Neerim District Secondary College

News and Views September 20, 2019

The peer awards are awards are nominated by other students within the school for students who demonstrate our college

values of Community, Perseverance, Respect and Leadership. The values have been defined by the students and staff at school

as:

RESPECT - Due regard for the feelings, wishes and/or rights of others

COMMUNITY - A sense of belonging to NDSC

PERSEVERANCE - Performing to your best despite difficulty or delay in achieving success

LEADERSHIP - The action of leading or guiding others

PO Box 18, Neerim South Vic 3831 Phone: (03) 5628 1455 Email: neerim.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au Web Address: www.ndsc.vic.edu.au

PEER AWARDS

Junior School

Community – Kate Mahoney

Respect – Mordecai Belcher

Perseverance – Anabelle Furneaux

Leadership – Tobias Furneaux

All-Rounder – Ruby Kuhnell

Senior School

Community – Shakira Kimm

Respect – Isabell Ryan

Perseverance – Quinn Cervenka

Leadership – Shae Maxwell

All-Rounder – Mitch Dawson

Congratulations to all the award winners for their continued efforts.

Awards were given to five junior and five senior students for Community, Respect,

Perseverance, Leadership and an All-Rounder award for students demonstrating all

of the values. The winners were as follows: CONTENTS

Peer Awards Page 1

Student Achievements Page 2

Calendar Dates Page 3

Year 8 Camp Page 4

Literacy Update Page 5

Sponsors Page 6

Community Notices Page 7

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Positive Behaviour Support

Congratulations to the following students who received green PBS entries on Compass for this fortnight: Jordyn Allen (2),

Sharlette Allen, Charlies Aspinall, Holly Behncke, Cadman Benetti, Riley Brown, Maddison Brown, Holly Carey (3), Dakota

Clancy, Jaccob Coad, Gordon Cook, Pheonix Coombs (2), Braydon Coutts, William Cox (2), Makalah Crichton (4), Heath Darcy,

Dakota Dawson, Mitchell Dawson, Cooper Dobell, Gracie Drummond, Macca Duck (2), Cameron Eades, Arielle Eades, Nathan

Eagle, Beau Ellis, Rachel Eyles (2), Jacob Findlater (2), Rhiley Fleming (2), Annabelle Furneaux, Jazzy Fusinato, Ben Garrett, Jack

Hamilton, Breanna Harris (3), Tianni Harris, Mia Higgs, Charlotte Hoddinott, Chloe Ingram (2), Ky Jagielka, Tyler Joachim, Ashton

Kimm (2), Shakira Kimm, Tsz Ching Kisielnicki, Jack Marshall, Karin Martin, Tiff Matheson (3), Mav Matheson (2), Shae Maxwell

(2), Aaron Mooney, Thomas Oldham (2), Clarissa O'Neal, Cooper Orwin, Stuart Ottrey (2), Fletcher Pallot, Stephanie Quigley,

Joe Richardson, Connor Rigg, Hudson Rintoule, Eloise Robson, Baylin Rourke, Taleea Rourke, Bethany Sayburn, Riley Smart,

Rylen Smith (3), Kodi Smith, Jade Snelling, Joel Van Raalte, Ella Van Raalte & Aamal Wahid (3)

Those students who receive a PBS green entry on Compass will go in the draw to win

either the Sponsor of the Week $30 voucher provided by our community sponsors, a $5

canteen Voucher or the AAA Award.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

October Monday 7 First day of Term 4

Tuesday 8 VCAL High Tea Excursion to Warragul

Thursday 10 Planet Paddlers - Canoeing - Port of Sale

Thursday 24 Planet Paddlers - Sea Kayaking Pre-Visit

Monday 28—Friday 1 Planet Paddlers - Sea Kayaking Camp

Wednesday 30 VCE English Exam - 9.00am–12.15pm

Wednesday 30 Gippsland Year 7 Boys Hockey

November Tuesday 5 Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Thursday 21 Planet Paddlers - River Sledding

CALENDAR DATES

Permission forms for the above excursions have been handed out to students, can parents please ensure that these are signed

and returned at least 5 days prior to the event, if your child is not attending the excursion please let the office know so that

they can be removed from the list. Alternatively, you can give your consent through the Compass portal, if your require a login

or your password reset please contact the office.

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Canteen Voucher

This week’s winner is Gracie Drummond

of year 7.

Gracie was nominated by Mr Jeffrey for

representing NDSC at the inter school basketball. Well

done on your efforts Gracie, a $5 canteen voucher is on

its way to you.

Sponsor of the Week

BOMBSHELL STUDIO

This week’s winner is Macca Duck of year

8.

