Newsletter 19 ~ Wednesday 27th November 2019

Truganina College

55 Clearwood Drive

Truganina VIC 3029

03 9368 9800

www.truganinap9.vic.edu.au

Truganina Times

Attendance It is very important that your child is at school every single day right up to the last day of the year. There are many valuable learning experiences occurring in classrooms across the school until the end of the school year. Please ensure that you are on time by 8.35am every morning and at school every day. Sun Smart As our weather warms up it is very important that every student has a hat and wears it outside during break times and PE. The UV ray (ultra violet rays from the sun) are at their strongest between 10am-3pm, we aim to minimise exposure to the sun during these times. The Victorian Department of Education has a range of sun and UV protection polices which go into depth about keeping your child safe from the sun; https://www.education.vic.gov.au/parents/safety/Pages/sun-safety.aspx Value of Reading Remember to be reading every single day! As Dr Seuss says; ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more things that you learn, the more places you’ll go.’ As Christmas draws closer you may be thinking about presents for your child or for family friends, consider giving a book to open a world of learning and curiosity. Some well-known child favourites for Christmas include; The Night Before Christmas, The Snowman, The Christmas Miracle, The Jolly Christmas Postman and A Christmas Carol. Soundgarage What an amazing concert! The audience of proud families enthusiastically enjoyed the outstanding musical performances of their children. There was so much audience participation with families singing and tapping along to the great sounds of the drums, guitars, keyboards and singing. To see the students performing with such talent and joy whilst being so respectful of each other and proud of their wonderful achievements was fabulous. Congratulations to each student for their commitment to their music lessons, congratulations to each family for their support of this wonderful instrumental music program and of course many thanks to our wonderful instrumental music teacher Tom Spottiswoode and Soundgarage. Justine Ryan Assistant Principal - Teaching and Learning Excellence

Principal Class Report Parent

Teacher Interviews

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Our school community is one with high expectations. We are collaborative and inclusive of all. We deliver a 21st Century guaranteed and viable curriculum that results in outstanding student achievement.

2019 Truganina College Events Calendar

Date Event Thursday 28th November Brickworks Incursion

Students in Year 2A, 2C, 2E, 2F, 2H

Friday 29th November Brickworks Incursion

Students in Year 2B, 2D, 2G, 2I, 2J

Tuesday 3rd December School Banking

Wednesday 4th December Pathways Excursion—The Gordon Institute

Students in Year 9

Thursday 5th December Celebration Day and Graduation

Students in Year 9

Friday 6th December Activities Day—Adventure Park

Students in Year 9

Monday 9th—10th December Year 9 Tarneit Senior Transition

Tuesday 10th December Hanging Rock Excursion

Students in Year 8

Tuesday 10th December State-Wide 07 Transition Day

Students in Year 6-7 and 9-10

Wednesday 11th December Parent Teacher Interviews

Students in Foundation to Year 6

Thursday 12th December Parent Teacher Interviews

Students in Year 7 to Year 9

Wednesday 11th—20th December Year 9 Work Experience

Wednesday 18th December Last day 2020 Enrolments are accepted

Thursday 19th December Grade 6 Graduation

Friday 20th December Last Day of School

School finishes at 1.30pm

Wednesday 29th January First Day of School 2020

Students in Year 1 - 9

School starts at 8.35am

Thursday 30th January First Day of School 2020

Students in Foundation

School starts at 8.35am

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Tuesday 28th January 2020 2020 Curriculum Day

As approved by School Council

Thursday 28th May 2020 2020 Curriculum Day

As approved by School Council

Friday 29th May 2020 2020 Curriculum Day

As approved by School Council

Monday 17th August 2020 2020 Curriculum Day

As approved by School Council

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2019 Truganina College Events Calendar Continued...

Date Event

Last Day of Term

The last day of Term 4 is Friday 20th December.

School finishes at 1.30pm on this day.

First Day of Term 1 2020

The first day of Term 1 is Wednesday 29th January 2020 for students in Years 1-9.

The first day of Term 1 is Thursday 30th January 2020 for students in Foundation.

School starts at 8.35am on these days.

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Reminder!

Please book in for Parent Teacher Interviews – Semester 2 2019

Parent/Teacher Interviews give the opportunity to discuss your child’s learning and areas for future improvement.

Semester Two Reports will be made available online through Compass on Monday 9th December 2019.

Parent/Teacher Interviews for Semester Two 2019 will take place on the following dates:

We will again be asking families to book interview times using Compass School Manager.

Bookings have already opened.

