Term 2 - Week 2– 20th April 2016

Mortlake College Newsletter 10 Hood Ave

Mortlake, Vic, 3272 Ph: 03 5599 2204

Fax: 03 5599 2503 Email: mortlake.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.mortlakep12.vic.edu.au SMS Mobile: 0427 841 239 (Text Only)

Principal’s Report -

New Zealand trip:

The New Zealand trip was a great success and I received glowing reports of how well the students managed all the challenges that they faced over the twelve days they were away and how they worked together so coopera-tively. Thank you to the parents and staff for all their great work in supervising the students and ensuring that everything ran so smoothly; Jacinta Wareham, Jen Roxburgh, Malcolm McCosh, Wendy McKenzie, Jason Leh-

mann, Lisa Anders, Sam Patison, Phil McLachlan, Geoff & Anne DeManser and Nigel Boyden.

Tertiary Information Service On Wednesday our Year 12 students travelled to Deakin University for a Tertiary Information Service session. Various presenters spoke about a range of issues and opportunities such as scholarships and all the major uni-versities were available to provide information and answer questions. It is important that our Year 12 students think carefully about their options into the future and ensure that they do the necessary groundwork as early as possible. Anzac Day march and assembly: As I mentioned in last week’s newsletter students are invited to participate in the Mortlake Anzac Day march next Monday. All students are welcome regardless of their age and in fact having our young primary age chil-dren marching alongside our senior students is one of the things that makes our participation in this important event so memorable. Students must wear full school uniform, including school jackets if owned, and are asked to assemble at the Post Office at 9:45am for a 10:00am start. Our school captains, Bree Cummins and Jake Tanner will be laying a wreath at the memorial on behalf of the school community. On Friday we will be holding a special Anzac assembly commencing at 9am in the undercover area. Members of the Mortlake branch of the RSL will be in attendance and President, Merv Hampson will be addressing the assembly along with one of our students, Oliver Martin, who will be talking about what Anzac Day means to him. School bus travel Last week I received reports of misbehaviour on one of our school buses. The misbehaviour was serious and involved among other things undoing seatbelts, shouting out and not remaining in seats. These actions clearly are a safety concern and are very distracting to the driver who relies on students behaving themselves whilst driving. I have spoken to the students on this bus and explained to them the importance of appropriate behav-iour. I also explained that individual students can be banned from using a school bus for misbehaviour that might endanger the safety of travellers. Graeme Good

BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday to all students who have birthdays this week.

APRIL

21st—Ben Parker-Wood & Robert Fuertez 24th—Jaime Killen

Parent Association

Parents Association Meeting on Tuesday 26th April,

at 2:00 pm in the BER.

Ned Quail and Ms Fahie busked at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, raising $50 for the Red Cross Fiji Cyclone Winston Appeal. Thousands of people still need help after Fiji was hit by the worst cyclone in its history. Red Cross has launched the Tropical Cyclone Winston Appeal to collect do-nations and provide humanitarian support to people affected by the dev-astating category five cyclone. Thanks to all who donated to this im-portant cause! For more information on how you can help, see http://www.redcross.org.au/cyclonewinstonappeal.aspx

P-4 Place

P-4 Assembly awards Mon 18th April 2016

Prep: Laura Bray – for making a great start to term 2

Year 1: Alice Hinkley – for your enthusias�c approach to

learning

Year 2: Aiisha Burgess – for a posi�ve start to the term2

3/4 P: Blake Toth – for fantas�c a�en�ve listening

3/4 CR: Jackson Monahan – for achieving two “Maths to

self” goals in one week

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THESE STUDENTS

Year 3/4 Read to SelfYear 3/4 Read to SelfYear 3/4 Read to SelfYear 3/4 Read to Self

Year 3/4 Making & playing Year 3/4 Making & playing Year 3/4 Making & playing Year 3/4 Making & playing

their own games with their own games with their own games with their own games with

spelling wordsspelling wordsspelling wordsspelling words

Year 3/4 Group planning for Year 3/4 Group planning for Year 3/4 Group planning for Year 3/4 Group planning for

science construction activityscience construction activityscience construction activityscience construction activity

