Important Dates To Remember Monday 27th August Curriculum Day- No students required at school

Tuesday 28th August Hobsons Bay Division Athletics

Tuesday 28th August Book Week

Friday 31st August Book Week Parade Grades Prep, 1 & 2

Wednesday 29th August Leadership Dinner

Friday 31st August Romeo & Juliet- Year 10 English

Tuesday 18th September Parent Teacher Interviews- 2pm to 7pm

Learning, Belonging, Succeeding! Our school has remarkable students! This week I have been visiting many classes recently and chatting with lots of student at their break times. I have been listening to ideas and asking lots of questions. From Prep to Year 12 students each day are being shown how to do things like how to reason, connect ideas, pose questions, have deeper understandings, use words effectively, solve problems, develop skills and how to use teacher and peer feedback to improve their learning. I am seeing students persevere, continue on task and increase their effort. As we know, we have a common model of instruction called IMPACT, where each lesson, students have a learning goal, a hook, then there’s connection to their prior knowledge and adding new understandings and or skills through saying, doing, making, reading, writing, creating, applying, analysing, identifying similarities and differences, solving, questioning. Students face challenge, cultivating their understanding through practice and application and towards the end of the hour lesson, have time for review and feedback to support the next steps in their learning. Teachers learn more about this model during our Curriculum Days. Our culture is more about trust, respect and relationship as we encourage student effort and learning. We continue to use a range of activities and strategies with students to guild on their strengths and to enable them to regulate their emotions. All staff are taking more care with ‘what we say’ and ‘how we say it’. We want our students to hear more helpful, respectful and encouraging messages from teachers and education support staff and each other and feel a sense of belonging with the class as they become more effective learners. As we know, our school values of ‘Learning-Belonging-Succeeding’ drive our work and remind us of what our school does. This is very

important for our students as teachers act as both role model and support for students. We work with our students every day to build their capacity to be more resilient, have more positive coping mechanisms and develop their skills to be more effective learners. Building on our student’s strengths, teaching them skills and ways of thinking, our students should become more successful. Our current data shows growth in student learning and improvement in the level of achievement. We have more students at, and above, the expected level of achievement and fewer students below the expected level. All of our staff spend time doing lots of planning together to have our students do those things that are more effective and have greater positive impact on their learning. The tasks students do matter and we are trying to make those learning tasks more challenging and interesting. Thank you for your support and assistance to make sure your child attends school each day. We want all students to be safe at school, to enjoy school and to be learning. These three things can often be higher when students have friends in the class, when they like the subject and enjoy the things they are asked to do in class. Please let your child’s teacher know if you notice your child is reluctant to attend school and we can look at ways to support you and your child. As always, your feedback on anything here at school is welcome…please feel free to make a call, send an email or have a chat. A reminder we have Parent-Teacher interviews in Week 10 (Tuesday 18th September) and please make use of this time to meet with your child’s teacher to talk about their progress. You don’t have to wait till this time to speak to your child’s teacher: all staff are happy to listen chat through any concerns you may have. Richard Jones College Principal

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

laverton.p12.co@edumail.vic.gov.au www.lavertonp12college.vic.edu.au

Contact Details: 91 Bladin Street

Laverton Vic 3028 Phone: 9369 1833

Fax: 9369 4104

College Newsletter

Thursday 23rd August, 2018

Issue No: 8

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS - CONFERENCES

This semester, Laverton P – 12 College, will be using Compass for booking Parent Teacher Interviews. On Compass, Parent Teacher Interviews are called ‘Conferences’. To make a booking you will need to log into your family account. Parent Teacher Interviews are not available yet, we would like to make sure families have access to compass early as so they can make bookings using the ‘App’ or ‘Website’. In term 2 letters were sent home advising of your log in details. If you have lost your details or forgotten your password: you can recover your details by clicking the 'Can't access your account?' link on the login page, or call the school to reset your password.

“CurioUS Excursion”

“On Wednesday the 15th of August, a team of students

attended a meeting with the Centre of Multicultural

Youth (CMY) and two other schools which were

Lyndhurst Secondary College and Mt Alexander

College. The focus of the meeting was to work with

CMY and the school to promote inclusion and battle

bullying through a program known as CurioUS.

The Laverton team consists of Nhu Phan (Year 9),

Manyang Mabok (Year 9), Umnia Hassalballa (Year 8),

Meeyah Hemi (Year 8), Charlize Morgan (Year 7) and

Soundoss Elmir (Year 7) and were accompanied by

Wellbeing Staff; Alice Throp and Chris Singh.

