HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

‘Meeting the individual needs of all students’

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HOPETOUN P-12 COLLEGE

2017

Term 4

OCTOBER

Wednesday 18th October Parents Club Meeting:

7.30pm

Wednesday 25th October

Year 12 Classes Finish

Last Day of VET

Tuesday 24th—27th October

Year 5/6 Urban Camp—Melbourne

NOVEMBER

Wednesday 1st November

VET Induction Day

(2018 First Year

VET Students)

Thursday 2nd November

Parents Club Dinner

Monday 6th November

Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 7th November

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

Congratulations

On Tuesday 10th October the CPA Australia held their awards ceremony

for the Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition. Ashley Chamberlain,

Connor McLean , Jack Bellinger and Jacob Holm entered this

competition with their hypothetical business

"Mallee Sport and Rec- MSR".

They were awarded their Victorian first place award on the evening and

were also announced as the National winners for the group division of

the competition.

PrinciPal’s rePort Welcome back to a new term – the fourth quarter. I hope you had a wonderful holiday whatever or wherever you went. We managed a few days of good weather to get out and about. A special welcome to our four stu-dents who spent the last six weeks of Term 3 in China. We are all looking forward to hearing from Jess Chamber-lain, Tegan Frankel, Denita Reid and Flynn Grace about their exploits and experiences and we hope they will be able to share some of the Chinese culture with us later this term.

We return to school with some good news. Our Year 11 Business Management class entered and won the state-wide CPA business award for their project. The challenge was for the students, Jacob Holm , Ash Chamberlain, Connor McLean and Jack Bellinger, to design a unique start-up business tailored to their local community. They chose to establish the mythical, but highly practical, ‘Mallee Sport and Rec-MSR. It was a significant project in-volving detailed planning around staffing, stock management, wages, profit margins, projected sales, advertising and so on.

The even better news is that not only did the Year 11 class win the state award, they won the Australasian Award at a ceremony in Melbourne earlier this week for their outstanding project. Congratulations go to the four boys who were assisted by Elise who has moved to another school, who helped in the initial phase and to Mrs Wright for her support and direction.

It was certainly pleasant returning to school on Monday and finding a bright, fresh corridor, new doors, the bus loop re-sealed and the small cover area sealed with asphalt. The western-end of the corridor looks stunning and certainly helps to lift the spirits of students and staff.

There are a few more maintenance jobs to be completed over the next month such as painting of the window frames along the western end and some plumbing work but, overall the company employed to do the mainte-nance work have done a wonderful job.

Another change involves our ‘mini farm’ which is being managed by our VCAL group. We’ve had Cows Create

Career, our goats have come and gone – now we have sheep. Yes, five ewes have joined our feed-lot enterprise.

School Captains

The process for electing our new School Captains is now well underway. The six nominees, Ashley Chamberlain, Jacob Holm, Chloe McGee, Isabella Grace, Jack Bellinger and Connor McLean, have written their profiles which were published in our newsletter last term. This week they have each been interviewed by a panel of teachers and students. Next week the six students will present their election speeches to our school assembly. The stu-dents will then vote. An announcement on the successful candidate will be made at the Year 12 celebration as-sembly on Thursday 26th October.

Coming Up This Term

Camps feature prominently this term. The Years Prep to 4 students are currently on camp at Halls Gap and the Years 5 and 6 students will be heading off to Melbourne with the cluster schools in a few weeks’ time. Year 8 students will be heading off to Federation University for an over-night visit late November followed by their An-glesea camp in December. We have the usual Term 4 features which includes Year 12 celebrations, VCE exams and exams for Years 9 to 11 later in the term, transition days and the Valedictory Dinner. We also have a range of end-of-year celebrations culminating in our prestigious Awards Night on Tuesday 19th December. There is a huge amount of work in front of students and staff, however, I am sure we are all up to the challenge as we look for-ward to the final 11 weeks of the school year.

Hats Policy

Just a reminder that all students should be wearing their approved school hats this term. Hats are available for $5 from the office.

Graeme Holmes

Principal

Parents Club Meeting

Wednesday 18th October

7-30pm in the Library

Year 5/6 Urban Camp

Melbourne

Tuesday October 24th

- 27th October

Year 12 Classes Finish

Wednesday 25th October

Year 12 Celebration Day

Thursday 26th October

Hopetoun P-12 College Parents Club

Invites you to our

Parents Club Dinner

November 2nd

@ 6.30pm

Meal Provided by Easy Entertaining/International Cooking Class

$30 per head

PLEASE RING GENERAL OFFICE TO RSVP 03 50833203

BY OCTOBER 20, 2017

PLEASE ADVISE OF ANY DIETRY REQUIREMENTS

EVERY DAY COUNTS

Our Every day Counts Term 3 competition results will be announced

on Tuesday 17th October

EVERY DAY COUNTS

FACT

Missing 1 day a fortnight is the same as missing 4 whole weeks of the year.

From Prep to Year 12, that adds up to 1.5 years of school missed!

www.education.vic.gov.au

Please send a note, ring or email to explain your child’s absences.

