From the Principal– Dr Michelle Kearney Learning is addictive. It is exciting and invigorating. That sense of satisfaction that you feel when you have mastered a skill, grasped a concept or created something new is matchless. Yet the reality is that sometimes learning can be dreary. We have all experienced this. It is a constant challenge as learners, and as educators, to find the spark of excitement in our learning experiences. The 21st Century is referred to as the knowledge era. With rapid changes in knowledge production and technology, it is essential that adults and young people are lifelong learners. If not, their ability to function in society, the workforce and family will be limited.

What is Lifelong Learning? For some people, learning stops the moment they step out of school and join the workforce. Lifelong learning is different. It is self-initiated and self-directed. A lifelong learner does not need someone to tell them that knowledge is power. They do not need someone to remind them that they need to expose themselves to useful and relevant information systematically. So, someone who’s into lifelong learning actively seeks out every possible avenue that can satisfy the thirst for knowledge understanding that in this uncertain global climate, investment in one is the safest and highest-yielding investment.

Before we even talk about how to develop lifelong learning habits or how to improve the way we learn, if learning itself is perceived as a dreary task, then there will be little reason to continue. It’d be like trying to drive a car with flat tires — you can drag the car for some distance, but it is not going to go far. Context leads to curiosity. When we understand the context of why we are learning a topic and how it relates to a task we need to complete, a project we want to design, or an issue we need to resolve, our imaginations are fired up and the learning process is a joy and mastery of the material assured.

The most critical point, when we learn in context it triggers the part of the brain’s pleasure system. This happens because the human brain contains a giant pattern recognition system. “Without this ability,” writes neuroscientist Elkhonon Goldberg in The Wisdom Paradox, “every object and every problem would be a totally de novo encounter and we would be unable to bring any of our prior experience to bear on how we deal with these objects or problems.”

Imagine if we could consistently use smart phone and tablet computers and the like to deliver every young person an education built around this kind of pattern recognition. Learning would both be truly addictive and significantly more efficient.

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

BAYVIEW Newsletter ISSUE 19 Monday 17 June 2013 www.bayview.vic.edu.au

Risen Jesus, you promised to be with us to the end of time; be with me today.

Final week for our Loaves & Fishes Winter Drive! “Please fill the box”

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CALENDAR DATES

Tuesday 18 June Year 9 Binge Buster Program

Wednesday 19 June Barwon Cross Country (new date)

Friday 21 June Year 9 Peer Skills Day Year 10 Keys Please. Parents Welcome to attend.

Sunday 23 June-Thursday 27 June Year 9 camp

Friday 28 June Footy Casual Day & Hotdog lunch—Last day of Term 2 2.20pm finish

Tuesday 16 July Start of Term 3

Thursday 25 July Church Service 9.00am All welcome

Wednesday 31 July– Saturday 3 August 7.30pm The wizard of Oz School Production

Saturday 3 August 2.00pm Wizard of Oz Matinee

Wednesday 7 August Open Morning 9.00-10.30am & Information Evening & Subject Expo 7.00-9.30pm

Monday 12 August VTAC Parent Info Session

Tuesday 13 August ICAS Mathematics

Tuesday 13 August-Saturday 17 August Year 11 Ski Camp

Students rehearsing for Wizard performance Students participating in the Wizard of Oz School Production have been rehearsing their lines and scenes every week in anticipation for the performance in late July early August. Tickets will be available from Bayview for $12 Adults and $8 for students.

New friendships forged Ten Year 8 girls from Bayview College had the opportunity to meet and form new friendships with Indigenous students from the Worawa Aboriginal College, Healesville, during their visit to the area last week.

The 45 students from Worawa were on a week’s camp to observe the diverse wildlife and the rich human history of the Koroitgundidj people at Tower Hill in Warrnambool. The area contained a rich source of foods for the Indigenous people living in the area.

Students from Bayview were invited to share the experience, exchange cultural activities with the long term goal of creating a sister school program.

Principal Dr Michelle Kearney who attended the day said “It was a wonderful experience for all involved. The students at Worawa come from all over Australia and our students established connections with young women from Darwin, Alice Springs and remote areas of the Territory.”

The girls from both schools participated in a range of experiences including boomerang throwing, foraging for bush tucker and observing the koalas, snakes, kangaroos and emus in the area.

“It was a fun day. I loved meeting the girls, learning more about their culture and learning some basic Aboriginal language and I made some new friends!” said Jessie Keegan from Bayview.

Worawa staff has invited Bayview students to visit the school in Healesville, join them on a Dreaming Walk, and continue to build the friendships in 2014.

Worawa Aboriginal College is Victoria’s only Independent Aboriginal Community School. The College is located 60 kilometres from Melbourne on 55 hectares in the Yarra Valley that once formed part of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. Worawa was established to provide an education for Aboriginal students with a focus on Aboriginal teachings and cultural values, academic achievement and the development of practical skills important to everyday life and employment.

