14th March Labour Day—Public Holiday

16th March Parent Teacher Interviews commencing 3.30pm Grade 4/5/6 Excursion to Lismore—Easter Activities with LADADAC School Council Annual Meeting followed by March General Meeting

18th March WPPSSA Swimming @ Skipton - primary students Year 9/10 Excursion to Melbourne

23rd March Greater Western Swimming - Secondary students “Safe School Bus Travel” session - Prep - Year 8

24th March Last Day of Term 1 - 2.30pm dismissal

25th March Good Friday

11th April First Day of Term 2

14th April Young Leaders Day - Year 5 @ Creswick

15th April Derrinallum P-12 Athletics - whole school

20th April Derrinallum P-12 X-Country - whole school

22nd April ANZAC Ceremony - whole school

25th April ANZAC Day Public Holiday

27th April WPPSSA X-Country - primary students

28th April MWD Athletics - secondary students

5th May WPPSSA Athletics @ Derrinallum - primary students

13th May Eureka X-Country - primary students

18th May MWD X-Country - secondary students

23rd May - 25th May Year 9/10 Camp

31st May School Photos - whole school

6th June Greater Western X-Country - secondary students

22nd June MWD Winter Round Robin - secondary students

24th June End of Term 2 - 2.30pm dismissal

11th July Start of Term 3

10th August— 12th August

Traffic School Charlton - Year 9/10

26th August WPPSSA Round Robin - primary students

9th September Eureka Athletics - primary students

15th September MWD Round Robin - secondary students

16th September End of Term 3 - 2.30pm dismissal

3rd October 3rd October—7th October

Start of Term 4 Grade 5/6 Canberra Camp

7th October Greater Western Athletics - secondary students

1st November Melbourne Cup Day—Public Holiday

4th November WPPSSA Round Robin - primary students

20th December End of Term 4 - 2.30pm dismissal

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Our SRC (Student Representative Council) is a dynamic group as you will have seen when your children came home on Wednesday with coloured or shaved hair. The Shave for a Cure day was a fun-filled day and although the final totals are not yet in, a lot of money has been raised for a very worthy cause. Well done to all our SRC members. Wednesday was also the day we had Lismore Primary students join us for a Well Being day which involved lots of group activities in the morning. Our Primary students from Grade 2 upwards had a lovely morning with their Lismore counterparts, followed by a very healthy lunch. I would like to remind all families of the Parent Teacher Interviews being held next Wednesday afternoon. This is an opportunity to discuss your child’s progress and to develop strategies whereby we can work together as a team to help your children. Lismore Lions Coffee Stop Once again the Lismore Lions have invited the school to participate in their long weekend Coffee Stop. If you can spare a couple of hours to help serve tea/coffee to travellers please call Ted Goodacre on 5596 2080 or 0407 368708 to check what times are available. The College will share in donations collected over the weekend. Jackie Dullard

Helping Your Child to Read, Write, Speak and Listen In the early years of primary school, students learn to read through rhymes, storytelling and following along with their favourite book. Learning to write begins with scribble and drawings. The activities below will help your child develop these skills.

1. Share rhymes and songs and encourage your child to join in. 2. Save safe cardboard and household items for your child to build with. Ask your child to describe what they

are building. 3. Have a dress-up box for your child to use imaginative play. 4. Listen to your child and respond to their ideas with questions and ask for more information. 5. Write down your child’s stories as they tell you and encourage him or her to read it back to you. 6. Point out and talk about letters and words all around you. For example, on cereal boxes, car number plates,

signs. 7. Cook simple things together. Read out the recipe, talk through what you are doing. 8. Join a toy library and choose toys together. 9. Look at junk mail and talk about the things for sale. 11. Provide materials and create a writing/drawing table or area. 12. Talk about family photos and histories.

Monday 14th March is a public holiday, there will be no school on this day!

Derrinallum P-12 College Community Newsletter

www.derrinallump12.vic.edu.au March 11th, 2016 Edition 7

Integrity, Teamwork, Support, Empathy, Respect.

Campbell Street Derrinallum Phone: (03) 55976625, Fax: (03) 55976646 Victoria 3325 Email: derrinallum.p12@edumail.vic.gov.au

Students Of The Week

Natalie Wallace-Lamont for participating well in P.E.

Tarryn Docherty for following directions and using directional language. Jacob Thurrowgood for displaying teamwork and great enthusiasm

during the Healthy Minds activities with Lismore.

