The Dragon
11/02/2015
PH. (03) 51504800 (JUNIOR CAMPUS)
(03) 51504802 (SENIOR CAMPUS)
http://www.bairnsdalesc.vic.edu.au
[email protected]
PRINCIPAL'S REPORT
Dear Parents, Students, Staff and Friends of the College
A warm welcome to our new students, parents and staff
and welcome back to all other members of our school
community. It is always a pleasure to get back to work
after the break.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our new
staff:
Teaching Staff
Karen Baker (Instrumental Music/Woodwind)
Elliott Bauer (Maths)
Kathryn Buckland (Physical Education/Health and Human
Development)
Chris Holmes (Technology)
Mandy Holmes (Leading Teacher/Humanities)
Palika Kalra (Maths/Science)
Jessica Mitreski (Maths)
Zoe Stokes (German)
Laura Suckling (Maths)
Trainees
Alex Radford (Sport and Recreation)
Jaclyn Rutherford (Library/Administration)
Aide
Caitlyn McNamara
Deaf Role Model
Tahlia Barry
Welcome back to Kylie Greenaway (Humanities).
Pictured (L-R) Caitlyn McNamara, Jaclyn Rutherford, Palika
Kalra, Elliott Bauer, Laura Suckling, Mandy Holmes, Alex
Radford, Jessica Mitreski, Chris Holmes and Kathryn
Buckland.
Staff and students have settled well into our
re-established structures and buildings. It is pleasing to
see students settling into their daily routines and actively
working with staff.
If any parents or families are having trouble with the
requirements of the College, whether it be uniform,
netbooks or the cost of accessing activities, please start
the discussion with the Hub Leaders.
- Years 10, 11 and 12
Jane West, David Ballantyne and Kay Buckland
- Years 7, 8 and 9
Huw Porter, Debbie Blackley and Renae Betts
We are currently negotiating with the East Gippsland
Shire Council as to the safest place to drop off and pick
up students.
Student Parent Interviews – March 26 – 27
Student Parent Teacher interviews will be held at the end
of Term 1 on Thursday March 26 2015 between
5.00pm and 8.00pm and Friday March 27 2014 between
9.00am – 12.00noon.
Further information will be provided to students on how to
book appointments with their teachers in the coming
weeks.
Kindest regards
Ian Hall
Pictured (L-R) Kylie Greenaway, Zoe Stokes, Karen Baker.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS
We would like to give a warm welcome back to school for
2015 to all students, families and staff. We particularly
welcome our new Year 7 students and families to the
Bairnsdale Secondary College community and look
forward to getting to know you.
A special edition of The Dragon will be issued on
Wednesday February 18 2015 relating to the upcoming
School Council Elections.
It has been an active start to 2015, having all students
populating and engaging with the new buildings,
retraining ourselves with the routine of the school year
and dealing with the nuances that a new school year
brings.
Uniform
I would like to congratulate students and families for the
implementation of the uniform policy at the start of the
year. On a whole, the students look great but we need to
remind families on a couple of key points. Footwear:
needs to be black, full leather upper, enclosed shoes. No
colours. Baseball Caps: are not to be worn at any time,
the school has a broad brimmed hat or beanie as choices
of headwear.
Pick up and drop off of students
As you can appreciate, the safe movement of 1000
students within and around the College grounds is the
highest priority for us. We are working closely with the
Shire to provide a safe pick up and drop off area along
McKean Street. This should occur shortly, however, we
ask for your assistance in not picking up students in the
BARC carpark, as this causes students to cross
numerous roads, and walk between parked cars. Safe
pick up points are along Victoria Street or along Wallace
Street as in previous years.
Sport
The school swimming sports are coming up very soon,
Tuesday February 17 2015. This is a compulsory school
day, and is a great opportunity for students and staff to
get to know each other in a non classroom environment.
We encourage parents to visit the outdoor pool during the
day to cheer on your son/daughter. The sports will start
at approximately 10.00am after house assemblies in the
morning and then walking down to the pool. Town
students will be dismissed from the pool at approximately
2.30pm and bus travellers will walk back to school.
Textbooks
There are still a few students who are not bringing or
have not purchased textbooks for classes. Can you
please ensure that your son/daughter has the required
textbooks and that they are bringing them to their classes.
Netbooks
Year 8-12 students are having their netbooks returned
this week. Can you please ensure that students charge
their netbook each night, and that it is brought to school in
its protective cover. Year 7 students netbooks will be
rolled out shortly, and we will be discussing this with
students in the near future.
Thank you
Paul Martin and Peter Falla
THE DRAGON
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It is great opportunity to participate in your College’s
future and this early warning will give you the opportunity
to consider nominating or nominating other parents or
DET Employees for your School Council.
Nominations will be called from parents and DET
employees.
There are three (3) parent category
vacancies and two (2) DET employee category
vacancies.
Nominations will close on Wednesday
February 25 2015. Watch for next week’s special edition
of The Dragon for further information.
