of these areas<br />
and we would encourage any community members who may, in the future, be interested in<br />
further studies in Hospitality or Auto studies to contact the school so we can discuss a<br />
programme that may suit your needs.<br />
Good luck to our year 7 girls cricket team who will be travelling to Melbourne next<br />
week to compete in the State finals in Melton. We wish them all the best for their batting<br />
and bowling on the day. Thanks to Mr Wearne and Mrs Allen who will be accompanying<br />
them.<br />
Joy Forbes
20<strong>12</strong> - Events Calendar<br />
15th - 16th November<br />
16th November<br />
19th November<br />
19th November<br />
20th November<br />
21st November<br />
23rd November<br />
27th - 28th November<br />
30th November<br />
30th November<br />
Prep/1/2 Camp to Naracoorte Caves<br />
Last day for Year 11 students<br />
P/1/2 Library visit<br />
School Council Meeting<br />
Year 7 Girls Cricket Match - Melton<br />
Year <strong>12</strong> Dinner<br />
Preps in 2013 Orientation Day, 9am - 11am<br />
Year 8 visit University of Ballarat<br />
Preps in 2013 Orientation Day, 9am - 11am<br />
Last day for Year 10 students<br />
7th December Orientation Day, Prep - Year <strong>12</strong><br />
<strong>12</strong>th December<br />
Grade 6 Graduation<br />
14th December<br />
19th December RE Prep - 4<br />
“All Roads lead to <strong>Goroke</strong>”<br />
School Concert and Presentation Night<br />
17th December<br />
20th December<br />
21st December<br />
Activities Week begins<br />
Term 4 ends @ 2.30pm for students<br />
Staff final day - Parent Teacher interviews as requested<br />
George<br />
20th November<br />
Miss Buhler<br />
18th November
“ALL ROADS<br />
LEAD TO<br />
GOROKE”<br />
<strong>Goroke</strong> P-<strong>12</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Presentation night<br />
and<br />
School Production<br />
Friday, 14 th December<br />
<strong>Goroke</strong> Town Hall, Doors open 7pm
Meet the cast of<br />
"ALL ROADS LEAD TO GOROKE"<br />
Cast Members: Annie Charlton, Emma Hausler, Abby Walter,<br />
Eve Barnes, Melanie Koop, Tyler Hayden, Jack Atkins, Pheobe Allen,<br />
Georgia Lowe, Alick Schultz, Jordan Smith, Thomas Schultz,<br />
Mitch Haustorfer, Grace Hausler, Aleisha Rintoule, Josh Williams,<br />
Johnny Chaplin, Sara McCuish, Millicent Gabbe, Olivia Crabtree,<br />
Kate Richardson, Emily Rogers, Megan Atkins, Nashira Lees,<br />
Maddie Hockley, Chantelle Johnston, Kira Richards, Casey Hovey,<br />
Holly Smith, Airley Mulraney, Lily Cameron, Sophie Walter,<br />
Natasha Exell, Hayley Rogers and Odette Bruni.<br />
Stage Managers: Eliza Robertson,<br />
Daphne Williams and Jessica Williams.
On the last day of<br />
camp, we went to the<br />
Melbourne Zoo, We<br />
got to walk around in<br />
our groups to explore<br />
the zoo. We saw<br />
lemmas, elephants,<br />
frogs, snakes and<br />
bears. It was cool!<br />
Airley<br />
At Scienceworks, we went to the<br />
Wallace and Gromit Exhibition,<br />
which was really interesting and<br />
did lots of fun activities. We also<br />
went to the general viewing area,<br />
which was awesome and<br />
then to the planetarium.<br />
Natasha<br />
Universal Pizza was a nice place to have<br />
dinner. We had pizza, pasta and ice<br />
cream for dessert. I thought the food was<br />
delicious.<br />
Millicent<br />
When we had the Metlink Adventure, we<br />
learnt about public transport safety. Some<br />
people got highlighters for answering<br />
questions.<br />
Holly<br />
The Victoria Market was an unexpected<br />
activity. It was great to break up into our<br />
groups to look around and buy things.<br />
Sara<br />
We went to the Eureka Sky Deck that took<br />
31 seconds to get to the 88th floor. We<br />
went on the Edge and when we were standing there it sounded like the glass floor<br />
was cracking.<br />
Kira
The Old Melbourne Gaol was the best. It<br />
was interesting to find out that Ned Kelly’s<br />
mum was also at the Old Melbourne Gaol<br />
when Ned was a prisoner there.<br />
Lucy<br />
The Eureka Sky Deck was good fun.<br />
There were two groups that went on<br />
the Edge and most of my group<br />
screamed.<br />
Odette<br />
At the Shrine of Remembrance, I<br />
learnt lots about the war and even<br />
heard the story about Lone Pine. I<br />
thought it was interesting how we<br />
were able to visit the Shrine at night.<br />
Olivia<br />
At the Melbourne Aquarium the best thing<br />
to see was the sharks and how their teeth<br />
were sticking out.<br />
Carl<br />
At the Aquatics Centre, we all enjoyed the<br />
water slide and I thought the wave pool was<br />
good fun.<br />
Melanie
On Friday, we went to the<br />
Melbourne Zoo. We got to<br />
walk around in our groups<br />
without a teacher. We got<br />
to see snakes, frogs,<br />
monkeys, bears and many<br />
m o r e a n i m a l s .<br />
Brandy-Lea<br />
At the Melbourne Aquatics<br />
Centre, we all had fun on<br />
the water slide and the<br />
wave pool.<br />
Chantelle<br />
At the MCG, we got to see the Members’ areas. We were lucky to see<br />
Shane Warne shooting a TV advertisement.<br />
Hayley Rogers
The Parliament<br />
House was<br />
interesting.<br />
In the Senate, there<br />
was red carpet which<br />
meant royal blood<br />
and there was gold<br />
on the walls.<br />
The House of<br />
Representatives<br />
carpet is green. We<br />
were also told that<br />
the Queen is not<br />
allowed to walk on<br />
the green carpet.<br />
Sophie<br />
Visiting the Water Police Search<br />
and Rescue was good fun. We<br />
got to see how they plan a search<br />
and we looked at their boats in<br />
the water.<br />
Tyler<br />
I really enjoyed all of the<br />
activities on the Melbourne<br />
Camp.<br />
Casey<br />
At the National Gallery of Victoria, we looked<br />
at lots of paintings such as “Shearing the<br />
Rams” and “I am not Sorry”. It was<br />
interesting to hear about what the meanings<br />
are behind the paintings.<br />
Lily