Issue 2, 15th February 2018

VCE Maths Help

Every Thursday night VCE Mathematics teach-ers will be in SL2 from 3:30pm until 4:30pm to provide help to VCE maths students. Everyone is welcome.

YEAR 7 CAMP

Year 7 Camp at Rubicon offered students an array of activities over 3 days. On arrival, students settled into their dorms before beginning games which helped them get to know each other. The main activities rotated each day so all students got a chance to rock-climb, abseil, bushwalk, raft and canoe. The water activities were extremely popular (helped out by very hot days).

“Our swim in the Rubicon river was chilly but very refreshing” Zoee Grego-ry

“I really enjoyed making new friends” Brodie Davey

“The evening activities were great because they brought us together” Liam Williams

“Rafting was really fun- but the Goulburn River was freezing. Lake Eildon was a lot warmer” Art-Maree Ryan

Thanks to all the Yea and Rubicon staff – especially Ms Miller who did a lot of organizing!

IMPORTANT DATES: FEBRUARY 20th Unit 3 Geography Field Trip

23rd YHS House Swimming

Sports

27th Year 9 Healesville Sanctuary Excursion

MARCH 6th Southern Ranges Swimming Carnival

7 - 9th Year 11 OES Water Ski Camp

12th Labour Day

15th Southern Ranges Round Robin

20th Hume Region Swimming Carnival

27th YHS Athletics Carnival

30th Good Friday—Start of School Holidays

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) Applications

Applications are now open for CSEF. This fund helps supports students attend excursions.

To be eligible for the fund, a parent or guardian must be a holder of a Centrelink Health Care

card.

Please visit the office to fill in a form. Applications close 1st June, 2018.

Racecourse Road, Yea, 3717 Phone: 57972207 Fax: 57972931 Email: yea.hs@edumail.vic.gov.au Website www.yeahs.vic.edu.au

YEA HIGH SCHOOL YEA HIGH SCHOOL

PRINCIPAL’S TEAM REPORT SCHOOL COUNCIL The nominations received for School Council have filled the positions that became vacant at the end of the 2017 Council term. Judy Watts, Kim Slavin and David Stares will continue on Council into 2018. Heba Blair and Rebecca Hall have also been accepted onto Council as our student representatives. Meeting times for school council 2018 will be provided in the next newsletter. CAMPS We had students in Year 7 attending the Rubicon Outdoor Education Camp last week. Reports from stu-dents and staff were very positive and students were keen to meet new friends and build relationships. Year 8 students have their turn this week with their camp to Camp Manyung (Mt Elisa) on the Mornington Penin-sula. HOUSE OFFICIALS & SWIMMING CARNIVAL House Captains were elected last week in our first house meeting. The first sport event is the Swimming Sports to be held on Friday 23rd February. The back-up day, in case of poor weather conditions, will be Monday February 26th. We extend a warm invitation to all families and friends to come along and support their Houses. CHILD SAFE The school has a range of Child Safe measures to meet our commitment to Child Safe practices which in-clude preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and reducing these risks. The school has robust recruitment practices for all staff and volunteers. We have joint Child Safety Officers in our As-sistant Principal and Student Services coordinator, Brian D’Arcy and Jacinta Byers. All staff and volunteers who work with our students are required to have working with children checks.

Other documentation available on our website includes: Policy & Commitment Code of Conduct, Mandatory Reporting, Incident Report Recruiting Risk Management Declaration of Contact with Children and Families

PRIVACY INFORMATION The Department of Education has introduced a new privacy policy that replaces all previous school privacy policies. The policy is attached to this newsletter with links to further parent information on Department of Education School’s Privacy Policy. BUSHFIRE RESPONSE INFORMATION – CODE RED (CATASTROPHIC) DAYS Yea High School is committed to ensuring that our school community is as prepared as possible for the bushfire season. The safety of our students and staff is paramount. School Bus Services Several schools in the west of Murrindindi Shire have been placed on the Bushfire At-Risk Register these are: Flowerdale PS, Kinglake West PS, Middle Kinglake PS and Kinglake PS. The placement of these sites on the Bushfire At-Risk Register has a flow on impact on the West Murrindindi School Bus System. Bus routes passing through at-risk areas or routes operated by schools in at-risk locations will be closed on high-risk fire days. The impact on the school bus routes servicing Yea High School, Yea Primary School and the Sacred Heart Primary School will be as follows: On a Code Red Day NO school buses will run. On days other than Code Red school buses will not run if it is likely the route passes into, or through, a high risk area due to a going fire. The complete route will be cancelled. COMPASS LOGIN If you are a new family to our school, unable to logon or need your pass-word reset on Compass please contact the office as you could be missing important information.

