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Wangaratta District Specialist School

Date 19/05/’17 Ph. 5721 7424

[email protected]. Fax. 5721 8601

Dates to Remember

Principal’s

Awards

Chris Harvison

Principal

O.T. - Paula - Monday to Thursday Speech - Shannon - Monday to Friday

School Council Meeting - 13th June @ 5.00pm

Specialist School Conference

Last Friday was a student free day because all of our staff joined staff from Shepparton, Cobram and Wodonga Spe-

cialist Schools. We spent the day in Mulwala engaging in a whole day presentation from Dan Petro, a Behavioural

Analyst who works with a number of mainstream and specialist schools across the country. The day was insightful

and inspiring, with many take home messages which we as a whole staff have agreed to work to embed within our

school environment. It was a day full of new ideas and also some well needed reinforcement that our practices are

strong, and the environment we have created for the students at our school is an incredibly positive one. One of the

things that stayed with me personally was the idea that as a school our goal should be to help our students become

as independent and likeable as possible. We met with Dan at school this past week and have booked in a number

of visits before the end of the school year where Dan will spend time in our school building the capacity of our staff

to work with your children. This will include observation of teacher practice and feedback as well as working with

Leadership and specific groups of staff to further develop skills in writing student specific plans.

Check out Dan's website here - http://www.behaviouralresourcesaustralia.com.au/ Rotary Book Fair

We are fast approaching the Queens Birthday weekend which means the Rotary Club of Wangaratta Book Fair is

drawing nearer! The venue for the Book Fair will be the CWA Hall on Templeton St, Wangaratta. The Book Fair

will run from 8am – 4pm on Saturday 10th June and 9am – 3pm on Sunday 11th June. There will be a cake stall and

sausage sizzle available on the day and we are hopeful that there will be over 10,000 books to choose from, ranging

in price from $1 to $7. Half of the proceeds from this event will go to our school so I would encourage all of you to

support this event by stopping by on either day and telling your friends to do the same. If you are interested in vol-

unteering in any capacity, could you please contact the school and ask to speak with me as I am coordinating stu-

dent, staff and family volunteers for the event. We will be looking for people willing to spend a few hours at the

hall doing various jobs to ensure the day runs smoothly.

Week 4

Darren Austin for being a learner by saying the words "bubble" and "pop" clearly in class

Tyson Aldridge for being a learner by learning to join in new games in the senior yard

Jesse McDonald for being a learner by securing a School Based Apprenticeship

Mia Rhodes-Orton for being Respectful by treating her classmates respectfully all week

http://www.behaviouralresourcesaustralia.com.au/

Together We Will: Be Learners. Be Safe. Be Respectful.

Stirling - Jacinta and Emily

Buller - Kellie, Mab and Sheydin

Occupations/Organisations

in our Community

RSPCA Wangaratta

LEFT: Holly & Montana with

some adoption dogs

RIGHT: Tamara & Mab with

an adoption kitten.

McDonalds Wangaratta

LEFT: Buller class listening

to Kat & Andrew before our

tour.

RIGHT: Eating the burgers

and drinks we assisted in

making.

This week we have been busy making our mums some beautiful art work for Mother’s day. We spent a lovely

day out in the sunshine and made butterflies using our footprints and handprints. We hope our mums loved them

and all the mums had a wonderful Mother’s day.

This week we also welcomed a new student to our class- Welcome Noah! We are very pleased to have you in our

class and look forward to getting to know you.


Cobbler - Sarah and Alicia

Bogong - Leanne and Tyler

In cobbler, last week we cooked muffin pizzas.

The pizzas were yummy!

I love pepperoni pizza– Bailey

I love cheese pizza– Logan

I love ham and cheese pizza– Aidain

I love ham and cheese pizza– Matthew

I love the ham, the cheese and the sauce– Jack

I love ham and cheese and pepperoni– Brandon

Bogong students completed a

Math activity learning about the

grams of sugar that are in some-

times foods. The learning inten-

tion was for the students to

spend $50 on junk food. First,

the students looked in shopping

pamphlets; they then cut and

paste the junk foods onto an A3

piece of paper. Second, students

had to add up the amount they

just spent. Third, students did a

Google search to find out how

much sugar was in each item.

Then the students had to divide

the amount of sugar by four. Mia

found out that there was 69 tea-

spoons of sugar in the junk food

that she had on her page. As

shown in her picture, that is a lot

of sugar.


