HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

‘Meeting the individual needs of all students’

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAMWORK

T H U R S D A Y 2 2 N D M A R C H 2 0 1 8

I S S U E 8

Presentation

Ball

2018

Tuesday 7th March

Little Desert Swimming Dimboola (Secondary)

HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2018

Term 1

March

Friday 23rd March

Greater Western Region

Swimming @ Ballarat

Tuesday 27th March

SRC Casual Clothes Day

School Dentist Visit

Thursday 29th March

House Aths Sports

Year 7-12

Last Day of Term 1

April

Monday 16th April

Term 2 Commences

Wednesday 18th April

State Swimming

Monday 23rd April

House Cross Country

Tuesday 24th April

Curriculum Day

(no students required at

school)

Wednesday 25th April

Anzac Day

(Public Holiday)

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

Prep

PrinciPal’s rePort

Presentation Ball It was certainly a wonderful evening last Saturday when we all assembled at the Hopetoun Me-morial Hall to honour our presentees. It was an evening of glamour, enjoyment and celebration. The presentees and partners all looked superb as they walked confidently in front of a very large crowd to be presented to the official party. The celebratory dancing which followed combined some traditional dances plus some up-beat performances. The students clearly enjoyed their evening. The presentees were breathtaking. They were a credit to themselves, their parents, families and the school. A huge ‘thank you’ goes to the Presentation Ball Committee. They did a massive amount of work to ensure the success of the evening. The hall decorations were superb and the overall organisa-tion was second to none. Thanks also go to the dance teachers – Carol, Connoly and Gabrielle. They patiently worked with the students to teach them a range of dances which were well re-ceived by the parents, friends and crowd in attendance. There were many more people who assisted throughout the night to make it a success. I won’t name them all – I would just like to say thanks for your contribution towards making the evening so enjoyable for the presentees, partners and families and all who attended. Finally, I would also like to note the large number of past students who made the effort to return to Hopetoun for the weekend to join the celebrations. It is great to see the connections back home are very strong.

Final Week of Term It has been a short term but we have packed a lot into it. Our final activity next week will be the Year 7-12 athletic sports on Thursday. Here’s hoping for good weather to round out our term in a positive way.

College Council

We had four consecutive meetings on Wednesday 14th March. We started with Finance followed by Grounds & Buildings, then we had our normal College Council meeting and finished with our Annual Meeting – all of which was concluded in the space of two hours! Some of the decisions, approvals, actions included:

Ratification of the sharing arrangements for the school/community tractor.

Authorisation of payment of the tractor.

Approval of the confirmed cash budget for 2018.

Discussion on various grounds projects including watering system for the front oval, discus-

sion on the spare shade sail and other grounds projects.

Approval of orchard project to be established near the hot house.

Report on proposed changes to the attendance policy, notably a suggestion that the mini-

mum attendance for scheduled classes for VCE be increased from the current 80% to 90%.

Decided to continue pressing politicians for an upgrade to our Food Tech. and Science

rooms.

Approval of the draft School Annual Report.

Student Voice Following on from the Student Leadership Conference, our SRC executive and SRC members have become active in planning follow-up events. Casual clothes and Easter Egg guessing to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal is underway. This will be followed by a revamped school cross country program to be held early next term. They have also surveyed all students to deter-mine the most appropriate areas for focussing SRC energies this year. Keep up the good work!

Coming Up: We have a number of important events coming up for the College. A few of these include:

Athletic Sports for Years 7-12, Thursday 29th March.

Term 2 commences Monday 16th April.

Curriculum day, Tuesday 24th April – no students are required at school.

Mr Graeme Holmes

Principal

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Weekly Student Award

Well done to the following students for

receiving

Students of the Week

Homework Club

Thursdays from

3-20pm until 4-00pm

Prep-Year 6—Miss Tegelhuter ‘s

Room

Year 7 –12 Room 5

Shake Rattle & Read Healthy Active Kids

9-30am start

Term One

26th March Healthy Active Kids Stadium

There will also be an Easter Egg hunt!!

Check out Hopetoun P-12 College Facebook page

Shiarne Petschel

For demonstrating great responsibility and initia-tive at the Grip Leader-ship Conference. Shiar-ne was enthusiastic, re-spectful and a true lead-er and ambassador for

the College.

Well done Shiarne.

Neha Kovoor

For displaying wonderful respect and initiative at the Resilience perfor-

mance.

Thank you Neha for step-ping up when needed.

Sophie Frankel

For showing exceptional teamwork with her peers during class and in the

playground. Great work Sophie, you have had a wonderful start to your

schooling.

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAM WORK

HELP NEEDED Our Athletics Sports are coming up next week on Thursday March 29th. If you could please spare some time to come along and help out it would be greatly appreciated.

Please circle any duty you would be happy to help with and

return the following form to the office:

NAME(s): ____________________________________

Morning (9:00 – 3:00) Afternoon (12:30 – 3:00)

Discus (1) Relay Marshals/Changeovers (3)

Shotput (1) Time Keepers (2)

Javelin (1) Place judge (1)

High Jump (1) Long Jump (1) Triple Jump (1)

All 1500m Races

Monday Lunchtime

All 800m Races Tuesday

Lunchtime

House Athletics Thursday March 29

th

(Year 7 – 12)

Homework Club

3-20pm until 4-00pm

Prep-Year 6

Year 7 –12

YEAR 7

HUMANITIES

This year’s Year 7 Humanities students

displayed a wonderful array of items

which signified their lives so far. The

range and thought put into their collec-

tions has been terrific. Their displays are

still in the Library until the end of term if

anyone would like to see them.

The word ‘resilience’ is used to describe the capacity people have to cope, learn and thrive in the face of change, challenge or ad-versity. Some children and young people find it harder than others to cope with the challenges they face in life. However, all children can develop coping strategies to help them deal with stress and challenge.

There are things that families and schools can do to help build the resilience of children and young people, and to help them to de-velop positive coping strategies.

What can parents do to support resilience building?

Establish a safe and supportive environ-ment

Role-model strong social and emotional skills

Give attention to positive behaviours in order to reward and reinforce them

Set clear rules and boundaries requiring respect and cooperation

What are the key skills for resilience?

Self-control-managing anger and anxi-ety and the expression of emotions

Social management-developing the skills and confidence to talk and mix with other people and work and play well with others

Effort and persistence-understanding the importance of hard work and per-sistence

Problem solving-building the capacity to think about how to deal with a range of challenges

Positive coping strategies-developing the capacity to cheer themselves up, calm themselves down, ask for help if needed and to work out ways to solve a problem

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Building Resilience

What is resilience and why build it?