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 THIS TERM

Principals Report INTERIM REPORTS AND PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS FOR SEMESTER TWO CLASSES – Student’s interim reports for semester two subjects will be uploaded to XUNO this coming Monday. These reports will give you as parents and the students a good idea of the effort that is being put in to classes and whether students are completing work. They should be read in conjunction with the learning feedback that is being provided on work tasks on XUNO. Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews are being conducted next week – bookings are now open on XUNO. Please make time to speak with our staff and bring along your child with you if at all possible. It is important that the conversations are three-way and all parties concerned hear the same messaging.

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH ACCESSING THE REPORTS OR BOOKING AN APPOINTMENT PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE FOR SUPPORT

BUILDING PROJECT – We are in the food tech room finally and gee was it worth the wait. It is brilliant and the new technology in this space is amazing making it a great space for learning. The new furniture arrives on Monday morning for the Arts/Music end of Tech wing. The East end of Tech will be finished in the next few weeks and then we move onto our grounds and demolition works with a final completion expected during term 4. THE BEAT– is on next week and we have a heap of acts performing over the two days and nights. If you haven’t purchased a ticket yet – they are available at the Arts Centre. ATHLETCIS SPORTS were held last week and they were fantastic. We had the largest numbers of students participating, perfect weather, great food supplied by the Irymple Junior Netball and Football club and many parents cheering students on. Congratulations to the students who will progress to the next level of competition and thanks to staff for their organisation of the day. SCHOOL REVIEW – this week we had day one of four days of review. The Education Department conduct a school review for every school each four years and this year is our year for review. It was great having students, staff, challenge partners and our School Council President being a part of the day. Our students were brilliant at articulating what they think is working well at ISC and areas that they think we can improve. In early September we conduct the field work over two days and day four (16th September) is when we begin to finalise our plans for moving forward over the next four years.

Jo McQuinn, Principal

Thurs 22th August

2019

NEWSLETTER

Mon 26th Aug – 2020 Enrolments due Wed 28th Aug – Parent Teacher Interviews

Mon 26th to Wed 28th Aug – Beat ‘The sky is the limit’ Wed 4th to Fri 6th Sep – Yr 10 Outdoor Ed. Camp

Tue 10th Sep – Drs In Schools, sausage sizzle (recess)

Wed 11th Sep – I/S Athletics

Fri 20th Sep – Spring Carnival (Last day of term)

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2020 Enrolments

A reminder for Parents/ Guardians of 2020 year 7’s, enrolment forms along with a copy of the

students’ birth certificate are due back to the General Office by Monday 26th August.

ARE YOU EXITING IN 2020?

Planning for 2020 has commenced. If you have a current student enrolled at ISC and you are relocating to another school or interstate either this year or in 2020, can you please contact Natalie Fryar in the office as soon as possible. This will help us with projected enrolments and there is certain paperwork that requires completion. Thank you.

Parent Payments

Thanks to everyone for making payments to the school. You can pay at our college office, Bpay or directly into our bank account for camps, excursions or fees. If you are paying directly into our bank account please make sure to include the students name in the "Detailed Description" to ensure the payment is processed to the correct student in a timely manner.

Attendance!

A friendly reminder for parents and guardians, if your student is not going to be attending school, leaving early or signing in late for any reason. We ask you to notify the front office, you can do this by calling the school on 5024 5407, emailing the school irymple.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au, or sending a note signed and dated with the student. Students who arrive late or depart early need to come in to the general office to sign in and out. This ensures we can account for all students at all times thank you.

XUNO Reminder for all parents to get onto our school portal Xuno. As all notes without a cost will be going onto Xuno for parent approval online. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to give the school office a call.

PAGE 3 Educating For Success Congratulations Congratulations to Bayley Kelly of Year 10 who made the Div 1 Richmond/Pioneers regional v/line cup. Competed in and won the SSV Northern Zone senior shoot in Swan Hill. And Bayley has won the Under 16 Best and Fairest for the Red Cliffs Football and Netball Club. (Photo middle Bayley at his shoot, right Bayley at Red Cliffs presentation)

Congratulations to Jessica Bertoli who has recently won her age group at the Australian Jiu Jitsu Championship. Jess is now the Australian Champion for Grey Belt 3 White Stripe for her age.

2019 FREEZA YOUTH ART PRIZE

Irymple Secondary College has 15 entries in this year’s FreeZa Youth Art Prize. The art exhibition is on display at the Mildura Visitor Information Centre until August 25th. There is some fantastic art on display and the winning entries in each category were announced on Wednesday August 21st. We are pleased to announce that two of our students have received a prize for their work. Congratulations to Dekira Whitchurch-Jensen (Year 9) who received an award for her landscape painting and Shanley Davis (Year 8) who received an award for her digital art piece. Winning entries received a framed certificate and $100 gift card. See below the winning entries.

