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AG STUDENTS ATTEND THE MENDOORAN ANNUAL FIELD DAY!

Mr Burke, Steven Leask, Robert Austin, Jamie Sharpe, Brad Ward, John

Monk, Amelia Washbrook and Tiarney Crothers at “Boxwood”.

“We all had a great day and it was very educational”

On Wednesday 23rd October Years 9 and 10 Ag students attended the

Annual Mendooran Field Day. The day started at “Boxwood” where

Charlie Knight and guest speakers discussed the benefits of growing

canola. They discussed varieties grown, windrowing and harvesting.

They progressed to Murray Skinner’s property, “Warrambool” where they

viewed trials of pastures, oats and forage brassica and the students mixed

with the large turn out of local farmers. They ended the day at Rob

Monk’s property, “Wattle Grove” where Rob has grown brassica and the

students had the chance to mix with the local farming community. The

students thoroughly enjoyed the day and their teacher, Mr Burke, plans to

take them back as an annual excursion. It was a day where the

community visibly supported the school and it was a great success for all

concerned!

Term 4 Week 4 29th October 2012

Principal Michael Spora

HTSS

Julie Waters

Assistant Principal Sara Reynolds

Captain Secondary

Blake Washbrook

Vice Caps Secondary

John Monk

Amelia Washbrook

Captains Primary

Kyle Hartley

Emma Bennetts

Vice Caps Primary

Charlie Smith

Peta McLeod

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PRINCIPAL’S NOTES

School Photos

As mentioned previously, our school photos will be on Tuesday 6th November.

I have been extremely impressed with the improvement in uniform this year

and would like to ensure that the whole school student body is looking its best

next Tuesday. Please ensure that your children are wearing full and tidy school

uniform that is well presented.

Focus on Reading

Today Primary staff and Mrs Young will be involved in one of the final stages in our Focus on Reading

professional learning. This has been a very successful program for staff professional development. We

often attend or are presented with professional learning that is either interesting or obvious and already

in place in our classrooms, however, this program has for the past two years empowered our teachers to

have different and more effective strategies to actually improve teaching and

learning in our classrooms. I would like to thank all staff for their

participation and striving to improve student outcomes. Special thanks go to

Mrs Reynolds for showing outstanding skills in supporting staff whilst

coordinating the program.

Absenteeism

Our Home School Liaison Officers (HSLO) have indicated to me that they

have downloaded information from our system to ascertain who our students

are with high absenteeism. These particular students will be monitored in

the future to ensure that this pattern improves. Families need to remember

their legal, and I believe moral obligations these days of ensuring that their

children attend school each day possible. I would also like to remind

students and families that every absence should be followed up with a note

from home explaining the reason for the absence.

Michael Spora

Principal

Mr Spora on playground duty under the COLA with

our new Welfare Chaplain, Fr Robert Bowman.

calendar

WED 31.10.12

CWA Land Cookery

Judging 11:30am

THUR 1.11.12

Western Access

Program Orientation

Day for Year 10

- Peak Hill

FRI 2.11.12

HSC Physics

9:25am-12:30pm

SAT 3.11.12

Pool Opens

IMPORTANT

DATES

TUE 6.11.12

School Photos

SAT 30.3.13

Evelyn Althofer’s

Retirement

Celebration

Next School

Council

Meeting

Thursday

29th November 2012

3:30pm

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Special Awards: Jake Swan, Noah Leask, Annabel Finemore, Noah Harris

Class Award Ribbons

K/1: Breea Campbell

2/3/4: Tori Rutter

4/5/6: Emma Bennetts

MERIT AWARDS

K/1: Jake Swan

Janet Hellyer

2/3/4: Klayton Campbell

Joe Frohmuller

4/5/6: Tahlija Williams

Trinity Waymouth-Warry PRIMARY ASSEMBLY

AWARDS

KINDERGARTEN/YEAR 1 NEWS Last week students visited Healthy Harold to talk about how we can make healthy choices. Students

discussed healthy foods and sometimes foods, staying fit through exercise and we talked about people in

our community who help us stay healthy. Harold popped out to say hello although at times he was

distracted by a banana that he found beside his house. It was a great visit.

This week we will be reading about aeroplanes. Students will be reading interesting information and

then planning and writing an information report. We will be making our own spinning helicopters using

cardboard and a paperclip.

S Reynolds

FOCUS ON READING Today the Primary teachers and Mrs Young participated in a Focus on Reading Professional

Development day. This program has been running over two years and has provided our teachers with the

opportunity to work cooperatively to extend and refine teaching and learning practices in the area of

teaching reading and comprehension skills. This program is developing our ability to implement a

variety of teaching strategies and access resources to develop student’s knowledge and understanding of

how they can select strategies such as making connections, predicting, visualising, summarising,

monitoring, and questioning to gain a deep understanding of the messages represented within a variety

of texts.

S Reynolds

MENDOORAN SWIMMING FOR SPORT PROGRAM The Mendooran Swimming for Sport Program will begin on Friday 16th November.

