FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER

25 May 2016

Carranballac P-9 College 9395 3533

In our unique, innovative and growing community we develop a passion for life long learning

so that students achieve individual excellence and are confident, capable, respected citizens

of our local and global communities.

Statement of Purpose

Dates to Remember:

Student Absence: Please SMS student absences by 9.00 am to

0429 305 552

College Director Brendan O’Brien School Council President Ian Muir

Every minute

counts!

Friday 27 May P&F Movie Night at Boardwalk. Doors Open 6.30pm for 7pm start

Friday 3 June Last day for parents to submit CSEF applications

Monday 6 June Jamieson Way Year 3/4 P, Q & R Heat & Energy Incursion

Wednesday 8 June Jamieson Way School Photo Day

Wednesday 8 June Jamieson Way Year 3/4 S, T & V Heat & Energy Incursion

Wednesday 8 June Boardwalk Year 2 Scienceworks Excursion

Thursday 9 June Boardwalk School Photo Day

Friday 10 June Boardwalk & Jamieson Way Family Photo Day

Monday 13 June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Wednesday 15 June Jamieson Way Year 2 Scienceworks Excursion

Friday 24 June End of Term 2—2pm finish

Monday 11 July Curriculum Day

Tuesday 12 July Students resume Term 2

Saturday 27 August P&F Trivia Night

D irector’s Report

Dear Parents and Members of the Carranballac College Community

STAFFING:

I would like to confirm two staff changes that have been put in place in recent weeks as a result of staff being on

leave. Congratulations to Ros Myors who will be Acting Campus Principal at Boardwalk. Thank you and congratula-

tions to Belinda Grieve and Jenny Kompa who are sharing the Acting Assistant Principal (middle years) role at Ja-

mieson Way.

Parents and Friends:

Our Parents and Friends have a busy schedule at present with A MOVIE NIGHT this Friday at Boardwalk in the

GYM: Mr Peabody and Sherman will be on the big screen.

Preparations are well underway for next term with a College disco and TRIVIA night being planned.

Our P & F are always looking for more team members. You do not require any expertise, just a willingness to sup-

port the College in pursuing improvements for our students. The next meeting is this Thursday night at 7.00pm at

the Boardwalk Campus in the staffroom. This week the P & F will be working through their funding priorities as well

as making final preparations for Friday night.

School Council:

Next Tuesday evening we have our regular School Council meeting for the College. As family members of the Col-

lege community I would like to encourage you to contribute your thoughts and ideas for Council consideration.

Please take the time to send us an email so that Council can process your contributions.

NAPLAN:

Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students undertook NAPLAN testing recently. I would like to thank all staff involved in making

sure the testing process gave full consideration to the differing needs of our students. This testing is taken very se-

riously and involves the strict following of National guidelines which we adhere to stringently. Parents will have ac-

cess to their children’s results later in the year at which point I will provide an outline of the importance of the

NAPLAN results and where they fit into the overall assessment of your child.

Pre Service Teachers:

We are extremely fortunate to have staff at the College who are prepared to support the professional growth of

teacher’s in training (pre service teachers). Furthermore we are also pleased to be involved with Victoria University

in a Site Based Teacher education program which is linked to Point Cook Senior College and Point Cook P to 9. Cur-

rently we have 20 pre service teachers ending their four week placement. Next week they will revert back to their

usual two days per week on site – one day (Tuesday) in their designated classroom and another on site (Thursday)

undertaking their professional learning. The benefits are reciprocal in that our students are supported by their ex-

pertise and involvement and they benefit from the authentic experience of being at the ‘chalkface’ on a regular as

well as extended basis. Recently one attended our year 8 camp in support of the program – thank you Josh. A num-

ber supported our Athletics event at Newport Athletics track. Presently they are also involved in College based pro-

gram development (Applied Curriculum Projects) on: Student leadership / Wakakirri / Numeracy support / SWIRL

language program and Early Years sport program. The benefits of this partnership are vast. Please make them feel

welcome if you have a chance to.

