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COLLEGE TIMES
ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
Alkara Ave, Lara, Victoria 3212 Telephone: 03 5282 8988
Lara Secondary College Page 2 Issue 7 - 2015
Upcoming Events
College Calendar May
May 12th Yr 10 Shape Your Destiny Program Incursion
9.15am—1.30pm
5th Senior Boys & Girls Football—McDonalds
14th Parent Teacher Interviews 4.00pm—8.00pm
Reserve, Highton
15th Student Free Day—Parent Teacher
5th Applied Learning visit to The Shrine of Interviews 9.00am—12.30pm
Remembrance 9.00am—3.15pm
18th Student Free Day—Whole Staff PD Day
5th Yr 7 & 10 Immunisations
5th Yr 9 Animal Welfare Connections, MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Serendip Sanctuary Excursion
CELEBRATING STUDENT SUCCESS
10.00am—2.00pm
Congratulations to our Year 10 People and Places central
5th Yr 10 FTP Vic Beach Excursion, Geelong
studies class for their outstanding leadership and organisation
12.00pm—3.20pm of the Anzac day centenary commemoration which was held
on Friday. The whole school assembly was attended by a 14
6th Yr 9 Sport Muay Thai, The Arena
members of the Lara RSL and two representatives from
12.00pm—1.15pm Tuckers Funeral services. All were highly impressed with the
7th Yr 10PP Working RSL Incursion presentation by students and the manner if which all of our
students conducted themselves on this most significant
occasion.
7th Yr 10WWW Ecolinc Excursion, Bacchus
Marsh 9.00am—3.30pm
Further congratulations to our newly elected Year 7 leaders ,
7th Intermediate Boys Football
Blayze 7D and Jade also of 7D. Blayze and Jade have already
9.00am—3.00pm joined in with the work of the Student Representative Council.
7th Sayembara, Indonesian speaking The work of the SRC is extremely important and a means by
competition. Surfcoast College , Torquay which all students can have a voice and impact on student
engagement and school improvement. We look forward to an
9.00am—3.15pm
upcoming culture day which is currently one aspect of the work
7th Applied Learning PDS Community being undertaken by the SRC.
Project, Pancakes. Royal Children’s
Hospital fundraiser 1.15pm—1.45pm
7th Yr 12 English SAC—Using Language To
Persuade 2.05pm—3.20pm
8th Yr 10 OE Fishing, Barwon Heads
9.00am—1.15pm
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RECONGIZING LARA SECONDARY COLLEGE’S HIGH QUALITY THANKYOU: to our Assistant Principal, Tania O’Callaghan who
WORK very capably took on the role of Acting Principal during my leave
In recognition of the quality of our school’s work, Faye Smith, at the start of term 2 .
Assistant Principal, and I have been invited to present at a second
Lyn Boyle
conference – The South Western Region Principals’ Conference, to
support others schools in their journey to establish Professional Principal
Learning Community frameworks in their schools. We have also
been invited to be showcased as a “model” school by the newly boyle.lyn.c@edumail.vic.gov.au
established Centre for Professional Learning Communities to be
officially launched at the Hawker Brownlow Thinking and Learning ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS’ REPORT
th
conference on May 22 – 25 .
Congratulations to Tate who, today, is completing his last day
Our Senior Leadership team and our staff are to be congratulated
participating in the ‘Linking with Ambulance Victoria’ pilot
for their passion and hard work in enabling this achievement.
program. Tate has successfully gone through an application
process to be selected for this experience. Well done!
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING DAY
Two other students who are going to have an amazing learning
May 18th will be a student free day to enable teaching staff to
experience are Ninka and Stefin. They, too, have been successful
further their work on Professional Learning Community work with
a focus on quality instruction. Janelle Wills from the Marzano in their application for the Alcoa Future Leaders of Industry
Institute will work with us on the day to support the high quality of program. This program requires them to attend one full day for
work already being developed by our very dedicated team of the next six months to increase their knowledge of this field, and
teachers. provide them with an overview of the requirements of working
in such an extensive program. Congratulations to you both.