Supporting the development of students swimming skills is an important goal for our school as the

summer season starts. This year we are trialling a new program that involves visiting the pool on

Fridays for a session rather than ten days intensive swimming due to disruptions in previous years.

From Week 6 on Friday’s, class groups will get changed into swimmers at school and walk to the pool

during their sport time and participate in levelled swimming activities, returning to school with their

teachers after the session. Students will need to wear their sports uniform to school and bring in a

swimming bag with swimmers, towel, hat and sunscreen.

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MENDOORAN SWIMMING FOR SPORT PROGRAM CONT. Permission notes will be sent home this week. Please complete the forms and return to school by

Friday 9th November.

Sessions will be as follows:

Years 4/5/6- 9.15am - 10.50am

K/1/2/3- 11.10am - 11.50am

Secondary - 1.30pm - 3.00pm

Students will be grouped into levelled swimming groups based on their swimming ability.

Support from parents and carers is needed to run this program so if you can volunteer your time for

one or more Friday please call the school.

S Reynolds

TRANSITION TO KINDERGARTEN 2012 Parents and caregivers are invited to attend the Transition to Kindergarten Information session to be

held in the Mendooran Central School Kindergarten room on:

Tuesday 6th November 2012 from 2.20 – 3.00pm.

Information will be provided about enrolment, school and bus forms, sport houses, uniforms and the

transition sessions for 2012.

The Transition to Kindergarten sessions for children will be held on the following dates:

Tuesday 13th November 9.30am – 10.30am.

Preschool visit to Kindergarten.

Tuesday 20th November 9.30am – 10.30am.

Preschool visit to Kindergarten.

Wednesday 28th November 9.00am – 11.10am.

Wednesday 5th December 9.00am – 1.30pm.

Wednesday 12th December 9.00am – 3.10pm.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Mon 5.11.12: K Yeo, A Martin

Tue 6.11.12: S Abbott

Wed 7.11.12: S Abbott

Thu 8.11.12: S Abbott

Fri 9.11.12: S Abbott

Mon 29.10.12: L Monk, S Bracken

Tue 30.10.12: S Abbott

Wed 31.10.12: S Abbott

Thu 1.11.12: S Abbott

Fri 2.11.12: S Abbott

FIRST AID COURSE

A First Aid Course will be held at Mendooran

Central School on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th

December.

For further enquires please contact the front office

on 68 861149.

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YEARS 2/3/4/5 NEWS This week in COGS we will continue our research about products that are useful eg: for humans,

animals or the environment. The children will begin to put their ideas onto paper and then make

prototypes from clay. Then we will begin to make the products we will display later in the term. If

you could send in any recyclable items, such as cardboard rolls, plastic soft drink containers, ice

cream containers and lids etc. it would be appreciated.

Our vegetables were invaded by army grubs last Thursday, so we set to work watering extra seasol

and smothering the plants in wood ashes-the army grubs soon marched off our garden

and none were to be seen on Friday! The students are learning that Organic control is

possible to control unwanted bugs.

If you are able to donate seeds for our stall in a few weeks it would be much

appreciated. The profit made will go to a charity of the students’ choice. Large

seeds like; Pumpkin, butternut pumpkin, watermelon and zucchini would be

great! We will also be looking for lemons for our lemonade stall.

This week we host the assembly on Wednesday at 2.40pm in our room.

Come along to watch our skeleton dance!

Our spelling is getting more challenging and it is pleasing to see that there have been

great improvements in most students’ results. This is reflected by the large amount of homework

handed in last week! Well done!!

In Mathematics we continue to concentrate on subtraction without trading (Year 2) and subtraction

with trading (Years 3 and 4). I have been a little tricky mixing up the subtraction and addition

problems so that the students need to pay close attention to the operation signs!

Have a great week!

S Lavender

SECONDARY NEWS GENERAL This Thursday our Year 10 students will be travelling to Peak Hill for a Western Access Program

orientation day. This day involves the students meeting with prospective teachers and learning how

to use the VC equipment and also to meet other students from ACCESS schools. The students will be

supervised by Mr Bearman. We still require further transport. Please contact the office if you can

provide transport.

Our new sewing machines and overlockers have arrived and the old machines will be put up for

tender later in the term.

Year 7 & 8 students have the opportunity to take part in the Land CWA Cookery competition this

Wednesday morning. Mrs Henderson will be in to judge the two categories at 11.30. We thank our

local CWA for providing this opportunity for our students.

The HSC continues with Blake sitting his Physics examination on Friday morning. We all wish him

good luck.

J Waters

Mendooran Central School

Enjoying the beautiful spring weather,

Dani Sciberras, Tiarney Crothers and

Janalli Blair painting their current

Design and Technology projects on the

lawn outside the Trade Training

Centre.

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THE CHAPLAIN Father Robert Bowman started as Mendooran School Welfare

Chaplain this term. He is in the school Monday’s and Tuesday’s

each week in fourth term. Last year Mendooran Central School

applied for funding under the Commonwealth Chaplaincy and

Student Welfare Scheme for a School welfare Chaplain. The role

involves being part of the student welfare team in the school and is

also a community chaplain for students, teachers and parents and

carers. The chaplain listens and is impartial. He doesn’t take sides

and he doesn’t give advice and is not involved in discipline matters

except to listen to concerns. Fr Robert will often refer people to

those who are more able to help within or outside the school. He is

also available to help the school as an extra adult on excursions,

class activities and visits classes regularly to join in on class

activities. Please feel free to contact the school if you wish to see

Fr Robert Bowman.