‘Marinated chicken with garlic mash and ‘Marinated chicken with garlic mash and ‘Marinated chicken with garlic mash and ‘Marinated chicken with garlic mash and

lemon aioli sauce’ lemon aioli sauce’ lemon aioli sauce’ lemon aioli sauce’

Chicken ingredients: 4 small skinless chicken fillets; juice of 2 lemons; 1/4 cup olive oil; 2 cloves

crushed garlic; olive oil for frying

Combine chicken, lemon juice, garlic and olive oil in a snaplock plas�c bag. Chill overnight.

Drain the marinade from the chicken and pat the chicken dry with the paper towel.

Heat olive oil and when sizzling add the chicken. Cook for 4-5 minutes on each side un�l golden

brown all over and fully cooked through to the centre.

Mash ingredients: 450 g potatoes; 450 g sweet potatoes; 2 cloves garlic crushed; 2 tbsp bu�er; 1/3

cup sour cream; salt and pepper

Peel potatoes and cut roughly into small pieces. Place into saucepan, cover with cold water. Bring to

the boil and cook for about 12 minutes un�l tender.

Drain the potatoes. Return to heat to dry off excess liquid.

Mash the potatoes un�l smooth. Add garlic, bu�er, a shake of salt and pepper and beat un�l very

creamy. Add enough of the sour cream to make into a creamy mixture that is not runny.

Aioli ingredients: 250 ml mayonnaise; 4 tbsp basil; 2 cloves garlic crushed; 1 tbsp lemon juice

Place all ingredients in bowl and s�r to combine.

Serve with side salad.

A recipe from our VCE Food Tech class

TOP ARTS EXCURSION

a really great day! Annette Janes Last Tuesday VCE Art and D&T students, a group of Year 8-10 Art students and Andrew Bennett and I travelled to Melbourne to view the TOP ARTS and TOP DESIGNS exhibitions. The TOP ARTS pack-age, at the Ian Potter Gallery in Federation Square, included a talk by Ingrid, from the Gallery Education staff. This was in a tiny, amphitheatre with a huge screen and was for just the Mortlake group, which made it more personal. It was followed by a viewing of students’ Visual Diaries upstairs, providing inval-uable insight into idea development process and addressing the assessment criteria. We then viewed the actual exhibition, composed of a selection of A grade works from VCE Art students of 2015. Voted most impressive and favourite artwork by our group, was a tonally rendered self-portrait consisting of a giant piece of bubblewrap, into which the student had used syringes to inject the colours into ten thou-sand bubbles! The front was “a manual recreation of a neatly-conceived digital identity, compartmental-ised, meticulous and pixelated”, whereas the back (you could view both sides), where the paint had been dripped and smudged, was messy and reflected an imperfect image. The student explained (from the Catalogue commentary): I wanted to convey the differences between the subject as she portrays herself on social media, and the messier portrait gleaned through everyday interactions.” http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/startup-top-arts-2016/

Students had free time to go and have some lunch and then head up to the Museum to view the TOP DESIGNS exhibition. During this time Bree and I went to the Andy Warhol / Ai Wei Wei exhibition at the National Gallery, as we are studying these two artists. It was a truly amazing exhibition! Fabulous to see Warhol originals, and the work of Ai Wei Wei who is a Chinese contemporary artist, intellectual, social commentator, human rights advocate, and has been ‘detained’ himself by Chinese authorities for ‘subversive’ ideology. His artworks range across a huge range of mediums and methods - porcelain, jade, wood, assemblage, painting, printing, photography, assemblage, and Lego blocks to name a few. One room in the exhibition was entirely made from Lego (including the floor with a plastic protector layer on top)! The walls contained images and commentaries – all in Lego) of Australian social and environ-mental issues. We had to tear ourselves away as it was all so thought-provoking, and we were, sadly, out of time.

