School Meetings

Oct 26th Thursday School Council 7.30 pm

Nov 2nd Thursday Parents Club 10.30 am

Principal’s Report:

P lease keep in mind that school will finish at 2.30 pm tomorrow, this being the last day of Term 3. Tomorrow is also “Footy Colours Day”. Please

make an effort to be in some sort of footy colours, have a fun last school day and raise some money for cancer re-search, a very worthy cause. Congratulations and well done to Mrs Pellegrino and the Year 11 students who participated in the Pre Driver Educa-tion program over the last two weeks. We can never thank the Elmore Charity Ball Committee enough for their gener-osity over the years. Thanks also to the Rochester Second-ary College Parents Club for funding the bus and to Mr Da-vid White who again volunteered his time to drive the bus. Parent/Teacher Interviews are tonight from 4 -7 pm. Please try to be punctual to appointments and try as much as possible to stay within the times suggested. Thanks to all those attending as it is a golden opportunity to share information and provide support. The Year 9 Queensland trip is approaching fast, Sunday 29th October to Friday 3rd November. We will meet again early next term to start finalising details. All remaining payments are due on Monday 16th October. (Please feel free to contact the college if you require further details). All the very best to all families over the coming two weeks break whether you are taking holidays or not. I look for-ward to term four working closely with students, staff and parents once again - the building project will add an extra layer of excitement. Kind regards, Bernie Altmann, Principal

September 2017 21st (Thurs) - Parent/Teacher Interviews 22nd (Fri) - Last Day of Term 3 - 2.30 pm dismissal

October 2017

9th (Mon) - First Day of Term 4 11th-13th (Wed-Fri) - Duke of Ed Summit Camp 12th (Thurs) - Regional Athletics Flora Hill 13th (Fri) - Intermediate Cricket at Cooma 13th (Fri) - Splat Attack Paintball Excursion VCAL 18th (Wed) - Junior Boys Cricket 23rd-27th (Mon-Fri) - Work Experience Year 10 24th (Tue) - Last Day for Year 12 students & Assembly 26th (Thurs) - Year 7 Girls Basketball 29th (Sun) - MS Tour to Queensland departs

November 2017 1st (Wed) - Year 12 English Exam at RSC 7th (Tue) - NO SCHOOL Melbourne Cup Day Holiday

The Rochester Review

Rochester Secondary College exists to provide quality learning for all in a challenging and nurturing environment.

Important Dates

Volume 606 Issue 1, Thursday 21st September 2017 www.rochsec.vic.edu.au Phone: 54841 844

Fax 54842 348 rochester.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au

Pre Driver Ed students who participated in this program at Elmore Events Centre during the week.

Moving Boxes?

I f anyone has any large sturdy boxes suitable for storage and removal, please contact the school office on 5484 1844.

Thank you, Barbara McCarty

VCAL Projects

O ver recent months Jack Trewick, LachlanTrewick, Dylan McWhinney and Ryan Hall from the Year 11 VCAL class have been constructing a cubbyhouse for

OLSH (Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) Primary School in Elmore. On Tuesday, Daniel Carmody, Shara Edwards and Julia Rosaia from OLSH travelled to Rochester Secondary College to help the VCAL students paint the completed cubbyhouse ready for delivery to its new home in Elmore. Well done to all of the students that have been involved in this worthwhile pro-ject.

A group of VCAL students have taken on the task of cleaning and painting the large containers which have been placed adjacent to the basketball courts

here at the College. Tekyra Shead, Jasmine McDonald and Karlee Newmann are pictured below preparing the contain-ers for their first coat of paint. These containers have been delivered to the school in preparation for the massive school reno-vation. Mr Cresswell VCAL Teacher

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Canteen

C ould those students wanting to order their lunch from the Canteen, please do so by recess on the day.

Art Department

T he College Art Department is starting to prepare for our shift into temporary art rooms while the new building project goes ahead towards the end of the

year. Packing up and sorting out our resources and equip-ment is a major job. We have many pieces of student art and design work and visual journals and folios from last year and last semester which have not been collected by students. Artwork and folios etc. have been placed on tables outside the art-rooms for collection.

