HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

‘Meeting the individual needs of all students’

RESPECT RESPONSIBILTY TEAMWORK

T H U R S D A Y 1 5 T H M A R C H 2 0 1 8

I S S U E 7

GRIP STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2018

Tuesday 7th March

Little Desert Swimming Dimboola (Secondary)

Tuesday 7th March

Little Desert Swimming Dimboola ()

HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2018

Term 1

March

Thursday 15th March

Parent/Teacher/Student

Interviews

Saturday 17th March

Presentation Ball

Monday 19th March

Year 7 & Year 10

Immunisations

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

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Integrity and Pride Our SRC executive attended a conference in Melbourne last Tuesday. They joined with over 700 students from across the state to learn and share ideas around how to become better student leaders. Our SRC publicity officer, Maddy Cashill, commented “the conference was really in-formative and it motivated us to make change.” Maddy went on to say that the conference has inspired our student leadership group to think outside the square and to realise that they can bring about positive changes for students and the College. Maddy, Chloe McGee (SRC Presi-dent), Jacob Holm (Vice President), Shiarne Petschel (Secretary) and Samantha Sharp (Treasurer) represented our College at the state-wide leadership conference. A key take-away from the con-ference was around the need to maintain integrity in leadership and to build school pride.

Parent Teacher Student Interviews By the time you read this newsletter the Parent Teacher Student Interviews will be over. It was certainly pleasing to see the full list of bookings made for most teachers. The Compass booking system enabled parents to select the times they wished to meet with teachers provided they weren’t pre-booked. First in … as the saying goes. More impressive, however, was the interest shown by parents and students in meeting with teachers. Bookings were much heavier this year, which is extremely pleasing. If you get a few minutes, please give us feedback through Compass or email on how easy/difficult it was to book interviews online and feedback on the timing (day of the week, timing during the term) so that we can continue to improve our processes. Some staff were unavailable for interviews today due to part-time work or prior commitments. If you wish to meet with them or with any other staff member you may have been unable to see today, please call the College and make an appointment.

Working Bee Thanks to the parents, students and staff who attended the working bee last Friday. We covered a huge amount of work. The pizza oven area was cleaned out, dead trees and foliage removed, gardens were rejuvenated and preparations were made for the forthcoming athletic sports. The flag poles were fixed and considerable work was done on sweeping and tidying. A wonderful job by a willing band of helpers.

Presentation Ball Excitement is certainly high amongst the presentees as the big day draws closer. Saturday night at the Memorial Hall promises to be a glittering affair when the students are formally presented to the Official Party then dance the night away in celebration. I hope you can come along to join in the glamour of the event.

College Council Hopetoun P-12 College elected office-bearers for 2018-19 at last night’s annual meeting. The office-bearers are:

President – Simon Cook Vice-President – Jamie Frankel Secretary – Viv Penman Treasurer – Natasha Anderson Executive Officer – Graeme Holmes

Three sub-committees have been established; Finance, led by Natasha Anderson, Grounds & Buildings led by Nicki Bellinger and Policy led by Graeme Holmes.

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.

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Hopetoun P-12 College Parents,

To Presentee Parents,

To help with the catering for the 2018 Presenta-tion Ball we are asking each family to supply

2 dozen savouries.

Alternatively you can pre-order and pay for sa-vouries at the Hopetoun Bakery before Monday the 13

th March.

Families are able to leave their food at the Hopetoun P-12 College office on Friday 16

th

March, or it can be dropped off at the hall be-tween 7.30 – 8.00pm Saturday 17

th March.

If anyone has any queries regarding this can you please contact,

Jo Petschel

50838235/0427838234

To Hopetoun P-12 College Parents,

The Hopetoun Presentation Ball is to be held on Saturday 17th March, 2018 at the Hopetoun Memo-rial Hall.

The Hopetoun P-12 College Parents Club caters for this function and it is one of our major events for the year. We need your help and it would be greatly appreciated if you could donate the follow-ing:

1 Cake or Slice (enough for 12 pieces)

Food can be left at the hall between 7 - 8pm on the night of the Presentation Ball. Alternatively the food may be left at the College office during the day on the Friday.

Thank you in anticipation of your help.

Please contact me with any questions or concerns.

Joanne Petschel

0427 838234

SRC NEWS In last week’s SRC meeting, our SRC team decided on our first fundraiser idea for 2018! From

Monday March 19th there will be a ‘Guess How Many Easter Eggs are in the Jar’,

50c per guess…

We ask that you don’t be too greedy with your guesses although, there are no limits. This is

open to both Primary and Secondary students as well as teachers. The winner will be announced at the assembly on Tuesday 27th of March! To accompany drawing of the winner, we will be having a casual clothes day. This will be a gold coin donation please with all proceeds raised

going to ‘The Good Friday Appeal’.

Please note that there is to be no short-shorts, thongs or singlets!

Thanks in advance for your support.

SRC Publicist,

Maddy C

Thank you

On behalf of everyone on School Council, I would like to thank the parents, staff and students who attended the working bee

on Friday night.

It amazes us how much work can be completed within a few hours

with all hands on deck. With your hard work and dedication our 5 year plan is taking shape .

A special mention to Flynn Grace and Mali and Bonnie Horman

who worked tirelessly to pitch in and do their bit for the school.

Thank you.

Simon Cook

On behalf of

Hopetoun P-12 School Council

Homework Club

3-20pm until 4-00pm

Prep-Year 6

Year 7 –12

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

DATE SESSION LOCATION

19th March Shake Rattle & Library

26th March Healthy Active TBC