HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

‘Meeting the individual needs of all students’

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAMWORK

T H U R S D A Y 1 S T F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 8

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Welcome to our new faces for 2018

Tuesday 7th March

Little Desert Swimming Dim-

boola (Secondary)

Tuesday 7th March

Little Desert Swimming Dim-

boola () Tuesday 7th March

HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2018

Term 1

February

Tuesday 6th February

Welcome Breakfast @8-15am

Wednesday 7th February

Parents Club Meeting @

7.30pm

Thursday 8th February

Elevate Education

@ 7-8pm

Wednesday 14th February

School Council Meeting

Friday 16th February

SML Cluster Swimming

(Primary)

Monday 19th February

AFL Player Clinic Prep—

Year 8

Thursday 22nd February

Hopetoun P-12 College

Swimming Sports

Tuesday 27th February

Little Desert Swimming

@ Horsham (Primary)

Wednesday 28th February—Friday 2nd March

Year 7 Camp @ Halls Gap

March Monday 12th March

Labour day Holiday

Wednesday 14th March

School Council Meeting

Thursday 15th March

Parent Teacher Interviews

Saturday 17th March

Presentation Ball

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

Ms. Maddison Tegelhuter, Ms. Rhiannon Dixon and

Mrs. Trudi Hallam

Sophie Frankel and

Hamish Seddon

Tanner Davis, Jaiden Cook, Abby White,

Jacey Ferguson, Kaden Petschel, Billy Allan, Katelyn Smith, Jobe Landrigan, Ryan Carter, Tahlia Jones,

Deklin Brown and Tristan Glare.

Staff

Tayla Fitzpatrick, Perri Proposch, Jade and Jason

Box

Year 7

Prep

New Faces

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

It has certainly been a positive start to the school year. The first two days were used productive-ly by staff to prepare for student arrivals and to undertake professional learning central to our school improvement agenda this year. The Year 7 to 12 students settled in quickly on Wednes-day after a brief welcoming assembly. While the Year 7-12 students were settling in, the primary students attended school for a short time to participate in testing programs. Now, today, all stu-dents are at school and all have settled in extremely well.

The start of a new school year brings with it new staff. It is my pleasure to welcome Miss Maddie Tegelhuter, Mrs Trudi Hallam and Miss Rhiannon Dixon. Miss Tegelhuter is teaching the Years 4-6 class while Mrs Hallam is teaching the Prep to Year 3 class along with a known face around the school, Mr Jason Wright. Mr Wright taught most of these students last year in his music teacher role, a role which will continue on Tuesdays. Miss Dixon is our new English teacher. She is teaching Year 7, 9, 11 and 12 English this year. Both Miss Dixon and Miss Tegelhuter have been teaching in England for the past two years hence bring international experience to our school, while Mrs Hallam taught at Rainbow prior to taking family leave. I extend a welcome to all three of our new teachers. And, of course, it is welcome back to all of our returning teachers, support staff and students.

Our school captains, Jacob and Chloe, chaired the welcome assembly on Wednesday. They are looking forward to leading the student group this year. Both told the assembled students and staff about their holidays and indicated that not only did they have some leisure time over the break, they worked in businesses as well as did some study in preparation for their final year of secondary schooling.

New Students Students have joined us this year from a number of locations. We have two new preppies, So-phie and Hamish, Jade in Year 5, Jase in Year 6, Billy, Jacey, Jobe and Abby in Year 7, Tayla in Year 8 and Perri in Year 12. We welcome them all to our College and wish them well for the years to come. There is certainly an optimistic vibe around the school. We are all looking forward to a positive and enjoyable school year with a focus on effort and achievement.

You are invited … Something different to start the school year … Parents, carers and friends are invited to join students and staff for breakfast and a meet and greet on Tuesday 6th February. You are invited to come to school at 8.15am, join us for breakfast (cereal, egg & bacon rolls, juice, coffee) out the front of the school, then go into the classrooms for the year level meetings. The year level meetings will be a short 15 minutes hence all will be over by around 9.15am. This is a great way for you to visit the school, meet the teacher, say hi, meet the class(es) then head off to your other commitments.

However, the agenda for the parents/carers of VCE Unit 3-4 students and the Unit 3-4 students will be a little different. Following breakfast there will be an information session for parents and students of VCE students. This session will provide information about each of the subjects and detail some of the expectations for the year. The session for VCE parents will conclude at about 10.00am. We are hoping that as many parents/carers as possible will be able to attend the breakfast and follow-up sessions. This is a different approach and is a way for you to meet with all of us early in the year on an informal basis. We realise the times may impact on your work however we hope you will be able to make the time to come along and join with us on Tuesday 6th February. If you are intending to come along, please fill in the reply form at the back of this newsletter or respond through Facebook so that we can arrange catering.