If you have forgotten or misplaced your login details please contact your child’s classroom teacher or the office staff.

Families can also find a helpful document on our school website titled, ‘Guide to Booking Parent/Teacher Interviews.’

Foundation to Year 6 Wednesday 11th December

3:30pm – 7:30pm

Year 7 to Year 9 Thursday 12th December

3:30pm – 7:30pm

F-6 Classroom Teachers

Primary Subject Teachers

Years 7-9 Subject Teachers

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School Council Report

The most recent school council meeting was held on the 11th November and welcomed the newly appointed School Captains for 2020 – Charlie Hickey (8D) and Bhupali Pylla (8E). Outgoing School Captain, Margaret Salesulu, gave a Junior School Council report to discuss all of the initiatives that student leadership are involved with and the successful year that both Margaret and Joy Raval (Joint School Captain) had experienced leading the college. Assistant Principal, Lisa Foster, shared the updated school policies relating to Camps & Excursions and Inclusion &

Diversity. The college is currently updating their existing policies in many areas and these will be presented to school council in the future so they can be read and endorsed. One of our current Year 7 Coordinators, Stewart Wilson, presented the documents associated with the Year 7 Camp that will be taking place at Ocean Grove in February, 2020. Stewart discussed the curriculum links to Science and Marine Biology, as students visit the Marine Discovery Centre and explore the rock pools to view the marine species that can be found at low tide. Students will also have the opportunity to visit the Queenscliff Fort and participate in mini-golf, as well as bush/beach walking and discovery. Our Spanish Teacher, Tania Fota, presented a wonderful opportunity that will see students in Years 8 and 9 in 2020 be able to travel to Spain and stay in a Boarding School on a cultural exchange. Students have already been given the chance to express interest in the trip and there will be upcoming interviews to determine which students might be successful in participating. We also have the privilege of hosting some Year 9 Spanish students in 2020 for a month. There will be more information given to ask for families who speak English at home and are interested in hosting a Spanish student. The school Council members celebrated the success of our students in NAPLAN and were shown how the majority of our 2019 Annual Implementation Plan targets for NAPLAN were achieved by the students in Years 3, 5 and 7, with Year 9 students’ results improving on last year’s cohort of students. The results of the Stu-dents’ Attitudes to School and the Par-ents’ Opinion Survey were also shared and it was pleasing to see that our re-sults are above similar schools in our Network. The college is in the process of setting our goals and targets for the 2020 Annual Implementation Plan.

Leanne McNaughton Middle Years Assistant Principal – (Year 9) Teaching and Learning Excellence

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Soundgarage 2020 Enrolments Open

Firstly, a HUGE congratulations to all the Soundgarage students who took part in the concert last week. It was a huge success showcasing some fabulous students!!! Thank you Tom who has worked so hard with these students throughout the course of the year and also thank you to the wonderful staff at Truganina College.

If you would like to be a part of Soundgarage in 2020 (continue or new enrolment) we would love to have you as part of the team! We offer music tuition in small groups on Guitar, Keyboard, Drums and SAP (Singing and Performance).

Enrolment forms can be collected from the front office.

Please return the filled out form to the school office by Monday 16th December 2019.

For any questions please feel free to contact Maddie Owen at

maddie@soundgarage.com.au or 0401 844 522.

ICAS Assessment and Australian Maths Competition Certificates

A big congratulations to all the students across Years 2 – 9 who sat the ICAS Assessments and the Australian Maths Competition in Term 3. Thank you to the families who supported these exciting extra-curricular opportunities and staff of the Lead 21st century Curriculum and Student Success Teams who coordinated the events. We would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding achievements in these assessments:

Harshad Diddi – Year 3 for the highest score in the Australian Mathematics Competition

Kristen Ng – Year 3 for a High Distinction in the English ICAS Assessments.

Results and certificates from both ICAS and the Australian Maths Competition are now available from the General Office for families to collect. Please endeavour to collect these by the end of Week 9, Friday 6th December 2019.

Thank you for your patience.

If you have any queries, please contact Ann Le—Assistant Student Success Coordinator

School Success Starts with Attendance! A reminder to families that there is no safe number of days for missing school. Each day that your child

misses, puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.

If your child is sick or absent, you are required to

notify the school as soon as possible on the day

of absence using one of the following methods:

1. Log in to Compass and log the absence

directly using the Parent Portal.

2. Telephone the school office and let the

staff know your child’s name, class, date of

absences and reason.

3. Email the school and provide the staff

with your child’s name, class, date of absences and reason.

