Newsletter 04
Thursday March 20th 2014
Calendar of Events
March
20th
VCE Drama Excursion
21st
Year 10 Dance Excursion
Cyber Safety- Year 8
Year 7 sport
24th
24th –
31st
April
Primary Swimming
1st
Sovereign Hill
Year 9C & 9D
Primary Swimming
Parent Teacher Interviews
Primary Swimming
VCAL Bowling Excursion
Primary Swimming
End Term 1
( Dismiss 2:30 )
2nd
3rd
4th
significant improvement in a range of
areas, as well as identify areas we wish to
improve.
Parent – teacher interviews will be held on
Wednesday April 2nd, from 4.00 to 8.00 p.m.
Appointments will need to be made via
Compass. Please contact the school if you
require assistance. Please note that school
will commence later, at 10.00 a.m. on
Thursday April 3rd.
Term 1 ends on Friday April 4th. Students will
be dismissed at 2.30 p.m. on this day.
Term 2 will commence on Tuesday April
22nd.
Bronwyn Hamilton
Principal
Principal's Report
It is hard to believe that we are already
nearly at the end of first term. It has once
again been a busy but productive term,
with many extra-curricular activities and
programs to support our learning agenda.
We held a most successful House Athletics
Carnival for students in Years 5 to 12 at
Knox Reserve on Thursday March 6th. There
were some excellent individual and team
performances and great house spirit was
displayed on the day.
Last night, our 2013 Annual Report was
presented to our school community. In our
Annual Report, we have outlined our
progress in a range of areas throughout
2013. We were able to report on
Help Support Carwatha College by
Participating in our Cookie & Slice Drive.
You can help by selling items to family,
friends and friends at sporting clubs you
attend.
Orders and money back by: Friday March
28th
Pick up from the conference room :
Tuesday April 29th ( Week 2 Term 2)
The Class that sells the most wins a cookie
pack to share!
The person who sells the most wins a gift
voucher.
Prep -12 News
Every day counts - school
attendance
We all want our students to get a great
education, and the building blocks for a
great education begin with students
coming to school each and every day.
Missing school can have a major impact on
a child’s future – a student missing one day
a fortnight will miss four full weeks by the
end of the year. By Year 10 they’ll have
missed more than a year of school.
There is no safe number of days for missing
school – each day a student misses puts
them behind, and can affect their
educational outcomes.
Coming to school every day is vital, but if
for any reason your child must miss school,
there are things we can do together to
ensure they don’t fall behind:
Speak with your child’s classroom
teacher and find out what work your
child needs to do to keep up.

Develop an absence learning plan
with the teacher and ensure your child
completes the plan.
Remember, every day counts. If your child
must miss school, speak with the classroom
teacher as early as early as possible.
Student Information sheets
Student Details information sheets for each
child will be coming home in the next
couple of weeks for you to indicate any
changes. Please check thoroughly and
return to the office as soon as possible. To
ensure our photo permissions are up to
date please return all the forms.
AUTHORITY TO PUBLISH PHOTOGRAPH IN MEDIA
Page 4 MUST be completed for EACH child with a
YES or NO.
*The college has a range of advertising materials
that are regularly updated. We also have a
number of publications that are distributed to
college members and the wider community
including publication of the College newsletter on
the internet. Articles are regularly submitted to
local papers about many of these activities. In all
of the above, photos featuring students are used.
Abestos Management

From 1 March 2014, new laws will mean
that parents can be fined for not sending
students to school without an acceptable
reason.
If you’re having attendance issues with
your child, please let your classroom
teacher (Primary) or Year Level Coordinator or Student Wellbeing Coordinator (Secondary) know so we can
work together to get your child to school
every day.
Dear Parent
As Part of the Department of Education
and Early Childhood Development’s Health
and Safety Management Plan, new
labelling will be installed at our school.
The labels remind people to contact school
reception prior to undertaking any works at
the school, to ensure they have up-to-date
information from the school’s asbestos
register.
Asbestos, which was used extensively in
building materials in the past but is now
banned – is considered safe unless
damaged or in poor condition.
The new labels form part of a
comprehensive
program
to
ensure
Victorian government schools remain safe.
Children’s safety is our number one priority.
That is why we are taking this extra step as
a precaution.
Primary News
Secondary News
Student of the Week 14/03/2014
Year 7 Meet and Greet
Grade:
Name:
Prep M
Junior Kareroa
Prep C
TeAta Manga
1B
Montana Manga
1/2A
Kueth Jethjok
2K
Chloe Malkocer
2/3L
Hari Kuljuh
It is a tradition at Carwatha College P-12 to
officially welcome our new Year 7 students
and their families so on the evening of
Thursday, February 20, our annual Meet
and Greet was held. The students remained
after school, enjoyed a snack in the
Language Centre and then watched a film
in the theatre.