Congratulations Macca, an iTunes voucher to the value

of $30 is on its way to you, courtesy of the Bombshell

Studio.

AAA Award

The AAA award rewards consistent effort and

citizenship in our students and recognizes the

contribution that they make to the life of the

College.

This week’s winner is Chloe Ingram of year 8.

Chloe was nominated by Mr Jeffrey for umpiring and

supporting the year 8 Badminton team at the state finals. You

showed a great deal of community spirit and determination.

Well done Chloe, a reward is on its way to you courtesy of the

Walter Haines Foundation.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

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YEAR 8 CAMP

Swimming, skiing, mountain bike riding, orienteering, and white-water rafting; sounds like an action packed holiday and

exhausting just to think about. However, that’s what our Year 8s were treated to on their recent camp in the Rubicon Valley.

None of these activities could be possible and indeed successful without the students learning and applying their skills and

knowledge of teamwork along with our school values, all the while skilfully guided by the Rubicon staff.

It was a fabulous opportunity for students to get to know each other better as a group, form new friendships and rekindle old

acquaintances, build trust and grow as individuals through some pretty extreme, physically taxing but fun filled activities. We

even survived meat free Monday and learnt about the environmental impacts of water and electricity usage

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READING SCHOOL WIDE FOCUS 2019

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This is the fifth year of NDSC’s school wide literacy focus. For

the previous four years we worked on students’ ability to

write well at a secondary school level as our emphasis. We

had outstanding success with this. Student growth as

measured by the year 9 NAPLAN indicated that our high

growth over a three-year period

was at 31%. For this growth, it

doesn’t matter the starting point of

the students, just how much they

have achieved in their first few

years of secondary school. Last

year’s growth in writing as

measured by Year 9 NAPLAN was

one of the highest in the State at

41%. We are all very proud of our

students and their achievements.

As writing is going along so well,

this year we swapped our focus to

reading comprehension. Our

NAPLAN results for Year 9 students

this year was especially strong,

with students growing above State

averages for all areas of NAPLAN. This is a massive

achievement by our current year 9 students. We congratulate

you and your families on this effort.

As a staff we have been introduced to many techniques and

strategies to work with students in every subject to improve

their ability to read the sophisticated range of non-fiction /

informative texts that is required for every discipline at

secondary school. It is pleasing to see this early positive

response in the growth of student abilities. One element that

we have been working on particularly hard is vocabulary

development in students. At secondary school there is a huge

amount of vocabulary in every subject that is specific to that

discipline. ‘Research reveals that vocabulary knowledge is the

single best indicator of students’

reading ability, comprehension,

and familiarity with academic

discourse.’ (From Words their way:

word study with middle and

secondary students.)

For terms 3 & 4 this year we have

implemented a trial of reader’s

notebooks from years 7-10. These

are designed for every subject and

every teacher has been using them

with trial classes before, during

and after reading. The aim is for

students to be more aware of their

thinking while reading. If meaning

breaks down for students, we want

them to have a range of strategies

to get back on track so that they can grow their

comprehension of every discipline. We will be analysing the

results of the trial at the end of term 4. We will reflect on

what has worked well and what needs to be further honed to

make these notebooks effective reading comprehension tools

for all students next year.

Kinza Potts

Learning Specialist - Literacy

Mary Beck Preschool is dong family portraits as a Fundraiser!

We have teamed up with Rayleen form Hummingbird pictures and are hosting family

portraits on Sunday 6th October (last Sunday of the school holidays) with sittings

beginning at 10:30 am. The backdrop of the pictures will be grey.

Sitting fee is $40 which includes a free 8 x 10 picture - packages will be available

starting at $150.

If you are interested please contact Rhiannon on 0401 971 266 to set a session time.

Thank you for your support.

KINDER FUNDRAISER

We would like to thank all of our generous sponsors for their support throughout this year. With your continued generosity

and commitment we have been able to improve the educational opportunities available to students. We strongly encourage

our parents and the wider community to please support these wonderful local businesses that sponsor our school so well.

Nam Nguyen

123 Main Road

Neerim South 3831

cherokeespetcare@hotmail.com

Dennis Bowen-Day, Director

115 Main Neerim Road, Neerim South

P: 03 5628 1493 M: 0418 526 701

Your local Real Estate Agents

Neerim South Hotel

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91-109 Main Neerim Rd Neerim South

Ph: 5628 1431 Fax: 5628 1093

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Ph: 5628 1454

Cinema Arcade

Victoria Street

Warragul

Ph 5622 1399 Phone 5628 1513

129 Main Road, Neerim South 3831

147 Main Neerim Rd Neerim South VIC 3831

Ph 5628 1462

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OUR SPONSORS

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COMMUNITY NOTICES