PAGE 4 Educating For Success Student Representative Council (S.R.C) Footy Colours Day Report On the last day of Term 2 the S.R.C held its annual ‘Footy Colours Day’ to raise funds for ‘Dirsia’, our sponsor child in Timor-Leste. Money was also raised for the Fight Cancer Foundation. A huge number of students proudly wore their favourite footy team colours and provided a gold coin donation. Pizzas and soft drinks were sold at lunchtime and over $300 was raised overall. To end the term on an extremely high note, after lunch the annual Staff versus Students football match proved to be an hard fought and enjoyable tussle (at least for the many spectators) with expert and entertaining commentary provided by Bill Sauer. Gregor Allan proved to be an honourable and completely impartial umpire and despite the best efforts of the enthusiastic student squad, a greatly outnumbered staff team won by a small margin. A very deserving Player of the Match was awarded to Year 7 Coordinator Natalie Timmis. Luke Sherman easily won Mark of the Match for his sliding effort and Kara Taylor won Goal of the Match for quick snap from near the boundary next to the point post. S.R.C Coordinators Mrs McClure and Mr. Matheson would like to thank all the teaching staff who assisted on the day, those who participated in the footy match and particularly Helen, Natalie and Courtney in the office. We would also like to recognise the fantastic work and commitment of the members of Irymple Secondary College’s Student Representative Council for their wonderful work in making Footy Colour’s Day a great success.

Upcoming S.R.C Events Irymple Secondary College S.R.C members were recently invited by a local radio station to broadcast in a two hour slot, once a month on a Wednesday morning. Students have the opportunity to contribute to the song play-list and most importantly they also get a chance to talk about our school’s progress and important upcoming events. This month Amelia and Janel volunteered to be our first radio presenters and they did a wonderful job. They got to talk about our fantastic renovations, our upcoming musical production of ‘The Lion King’, our ‘Footy Colours Day’ and much more. We are already planning for two of our most successful and enjoyable events on the school calendar: the Spring Carnival and the Colour Run. Both events will take place on the final day of Term 3.

PAGE 5 Educating For Success BEAT 2019 - THE SKY IS THE LIMIT This year the BEAT is happening on the 27th and 28th of August. We have a great number of performing arts students representing Irymple Secondary College. If your child is involved with the year 9 BEAT Dance group, Guitar ensemble, Choir, Latin ensemble or your last name is Trigg, you may need to get ready to buy a ticket! Even if your child is not performing in the BEAT, there are 14 schools involved in the BEAT and it will be an absolute cracking show. To add to the excitement, the BEAT is being sponsored by Mildura Rural Council and Freeza, meaning that tickets are at an all time low. Tickets for the evening performances are $5 (flat rate for all patrons) and just $3 for the matinee performance. With prices so low and with so many schools being involved, however, please be advised not to leave it until the last minute to secure your tickets. We do not recommend relying on being able to buy tickets at the door on the night, you may find yourself without a seat. Tickets go on sale from the Mildura Arts Centre Thursday 1st August. There is no guarantee that your child will be performing on both nights or in the matinee, so please keep an eye on XUNO and Facebook to find out which night they are performing so that you can buy tickets for the night that they perform. Further information about performances will be on Facebook and XUNO soon. Any inquiries about the BEAT please contact Beth Menhennett.

SPORTS REPORT INTERSCHOOL SPORTING COMPETITIONS DATES:

TERM 1

Boys and Girls Tennis: Monday 25th March

Boys and Girls Volley Ball: Monday 25th March Boys Baseball: Thursday 28th March. Girls Softball: Thursday 28th March.

TERM 2 Boys and Girls Golf: Monday 29th April Boys Soccer: Thursday 9th May Girls Soccer: Friday 10th May Girls Football on Mon 20th May Girls Netball on Monday 3rd June.

TERM 3 Boys Football: Wednesday 31st July Boys and Girls Badminton: Wednesday 31st July

TERM 4 Boys and Girls Basketball: Thursday 17th October Boys and Girls Table-Tennis: Thursday 17th October Yr 7/8 Boys and Girls Cricket: Tuesday 31st October Yr 9/10 Boys and Girls Cricket: Friday 1st

November.

