NEWSLETTER                                                                                                                                                  16 May 2017                                              Dear Parents and Friends of the College Jogathon I look forward to seeing our college community doing laps of our oval on Friday for our Jogathon to support our P&C fundraiser. This year our P&C have provided funding to support

The Coding Club with new equipment New couches for our Year 11 area New seating benches for our quad New college band banners The KP Gazebo Upgrading equipment on the sports

trolley Student and parent access to Reading

Eggs and Mathletics. Student leadership courses

We really appreciate the support and it is great to see all students from K-12 benefit from the great work of our P&C. Yr 6 Camp Welcome back to our Year 6 students, staff and parents who attended to fantastic excursion to Perth. I look forward to reading the reports and seeing the highlights from our students’ perspective in the next newsletter. Again a huge thank you to our staff Mr Jenson and Mrs Macmahon who organised the opportunities for our students and the support staff Mrs Hook and Mrs Crkovsky and the parent helpers Dr Galvez, Mrs Watkin, Mrs Wyland & Mrs Large. I am sure our students will have memories that will last forever due to your work. Have a Go What a great week last week was! It was wonderful to see so many community organisations come into the college to talk to students and encourage them to see how many activities there are in our community that they could ’have a go at’. Thanks to Mr Roger Barrett and his committee for organising and liaising with the Plantagenet Shire who help support this event. Our appreciations go out to all the clubs and organisations that attended our college throughout the week. Andrew Fraser Principal

Bravo to these readers who have achieved the BRONZE award.

Holly de Jonge, Adam Wallace, Marlee Sounness, Declan Pitt, Jasper Mark, Alex Wright, Alexis Miell, Jed Pantall, Isabelle Macniven, Hayley White, Eamon Fraser, Zac Dau, Brock Pearce, Bethany Grant, Jack Smith, Harry McPharlin, Danika Hutcheson, Noah Ryan, Jenson Brayshaw, Jayden Plug, Jacob Ritchie, Beau Sobey, Imogen Drayton, Nakita Camplin, George Corke, Connor Lindberg, Bonnie Corke, Tomas Lynch, Phoenix Ridgwell

Sensational reading to the following students who have achieved the SILVER award. Riley Dayman, Alysa Camplin, Tomas Lynch, Bailee Skinner, Jasmine Hamilton, Lilah McCorry, Tyrone Long, Patrick Lynch, Zahra Rezai, Hayleigh English, Alik Bisschoff, Cody Brebner, Taylor Carr, Jacob Pocock, Billie-Rose Watkins, Amelia Baxter, Clair Swiggs, Alicia Lisic, Taysja Cronin, Sarah Morrow, Ryan Bedford, Xavier Williss, Mason Cousins, Jack Heffernan-Backshell, Ben Clouston, Grace Wyland, Isabel Woodward, Evie Waddington, Bradley Brooks, Libby Morris, Madison Clouston, Rhiley Hamilton, Mackenzie Brebner, Síne Murphy, Maria Handasyde, Linkin Preusker-Smith, Abbie English

K-6 News

Rebecca Smyth

Associate Principal K-6

Our thoughts and prayers are with those experiencing sadness and loss at this time, particularly so close to Mother’s Day. We hope that knowing the care and kindness of the community are here to support them, brings some comfort during this time of sadness. You may have noticed that our KP area has a wonderful new shade structure! Our congratulations and thanks go to our KP P&C for the amazing job they do with fundraising, and for their vision and enthusiasm for how they would like to see the KP area of our college evolve. Special thanks also to our KP staff who go above and beyond the call of duty in their support for fundraising initiatives. This new structure provides another shade area for students to play in, and offers an elevated stage area for some of the exciting events that are held in the KP area during the year. We'd like to acknowledge the College P&C for making additional funds available in the short term to complete this project. To all involved, thank you for what you do for the sake of the children and the college.

Our college is now accepting kindergarten enrolments for the 2018 school year. It is very important if you have a child starting kindy next year, that you take the time to complete an enrolment form and register your interest as soon as possible. The kindy program is non-compulsory but we strongly encourage you to take advantage of this great opportunity to join us and extend the early learning journey you have begun with your child at home. We have a wonderful Kindergarten program and it can fill quickly. If you have a neighbour, relative or friend with a child of kindy age in 2018, please remind them it is time to enrol their child and encourage them to do so. The application for Kindergarten Enrolment form is available from reception, or our web page. Please call 98513400 if you need any assistance. Thanks for your support and we look forward to hopefully meeting your child through our Play Cafe program in Term 4 of this year. Our Literacy Legends are coming!! This is a volunteer program where interested parents, family and community members can provide literacy support to children with areas of particular need across our primary classes. It will involve volunteers giving a little of their time, in short bursts, for some literacy skills practice with identified children. The training session for our interested volunteers is this Thursday, May 18th at 2.15pm in the E2 classroom. Tasha Burnside, one of our Lead Teachers is organising the program and will be running the training session. We've had a wonderful response from parents and families at this stage, which has been great to see and much appreciated. If you have any questions or would like to know more about the program and how you might help, please contact myself or Tasha Burnside at the college. Congratulations to our students who have completed NAPLAN for 2017! We have been impressed with the positive attitudes that the children have demonstrated going in to the tests and their willingness to settle in and give everything their best shot. That is all we have asked of the students and I am sure it is all you ask of them at home as well; that they do the best they can do...and be the best they can be. NAPLAN provides us with a snapshot about how the students have performed on that day, but there is so much more to your child's education and development. While the information that comes from the NAPLAN testing is valuable, it is what your child does every day at school that makes the difference in their lives.

