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Principal’s Report

Xuno

Please remember to login to Xuno to see the feedback

from classes this semester. Thanks to all those families

who have responded to absences with messages through

Xuno and to those of you who have taken the opportunity

to correspond with teachers through the email system. We

still have work to do on perfecting our use of Xuno so

please let us know if you are having difficulties using it.

Teacher Leave and Replacements

Tom Bleicher will be absent during week one of next term,

on Leave. His classes will be picked up by various people

during this time.

Work Experience

The Year 10 and 11 students are participating in their

Work Experience week this week. Many students are in Melbourne but others are staying with

relatives in many parts of the state. I am sure that Mrs Moresi, Ms Pickering, Karen Coutts and Mr

Nickless will have some interesting stories to tell and photos to display in the newsletter next term.

Bogong

Many Year 9 and Year 10 students are at Bogong this week. Mr Rowley and Ms Hogan are

enjoying this ski trip with our students.

Try a VET Day

Last Friday, the North Central Network of Schools held its annual “Try a VET Careers Day” at

Charlton College. The day focusses on providing all Year 9 students and interested students from

Year 10 from Cluster schools the chance to experience, “hands on”, the nature of VET subjects.

Students chose to participate in three, one-hour sessions on the day from a selection of 11 studies.

Students were provided with information about the courses on offer and future career paths.

Whole School Assembly

This Friday will see our final assembly for the term. Dismissal will take place at 2.30pm. Parents

and Families are invited to attend.

DIARY DATES

JUNE

27th Pie Orders Delivered

28th Whole School Assembly

28th Last Day Term 2.30pm Finish

JULY

15th Term 3 Begins

17th Year 5 & 6 Netball Bendigo

19th Hockey 7’s

22nd RFDS visit & dress up day

AUGUST

1st Foundation 100 days of school

6th Hockey 7’s

7th F – 12 Athletic Sports

June 26th 2019 Issue 20

Boort District P -12 School 9-27 Malone St

BOORT, 3537

Ph: 03 5455 2201

Mobile 0477 741 594

Email:

boort.district.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.boortds.vic.gov.au

VISION STATEMENT

Our vision is to empower our students and staff to work together to become active

and valued community members. We provide a safe and supportive learning

environment, which fosters independent, resilient lifelong learners.

BDS Motto: ‘Achieving Excellence Together’

BDS Beliefs and Values: Displaying a sense of Fairness

We ask that students are not on the school grounds before 8.40am each day as supervision is not provided

before this time.

Holidays

The staff hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday. All students will return to school on

Monday, 15th July.

Lee-Anne Sherwell

Principal

Principal’s Availability over the Next Week

Thursday Friday

At School

At School - Last Day

Term 2 – 2.30pm finish

BDS PIE DRIVE ~ 2019

A big thank you to everyone who has ordered products from this year’s BDS Sharps Bakery Pie Drive.

Orders can be collected, Thursday, 27th June 3:30pm at Boort Sports Club.

A special thank you to Cindy Brown for donating a mail out of order forms to the Boort Community. Your

donation is greatly appreciated.

Any queries please contact Sarah Featherby.

Royal Flying Doctor Service Visitors:

Next term the F - 6 students will enjoy a visit from an education officer with the RFDS and have the

opportunity to walk through the simulator aeroplane.

Our school would like to take this opportunity to support the RFDS. We will have a dress up day on the 22nd

July. Students are invited to dress up as a nurse, pilot, doctor etc… for a gold coin donation, proceeds to

RFDS.

Parents Club are busily planning an event for parents to coincide with this day.

More information to come next term.

Edwina Chalmers and Courtney McOrist

Peer Support

Over the past eight weeks, Years 2 - 5 have been involved in the Peer Support program. The Year 6 students

lead and encouraged a small group throughout the eight weeks. In the groups, there were approximately

7 - 10 students. The main focus for Peer Support this year was Resilience. We worked on a three-step model

called Pause, Plan and Proceed. Each session we did about 3 - 4 activities, some of which were Caterpillar

Jump, Memory, Triangle Switch and Crab Relay. Peer Support helped us to improve our time management

skills, be organised and prepared and made us feel more confident when speaking in front of an audience.

Written by Sienna Boyd, Ella Streader and Caitlin Zanker

Foundations’ 100 days of school:

This Friday marks the Foundation students’ 86th day of school at BDS.

We are counting up to our 100th day of school, and are eager to celebrate this milestone. Our 100th Day of

School will be celebrated on Thursday, 1st August.

More information to follow early Term 3 regarding our celebrations for this special event.