Derrinallum P-12 College Community Newsletter. March 11th, 2016.

Breakfast Program

The office will be placing a winter uniform order prior to the end of term. If you require a school skirt or tunic, please make sure your order is placed BY NEXT FRIDAY 18 MARCH 2016. It will take up to 6 weeks to deliver new skirts/tunics. For all items, complete the attached order form and return with payment by 18 March. If you have any queries contact Janette or Sandra in the office.

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Mr Smith’s Maths Problem of the Week This week’s question is: A square garden is enclosed by a fence. Each side of the fence has 12 posts. How many posts are there altogether? The first person to see me with the correct answer will win a prize. Good luck.

Young Leaders Day

WINTER UNIFORM ORDER

On Wednesday the 9th of March, the SRC held the World’s Greatest

Shave to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Along with many students colouring their hair, four students: Matt Morrison, Jayden Morrison, Campbell Greig and Simon Cameron shaved their head along with Michael Sturmfels and Rod Rantall. Over $1000 dollars was raised on what was a very enjoyable day. Simon Cameron - SRC President.

On Wednesday the 2nd of March the Year 6s went to Melbourne for the Year 6 Young Leaders Day. We all had to get up at 5:30am to leave by 6:30am. When we got there we went in the building which was called Melbourne Convention Centre. We got in our seats. We listened to lots of people like Nathan Want, Dylan Parker Winter, Kate Austin and Harry Baker. They were very good to listen to. Nathan was a personal trainer, Harry is a poem writer, Dylan is a paper plane champion and Kate is the owner of Pinchapoo. At the end they had a panel of people that were talking about their jobs it was a bit boring at the start but it was good. At the end of the day we went shopping and got food at McDonald’s. It was such a great day until we had a detour because there was a car accident but it was good because we saw so many things. Each presenter told me that you can start off small and it can go into big things. Master the little and don’t let other people’s decision stop your decisions in life. Kate said that she left home at a young age with only her tooth brush and now she has a big company. Nathan wanted to help people achieve their goal in life. Dylan said you can go from A-B to achieve your goal, keep trying and don’t let people put you down. Harry wanted to be in a band and now he is a great poem writer - Biannca On Wednesday the 2nd of March we got into the car at 6:15 AM to go to the Exhibition Centre in Melbourne for the Young Leaders Day. When we got there the place was packed. Later we found out there was 4000 people! The first speaker was Nathan Want. He was a Boot camp instructor, personal trainer and a motivational speaker. He mixed together two sports called boot aerobics. The second speaker was called Dylan Parker. He was one half of the movie Paper Planes. He also came 3rd in the Paper Plane World Championship. He taught us that practise makes perfect. The third speaker was Harry Baker. He won the World Poem Slam Championship in London. He told us three poems called Dino Love, Bumblebee and Paper People. The fourth speaker was Kate Austin. She told us that she was the owner of Pinchapoo. Pinchapoo is a company where they pinch hotel toiletries for people in need. She grew up with a bad childhood because of child abuse. At the end of the show, they had a panel of people. They weren’t as interesting as the other people so focusing was a little hard. On the way home we went to McDonalds and the school barbeque. - Jayden & Ned The first speaker of the day was Nathan Busby Want, he spoke about how he is a personal boot aerobics camp instructor. Dylan Parker was the second speaker of the day, he has won more than 2 championships in Tokyo. His best plane was the raptor. He also enjoyed playing music and travelling around the place. The last thing Dylan told us was TRY NEW THINGS. Now to Harry Baker, he has made Dino Love as a rap cross poem. We enjoyed Bumble-bee as well. We were all inspired by his poem called Paper People, it was a mix between the rap and rhyme. Kate Austin is the owner of Pinchapoo and steals hotel toiletries to give to the poor. Her simple words were “Insure/ Ask Why/ Simple Choice/ Never Stop/ Get a Squad.” She grew up in a bad way and left home at the age of 16 and only took her tooth brush. D2 studio was amazing they performed a song and danced hip hop, we liked it a lot. We finished up with Mc Donald’s, we all ate heaps of food - Jacob & Liam

Healthy Minds Day - The Great Race

On Wednesday the 9th of March we had the Great Race with Lismore Primary School. When they arrived we went to the stadium. We played fun games like saying the alphabet backwards, ball in a bucket, getting a piece of pasta across the stadium on a match stick, paper planes, body lettering, the hoola hoop challenge and a human knot. I would like to thank Lismore Primary for coming over for this fun day. By Ned Uren