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MAY Friday 26th “Diversity is our Strength” Day of fes vi es including the longest lunch at each campus and longest dinner at Tarneit and longest dinner at the Tarneit campus Monday 29th Tarneit Chocolates go home Derrimut Heath Tony’s pies orders go home Bounce program (selected Year 7‐9 students) 2‐3pm Tuesday 30th Uni of NSW Science year 2 ‐9 EAL homework club Yr 7 – 9 from 3 ‐ 4.30pm Wednesday 31st Division Cross Country

JUNE Thursday 1st Hoop me 3 / 4s EAL learning Club 3.15 – 4.15pm Tarneit IRC Yr 7 – 9 General homework club from 3 – 4pm Year 8 Trade Fair from 11.30am. Parents and Friends welcome form 3.30 — 4pm Friday 2nd Interact Derrimut Heath Prep Scien st Talk Monday 5th Bounce program (selected Year 7‐9 students). 2‐3pm Parents and Friends mee ng at Tarneit commencing at 7pm Tuesday 6th EAL homework club Yr 7 – 9 from 3 ‐ 4.30pm Thursday 8th Biggest Morning Tea EAL learning Club 3.15 – 4.15 Tarneit IRC Yr 7 – 9 General homework club from 3 – 4pm Friday 9th Derrimut Heath Tony’s pie orders due back Monday 12th Queens Birthday Public holiday, students DO NOT come to school Tuesday 13th Yr 7 – 9 English Exam DH Prep WW1 Messenger Dogs (ANZAC) Uni of NSW Wri ng EAL homework club Yr 7 – 9 from 3‐4.30pm


THEME OF THE MONTH:

SELF - AWARENESS “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me ” Issue Seven: 24th May 2017

“Looking Forward, Staying Ahead”

Derrimut Heath PS Campus Tarneit Prep – 9 Campus Sycamore St, Hoppers Crossing, 3029 81-97 Baden Powell Dve, Tarneit Telephone: (03) 9748 8688 Telephone: 8734 0900 Fax: (03) 9748 7073 Fax: (03) 8734 0950

College Council President: REBECCA BREUST

College Captains: Kundanika Vajagouni Shah Ortell College Vice-Captains Shayal Siwan Logan Pringle

Website: www.bpc.vic.edu.au [email protected]

College Principal: JULIE MASON

“Diversity is our Strength”


FROM THE DESK OF OUR COLLEGE PRINCIPAL Our Diversity Our Strength As hopefully you now know on this Friday the 26th of May, we have a special day of Celebra on planned for all the families in our College. Across our College community we have 56 different languages spoken other than English. We believe that this glorious cultural diversity is our strength as an educa onal organisa on and will spend a day acknowledging and celebra ng this. We invite you to a end for part of, or the whole day! I realise that working people may not be able to a end during the school hours so we have ac vi es planned up un l 7pm at night at the Tarneit Campus. We hope to see everyone in na onal costume, involved in our longest lunch/ Dinner whilst sampling foods from many countries, enjoying spor ng events, performances and classroom ac vi es. We are asking people to come and tell their story, to learn a dance from another country and to take away a wristband as a permanent memento of the day of celebra on. When you come to visit, please take me to look at the art projects that are shown around the two schools. So much work has gone into demonstra ng our commitment to celebra ng our diversity through student artwork.

Concern about The of Property From me to me, we have complaints that property, whilst at school, has been stolen. We do have a policy that, in allowing children to bring special items to school, we are assuming that the responsibility lies with the child to look a er their property. This week we had a mobile phone stolen and it was reported to the police who have subsequently taken ac on on behalf of the family affected by the the . The Educa on Department has clear guidelines related to students involved in the the of property and these must be ac oned at mes. So, the key message is that you must take care when bringing items to school and stealing is always wrong and can have severe consequences when police are in-volved.

College Start Times I need to remind you that school starts at a designated me and we ask that all children are in the school ready to enter their learning spaces and get ready for a day of solid learning ten minutes before the bell rings. I am concerned about the number of children who arrive late and miss that organised start to their day. Just to remind you at Derrimut we need your child at school by 8:50 am for a 9am start and at the Tarneit Campus we need your child at school by 8:35am for an 8:45am start.

Catch Up / Get Ahead Friday Last year we started a new program that allowed children to catch up on work each Friday a ernoon. I am just delighted with the work that is being done on the last hour of the day each Friday. Teachers have agreed to pro-vide some focussed work to children who may need a li le more me to learn something new for them. It will almost certainly involve more work on the basics with reading, wri ng and number. Now for some of our stu-dents who are performing at a high level it will mean some extension work to challenge them. When your child gets home from school each Friday, ask if they did some catch up/ get ahead work. Ask them it is helping them to learn more, improve and feel good about the day. Yours in Educa on, Looking Forward, Staying Ahead, ]âÄ|x `táÉÇ College Principal

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DERRIMUT HEATH CAMPUS ATHLETICS On Friday the 28th of April and Friday the 12th of May the grade five and six students and the grade three and

four students competed in our Campus Athle cs Carnivals. The six events the students competed in included the 100m Sprint, Hurdles, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Discus and Long Jump. Students that

finished in the top four of an event received a ribbon to recognise their achievement.