Quotation:

“I think music and the arts should be core subjects in our nation’s schools. There is absolutely no conflict between

the expansion of our fine arts programs, our music programs, and focus on other academic programs.”

Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education.

My sentiments exactly.

Have a wonderful fortnight.

B rendan O’Brien

B oardwalk School Report

I am enjoying another week as Acting Principal; work-ing with our talented teachers and getting to know many wonderful students and their families. Our highlight this week will be the Boardwalk year 3-6 Athletics day this Friday at the Newport Athletics track. This annual event is capably organised by Carolyn Huell who has an army of willing helpers. A big group of year 9 leaders will support students at each sporting activity. Our parent helpers work with students to assist in su-pervising, record keeping and marshalling. PE trained pre-service teachers will learn much from working with Carolyn to deliver this huge, logistic event. If you can drop in, I'm sure you will be impressed with the enthu-siasm and delight our students show in this great day. Congratulations to our Year 9 Badminton players who competed in the Hobson’s Bay Division Badminton Competition on Friday 20 May at the Altona Badminton Centre where they were placed 2nd. A great effort by the team. Our Year 7-9 Cross-Country runners will be competing at Cherry Lake in Altona on Thursday. Good luck! The Year 7 Boys Soccer team and Year 8 Netball team will be competing in the Hobson’s Bay Sport competi-tion against neighbouring schools. Good luck to them also. We certainly have many outstanding sporting opportu-nities for students at our college. As the winter weather has settled in, I would remind families about the correct college uniform. Black jackets are not part of our uniform. PE uniform is only to be worn on days when your child has Sport or PE. This uniform can include navy tracksuit pants and navy spray jacket. PSW are in the process of stocking winter jackets and pants. On all other days whole college uni-form is to be worn. This includes black, leather lace up shoes. A further reminder that school begins at 8.45am sharp. Some of our students are missing valuable instructional teaching time at the start of the day. These amounts of time can add up to significant learning opportunities being lost. Please contact the office if your child is absent or delayed.

R os Myors

Acting Principal

J amieson Way School Report

Congratulations to our amazing year 8 students who took on every challenge presented to them at our recent Year 8 camp. Three days of incredible outdoor adventure experiences could not slow them down. Respectful, reliable, responsible were the words our staff were using to describe our students. We are proud of these students and their achievements. Thank you to our staff for their energy and enthusiasm to support the devel-opment and learning of our students. Our camp-ing program has been reinvigorated this year by Mr Henric Beiers, with great consideration given to student input, exciting challenges and personal development. Some photos from our programs this year are now on display in the library foyer. I would like to acknowledge the strong leadership skills being shown by our student leaders at as-sembly. Year Level Leaders, House Captains and Guardians all have significant roles at assembly and they take great pride in their contribution to this community gathering. The leadership skills of our older students are also strengthened in our Buddies program. Our Year 9 students are being encouraged and supported by the Buddies teach-ers to lead activities within the Buddies session. Our Year 8 students have a significant role as Buddy Bus 'drivers' leading and guiding our Foun-dation and Year 1 students to their Buddy groups and back to their classrooms at the end of the session. Our Year 9 Level Leaders, Angie and Na-than, have the added responsibility of making the Buddies announcements over the public address system. Our community can be proud of the re-sponsibility being demonstrated by our students. Please reinforce road safety with your child with the wet weather beginning. Extra care is needed by ALL around our school on rainy days. The Premier's Reading Challenge is up and run-ning......... Read, read, read....... Enjoy your child/ children this week!