Fr Robert said, “I have been very warmly welcomed into the school environment and the students

and staff are adapting to my presence and wacky style of humour. We are working well together to

build the role of the Student Welfare Chaplain for the benefit of all involved with the school.”

HSC - HALF WAY THROUGH!! Mrs Waters with Tammi Hellegers and Blake Washbrook discussing the finer details of Design and

Technology the afternoon following their second English paper.

Maths and English as well as Electrotechnology and Hospitality are completed and Physics, CAFS,

Metals and Engineering and D&T are still to be completed. I have been very impressed with both

students’ prior preparation for each subject and we wish them well in their final exams.

J Waters

COMMUNITY NEWS

MENDOORAN MERRYGOEN AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUB Pointscore will be starting next Friday 9th November at 3.45pm sharp. Hoping to see everyone

ready and warmed up for a great swimming season. All past members will receive an email with

username and password to use on NSW Swimming website to register online. If you are a new

member wanting to join please contact Sandra Tudgey on 68863516 to set up your registration.

Thank you.

R Collins

Mendooran Central School

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KEEPING IN TOUCH Round 1 of the Mendooran Touch Football competition was completed last Thursday. All games

were competed in good spirit. Congratulations to the winning teams. The results for Round 1 are as

follows:

This week will be Round 2 and the games are as follows:

The table so far is as follows:

There will be a BBQ put on at the Royal Hotel after each game from now so make sure you head

back after the game. See you there.

M Burke

MENDOORAN PONY CLUB A big thank you to everyone that helped with the clearing sale on Saturday. Well done and thank you

to Louise for organising it.

On Sunday Victoria, Anna, Kerrie, Brad and Lachie attended the Dubbo Gymkhana where they all

had a fantastic day and went home with plenty of ribbons.

Belle, Georgia and Sam attended the Quirindi One Day Event and had a

fantastic time. Belle on Charlie Brown did her first D grade One Day Event,

Georgia on Ben did D grade and Sam on Gus did her first B grade event. Big

Gus did love the cross country and they got around clear in exactly optimum

time. Sam came 5th and Georgia and Belle were very close to the placings

coming in at 6th and 8th.

There are 2 more One Day Events for the year that I know of - Mudgee are

holding theirs at Geurie on 17th and 18th November and Coonabarabran is 8th

and 9th December.

We will be catering for a bull sale at “Caigan” on the 8th November – anyone

who can help would be greatly appreciated.

Our next meeting will be our AGM held at the Royal Hotel on Tuesday 13th

November at 7:30. All are welcome to attend.

J Smith

Mendooran Central School

Nuff Said defeated Baa Baas 9 – 2

Bombs Away defeated Royal Hotel 6 – 4

The Roos defeated Bumble Bees 3 – 1

Royal Hotel vs Nuff Said

Bombs Away vs Bumble Bees

Baa Baas vs The Roos

Teams Points

Nuff Said 3

The Roos 3

Bombs Away 3

Bumble Bees 1

Royal Hotel 1

Baa Baas 1

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SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS - 2012

Voluntary Primary Contributions: $25.00 per child

Voluntary Secondary Contributions: $50.00 per child

Voluntary FAMILY MAXIUMUM: $80.00 (not including electives)

Both Voluntary contributions and Elective fees may be paid by instalment.

COMPULSORY ELECTIVES COST

Year 7/8 Electives: Technology Mandatory $20.00 (enables students to take work home)

Year 9/10 Electives: Industrial Technology $40.00 first project ($30 per project thereafter)

Food Technology $15.00 per term ($60.00 per year)

Design & Tech (Textiles) $20.00

Art $25.00

Agriculture $10.00

Year 11/12 Electives: Hospitality $15 per term ($60.00 per year)

D&T Mixed Media $20

Art $25

Agriculture $10

Metals & Engineering $40 first project (2nd project dependent on cost)

Please tear off the following section and fill in details accordingly to the number of students you have

attending Mendooran Central School to calculate the amount owing

FAMILY NAME:………………………………………………………..

VOLUNTARY SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION

No Primary No. Secondary TOTAL $

Students Students SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS

(Maximum $80.00)

COMPULSORY COSTS SECONDARY ELECTIVES

Year 7/8 Electives: Technology Mandatory $20.00 $................................

Year 9/10 Electives: Industrial Technology $40.00 $................................

Food Technology $60.00 $................................

Design & Tech (Textiles) $20.00 $................................

Art $25.00 $................................

Agriculture $10.00 $................................

Year 11/12 Electives: Hospitality $60.00 $................................

D&T Mixed Media $20.00 $................................

Art $25.00 $................................

Agriculture $10.00 $................................

Metals & Engineering $40.00 $................................

TOTAL ELECTIVE FEES $

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS PAYABLE $

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