Congratulations Ella Dobell

E lla Dobell who played in and won the inaugural Un-der 15's BFNL Football Grand Final last weekend. We are very proud of her and the team. A big thank you

to Rochester sporting staff for supporting Ella since starting at Rochester Secondary College. Julie and Damien Dobell

Duke of Edinburgh’s Page

D uke of Edinburgh Update: During term three, the Duke of

Ed students have been going out in the community and lending a helping hand at the Rochester and Elmore District Hospi-tal, Rochester Primary School, St Josephs Rochester and Rochester Preschool. This has been a fantastic opportunity for all the Duke of Edinburgh students and has been a great opportunity for them to learn more about our community.

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Hands on Learning Students

H ands on Learning students please bring a change of clothes and a broad brimmed hat (Peak caps not allowed) for next terms lessons.

Cows Create Careers

A s part of our Investigative Science class Cows Create Careers Project we were lucky enough to have been able to look after two calves for three weeks. The calves were generously leant to us by Corey Mitchell. During our time working on the Cows Create Careers project we participated in a farm visit, a trip to the Murray Goulburn store, looking after

the calves needs and a visit from a Fonterra employee. As well as working on farm related projects in groups we also entered the Cows Create Careers competition. The reason behind learning about farms is to show us all the different career options in the industry. We have learnt a lot about farming and the dairy industry especially taking care of calves.

Two calves came to school for three weeks for Cows Create Careers. Our class had to feed them twice a day and had to record how much they ate and weighed. Our class named them Barbara and Snoop Cow. Our class went to a farm and looked at how they feed their calves and looked at their dairy.

In Year 10 Investigative Science we have been studying ‘Cows Create Careers’. We were lucky enough to be given two calves Snoop Coww and Barbara, which we looked after for three weeks. There were many things involved in looking after the calves which included making up milk and feeding them two times a day, weighing them, keeping an eye on them and making sure their pens were kept clean. During this time, we had an excursion to a dairy farm and had a man from Fonterra come and talk to us. We all really enjoyed having the calves here and needing to feed them. Snoop Coww Studios

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Pre Driver Ed

O ver the last two weeks most of our Year 11's have participated in R.O.A.D.E.C's two day pre-driver education pro-gram. Our students have learnt about handling a car under different emergency situations, road awareness, parallel parking, accident prevention amongst other things. From all reports it has been a very valuable program which eve-

ryone has enjoyed participating in. Thanks must go to the Elmore Charity Ball Committee and the Parents Club for their generous donations that helped keep the costs down for our students. Lauren Pellegrino Pre Driver Ed Organiser

Community News

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Community News

Do you love to cook?

Would you like to learn more?

CWA Echuca Group is conducting a one day cooking course at Rochester Secondary College on Wednesday 27th September.

Time: 9 am for a 9.30 am start and finish at 4 pm. Cost: $15 per person. (limited to 20 participants) Contact Sally Bogie 0487 170 126

Come and learn some new cooking skills.

Suitable for all ages and cooking experiences

Rochester Sports Museum

Rochester has a new attraction these school holidays with the opening of the Rochester Sports Museum Pop-up Exhibi-tion in Moore Street. Next to Kits Kafe, the exhibition will run from September 23rd to October 8th from 10am to 4pm each day.

On show will be countless items of sporting memorabilia collected by John Forbes over 24 years. The collection is one of Australia’s finest.

Come and see Adam Gilchrist’s wicket keeping gloves, Dennis Lillee’s famous aluminium bat and Russian athlete Sergei Bubka’s tracksuit.

Local sporting heroes David Williams and Sharelle McMahon have items on show while Rochester’s John Williams played 161 games for Essendon and three years with Collingwood as well as being named All Australian. His jumpers and blazers are part of the collection.

Look carefully and Serena Williams T-shirt might appear and there is plenty more to see.

A fifteen minute video is also part of the exhibition.

A small entry fee will go towards the estab-lishment of the permanent Rochester Sports Museum in 2018.