Truganina College
55 Clearwood Drive
Truganina VIC 3029
03 9368 9800
www.truganinap9.vic.edu.au
Truganina
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Newsletter 17 ~ Wednesday 26th October 2016
Updates from our Primary
School
The Kinder-Foundation Information Evening will be held on Thursday 27th
October from 6: 00pm - 7: 00pm in Building 2. Our Current Foundation Teachers
will explain how transition will work this year for our Kinder students who are
engaging in this all important stage of learning. It is very important that families
attend this session. If you have not replied already, please call the Administration
Office on 9368 9800 to let us know you are coming. Child care is also available to
families on the night.
We are continuing to listen to students read every morning between 8:35am 8:50am. During this time, many students are celebrating their successes in having
read more than 200 nights. Thank you to all families who are continuing to support
the teaching and learning at Truganina College by recording the reading their child
is doing every night. Every night at home reading helps with improving your child’s
results. Well done to you all.
Thank you to Mrs Workman and Ms Ryan for their organisation of the Book Fair.
This will be taking place this term on Monday 14th November - stay tuned for
details!
Enjoy the week, be at school every day and on time, and keep reading.
Jenny Crowle, Nicole O’Brien, Steven Trotter & Helene Refuerzo.
Truganina College Events Calendar
Date
Event
Thursday 27th October
2017 Kinder - Foundation
Information Evening
6.00pm - 7.00pm
Friday 28th October
Year 7 Immunisations
11.30am
Monday 31st October
Year 2/3 Excursion to
Animal Land
Monday 31st October
All students are required
at school
*Canteen will be closed*
Monday 31st October Friday 2nd December
Kinder - Foundation
Transition
Tuesday 1st November
Melbourne Cup Day
Public Holiday
No School
Monday 14th November
Book Fair
Monday 21st November
School Council Meeting
5.00pm
Tuesday 20th December
End of term 4
Monday 31st October
A reminder to all students and families that Monday 31st October, the day before the
Melbourne Cup Public Holiday, is a normal school day. All students are expected to be at
school on this day.
The Canteen will unfortunately be CLOSED on this day therefore all students are expected
to pack their recess and lunch and bring it to school with them on Monday 31st October.
F-2 Music at Truganina College
Students in Years F-2 have been learning to sing and perform
actions to the song ‘Happy’.
They have been learning about musical notes and rhythms and have
been playing along using different percussion instruments.
Diing and Aleaseya from Miss
Sawyer’s class are using the
Guiro’s to create their own
rhythm.
Filmon, Nevaeh and Tanmayee from Miss Gregory’s
class are practising a rhythm in their group.
Learning Intention: We are learning to sing, perform actions
and play percussion instruments to the chorus of the song
’Happy’.
Success Criteria - I will know I am successful when I can:

Sing the lyrics to the chorus of ‘Happy’.

Perform the actions in the chorus of ‘Happy’.

Play my percussion instrument in time with the song.
By Cassie McCawley
Music Teacher
Anshu, Gop, Manha, Omar and Takdir from
Miss Sawyer’s class were practising together
before performing the chorus of ‘Happy’ in front
of the class.
Teaching and Learning in Room 12
Developing the Language of Learning
at School and at Home
Making predictions with Mrs
Sujith
Learning Intention: We are learning about using the prediction comprehension strategy when reading.
Success Criteria - I know I am successful when I can:

Justify my predictions based on evidence from the text.
Students in 3A always look forward to reading sessions, especially when they get the opportunity to use
their comprehension strategies when reading a text they are interested in. In the last two weeks,
students have practiced making predictions and asking questions. Two texts were used to reinforce the
use of these strategies during our whole class sessions – Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (a 2015 Caldecott
Honor Book) and A Visitor for Bear.
Anchor charts were then created with the students about the reading comprehension strategies.
Students then write letters to show their understanding of the strategy in their Readers’ Notebook.
A letter written to Mrs. Sujith by Ria Katuwal to show how she used
predicting during Independent Reading.
Dear Mrs. Sujith
In the book, Zac Power Test Drive, I predict Zac will be testing
new but dangerous equipment and will get in trouble with his parents. I predict this because on the front cover there is an illustration of
a helicopter and because Zac is just 13, it’s too dangerous for him to
be flying a helicopter. Thanks for reading.
Your student
Ria
Teaching and Learning in Room 19
Developing the Language of Learning
at School and at Home
Exploring the text ‘Holes’ with
Mrs Wembridge
Learning Intention: We are learning to understand the characters of ‘Holes’.
Success Criteria - I will be successful when I can:

Provide a detailed summary of the chapter we have read.

Identify key vocabulary with the text.

