Sixteen Primary children competed at Dimboola, They all ran well ...

Well done to all of our Cross Country runners, both secondary and primary
students over the past 2 weeks who have been representing the school. The
course at Dimboola is a tough one and well done to Joe who came in first for
the WSSSA zone and 2 nd in the Wimmera regional championships and Eliza
who came 5 th in the Wimmera Region.
A number of school camps are coming up soon and through some
additional drought funding from the Federal Government, we have been able to
hold down the cost of this year’s camps. We hope that this can assist parents
trying to juggle finances. Please remember that school camps can be paid off
but we need to have made arrangements well ahead of the camp so all of the
payments can be completed by the time the camp arrives. Please contact the
school if you need to organise a payment system.
Last week I had the opportunity to hear a number of schools speak about
how they have managed improvements in their school’s data and how schools
are improving teaching and learning in their classrooms. We have already
adopted a number of ideas across our school and this year we are scheduled to
review the school’s past 3 years’ performance. Observing our data, we have
shown improvements in our school across a number of areas over the three
years but would like to achieve even better results and we will be aiming to set
new targets later this year in the development of a new strategic plan for the
future.
Congratulations to Leading Senior Constable Jim Richardson and the
Advance students for the article in Sunday’s Herald Sun newspaper. It is a credit
to Jim and his work with the young people in our region that we do have very
little juvenile crime in this area. Jim works with our students, not only in Advance
but with primary classes on general safety, with our year 10’s in Driver
Education, with secondary students on drug education, with all students and
parents on cyber-safety. He works with a number of other regional schools as
well as ours and the school and, according to the statistics, the region certainly
benefit from the time he dedicates to our students.
Joy Forbes
For anyone wishing to place a notice in the newsletter, could they please
email it to me by Tuesday 1pm.
My email is:
mulraney.michele.d@edumail.vic.gov.au
Many Thanks, Michele