Our Sponsors

We would like to thank all of our generous sponsors for their support throughout this year. With your continued generosity

and commitment we have been able to improve the educational opportunities available to students. We strongly encourage

our parents and the wider community to please support these wonderful local businesses that sponsor our school so well.

Neerim District Secondary College

News and Views May 10, 2019

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PO Box 18, Neerim South Vic 3831 Phone: (03) 5628 1455 Email: neerim.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au Web Address: www.ndsc.vic.edu.au

Nam Nguyen

123 Main Road

Neerim South 3831

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Dennis Bowen-Day, Director

115 Main Neerim Road, Neerim South

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Your local Real Estate Agents

Defining our Core Values

On Tuesday 30 April students from years 7, 8 & 9 worked together during extended homegroup to define our new values.

Principal’s Report

Child Safety

Child safety is a matter that we

take very seriously.

As part of our build up to our

school review we are updating our

policies and at this week’s School

Council meeting we ratified our

Child Safety Commitment Statement, Child Safety Reporting

Obligations Policy and Procedures and our Child Safety Policy.

My plan is to include information about child safety in every

newsletter because it needs to be front and centre in our

thinking. This week I am including our Child Safety Statement

of Commitment for your perusal.

Child Safety Statement of Commitment

Rationale

Neerim District Secondary College is committed to safety and

wellbeing of all children and this will be the primary focus for

our care and decision making.

Neerim District Secondary College has zero tolerance for child

abuse.

Neerim District Secondary College is committed to providing

a child safe environment where children and young people

are safe and feel safe, and their voices are heard about

decisions that affect their lives. Particular attention will be

paid to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander children and children from culturally and/or

linguistically diverse backgrounds, children with a disability as

well as the safety of vulnerable children.

Every person involved in Neerim District Secondary College

has a responsibility to understand the important and specific

role he/she plays individually and collectively to ensure that

the wellbeing and safety of all children and young people is at

the forefront of all they do and every decision they make.

Implementation

In its planning decision-making and operations, Neerim

District Secondary College will:

Take a preventative, proactive and participatory

approach to child safety;

Value and empower children to participate in

decisions which affect their lives;

Foster a culture of openness that supports all

persons to safely disclose risks of harm to children

Respect diversity in cultures and child rearing

practices while keeping child safety paramount

Provide written guidance on appropriate conduct

and behaviour towards children

Engage only the most suitable people to work with

children and have high quality staff and volunteer

supervision and professional development

Ensure children know who to talk with if they are

worried or are feeling unsafe, and that they are

comfortable and encouraged to raise such issues

Report suspected abuse, neglect or mistreatment

promptly to the appropriate authorities

Share information appropriately and lawfully with

other organisations where the safety and wellbeing

of children is at risk and

Value the input of and communicate regularly with

families and carers.

School Council Vacancies

As mentioned in a previous newsletter, we still have two

parent category vacancies on our School Council. Should you

wish to be part of this group that is instrumental in

developing policy and setting the strategic direction of

Neerim District Secondary College, then please contact me at

the school on 5628 1455.

Brett Windsor

Executive Principal

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Sponsor of the Week

SERIGRAPH GALLERY

This week’s winner is Luka Cook of

year 7.

Congratulations Luka, an iTunes

voucher to the value of $30 is on its’ way to you,

courtesy of the Serigraph Gallery.

New Chaplain

My name is Claudia and I am the

school chaplain. I’m here to have a

chat when life gets a bit tough and

when life throws you lemons and you

don’t know how to make lemonade. I

am all ears. A bit about myself. I love

the outdoors, love the beach, love

adventure, love photography and I love my dog to bits. Look

forward to having a chat with you.

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Positive Behaviour Support

Congratulations to the following students who received green Positive

Behaviour entries on Compass for this term: Kate Akers-Saveneh, Brodie

Broadbent, Laura Brown, Maddison Brown, Riley Brown, Tyler Burns,

Cody Coad, Gordon Cook, Makalah Crichton, Mitchell Dawson, Dakota

Dawson, Sara Ellis, Beau Ellis, Rhiley Fleming, Jay Furletti, Bayley

Gunton, Mia Higgs (2), Paige Hill, Charlotte Hoddinott (2), Mav

Matheson, Shae Maxwell, Molly McConachy, Clarissa O’Neal, Thomas

Oldham, Cooper Orwin, Hannah Rhodes, Liam Richards (2), Joe

Richardson, Connor Rigg, Eloise Robson, Izzy Ryan, Kodi Smith, Rylen

Smith & Corey Triffitt

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

PBS LINK IS HERE!

Those students who receive a PBS green entry on Compass will go in the draw to win the Sponsor of the Week $30 voucher

provided by our community sponsors.

PBS IS A MARATHON. NOT A SPRINT.