PAGE 6 Educating For Success INTERHOUSE ATHLETICS A perfect day weather-wise eventuated for the Athletics sports day which was held on Wednesday 14th August for our second carnival at the Aero ovals. As a result, a wonderful day was had by all, with numbers well over the 350 mark in attendance. This also ensured that there were some excellent times and results recorded in both track and field events. Age group champions were: 13 Yrs Female Champion – Tanika Russell (Middleton) 13 Yrs Male Champion – Jack Livingstone (Johansen) 14 Yrs Female Champion – Hanna Zambelli (Roberts) 14 Yrs Male Champion – Zac Carra (Lloyd) 15 Yrs Female Champion – Latara Trigg (Lloyd) 15 Yrs Male Champion – Ben Doherty (Johansen) 16 Yrs Female Champions – Elyza Penny (Middleton) 16 Yrs Male Champions – Joel Richardson (Lloyd) and Henry Toutai (Johansen) Records: There were six records which were broken on the day. These records were: Denholm Shaw - 13 Yrs 800m – 2:34.60 secs. Old record: Rocky Caminiti (2001) – 2:36.23 secs. Tanika Russell - 13 Yrs 100m – 12:88 secs. Old record: Abbey Rose (1999) – 13.94 secs. Zac Carra - 14 Yrs 100m – 11:10 secs. Old record: Nathaniel Schilling (2007) – 12.13 secs. Zac Carra - 14 Yrs 400m – 1:00:10 secs. Old record: Frank Primarano (1992) – 1:00.90 secs. Hanna Zambelli - 14 Yrs 400m – 1.13.70 secs. Old record: Latara Trigg (2018) – 1.14.77 secs. Claudia Fangaloka - 16 Yrs Shot Put – 10.03 m. Old record: Jenni Barling - 1999 – 9.88 m. House Results: The House championship was keenly contested throughout the day with Roberts taking the early lead, but it was Lloyd who came out on top at the end of the day with a comfortable margin. They beat 2nd placed Middleton, who improved 2 places from last year’s fourth place! This is Lloyd’s first title since 2013 when they won 4 in a row! As is turns out, Lloyd won by 33 points with a total of 887 points. Middleton finished 2nd on 854 points, Johansen 3rd on 830 points and Roberts brought up the rear on 827 points. Congratulations to all age group champions, record breakers and Johansen house on their success. A big thank you to all staff for their efforts on the day, in particular thanks to the P.E. staff for their assistance leading up to and on the day. Special thanks also to Mildura and District Little Athletics Club for their support and assistance on the day. Finally thank-you to all the parents/guardians who came along and supported the day. Steve Morrish (Sport Coordinator)

PAGE 7 Educating For Success Inter-School Footy-Year 7 & 8 The junior footy team competed in the local inter-school footy competition last week. We won two out of our three games comfortably, defeating Merbein and Trinity-Lutheran by 8 goals a piece. In our final game against St. Josephs College we fought valiantly but were outgunned by a much larger team of very capable footballers. Thanks to all the boys for demonstrating high levels of teamwork, cohesion and sportsmanship and playing the games in the #Irympleway. Gregor (Coach)

Back row from left to right: Vinnie Brigante (umpire),

Jesse Romeo, Jude Penny, Harry Bottams, Jacob Young,

Cameron Lay, Cooper Waylen, Zac Carra, Brayden McGregor, Jack Livingstone,

Aaron Cogan (umpire), Dusty Geister, Jack Jessup, Bailey Kelly (umpire), Isaiah Bettes,

Luca DeRosa, Zac Brown. Middle Row: Cameron Blake,

Brodie Ryan, Will Kennedy, Cooper Milsom, Lachie Allan, Archer Wooten, Jake Marks,

Jai Kelly, Sam Blake, Will Nicholds.

Front Row: Aston Stevens, Kyle Rothe

Interschool Badminton ISC fielded 3 teams in this event which was held at Chaffey S.C. Our yr.9/10 boys team made it to the semi-finals with 2 wins and 1 loss but were outclassed by the eventual winners. (Josh Bailey, Patty Carter, Jake Muir, and Dylan Anderson) The yr.7/8 boys also won 2 out of 3 matches with Casper in great form winning all his sets as the no.1 player. Unfortunately there were no finals in this grade so we had to be content with second place. (Mason Purdue, Jeff Mendoza, Adam Cavanagh-Cook, and Casper McCarthy) The yr.9/10 girls tried hard all day and showed improvement with each match. They won a few sets, but unfortunately no matches but had a lot of fun along the way. (Paige McLean, Jayshree Barrett, Janel Noya, and Elyza Penny)

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THE LION KING

3 PBL REHEARSAL SESSIONS LEFT. This means we have to bump up the schedule. As of the 1st September will be rehearsing every Sunday from 10am-2pm. Students involved in the Grease Production will leave at 12pm to attend the MTC rehearsal. Remember to bring snacks, water and dress in a black top, bottoms (no lettering or writing on your clothes), and soft sole black shoes. There will also be extra rehearsals scheduled for Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October of the school holidays. This will be held in the Drama room from 10-2pm, please arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled time and get picked up by 2pm sharp. Keep looking at the Production webpage for changes to individual schedules. If you have any questions, you can contact me via the school portal, XUNO message page or text me on 0438 201 663. Noeleen Davis Production coordinator The Lion King Jnr Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase! Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze It means no worries for the rest of your days it's our problem-free philosophy Hakuna Matata!.......... Auditions are complete and we are very proud of each and every student that had the courage and confidence to be part of the process. We are pleased to announce the main cast has been selected, check out our cast list. We also have a great crew learning and developing their back stage skills. This show is for ONE NIGHT ONLY and will sell out fast. Tickets are on sale now and available from the ISC office. Ph 03 5024 5407. Wednesday 30th October 2019 7:00pm Mildura Arts Centre $15 Adult $10 Student/Child $45 Family

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