We’re looking forward to making Laverton P12 College

a more inclusive and safe place for our students and

staff members.” - Nhu Phan 9

SPORT

The grade 9/10 girls participated in the Laverton district inter school Soccer tournament. The girls did very well and emerged Runner up. They were level on points with the top team, only to lose out due to inferior goal difference. Well done! Mr Chelvan

YEAR 10 ART EXCURSION

MoMA@NGV

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary art. Its comprehensive collection attracts more than 3,000,000 visitors annually. Showcasing MoMA’s multi-disciplinary approach to collecting and the breadth of its collection, the exhibition display features works drawn from the Museum’s six curatorial departments: Architecture and Design, Drawings and Prints, Film, Media and Performance Art, Painting and Sculpture, and Photography. MoMA at NGV explores the emergence and development of major art movements, and represent more than 130 years of radical artistic innovation. The exhibition also reflects the wider technological, social and political developments that transformed society during this period, from late nineteenth century urban and industrial transformation, through to the digital and global present. The exhibition explores the deep-seated connections between twentieth-century art and design practice, with a particular focus on developments that shaped Europe in the 1920s and ’30s and the globalised world of the 1960s and ’70s.

DISCOVER, EXPLORE, CREATE NEWS

We were lucky enough to visit this exhibition with 4 classes of students during 2 excursions. The exhibition was enjoyed by all. It was a valuable experience as an exhibition like this will most likely not be repeated for a long time. We strongly recommend a visit to this exhibition for all family members.

Kind Regards Aida Hadzikadic Joe Dowling Visual Arts

BOOK WEEK – THE FUN WEEK

By Grade 3B The Theme of our Book Week this year is The Treasure Within .On The 27th August to the 31st of August the students at Laverton P-12 College will be celebrating Book Week to find the treasures within each of us. On Tuesday 28th August the students will be rotating around classes to enjoy art experiences relating to some of the Shortlisted Books. The classes will be mixed with students from Prep to Grade Three together. After the rotations there will be a Drama Performance by actors visiting our school and the theme of that performance will be “Finding the Treasure Within” This performance will be free for the students in the P-6. During the week students will visit the Library to choose a book to take home and keep. We will also be voting for the book we liked best from the short listed books. Grade 3A and 3B students have published their own books in the last few weeks. They will be reading these books to the Preps and there will be prizes for their books they have published as well. There will be a Book Week Parade on Friday the 31st August at 9:30 where students will show how they have dressed as their favourite character. We are hoping that students become lifelong learners, and that the short listed books inspire children and their parents to enjoy literature and reading for their life time. Book Week is an exciting way for students to find their treasures within themselves and to enjoy the quality short listed books. We hope the inspiration of Book Week helps students and parents enjoy books and start the adventure of reading every day.

THE HUDDLE – STUDY SUPPORT Our Study Support Programs provides free one-on-one and group tutoring by highly qualified tutors, a quiet and safe study space and free internet use to students aged between 12 and 18. LOCATIONS AND TIMES: • Tuesdays between 4pm and 7pm at The Huddle Wyndham

(Chirnside Park, 150-226 Watton Street, Werribee) • Wednesdays between 3:30pm and 5:30pm at Wyndham Community & Education Centre (Level 1, 20 Synnot St, Werribee - enter via Duncans Road entrance).

HOMEWORK CLUB Wyndham Community & Education Centre are holding Homework Club for students from Years 2 – 11. For more information and session times, please email

info.equaled@gamil.com

How to increase self–awareness

Developing self–awareness is a great way of learning more about yourself and what you’re capable of. Why does it matter, you ask? Because by practicing self–awareness, you open up opportunities that you may not have recognised before. There are some great ways you can work on your self–awareness, but what you do next is entirely up to you. With self–awareness, the world is your oyster. Self–awareness is really just about being aware of who we are. It can relate to knowing your own values, your beliefs, personal preferences and tendencies. Because we are all different in the way we react to things, it can be really helpful to start thinking about how we work best, including things like › How we learn best › Our talents and abilities › Personality traits › Political beliefs › Values Why does it matter? You know how famous people always say “Stay true to yourself”? This is actually really important advice, but

it’s not easy to stay true to yourself if you don’t know who you are. By becoming self–aware and understanding your strengths and limitations, you open up opportunities that just aren’t available if you don’t know who you are. You’re also able to have more honest and genuine relationships because the people that you’re attracted to will be attracted to you for who you actually are. So how can I work on it? 1. Assess your self–talk. The first step in self–awareness is to listen to ourselves. What’s going on in your mind? Is it a series of negative thoughts that make you feel pretty crap? Or are you always looking on the bright side? In practice – Take a couple of minutes each day to just sit in silence and listen to what you’re thinking. One way of getting your inner voice going is to stand in front of a mirror and hear what you’re saying to yourself about how you look. It might even help to write down your thoughts so you can get a better idea of how positive or negative they are. 2. Use your senses. Our senses (sight and sound in particular) provide us with a huge insight into the world, ourselves, other people and situations. But these senses are often viewed through a filter of our own self talk. For example, a frown does not always mean someone’s angry, someone groaning doesn’t mean you’re boring – but, when our mind is determining how we see things it can be easy to start feeling hurt. In practice – Next time you feel like someone was judging you or has made you feel bad about yourself, take a step back and write down why you thought this. Ask yourself, could these actions have been interpreted differently? You might actually find that your interpretation was clouded by your own negative thoughts. 3. Get your feeling’s out. This can be hard if you’re not the kind of person who likes to think too deeply about your feelings, but it can be really worthwhile. Our feelings are spontaneous and emotional responses to the things we experience. Like our senses, they give us good information about what’s going on around us. Sometimes it can be hard to tune into feelings, but there are a couple of physical signs that you can look for which might help. Some examples include; › A warm feeling in your face might mean you’re embarrassed › A feeling of ‘butterflies’ in your tummy can mean you’re nervous › Clenching your teeth might mean you’re angry In practice – Look out for physical signs which might indicate how you’re feeling. By engaging with how you’re feeling, you can get a better insight into what you like, what makes you uncomfortable and what makes you angry.

