Lachlan 12th September - Goroke P-12 College
Lachlan 12th September - Goroke P-12 College
Lachlan 12th September - Goroke P-12 College
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<strong>Goroke</strong> P-<strong>12</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Newsletter<br />
Email: www.goroke.p<strong>12</strong>@edumail.vic.gov.au<br />
Newsletter Date 8th <strong>September</strong> 2011 Volume 27<br />
National Literacy and Numeracy Week finished for us with a ‘Celebration Day’ where we<br />
presented the projects that we had been working on throughout the week, although we all<br />
look a little odd as it was our schools’ ‘Crazy Hair Day’ as well!<br />
Each year level presented to visitors and other primary students their projects. Prep/1/2<br />
showed their masks and story maps<br />
they made based on the book ‘Possum<br />
Magic’ by Mem Fox. Year 3/4 made<br />
Memory Boxes from the book ‘Wilfrid<br />
Gordon McDonald Partridge’ by Mem<br />
Fox while the Grade 5/6 class made<br />
digital photo stories based on<br />
‘Whoever you Are’ by Mem Fox.<br />
In Maths Prep/1/2 measured around<br />
the school with ‘How many students?’.<br />
Grade 3 and 4 showing their Memory Boxes<br />
Grade 3/4 measured the perimeter of the<br />
classroom and the weight of six dictionaries.<br />
The Year 5/6 students made 1 metre cubes<br />
using newspapers.<br />
Overall it was a great week of activities and<br />
we all enjoyed a yummy Australian morning<br />
tea with lamingtons, pavlova, vegemite<br />
sandwiches, scones, Anzac biscuits and<br />
Minties after presenting our projects on<br />
Friday morning.<br />
Kate<br />
Prep/1/2 students presenting their masks and maps
This week we had a visit from 30 Principals, Assistant Principals and teachers<br />
who are involved in the Instructional Rounds process. This process involves<br />
classroom observations to help identify strengths within the school and also offer<br />
ideas to the school for a future direction for professional development within the<br />
school. Some excellent feedback from the visitors about the tone of the school<br />
and the positive and challenging learning environment that we provide. A<br />
number of schools in the Wimmera have become involved in this very valuable<br />
opportunity and it has certainly given us a few ideas to follow up with over the<br />
next few years. Thank you to the teachers who opened up their classrooms for<br />
observation, to Coralie for the impressive catering and Rachel Hovey who<br />
assisted in the office.<br />
Thank you to Grady Charlton who did an individual presentation on his stay at<br />
the John Monash Science School this year. Grady had the opportunity to be<br />
involved in a nano-technology project whilst he was away and he was able to<br />
give a brief rundown of what life was like at a specialist science school in<br />
Melbourne.<br />
Ms Cate Webb will be away on leave for the next couple of weeks whilst<br />
she does some cycle touring in Europe. We wish her well and happy cycling. Mr<br />
Lay will be returning to help replace a number of her classes and it is always<br />
good to have him back on staff, even though it is temporarily.<br />
Grade 3 and 4 are off on their trip to Swan Hill this week. A number of excited<br />
youngsters were keen to head off on their camp on Wednesday and we hope<br />
they have a great camp visiting the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.<br />
Joy Forbes<br />
Mr ‘Bart’ Wearne<br />
mmm.....Mr Hager?<br />
Memories from ‘Crazy Hair Day’
2011—Events Calendar<br />
7th - 9th <strong>September</strong><br />
Grade 3 and 4 Camp to Swan Hill<br />
<strong><strong>12</strong>th</strong> <strong>September</strong> Kanga 8’s Cricket Clinic Years 5 to 10<br />
13th <strong>September</strong><br />
15th <strong>September</strong><br />
Parent Teacher Interviews<br />
Bush Tucker at Halls Gap Year 11 Food<br />
18th - 20th <strong>September</strong> Advance Canoeing Camp<br />
23rd <strong>September</strong><br />
23rd <strong>September</strong><br />
10th October<br />
11th October<br />
14th October<br />
28th October<br />
31st October<br />
6th November<br />
8th - 11th November<br />
18th November<br />
Footy Colours Day<br />
Term 3 ends at 2.30pm<br />
Term 4 begins<br />
Little Desert Primary Athletics<br />
Chefs @ <strong>Goroke</strong> Excursion to Melbourne<br />
P/1/2 Tabloid Sports<br />
Year <strong>12</strong> students last day<br />
<strong>Goroke</strong> Health Centre Spring Market Day<br />
Year 7 and 8 Camp to Geelong<br />
Year 11 students last day<br />
29th - 30th November University Ballarat Year 8<br />
16th December<br />
20th December<br />
21st December<br />
22nd December<br />
School Concert<br />
Grade 6 Graduation<br />
Term 4 ends for students at 2.30pm<br />
Final day for staff<br />
Please let Kylie Smith know if you are interested in playing<br />
Junior Tennis on Saturday mornings.