Mr. Bruce Skewes & Mr Brian D’Arcy

YEAR 9 ADVISORY Invitations have now been posted to parents inviting them to their child's Student Led Conference where they will present their 'Who am I?' projects and first 'Big Picture' project's Learning Plan. Student Led Conferences will be taking place in Week 6 (March 5th - March 9th) and parents and guardi-ans are asked to book in a time through the Compass website. Parents can alternately book a time by contacting their child's advisor. We also remind parents to please notify the office if your child is absent.

Sally Nott, Jude MacArthur and Rowan Treloar

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Students are reminded that permis-sion forms for the Healesville Sanc-tuary excursion are due back into the office. The excursion is taking place on Tuesday the 27th of February. If students have misplaced their per-mission form, they must seek a new one from the office. Students are visiting the sanctuary to learn about the community programs they run there and to hopefully get ideas for their own Community Ser-vice Projects, which they will be completing this semester.

Sally Nott and Amanda Hard

SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS Coles is currently running a program called “Sports for Schools”. The program is based on customers receiv-ing vouchers when they shop at Coles. If customers spend $10 they get 1 voucher to put into a schools voucher collection box. At the end of the program, the school can use the vouchers to order sports equip-ment. This equipment will help support the main curriculum but also be available for the students to use at lunch times. If you normally shop at Coles or you know some who does we would appreciate if you could collect the vouchers. There will be a collection box in the front office and one at Coles in Seymour. Whilst we appreciate your support in this program we do also encourage families shopping locally to support the community.

VCE STUDENT & PARENT SEMINARS

As part of our VCE Student support program, guest speakers have been arranged for students and Par-

ents in 12.

Elevate Education have speakers Nationally Accredited Life and provide workshops to over 1500 Australi-

an Schools. They employ young enthusiastic students who have been a top ranked VCE student.

In these workshops, the students will learn study skills, time management, motivation techniques, exam

strategies etc. The sessions are designed to increase VCE performance and gain a clearer understanding

of goal setting.

The parent seminar is designed for parents of VCE students to understand the VCE process for 2018 and

look at tips for helping your son or daughter through this important year. If you are unable to attend this

event can you please let me know. walsh.james.p@edumail.vic.gov.au

The ELEVATE program for the 2018 as will be as follows:

Thursday 29th March: Student Elevation 9:45am-10:45am

Wednesday 5th

September: Ace Your Exams 11:15am-12:15am

Monday 15th October: Finishing Line 9:30am-10:30m

Students should bring some pens and something to lean on (eg. A folder) to their designated session. It is expected that all VCE Unit 3&4 students will attend the sessions.

James Walsh

Year 12 Coordinator

STRIVE READING PROGRAM

Through the Strive Reading Program, students from Year 7 to 10 are en-couraged to increase their reading at home and in class. All students par-ticipate in independent reading for 25 minutes at the beginning of each double period during English class.

THE CHAMPIONS FOR THIS MONTH

Middle School Champion:

Heba Blair, for having most reading minutes in year 10. Heba has enjoyed the strive program because she loves getting the oppor-tunity to read more. She would recommend Shatter Me by Tahera Mafi for other readers.

Junior School Champion:

Declan Fulford, for achieving great success with his reading minutes. Declan recommends the Talon Series by Julie Kagawa and the Di-vergent Series by Veronica Roth.

NEW RELEASES IN THE LIBRARY!

Third Witch by Jackie French

The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

PICKING UP & DROPPING OFF STUDENTS

For the safety of everyone we ask that students who travel to and from school via car are dropped off at the designated carpark out the front of the school grounds on Racecourse Road (marked with a red star)

Students are not to be picked up or dropped off in either carparks (marked with red cross-es) located on the school grounds or in the driveway. If students arrive or de-part during school hours they need to be escort-ed by a parent or guardian and go through the office (marked with a red dot) to be signed in or out so an exemption of this rule applies. If parents and guardians are driving in the school grounds we also ask that you adhere to the speedlimit of 10kms at all times.

Murrindindi Shire is excited to announce that LSV will be facilitating

a Pool Lifeguard course at the Yea Swimming Pool on March 3rd &

4th.

This is a great opportunity to access nationally accredited training.

To book for the course go to lsv.com.au, click on ‘training’ on the top

bar, then, ‘find full courses’.

The minimum requirement to enrol is; to be 16 years old and to have

a current Level II first aid qualification.