Fri 23rd March GW Swimming

Ballarat Baimbridge College

2018 Investiture Mon 26th March School Council Thur 29th March

End Term 1 2.30PM dismissal

Mon 16th April Term 2 Starts 19 & 20 April

ANZAC Badge Selling in CBD Sat 21st April

Presentation Ball Tue 24th April

Intermediate Boys Football

Wed 25th April ANZAC DAY

Public Holiday Mon 1st May

Baimbridge Corss Country 1PM on

4 - 6 May Generations in Jazz

Thur 10th May DAV Regional

Debating training

Email: baimbridge.co@edumail.vic.gov.au

Event organisers for the Worlds Greatest Shave Connal Schurmann & Liam McCallum with Abbie Phillips

www.baimbridge-co.vic.edu.au

“Baimbridge College is a child safe school”

Fires

It has been an incredibly challenging time for many of our families and the wider South West

Community following the fires over the weekend. There were many families affected directly or

indirectly with community members fighting fires, protecting their own property or supporting

those in our neighbouring communities. We know there will be some continuing hardships and

trauma symptoms over the coming weeks and we wish to extend support to any students and

their families who feel they need help in any way. Please do not hesitate to contact the school to

discuss how we can help you during this challenging time.

Anti-Bullying day

Last week was a celebration of our community and how we care for each other with our Anti-

Bullying day events. Students were offered orange muffins, drinks and the opportunity to focus

on our Kindness boards with the message that bullying is not okay at any time or in any place.

Shave for a cure

There are many students wearing shave for a cure beanies around the school yard after having

shed their locks for the Leukaemia foundation World’s Greatest Shave fundraising event. More

than 60,000 Australians are living with blood cancer or related disorders and sadly many of them

are children. We were very proud of our young men and women who participated in the event

and transformed their appearance for the benefit of others. We truly have great community

minded young people at Baimbridge College.

School Improvement

As part of our agenda for continual school improvement we are focussing on two clear goals this

year at Baimbridge. I will give some detail in this edition around goal one.

Goal 1 – Inspirational Leadership to engage and motivate all learners in a climate of collaboration

and collective accountability.

This involves leadership at all levels from School Council, to teaching staff to student leaders. We

currently still have positions available on our 2018 School Council and would love to hear from

interested parents as soon as possible. Our teaching staff are engaging in continuous improve-

ment opportunities and four staff have been accepted into a leadership program to start next

term. Finally, we have acknowledged our student leaders at a morning tea, at a school assembly

and will formally acknowledge them in front of their families and the senior students of the

school tomorrow. We also have a student representative council that is meeting regularly to raise

student concerns and to generate a greater sense of community for our school.

ACTING PRINCIPAL: Mr Warwick Price

Assist ant Pr incipal s

East Campus: Miss Rosemary Morgan

West Campus: Mr John Hill

Yr s 7 - 9 Sub School Manager : Mr Ewan Macdonal d

Year 7 Co-ordinator: Mrs Sam Adams

Year 8 Co-or dinat or : Mr Alan Thomas

Year 9 Co-ordinator: Mrs Lisa Kyle

Yr 10-12 Sub School Manager Mrs Rachel Rose

Year 10 Co-ordinator: Mr John Sly

Year 11 Co-ordinator: Mrs Lisa Guegan-Brown

Year 12 Co-ordinator Mrs Lorraine Liston

VET / VCAL CO-ORDINATOR: Mr Steven de Man

Device Co-or dinat or : Mr Dean Banfield

St udent Well being: Mrs Deb Williams

Int egr at ion Coor dinat or : Mr Roger Lewis

Baimbridge College acknowledges and respects the traditional Gunditjmara custodians of the land.

