Included in this newsletter are numerous great reports on recent school

community activities that have occurred over the last couple of weeks.

They include the Group 2 “Terrific Travel Trek”, Group 3’s “Bendigo

Camp” and the Exiting Students “Celebration of School Life Dinner”,

all of which required a great deal of planning and time commitments

outside of their usual duties by many of my staff members. The students

all had a ball and I offer heart-felt thanks, as I am sure all you do, to the

staff for their generous efforts.

Earlier this month we signed off on a 3 Stage Master Plan for the

Warracknabeal Education Precinct, which reflects the 3 Government

Schools commitment to an inclusive, authentic learning environment

with many shared resources. We now move into the Schematic Design

phase. In this phase, all the “nitty gritty” aspects of learning spaces, both

internal and external, administration and amenities in designs that

reflect current educational trends, are finalised. This process is

timetabled to be finished by mid-January next year and I hope to be

able to spend a short time at our School Concert presenting some initial

designs from our Architects “Kneller Designs”.

I hope to catch up to most of you at the various School Community

events coming up before the end of the year.

Peter

Dates to

remember;

December

Friday 2nd

Group 1 Excursion

Swan Hill

Friday 2nd

VIC Health Cup

Basketball

Friday 9th

School Concert

Tuesday 21st

End of School Year

2.15 dismissal

What’s happening in our School

Principal’s Report

As a parent, you can play an important role in helping your children

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and strategies to manage these risks, you can help guide your children to

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Check out this link to help your kids be cybersmart.

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Newsletter Date:

November 2016

Birthdays

December

Liam

1st

Shinea

9th

Zac

20th

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Middle School

Bendigo Trip – Group 3

A Trip to Remember – it was AWESOME – we all had lots of fun, some of our favourite

places was the Discovery Science Centre, our night out for a meal, Jumpz, swimming and

playing!

We can’t wait for our next trip!

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Terrific Travel Trek

On Wednesday the 9th of November, the Group 2 students set off on their terrific travel trek.

Their journey took them across Victoria using a variety of public transport including a V-Line bus to

Ballarat, a train to Melbourne, a Skybus to the airport, a Qantas Link plane to Mildura and the

Henty Highway bus home to Warracknabeal. While on their camp the students visited the Ballarat

Wildlife Park, went ten-pin bowling, ate out at the Park Hotel (near the Arch in Ballarat), explored

Southern Cross Station and Tullamarine Airport, ate out at the Pizza Café in Mildura, walked along

the Murray River to see the paddle steamers, swam in the wave pool and arrived home to family

and friends late on Friday night. Wow!

Junior School

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Senior School

On Tuesday 15th November we had our ‘Graduation Celebration’ for the exiting students.

We invited our parents, grandparents and family members. We had a dinner at the school. On

the menu was pre-dinner nibbles, roast turkey and vegetables and for sweets we had sticky

date puddings or pavlova. We had a presentation where we each made a speech and we got

given a mug, pen and a certificate. Liz made a slide show of the exiting students. It was a

really fun night because we got to share our celebration with our families. The graduating

students for 2016 are Callum, Jarod, Lytton, Karlee, Robert, Shinea and Talon.

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