STUDENT REPORTS Grade 6 Information Night
A reminder to all families that our new reporting process is well Testament to both the importance and excitement of our
underway and we are coming up to our second round of reports
students in being able to support the transition of our
which will be available via COMPASS on May 11th. If you have
misplaced your login to COMPASS (available via the link on our prospective students, over 60 Lara Secondary College students
website homepage) or have questions or concerns, please contact attended the Grade 6 Information Night last Tuesday evening.
the office for clarification. Our Grade 6 families were provided with an impressive overview
of the College, educational initiatives being implemented, the
focus on Professional Learning Communities and ultimately on
FAREWELLS
the learning and achievement of every student by Mrs Boyle.
This term we have farewelled our school Chaplain Mark McCabe Our School Captains, John and Kate, provided a fabulous
and librarian Michele McCrea. Mark has decided that it is time to
overview of their growth, learning and special experiences of
move to a new vocation and Michele has moved on to a well
deserved retirement. They will certainly both be sadly missed. In attending Lara Secondary College. Two Year 7 students, Logan
the coming weeks we will also farewell our Year 12 Leader and and Jade, gave a presentation which will be remembered in
teacher of Physics / Science, Tiffany Gunning. Tiffany has taken up years to come, fully entertaining our guests whilst also providing
a position at Deakin University working to support the high quality some serious and detailed information for prospective students.
training of science teachers - as a result of both her expertise and A highly successful evening of this magnitude is not possible
the work we have undertaken at Lara Secondary College in without the support of so many staff, students and families who
teacher professional development. We will be interviewing early
delivered and collected students at various times throughout the
next week for a new staff member to join us in the
Physics/Science position and I look forward to input from our Year evening. Thank you to all for your support and participation on
12 students in this process. such an important evening.
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Uniform
On Friday the 24th of April, John and I attended the Geelong and
Adhering to uniform expectations is an important part of
District Schools’ Anzac Commemoration Ceremony at the
presenting to the community the high standards of Lara Secondary
Peace Memorial in Johnstone
College as well as fostering a sense of community within the
Park. Special guests began the
school. Please ensure, with the change to our winter uniform, that
ceremony with earnest words,
students are in correct clothing. Socks are to be plain with no
which honoured the legacy of the
slogans or branding, and can be either black or white in colour.
ANZACs. This was followed by the
Girls wearing their kilts need to also be wearing either black or navy
presentation of wreaths, where
tights that are 60 denier. It is very important students also have the
each of the students represented
correct footwear. Staff will be following up on students who are
their school by offering a wreath
repeatedly wearing incorrect items of clothing.
in respect and remembrance of
Immunisations the soldiers who fought for our
Next Tuesday, 5th May, students in Year 7 & 10 will be receiving country. A moment of silence,
their Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis immunisation. Year 7 the playing of the Last Post, a
students will also be immunised against Human Papillomavirus prayer, the National Anthem and
(HPV). the raising of the flag concluded the ceremony. Afterwards,
everyone got the opportunity to admire the wreath display in
NAPLAN
the centre of the memorial and the Mayor also presented a
From Tuesday 12th May to Thursday 14th May students in Years 7 speech during lunch in the City Hall.
and 9 will be completing their NAPLAN assessments. These tests
assess each student’s skills in Writing, Reading, Language
Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy.
These results form part of our collation of data which helps us to
monitor the learning growth of each student and reflect on our
teaching and learning process to ensure we are optimising the
opportunities of every student.
Tania O’Callaghan
Parent, & Faye
Teacher, Student Smith
Interviews
Ocallaghan.tania.l@edumail.vic.gov.au
Interviews will be taking place on Thursday 14th May from
smith.faye.l@edumail.vic.gov.au
4 pm – 8 pm and Friday 15th May from 9 am – 12:30 pm. Thursday
is a normal school day, with students expected to attend the
interview with their families on either the Thursday evening or
Friday morning. This is a very important part of educating each
student and in ensuring a consistent message is being provided to ‘Like’ us on Facebook!
each child in regards to their learning by those most invested –
their families and the school. Bookings can now be made using
your Compass log in. If you have had difficulty, please contact the
We’ve recently created a Lara Secondary College official Facebook page.
office. www.facebook.com/LaraSecondaryCollege.