R E S P E C T C O U R A G E P R I D E

Working Parties – Curriculum

We have now had two meetings for our working parties focussing on curriculum improvement and

developing our school as a hub for 21st century learners. We aim to offer a pathway for each

student in our care and teach them at a pace that ensures continual growth. By the end of 2018 we

expect to have a Non-Scored VCE where students can remain in school longer, engaging in

continual growth in their areas of strength to better prepare them for further education or the

workforce. The other working party is looking at improving engagement for students especially in

the year nine and ten years by ensuring a greater range of subject choices are available that cater

for the breath of abilities with rigour at all levels. We realise we are not yet where we want to be in

this space and are working with School Council, staff and students to ensure we seek to be the best

learning environment we can be for our students and preparing for their futures.

Baimbridge College Principal

Warwick Price.

Back in Term 4 last year 2017 our four schools joined forces at The Hamilton and Alexandra college to brain storm an educational game to combat the drug ICE. This game design is coming directly from students at The Hamilton and Alexandra college, Good Shepherd College, Monivae College and Baimbridge College. The D-Force team of students and associated professionals attending the workshop were Roland Maxwell-game designer, Dr Mel Ferrier-Child Psychologist, Dr Yaso Nadarajah-RMIT Geoff Hanbury Foundation,Vic Pol representatives: Paula Cutler, Pam Nix and Kelly Mcnaughton. Good Shepherd teacher Paul Walsh, The Hamilton and Alexandra teachers Kristen Waldron,Ben Hawthorn and Ben Hiscock, Monivae teacher Andrew Monk and Baimbridge Wellbeing representative Kelly Taylor.

Brainstorming to combat ICE

Cricket Senior Boys 20/3/2018 A three way round robin was played in the Senior boys Cricket this week on Tuesday 20th March. Pedrina

Park and College hosted the games.

Baimbridge was drawn to play Monivae and College in succession in a 15 over per side format.

The first game resulted in a loss to Monivae after they made 114 and we could only manage 63.

The second game against college was thay again made 114 and we could only make 64.

Some dropped chances in the field didn’t help matters ( no names mentioned…..)

All players had a bat and a bowl and although in both games were unable to match opposition teams for

depth and consistency. Some highlights were the fielding by Ollie Pitts, the re-emergence of Jake Donehue

as a cricketer, the catching and batting of Cameron O’Brien and James cleaver.

Captain Sam Lambevski and VC Samuel Hill toiled hard all day and were supported by Zebb Nield and

Alistair McCrae in the bowling stocks. Top score was Sam Lambevski with 18 for the day.

Plenty of highlights and a great team spirit and thanks to all the boys for being prepared and representing

the school so positively.

On Monday, the Baimbridge golfers hauled their golf clubs onto the bus and headed for the Hamilton

golf course. After a quick briefing they all excitedly scrambled to their tees ready and eager to take on

the course. The weather was an enemy for the day but our resilient team forged onwards and prised

the trophy from the grasp of the schools around the district. The other combatants wept in disbelief at

how dismal their display was and how superior ours was. Our results are as follows: In the Junior boys it

was Aaron Price in second place with a very credible score of 60 and Cameron O’Brien in first place with

a solid winning score of 54. The Seniors also had some great results with Oliver Pitts in third place with a

firm score of 52 closely trailing Ethan Turner in second with a crowd pleasing score of 49. Daniel Battista

took an emphatic win with a jaw dropping score of 41. The atmosphere on the bus trip home was

electric and one that you would want to be involved in. A big thanks to Mr Hill for organising the day

and also for helping with extra clubs, balls and hot chips afterwards. Thanks Mr Hill let’s all hope that

Baimbridge is just as successful in district school comps in the near future.

Cameron O’Brien

Pictures showing Golf Victoria’s Rob Bowtell addressing players before the event and also a winning photo with some of the group with their caps / hats.

GWR GOLF

Glenelg Division Athletics – Friday 16th March 2018

A large contingent of keen athletes boarded busses for Casterton last Friday for the Glenelg Division Ath-

letics. The weather was perfect and our team set to perform.