Edwina Chalmers

Semester 2 Subjects For Year 7-11 Students

All students have received information this week or last week regarding their subjects for Semester 2. They

can organise their folders on this basis and be ready to start. They are to bring the slip of paper along so that

they can organise their timetable.

Gateways at Salute Olives

We would like to thank Peter and Marleise for their time, taking us around their grove and highlighting the

way in which they run their business. There was also considerable discussion about the role of food science

in many of our Agriculture and Horticulture areas.

Bird Rescue

We would like to thank the Boort CFA for rescuing a bird, caught in

some thread on top of a sail. The bird was transferred to the VET for

safekeeping.

Student Uniform – Parent / Carer Support Required!

As we have moved into colder weather, students are wearing coats and beanies to school. We encourage

this, even at recess and lunchtime when student are outside. We ask parents / carers not to allow students to

leave home with “hoodies” under their t-shirts. They can wear layers of other clothing under their school t-

shirts. Dealing with this issue is taking up too much time and is negative in nature.

Tom Bleicher

Grandparents and Special Friends Day:

The BDS Parents' Club were very pleased to see so many Grandparents and Special Friends in attendance

at the F-6 event on Monday, 17th June. The students were excited to show their visitors around the

classroom and share some activities and games throughout the morning. The Silver & Grey buildings were

certainly bustling with activity and it was nice to see the students, staff and special visitors all enjoying

themselves. Thank you to all of the F-6 staff who worked hard to co-ordinate the event and provide this

valuable opportunity for our BDS families.

We were delighted to provide a scrumptious morning tea which was shared in the Silver building. A huge

thank you to all of the families who kindly donated a plate of food to share - this was very much

appreciated. Thank you so much to our Parents' Club helpers in the kitchen too - Stacey Streader, Eloise

Thompson, Brooke Arnold, Sherryn O'Flaherty and Madeleine Scott.

On another note, the Parents' Club are pleased to confirm that we have purchased some new storage

cabinets for the Silver building. The staff are looking forward to making the most of this new storage facility

in the shared area. The new cabinetry will be installed over the holidays!

Enjoy the break and we look forward to seeing you again in Term 3!

Kathryn Lanyon

BDS Parents' Club President

Thank you:

Staff and students wish to thank our special visitors for making the effort to share the morning with us on

Grandparents and Special Friends Day. Another thanks to our Parent’s Club executive and their team of

helpers for hosting a morning tea for visitors. We look forward to this event each year, as it is a wonderful

time to share the work and progress of the students with their special guests.

Year 8 and 9 Poetry

Miss McOrist and Year 1 students.

Country

The country is open, dry most of the time.

But when it rains… the crops pop out

and the wildlife come out.

Oh no here comes the drought,

you better watch out.

The animals die and the birds don’t fly.

By Will and Tom

SEASONS

Candescent heat, charring the earth

Paddocks of gold, running for miles

Misty fog. An opaque coat, shielding the sun

The crunch of the early morn frost, splintering under foot

The hum of the headers as they strip the paddocks

Familiar dust, greeting you

Smoke of the burning wood climbing through your lungs

The chill of the cold, stirring within

The rush of gliding through water, feeling invincible

Dust filling your senses, becoming the norm

And the feeling of a warm drink, relief from the cold

Lily

Winter

By Sophie The warm liquid texture, curled up under

the roaring red flame

The pitter-patter hitting the court, with

the cheers from winning a netball game

The wet ugg boots as smelly as rotten

socks

The feeling of the icy-cold, as it reaches

its fingers into my golden locks

The sweet sticky marshmallow reaching

our bitter, brittle tongues

Year 1 Xavier Junor For his fantastic Big Write effort this week.

Victoria Lanyon For working hard on our Road Safety posters and coming up

with lots of great ideas.

Hayley Stringer For being a super helper to Miss Mac and her classmates!

Year 2/3 Henry Hawkin For making an effort to keep his work area tidy.

Liam King For listening carefully to instruction in Maths.

Jason Wright For saying words of encouragement to his classmates.

Harlan Bartlett For completing homework tasks.

Year 3/4 Bella Quinn For wonderful research on her car project.

Natalie Hall For wonderful reading and comprehension.

Deklan King For fantastic reading group activities.

COMMUNITY NEWS Earn & Learn Stickers Thank you to everyone for getting behind our project of collecting the Woolworths Earn & Learn stickers this year. We will need any stickers collected to be handed in to Boort Pre-School by Tuesday (June 25th) so that we can add them to our tally. I am sure we will be able to get some great prizes - just for collecting stickers!! Please drop any stickers off at Pre-School, or post to PO Box 5, or hand to a Pre-School “connection” to pass on Thanks again,

Vikki 😊