Proud Sponsors of our

VCAL Program

Homework Club

Thursday

3-20pm until 4-00pm

Prep—Year 6

Room 4

Secondary

Year 7—12

Room 5

Parents Club Meeting

Wednesday 18th October

7.30pm in the Library

ALL WELCOME

Cassie’s Swim School

Swimming lessons will be offered for Parent/Child and Swim School classes in both Hopetoun and Rainbow during January 2018.

Week 1 : 15th – 19th Jan

Week 2 : 22nd – 26th Jan

JUNIOR TENNIS

&

UNDER 16’S SQUAD TRAINING

COMMENCES TONIGHT

THURSDAY 12TH OCTO-BER

@ 4.30PM AT THE COURTS

ALL CHILDREN FROM

GRADE 1 UP ARE

WELCOME

Monday 30th October—

3rd November 2017

ALL THE BEST

ANGELIKA HAKOPA

What are your plans for 2018?

To head to university and hopefully do a double degree in Business and Sports management.

What will you miss the most about the school?

The caf and hanging out with my friends.

What advice do you give our students for next year?

Listen to your teachers and also enjoy school, it goes faster than you expect.

What is your 5 year

vision for the school?

A coffee machine in the Year 12 room would make it perfect.

What is your fondest memory of Hopetoun P-12?

Mine and Chloe’s study sessions, which we also gossiped heaps in but we did work hard too.

Year 12

Inside the head of

Dr. David Robinson

Why did you become a

teacher?

Although I became a teacher later in life, I have always loved explaining concepts to people.

What is your 5 year vision for the school?

To see the continuing improvements to the grounds and facilities reach completion.

What has been your biggest highlight at school this year?

The results from the first Year 7 science topic, they are an awesome group!

If you were Principal for one day, what would you do?

Organise the rebuilding of the Science room.

What is the best thing about being a teacher?

Seeing the “Ah ha” moments as students understand something, especially when they thought they couldn’t.

Sunday 15th October 2017

~ FLOW FM roaming and broadcasting throughout the day

~ Bill Fuller’s Animal Nursery

~ Photo displays- local photographers ‘Silo Display’ as well as Jenny Stephen’s photos

~ Food vans- including Dan’s Van, Australian Ice Creamy, Pulled Pork, Fairy Floss, Cheryl’s Coffee and more

~ CFA, Rural Northwest Health- blood pressure checks, Ambulance Victoria- learn CPR.

Hopetoun Show and Shine- Saturday 14th October

Entries for Show and Shine- 7am-10am at the Hopetoun Recreation Reserve.

Entertainment starting at 12noon until late. Live music from The Stumps, Boots N All and Jayne Denim.

Displays of truck, utes, cars and motorbikes.

Fireworks and fire display around 9pm.

Tickets purchased separately to The Show ticket (Sunday event).

TIME EVENT LOCATION

No Later than 9am

Entries to be dropped off Pavilions

12 noon on-wards

Viewing of schedule items Pavilions/ Netball shed/ Giants changeroom

12:30-4:30pm Rock Climbing - $5 a go Oval area

12:30-end of day

Mechanical Bull - $5 per ride Oval area

Jumping Castle TBC

12:45pm Official opening- Mayor Graeme Massey In front of footy sheds

1pm-2:30pm Face painting by Tara Gold coin

Netball Sheds

1pm Scavenger Hunt starts (preschool- high school groups) Collect your card and get started!

Netball Sheds

1-1:30pm Jason’s Magic Workshop Visitors football changeroom

2pm Dog Trials start- start time will be dependent on competitors

Sheep yard area

2:30pm Old School Games Oval

2:30pm -3pm Waldo The Great- Magic Show Footy sheds

3-4pm Face painting by Tara Gold coin

Netball sheds

4-5pm Jason’s Magic Lesson ** pre purchased ticket $5 available from Secretary’s office (under grandstand) 30 mins X 2 (limited spaces per group)

Visitors football changeroom

3:30pm Bushman’s Challenge Oval

5pm SCAVENGER hunt closes- prizes drawn

6pm Raffle drawn and close

SHOW TIME 2017 FOOD COMES FROM FARMS

JUMPING CASTLE FREE RIDES

ENTERTAINMENT SHOW BAGS

TUG OF WAR SIDE SHOWS

SACK RACES FACE PAINTING

EGG SPOON RACE FIRE DANCERS WALDO THE GREAT MECHANICAL BULL

BALDWIN BOATS CIRCUS CLASS

SCHOOL GARDEN PLANTER BOXES BILL FULLERS ANIMAL FARMSCHOOL

ART DISPLAY ROCK CLIMBINGDOG TRIALS

MARKET STALLS

SUNDAY 15TH OCTOBER 2017 BUSHMANS CHALLENGE

FOR MORE INFO PLEASE EMAIL:

PAVILIONS

info@hopetounshow.com- Wayne-0449219879

RURAL NORTH WEST HEALTH DISPLAY

CFA DISPLAY

HOPETOUN VIC SHOW AND SHINE Fireworks at dusk, Kids entertainment, live music, bar will be open and

much more.

SATURDAY 14TH OCTOBER 2017

JAYNE DENHAM

BOOTS N ALL – STUMPS LIVE IN CONCERT

UTES - TRUCKS – MOTORBIKES - CARS

HOPETOUN VIC SHOW GROUNDS ENTRIES ON THE DAY BY 10AM For more information please call Wayne on 0449219879 or

email info@hopetounshow. com