Any questions in regards to attendance please contact Lisa Foster, Assistant Principal

Attendance Data as at end of Term 4, Week 6

Average days absent per student F-9 12.98 days

2019 Target: Less than 15 days absent per student

Foundation - Year 9

Average days absent per student - Primary 12.63 days

Average days absent per student - Secondary 14.38 days

Foundation 14.20 Year 1 13.35 Year 2 11.93 Year 3 13.60 Year 4 10.20

00A 15.91 1A 10.67 2A 11.09 3A 11.50 4A 13.84

00B 13.09 1B 10.68 2B 12.50 3B 15.18 4B 13.75

00C 14.74 1C 11.71 2C 9.50 3C 11.09 4C 8.40

00D 14.74 1D 15.86 2D 9.60 3D 13.24 4D 11.71

00E 15.52 1E 10.22 2E 11.71 3E 18.48 4E 6.84

00F 16.13 1F 19.70 2F 15.41 3F 14.23 4F 10.92

00G 11.92 1G 11.23 2G 10.22 3G 11.48 4G 6.16

00H 13.04 1H 14.75 2H 12.36 3H 10.95

00I 14.41 1I 16.78 2I 11.00 3I 16.24

00J 12.71 1J 10.19 2J 16.15

1K 12.22

1L 16.00

Year 5 10.79 Year 6 13.09 Year 7 12.37 Year 8 13.01 Year 9 17.44

5A 10.72 6A 13.68 7A 14.16 8A 15.05 9A 16.05

5B 8.69 6B 14.75 7B 16.05 8B 13.38 9B 19.14

5C 11.13 6C 7.93 7C 15.00 8C 13.12 9C 19.09

5D 10.38 6D 16.42 7D 8.70 8D 9.65 9D 15.38

5E 13.30 7E 10.55 8E 14.33

7F 9.82

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Year 7 —Year 9 STEM Learning

On the 12th of November the Secondary Robotics team competed in the First LEGO League competition in the Wantirna Regional district. We went to the Swinburne University campus in Wantirna and worked in the Knox Innovation, Opportunity and Sustainability Centre (KIOSC). The team completed a series of challenges such as the robot games, robot design judgement, core values judgement and the research project.

The Trug Squad 19 (LEGO Engineers) were on a very tight schedule on the day and worked diligently to prepare for each of their tasks. The hard work paid off when we won the Strategy and Innovation Award for the robot design component of the competition. I hope that next year’s team will be able to learn and progress even further than we did this year. Well done to Joshua Espina, Aayan Haq, Musad Ali Mir, Parsa Najarian, Abdullah Sheikh and Nikhilendhra Pailimeedi for all the weeks of hard work they did in STEM club! Thank you to Mr Sheil and Ms Yurukoff for running afterschool STEM Club and coaching the team on the day to showcase their talent.

Winners are Grinners!

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Year 7—Year 9 STEM Learning Continued...

Tahsina Taib College STEM Captain Hanifa Yurukoff STEM Leader and Classroom Teacher

On Tuesday the 29th of October, 9A, 9B and 9C attended an excursion as part of their STEM learning and investigation for their learning task. We were taken on a guided walking tour of Melbourne to learn about the technological and historical developments of our great city. We investigated how much it has changed in the last hundred years and how the founders of Melbourne like John Batman significantly contributed to its development. We made our way through the city to visit places like Hosier Lane, Federation Square, China Town and the Block Arcade a Victorian historic building, where we got to try some Haigh’s Australian made chocolate. Haigh’s was in fact one of the first stores to open in 1915. We concluded our guided tour at Melbourne Central one of the more modern architecturally designed buildings that has the iconic 20 story high glass cone and houses the heritage listed ‘Coops Shot Tower’, a bullet making facility designed in 1889. The day was a valuable learning experience, as we were able to develop our ‘street smarts’ and confidence in using public transport as well as identify why our city is one of the most liveable cities in the world and further develop our understanding of how to make our city more sustainable in the fight against global warming. Thank you to Ms Yurukoff, Ms O’Callaghan, Mr James and Mr Doig for supporting us on the day.

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Year 1 Melbourne Zoo Excursion 29th, 30th and 31st October 2019

Did you know that the shingleback lizards are herbi-vores? That means they only eat plants. During our ex-cursion to the zoo, some of us have learnt that the shin-gleback lizards not only eat flowers, berries and leaves but they also consume insects.

