Wonthaggi Secondary College
August 2017
ISSUE 5
COLLEGE NEWSLETTER
Inside this issue:
NDIS 2
Clay Target Shooting 3
Literacy Corner 3
First Aid Training 4
WSC on Q&A 5
Cross Country 6
Badminton 7
Junior Girls Football 8
Important Dates 9
Community Announce-
ments 10
Achieving success in a caring and creative environment.
College Council President’s Report
BASS COAST STUDENTS DESERVE BETTER!
The establishment of a new campus, on the land available in McKenzie Street, will not only
provide a high-quality physical environment for students but also supply an important com-
munity asset for the wider Bass Coast area. Quality programs continue in the college but the
students and staff also deserve 21st century facilities for delivering this. We call on all in-
volved to commit to this essential project.
New Campus Petition
The Community support for WSC has been particularly positive with many expressing their
disappointment at the lack of announcement for the new senior campus. However, there
have been several developments this term: There are now petitions available in businesses
across Bass Coast. Titled “Bass Coast Students Deserve Better”, it has been possible to
distribute this because of the support of Terry Earl and Dee Connell of the Wonthaggi Busi-
ness & Tourism Association. The same petition is also available online. Other Updates:
We now have a Facebook page; “Bass Coast Students Deserve Better” (the online
petition can be accessed form there too).
The Sentinel Times and Wonthaggi Lions Club coordinated a sausage sizzle and pro-
moted the gathering of signatures last Thu in the main street.
We have received coverage form local papers and were featured on WIN news.
We also had our petition featured on ABC Gippsland radio.
Thanks to the following businesses (the petition is available at more locations also):
Coles (Cowes), Cape Woolamai General Store, Rhyll General Store, Wheel Heat
(Wonthaggi), Voyage Fitness (W), Autobarn (W), Carpet Call (W), Bendigo Bank (W),
Connell's Bakery (W), Wonthaggi Newsagency , The Sentinel Times (W), The Phillip Island
and San Remo Advertiser, The Hicksborough Store, The Wonthaggi Club, The Wonthaggi
Golf Club, The One Stop Shop (W), and Coast-to-Coast Conveyancing (W).
What Can We Do?
Sign the petition
Like the Facebook page
Share the petition and FB page and ask friends to sign it
Thank you to all in the community who have supported our College.
Geoff Robertson
WSC College Council President
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Correction from previous Newsletter
Preparing to access the NDIS
Students studying Japanese at Wonthaggi Secondary College attended ‘Why Learn Japanese?’ excursion last term. Unfortunately the incorrect photos were used. The correct photos are shown, below. Many apologies to the staff and students involved.
If you already receive support from a State or Territory government disability program, you will be contacted by a National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) representative when it is time to transition to the NDIS.
If you do not currently receive disability supports and the NDSI is available in your area you can request access by calling the NDIS.
It is expected to take between six to twelve months for eligible people with disability to enter the NDIS once roll out starts in an area. You can talk to your Local Area Coordinator or NDIA representative about this.
The Dudley Campus is not set up for large volumes of
traffic and this is why we ask parents to please keep their
cars out of the school grounds at the busy drop-off and
pick-up times. We are very mindful of student safety and
this will assist in the smooth operation of the College.
Thank you for your support.
Dudley Student Drop Offs
More information:
www.ndis.gov.au
Tel. 1800 800 110
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Clay Target Shooting—Lilydale
On the 27th April 14 keen Clay target shooters from McBride and Dudley campus attended the annual Yarra Valley
schoolboys/schoolgirls clay target championship. The event consisted of three disciplines of shooting with 10 shots of DTL (down the line), skeet and 5 stand sporting layout. All students shot very well and braved the heavy rain as they competed. Towards the end of the day Wonthaggi was well placed with some excellent individual performanc-es. In the junior girls Dakota Suckling finished 2
rd, Charlie Cooke finished first in the junior boys, with Max Bird 3
rd
and Cooper Goodwin won the senior boys. Competitors travelled from a range of schools across the state and Wonthaggi performed extremely well once again.
Morpheme of the Month: - PRE -
To continue with our exploration of morphemes and morphology, I thought it would be a great time to introduce PRE-
FIXES! Prefixes are morphemes that are added onto the start of a root or base word to change the root or base
word’s meaning. The word PREFIX actually uses the morpheme ‘PRE’ (what a coincidence!). PRE- means before
and appears in many words all of us use on a daily basis. For all the sporting fans out there, I am sure you have
watched some pre-match entertainment at some stage and, for the many footy boys and girls in our school
community, no doubt you involve yourself with pre-season training. When do these things happen? BEFORE!