S andy Naughton

Principal

S tudent Awards

Matthew Boardman

Jaysharn Vanden-bosch

Uyen Nguyen

Renney Pollard

Derek Ho

Tex Williams

Bella Abelard

William Rout

Joanthon Shapter

Tala Dadoush

Kasper Bramwell

Isla Crouch

Bailey McLean

Ivan Shi

Yumin Pasqual

Emily Tabone

Teliah Smith

Pauly Mula-Booth

Miao-sen Han

Madeline Trabert

Jaylon Huit

Alyssa Reitter

Jayllene Bobadilla

Sourin Patel

Lindsey Campbell

John Rout

Declan Vorster

Imogen Pyers

Kayla West

Tia Czarnecka

Tyler Ramsay

Archit Bhatia

Harry Stanton

Laura McLeod

Nicolas Mihalache

Miranda Allen

Declan O'Brien

Estelle Rollo

Aleksander Krsmanovic

Andy Htaik

Ella McCarthy

Grace Mumby

Tori Putland

Zena Elcheikh

Miki Boskovic

Tolly Tsangas

Clancy Freemantle

Trang Huynh

Bianca Sekic

Avery Morley

Jay Smith

Liza Kurilova

Sifa Nyariel

Archer Anastovski

Aayan Salam

Hannah Gray-Garcia

Aris Caluian

Cooper Thursby

Hayley Moore-Kolakovic

Sophie Moriarty

Liam Farrell

Ashlee Cowan

Azaria Pula

Jaymi Rowarth

Violette Luxton

Kari Sarol

Stefan Blanusa

Josh Tyrer

Alexus Keomany

Jonathan Landriel

Teresa Dak

Alina Khawar

Jayden Lee

Siala Agafili

Georgia Pollard

Jarvis Dioth

Nathan Gajic

Baxter Williams

Jessisa Tuara

Dannika Arvanitakis

Japanese Awards:

Jeannette Atanga Taya Preiss Aarat Salam Manu Coates

Scarlett Dular Alex Micallef Brooke Meade Nathan Whiffin

Maria Moustaklis

Art Awards:

Michelle Nguyen Samuel Spriggs Ivy Dawson Hera Wong

Music Awards:

Violet Deering Chelsea Pullar

Congratulations to all of our award winners this fortnight!

Kids Teaching Kids

Kids Teaching Kids is a program whereby all students at the College

celebrate Science Week each year. Each class invites another class to

attend a workshop, performance or activity which is based around

environmental science.

We celebrate Science Week in Kids Teaching Kids Week from Monday 5 September to Friday 9 September.

The College also hosts the KTK Western Region Conference on site during that week whereby other schools join us and take part in workshops. In 2016, Year 7s will assist with organisation at Boardwalk Campus on Wednesday 7 September and Year 5/6 classes conduct the second day of that conference at Jamieson Way Campus, on Thursday 8 September. Finally a selected group of students will repre-sent us at the Melbourne Water KTK Conference on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 October at Melbourne University.

Sponsors for KTK week 2016 is the Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning.

S port Update

Yr 3– 6 Jamieson Way Athletics Carnival

The 3-6 Jamieson Way Athletics Carnival was conducted on Friday 13 May 2016. The carnival was incredibly

successful with fine weather and a positive atmosphere that produced outstanding results. Thank you to the

Point Cook College Sports and Recreation students, the Jamieson Way House Captains and a number of Year 8

students who assisted with officiating on the day. A special thank you to a

number of Jamieson Way parent helpers who gave up their time to assist

with officiating at the carnival—Gavin Trabart, Andrea Houston and Danni

Turner. I really appreciate your help and without your assistance an event

like this could not be conducted.

Year 7-9 Carranballac College Athletics Carnival

The Yr 7-9 Athletics Carnival will be conducted on Thursday 2 June 2016. Notes must be returned to school by

Friday 27 May. Late notes will not be accepted. Students are encouraged to wear a colour shirt to rep-

resent their house or a splash of colour.

Hobson Bay Cross Country Championships

Congratulations to the following students who participated in the Hobson Bay Cross Country Champion-

ships on Monday 16 May. The students were extremely well behaved and produced some fantastic re-

sults.

