Educating For Success

975 Karadoc Avenue Irymple Vic 3498 Ph 03 5024 5407 Fax 03 5024 6631

Website www.irysec.vic.edu.au Parent Portal https://psportal.irysec.vic.edu.au/ Twitter https://twitter.com/irymplesc

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IMPORTANT DATES

Principals Report WELCOME BACK TO TERM 4 WOW we have started Term 4 with a very busy week. It was fantastic to see all the kids back happy and ready to finish the year off well. We finally got into our Administration block during the last few days of the holidays – it is wonderful and such a lovely environment to work in. The front entrance will not be finshed for another week or so which means the entrance to the office is at the side between A and Dwings. The first phase of the Senior Hub is complete and the students have been working in this space. It has been decked out with new furniture and technology for students.

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK This week has been mental health awareness week and we have had a variety of themes to focus on throughout the week. We have looked at “Swapping snaps for chats” and the possible negative impacts of technology on our wellbeing, “find your passion,” the positive impact of sleep (and we had a pjama day) along with nutrition and physical health culminating with a healthy FLO Café menu on Friday and guest speakers. To continue this theme into the following week we have a program on Thursday with guest speakers regarding Cyberbullying.

Thurs 11th October 2018

NEWSLETTER

Tues 16th Oct – Interschool Basketball and

Table-Tennis

Wed 17th – Fri 19th Oct – FLO Camp to Adelaide

Mon 22nd Oct – State Athletics

Tues 23rd Oct – Heroes and Villians Dress Up Day

Wed 24th Oct – ISC Variety Show Tech Rehearsal

Thurs 25th Oct – ISC Variety Show 7pm MAC

Thurs 25th Oct – LMR Basketball, Hockey and

Table – Tennis

Tues 30th Oct – Interschool Cricket

Wed 31st Oct – Fri 2nd Nov – Outdoor Ed Camp 1

Wed 7th Nov – Fri 9th Nov – Outdoor Ed Camp 2

Tues 13th – Thurs 15th Nov – Surf Camp

Thurs 6th Dec – Year 10 Graduation

Tues 11th – Wed 12th Dec – Grade 6 Orientation

Days

Tues 11th – Thurs 13th Dec – Year 10 Orientation

Days at MSC

Thurs 20th Dec – Awards Night

Fri 21st Dec- Last Day of Term 4

Entry into SHub Classroom Leadership Office

PAGE 2 Educating For Success STAFFING This term we have a number of staff on long service leave – Anne Symes and Rod Matheson are on leave for the first 6 weeks of term, Angela and Ed Hung have three weeks leave, Steve Morrish one week and Gregor Allan the last three weeks of the term. To provide consistency of learning for our students, all these staff on leave are being replaced by our regular replacement teachers– those on leave and the replacement staff have worked together to ensure that students learning is not impacted. We also welcome Bev Thompson to our Wellbeing team as the school nurse. Bev is at ISC on Tuesday and Wednesdays and available to students. Bev has much experience in the School Nursing Program and she is a valuable asset to our team. Sadly David Byrne our Koorie Education Support Officer, has taken 12 months leave from the Department, we wish Byrnesy well and know that the kids, staff and parents will miss his positive imapact on our school. Ben Parker will be replacing David and we welcome Ben to ISC. Ben is shared between a number of schools and comes to us with much experience. VARIETY NIGHT Our special night is on 25th October with kids and staff working very hard to prepare for this event. For two days this week our students have been in rehearsals and by all accounts a lot of fun and learning took place. Please keep an eye out on our facebook page and the Xuno portal for further information. ORGANISATION This is an incredibly busy term and it is imperative that students don’t miss out on the many opportunities provided for them. To ensure this doesn’t happen students rely on parents to assist them so please stay informed through the Xuno portal, our facebook page and the newsletter.