Last term we studied the morphemes: -OLOGY- and -AGON- through different home group challenges each morn-
ing. 9F was victorious in the -OLOGY- morpheme challenge for May with all students receiving a WSC Morphologist
of the Month pen and, of course, chocolate! June’s challenge was won by 7K, but they had to share the win with Riley
Barber of 9K, who also received a prize for his amazing efforts with the morpheme -AGON-.
Students are encouraged to get involved in the Morphology Home-group Challenges that will be running in Term 3.
All they have to do is complete the activity each morning in home-group and submit their answers at the end of each
month to the Literacy Co-ordinator (Melissa Phillips). Individuals and whole home-groups will be rewarded for their
participation and interest in learning about morphology.
Literacy Corner—Morphology
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Fight for First Aid Training to be compulsory in Secondary Schools
Youth Parliamentarians from Wonthaggi Secondary College have successfully passed a Bill through the Legislative Council, proposing to train high school students in first aid. Their Bill, known as Mandatory First Aid Training for Secondary School Students Bill 2017, requires Victorian secondary schools to supply Level 2 First Aid training to all students in Years 9 and 10. The Hon. Britney Ames believes that knowledge of first aid is vital, particularly among teenagers.
“We are forever hearing about young teenagers getting drunk and doing stupid things, resulting in them getting badly hurt or, even worse, dying,” said Ms Ames. “A well-needed skill in this day and age for people affected by drugs and alcohol is first aid.
“It’s ridiculous that these highly important skills aren’t already being taught.”
The Opposition agreed with the intentions of the Bill but argued against the initial plan to implement the program at Year 9, describing it as a “socially difficult” year for students. However, The Hon. Jack Mendes, a member of the Wonthaggi team, disagrees.
“Year 9 is proven to be the best year to learn new things,” said Mr Mendes. “We believe first aid is such an im-portant skill that students should learn it as early on as possible.”
The Opposition stated that the program could “put unnecessary stress” on students, and questioned the maturity of Year 9 students and whether or not they could “handle first aid training”.
“Just because someone isn’t mature enough, doesn’t mean we don’t teach them,” said Youth Premier the Hon. Saxon Taylor-Le Page.
“We ask that the Opposition ‘first-aid’ themselves by opening their eyes to the value of learning first aid,” said The Hon. Matthew Fletcher.
Before passing through the Youth Parliament of Victoria, the Bill was amended to administer the first aid training program at Year 10, as well as Year 9. However, the team from Wonthaggi disagreed with the changes.
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WSC on Q&A
On Monday the 24th July, eight of our Wonthaggi SC Legal Studies students took a trip to the Docklands Studios
in the heart of Melbourne to attend the live broadcast of Q & A on the ABC as audience members. The class con-sisted of one Year 11, being James Cohen and the rest consisting of Year 12’s: Callum Murdoch, Callum McFadyen (myself), Jesse Kellow, Ryan Smith, Katie Fisher, Sheona Bugbird, and our decorated school captain Kyle Ross. We departed from Wonthaggi at roughly 4:00pm. We arrived in the the city at roughly 6:00pm with our esteemed bus driver, the Hon. Mr Damien Osborne. Once we finally arrived at Docklands studios at 6:20 pm, most of our group was starving, and eager for a good meal, so, while waiting for 8:00pm, which was the time we were expected to enter the studio, our group enjoyed some fish and chips and the Italian Culinary Classics pizza & spaghetti with meatballs at the Docklands Harbour side. When the time to return to the studio came, we walked back and waited at the front amongst the numerous other prestigious secondary schools that were lucky enough to be selected for this event. While lining up to enter the studio, we engaged in a thorough conversation with stu-dents of Mt. Waverly Secondary College.
