HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

‘Meeting the individual needs of all students’

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAMWORK

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BUDDIES

HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2017

Term 3

August

Friday 1st September Junior Cluster Aths—

Rainbow

Monday 4th September Pupil Free Day

Wednesday, 6thSeptember

Parents Club Meeting – 7.30pm in the library

Thursday 7th & Friday 8th

September Yr. 10 Fed Uni Visit

Wednesday 13th September School Council Meeting

Tuesday 19th September

Year 7 Transition

Friday 22nd September Primary Special Lunch

Term 4

Monday 9th October School Resumes

Thursday, 12th October &

Friday 13th October Year 2/3/4 Tandarra Camp

Halls Gap

Tuesday 24th—27th October

Year 5/6 Urban Camp—Melbourne

Hopetoun P-12 College

Phone 5083 3203 Fax 5083 3016 Email: hopetoun.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Hopetoun P-12 College is a Child Safe School

Thanks to Hopetoun Landcare, our students had a wonderful and

creative Buddies session building bird houses.

Principal’s Report

Buddies

The three-week ‘Buddies Block’ commenced earlier this week with students young and older getting together in an exciting project. Our School Chaplain, Helen Searle, has planned worked with Landcare to pre-cut and prepare about thirty bird boxes. The students, working in their buddy groups showing teamwork and coopera-tion, are painting then assembling the boxes. Some will be erected in our school grounds and others will be placed around the lakes. Buddies provides excellent scope for students to work together across age-groups and show our core values of respect, responsibility and teamwork.

Development of our School grounds

Our School Council plans to improve and beautify our school grounds have contin-ued at great pace this week. Concreting of the large shade shelter and pathway was completed today. Contractors as well as parent volunteers have worked to-gether to complete this mammoth task. The area looks magnificent. The next step is to put lines on the concrete to mark out basketball, tennis, bat tennis and mark-ings for various other games. This has been a significant improvement for our school and will be a wonderful facility for students for many years to come.

At the same time there has been a working bee preparing the area and planting the new trees along the front fence. Again, school councillors, under the leader-ship of Simon Cook, parent volunteers and community members have worked tirelessly to get this project completed. A watering system has been installed for the trees, ground preparation work has been completed and trees have been planted.

On behalf of the students of Hopetoun P-12 College I thank Simon, School Council-lors and parents for all of their work on improving our school grounds. The stu-dents appreciate your work and are looking forward to using the undercover area.

SWPBS

We were visited by our School Wide Positive Behaviour coach earlier this week. She assisted the school in commencing the SWPBS system here at Hopetoun and she returns at regular intervals to assess progress and advise on the next steps. Louise was ‘blown away’ by the progress this school was made and she was im-pressed by how well the students know, understand and use our school values. She was amazed that our prep students could tell her our values and what they mean. Their knowledge and understanding exceeded expec-tation. Louise was also impressed by the take-up of the acknowledgment system we have in place. The SWPBS implementation team, led by Mr Baulch and comprising Nicki Bellinger, Mr Robinson, Mr Williamson, Ms Pen-man and parent representative, Allison Frankel, are to be congratulated on their excellent work in developing and promoting this program.

Father’s Day Stall

Our Parents and Friends Club ran a highly successful Father’s Day stall this morning. Many wonderful presents were bought for dads. Thanks to the P&F for providing the opportunity for students to purchase a gift. We wish all dads a wonderful and restful Father’s Day on Sunday.

Pupil-Free Day

Just a reminder that this coming Monday is a pupil-free day. Staff will be at school working on various activities. Teachers will be working on “Planning for Learning”. We will be reviewing school-wide progress towards achieving our improvement targets then planning our new improvement agenda for 2018. We will also be working on budgeting, Respectful Relationships and staffing arrangements for 2018. It is expected that our sen-ior students will use the day to complete set work, to revise and to prepare for their rapidly approaching ex-ams.

Book fair

The Book Fair has now concluded on a highly successful note. We had many students, parents, teachers and visitors who purchased books and various items from the Fair. Thanks for your support and thanks to Moya for organising the Book Fair.

Graeme Holmes Principal

Little Desert Athletics (Primary)

Horsham

Tuesday 12th September

Junior Cluster Athletics

@ Rainbow

Tomorrow 1st September

PUPIL FREE DAY

4TH SEPTEMBER, 2017

Weekly Student Award

Well done to the following students for receiving

Students of the Week

Homework Club It will resume as normal on

Thursday September 7th.

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAM WORK

SHAKE RATTLE &

READ

HEALTHY

ACTIVE KIDS

Proud Sponsors of our

VCAL Program

Latanya Curren

For her excellent attitude and behaviour on camp. She

demonstrated respect for all staff and students, worked exceptionally well within all team environments and

showed great maturity and responsibility everyday with the

positives choices she made. Well done Latanya, you were a

wonderful role model on camp and helped ensure it was a wonderful trip

for all.

Alynah Glare

For showing wonderful respect towards all of her peers during PE classes.

Well done Alynah, you demonstrate our three

values, respect, responsi-bility and teamwork daily.

Parents Club Meeting – Wednesday, September 6th – 7.30pm in the library

Kybe Bellinger

For his enthusiasm and con-tribution during writing tasks

and guided reading ses-sions.

Keep up the top effort Kybe!

Southern Mallee Lakes School Sports Association FRIDAY 1

ST SEPTEMBER

To parents, staff and students who have offered to assist on the day, thank you very much.

A reminder that the athletic sports begin at 9:25am on Friday 1

st of September at the

Rainbow Football Oval. ALL students are asked to be there 9:15am sharp please. Parents are responsible for transporting their children to Rainbow.