At the Museum we viewed projects and the developmental ideas in the visual diaries of work including: Media, Food and Technology, Product Design and Technology, Systems Engineering, VCE Interactive Digital Media, and Visual Communication Design. It is an excellent opportunity for students to view first hand some of the top works from across the State, and to enlarge their understanding of the scope and depth of work in these subjects. The students were fabulous and the feedback from the experience has all been positive. Thanks Andrew for your excellent bus –driving!

Pictured: The group at Federation Square, and Bree underneath Ai Wei Wei’s ‘Forever Bicycles’.

SPORT SPOT

P-12 Sport Dates Term 2

April

29th April MWD Athle�cs Brauer (Years 7-12)

May

4th May House Cross Counrty (Years 3-12) 2.15—3.20pm

18th May MWD Cross Country (Years 7-12) Derrinallum

June

6th June GWR Cross Country (Seconary) Warrnambool

22nd June Junior Football / Netball (Years 7-9) Mortlake

GWR SWIM 23GWR SWIM 23GWR SWIM 23GWR SWIM 23rdrdrdrd MarchMarchMarchMarch

On the Wednesday 23rd March 16 students (listed below) from Years 7-12 competed in the annual Greater Western Region Swimming Championships held in Ballarat. Congratulations to all competitors in particular the Boys 13 year old relay who came 2nd.

It was also fantastic to see that nearly all of our stu-dent’s swam personal bests.

Thank you to those parents who drove and support-ed their children.

Issac Fowler

Todd MacDonald

Lizzy Kelly

Darcy Hobbs

Taine De Manser

Ruby Schuuring

Callum Repacholi

Ned Quail

Lachie McGavin

Jaime Killen

Amy Hughes

Sophie Lehmann

Amelia

Nelson Loader

Byron Loader

Jarrad MacDonald

Barry

Mortlake College Performing Arts Trip

Mortlake College will be attending the performance of Matilda

this year.

When: Wednesday Matinee August 24th 2.00pm

Leaving school at 9.00am and home by 7.30pm

Cost: Adults $105 Students $90

(Cost of bus is included- will need money for food, snacks

and if they want a program or souvenirs)

50 seats will be available. This excursion is open to all students at

the school. Students Grade 5 and below need an accompanying

adult.

More information will be available

in term 2

Bookings will be taken from

Monday 2nd May.

Lyle Russell

DESCRIPTION QTY SIZE HOUSE UNIT PRICE AMOUNT

Mortlake College logo embroidered to front of Black/Graphite Biz Collection Geneva soft-shell jacket Kids sizes (J307K): 4 – 16 Mens sizes (J307M): S – 3XL & 5XL Ladies sizes (J307L): S – 2XL

$ 75.00

$ 78.00

$ 78.00

Mortlake College logo embroidered to front, House logo embroidered to sleeve or full name under college logo of Black/Graphite Biz Collec-tion Geneva soft-shell jacket Name on Jacket ………………………………………….. Kids sizes (J307K): 4 – 16 Mens sizes (J307M): S – 3XL & 5XL Ladies sizes (J307L): S – 2XL

$ 77.00

$ 80.00

$ 80.00

Mortlake College logo embroidered to front, House logo embroidered to sleeve & full name under college logo of Black/Graphite Biz Collec-tion Geneva soft-shell jacket Name on Jacket ………………………………………….. Kids sizes (J307K): 4 – 16 Mens sizes (J307M): S – 3XL & 5XL Ladies sizes (J307L): S – 2XL

$ 83.00

$ 86.00

$ 86.00

TOTAL

JACKET ORDERS ARE STILL BEING TAKEN, THE NEXT ORDER WILL BE PROCESSED

ON FRIDAY 29TH APRIL

ORDER FORM

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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and

Mortlake P-12 College is excited to be par�cipa�ng.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recogni�on of the importance of

reading for literacy development. It is not a compe��on; but a personal challenge for children to read

a set number of books by 9 September 2016.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and

teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a cer�ficate of achievement signed by the Victorian

Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would like your

child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the a�ached form and return it to your school.