Once we got scanned, checked our bags in and entered the studio, we waited patiently in our respective seats for the programme to begin. While this was happening we were lucky enough to witness how the camera crew and producers prepare for the live airing of the programme. At 9:30 PM, the six panellists (including the Shadow Health Minister, the Minister for Energy and the Environment and four high school students) were introduced along with TV Icon and Q & A host Tony Jones to a resounding applause. The highly successful programme last-ed an hour and a half and included interesting questions and answers that sparked debate and agreement be-tween the panellists and resulted in a broad array of bipartisan perspectives, as well as perspectives from the youth in Australia, on current topics and concerns in Australian politics. We left the event at 11:30pm, enlightened and with somewhat fresh perspectives on the topics and strong opinions of the panellists and their answers. On our way back, we stopped at Caldermeade McDonalds for a midnight (12:45) snack. We arrived back at roughly 1:30 thoroughly enjoying our experience.
By Callum McFadyen
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Cross Country
On Thursday 15th June our finest Cross Country runners competed at Lardner Park at the Gippsland Region
Champs. It was bitterly cold, but the sun managed to peek through the clouds and combined with no wind, made for perfect running conditions. The students had to navigate a hilly course, but luckily no mud this time! We had some excellent results on the day.
Senior Girls Team – 1st place
14 years Boys Team- 1st place
15 Years Girls Team - 2nd
place
Individual Results
12-13 Years Boys
Jak Spinks- 6th
Jacob Timmermans- 7th
14 Years Boys
Paul Fitzgerald – 12th
Lochlan Hill- 15th
Max Walton – 27th
Darcy Saw- 43rd
15 Years Boys
Caleb Cummins – 11th
Keith Robinson- 24th
15 Year Girls
Zali Anderson – 2nd
Jessica Stevenson – 15th
Holly Hughes – 16th
Shakayah Wilkinson- 23rd
16 Girls
Ella Morcom – 7th
Sophie Chapman- 8th
16 Boys
Blythe Page – 23rd
17-20 Girls
Leah McNish – 4th
Kiarna Courtidis– 6th
Amy Challinor- 8th
Mikala Notley- 15th
Jess Gislingham – 1st in his Category
Congratulations to all and good luck to the 13 athetes who will be representing WSC at the State Championships at Bundoora Park on Thursday 20
th July.
Kate Sly—Health and Physical Education Teacher
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Year 8 Badminton
Student Quote
On Thursday 27th July, eight Year 8 students made their way to Morwell for Gippsland Badminton Finals. Round
one saw the boys come up against Nagle College. Brad Peters and Luke O’Connor won their doubles match 21 –
17, whilst Angus Burns and Jesse Condron just fell short, going down 19 – 21. It was a clean sweep for in the sin-
gles matches, with all four boys winning.
The girls first match was against Traralgon SC. Traralgon proved to be too strong in both doubles matches with Par
Sriprajong and Kaylee Paterson going down, as well as Aleena Babu and Charlii Hope. Singles saw similar results
as WSC unfortunately could not get a win on the board.
Round two for the boys was against Sale College. Angus and Jesse redeemed themselves in doubles winning their
match. Brad and Luke once again demonstrated their great teamwork to take away the win. The boys continued
their good run, winning 4 out of the 4 singles matches.
The girls faced off against Lakes Entrance SC. Charlii and Kaylee bounced back from a challenging first round to
win their doubles match. With Aleena and Par following suite to take a win also. As for singles matches, WSC came
away with 3 of the 4 to win the round.
The third and final round for the day was a good contest between the boys and Chairo Christian College. Both dou-
bles matches won and 3 of the 4 singles matches. Well done to Brad who went through all of his doubles and sin-
gles matches undefeated.
The girls final clash was against Drouin SC. Par and Aleena had a well fought match but narrowly missed the
points, 21 – 23. All single matches unfortunately went the way of Drouin. Well done to the girls who took away an
overall third place for the day.
Congratulations to Brad, Luke, Angus and Jesse who finished in first place and have qualified for State Finals at MSAC in mid-September. We all wish you luck.
YEAR 11 QUOTE FROM THE 2017 STUDENT INVESTITURE I want to join the Federal police and admire Obama because he didn’t let discrimination stop him and was frankly awesome.” - Jack Mendes 11D
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Junior Girls Football—Sale
The Wonthaggi Junior girls made the trek to Sale on Friday 21st July for a day of football. In perfect conditions
slight breeze and not a cloud in sight the trip made it worth it. The girls came up against Lowanna in game one.
After a slow start, struggling to clear the ball out of congested packs, they began to gain a bit of momentum in the
second half. Bella Ross got the girls on the board with the first goal, then Mia Scott followed up with another two. A
good win in some tight contested footy.