Best results were the following:

Age Group Champions

Zebb Nield (15 Year Olds)

James Cleaver (18 – 20 Year Olds).

Other students that were well placed on the day included:

Jackson Linke -2nd

Miranda McIntyre – 3rd

Emily Pitts – 2nd

Nikita Ansell – 2nd

Records were broken with James Cleaver claiming an amazing 4 new results –

100m – 11.53secs

200m – 23.47secs

400m – 52.47secs

High Jump – 1.71m

Zebb Nield also broke the Hurdles record with a time of 15.00secs.

Congratulations to all students who competed and thanks to Ms Cogger, Mr Fisher and Mr Franks for the

their work.

The final Aggregate Scores are below.

World’s Greatest Shave Yr 12 students Connal Schurmann and Liam MCCallum organised this year’s WGS which

was held in the West Gym on Wednesday last week. Over $3,500 was raised by the

following students: Connal Schurmann, Liam McCallum, Abbie Phillips, Nyah Vaughan,

Maddie Beveridge, Brock Sanders, James Thompson,

Lachlan Row and Brent Wardlaw. Special mention to

Abbie Phillips who raised over $1,600.

National Anti Bullying and Violence Day

Our students showed their support for the national cause by

wearing a touch of orange, purchasing orange cupcakes (thanks

Mrs GB and the HDSC helpers) and completed pledge boards to

promise to be UPstanders not Bystanders when it comes to bul-

lying. The students were shown a slideshow at the form

assemblies on the day centred around bullying, it is attached to

the newsletter.

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Miss Munro’s Maths Message!

During the last two weeks, several classes spent time working on their problem-solving skills and strategies… so we

thought we would share the riddle with the Baimbridge College Community. It was Albert Einstein’s Birthday on the

14th of March (Also Pi Day); he is said to have created this riddle in his youth and so we share with you, Einstein’s

Riddle.

The situation 1. There are 5 houses in five different colours.

2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

3. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, has a favourite hobby and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, have the same hobby or drink the same beverage. The question is: Who owns the fish?

Hints the Brit lives in the red house

the Swede keeps dogs as pets

the Dane drinks tea

the green house is on the left of the white house

the green house's owner drinks coffee

the person who enjoys reading rears birds

the owner of the yellow house plays golf

the man living in the centre house drinks milk

the Norwegian lives in the first house

the man who plays piano lives next to the one who keeps cats

the man who keeps horses lives next to the man plays golf

the owner who enjoys playing games drinks root beer

the German enjoys cooking

the Norwegian lives next to the blue house the man who plays piano has a neighbour who drinks water

Can you solve it?

Year 7: Again it’s been a very busy few weeks with our year 7’s! They are all amazed they have nearly finished their

first term in high school already. This week, we have had the scissors and paper out to discover some equivalent

fractions and investigate relationships between fractions, decimals and percentages. This helps to get us ready for

our project coming up in the last week.

Year 8: And the Geometry Unit it off and racing! All sorts of terms have been part of conversation including con-

vex, concave, polyhedral, regular, irregular and isometric. It will be exciting to see some of the great thinking that

comes out of the year 8’s classrooms around shape.

Year 9/10: The 9/10s are flying ahead and all working hard to challenge themselves and their mathematical think-

ing. We’ve been doing some work around tree diagrams and how they can be used to identify the total number of

outcomes; and the probability of a particular outcome occurring. We look forward to this week having our third

test, and seeing the growth that our students are achieving. It’s very exciting to see how much each student is pro-

gressing.

Don’t forget that you can always check in on what your student is working on with Maths Pathway by using the Par-

ent function. This is in the top right corner of the homepage. If you would like to find out about your log on details,

please email your student’s teacher and we can send them out to you. Otherwise, a report is generated and placed

as an attachment in the learning task for each Pathway Cycle.

We look forward to an exciting last few days of school, and hope that everyone has a safe and relaxing break from

school!