WARGOMERRIN CAMPUS - YEAR 7 HUB
A warm welcome to all the Year 7 students and their
families. We look forward working with you in the
Wargomerrin Hub.
Term one is set to be an exciting term for the Year 7
cohort. The swimming carnival is the first major event on
the year’s calendar. This is a great opportunity for
students to show off their house sprit and get involved in
a great College event. Students are encouraged to wear
their house colours with pride and get involved in and out
of the pool.
The Year 7 camp with be held during week 7 of term one,
Tuesday March 10 to Friday March 13 March at
Connawarra Farm Resort. The camp is an important step
in ensuring that all student’s transition to secondary
college smoothly. One of the major aims of the camp is
to build positive respectful relationships with their peers
and college staff. With the variety of fun activities the
camp is set to be an exciting and valuable experience for
all Year 7 students. Further information including a
packing list has been sent home. If you require further
information please contact the Hub.
To assist the Hub in keeping accurate attendance data
could all student absences either be phoned into the
College or a note sent in with the student upon their
return to school and handed into the Year 7 Hub.
WURRIN CAMPUS - YEAR 8/9 HUB
Welcome back to the new year! It's very exciting to see
that everyone has settled into the new classrooms and is
enjoying the beautiful buildings and grounds that we are
so lucky to have.
There has been a lot of change for the start of this year
and we recognize that everyone has something new and
challenging to learn. It's a great experience for all of us.
Some changes include the staff that students will be
interacting with and we'd like to take this opportunity to
introduce the Wurrin Hub. Huw Porter and Debbie
Blackley are the leading staff in charge of the Wurrin Hub,
with Janine Rooks (Year 8 Coordinator), Prue Bon (Year
9 Coordinator) and Tracey Rendell (Education Support)
supporting them. We will be your first contact for queries
or questions, reporting of absences, support with
uniforms and equipment or general concerns.
We would also like to take this opportunity to remind
everyone of the uniform expectations at Bairnsdale
Secondary College. We have introduced the compulsory
wearing of black leather upper school shoes for all
students. This is a health and safety requirement so it's
important that everyone is following those guidelines. We
encourage you to contact us if you have any concerns
about this.
Attendance can sometimes be an issue as the year
progresses and students need to remember that notes for
absences, signed by parents/guardians must be brought
to the Senior Learning Hub when they return to school. If
you miss a SAC (Year 12 VCE) then a medical certificate
should be provided. If this is an issue we urge you to
contact the Senior Learning Hub to discuss this as soon
as possible.
Another change for this year is the introduction of the
parent portal on Compass. All parents have access to
this online portal, which will allow you to check the
attendance and reports of your child. You will also soon
be able to pay for things like excursions through this
portal and we look forward to sharing the capabilities of
this system with you.
ACCESS TO YOUR CHILD’S PROGRESS REPORTS
We look forward to a great term with lots of sporting
events and extra-curricular activities for students to
participate in. We encourage you to remind students of
these opportunities and also to remember that being
organized and having all necessary equipment will help
students to be the best they can be.
MALGOBILA CAMPUS – YEAR 10/11/12 HUB
Welcome to the beginning of a new and exciting year in
the Senior Learning Hub. We have many changes
including our fantastic new buildings and facilities. Our
Year 11 and 12 students have been joined in the new
senior building, Malgobila, by the Year 10s which makes
for a lively and vibrant environment.
There have been a few changes with staffing in the
Senior Learning Hub with Kay Buckland joining Jane
West and David Ballantyne and Learning Hub Leaders,
Lorena Hayward (Year 12 Coordinator) and Igor Malejew
(Year 11 Coordinator). Chris Taylor continues as the
VCAL Coordinator and we also welcome Clay Hunter
(Year 10 Coordinator). Our Education Support staff
Stacey Murphy, Deb Barned and Jude Downie continue
and are joined by Trevor Buck, Jeff Simmonds, Vicky
Halford and Rita Dunn who we welcome and will be
working as aides in our senior classes.
Lorry Kemp and Jacqueline Rutherford also join us in the
senior Learning Resource Centre (LRC).
This year, Advisory for Year 11s will be held on a
Thursday morning and Year 12 Advisory will be on
Tuesday mornings, both at 8.40am. Students need to be
seated in the LRC by about 8.35am. We ask that
students not in the appropriate year level for advisory
remain outside until advisory has finished.
As you may be aware teachers at Bairnsdale Secondary
College will be preparing progress reports for students
every three to four weeks. The aim of progress reports is
to keep parents, coordinators, key teachers and students
up to date with student progress and provide up to date
information that can be used to support the education of
each of our students. The reports may be viewed online
from home on the school system called Compass. If you
do not have internet access at home you will be able to
pick up a copy of your child’s progress report at school.
In the next few weeks parents/guardians will receive their
own log-in details for the Compass Parent Portal as well
as the necessary instructions for viewing progress
reports. We will be sending SMS messages after each
round of progress reports is completed so that you can
always be up to date.
We encourage you to use Compass to access your
child’s progress reports as well as their attendance, and
to routinely discuss this information at home.
