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Brauer
BULLETIN
ISSUE 14
FRIDAY 31st AUGUST, 2018
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AUGUST
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6:30pm DRESS UP DAY
Brauer Theatre - Decades
YEAR 9 & 10 SNOW TRIP
SEPTEMBER
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STAR
Year 12 2018 Year 12
Looking After Parent Info Night Year 7 SOSE/
Your Mates 6pm SCIENCE Halls
Presentation Gap Excursion
10 11 12 13 14
STAFF PD DAY
No Students Year 10
Required At FORMAL
School
GWR 17 18 19 20 21
Year 7
ATHLETICS
IMMUNISATIONS END OF TERM
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R O C K T O R E E F T R I P
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S C H O O L H O L I D A Y S
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OCTOBER
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FROM THE
Principal’s
DESK
Congratulations.
Congratulations to the wonderful Year 11 students who came in to the College on last Friday’s pupil-free day and started
renovating their Common Room. As I stated at a recent Whole School Assembly, it is always very easy to sit back and
complain about things but it takes initiative, a determined approach and teamwork to get things done. It is always pleasing to
have students who show great leadership – above and beyond what is asked of them - by being prepared to give up some of
their time and improve things for their local community. Congratulations on a great effort from these Year 11 students.
Congratulations must also go to one of our Year 12 students, Peter Karcew, from the Warrnambool Norfolk Rover Crew who
has earned the Queen’s Scout Award. To achieve this award, Peter had to show initiative in tackling challenges, demonstrate a
sustained effort over many months and years, and display qualities such as self-discipline, teamwork and leadership. What a
wonderful effort, Peter! Well done!
Parent-Student-Teacher Interviews –Thursday 23 and Friday 24 August.
Thank you to the many parents who participated in the recent parent-student-teacher interviews. Students have been spoken to
about the importance of using their reports and the interviews to further clarify what they need to do to improve their
learning. It was wonderful to see so many parents and students and their teachers taking the opportunity to have these
important frank and open discussions.
When receiving their reports, some students may feel overwhelmed by the number of different challenges they may have with
their learning. One way to overcome this is to frame the challenge into specific areas and then tackle one of the areas in a
focused way. It may be as simple as paying more attention to the specific directions given in class. As parents, we need to
pose everything as a realistic and practical challenge that can be resolved. Children take their cues from their parents so the
frame of ‘challenge’ gives children something to rise and accept the challenge, rather than feeling overwhelmed. Speak to
your children as they journey through their challenges, provide them with words of encouragement to strengthen their self-
belief, and give them ideas to cope and manage. There is no doubt that children’s resilience is fostered when they overcome
problems and manage unpleasant social situations, such as teasing or going into new situations, in a positive and self-
affirming approach.
Planning and Writing Goals.
We have been highlighting the importance of planning and writing goals to all students. Students sometimes have a mistaken
belief that they need to manage time. The only problem with this is they don’t realise they have absolutely no control over
time. Time is a constant and, no matter what happens, time will always keep ticking by. What the students need to do is self-
manage and self-monitor. This is the ability to make decisions and choices and act in accordance with those decisions and
choices. Our research shows that students who attain top marks are more self-disciplined than those students who struggle in
this area. Students who achieve very high assessment scores all exercise self-management. Students should focus on these
four major areas to help themselves:
1. Write their goals in a place they see every day;
2. Work to results, not time;
3. Semester planning;
4. Weekly planning.
Another very important component in assisting our
teenagers is ensuring that they maintain their health and
wellbeing. Sometimes, as a parent, you may feel hurt,
worried or unsure when conversations move from being
engaging and thoughtful, to the simplest conversations
and moving into arguments. Some of this “questioning
and testing out independent thought” is a normal part of
teenage growth and development. Your child’s moods can
change very quickly and this is because of how the
teenage brains develop. Children are not always able to
handle changing feelings and interactions to every day or
unexpected events quickly. This sometimes leads to oversensitivity. Teenagers start to think in a deeper way than they did
before, and they can experience thoughts and feelings they have never had before. Some young people can also seem to burst
into the world with a conflicting and radical view on everything.
No matter how grumpy or cross your child gets, they still value the time spent talking and connecting with you. The very
good news is that most teenagers get over this very difficult phase and develop into wonderful young adults. We see the
metamorphoses happen every day at school as, no doubt, you do as parents.
Presentation/ Debutante Ball 2019.