Are you a girl born between (and including) 200—2004? Do you love footy?

Would you like to be part of the Hamilton Kangaroos Youth Girls Football

Team?

If you said YES to any of the above, we would love to see you on the footy field

at Melville Oval on Wednesdays from 5pm - 6pm. Everyone is welcome, don’t

worry if you don’t know the rules / game—you can learn!

Season Starts April 15th.

If you are able to spare some time to help out in the canteen it is always very much appreciated. We understand

that most families are very busy, however, when the workload is shared it is always so much easier for everyone.

Canteen

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1 Lyn Battista

Heidilee Freeman

2

Kerry Price

5

Sally Wheeler

6

Kerry Goodman

7 8

Lyn Battista

9

Sarah Morgan

12

Labour Day

13

Genevieve Lam-

14 15

Christie Ralph

16

Narelle Shepherd

19

Tracey Sartain

20

Lisa McIntyre

21 22

Lyn Battista 23

26 27

Colleen Lomas

28 29

Lyn Battista

30

Good Friday

March 2018

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

2 3 4 5 6

9 10 11 12 13

16

Sally Wheeler

17

Kerry Goodman

18 19

Heidilee Free-

20

Kerry Price

23

Tracey Sartain

24

Genevieve Lambert

25 26

Lyn Battista

27

Sarah Morgan

30

April 2018

Debbie Williams

National Action Day against Bullying and Violence

16th March 2018

Sign the giant pledge at Baimbridge today!Be an UPstander

What is Bullying?

• “Bullying is when someone, or a group of people, deliberately upset or hurt another person or damage their property, reputation or social acceptance on more than one occasion.”

• Bullying involves a power imbalance, it is repeated and ongoing, and involves behaviours which can cause harm.

• Bullying is not an argument or disagreement, not liking someone, nor is it a single episode of nastiness or physical aggression. (Even though these incidents are distressing and may involve teacher intervention and management).

Refs: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/safety/Pages/bullying.aspxhttps://bullyingnoway.gov.au/WhatIsBullying/FactsAndFigures/Pages/FAQs-Identifying.aspx#anchor2

Types of BullyingBullying behaviours are physical, verbal or social. Bullying can be

obvious (overt) or hidden (covert).

• Direct Physical Bullying: hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property

• Direct Verbal Bullying: name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, remarks, or verbal abuse.

• Indirect Bullying: Trying to harm someone’s reputation or humiliate them. (Spreading rumours, nasty jokes, mimicking, encouraging others to socially exclude someone, damaging someone’s reputation).

• Cyberbullying: direct verbal or indirect bullying behaviours using digital technologies. This includes harassment on a mobile phone, snapchat, setting up a defamatory personal website or deliberately excluding someone from social networking spaces.

Refs: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/safety/Pages/bullying.aspxhttps://bullyingnoway.gov.au/WhatIsBullying/FactsAndFigures/Pages/FAQs-Identifying.aspx#anchor2

Long Term Effects of Bullying:

Can Include:• Finding it hard to trust others (even in adulthood)• Having trouble making or keeping friends• Low confidence and self-esteem, feeling worthless and

sad• Interference with education• Mental health issues, including Depression and Anxiety• Physical illness• Using bullying behaviours yourself

Why do people bully?• Although people who use bullying behaviours may seem

confident and sure of themselves, they are usually insecure and may feel inferior to others. They may treat others badly to make themselves feel better. In order to keep the feeling of power and prestige, they continue the bullying behaviour.

• Lack of respect and empathy for others• Not having the skills to resolve conflict• Peer pressure• Anger issues• Being bullied themselves (at home, school or in community)

If you are bullying others, and would like help to stop, please ask!

How to be an UPstander Bystanders see cruel bullying behaviour, and may be affected by it, but

they try not to get involved.