A big thank you goes out to Neil Regnier (Parent), who volunteered his en re Friday to our Athle cs Day and ran the Hurdles event for the grade three and four Campus Athle cs Carnival. Neil did an

amazing job in organising and preparing the students for their race and then med and recorded all of the re-sults for the 120 students that competed on the day. Neil we would like to say a very big thank you for your

efforts as these days cannot take place without this type of help and support.

A special well done and congratula ons also goes out to Houda Haddara (Student) who finished the day with

six first ribbons, an excellent achievement. Houda showed great sportsmanship throughout the day and

produced some really good efforts holding out her tough opposi on. Houda will now prepare herself along

with her other team members for the District Athle cs Carnival that will be held at the Hoppers Lane Athle cs

Track on the 5th of September. Robbie Zammit (Physical Educa on Teacher)

The House Results

Tarneit 3660 Chirnside 3060 Powell 2980 Exford 2190


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Purchase your copy of the 2017 Entertainment Books A great fundraiser to support our

College. Only $70 per issue for thousands of dollars worth of savings . Many local Wyndham

restaurants have been included this year

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With not many weeks le in term three Parents and Friends would like to inform you that there will a great opportunity for families to order pies so that you can enjoy them during the cold weather. Derrimut Heath campus will be receiving their order forms shortly and Tarneit will be ge ng theirs next term. Tarneit will enjoy the chocolate drive this term instead. Our Derrimut Heath families can look forward to the chocolates next term. Please don’t forget to order your entertainment books now so that you can enjoy the discounts.

Farewell It is with some sadness that I am saying good bye to all the families, children and staff of Baden Powell College. I have been with the school for 9.5 years and have enjoyed my me here at the school and within the OSHC program. As I reflect back on this me and all the rela onships I have built within the school community I will cherish this me as I move forward into my chapter of my life. I will always appreciate all the support and welcoming gestures that has been given to me by all. Please welcome Ansu Dolley as the new coordinator of the BSC/ASC and Holiday Club. He is new to the posi on so make him welcome and I wish him well in his future endeavours. Look out for the new Holiday program flyer which is out now on line. We’re here to make a er school care visits the best experience possible – for you and your child. If you have any ques ons about the program – please feel free to drop by, meet the team and see what happens in a er school care first hand. We look forward to seeing you soon. The Camp Australia Team. Program Details To find out more about our program, view fees and to register visit www.campaustralia.com.au

Year 7 Camp is on Compass please note parents can pay online through CompassPay. If you have any issues with logging in or any ques ons regarding Compass please

contact Anna Pengelly on 8734 0900.


UMAR "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Without breakfast you won’t be able to pay attention in classwork and you will have hard times if you don’t eat breakfast. Everyone should be grateful that we have food as some people have nothing to eat at home."

NATALIE "If you go to Breakfast Club, you can sit down with your friends and have some breakfast. You also can meet new friends. It is good because they also have the radio going. Maybe one time you can check out Breakfast Club yourself – I’ll definitely be there. Come in and say hel-lo, we don’t bite, we are all friendly and polite. Just bring in your manners and an appetite!"


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ADVERTISING IN THE NEWSLETTERS

If you wish to advertise in the news-letter please contact Sue Love on

9748 8688 or 8734 0900. We produce a fortnightly newsletter that goes home to over 1,250 families. Or, if

you have a sporting, dance club or group that is looking for a venue to

hire we have some vacancies available during the week also

contact me on the above telephone numbers.

Thank you. Sue Love

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BREAKFAST CLUB THANKS YOU

Baden Powell College would like to sincerely thank the wonderful sponsors for our Breakfast Club that we run twice a week at each campus. Without the

support of the magnificent Sikh community including Sunil, Simon Fugazzotto and these generous companies we would not have been able to provide for the

many students who enjoy breakfast at school. We sincerely thank you from the staff and students of Baden Powell College.

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Thank you for your support to our Diversity Is Our Strength Celebra on Day


Welcome to Baden Powell College and the smooth beginning of your child’s school year!!

To enable us to keep you informed of special events, celebrations and activities the Baden Powell College Newsletter will be on Compass and available on our website each fortnight throughout the year. As it is one of our major forms of communication we would like to make it easy for you to have regular access to each issue so we have listed the dates of availability below, we will be emailing it to our families as well. Please take the time to read it so that you know what is hap-pening at your child’s college. Simply go online and type in : www.bpc.vic.edu.au We would like to point out that it may be necessary for you to have Adobe Reader on your computer to access your newsletter.

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