‘Like’ us to keep in touch with some of the fantastic events happening at
our college and to celebrate the achievements of our students.
Sascha Foster (ICT Admin Leader)
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ANZAC DAY ASSEMBLY
The Lara Dawn Service
On Friday the 24th of April, Lara Secondary College held a very It was the first ever dawn service held at the Lara RSL. As you
special ANZAC assembly, to commemorate 100 years since our walked into the service there were 16 crosses laid out in
troops landed at Gallipoli and went the rose garden, for the men and women from the Lara dis-
to fight for our country. Our trict that died during the First World War.
student Cadets created the The service was to start at 6am and even with the rain trying
atmosphere of the assembly by to break through it didn’t stop us from proceeding with the
making an official entrance led by service.
Ashleigh Mc. Congratulations to First Ken Simons, the RSL president, spoke about the AN-
the other cadets Avril-Lee B, ZACS and their stories, then he passed it on to John Snow, he
Cameron B, Abbey S and Chloe Y who were very professional on then lead the Lord’s Prayer.
the day. We had special guests such as Bruce, Ken and other
members from our local Lara RSL, representatives from Tuckers LSC’s Ms Newman sang the song ‘They call him the AN-
Funeral Home who presented our school with a flag, and parents ZAC’. After that Mr Simons welcomed LSC students Teagan
in attendance. At the assembly, we had Mr McInnes play an S, Tate E and Lachlan J to the microphone to read some let-
amazing and very moving version of ‘And The Band Played ters that were written by the soldiers and sent home to their
Waltzing Matilda’. Bruce Challoner from the RSL spoke to our loved ones. Two were sent from a hospital ship while the
school and kindly donated a gift of an ANZAC picture for all Lara soldiers were off from the front line. The other one was from
Secondary College has done for the RSL. This picture can be viewed a soldier, written at the front line, in the trenches, during the
in the main entrance of our school office. Christine and I ran the Gallipoli campaign. Mr Simons then thanked the Lara stu-
assembly, which was a huge honour on such a special day. After dents for helping out and proceeded to speak and called
the assembly ended, our special guests were invited to have some up a member of the RSL to play a song on the bagpipes.
scones, coffee and tea, hosted by our Year 10 People and Places Then Mr Snow returned to the stage, this time to say the
class. Well done the People and Places class for their organisation Ode of Remembrance. We then had select people place
of such a moving assembly. wreaths in honour of the ANZACS and their sacrifices, then
to finish off the moving ceremony the Last Post was played
By Katelan L, Year 10 People and Places followed by the one minute of silence.
It was a privilege to be part of the ceremony, honouring the
ANZACS. We were proud to know that we got to represent
our school at the 100th Anniversary Dawn Service
- Lachlan J and Teagan S 10PP
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about the world of tomorrow, and get a taste of what IT is all
Careerspace 5 about in a hands-on mobile app development workshop. When:
10am-4.30pm, Sat 2 May; Who: Year 12 students; Where:
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UMAT - Register by 5 June; Test Date: 29 July takectrl.
‘At Monash’ Seminars – architecture 28 April, interior
architecture 29 April, psychology 30 April, medicine and
BACHELOR 0F SCIENCE/BACHELOR OR MUSIC – At
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biomedical science 5 May, law 13 May, teaching 14.
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double degree. There is a wonderful synergy between the
monash
passion for creating music and a love of scientific
Indigenous Student Experience Monash Day - Year 9 – 12
knowledge. Choosing between the two can be difficult, so
students can experience Monash Uni. 10am-1.30pm, Fri 1
why not consider making the most of your talents and
May. Kristel Keleher, kristel.keleher@monash.edu,
study both music and science in a double degree. Physics,
ph 9905 8699.
maths and music are related to the art and science of
VCE and Careers Expo - 170 exhibitors of VCE resources,
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