Parents are reminded that there will be food available to purchase if they want, otherwise stu-dents will need to bring their own food for the day. Students are to wear their school PE uni-

form with good running shoes. Programs will be for sale at the entrance for $2 each.

If bad weather occurs, there will be an announcement made over 3WM (1089) at 7:30am, students will then come to school as normal. Back up day is this Monday the 4

th

(This is a pupil free day for the school – so students will still need to attend if this is needed).

Thank you to Mr Baulch and the unit 1/2 PE class who have assisted with training for this.

** Could parents please let me know if they are having difficulty with transportation so alternative arrangements can be made for students if necessary. This is a school day, so students are required to attend unless they are sick or have a health related condi-

tion preventing them from doing so.

All the best to our students, I’m sure you will do the school proud.

5/6 year olds Katherine Durant Faye Cook Leanne Stewart

Discus 1 Claire Kelly Jack Bellinger

Discus 2 Zac Robins Ash Chamberlin

Triple Jump 1 Jamie/Alison Jacob Holm

Triple Jump 2 Emma Huff Kiana Marshman

Every Day Counts Facts

Almost 70 million children across the world are prevented from going to school each day for either being from poor countries or having dysfunctional education

systems.

The Guardian newspaper 20th September 2010

HOW LUCKY ARE WE!

Every day Counts Competition

Week six results:

Please send a note, ring or email

to explain your child’s absences.

Grade

P-3

Grade

4-6

Year

7-8

Year

9-10

Year

11-12

96%

97% 94% 87% 86%

WEDNESDAY SPORT (Soccer SEPEP)

WEEK 1 RESULTS:

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Round 1 (Deklin/Cheyanne) Hopetoun FC v Pluto Score: 3-1 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted Uranus v Ninja Warriors Score: 2-2 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted

Round 2 (Sharky/Bonnie) Sharp Shooters v Uranus Score: 4-2 Goals: Jonty 4, Jaiden 1, Mackenzie 1 Best: Jaiden, Jonty, Mackenzie Ninja Warriors v Hopetoun FC Score: 3-2 Goals: Kaden, Ben, Harry Best: Harry, Kaitlyn, Seisia

Round 4 (Seisia/Michayla) Uranus v Hopetoun FC Score: 3-2 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted Sharp Shooters v Pluto Score: 6-1 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted

Round 5 (Katherine/Katelyn) Ninja Warriors v Sharp Shooters Score:1-3 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted Pluto v Uranus Score: 0-0 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted

Round 3 (Krystal/Bryndal) Pluto v Ninja Warriors Score: 2-3 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted Hopetoun FC v Sharp Shooters Score: 0-2 Goals: Not Submitted Best: Not Submitted

Team P

P W L D For Ag Diff Points

Sharp Shooters 4 4 0 0 15 4 +11 12

Ninja Warriors

4 2 1 1 9 9 0 7

Uranus 4 1 1 1 7 8 -1 5

Hopetoun FC 4 1 3 3 7 9 -2 3

Pluto 4 0 3 3 4 12 -8 1

Year 10, 11 and VCAL Students

** A reminder that you are on Work Experience 18th—22nd September (Week 10).

You MUST have your Safe@work modules completed and certificates printed off by Wednesday 6th September.

2018 Subject Selections

Year 10 Student’s and Parents have interviews on Wednesday 6th September with Mrs. Baulch. Please check your times .

Year 11 Students need to hand in their subject selection sheets in by Friday 8th September to Mrs. Baulch.

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Expressions of interest are invited for:

Junior - Basketball Clinic - (3 days)

with highly experienced coach

Brad Krahe

at the

Warracknabeal Leisure Centre

October 2017

Wednesday 4th

Thursday 5th &

Friday 6th

3.30pm – 4.30pm 8-10yrs

4.30pm – 5.30pm 11+yrs

(2nd week of school holidays)

Hopetoun & District Preschool are hosting an information night for

ALL 2018 parents.

This session will provide parents with information regarding the program, logis-

tics and roles to be fulfilled by parents/guardians.

Date: Tuesday 19th September

Time: 7pm

Location: Hopetoun Preschool

Supper will be provided

KAYES KOLLECTION

Could all uniform orders for 2018

please be given to

Kayes Kollection by September 15th

SHOW TIME 2017 FOOD COMES FROM FARMS

JUMPING CASTLE FREE RIDES

ENTERTAINMENT SHOW BAGS

TUG OF WAR SIDE SHOWS

SACK RACES FACE PAINTING

EGG SPOON RACE FIRE DANCERS WALDO THE GREAT MECHANICAL BULL

BALDWIN BOATS CIRCUS CLASS

SCHOOL GARDEN PLANTER BOXES BILL FULLERS ANIMAL FARMSCHOOL

ART DISPLAY ROCK CLIMBINGDOG TRIALS

MARKET STALLS

SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2017 BUSHMANS CHALLENGE

FOR MORE INFO PLEASE EMAIL:

PAVILIONS

info@hopetounshow.com- Wayne-0449219879

RURAL NORTH WEST HEALTH DISPLAY

CFA DISPLAY

HOPETOUN VIC SHOW AND SHINE Fireworks at dusk, Kids entertainment, live music, bar will be open and

much more.

SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017

JAYNE DENHAM

BOOTS N ALL – STUMPS LIVE IN CONCERT

UTES - TRUCKS – MOTORBIKES - CARS

HOPETOUN VIC SHOW GROUNDS ENTRIES ON THE DAY BY 10AM For more information please call Wayne on 0449219879 or

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