To read the Premier’s le�er to parents, view the booklists and for more informa�on about the Victori-

an Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.educa�on.vic.gov.au/prc

If you would like your child’s name to appear on the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge online Hon-

our Roll, please sign this form and return it to your school.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS DefiniAons: Department refers to the Victorian Department of Educa�on and Training, Person refers to the child/adult listed below in the con-

sent declara�on.

Privacy ProtecAon

The Department takes its privacy obliga�ons seriously and any personal informa�on collected or used by the Department will be handled in ac-

cordance with the Privacy and Data Protec�on Act 2014 (Vic). This law sets out what we must do when the Department collects, uses, handles

and destroys personal informa�on. Personal informa�on includes personal details such as an individual’s name and school that could be used to

iden�fy an individual.

CollecAon, use, disclosure and storage of personal informaAon

If you provide your consent your school will collect and disclose your child’s first and last name, and the name of the school to the Department.

The Department will then:

Publish your child’s name on its online Honour Roll located at: www.educa�on.vic.gov.au/prc at the comple�on of the Challenge with no other

iden�fying factors such as early childhood seOng name.

Accuracy, access to informaAon and withdrawal of consent

The Department will endeavour to ensure that any personal informa�on held about your child is up to date and accurate. You can access, correct

and withdraw personal informa�on held by the Department by wri�en request in accordance with the Department’s Informa�on Privacy Policy

located at:

h�p://www.educa�on.vic.gov.au/Pages/privacypolicy.aspx

Consent may be withdrawn at any �me by wri�ng to the Department’s Privacy Unit on: privacy.enquiries@edumail.vic.gov.au .

If you have any ques�ons about this form, or if you need more informa�on, please contact the PRC Challenge Coordinator at the Department

readingchallenge@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9637 3624.

Yes I consent to my child’s name appearing on the online Honour roll

Name of child…………………………………………………………………………………..

Parent Signature………………………………………………………………………………

Classifieds

11th Skipton Photographic Show

Organised by the Skipton & District Photographic Club

22nd May 2016 Time 10.ooam to 4.00pm

Venue – Skipton Mechanic’s Hall

Open, Novice & Youth Sections (Primary & Secondary School)

Entries Close 13th May 2016

Entry forms/more information Contact – Dorothy Dunn ph 0401079060

Karen Bradshaw ph 0439630884

The Mortlake Art Show will again be held over the Queen's Birthday long weekend.

Entry for artists to show their work(s) is FREE. We have four prize categories as show be-low. We'd love it if you can promote our event in your School newsletter, and promoting entry for students.

Open Over 18 Years Best in Show | Prize Valued at $100 Junior 18 Years & Under

Youth Under 18 | Prize Valued at $25

Junior Under 12 | Prize Valued at $25

Combined All Ages

Opening Night - People's Choice Award | Prize Valued at $50

Judged, and presented, on the opening night.

APRIL Mon 25th ANZAC Day—No Students

Tue 26th Year 8-10 English Excursion Holocaust Melbourne

Wed 27th Year 7 Immunisation

Fri 29th MWC Athletics

MAY

Tue 3rd P-7 Show

Wed 4th House Cross Country Years 3-12 2.15pm-3.20pm

Thur 5th May Race Holiday—No Students

Fri 6th Year 12 Melbourne Careers Expo

10th/11th/12th NAPLAN

Wed 18th MWC Cross Country

Fri 20th District Cross Country Primary

Fri 20th Walk to School Day

Wed 25th Keys Please Year 10

Fri 27th Divisional Cross Country Primary

Tue 31st Legal Prison Visit

Tue 3rd School Council

19th-20th Advance Camp Halls Gap

Thur 12 Yr 8-12 Josh Hose Presentation

16th-20th Education Week

Mon 16th Mortlake Kindergarten visit

2016 CALENDAR

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