On Monday 5th <strong>September</strong> we had a lady called Robin come to our school to<br />
perform the alphabet using different types of dances for each letter. All through<br />
the performance Robin asked for volunteers from the Primary audience to help her.<br />
Everyone was amazed by her flexibility and she wowed the audience with her<br />
stunts. All of the primary students really enjoyed her performance.<br />
Emma Hausler and Georgia Lowe<br />
Katelyn<br />
Kate
Dylan<br />
Josh<br />
Kidman<br />
Yasmin and Thomas<br />
Kate<br />
Aleisha<br />
Steph<br />
Miss Buhler
Caitlyn<br />
Grady<br />
Mrs Retallick<br />
Stevie<br />
Ben, Michael and Matt<br />
Jaden
In Year 8 SOSE with Mrs Colley we have<br />
just completed a project titled ‘A Trip<br />
Around Australia’. Before we started<br />
our project we used our mapping<br />
skills to plan our holiday. We<br />
calculated distances between<br />
destinations and located tourist spots<br />
at each place. We had up to a month<br />
to complete our trip around Australia<br />
and with no limitation on money some<br />
Marissa<br />
people were very extravagant! We<br />
chose our own mode of transport and<br />
again some<br />
were very<br />
extravagant!<br />
Wouldn’t we all<br />
love to travel in<br />
Joel a Rolls Royce<br />
Phantom or our<br />
very own helicopter.<br />
We recorded our trip in a diary and moved our<br />
transport around our class map of Australia as<br />
we travelled.<br />
Steph, Grant, Marissa, Tom<br />
Isobelle & Annie
Grace<br />
Mary Ann<br />
Grant<br />
Tom<br />
Tom<br />
Steph<br />
Dylan<br />
Josh
George and Jacob<br />
Shaun<br />
Isobelle
George and Will<br />
Marissa and Yasmin<br />
‘The Boys’<br />
L-R Johnny, Ben, Byron, Tyler, Jordan and Mason<br />
Gemma, Michelle and Jessica<br />
Patrick
Wear your favourite AFL, NRL,<br />
Rugby Union or Soccer team colours<br />
and make a gold coin donation.<br />
Footy Colours Day is a major fundraiser for the Fight Cancer Foundation, which<br />
cares for and treats patients living with cancer and supports research into a<br />
cure and improved treatment methods.
Pheobe<br />
Sam, Nikiesha and Lillie<br />
Meghan and Georgia<br />
Brodie<br />
Georgia and Tel<br />
Melanie and Drew
Why:<br />
At the <strong>Goroke</strong> Town Hall<br />
Time: Ages 5-10 will be from 5:30-7:00pm<br />
Ages 11 and up will be from 7:30-11pm<br />
COST: $5 for ages 5-10 and $10 for 11 up<br />
At Snowy River School this year for our Community<br />
Learning Project we have decided to do a fundraiser. With<br />
the funds that we make from the night we will donate<br />
100% to McGrath Foundation.<br />
McGrath foundation:<br />
The McGrath Foundation raises<br />
money to place McGrath Breast<br />
Care Nurses in communities right<br />
across Australia, as well as<br />
increasing breast awareness in<br />
young Australian women.<br />
Don’t Miss Out
Free Range Eggs<br />
$3.00 Dozen<br />
$2.00 Half Dozen<br />
If you would like to purchase eggs, please contact<br />
Mr Norm Hager at the school on 0353 861024.
Grace<br />
Daphne, Airley, Imogen, Olivia and Susan<br />
Natasha, Holly, Emma, Odette ,<br />
Tori and Sophie<br />
Annie<br />
Primary students on Crazy Hair Day
Aleisha and Jordan presenting their<br />
digital photo story.<br />
Chelsea presenting her story map.<br />
Prep1/2 presenting story maps and their masks.
Crazy Hair Day<br />
Student from the Snow River Campus organised a Crazy Hair Day to<br />
raise money for the McGrath Foundation, which raises money to<br />
place McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities right across<br />
Australia as well as increasing breast awareness in young Australian<br />
women.<br />
The day turned out a huge success with a total of $154.00 being<br />
raised and most students and staff taking advantage of trying out<br />
that ‘really special new hair do’ for the day! As well as Crazy Hair<br />
the students were able to wear casual clothes and purchase icy<br />
poles. Thankyou to everyone for supporting the day.<br />
<strong>Lachlan</strong><br />
<strong><strong>12</strong>th</strong> <strong>September</strong>