We are very pleased that we now have a committee of parents who are willing to support the Presentation Ball for 2019. Mrs
Jenkins will be in touch with those parents to organise a time that suits most people and start the planning. As we all know, it
is amazing how quickly the time will go until we have the Presentation Ball upon us, and there is a great deal to organise
before Friday 29 March 2019.
The Importance of Drama in our Curriculum.
Now that the musicals and productions are over for the year, we need to reflect on the value of areas such as Drama in our
curriculum. In our school systems we learn that data drives schools and policies and that one’s worth is often tied up in those
final results. Alongside this, schools are becoming increasingly aware of the need to nurture and implement wellbeing
programmes that foster agency, resilience and self-management strategies.
The importance of The Arts and, in particular, Drama, for enhancing students’ education and wellbeing is of significant
importance. According to John O’Toole, the Chair of Arts Education at the University of Melbourne, it is through experiences
in subjects such as Drama that students have the opportunity to engage in embodied, aesthetic and experiential learning – a
way of knowing and understanding that is not replicated elsewhere in the curriculum.
Drama classes also offer students with invaluable problem-solving, group work and interpersonal skills. They help students
develop a greater sense of self and help students engage with the demands of an ever-changing world with more compassion,
intelligence and resilience.
We congratulate all our staff and students involved in Drama and Theatre Studies.
Jane Boyle
PRINCIPAL
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STUDY Tips
Weekly Study Tip #23: Do the hard stuff first! • For your MOST important tasks, determine
their degree of difficulty as challenging,
How often do you sit down to do homework, medium or easy – label them accordingly.
look at your list of tasks you want to achieve,
• For these tasks then number from #1
and decide to start with the easiest ones?? This
(most challenging) to least challenging
is a common approach, but not always the
(ie. Easy!!)
most effective! The hard stuff takes more brain
power, so by the time you work your way • Start with the most challenging and work
through your list of easier homework/ revision your way through your priority list!!
tasks, you are likely to be too tired to do a • Build in a reward for yourself when you
good job of the hard stuff. Highly likely even have completed the important
to decide not to do it!! challenging tasks – you have made the rest
of your list of learning activities easier to
Some tips to help motivate you to do the hard stuff first:
achieve!!
• Take a few minutes before starting to
• Happy studying! :-)
prioritise your homework/ revision tasks
for the study session from MOST to Kerri Morey
LEAST important. Psychology Teacher
Brauer College, Warrnambool
STUDENTS ENJOY
UNI LIFE
GO FOR IT: Brauer College students Rachel Johnstone,
16, Lily Smith, 12, Gaby Allen, 13 and Guan Bright, 15,
joined 2000 girls in Melbourne on Thursday at an event
aimed at closing the gender gap in IT.
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Sensational Efforts from Year 9
Debating
SEALP English students at the
Warrnambool Eisteddfod
Debating.
Kayla Skye Jake
Neave Gurry Sapstead Jacob Mykhi Patrick
Honan Templeton Giblin
On Thursday 2 August, our Year 9 SEALP Unfortunately, one of our teams didn’t quite debate in which they argued that “Making
English attended The Mozart Hall for the make it to victory, although it was a use of Animals in Drug Trials, for the benefit
Wa r r n a m b o o l E i s t e d d f o d D e b a t i n g stupendous collaborative effort from ALL of humans is NOT justifiable”. We would
competition. We had two teams from our students that made the close loss feel like a also like to congratulate Jacob Honan, Mykhi
class who participated in the debates this victory. We are really proud of the way we Templeton and Patrick Giblin for their
year. There was an array of complex and supported each other in class and helped both superb efforts in their debate in which they
liberating topics that all students worked on teams achieve their best. argued that “Greed will cause the extinction
tirelessly, both in class and at home, leading of mankind”.
up to the day of competition. Those students Overall, it was fantastic to see six of our
in our class who were not debating had peers presenting their debates on stage, We would very much like to thank Mr Curtis
worked for several weeks, preparing both especially when we know how much of a for helping us with our preparation in class
teams with extensive research, collecting challenge it can be to speak up in front of and responding to several emails in the days
statistics, recording sources of information many people – including their classmates! As leading up to the debates. We would also like
and finding other forms of data to help build has been the case in previous years, the to thank Mrs Knappett and Miss Twycross
our teams’ arguments and prepare them for debates were presented in front of a for their work behind-the-scenes with their
likely [and unlikely] rebuttals. welcoming and eager audience at The excellent organisational skills.