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The Year 1s became wild explorers for the day learning about what makes animals special and meeting many along the way. The hot weather did not stop their excitement as they ‘look up, look down, look all around’. Apart from seeing all the animals and learning lots of information, there were many opportunities for hands on fun. They engaged all their senses and exercised their enquiring minds to learn what makes animals special and uncover animals’ features, habitats, life-cycles and what they need to survive.

Year 1 Melbourne Zoo Excursion Continued...

29th, 30th and 31st October 2019

Highlights of the day “I didn’t know that penguins can swim underwater for so long! - Angel Bajaj 1D “Seeing the tiger sleeping in the shade was the best!”- Journey Isaacs 1D “We got to see the lizard, touch it and learn all about it.” - Dhanvika Chandra Mohan 1E “Aijita’s nugget got stolen by a bird and it was the funniest sight”- Ayesha Singh and Ajita Kumar 1E “My favourite part of the excursion was seeing the snow leopards jumping around on the rocks” - Vedanshi Dhull 1F “I loved seeing the lions and discovered some facts about snakes during the wild explorers activity” - Amish Singh 1F “My favourite animal was the giraffes because I love tall things” - Emily Vega 1K “I like the meerkats because they are so cute.” - Finess Baseka 1K “My favourite animal was the baboon because they are from the lion king.” - Mehaan Pandey 1K

Rose Hashim Year 1 Classroom Teacher, Teaching and Learning Leader

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Year 2 Student Voice Box

Students have started voicing their opinions about books, topics, interests and wonderings to contribute to Year 2 curriculum planning. Year 2 students have shared ideas, such as “I think we should write narratives again in writing and more reviews!” and “In Humanities I think we should write weather forecasts.” Student voice acknowledges that students have unique perspectives on learning, teaching, and schooling, and should have the opportunity to actively shape their own education. This is a great opportunity for students to share their ideas and perspectives to influence lesson planning. The way it works is one ‘Student Voice Box’ is located in each building and this rotates throughout the year 2 classrooms. This gives all Year 2 students a chance to contribute. Not all ideas will be able to be incorporated into planning, but it gives teachers a better understanding of what students think.

Bernadette Smallwood Teaching and Learning Leader—TLT2 Classroom Teacher

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Year 4 Writing Learning Intention We are learning to draft, revise, edit and publish persuasive letters. Success Criteria I know I am successful when I can: • Use the required features for a persuasive letter. • Plan, draft, revise and edit my work. • Use a variety of persuasive devices. • Work on my personal writing goals. • Use clear and neat handwriting when publishing. In Grade 4 we have been learning about persuasive writing. This week our topic was to write a persuasive letter to Mrs Crowle about anything we wanted to see changed in our school.

Bianca Johnstone Year 4 Teacher

Maths at Home Maths is an essential part of any child’s life and making maths fun at home is not as hard as you think! It can be easier for children to understand maths concepts when they relate it to something real and see it as part of everyday life. Here are some ideas of how you can incorporate maths outside of school:

Explore the Everyday maths In the outdoors When walking, talking, looking and listening, you can explore and use mathematics every day. Introduce children to maths in the outdoors by counting steps, finding numbers and shapes and mapping your path. Around the house You can use a range of household objects to explore and discover numbers, measurement, patterns and shapes. Discover new ways of creating learning opportunities without leaving your home. Try cooking together with your children, have them weigh or calculate the total number of ingredients. At the supermarket Shopping is a regular activity that can help children explore mathematical ideas that are both simple and complex. Young learners can help to find items on the shopping list, look for interest-ing shapes or numbers, or talk about the size or weight of things. Try using the scales to meas-ure fruits and vegetables or go discount shopping! What can you buy to make the most out of your money?

Jessie Patterson Year 5 Teacher and Assistant Pedagogy Coach

Sourced from the Department of Education and Training Victoria

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/classrooms/Pages/resourceseverydaymaths.aspx

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Year 4 Art Year 4 students completed homework for Art in Week 7 this Term. One of the homework tasks was to transform a ‘net’ for a rectangular prism into a piece of bedroom furniture. 4D students Alexis Tagala and Vidisha Kumar made very detailed responses. Alexis made a desk with books and a desk lamp and Vidisha made a bed with bedheads, sheets and clock. Both girls were creative with these respons-es and constructed their items with the utmost care.