HEALTH & WELLBEING

What next? These are just first steps. There are heaps of others way you can become more self–aware but give these a try and see how you go. You can also check out mindfulness factsheets about how this might help you get to know yourself better. You’re already somewhat self–aware because you’ve read this fact sheet! Delve deeper into it and see what you can find out about yourself. We’re stuck with ourselves for the rest of our lives, so we might as well get to know the real you. And as the famous people always say “Stay true to yourself”!

References and further information: www.reachout.com.au Michelle Hynson Secondary School Health Promotion Nurse Thursday and Friday.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING AT THE WILLIAMSTOWN HOSPITAL OPPORTUNITY SHOP? Have you got a spare 4 hours a week or fortnight to help your local community? Are you interested in helping Western Health raise money for Williamstown Hospital in our retail store on Ferguson Street? Would you like to be part of a well-recognised, award winning volunteer Western health program and join the diverse, committed volunteer retail team? If so, please contact Fiona Halse Coordinator of Volunteers (Williamstown ) on 0401 684 977

Learning. Belonging. Succeeding.

PREP 2019 ENROLMENT

DON’T FORGET TO HAND IN YOUR ENROLMENT FORMS

TO LAVERTON COLLEGE P-12 ASAP

TRANSITION DATES 20TH NOV, 27TH NOV & 4th DEC

Enrolments are now being accepted for children starting Prep in 2019.

Please contact the school on 9369 1833 for an enrolment pack.

When you are thinking a about school for your child or children, Laverton College P-12 has much to

offer. You are welcome to make a time to visit our school, get a feel for what we do and walk through

our learning spaces and facilities. At Laverton College P-12, we focus on student growth,

development and achievement. At all levels of the

College, students focus on identifying their personal

strengths, setting goals and aiming to achieve their

personal best.

Dear Business Owner / Property Owner,

Off-peak and weekend road closures at Kororoit Creek Road

Works to remove the Kororoit Creek Road Level Crossing and partially duplicate the Altona Loop are almost complete.

Now that the level crossing has been removed, our construction team is completing architectural features on the bridges and the finishing touches around the bridges with a new road surface, paths and landscaping.

Activities taking place

Installation of architectural screen on bridge structures

Removal of old tracks

Road resurfacing works, drainage and landscaping

What to expect

To allow works to be undertaken safely, Kororoit Creek Road and Racecourse Road will be temporarily closed at the level crossing:

Each night (7.30pm to 6am) from Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September and from Friday 7 September to Sunday 9 September

All weekend (day and night) from 7.30pm Friday 21 September to 6am Monday 24 September

How this will affect you

Vehicles travelling on Kororoit Creek Road and Racecourse Road will be detoured via Millers Road, Mason Street and Maddox Road (see map overleaf).

Electronic road signage and traffic management staff will be in place around the area to assist motorists and cyclists.

You may notice noise and light from machinery and equipment operating during the works, including at night.

Rail commuters should note that there may also be disruptions to rail services during these works. For the latest information on all disruptions, please visit levelcrossings.vic.gov.au/disruptions. Access to local businesses will be maintained throughout the works.

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we make these important improvements to our transport infrastructure. If you have any questions about these works or the project, please contact us on 1800 105 105 or at contact@levelcrossings.vic.gov.au 24 hours a day.

Kind regards,

Level Crossing Removal Project – Kororoit Creek Road

CONTACT US SeaholmeStationCivic ParadeRacecourse RoadMillers RoadCherry LakePort Phillip BayMcIntosh RoadKororoit Creek RoadRoss RoadMason StreetMaddox

RoadBlenheim RoadHansen StreetMills StreetMillers RoadMillers RoadKororoit CreekTEMPORARY CLOSURESAltona Coastal Park Altona Road Paisley Park

Translation service – For languages other than English, please call 9280 0780. Please contact us if you would like this information in an accessible

format. If you need assistance because of a hearing or speech impairment, please visit relayservice.gov.au @levelcrossings Kororoit Creek

Road and Racecourse Road closures