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Included in this newsletter are numerous great reports on recent school
community activities that have occurred over the last couple of weeks.
They include the Group 2 “Terrific Travel Trek”, Group 3’s “Bendigo
Camp” and the Exiting Students “Celebration of School Life Dinner”,
all of which required a great deal of planning and time commitments
outside of their usual duties by many of my staff members. The students
all had a ball and I offer heart-felt thanks, as I am sure all you do, to the
staff for their generous efforts.
Earlier this month we signed off on a 3 Stage Master Plan for the
Warracknabeal Education Precinct, which reflects the 3 Government
Schools commitment to an inclusive, authentic learning environment
with many shared resources. We now move into the Schematic Design
phase. In this phase, all the “nitty gritty” aspects of learning spaces, both
internal and external, administration and amenities in designs that
reflect current educational trends, are finalised. This process is
timetabled to be finished by mid-January next year and I hope to be
able to spend a short time at our School Concert presenting some initial
designs from our Architects “Kneller Designs”.
I hope to catch up to most of you at the various School Community
events coming up before the end of the year.
Peter
Dates to
remember;
December
Friday 2nd
Group 1 Excursion
Swan Hill
Friday 2nd
VIC Health Cup
Basketball
Friday 9th
School Concert
Tuesday 21st
End of School Year
2.15 dismissal
What’s happening in our School
Principal’s Report
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Newsletter Date:
November 2016
Birthdays
December
Liam
1st
Shinea
9th
Zac
20th
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Middle School
Bendigo Trip – Group 3
A Trip to Remember – it was AWESOME – we all had lots of fun, some of our favourite
places was the Discovery Science Centre, our night out for a meal, Jumpz, swimming and
playing!
We can’t wait for our next trip!
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Terrific Travel Trek
On Wednesday the 9th of November, the Group 2 students set off on their terrific travel trek.
Their journey took them across Victoria using a variety of public transport including a V-Line bus to
Ballarat, a train to Melbourne, a Skybus to the airport, a Qantas Link plane to Mildura and the
Henty Highway bus home to Warracknabeal. While on their camp the students visited the Ballarat
Wildlife Park, went ten-pin bowling, ate out at the Park Hotel (near the Arch in Ballarat), explored
Southern Cross Station and Tullamarine Airport, ate out at the Pizza Café in Mildura, walked along
the Murray River to see the paddle steamers, swam in the wave pool and arrived home to family
and friends late on Friday night. Wow!
Junior School
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Senior School
On Tuesday 15th November we had our ‘Graduation Celebration’ for the exiting students.
We invited our parents, grandparents and family members. We had a dinner at the school. On
the menu was pre-dinner nibbles, roast turkey and vegetables and for sweets we had sticky
date puddings or pavlova. We had a presentation where we each made a speech and we got
given a mug, pen and a certificate. Liz made a slide show of the exiting students. It was a
really fun night because we got to share our celebration with our families. The graduating
students for 2016 are Callum, Jarod, Lytton, Karlee, Robert, Shinea and Talon.
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