Kosciusko - Richard, and Luke

Buffalo - Phillipa, Lisa C and Andrea

The Buffalo boys Cal, Victor, Tyler, Jamie and Sam have been really busy learning all about their numbers and playing some new maths games. They are enjoying learning new games and being able to count and work out who has more and who has less then others. Great job boys.

In science block we continue to work on our unit entitled

“Water”. We did some hands on experiments to learn about

further properties of water. We proved that water has a

‘skin’, can bend light and cannot be compressed.

In maths we have been investigating patterns, which were of

numbers, letters and objects. We have also been working on

ordinal number problems, such as identifying the fifth item in

a sequence.

In health we put together a table that identified whether a giv-

en food was “very healthy”, “reasonably healthy” or

“unhealthy” for us to eat. When we eat at morning tea and

lunch, we revisit the schedule to determine where our food

would be classified.


Mt. Beauty - Kate M, Tina and Sarah

Mt. Emu - Frazer and Jack

Mt.Emu

A busy few weeks in Mt.Emu! We have begun our swimming lessons every Wednesday at the YMCA Swimming Centre. We will be devel-oping our different strokes and working on our survival skills! A big focus has been made in identifying some strategies on how to combat swearing. The boys have suggested their own ideas, which include; Nicolas C – “replace the swear word with a normal word” Zak A – “Say the word in your head only”

Mt. Beauty have enjoyed a productive couple of weeks learning new skills. We were lucky enough to get a keyboard donated to our room (Thanks Sue!) and have enjoyed learning to play it. Everyone loves to groove to the beat in Mt. Beauty. We have also started our fabulous cooking program. Going to the supermarket to get our ingredients and we loving mixing them together to make yummy tasting food. We also love to read to each other in our room. It has been an exciting couple of weeks and we have loved being learners.


Stanley - Renee and Simon

Coffee and NDIS Chat (and anything

else disability related)

Benalla Support Group for Children with

Special Needs

158-160 Bridge St Benalla

With the NDIS due to roll out in this region in Octo-

ber 2017, it is important that families with a person

with a disability begins to understand what this

may mean for them. Now is the time to begin to

understand the expectations and plan the road to a

successful transition. Come along and receive up

to date info.

These sessions will be ongoing monthly so you have

the opportunity to ask questions and together we

can work out the answers.

These sessions are not only about the NDIS, but an

opportunity for families to meet other families in

Where? Children's Services

Centre,

1 Hanly St

Wangaratta

When:

26th April

17th May

14th June

9th Aug

6th Sept

11th Oct

“NO-one knows it better than another parent”


Feathertop - Kate E and Fiona

Morgan - Ryan, Stella and Jill

This week Morgan and Bogong joined forces to take the boys fishing during community access. It was a team building exercise for the male mem-bers of the two classes and everyone participated to the fullest. No fish were caught, but the boys worked well together to bait up and help each other cast their lines out into the river. It was a wonderful way to spend our afternoon, out in the sunshine with our mates. Great job team!

Aaron was hitting the piñata at school for Trent’s birthday. Aaron had fun hitting the piñata. –James

It was my birthday on Monday. I’m 18. I’m an adult now. I

will be leaving school at the end of they year. I will go to Mer-

riwa and Bunnings Warehouse. – Trent

Trent had a motorbike on his birthday cake. Trent had his birthday at school. –James.

Trent is laying bricks at the trade fair in Winton. – Scott

Trent and James lay bricks at the trade fair in Winton. - Sirus

Two students followed a checklist on Wednes-days to cook a main and dessert meal of their choice.

James is using a trowel to lay bricks at the trade fair in Winton. - Sirus


All games will kick off at 12 noon. Players to be at South Wangaratta Reserve thirty minutes prior to

kick off for team training session and team selection.

Games will be 2 X 20 minute halves with a five minute half time break.

No games during the school holidays.

Games may be postponed due to bad weather, all players will be notified via Facebook Page.

Round 1. Teams will commence the first round of the 2017 Just For Kicks All Abilities Football

League.

Round 1 Saturday June 3rd.

Round 2 Saturday 17th June.

Round 3 Sunday 25th June Gala Day Parade collage.

Round 4 Saturday 22nd July

Round 5 Saturday 5th August.

Round 6 Saturday 19th August.

Round 7 Saturday 2nd September.

Round 8 Saturday 16th September.


The Community Dental Clinic at North East Health

will be visiting Wangaratta District Specialist School

in the near future.

We have our own treatment room at the school

which will be used for check-ups, cleans and any

other treatment required.

