Looking Forward, Staying Ahead

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1 College Principal: JULIE MASON Looking Forward, Staying Ahead VALUE OF THE MONTH: TOLERANCE Be a mate and tolerate Issue Sixteen: 12th October 2016 OCTOBER Thursday 13th Tarneit 2017 enrolments Expo at 7pm Friday 14th Derrimut Heath Subway orders due back Derrimut Heath Gr 3 / 4 Regional Hoop me Year 9 Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Saturday 15th Family Portraits from 9am 5pm Monday 17th Book Fair at each campus un l 28th October MacDonalds Job Readiness Year 9 Year 7 immunisa ons at 11.30am Tuesday 18th MacDonalds Job Readiness Year 9 Thursday 20th Toy Networx shopping evening Friday 21st Year 9 Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Derrimut Heath Swimming notes are due back Monday 24th Derrimut Heath Gr 5 /6 welcome to Hoppers Sec transi on day Tuesday 25th Derrimut Heath Subway Day Wednesday 26th T20 Blast District Cricket Day Galvin Park Arts Soiree, pleas come along and enjoy your child s artwork Friday 28th Tarneit Subway orders due back Tarneit swimming notes due back Year 9 Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Halloween Dress up Day at both campuses for a gold coin dona on Halloween Disco Prep Grade 2 from pm. Grades 4 6 from will be held from pm. Monday 31st Student Free Day, students DO NOT have school NOVEMBER Tuesday 1st Melbourne Cup Day, DO NOT have school Friday 4th Grade 5 /6 Gala Day Derrimut Heath Transi on from 9:15am 11am Derrimut Heath Parent Helper course 9:20am 10:55am Tarneit Transi on 9am 10.45am Parent Helper course Tarneit 9:05am 10:40am Assemblies at both campuses Monday 7th Year 9 McDonalds Interviews Parents and Friends mee ng at 7pm at the Derrimut Heath campus College Council President: REBECCA BREUST Website: baden.powell.p9.co@edumail.vic.gov.au College Captain: Shiela Capiral and Jethro Ecleo College Vice Captains Liza Sharma and Shah Ortell Derrimut Heath PS Campus Tarneit Prep 9 Campus Sycamore St, Hoppers Crossing, Baden Powell Dve, Tarneit Telephone: (03) Telephone: Fax: (03) Fax: (03)

2 FROM THE DESK OF OUR COLLEGE PRINCIPAL Value for October Tolerance We have a firm commitment to teaching a Values Program at our College. The Value for October is Tolerance. The slogan that we have developed for Tolerance is Be a Mate and Tolerate. In teaching tolerance to your children we will have a focus on the following: be aware of others and their cultures accept diversity within or democra c society be included and include others We will be teaching your children the importance of understanding that people are different physically, socially, culturally and that acceptance of difference with compassion, understanding and empathy encourages tolerance within our school culture. It is now a great me to reinforce tolerance with your children and of course the best way is to model tolerant behaviour yourself. Parents & Friends I would like to invite you to come along to the next mee ng of the Baden Powell College Parents & Friends. This mee ng will be held at the Derrimut Heath Campus on Monday the 14 th of November at 7pm. It is fine to bring along your children. At this mee ng we will be talking about the par cular fundraising projects that have been conducted in 2016 and planning ahead for 2017 and it would be great to get your views as to whether we should introduce new projects. Should be keep the Subway lunches, Chocolate Drive and the stalls? Come along and help make decisions about the future. Star ng the New Year early for years 7 9 I am excited to share a new ini a ve that we are star ng at Baden Powell College. This year for the first me we are conduc ng an Early Start to the Year Ahead for our secondary students. In the week beginning the 12 th of December students from year 6 who are coming to the Tarneit Campus and those already at the Campus will start their Year 7 journey and as well the year7 students will begin learning the content of the Year 8 curriculum and so for the students going into Year 9. We believe that this early start will be er prepare the students for 2017 and allow them to do some relevant reading and inquiry based work in January. Scholarship Program for Year 7 The College Council has approved a new Scholarship Ini a ve for our College. Early next year we will offer an opportunity for students in Year 6 to apply for a full fee scholarship for Years 7-9 at Baden Powell College. To be successful students will need to sit an examina on, provide character references indica ng leadership commitment and experience and sit an interview. Further details will be available to families with children in Year 6 in February 2017 with successful recipients of the scholarship commencing in Year 7 in Wyndham 1000 A fabulous Werribee iden ty, Les Porter, father of the lovely Jacinta Porter who works in our administra on area and member of Wyndham Rotary has commenced the annual Wyndham 1000 Bike Ride. Les rides a specially modified cycle around the Wyndham Bike Track each week day during the month of October to raise money for the Salva on Army. The last few years, as a College we have supported this ini a ve and through the Earlyact and Interact Club we are seeking to collect a 1000 cans for 1000 kilometres. Homeless people in Wyndham will benefit from this project and really we would like to have cans with a pull off top as this makes it easier for our most disadvantaged people to actually take a can and have a meal. I trust that you will help us to achieve our goal of 1000 cans for Les! You can find out more by doing a Google search or checking Facebook and searching Wyndham Payments by BPay Don t forget you can pay for school ac vi es via Bpay? Please contact the office for your families unique reference number. Yours in Educa on, Looking Forward, Staying Ahead, ]âä x `táéç College Principal

3 BOOK FAIR COMING OUR WAY FROM 17th Nov 28th Nov at each campus Put these dates in your diary so that you can start your Christmas shopping. 17th Nov 28th Nov Hours: 8.30 am to 3.45 pm at the Derrimut Heath campus 8.15am to 3.30pm at the Tarneit campus Every Student will have the opportunity to visit the Book Fair during their Library session, to browse and fill out a Wish List, which they should bring home to discuss with parents. Please note that the wish list is only a wish list and it will be reinforced during lessons that Children do not have to buy anything, it s OK to just look. If children are able to buy anything from the Fair, purchases may be made from the times above. The Book Fair runs on a commission basis, every purchase goes towards raising funds to resource the library. The Book fair is open to all. You can come to the Book Fair during school hours. CONGRATULATIONS!! We would like to congratulate Lachlan Hunt from TEQ (Mrs. Mitchell s class) who was the winner of the Walk2School Wednesday bike. And congratula ons to Oliver Rose from DEJ who was the DH winner. Walk 2 School Wednesday will begin on Wednesday 19 th October!!

