BAIMBRIDGE COLLEGE

Issue 24

Thursday 15 August 2013

85 Stephen Street, Hamilton 3300

Ph: 03 5572 2788 Fax: 03 5572 5811

Upcoming Events

15-19 August

Snow Trip

16 - 18 August

40 Hr Famine

21 August

Yr 9 & 10 Info

Evening

26 August

Schoolgirls

Netball Geelong

28 — 31 August

CHICAGO @ the

PAC!!!!

30 August

Yr 7 Scholarship

applications due

Thursday 12

September

Footy Colours

Casual Dress Day

16 September

GD Golf

20 September

End of Term 3

Email: baimbridge.co@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.baimbridge-co.vic.edu.au

Scholarships:

Applications for 2014 Year 7 scholarships are now open. Applications for the scholarships

are available from our website or from the front office at school. There are four categories of

scholarship for students entering Year 7 next year. They are Academic for students who

excel in their academic studies, General for students who stand out for reasons other than

academia such as leadership or sporting skills, Rural for students who live outside the usual

Baimbridge College ‘zoned’ area and Music for students who have excellent musical skills

whether vocal or instrumental.

Determination of successful applicants is done using a combination of written application,

interview and primary school history and/or references. Applications close on Friday 30th

August.

Long Tan Commemoration:

The commemoration of the Battle of Long Tan takes place this Sunday 18th August.

Assistant Principal Miss Rosemary Morgan will represent Baimbridge College at the

Vietnam Memorial in Lonsdale Street with a number of our students. Any interested

students should contact Miss Morgan tomorrow if they would like to participate. Anyone

representing Baimbridge College will need to be in full school uniform.

Information Nights:

Our Year 9/10 Information Night takes place on Wednesday 21st August at 7.30 pm in the

VCE Centre on the east campus. Letters have been sent home to ensure parents have a

concrete reminder of this important night. A large number of teachers will be present to

answer any questions about elective subject selection so I urge parents and students to

take advantage of this excellent opportunity.

Welcome:

Welcome to Miss Tamara van Hees who began working with us in our library this week.

Miss van Hees will be working along-side Mr Franks and Mrs Dempsey helping to keep our

library organised and ready for student and teacher use every day.

Compass:

Have you logged in yet to see if there are entries for you to read about your son or

daughter? Do you realise that you can approve student absences on Compass? Find out

how easy it is to find out more about your son or daughter’s classes and daily timetable.

Your log on details and password were posted out two weeks ago.

Principal’s Notes

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If you have any concerns please

contact:

PRINCIPAL:

Mr Robert Vecchiet

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

EAST CAMPUS:

Miss Rosemary Morgan

WEST CAMPUS:

Mr John Hill

P—4 CO-ORDINATOR:

Mr John Hill

MIDDLE SCHOOL

CO-ORDINATOR:

Mr Scott McFadden

YEAR 8 CO-ORDINATOR:

Mr David Fisher

YEAR 9 CO-ORDINATOR:

Mrs Narelle Kelly

YEAR 10 CO-ORDINATOR:

Miss Sheba Gurm

VCE YR 12

CO-ORDINATOR:

Mrs Sue Smith

VCE Yr 11

CO-ORDINATOR:

Mrs Grace McGarigle

STUDENT WELLBEING:

Ms Cath McGowan

VET / VCAL

CO-ORDINATOR:

Mr Steven de Man

Principal’s Notes Continued

The website is baimbridge-co.vic.jdlf.com.au and can be accessed anywhere the internet is

available.

Standing Tall Mentoring:

Our Standing Tall Mentoring program has reached another milestone with the 2013 AGM

being held on Monday 19th August. I would like to congratulate the Committee of

Management and Tracey McDonnell and Jane Crowe for maintaining this wonderful support

mechanism for students.

Help:

Paula Muellerhorn is looking for a host family for the first week of the September school

holidays because her longer term host is unavailable at this time. If anyone in our

community can help please contact Mr Denis Hilder of Southern Cross Cultural Exchange

on 0400 493 190.

Parent Opinion Survey :

I would like to thank those families who have returned their completed survey forms. These

have been packaged up and sent to Melbourne to have the information recorded. I look

forward to finding out what these families have to say about Baimbridge College.