We teach the children how to take care of their

teeth, how to keep their teeth clean and also which

foods are so important for great healthy teeth.

We would like to offer a check up of your child’s

teeth at the school, and we would then let you

know if there was treatment needed and make an-

other time for their teeth to be fixed either at school

or at our clinic here in Wangaratta.

If you would like your child to have a dental check-

up, please sign and complete the Application Form,

which will be sent home with each student.

Art with Jodie


We are exploring different Artists at the moment, and had a lot of fun

creating our own inspired “Jackson Pollock” pieces by popping balloons filled with paint and rolling marbles in paint.

Construction was also fun where we made our own “hydraulic” scissor lifts and we very excited when we saw them all working. We then experimented

to see what items we could lift up with them.

ART with Jodi


Inclusion NetSetGo

Wangaratta Netball Association is pleased to announce from 2017 we will be conduct-ing an Inclusion NetSetGo program. Inclusion NetSetGO introduces people with disabilities, indigenous background or from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) community to the sport of netball. It is a modified version of netball adapted to let to suit the specific needs and abilities of di-verse groups. Both girls and boys as well as adults are welcome to come along and have a go. The program will provide some physical exercise as well as social interaction for those who normally don’t have access to or able to join in a lot of social activities due to their disability, cultural background or language barrier. Inclusion NetSetGo program information: Start Date: Friday 28 April 2017 End Date: 30 June 2017 (program may go into Term 3 if rain washes out a weekly session)

Time: 4.30pm to 5.30pm (under lights) Cost: $16 payable to Wangaratta Netball Association Player Registrations forms can be forwarded to PO Box prior to any program date or

sign up and pay at the netball courts

Clothing: Sports shoes are preferable, clothing to keep players warm Venue: Netball courts at HP Barr Reserve, Schillings Drive, Wangaratta Contact: Cath Hoskin - 5721 5821

Wangaratta Netball Association Inc Registration No: A0004413M

email: [email protected] PO Box 830, Schilling Drive

www.wangarattanetball.com.au Wangaratta 3677

Registration Forms are on the following page or alternatively you can obtain one

from the School Office.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.wangarattanetball.com.au


Hotham - David, Lea and Chris

We have had a wonderful couple of

weeks preparing for Mothers Day.

In Art we made clay pots, cards and

hair clips for our mums. In our class

with Lea, Prue, Teena and Chris we

made paper flowers which were

attached to a big picture of the boys

to look like they were holding the

flower.

From all reports our mothers abso-lutely loved all their gifts and total-ly enjoyed the day with their boys.


Mt Pilot – Jacqui, Treena, Sharon and Molly

Taminick - Lisa, Liz and John

Some of the students participate in swimming skills in the lap pool with Hop, while others are in the hydro pool with Molly and myself. This enables us to cater for the wide range of water experience our students have. Water play is a very important part of our swimming program and our students are having a great time whilst learning a very important life skill.

This week our class had a brilliant day out at

Pine Gully. All students practiced safety, were

good learners and so respectful.

And as you can see, students (and the staff) had so much fun!

This term the Mt Pilot girls

began their swimming program

at the Wangaratta Aquatic

Centre. We travel down with

the Mt Beauty students and

split into two groups.


We have begun our Work Related Skills project – “The Block – VCAL Style”. We have been gen-

erously donated 8 doll houses from members in the community, and working in groups we will be

looking at the carpentry industry and renovating the houses. We have been researching OH&S

procedures, writing letters to local community groups and gathering resources. It is an exciting

time for us here in VCAL – thank you to all who have contributed to our program so far!

VCAL 1 and 2 - Jodie,Rosie, Adrian, Ashley and Chris


Warby - Judd and Liz

Stanley - Renee and Simon

Last Tuesday 9th of May, Warby went with 3 other senior classes to Winton to attend the Hands on Trades Ca-

reer Expo. We were lucky to have the opportunity to try out a range of different trades from hair and beauty, me-

chanics and many more. We also had the opportunity to discuss apprentices and career opportunities. Kostya en-

joyed discussing career options with people from the defence force and Tim and Sonia enjoyed looking more into

graphic design courses at GoTafe. Brydie had lots of questions about the Police Force. Jess, Simone, Sonia and

Brydie also enjoyed painting nails and doing hair with Monica from GoTafe. The expo was enjoyed by everyone.

Pictured: Sam Tanner.

Sam took home last weeks

Student of the Week for be-

ing a learner and working

very hard on her Mother’s

Day Card. Well Done Sam–

keep up the great work!!

Stanley Crew

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