Jo McQuinn Principal

VARIETY NIGHT – HEROES AND VILLAINS 25TH OCTOBER

MILDURA ARTS CENTRE 7:00PM

Grab your capes and don those masks it’s time for the Irymple Secondary College’s Variety Night. This year our theme is ‘Heroes and Villains and we expect you to come appropriately dressed to our one and only evening performance on Thursday 25th October 2018. Show starts at 7:00pm at the Mildura Arts Centre and tickets can now be bought at our newly furbished administration offices for $10.00 per adult, $5.00 for students under 15 and $25.00 for a family of two adults and 2 children. Support your children and come along and enjoy a great night of entertainment. The Instrumental teachers have been hard at work and we may even see some of them strut their stuff. The dance and drama club students are rehearsed and ready to show you their talents. The backstage crew are versed and lights have been plot. We are ready and we hope that you are to.

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SRC REPORT - SPRING CARNIVAL AND COLOUR RUN What a wonderful example of the Irymple Way - the last day of last term was a perfect ending to the term with our traditional Spring Carnival and newly included Colour Run. Everyone in the school got involved and a fabulous day resulted – great weather to, whoever ordered that! Thanks to parents who donated items, helped bake goods, came out to support the Colour Run and to all the staff who worked behind the scenes making sure the kids had what they needed for their stall to be a success as well as the day in general, the SRC students for all their extra input before, during and after the day to make sure it went to plan and of course all our students for their ideas, enthusiasm and participation with planning and running the stalls and enjoying the food and activities other stalls had to offer. There was a variety of great food and activity stalls; freshly baked slices, hot donuts, fruit smoothies, snow cones, pizza, hot chips and Lucky Numbers, AFL Kick, Wet Sponge Toss and Balloon Shooting just some of the food and activity stalls open to the students for the morning. Students shared the responsibility of running their stalls so they all had time to enjoy the food and activities run by the other forms as well. Spring Idol, our local talent quest followed the carnival with some fabulous staff and student acts. The entertainment was priceless! Our winners of were: 1st - Nafetalai Fangaloka Dual 2nd – Jorja Taylor and Millie Edwards The day ended with a new tradition at ISC – our Colour Run. The kids looked fresh and clean in their white tops all lined up at the starting line but it didn’t take long for a riot of colour to take over! Many of the students collected sponsorship from their family and friends for going in the Colour Run to further raise funds for new classroom furniture – thank you to everyone who sponsored a student! Students who collected sponsorship have until Friday this week to hand their money in to the school office or have it paid online via their profile page. After Friday they have two weeks to claim their prize/s for the money they raised (see below). HOW TO ORDER YOUR PRIZE FOR FUNDRAISING FOR OUR COLOUR RUN Between Friday 12th October (all sponsorship due) and Friday 26th October simply visit schoolfundraising.com.au and create/log into your Profile Page. Then click on the ‘ORDER PRIZES’ button and follow the prompts. If you have any questions, please contact the School Fun-Run team on 1800 FUN RUN and they will gladly assist!

Friday 21st September (last day of Term 3) ColourRun Friday 12th October (first Friday Term 4) All sponsorship money due

(online and in the school office)

Friday 26th October (third Friday Term 4) All online claims for prizes due

Upcoming events Tuesday, 23rd October Heroes and Villains Dress Up Day in support of our upcoming Variety Show; students can come to school dressed as their favourite superhero or villain.

Date TBA Leadership Workshop with Year 9s aspiring to Year 10 Leadership positions

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SPORT REPORT

INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS

The Interschool Athletics were held in warm and slightly breezy conditions on Wednesday 4th September. The competition was won by Merbein for the first time for many years while our team performed well, with a battle between us, SJC and Red Cliffs throughout the day for second position overall. As it turned out, Merbein finished first on 603.5 pts. SJC finished 2nd on 510 pts. We finished 3rd on 488.5 pts and Red Cliffs fourth on 411 pts.

There were many excellent individual performances with Ben Doherty (pictured) winning the 14 Yrs Boys Age Group Champion.

