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TABLE OF CONTENTS

♦ Principal's Message

♦ Year 7 students forge new friendships at Orientation Camp

♦ Developing strong family and school partnerships

♦ Community News ♦ New staff profile-Lisa Roe

IN OTHER NEWS

This week’s header photo Our Year 7 students had a wonderful opportunity to forge new friendship prior to starting school. The Orientation camp was held in Dunkeld and the students completed a range of challenging activities aimed at building resilience and team work. L-R Taylah Nelson, Jaymie Falconer, Paige Luckin & Sarah Purcell Relay for Life We would like to invite the school community to join us for an evening at Relay For Life. The event takes place at Nelson Park, Cape Nelson Road. The evening begins at 5.30pm and concludes at 10.00pm.

Principal’s Message As we watch the skill and dedication of the competitors at the Sochi Winter Olympics we are reminded that in order to master a skill and become an expert in something we should apply the “10,000-hour rule”. Proponent s of the “10,000-hour rule” believe that this level of practice holds the secret to great success in any field.

If you are a duffer at golf, say, and make the same mistakes every time you try a certain swing or putt, 10,000 hours of practicing that error will not improve your game. You’ll still be a duffer, albeit an older one. You don’t get benefits from mechanical repetition, but by adjusting your execution over and over to get closer to your goal.”

The secret of successfully mastering a skill is deliberate practice and well-designed and planned training over months or years, and you give it your full concentration. How experts in any domain pay attention while practicing makes a crucial difference.

Learning how to improve any skill requires concerted focus. When practice occurs while we are focusing elsewhere, the brain does not rewire the relevant circuitry for that particular routine. It is vital we pay attention to the task we are completing.

After about 50 hours of training –whether in skiing, driving, Calculus or LOTE –people get to that “good-enough” performance level, where they can go through the motions more or less effortlessly. They no longer feel the need for concentrated practice, but are content to coast on what they’ve learned. Skill mastery is at about 50% in this case.

People who gain complete mastery, in contrast, keep paying attention; they concentrate actively on those moves they have yet to perfect, on correcting what’s not working, and on refining their mental models of how to play the game. The secret to smart practice boils down to focus.

Students have a lot to learn from watching world class athletes perform. Whether undertaking Year 7 Maths or Year 12 Physics we will only master the content and skills when we are fully focussed and systematically review, refine and challenge our thinking. Being a successful learner is no different to being a world class athlete, you just have to commit to the training schedule and work on your skills. “I have no special talents. I am passionately curious” Albert Einstein Dr Michelle Kearney

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday 10 February Year 12 SWAC Information Evening @ 6.30-7.00pm, VCE Information Evening Year 12@7pm, Year [email protected] Thursday 13 February Commencement Service 9.15am Uniting Church Percy St Friday 14 February Casual Day-Relay for Life. Dress in purple. Gold Coin Donation Monday 17 February Inter-house swimming Sports (Parent help required) Wednesday 19 February Year 7 Welcome BBQ 6.00-7.00 Scholarship Information Evening Thursday 27 February Glenelg Swimming Hamilton Thursday 6 March Glenelg 20/20 Cricket International Women's Day-Pacific Hydro High Tea Monday 10 March Labour Day Holiday-No School Thursday 13 March Inter-house Athletics (Parent help required) Monday 17 March VCE Drama Top Acts Excursion Wednesday 19 March Ride 2 School day. Free pancake breakfast for those who use active transport Thursday 20 March VCE Parent/Teacher Interviews 4.00-8.00pm Friday 21 March Harmony Day. Dress in Orange. Gold coin donation. Glenelg Aths Casterton Year 7 Scholarships close. Thursday 27 March GWSR Swim Carnival Thursday 3 April 7-10 Parent Teacher Interviews

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Year 7 students forge new friendships at Orientation Camp Each year Bayview College offers their Year 7 students the chance to get to know one another through a three day orientation camp providing a range of group activities that emphasis teamwork and communication.

For many of the students there is plenty of nervous energy about starting secondary school.

“The camp provides an opportunity for Bayview students to meet their teachers and peers outside of the classroom environment before school starts” said Year 7 Co-Ordinator Mr John Mulvey.

“We recognize that for some young people starting secondary school can be really daunting. The Orientation Camp is just one positive aspect of our orientation program for new students”

“The informal setting of the camp provides the students with the best preparation to form new friend-ships build confidence and feel comfortable with their teachers”

“We look forward to seeing them mature, learn and feel part of the Bayview Community” he said.

The camp was held at Grampians Retreat in Dunkeld and took advantage of the beautiful natural environment.

Caitlyn Anderson described her camp experience as “awesomeness”

“I really enjoyed making a hut. It meant we needed to work as a team. It was girls versus boys. The girls won” she said.

Katie Mitchell made many new friends at the camp. “Of all of the activities the giant swing was really good fun” she said.