Mozart Hall.
We would like to congratulate
Hana Price, Lacey Eccles
& Kayla Neave.
Kayla Neave, Jake Sapstead and
Skye Gurry on winning their
I am so very proud of these Year 9 SEALP English students. They
worked tirelessly in class for several weeks in two groups, leading up to the debates, with the speakers from
each debating team collaborating with team leaders in each group. Despite the occasional frustration and
dilemma, these students demonstrated maturity and perseverance with their critical thinking and research
skills.
Special mentions to Emma Sheppard, Takara Gorman, Emily Russell, Rose Taylor, Oisin Duggan, Jessica
Hughes, Seth Griffiths, Olivia Brown, Hana Price and Lacey Eccles, amongst others, for their leadership in
class in ensuring that each of our speakers had many arguments, rebuttals and an extensive array of
supporting evidence to include in the teams’ presentations. Tony Curtis
I am very proud to be their teacher. Years 12 & 11 and Years 9 & 8 SEALP English Teacher,
Year 7 Hist/Geog. Teacher and Year 11A PCL.
Sport
NEWS
A massive thanks to Chris Gillin and
Liam Fitzgerald (both former
students of Brauer College) for
spending Monday afternoon with the
Green Laces
VET SIP students. Chris shared how Are On Sale In The Front Office
he and his late brother Aaron have
been raising awareness for Muscular
Dystrophy through their love of
sport.
There were many great stories and
some really powerful messages taken
from this session. Also Liam shared
his story of becoming a sports/radio
commentator and how he became
such great friends with the Gillin
family.
All students were truly grateful for
you time and fantastic stories.
Thank you.
Kurt Lenehan
Sports Industry Program Coordinator
Sports Coordinator
BASKETBALL ACADEMY
Brauer students have been involved with coaching/ Mila Douglas, Aidan Carroll and Riley Nicolson
scoring some primary school teams in the Hoop helped the smooth running of the day by working
Time competition. On Friday 3rd August, Jacob with the Woolsthorpe teams. A great day of
Price, Harry Stinchcombe, Aaron Vickery and Will basketball was had by all and our Brauer students
Austen helped out the Woolsthorpe Primary year proved to be budding coaches/organisers and terrific
3/4 boys and girls teams. The grade 5/6 Hoop Time ambassadors for our school and basketball.
happened on Friday 17th August, Kobi Bidmade,
Primary School Hoop Time Competition
Here is some feedback from the Woolsthorpe teachers:
“ All of your students were respectful, kind, encouraging
and great ambassadors of your school. The older
students that you sent down to help last Friday with
our Grade 5/6 Hooptime teams were fantastic. They
took complete control of one of our Rookie teams and
our students just loved them. When our Future Stars
team played in the Semi Final and then the Grand
Final, your students were probably cheering and
encouraging them more than anyone else there.
Thank you so much again for helping us out and you
should be extremely proud of all eight of your students
”
that came to help
Julie Roberts
SPORTS ACADEMY COORDINATOR
Year 9 & 10
Trip
Our Year 9 and 10 Snow Trippers had three days of near perfect conditions for skiing and
snowboarding. We are on our way home today with some very tired and sore bodies but we
all had an amazing adventure and some memorable stories to tell. The students progressed in
their skills and enjoyed exploring the mountain practicing everything they learnt. The teachers
commend the students for their perseverance and determination. It was a pleasure to be on the
trip with such a great group of students.
Until next time Mount Buller!
Huge thanks to Mr Mitchem, Mrs Coverdale, Mr Clarke, Mrs Petrie and Mr Lenehan for
caring for our students on this trip.
Delia Jenkins
Year 10 Coordinator
Curriculum Futures LeaderBrauer College
NEWS
Monday 10th September
Staff Professional Development Day
PLEASE NOTE
No Students are required at school on this day.
Thank you
Travel Update………
Andrew Hallett
The travels are
certainly going
well so far.
We are just about
to clock over
6000km on the
bike.
And we have about
6000km to go.
Argentina is a very
looong country!
The photo is us at
Lake Titicaca
(the Bolivian part!)Brauer
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Monday 10th September 2018
4pm to 6pm or 7pm to 9pm
RIST Campus, 915 Mt Napier Rd, Hamilton
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Higher
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Staff will be on hand to discuss you education pathways from
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Your local agricultural college can provide a range of entry
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Breakout sessions will be hosted for those students and parents
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