Cody Siborowski Girish Tamilchelvan Maxwill Deering Angel Mann Emkay Prins

Hafisa Mohamed Umar Razan Omar Jett Templer—Collins Madison Steinle Alyssa Reitter

Madeline Trabert Jessica Pace Tyler Robinson Myah Snow Zac Muir

Jhon Carlos Cruz Amaan Barodawala Kyle Whitehead Bradley Gardner Max Stott

Emily Reitter Nicholas Newey Janae Mackrell Radhe Parasram Sean Sturrock

Congratulations to the following students who qualified for the next

round of competition.

Emkay Prins Hafisa Mohamed Umar Cody Siborowoski Janae Mackrell Zak Muir

Jett Templer Collins Radhe Parasram Myah Snow Alyssa Reitter Sean Sturrock

Bradley Gardner Kyle Whitehead Emily Reitter

Year 7 Netball

Congratulations to the Carranballac College Yr 7 Netball Team that participated in the Hobson Bay Netball

Competition. The students performed incredibly well and achieved 5th place in the competition. Well done to

the following girls:

Jordan Anderson—McRoy Fynlay Dams Ava Votskos Wegdan Khiar Valerie Ioane

Rhiannon Aholelei Kaleece Harrop Toa Toa Abbey Mumberson Rebecca Buchanan

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SAVE THE DATE!!

PARENTS & FRIENDS TRIVIA NIGHT 2016

Term 3: Saturday 27 August

We have an enthusiastic team of parents well into the planning stages for this “back by popular demand” event. It’s going to be a great night once again and we hope as many of you as pos-sible can attend. This is a fantastic opportunity to socialise amongst our school community and show your support for our school, our continuing efforts to air condition the whole college and support other College programs for our kids! CAN YOU HELP?? If you are able to donate a product, voucher or service towards the Trivia Night or know some-one who may, please contact Valetta Johnston (Boardwalk) at valetta.johnston@aveo.com.au, or Melissa Turner (Jamieson Way) at turner2373@gmail.com. You can also speak to someone in either office who will contact the Trivia Team. Thankyou!!

We hope everyone is enjoying their participation in the Reading Challenge and are experiencing some great books and discovering new and exciting authors!

For those who have not registered for the Challenge, it is not too late. Student registrations need to be finalised by the end of this term. To register just fill in consent form available from your campus library and return it to library staff. Student details will be entered and a reading record sheet will be provided.

Participating students please send your reading record sheets to your Library regularly so that your pro-gress can be recorded.

Reading records need to be completed and given to Library staff by Wednesday 31 August to allow time for all data to be entered. The challenge officially ends on September 9.

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SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB

Issue 4 catalogues have been distributed to all students in Years Foundation to 6 Catalogues are available in the College foyer for students in Year 7, 8 & 9

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Closing date for orders is Monday 6 June

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H ouse Points

Boardwalk School Jamieson Way School

Week 4 Week 5 Week 4 Week 5

Sea Eagles: 39 46 Sea Eagles: 179 186

Cheetham: 44 39 Cheetham: 201 197

Golden Wattle: 50 39 Golden Wattle: 184 206

RAAF: 35 39 RAAF: 197 211

C orker Winner

Aiden Ruskin

Contact Information

PO Box 6106, Point Cook 3030 Phone: 9395 3533 e-mail: carranballac.p9@edumail.vic.gov.au

Boardwalk School Jamieson Way School

Cnr Foxwood Drive & Dunnings Road, Point Cook, 3030 Cnr Jamieson Way & La Rochelle Blvd, Point Cook, 3030

Principal Kay Kearney Principal Sandy Naughton

P hoto Day

The school photo day is coming soon. Jamieson Way School individual/class photo day is on

Wednesday 8 June, Boardwalk School is on Thursday 9 June. Family photo day is on Friday 10

June for both schools. Order packs/envelopes for individual photos have been sent home with

your child. Family photo packs/envelopes are available at each school office.