3/4E
Emily Japp
4M
David Zystel
5S
Cyrus Sutcliffe
5/6B
Mela Basic
6G
Hanna Gerrard
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)
Dear Carwatha College P-12 families,
We wish to advise you that effective from
close of business April 4, 2014, Camp
Australia in its partnership with Carwatha
College P-12 will no longer provide the
OSHC service at your school.
We would like to take this opportunity to
thank Jessica for her hard work and
commitment to the program. She has
thoroughly enjoyed her time providing a
fun, safe environment for your children.
We appreciate the partnership we have
had with the school and parents and have
enjoyed the time you have allowed us to
spend with your children at OSHC. There
have
been
many
smiling
faces
participating in the fun activities that
Jessica has provided.
For all queries in relation to the closure of
this service please contact Customer
Service on 1300 105 343. Should you require
support in finding alternate child care
please contact the Child Care Access
Hotline on 1800 670 305.
Kind Regards
Jo Petraitis
Regional Manager
Parents arrived later in the afternoon and
were met by their sons and daughters
along with our College captains before a
short welcoming address by the principal,
Mrs Hamilton. They were then treated to an
exhibition of the game tchoukball, which is
a combination of European handball and
basketball. This unusual sport is also a longheld tradition at Carwatha and is always
enjoyed by our Year 7 students who play in
mixed teams in their form groups.
At the conclusion of the tchoukball
exhibition, families were treated to a
barbecue prepared for them by some of
the current Year 8 students and the
College captains. This provided the
opportunity for parents to mingle with staff
members, to meet their child’s teachers
and to discuss how their children had
started the year.
The final part of the evening was the
information and distribution session for the
iPads.
Special thanks must go to Mr Reuben
Kwong, the Year 7 Co-ordinator, and his
assistant, Ms Breanna Andrew, for all the
time and effort they put into the
organisation of this very special event.
Kevin Fahey
Teaching and Learning Leader
Year 12 Guest Speaker
Community
VICTORIAN SCHOOL OF
LANGUAGES
ENROLMENT IN LANGUAGE
CLASSES FOR STUDENTS
On Thursday the 27th of February, year 12
students had the privilege of being
addressed by child psychologist, Dr
Michael Carr-Gregg. Dr Carr-Gregg is a
frequent guest on the morning television
program Sunrise and has written multiple
developmental books such as; ‘Surviving
Year 12’ and ‘Surviving Adolescents’.
His presentation was about ‘How to Survive
year 12’. The psychologist spoke on a
range of topics including; what to expect
from the year to come and how to
manage it, how long to study for, how long
we should sleep at night, ways to get to
sleep faster, ways in which we can stay
motivated while we are studying, how to
control personal time, such as social media
and television and overall, how to balance
all of these aspects in our busy year. Dr
Carr-Gregg’s presentation was beneficial
to everyone and there wasn’t anyone who
wasn’t listening intently and taking mental
notes, including the teachers. As a result of
this session with Dr Carr-Gregg, this year
feels like less of a struggle because we now
know how to handle and balance
everything so it’s not as overwhelming as
we first anticipated.
Alisha Gibson 12B
As well as offering an extensive curriculum,
Carwatha College P-12 is also a host school
for the Victorian School of Languages.
Carwatha College P-12 has been a VSL
Centre since 2009 so it is a relatively new
and successful centre.
The Victorian School of Languages (VSL) is
a Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development school service
assisting all Government, Catholic and
independent schools in the State with the
provision of languages.
At Carwatha College P-12 the classes
offered are in Arabic (Yrs 1-12), Bosnian (Yrs
1-12), French (Yrs 1-12), Greek (Yrs 1-10),
Italian (Yrs 1-12), Sinhala (Yrs 1-12) and
Spanish (Yrs 4-12). The classes operate
Saturdays from 9.00am to 12.20pm.
Another 40 Languages are offered at other
Centres of the Victorian School of
Languages – Albanian, Amharic, Bulgarian,
Chin (Hakha), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese
(Cantonese), Classical Greek, Croatian,
Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Filipino, German,
Gujarati,
Hebrew,
Hindi,
Hungarian,
Indonesian, Japanese, Karen, Kymer,
Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Macedonian,
Maltese, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Syriac,
Tamil, Tigrinia, Turkish, Vietnamese and
Zomi.
Further
details
are
www.vsl.vic.edu.au.
available
on
For Centre classes an annual materials
charge of $70 for Year 1-10 students and
$85 for VCE applies. Enrolment for 2014 is
now
available
online
at
http://www.vsl.vic.edu.au/enrol/.
The VSL also teaches eleven (11)
Languages via distance education to
secondary school students who cannot
access centre classes. The Languages are:
Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, French,
German, Greek,, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Latin, Spanish
Please contact Area Manager Ms Connie
Bramble
by
email
at
[email protected] or on 9802 326 if
you require further information.
Cat Show
CAT SHOW – SUNDAY APRIL 13TH
CARWATHA COLLEGE P-12 COMMUNITY
HALL
8.00AM – 6.00PM