A number of the graduates of Worawa go on to complete their senior secondary certificates at other schools, complete tertiary courses and then return to their community as young professionals.

L-R Tahlia Gollasch and Josephine Quinlivan learn their lines

Period 7 Homework Club every Wednesday 2.30-4.20pm, Bayview Library

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Food Physics Year 12 VCE Physics students are currently studying materials and structures. To determine the energy absorbed during fracture, or toughness of a material, the students used a pendulum to smash chocolate bars. They clamped a piece of chocolate to a firm surface so that it stood vertically. The pendulum was released from different heights and allowed to impact with the chocolate until it broke. The height the pendulum rose after impact was then recorded and the fracture energy calculated. Students then had to clean up the site which gave them the unfortunate

opportunity of eating the debris from the experiment!

To determine the strength of the adhesive on ‘sticky’ tape the students suspended a roll of tape on an axis so it could turn freely. They then increased the load onto the tape until rapid peeling occurred. In other experiments the students tested a variety of materials, including biscuits, pasta and eggs, for their compressive strength. Peer Skills Program builds confidence in our Year 9 students

The Peer Skills program is based on evidence that young people often seek out their peers when they are experiencing difficulties. The program is designed to enhance the ability of young people to be able to listen and problem-solve, and provide them with the skills to help their peers when problems arise. Facilitators who supported the program were from Portland District Health, Quamby Drug & Alcohol, Heywood Rural Health. Heywood & District Secondary College, Portland Secondary College and Victoria Police. Peer Skills is sponsored by local charity United Way Glenelg.

Year 9 & 10 VIS COM DESIGN Health & Human Development students provide healthy options for teenagers

Footy Casual Day Beats Cycle for Hope Friday 28 June June 28th - $2.00 fee to be collected during care group. All proceeds to be donated to “Beats Cycle For Hope”. Hot dog lunch available as well as snacks and drinks for sale at recess and lunchtime. Handball and kicking competitions at lunch time and prizes for best dressed.

Eric Mibus and Dane Handreck (right) watch in anticipation of the chocolate breaking

Keep the conversation going on our official Facebook page

Zak Tober (above) setting up for the first experiment with the tape

Corinne Hurst demonstrates a secret handshake to Amber Kennedy during the Year 9 peer skills training

Students from the Vis Com Design class completed some outstanding designs for specialty products. The finished merchandise required packaging and labeling that was visually pleasing for the customer. Students are now designing shop fronts.

Finding healthy foods that teenagers enjoy can be a tricky business. However the Year 11 students found plenty of inspiration last week when they created a variety of dishes that supported their nutritional needs and taste buds. Samantha Cassie & Becky Kanoa (Top) Julia Orlando & Mrs Obrien creating some wonderful dishes (bottom)

Leighton Marshall (left) Megan Vallance & Rachael Roberts with just a small sample of the outstanding work demonstrated by the Vis Com Design students

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Arts Academy and Design Workshop When: 25 September 2013 Where: Camp Street Campus, Ballarat To register and for further details con-tact c.blake@ballarat.edu.au. Application forms may be download from http://www.ballarat.edu.au/schools/education-and-arts/?=111061 University Open Day on Sunday 25 August, 2013 – visit the website for more details: http://www.ballarat.edu.au/future-students/open-day The Servant of Two Masters Directed by Karl Hatton, produced and performed by the Portland CEMA theatre Group, this comedy tells the story of Salvio who wants to marry Clarice, who has to marry Signor Federigo, who’s really Beatrice in disguise, who’s come to Turin to find her love Florindo; and the whole sorry mess is about to get a whole lot sorrier when Florindo and Beatrice both unknowingly hire the same servant – the brilliantly useless Truffaldino of Bergamo . . . who’s in love with Clarice’s servant Smeraldina!

On Friday 21 June at 7.30pm, Saturday 22 June at 7.30 pm and Sunday 23 June at 2pm. At the Portland Arts Centre corner of Glenelg and Bentinck Streets. Tickets $22 Full , $16 Conc, $10 Child. For bookings go to www.trybookings.com or call Jacqui on 0438 054 676.

Portland LIVE is a project to create an all ages community space which revitalises and activates the foreshore and Bentinck Street Lawns. It will be a

place which provides picnic areas for families and young children, skate and social spaces for teenagers and quieter, more accessible activity spaces with sheltered seating for older people.

Council undertook a community engagement process during February and March 2013 to provide information to interested community members and young people about Portland LIVE. This involved discussion about a possible vision for the precinct and captured feedback, insights, ideas and innovations to help shape the concept design of the space.

A draft concept design has been developed and Council invites comments from the community until Friday 5 July 2013. Go to the Glenelg Shire Council web site where you can view the plans and find out more about Portland LIVE. http://www.glenelg.vic.gov.au/ Simply click on the logo and view the draft concept plans along with a draft animation of the area.