Dates to Remember

May Monday 13 VCAL: Bunnings

Wednesday 15 Year 12: Tertiary Information Services

Thursday 16 Urbanknights - Street Art & Stencil Workshop

Monday 20 Year 7 2020 Information Sessions - 4pm & 7pm

Tuesday 21 Studio Arts: Top Arts & Gallery visit

Thursday 30 Urbanknights - Chinese Museum

June Friday 7 Curriculum Planning Day - No students at school

Monday 10 Queens Birthday Public Holiday

Tuesday 11– Friday 14 Year 11/12 Exams

Monday 17—Friday 21 Year 10 Exams

Friday 28 Last Day of Term 2

Calendar of Events

Lost Property

We have a tub of unnamed and unclaimed school

uniform at the office from Term 1. If your child has lost

an item of clothing at school please send them to the

office to check whether we have it, any items unclaimed

by the end of next week Friday 17 May, will be given to

needy students.

We request that parents write their child’s name on their school uniform so that we can

hand it back to them when it comes to the office, 99% of uniform handed in at the office

does not have any identifying name which makes it impossible for us to return it.

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Student who have achieved 100% Attendance during Term 1

Congratulations to the following students who achieved 100% attendance for

Term 1: Darcy Beecroft, Maddison Brown, Riley Brown, Luka Cook, Heath Darcy,

Cooper Dobell, Logan Ferguson, Annabelle Furneaux, Josh Furneaux, Tobias

Furneaux, Paige Hill, Evelyn Marks & Jack Marshall.

Please collect a muffin voucher from the office on Monday.

July Monday 15 First Day of Term 3

August Monday 12 Curriculum Planning Day - No students at school

Our Sponsors

A big thanks to all of our generous sponsors for their support throughout the year. Please support the wonderful local

businesses that sponsor our school so generously.

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Neerim South Hotel

Bar | Bistro | Bottle Shop

91-109 Main Neerim Rd Neerim South

Ph: 5628 1431 Fax: 5628 1093

Neerim South Milk Bar and Takeaway 133 Main Neerim Rd Neerim South

Ph: 5628 1454

Cinema Arcade

Victoria Street

Warragul

Ph 5622 1399 Phone 5628 1513

129 Main Road, Neerim South 3831

147 Main Neerim Rd Neerim South VIC 3831

Ph 5628 1462

157 Main Road Neerim South

5628 1519

Neerim District Secondary College represented the

Gippsland region in the Junior (16 and under) section of

secondary schools in the state lawn bowls finals on

Wednesday 1st May.

The competition was two bowl triples (3 players per team)

where each player gets to bowl two bowls while alternating

with their opposition counterpart. Each game was 7 ends or

40 minutes duration.

Representing Neerim were Claire Pollard (skip), Chelsea

Lineham 2nd and Macca Duck Lead. Although the team had

some training at Neerim District Bowling club, they had

never played an actual game.

In the group that Neerim competed in, there were 3 other

schools that were played against.

In the first game, the opponent was Kyabram. Neerim got off

to a good start and won the first 3 ends but Kyabram then

won the next 2 ends. Neerim won the last end and despite

winning 4 of the 6 ends played, they lost 6 shots to 8.

Junior Bowls State Finals 2019

In the second game, Neerim played against Glen Eira College.

This was a very close game with scores level with one end to

go. Glen Eira won the end after a measure was needed to

determine which was the shot bowl. Neerim lost 4 shots to 5.

In the third and last game, Neerim played against Ruther-

glen. In another very close game Neerim only trailed by 1

shot with 1 end to play. Rutherglen won the end and won

the game 8 shots to Neerim 4.

Although Neerim did not win a game, the team performed

very well with each player putting down some excellent

bowls at various times of the games.

Year 9 CEA9 Urbanknights visit The Shrine of Remembrance

Year 9 CEA9 Urbanknights students experiencing at taste of what soldiers and nurses

went through during WW1 at The Shrine of Remembrance on Thursday 2 May.

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Year 8 Food Technology

Year 8 students making Nasi Goreng in Food Technology on

Wednesday.

West Gippsland Athletics

Our students competing at the West Gippsland Athletics

yesterday.

Debating

Congratulations to our D grade debaters who won their round two stoush against St Francis Xavier College Thursday 4 April.

Jenny Mackay-Richie was

awarded best speaker.

Special mention to first time

debater Riley Brown who

stepped in at the last

minute to chair the debate

with no previous

experience.

Doctors in Schools

Did you know that we have the services of a GP and nurse

here at the school’s own on campus medical clinic?

The objectives of the Doctors in School program are to:

Make primary health care more accessible to

students

Promote healthy living and wellness.

Provide support to young people through the early

identification of health problems

Reduce the pressure on working families.

Dr Liz is available every Tuesday from 10am until 12pm.

Appointments are preferred and can be made at the

Neerim South Medical Clinic, with library staff or the nurse

on a Tuesday. Walk ins are also welcomed.

If you have any questions please feel free to discuss with

nurse Chontau when she is in the clinic Tuesday mornings.

Doctors in Schools

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First Aid:

Please note that should your child

need to take medication at school

the following information is required:

Written advise from the treating

medical/health practitioner with the

following information:

1. the name of the medication required

2. the dosage amount

3. the time medication is to be given

4. how the medication is to be taken

5. the dates medication is required, or whether it is

ongoing medication

6. how the medication should be stored.

Thanks

Lee Pattinson

First Aid Co-ordinator

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