Bayview’s Buddy program also forms part of the Orientation program. Students have already been “paired up” with older students. The Buddy program commences the first year of secondary school with the purpose of making new students feel safe, valued and connected to the school community.

L-R Fraser Newton & Liam Cocks

L-R Tom Alexander, Connor Duro & Lachlan Hewlett

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Developing strong family & school partnerships We would like to welcome new and existing families to Bayview for 2014. Sometimes it can be a little confusing trying to work out who to call at Bayview for the many varying questions you may need to ask during your child’s time at school. This guide may assist you in gaining a swift response to any request you have. If you feel more comfortable calling a particular person about an issue please still feel free to do so however the below references would be more likely to be able to deal with inquiries in their specialised area more efficiently. Bayview Principal, Dr Kearney is available by appointment on 5523 1042 or by email [email protected] Curriculum/ Subjects If you have a problem regarding a specific subject, or about the curriculum in general, the appropriate Year Level Coordinator or the Director of Teaching and Learning are able to assist.

Year 7 Year 8 & 9 Year 10,11&12 Director of Teaching Deputy Principal Well-Being Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator & Learning Mr John Mulvey Mrs Sharon Clark Mrs Kym Maybery Ms Ann Sullivan Mrs Leah Kelly Mrs Lorraine Quinlivan

VET and VCAL Coordinator- Mrs. Kym Maybery Homework Issues Homework issues can be directed through the Year level coordinators or through your child’s Care Group Teacher. If your child is receiving too much or too little homework, the problem may also be experienced by the rest of the class, meaning the Care Group teacher should be the first to contact. Please ask your child for the name of their Care Group Teacher. Discipline and Welfare Any queries regarding discipline should be referred to the appropriate Year Level Coordinator or Ms Leah Kelly, Deputy Principal. Ms Kelly can give you clarification regarding school rules or policies. Welfare, bullying issues can go through the Year Level Coordinators, Ms Kelly or Mrs Lorraine Quinlivan, our College Wellbeing Coordinator. Absences and Student Contact If you wish to advise of a student absence or if you wish to pass on a message to your child, our Student Services Officer Mrs. Jacqui Kilby is the one to contact. Financial Matters Anything to do with financial matters including fees, etc should be addressed with Mr. Michael Crowe the College Business Manager. Please only contact staff during the work day hours of 8.30am-4.30pm and not outside these hours unless in case of emergency. Are you looking for a great deal on a hot chocolate or milkshake after school? The Tea Tree Gallery in Percy Street will donate 50c for each beverage bought by Bayview students holding a student ID card or in uniform. You will be given a token which you will need to bring into student services. This will support our Schoolies with a Cause Program.

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Zoe has a change in temperature! This year Zoe Hewlett has been given the opportunity to spend 12 months in Finland as part of the Portland Rotary students exchange program. Over the school holidays Zoe flew from Australia to her new home in Kulosaaren Yhteiskoulu. We would like to share Zoe’s first blog entry. Where’s Wally, no… where’s Zoe? I have arrived safely in my new home, Finland after my long flight from Melbourne to Sydney then Dubai, London and then finally to Helsinki. For the first week of my stay in Finland me and a few other exchange students from Australia, Brazil and South Africa, stayed at Karkku camp were we learnt the Finnish ways of life and met many wonderful Fins. Each day we took Finish classes, also outdoor activities and Finish lectures. My favourite part of the camp was when we went in the saunas and then jumped in the ice lake :) I am now living with my first host family; they are so beautiful and welcoming. In February we are heading up north for a holiday to go skiing, I am very excited. I just completed my first day of school at Kulosaaren Yhteiskoulu; turns out that there are a lot more than 300 people they have around 700 children from all over the world. My days start around 8-10 o'clock and then I finish around 2-4. The school is very relaxed and nice. Today I also went and trained with a local basketball club, which was fun :) I am enjoying my stay in Finland very much, and am looking forward to the months to come. Enjoy the info from Zoe’s Blog at http://zoeh2298.wordpress.com/ New staff Profile Name: Lisa Roe Position at Bayview: VCE Psychology, Yr 7 Science and VCAL Previous positions: Disability case manager and trainer at Western District Employment Access What are you most looking forward to at Bayview? Contributing to the growth and achievement of Bayview students each year and witnessing students achieve their goals, whatever they may be. Any miscellaneous info you wish to share, such as family, education, where you grew up, hobbies I live in Warrnambool and travel each day.

My hobbies include wakeboarding, snowboarding, traveling and cook-ing. I love peanut butter on TimTams. And just for fun…….. What three things do you always have in your refrigerator? Home-made mayo, grapes and milk What was your favorite birthday present as a kid? A Trampoline What is your favourite time of year and why? July, I love going to the snow in winter and my birthday is in July! Next week new staff profile will be Sha Gallagher

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