UPstanders take positive action. This could include:• Offering support or friendship to the person being bullied.• Not watching or joining in. (People who bully often love an

audience)• Standing up for the person being bullied (e.g. Saying “that’s not

cool”, “that’s bullying”).• Telling an adult • Reporting online bullying to site owner/administrator • Encouraging the bullied person to talk to an adult• Stopping rumours: If someone tells you gossip, do not pass it on

(even to a friend. The person may be using you to get to your friend).

• Practice kindness, respect and inclusion

You can be an UPstander by taking any of these actions!

Sign to be an UPstander today!

Today is National Action Day against Bullying and Violence. We invite school staff, students and community to sign a pledge to wipe out bullying at Baimbridge. The giant pledge is available to sign today during breaks. Find it at the front of West Campus. There will be orange iced cupcakes available (thanks Mrs. Guegan-Brown and Cert 2 Kitchen Operations 2nd Year students!). Cupcakes $2 (Bright orange for National Bullying Day, butter cream icing).

Become involved, sign our giant pledge to show your commitment! “I pledge to be an UPstander, and help stamp out bullying at Baimbridge

College.”

BAIMBRIDGE College is committed to stamping out bullying. Everyone is entitled to feel safe at our school.

Stay tuned over the coming months for whole school actions against bullying.

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Limited spaces are available. Bookings are essential and confirmed

with payment.

Cost: $3.00 per child

Friday 6th April @ 1.30 pm - Cinema Foyer

Learn the story of Borobi, our

Commonwealth Games mascot.

You will also be able to create

your own Borobi to take home

using a paper base moulding

material called Magiclay.

Wednesday 11th April

@ 2.00 pm

Suitable for children 8 years +

Cost: $ 5.00 per child Limited spaces are available. Bookings are essential and confirmed with payment.

SPECIAL SHOWING OF “Peter Rabbit”@ 2.15 pm

Cost: $8.50 per person Limited tickets available.

Purchase at the Library before April 5th

Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious

rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.

PLUS

It’s party time with

Peter Rabbit. Make

your party hat and

carrot and join in

the fun.

Rated PG 1hr 35mins

Make it with TAPE

Design and create

your very own

personalised wallet

using duct tape and

zip lock bags.

Monday 9th April

@ 2.30pm in the Library

Suitable for ages 6+

Greater Hamilton Library - School Holiday Program

HILAC GAMES 2018 Easter School Holidays

Can you be HILAC’s Commonwealth Games Superstar?

Events from the games will feature in our very own HILAC Games School Holiday

Program.

Play different sports every day and have the chance at a podium finish!

Stay and enjoy our pool party on the Friday afternoon 12pm—3pm

9 – 13 April 2018 9.00am – 12.00pm

Register your interest today at reception or email enquiries@hilac.com.au Age 7 – 12 $24 per day *minimum numbers required

XLR8 Swim Program

Easter School Holidays

Week 1 Group Lessons Week 2 Private Lessons Week 1 – $68, 4 x 30 min group lessons for children 3 and up. Week 2 - $242.50, 5 x 30 min private lessons for children 5 and up. Friday 13th April 12pm–3pm Inflatable fun for anyone that has participated in the XLR8 Swim Program to celebrate their hard work!

Who’s in Charge?

Does your child hurt, intimidate or abuse you? Do you feel you are losing control?

Want to handle conflict better?

www.brophy.org.au 1300 brophy

The Who’s in Charge? Group is an 8 week program for parents or carers of young people (8 to 18 years) who are out of control, violent or defiant. The group aims to:

• Provide a supportive environment to share experiences and ideas

• Clarify boundaries of what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour

• Reduce feelings of isolation, shame and guilt, which most parent’s feel

• Offer ideas to help develop individual strategies for managing your child’s behaviour

• Explore ways of increasing safety and well-being

• Help you feel more in control and less stressed

Further info on violence to parents:

ww.eddiegallagher.id.au

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