MUSIC CENTRE
On behalf of all Music Centre staff we would like to
welcome all new families into the instrumental music
program at Bairnsdale Secondary College. Fifty five new
students have enrolled in learning a musical instrument
this year. Music staff have already met some of the
enthusiastic students who all gained excellent results in
an aptitude test.
A separate Music Centre newsletter will be mailed out
shortly to all families in the program. In the meantime,
if any parent/guardian has any queries please contact
Gerry
Ciavarella
on
5150
4843
or
mobile
0409 142 240.
STUDENT ACCIDENT/MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS
If a student is ill or injured, our first point of contact is the
student’s parent/guardian so that they can seek what
medical attention they feel is appropriate.
If you feel that your child might qualify for special
provision
for
VCE
or
VCAL
due
to:
Illness, any factors relating to personal environment, an
impairment or disability including learning disabilities, or
any other serious cause, please contact the Senior
Learning Hub for more information.
In an emergency situation the College may call an
ambulance or for any necessary medical attention on
behalf of the student’s parents/guardian.
Tutoring for Maths and English will continue after school
on Thursdays in the Malgobila building, LRC until 5.00pm
and will also be available for English in the Malgobila
building, SRC on Tuesdays. We urge all students to avail
themselves of these services offered by our teachers.
If a student is injured at school or during a school
organised activity, then parents/guardians are responsible
for the cost of medical treatment including transport costs
(i.e. ambulance).
Parents/guardians are reminded that DEECD does not
provide personal accident insurance for students.
Reasonably low cost accident insurance policies are
available from commercial insurers and/or ambulance
cover is available from Ambulance Victoria.
COMMUNITY NOTICES
BAIRNSDALE NETBALL ASSOCIATION
Netball Team Registrations: Season 1 2015
We are now accepting team registrations for our first
season. Registrations are due on or before Thursday
February12 2015. On Thursday February12 we will be at
the WORLD Building in Wallace Street Bairnsdale
between 4.00pm and 6.00pm accepting registrations or
alternatively by email prior to this date.
Grades: 11 Years and Under, 13 Years and Under, 15
Years and Under and Senior Sections.
Registration Forms are available by emailing Jodie at
[email protected] or alternatively picking one up at
Inland Surf (Karls) or Sportsco Bairnsdale.
If there are any individual players looking for a game just
email us and we will place your name on a list, in case
any teams are looking for players.
GIPPSLAND POWER
Gippsland Power will be holding Under 11 and 13 Fitness
and Skill acquisition days at the Gippsland Power Centre
Of Excellence, Morwell Football Ground, Travers Street,
Morwell.
Under 11 Monday March 30 2015 and Under 13 Tuesday
March 31 2015 (Numbers will be capped).
Time: 10.00am to 3.00pm Cost: $100-00 For further
registrations details please go to the Gippsland Power
website http://gippslandpower.aflvic.com.au
BAIRNSDALE AND DISTRICT AMATEUR
BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
Telephone: 5153 1638 Email: [email protected]
Mail: PO Box 487 Bairnsdale 3875 ABN: 93 904 339 456
To all Juniors,
The summer season resumes on Tuesday February 10
2015 for all current players, there will be two registration
nights held for new players/teams being Tuesday
February 3 and Friday February 6 2015 between 5.00pm
and 7.00pm at the basketball courts at the BARC (indoor
swimming pool).
For new players/teams you will be required to pay the
affiliation fee of $50.00 per player and all players will be
required to pay $5.00 door entry each week.
More information for the next season which begins in
April 2015 will be handed out in March 2015.
For any further information please contact Bec on
0403 838 781
FEBRUARY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
9
10
12
Clontarf
Directors
Meeting Dubbo to 14th
13
14
15
16
17
BSC
Sports
11
Senior Cricket
Clontarf
Bronze
Medallion
Requalification
Bancoora
18
19
BSC Swimming Sports
Back Up Day
20
Clontarf
Cup
Warrnambool to 22nd
21
Clontarf Football
22
25
26
Interschool
Orbost
27
28
23
Leadership
Program Follow Up
to 27th
Swimming
24
Swimming
MARCH
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
2
3
4
Interschool
Swimming Back Up
Orbost
6
7
8
9
LABOUR DAY
10
Year 7 Transition
Camp to 13th
11
5
Legal Studies Year
10/11 - Sale Court TBA
Holocaust Museum Tear 11
Gippsland Snr Cricket
12
Gippsland Swimming
13
14
15
16
Out Door Ed Alpine
National Park Hike
to 20th
17
7/8/9/10
Cricket
Lucknow
Clontarf “Be The
Hero” Program Paul Zappa
24
18
19
Year
7
and
Immunisations
20
Year 9 Out Door Ed
Fishing
21
22
27
Student Free Day Paret
Teacher
Student
Interviews
Last Day Term 1
28
29
23
25
Clontarf
PD
Broome to 29th
-
10
26
Tennis/Volleyball 7-12
5.00pm Parent Teacher
Student Interviews