Josh Ndaisaba and Chloe Barker came 2nd in the 15 Yrs Boys and 16 Yrs Girls Age Group Championships respectively, while Braydon Flack and Annabel Hocking came third in the 16 Yrs Boys and 16 Yrs Girls Age Group Championships respectively.

There were many individual and team placegetters on the day with the following students winning their event(s) or coming 2nd in and subsequently qualifying for the Loddon Mallee Region Athletics to be held in Bendigo on Thursday 12th October (first week back next term).

Chloe Barker – 16 Yrs 100m, 200m and 1500m Ben Doherty – 14 Yrs 400m Bayley Kelly – 14 Yrs 800m Annabel Hocking – 16 Yrs Discus Kyle Rothe – 13 Yrs 1500m (2nd) The following relay teams also won their events and qualified for Bendigo. 14 Yrs Boys Relay – Lachie Adolph, Zack Talent, Jamie Carr and Josh Bailey 16 Yrs Girls Relay – Chloe Barker, Brooke Hards, Trinity Harcoan, Annabel Hocking and Laney Blake

Congratulations to all winners and placegetters and a big thank you to all participants on the day. Pictured below is the happy team (minus a few students who left early)

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IRYMPLE WINS U14 FOOTBALL PREMIERSHIP Irymple Under 14 football team won the Grand Final played on Saturday 15th September. The final score was Irymple 8-5-53 to Robinvale-Euston 3-4-22. There were quite a number of boys from our Irymple Secondary College community who were members of the triumphant team. Those boys were: Vinnie Brigante of Yr 9, Kade Baynes, Ethan Bray, Kobe Flack, Archer Hammond, Zach Stainer and Harry Tonzing of Yr 8, Harry Bottams, Zac Carra and Ashton Stevens of Yr 7. Congratulations boys on a job well done. Pictured below are the triumphant team members following their win.

Maths News Congratulations to the following students for the terrific results obtained in the annual Australian Mathematics Competition. Maths Competition Results

Year 7 Jasper Robbins Distinction Jonathan Fuda Distinction Casper McCarther Distinction Maia McKenzie Credit Year 8 Zack Talent Distinction Maddison Oliver Distinction Zali Doolan Distinction Flynn Hopgood Credit Lachlan Purdue Credit

Matthew Bennett Credit Sofia Ghidinelli-Matheson Credit Janel Noya Credit

Chloe Fangaloka Credit Year 10 Jack Bennet Credit

Congratulations to all students who entered and received Participation Certificates. Certificates will be handed out early in Term 4 at our next whole school assembly. Karen Boyce Head of Maths

Zack Talent achieved the

top score for ISC. What a

champion!

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English Competition Congratulations to the 34 students who elected to participate in this year’s ICAS English Competition. There were some terrific results achieved with 4 students receiving Merit Certificates, 12 achieving a Credit result and 4 receiving a Distinction. Students who received a Distinction scored in the top 10% of students across Australia. Year 7

Sophie Elton- MERIT

Kye Thompson - MERIT

Lachlan Adolph - CREDIT

Aston Jory - CREDIT

Kaid McGlashan - CREDIT

Luka Modica - CREDIT

Tate Schwarzbauer - CREDIT Year 8

Kelsey Barbuto - CREDIT

Jayshree Barrett - CREDIT

Chloe Fangaloka - CREDIT

Sofia Ghidinelli-Matheson - CREDIT

Janel Noya - CREDIT

Dylan Anderson - DISTINCTION

Matthew Bennett - DISTINCTION Olivia Orwell - DISTINCTION

Year 9

Caelan Dew - CREDIT

Latara Trigg - DISTINCTION Year 10

Chloe Barker - MERIT

Joel McDonald - MERIT

Anna Timpano - CREDIT

STEM for Sunraysia Excursion 60 students from across the region are offered the chance to participate in two days of STEM activities. We were offered for a group of our Inquiry Science (STEM) students to get involved in solving real world problem using the principles of Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering. They were given the opportunity to visit leading businesses in the areas of Health, Horticulture, Transport and Entrepreneurialism.

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