Angela Rossitto Visual Art Specialist

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Made by Alexis Tagala

Made by Vidisha Kumar

This term our College has been both privileged and proud to host 330 students attending Punjabi classes, conducted by the Victorian School of Languages. Classes have been conducted on Saturday mornings, with the end of year concert being held last Saturday the 23rd of November. Families were entertained for three hours by a wonderful range of cultural performances that were captivating and extremely well organised. There were many proud family members and friends watching on in our gymnasium, which was packed to the rafters. Truganina P-9 College looks forward to hosting VSL once again in 2020. For any queries about how to enrol your child please see the Victorian School of Languages website. https://www.vsl.vic.edu.au/enrol/default.aspx

Victorian School of Languages Concert

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Jaimie Vernon

Foundation Classroom Teacher

2020 Essential Education Items

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2020 Essential Education items are now available to pay via Compass. All bookpacks for 2020 will be sent to your child’s classroom next year ready to start Term 1.

Truganina College is currently seeking Christmas gift donations for our Christmas Raffle to be drawn on in December.

All funds raised from the Christmas Raffle will go towards fundraising for our new playground.

Fundraising initiatives will be ongoing at Truganina College so that we can provide the best facilities for our students.

If you have any Christmas gift donations, please drop them at the office by Friday 13th December.

For further information and queries, please contact the Administration Office on 9368 9800.

Truganina College Christmas Raffle Donations

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Thank you! The Visual Art Team would like to thank the lovely staff at Paint Clearance Centre for the donation of paint cans. It is with the support from our local community, that amazing displays can be created.

Pamela Tanner Art Teacher

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Tissue Drive Truganina College will be holding a ‘Tissue Drive’ for the rest of the year and kindly asks any families to donate tissue boxes to the school to be used by students in the classrooms.

We thank you all in advance for your donations and assistance.

These can be handed into the front office or given to your teacher

School Banking School Banking will take place on a Tuesday in 2019. If your child is interested in School Banking, please visit the link below for more information;

https://www.commbank.com.au/personal/kids/school-banking.html

Get to know Amy Caruana-Smith - Year 5 Teacher in Room 15

What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is green because it reminds me of nature and freedom.

What is your favourite number and why? My favourite number is 918 because 1 + 8 = 9 and 9-1 = 8.

What is your favourite book and why? My favourite book is Out of my mind. It’s my favourite because it’s a fascinating insight into the life of a young girl who is a genius, but cannot communicate with the world as she has cerebal palsy. Its demonstrates how frustrating it must be for someone who cannot be heard.

What is your favourite food? Anything Mexican, I love tacos, burritos, nachos and much more.

What do you like most about teaching and learning? I love to learn new things and see my students light up when they get a new concept and are enjoying what they are doing.

Get to know Hana Partridge – Year 1 Teacher in Room 1 What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is pink.

What is your favourite number and why? My favourite number is 14 because it is half of my birthdate which is the 28th.

What is your favourite book and why? My favourite book is Do not open this Book, by Andy Lee because all my students great really involved with the story and it’s fun for everyone.

What is your favourite food? I love pizza!

What do you like most about teaching and learning? My favourite part of teaching is when students un-derstand a new concept or topic I’m teaching them and they get excited.

Staff Profiles

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Wear a SunSmart Hat!

A reminder that all students are to wear their hats outside during Term 4 and Term 1.

We have some school hats available to buy in the school office. There are varying sizes available and are selling for $12 each.

Hats can also be purchased from our Noone Imagewear

54 Old Geelong Road, Hoppers Crossing

November 29th

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Cadbury Chocolate Fundraiser — Discounted Boxes

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Thank you to all those families that have sold their chocolates, and brought back their money.

For those families that haven’t brought their money back, can the money or the chocolates please be handed into the office.

If there are any families who would like to sell some more chocolates, please see the Admin staff in the office to collect another box.

Boxes (Freddo only) are now discounted to $40 a box for 60 chocolates

Payment must be made when collected.

Congratulations Word Challenge winners!

Congratulations to the following students who were the prize winners for the last newsletter’s Word Challenge and made an impressive amount of words with ‘ne’ in them:

Raima Kashif from 02A

Beenish Rafiz from 05E

Jap Mann from 07B

Well done to all of our winners!

On Monday the 4th of November , Year 1 and Year 6 students participated in a Fun Run. We were able to raise $4,811.81. Monies raised from the Fun Run will go towards our new playground.

Year 1 & Year 6 Fun Run

Student Name _________________________

Teacher Name _________________________

Parent Name ___________________________

CHALLENGE!!

How many words can you make that have ‘id’ in

them?

3 WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED THIS ROUND!

PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES!!!!

Return your slip to your teacher with as many words

written, with ‘id’ in them for your chance to win a

prize!!

Slips must be returned by Thursday 5th December.

Winners announced Friday 6th December.

Go For It!

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