HDSC 2014:

I am pleased to remind our community that the Hamilton District Skill Centre is again

offering courses to district students in 2014. The intention is to once again offer certificate

courses in Hospitality and Building Construction and we are currently working towards

expanding our offerings to include Hair and Beauty and later on Business Administration

and maybe Retail and Engineering. Information will be provided to all district schools so that

students across our district can continue to benefit from this outstanding facility and

instructors.

School Council:

The next meeting of School Council takes place on Monday 26th August at 7.30 pm in the

Hamilton District Skill Centre.

Access to Newsletters:

Baimbridge College produces a newsletter each week that will be distributed to parents by

email or via the Baimbridge College website. To ensure you receive your newsletter please

contact our front office on 5572 2788, so that you can be placed on our email distribution

list.

If there are any questions or concerns I urge parents and guardians to contact myself, our

Assistant Principals Mr John Hill and Miss Rosemary Morgan or the relevant Co-ordinators.

P-4 Co-ordinator Mr John Hill

Middle School Co-ordinator (Year 5-7) Mr Scott McFadden

Year 8 Co-ordinator Mr David Fisher

Year 9 Co-ordinator Mrs Narelle Kelly/Mrs Jenny Clark

Year 10 Co-ordinator Miss Sheba Gurm

Year 12 Co-ordinator Miss Sue Smith

Year 11 Co-ordinator Mrs Grace McGarigle

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Principal’s Notes Continued

Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator Mrs Catherine McGowan

VET / VCAL Co-ordinator Mr Steven de Man

Student Laptop Computer Co-ordinator Mrs Kym Dempsey

Robert Vecchiet

Principal

Launch of The 40 Hour Famine at Baimbridge College

Today the SRC launched the 40 Hour Famine 2013 at Baimbridge. Sponsorship is

being sought by participants in the programme. Participants will be giving up food,

technology that’s dear to their heart, talking or something that really matters to them

for 40 hours either 16-18 August or between 23-25 August.

Student Casual Dress Day— Students wear your favourite Football colours

to School Thursday 12 September. Gold Coin Donation to help support young peo-

ple fighting Cancer

SRC Happenings

The SRC has purchased 50 drink bottles from Wannon Water at the special price of $7. These are available from the East

and West Canteens.

The next School Council meeting will be held on Monday 26th August -representatives attending this meeting are Maggie

Ryan and Henry Slocombe.

SRC Representation at the Long Tan Commemoration in Hamilton on Sunday 18th August at the Lonsdale Street memorials.

Our reps will be Maggie Ryan and Zoe Van Kalken. Students who have previously been on the Vietnam Cambodia trip have

also been invited to represent the school. Students will be required to wear full school (winter) uniform. We will lay a wreath.

General Assembly, Thursday 22 August period 1, West Gym. Maggie will speak about SRC activities and also show the World

Vision 40 Hour Famine film.

Among the correspondence received recently information about the Samaritans' Purse - Maggie will speak on this project,

but it will not start until Term Four. It is hoped each class group will participate by filling two boxes - one for a boy and one

for a girl (age appropriate to the year level). Age groups are 2 - 4 years; 5 - 9 years; 10 - 14 years.

A MACARON FEST FOR WORK EXPERIENCE

As part of our Year 10 Careers studies all students had to participate in two weeks of Work Experience. While some of us had

some difficulty in deciding where we wanted to do our experience, I had always had the idea of going up to Sydney to do a

week at Adriano Zumbo’s Patisserie. For about three years now, I’ve had the idea I would like to be a patissier but also study

food science at university, and for me working at Adriano Zumbo’s was the epitome of all work experiences. For those of you

have never heard of him, Adriano is probably Australia’s most celebrated patissier, having had regular appearances on

Master Chef thanks to his quirky fusion of science and traditional French patisserie. He is sometimes referred to as ‘the

patissier of pain’ for his technically difficult macarons and elaborate cakes, such as the croquembouche and his eight-layered

vanilla cake. I didn’t even know if they offered work experience, but two weeks after I sent them an email I was accepted for

one week of work experience from the June 17th to June 21st.