Explain and justify where Louis Sachar got his ideas from.
Room 19 students have been studying the author Louis Sachar. We are currently reading the book
‘Holes’. As a class we are able to use all of the comprehension strategies (ask questions, make
connections, visualise, infer, identify the author's purpose and summarise) before, during and after we
read.
Vocabulary highlighted by students include the following:
Crish Patel - courage, strength, survival and brave.
Iman Fahad -scorching, perched, wasteland, desert and shivered.
Taye Paul- scorching, shrivelled, hovers and stifling.
Students were able to summarise chapters we had read:
Noah Green - Stanley lived a poor life after his Great Grandfather
robbed a pig from a woman. He had a curse put on him and his
relatives. This gave Stanley and his family really bad luck.
Maryam Malik- Stanley dug and dug and finally he dug and he felt
proud. Elya had a baby she named it Stanley because it was Yelnats
backwards.
Paarth Jatwani - Stanley had a hard time digging his hole because he
had blisters on each of his fingers.
From our Pedagogical Coaches
Famous Australian Poetry
Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Slim Dusty……. a few famous Australian poets you can enjoy reading with your child. Poetry
is a great way to expose your child to a variety of new vocabulary and they will thoroughly enjoy the rhythm, repetition and
great stories that go with famous Australian poems.
Can you match the lines from famous Australian poems with the poem and poets listed below?
‘Once a Jolly swagman camped by the billabong’
True Blue by John Williamson
‘There’s a track winding back’
The Melbourne Cup by Slim Dusty
‘Then I realise something I’ve always known, I still
Botany Bay by Unknown
‘I love a sunburnt country’
The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson
‘Hey true blue, hey true blue, now be fair dinkum’
The Man from Ironbark by Banjo Paterson
‘It was the man from Ironbark who struck the Sydney town’
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar
‘There’s bustle in the city, there’s excitement in the
scrubs’
Along the Road to Gundagai by Jack O’Hagan
‘I’ve been around the world a couple of times or
maybe more’
Home Among the Gum Trees by Brown/Johnson
‘Farewell to old England forever’
Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson
‘There was movement at the station, for word had
passed around’
I still call Australia Home by Peter Allen
Answers to the ’Which books do these famous first lines come from?’ published in the last newsletter.
1. If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
2. “Where’s Papa going with that axe?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for
breakfast.
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White.
3. Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,
thank you very much.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling.
4. Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
5. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
6. In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans.
Debbie Workman & Justine Ryan
Pedagogical Coaches
Data Manager Report
An update on our Attendance Data
Our College continues to focus on improving student attendance data.
In 2016 our target for average absences across the school is 15 or fewer days per student
as set out in our Annual Implementation Plan. Any more days away really impacts
greatly on student learning results.
Year Level
Foundation
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Average number of days absent
As at 9th September 2016
As at 21st October 2016
9.75
11.78
8.65
10.21
10.00
11.36
9.10
11.10
6.93
8.50
7.21
8.60
6.99
8.58
5.98
7.68
Congratulations to our Year 7 cohort who continue to demonstrate outstanding
attendance rates at school.
Average Number of Days
Absent per Student
2016 AIP Target F-7 As at 9th September 2016 As at 21st October 2016
F-6 2015
19.1
15
8.56
10.29
If your child is absent from school we ask that you contact us as soon as possible. This
can be done by:
Making a call to the office.
Speaking directly to your child’s
teacher.
Sending an email to:
[email protected]
Courtney Hodgson
Data Manager
Writing a note in your child’s
Student Planner.
eLearning Apps to download to
your child’s iPad (Free)
Please see below the latest FREE iPad apps to be
downloaded:
Leanne McNaughton & Kirstin Sawyer
eLearning Leaders
Extracurricular
2017 Residential Education Program
We are extremely excited to announce the dates for the 2017 Truganina College
Residential Education (Camping) Program. Early this year, Truganina College sent
its inaugural group of Year 7’s to the Surf Coast to participate in our first
Environmental Camp. With the success of this program we have now expanded
the program to include Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8 students for 2017. Below are the
dates of the programs with more information (including actual pricing) to follow in
the coming weeks. The Residential Education Program is a sequential and very
important part of our curriculum and we would expect all students attend their
classes program with their peers. If you have any questions please contact the
Administration Office to speak with Mr Trotter.
Year Level &
Program
Year 6
Leadership
Approximate
Cost
$245 (4 days)
Year 7
Environmental
$210 (3 days)
Year 8
Journey Based
$290 (5 days)
Dates
Term 1 2017,
February
7th – 10th
Term 1 2017,
February
22nd – 24th
Term 4 2017,
November
27th –
December 1st
Venue
15 Mile Creek – Outdoor School
http://www.boec.vic.edu.au/categ
ory/15-mc-campus/
Riverview Caravan Park, Barwon
Heads
http://riverviewfamilycaravanpark.
com.au/
Rubicon Outdoor Centre
http://rubicon.vic.edu.au/
The approximate cost of each camp is mentioned above to assist families in their
financial planning. Families that are eligible for the Camps, Sports and Excursions
Fund (CSEF) can use this to support their children attending these programs. If you
have any questions about payment plans or CSEF eligibility please see the
Administration Office staff to discuss further.
Steven Trotter
Assistant Principal
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following students who
were the prize winners for the last
newsletter’s Word Challenge and made an
impressive amount of words with ‘st’ in them:
Jay Nellutla from
Ms Koyu’s Foundation class
Christian Lazarevski from
Ms Sujith’s Year 3 class
Lytalza Hughes-Aukino from
Mr Saliba’s Year 5/6 class
Well done to this week’s winners!
I have read my newsletter 
Newsletter 17 ~ Wednesday 26th October 2016
Student Name _________________________
Teacher Name _________________________
Parent Name ___________________________
CHALLENGE!!
How many words can you make that have ‘bl’ in
them?
b l
3 WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED THIS ROUND!
PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES!!!!
Return your slip to your teacher with as many words
written, with ’bl’ in them for your chance to win a
prize!!
Slips must be returned by Thursday 3rd November.
Winners announced Friday 4th November.
Go For It!