4 PLEASE RETURN YOUR INTENSIVE SWIMMING PROGRAM NOTES NOW!! When: Derrimut Campus Tarneit Campus 14 th Nov 18 th Nov 21 st Nov 25 th Nov Cost: $50 per person (including transport and qualified instructors) Informa on: Baden Powell College would love to see every student be involved in this program as it has the poten al to save lives. Notes will be handed out at the beginning of term four so please keep this program in mind as it is fast approaching. TARNEIT 3 4 FUTURE STARS MAKE IT THROUGH TO STATE FINAL IN DANDENONG On Wednesday 5 th October the Tarneit grade 3/4 Future Stars Basketball team from Tarneit Campus went to the Regional Basketball Finals in Werribee. The players that par cipated were: Hannah Fuentes, Tyson White, Silviu Cringasu, Aayan Nadeem, Denaya Santos and Shirani Singh. On the day we played 4 schools in the pool games and beat them all. We then won our final and celebrated at the final siren together. We are looking forward to the state finals in November where we will meet NBL and WNBL players and be part of a professional team photo. Thank you to Mr Fugazzo o for coaching the team.

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6 Dear Baden Powell Community, Just a reminder to please keep checking compass for newsle ers, up to date informa on, student reports and checking that your child s absences are up to date. Please remember that you are able to authorise student absences via Compass. If anyone needs any assistance in logging on to Compass, please speak to one of our friendly and helpful administration assistants. If you haven't downloaded the application on your phone or ipad please do so. Don t forget you can easily access the link via our website. Lesley Besanko Assistant Principal We will be shortly asking all 2014 and :1 Netbooks to be returned to the IRC for upda ng current so ware and virus protec on. 1:1 Netbook Invoices will be sent to families who have any outstanding payments/ balance. If your lease is coming to an end, you will be offered a buyout op on to keep your device for a fantas c low price of $10. More informa on will be provided by classroom teacher regarding the day your child will need to return their device and any documenta on you need to complete. Please take this opportunity to begin to back up all devices as this is your responsibility and not a task the technicians will undertake for you. Lesley Besanko Assistant Principal

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8 Parents and Friends Order your ckets now to take up the opportunity of some great bargains. The wonderful Toynetworx fundraiser is only $10 per cket. Simply enclose the money in an envelope marked with the number of ckets, your name, child s name and grade and contact details. Happy shopping!! As you can see from their flyer there are forty different brands of bargains. We are sorry to say that due to lack of support Vision Portraits have been cancelled the Friday evening but appointments will s ll be on for Saturday. Please let us know if you can spare an hour or two selling sausages with us at Bunnings on Sunday 13th November. Flyers have been sent home this week. If you haven't returned your chocolates or money please do so ASAP. We do have to account for each chocolate bar sold or unsold. The Cookie Dough flyers will be coming home soon, a very popular fundraiser as our students, and their pets, love their home made cookies. We are already planning our Parents and Friends end of year celebra on Monday 12th December at Gemelli s Unit 123, Wallace Ave Point Cook. Dinner will be from 6.30pm. If you wish to a end please contact Norma on We do hope you enjoy our busy term four. Only $5 a cket Includes a Drink and sweet

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11 Community No ceboard ADVERTISING IN THE NEWSLETTERS If you wish to advertise in the newsletter please contact Sue Love on or We produce a fortnightly newsletter that goes home to over 950 families. Or, if you have a sporting, dance club or group that is looking for a venue to hire we have some vacancies available during the week also contact me on the above telephone numbers. Thank you. Sue Love BREAKFAST CLUB THANKS YOU Baden Powell College would like to sincerely thank the wonderful sponsors for our Breakfast Club that we run twice a week at each campus. Without the support of the magnificent Sikh community, Simon Fugazotto and these generous companies we would not have been able to provide for the many students who enjoy breakfast at school. We sincerely thank you from the staff and students of Baden Powell College. 180 Princess Highway Werribee Old Geelong Rd Hoppers Crossing

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13 To enable us to keep you informed of special events, celebrations and activities the Baden Powell College Newsletter will be available on our website each fortnight throughout the year. As it is one of our major forms of communication we would like to make it easy for you to have regular access to each issue so we have listed the dates of availability below, we will be ing it to our families as well. Please take the time to read it so that you know what is happening at your child s college. Simply go online and type in : We would like to point out that it may be necessary for you to have Adobe Reader on your computer to access your newsletter. Not only will you be well informed and enjoying colour photos, when perusing online, you will also be helping our environment. However, should you not be able to access a computer and would prefer your newsletter in printed form please complete the slip below. If you have previously received hard copies of the newsletter you will be required to complete the form again so that we have updated details. Please complete the form below and return it to the office at your earliest convenience to enable us to provide your child with the printed copy of Baden Powell News. Have a wonderful term. letter will be online on the following dates 27th October 10th November 24th November 9th December Ms Mason College Principal Looking Forward, Staying Ahead NEWSLETTER IN PRINTED FORM Name: Child s Name: Child s Grade Campus Contact No: Please print all the details