HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

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Gnurad Gundidj Students Return Home

HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2018

Term 3 JULY

Wednesday 25th July Parents Club Meeting

@7:30pm in the Library

Friday 27th July School Social

Saturday 28th July For Love or Money

Fundraiser

Tuesday 31st July Winter Sports

AUGUST

Thursday 2nd August Try VET Day

Friday 3rd August

Jeans for Genes Day

Wednesday 8th August Open Day

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

Harry McLean, Ben McGee, Krystal Hakopa , and Oliver Hallam have returned home from spending 10 weeks at the

Gnurad Gundidj Leadership Camp.

Acting Principal’s Report

Welcome back to Term 3. We have had a really positive start and teachers and student are fo-cused on Teaching and Learning. We are looking forward to an interesting and exciting term. Some of the activities taking place include:

Fed Uni sessions Events organised by SRC: School Social, Jeans for Genes Day, RSPCA Cupcake Day Winter Sport Try VET day Open Day Farm Safety Day Kinder Visits Homework Club

These activities along with teaching and learning will support student’s growth as individuals and learners this term.

School Improvements

Over the holidays, the ‘Primary’ corridor along with the Year 12 room had a ‘face lift’. Julie, Dean and a set of great parent club helpers painted the corridor to match the renovations that occurred this time last year in the Secondary corridor. The students are commenting on how bright and new it all looks. Thank you to everyone who helped. It was lovely to return to a school looking so clean and new.

School Social

Our SRC executive and committee are busily organising the School Social for next Friday night July 27th. They have listened to the student feedback and have arranged for it to be held at the Hopetoun Rec Reserve Footy Shed. It will be a great night for the students to socialise together in their themed outfits. Staff are also looking forward to assisting on the night and dressing up. A school event to look forward to.

Welcome

Welcome to Brock and Jazmyn Hinckley. Brock (Yr 5) and Jazmyn (Yr3) join us from country NSW.

Welcome back Ben, Krystal, Ollie and Harry from Gnurad-Gundidj Leadership School. We are looking forward to you rolling out your Community Learning Project. We also welcome back Bryndal Sinclair.

Coming up

A number of important events coming up include:

Fed Uni visit Tuesday July 24th SRC School Social Friday July 27th from 7pm ‘For Love or Money’ Parents Club fundraiser Saturday July 28th from 2pm

Kind Regards,

Viv Penman

Check out Hopetoun P-12 College Facebook page

Monday 23rd of April at Lake Lascelles

Basketball CLP-

What- Our CLP is going to be a basketball tournament which raises money through a raffle and BBQ. The money would be going towards buying trees which will be planted around the new fishery. Our overall goal is to bring the community togeth-er to play an active sport and at the same time raise money for the new fishery and make it look more inviting.

Who- We are trying to bring all people of all ages in the community together.

When- This event will be held on the 8th, 15th and 22nd of August, which are Wednesday nights.

Where- We are holding this event at the school from there we will raise money to

plant trees at the fishery.

Why- Because we are all very keen on playing sports and one of our favourites is basketball. We think that having a close community is vital in any town, and one of the ways to bring people together is playing sport. This is a good way to keep us healthy, and at the same time allows people to enjoy socialising. We are putting the money towards the local fishery because we thought that if we raise money for the com-munity, we will get more participation.

Harry, Krystal, Ollie and Ben

Welcome to Brock and Jazmyn Hinckley

Brock and Jazmyn Hinckley have joined us in Term 4 from NSW.

Brock is in Grade 5 and enjoys playing his Playstation and hanging out with his friends. Brock is enjoying the peace and quiet of Hope-toun and how friendly everyone is.

Jazmyn is in Grade 3 and loves riding her bike with her Poppy and playing Playstation with Brock. Jazmyn is enjoying the skate park in Hopetoun and likes to ride her bike there.

We welcome Brock and Jazmyn, together with

their parents Stephen and Jade, to Hopetoun

and look forward to seeing them within our

school community.

Jaz and Brock Hinckley

GNURAD GUNDIDJ STUDENTS COMMUNITY LEARNING PROJECT

EXCITING DATES FOR F-3 IN TERM 3

Aug 8th: Open Day Aug 28th: African drumming session Sept 4th: Kinder visit Sept 13th: Flying Bookworm Sept 18th Kinder visit More details in coming weeks

HOPETOUN PATCHWORK GROUP

BIENNIAL EXHIBITION

The Biennial Exhibition of the Hopetoun Patchwork Group Inc. will be held in the

Hopetoun Memorial Hall (Austin Street)

3rd to the 5th August 2018.

Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th the exhibition will be open from 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday from 10am to 4 pm

There will be two shops with fabrics,

sewing equipment and patterns.

Quilts, table runners, bags, toys and cushions etc will be on display.

Morning and afternoon tea as well as light lunches will be available.

Entry is $5

WE NEED YOUR HELP School council has been working hard to beautify your school with a tremendous amount of work been completed already. This semester we are concentrating on in-stalling a new watering system and laying lawn on the front oval. These are huge jobs and require the assistance of some hardworking volunteers. Fortunately, some men have already put their hand up, but we still have 3 slots to fill. If you are able to gener-ously offer your help for a full day on any of the slots available please let Nicki Bellinger know on 50833203 or 0428 860530.

I thank you all in advance and look forward to our children and the whole community enjoying the benefits of our hard work.

Simon Cook

School Council President

DATE: NAME: NAME:

Monday 6th August Adi Horman Jason Allan

Tuesday 7th August Trav Horman Volunteer needed

Wednesday 8th August Jamie Frankel Volunteer needed

Thursday 9th August Michael Grace Tony McLean

Friday 10th August Greg Bellinger Volunteer needed

Monday 23rd of April at Lake Lascelles

SCHOOL SOCIAL Hopefully you’ve all started getting your costumes ready by now… make sure to purchase your tickets soon, as they won’t be sold on the night. You can purchase your tickets from the CAF at any lunchtime leading up to the social. Hope to see you all there!

As mentioned before the holidays, SRC have decided to re-vamp yet another event this year, this time, it’s the school social. We’ve decided to hold it at the Football Sheds this year, to help break the stigma attached to some events only being held on school grounds. The school Social will run on Friday July 27th (second week of term 3) from 7pm to 10pm.

We have decided to go for mixed themes this year and SRC have randomly selected letters out of a hat. Each year level had chosen their themes, as listed below:

Year 6 – S (Superheroes/Supervillains)

Year 7/8 – F (Anything beginning with ‘F’)

Year 9 – T (Anything beginning with ‘T’)

Year 10/11 – M (Met Gala)

Year 12 – R (Retro)

Teachers – B (Anything beginning with ‘B’)

Theme ideas will be put up at the end of this term/start of next term and if you have no idea, talk to your SRC Rep. or your friends.

Can you bring a friend? Yes, you can even bring along two friends, but your parents will need to sign a responsibility slip. Tickets will be available from the start of next term…

Individual Tickets (The student from Hopetoun P-12 College) - $10 Family (2 or More siblings who go to Hopetoun P-12 college) - $15 Bring-A-Friend (Student not from Hopetoun P-12 College) - $5

It would be much appreciated that if SRC members and teachers stay back and help clean up at the end of the night. It is common sense to find a bin when you have rubbish, so, we do encour-age that during the night for an easy clean up, thank you.

Hope to see you all there… great activities, great music and maybe a few prizes to be had.

Happy costume planning,

Maddy Cashill,

SRC Publicist

Monday 23rd of April at Lake Lascelles

Hopetoun P-12 College Parents Club

Mallee Machinery Field Day Fundraiser

We have been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to fundraise for our students at the upcoming Speed Mallee Machinery Field Day to undertake rubbish removal. Listed below are those who were contacted over the holidays to assist. If you are not listed be-low please be assured that you will be contacted for future fundraisers. Thank you for your support. Parents Club Committee

The VCAL students are developing a cookbook for the college and are requesting

recipes from parents and the wider community. If you have any recipes you

would like to submit please send them in to the school with your child or place them in the box at Gateway Beet. They

can be typed or hand written and please put your name on them.

Friday 3rd August Sunday 5th August

9.00am – 11.00am 9.30am – 11.30am

Simon Cook Julie Grace

Greg Bellinger Michael Grace

Tom White Adrian Horman

Michelle White Suzi Hallam

Bruce Landrigan Bert Hallam

Ross Brown Tony McLean

Jamie Frankel

Alison Frankel

Andrew Holm

Alex Kovoor

OPTIONAL UNISEX WINTER JACKET

Available to order at

HIP POCKET HORSHAM

Ph: 53827711

Homework Club

Thursday after school from

3-20pm until 4-00pm

Prep-Year 6

Year 7 –12

WANTED:

Shoe boxes with lids.

Cardboard cylinders

eg: cling wrap cylinder, (not toilet roll)

Please give to

Mrs Hallam.

Parents Club Meeting

Wednesday 25th July at 7:30pm

in the Library