It was a whirlwind week. ‘The Lab’ gave me a valuable look behind the scenes of a fully functioning pastry kitchen. I was one

of five girls there for the week; three were from Sydney and another from Melbourne. We were thrown into the kitchen with

20 other apprentices and fully qualified patissiers. By the end of our first day we were

exhausted, having sorted, sandwiched and packaged 16,000 macaron shells into 8,000 redskin,

blackcurrant and caramel liquorice macarons. The rest of the week was much the same,

although the third day being my birthday, I was allowed to work exclusively in the chocolate

room. Adriano was there for the whole week and we were lucky enough to meet him.

Occasionally, he came down into the kitchen to either cook ‘zonuts’ (his version of a croissant-

doughnut hybrid), test out a new recipe or both delight and intimidate the work experience

girls.

The work was repetitive and exhausting but every moment was worth it. I witnessed the

dedication and hard work required to make it in the world of pastry through the other chefs

and apprentices I worked alongside. Every moment of the week was amazing, from being in the

kitchen, working in the chocolate room and of course, meeting Adriano! My week of work experience has definitely

confirmed that I would love a career, someday, in the hospitality industry.

Barbara Sealey 10B

Chicago—This Year’s Production—Book Now

Tickets are on sale at the East Office. Adults—$20, Student $10, Age Concession

$15, Family tickets $45.

Opening Night at the PAC is Wednesday 28 August and will be performed each

night until the Finale on Saturday 31 August.

Baimbridge Green and Baimbridge Gold Football players arrived at Pedrina Park on Tuesday13 August all keen

and excited and just wanted to get out there and play. Even though Baimbridge’s day wasn’t the most successful

in terms of win/losses, it was still a lot of fun with games going down to the wire, losing three games by less than

a goal. When the day was said and done, everyone went home with a smile on their face.

Thanks to those who umpired, coached or played. A best player medallion for each team is being presented at a

general assembly next week.

Careers In

Agriculture Day

14 August

Sheree Anton and Ricky McIntosh (second and third from left) get the low-down on artificial insemination for cattle.

Karen Wescombe (third from left) listens to details of different types of pasture grasses.

Karen Wescombe, Nathan Storer, Connor Robertson, Scarlett Hutchins, Ricky McIntosh, Mr Gerard Sheehan at the Careers in Agriculture day.

COLERAINE & DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC.

2013

COLERAINE ART & PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW—This weekend

OFFICIAL OPENING BY

MR. DANNY McOWAN DIRECTOR OF HAMILTON ART GALLERY

AT A

GALA AWARDS PRESENTATION EVENING

FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 6.30 pm.--- 8.30 pm.

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August… 10.00 am. ……4.00 pm.

MECHANICS HALL, WINTER STREET, COLERAINE

Guest Artist Mr Peter Hill

Have you booked your tickets yet? This is just a “GENTLE” reminder

BOOK NOW Contact Val Lawson …

03 5575 2478 or 0427 752 450

We look forward to seeing you there

DATE MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Aug 12 - 16 12 13 14 G, Downes 15 16 A. Broadbent

Aug 19 - 23 19 20 L. McIntyre 21 N.Teasdale (a) 22 23

Aug 26 - 30 26 27 R. Richardson(m) 28 29 30

Sep 2 - 6 2 3 L. Battista 4 5 6

Sept 9 - 13 9 10 V. Kearney 11 G. Downes 12 13

Sept 16 - 20 16 J. Golding 17 18 19 20

West Campus—Start time AM Shift 10am, PM Shift 12.50

East Campus—Start time AM Shift 10am, PM Shift 12.50

If you can kindly donate your time please ring 03 5572 2788.

We have a LARGE number of vacancies.

CANTEEN 2013 Term 3

DATE MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Aug 12 - 16 12 J. Golding 13 S Wheeler 14 L.Warburton 15 J. Brebham 16

Aug 19 - 23 19 P. Speirs 20 K. Goodman 21 22 K. Price 23

Aug 26 - 30 26 27 L. Duncan 28 D. Evans 29 30

Sep 2 - 6 2 3 G. Hiscock 4 5 S. Wheeler 6

Sept 9 - 13 9 10 11 C. Knape 12 13

Sept 16 - 20 16 17 18 C. Knape 19 L. Duncan 20