MBCC KP P&C News

 

 MBCC KP P&C 

Would like to thank the following businesses and community for supporting our Easter & 

Mother’s Day Raffles. Plantagenet Meats        The Painted Dresser   Creating Beauty            Goldilocks Hair Studio 

Mt Barker Country Chemist We raised $841 at our Easter raffle and $1004 

at our Mother’s Day raffle. All funds raised have gone towards the building 

of our gazebo.  

  

The students will enjoy using the new gazebo for performances, creative play and as an extra outdoor area which can be used during class 

time.  

Faction Cross Country June 2nd

Just a reminder that the Faction Cross Country day is approaching soon and will be run on Friday, June 2nd. We would love as many family and friends who can make it to cheer our students on on the day. Please make sure your student has suitable footwear on the day. Slip on shoes are not preferable as they fall off.

Albany Districts Anzac Commemorative Tour 2017

On Wednesday, 10 May, Emma, Edi, Miss Reynolds and Mr Fraser headed to Albany to meet the new group attending the Albany Districts Anzac Commemorative Tour in September. We initially met at the Albany Historical Society's collection at the Cooperative Building and learned some of the ways we could research our Anzacs for the 'Adopt an Anzac' assignment we need to complete. We spent some time going through the documents - it was a bit of a treasure hunt! - and it was exciting when we found something relevant to us!

After this, we went to the Forts, where we had lunch, and then went into the National Anzac Centre. It was a sobering experience and has started to prepare us for the enormity of our trip following in the footsteps of the brave soldiers, nurses and helpers who left Albany's shores in 1915.

Rhianna Reynolds

Scarf Wrap - Vancouver Arts Centre

Mount Barker Community College contributed 11.5 metres to the long scarf that will be wrapped around the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany at the Street Festival on Saturday, 6th May. The year 1 students contributed some weaving, done on straws, then stitched together, this is displayed in the first photo. Thanks to Mrs Graham and Mrs Wallinger for organising the year one classes. Staff, parents and students contributed to the whole scarf that can be seen in the other pictures. Thanks to all who got those needles and hooks working. Mrs Kaye Louwen

Talking to Young People about 13 Reasons Why

Headspace School Support has received a growing number of concerns from schools and parents across Australia about the recently aired Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. The link below is for parents who are interested to read the factsheet concerning discussing the series with your child. https://headspace.org.au/news/how‐to‐talk‐to‐young‐people‐about‐13‐reasons‐why/  

A Night for East Bali

20 tickets left – see Callum Gribble for more info.

P&C Jogathon Fundraiser~ May 19

Students from Pre-Primary to Year 10 are involved. Students will assemble on the oval at 1.15pm. Family and friends are welcome to come along and support the students. No money to be brought on the day. Bring your sponsor card on the day which will be signed off and returned to the student to bring the following week with any monies collected to a P&C rep outside the blocks. Money does not come to the college reception please. Please return all cards even if no money attached.

Bendigo Bank Netball Carnival

The Bendigo Bank Netball Carnival was held on Thursday the 4th of May in Albany and we had both a boys and girls team from Years 9 and 10 compete. It was a full day of games with the boy’s team coming away with 3 wins and one draw, just a few points off making the finals but they had a great day nonetheless. The girl’s team continued to get better as the day went on and finished by winning their last game. Big thanks to Mr Gribble for coaching the boy’s team and helping out throughout the entire day and a thank you to all the students involved in the day, including our two year 12 girls who umpired, it went very smoothly and the students were great representatives from MBCC.

Danika Pisconeri Physical Education

Breakfast Club ~ Can you help?

 Volunteers wanted to assist with Breakfast Club at Mount Barker Community College. Need to  be  available  from  8‐9am  and  assist  with  the preparation  and  clean  up.  At  present  our Breakfast  Club  provides  toast  and  hot milo  to College  students  every  Tuesday  and  Thursday morning.  If we  have more  volunteers we may be able to  increase our service to  include more days.  Enquiries  please  contact  Deb  Smith College Chaplain on 98513408.   

 

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