Game one results:
WSC 3.1.19 Lowanna 0.1.1
Goals: Mia Scott 2, Bella Ross
Best: Jessy Sadler, Ella Sadler, Xy Tobias, Tandra Krause, Zara Hooper
A quick 20-minute break then saw the girls face off against Bairnsdale on the main oval. Playing with one less play-
er did not faze the girls in the slightest, where they picked up from where they left off in game one. The ball re-
mained in Wonthaggi’s forward half for the majority of the first half but there was difficulty in converting on the
scoreboard. After a regroup at half time the girls then made most of their opportunities and the scores began to
come.
Game two results:
WSC 3.1.19 Bairnsdale 1.1.7
Goals: Bella Ross, Cloe Booth, Jessy Sadler
Best: Jessy Sadler, Ella Sadler, Xy Tobias, Cloe Booth, Nusyaba Mohammed, Mikaela Notley
The third and final game for the day was against Catholic College Sale, both teams being undefeated saw this
game deemed as the Grand Final. In a much more physical and tougher contest the girls played exceptionally well.
Tired legs and an injury taking the field to only 16 did not stop the girls fight and push to the very end.
Game three results:
WSC 1.0.6 CC Sale 2.3.15
Goals: Ella Sadler
Best: Jessy Sadler, Ella Sadler, Nusyaba Mohammed, Zara Hooper, Mikaela Notley
Well done on a great effort girls and your representation of South Gippsland. Also, a special thanks to Tom Harley for being roped in as goal umpire for the day.
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
14 National Science Wk SGSMP Tour Intermediate Girls State Football
15 National Science Wk SGSMP Tour Maths UNSW comp.
16 National Science Wk SGSMP Tour Maths GAP challenge Fed Uni 2018 VCE Info. Night
17 National Science Wk SGSMP Tour Yr7 Indigenous Cultur-al Day
18 National Science Wk SGSMP Tour SEAL Interviews
21 22 Intermediate Boys & Girls Soccer Yr8 Indonesian Zoo Excursion T.O.M. practise day
23 Interschool Table Ten-nis Interschool Basketball 2018 Yr10 Info. Night at Dudley Campus T.O.M. practise day
24 Yr11 site visit to Burra Foods
25 Yr10-11 Rockclimbiung Sat 26- T.O.M. Regional Final
28 National Literacy & Numeracy Week
29 National Literacy & Numeracy Week
30 National Literacy & Numeracy Week
31 National Literacy & Numeracy Week Dudley Spelling Bee
1 National Literacy & Numeracy Week Dudley Book Week Dress Up Day
4 National Literacy & Numeracy Week
5 Mt Hotham Ski Camp
6 Mt Hotham Ski Camp 2018 Yr8 & 9 Info. Night at Dudley Cam-pus
7 Mt Hotham Ski Camp Yr7 Immunisations
8 Mt Hotham Ski Camp Yr8 & Yr9 1018 Subject Selections Due
11 Primary School Ath-letics at Dudley Campus
12 13 Yr11 Geography Field Trip
14 Music Guest Artist Rehearsals
15 Music Guest Artist Rehearsals Yr8 State Badminton Music Guest Artist Performance 7.30pm Workman’s Club
18 19 20 21 Gippsland Athletics
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CONTACT US
McBRIDE CAMPUS: McBride Avenue, Wonthaggi 3995 Phone: 5671 3700 Fax: 5672 1578
DUDLEY CAMPUS: South Dudley Road, Wonthaggi 3995 Phone: 5672 0900 Fax: 5672 4136
MAIL ADDRESS: PO Box 119, Wonthaggi 3995 WEB ADDRESS: www.wonthaggisc.vic.edu.au
EMAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]
Community Announcements
WONTHAGGI NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE HOME-WORK CLUB
Wonthaggi Neighbourhood Centre (Mitchell House) has recently started a homework club on a Friday afternoon between 4-5pm in our Harvest Centre Shed. The program has 2 volunteers, one of which is a trained primary school teacher, who have given their time to help students with their homework. We also have older children available to help. We offer help with maths, spelling, reading and projects for any student that needs extra assistance.
There is a $2.00 charge per child to go towards the costs of heat-ing/cooling the room and a light after school snack is also provid-ed.
Contact Mitchell House for further details:
Address: 6 Murray Street, Wonthaggi Victoria 3995
Phone: 03 5672 3731
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