Parents of Students in Years 10-12

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for parents/carers of students in Years 10, 11 and 12 this year. The Elevate Education group is touring the Southern Mallee and providing seminars for parents on how to help your child when studying. Elevate will be providing an information session during the day for Years 10-12 students then they are offering a session for parents at night. Even though the seminar comes close on the welcome breakfast, we think the Elevate sessions will be well worthwhile for parents to attend a couple of days later.

The session will cover tips and advice on how to help your child with time management, goal setting, study schedules, managing distractions and other topics of interest to parents interested in supporting their child through the later years of schooling.

The details are:

Topic – How to support your child with their studies run by Elevate Education. Date – Thursday 8th February. Time – 7-8pm. Location – Room 5. Cost – nil. For – Parents of students in Years 10, 11 and 12.

Notices for the Elevate parent session will be sent home separately with the students.

Reminders and General Information

The school bucket hat must be worn by all students when they are outside. The canteen is in full operation. Please be sure to get orders in promptly. School uniform is readily available at Kayes Kollectons. The students look fantastic when

they are wearing uniform. The sense of belonging and school pride shines through. Assemblies are held most Tuesday mornings in room 10. We are not holding separate information and get-to-know you meetings this year; it is all

included in our welcome breakfast. Our first School Council meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 14th February and a Parents

Club meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 7th February at 7.30pm.

Mr Graeme Holmes

Principal

Check out Hopetoun P-12 College Facebook page

School Contacts

Principal: Mr Graeme Holmes

Assistant Principal: Ms Viv Penman

Prep-3: Mrs. Hallam

Years 4-6: Miss Tegelhuter

Year 7-8: Mr. Robins/Mr. Price

Year 9: Mr. Williamson

Year 10-11: Mrs. Wright

Year 12: Mr. Baulch

Ring the College on 50833203 if you would like to make a time to meet with us over any matters.

THE PORTSEA CAMP 2018

FOR ALL CHILDREN OF THE

YARRIAMBIACK SHIRE COUNCIL

Wednesday 4th April to Tuesday 10th April 2018

Dear Parents,

The Yarriambiack Shire Council is offering a fun filled seaside holiday for all children of the Shire be-tween the ages of 9 to 12 years. The Shire Council has provided the opportunity for children to attend this camp for many years. The children who attended have totally enjoyed themselves and many wish to return the following year.

The Portsea Camp has been running since 1946 and has a well deserved reputation for providing, safe holidays and entertainment for. Entertainment includes: snorkeling, swimming, high ropes, flying fox, giant swing, canoeing, arts & craft activities, strolls on the beach, movies, plus many more other fun things to do. If not sit back relax and watch the ferries float past and maybe see a dolphin or two swim by. A HOLIDAY NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Total cost for each child to attend The Portsea Camp is $227.00. Yarriambiack Shire subsidise $100.00 per child for up to 30 children. If these spaces are filled the opportunity for more children to attend is available at full cost of $327.00.

All applications and payment must be handed in to Yarriambiack Shire Council office by Wednesday 28th February 2018. Application forms are available at the Shire Council Office (Warracknabeal). Please phone 5398 0100 if you require an application form to be posted.

Any Volunteers interested in attending the camp willing to assist with children, or have any queries please contact Alannah Lehmann (03) 5398 0107.

Many Thanks

Alannah Lehmann

Camp Coordinator

Royal Flying Doctor Service Scholarships

The RFDS has contacted the school to offer scholarships for rural or first year University students - this flyer has been added to the newsletter in case it is of interest to any 2017 students who might be interested in pursuing nursing or allied health university studies. If any students are interested, please read the infor-mation below and contact the RFDS via the website below.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) is offering four fantastic scholarships worth $2500 each, that we will be presenting to rural or regional, first year university students who are studying nursing or allied health. We invite you to inform any of your students who are eligible for this amazing opportunity and will be starting University this year. In addition to the monetary support, scholarship recipients are also provided with an RFDS experience which includes a day travelling on the road or in the air with the RFDS crew, and they are also invited to attend an RFDS event. The scholarship applications will close on the 19th of April and the win-ners notified in June/July. The application is online; however printed applications are also accepted. To ac-cess the online application, go to: https://www.flyingdoctor.org.au/vic/scholarships-vic

If you have any queries please email scholarships@rfdsvic.com.au.

The accepted areas of study are as follows:

•Aboriginal Health Work · Audiology · Chiropractor · Dentistry and oral health · Dietetics/Nutrition · Exercise Physiology · Medical Imaging · Nursing · Nursing & Midwifery · Occupational Therapy · Optometry · Orthotics and Prosthesis · Osteopathy · Paramedics · Pharmacy · Physiotherapy · Podiatry · Psychology and other men-tal health workers · Radiography · Social Work · Speech Pathology.

Parents, Carers and Friends are invited to join

Students and Staff for breakfast - and a meet and greet

on

Tuesday 6th February

You are invited to come to school at 8.15am, to join us for breakfast (cereal, egg & bacon rolls, juice, coffee) out the front of the school,

then go into the classrooms for the year level meetings.

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Hopetoun P-12 College Breakfast.

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