Strathbogie Campus

2nd December 2016

Things to look forward to:

5-9 Dec Working Bee Week

6 Dec Transition Day & 8am Campus Meeting

13 Dec Year 6 Graduation night

15 Dec Bogie Presentation Night 5.30 pm

16 Dec Whole School Pool Party, Violet Town

20 Dec Last Day of 2016! 2.30pm finish.

25 Dec Merry Christmas, everyone.

26 Jan Australia Day ceremony * Students involved

28 Jan Working Bee 9-11am

Student of

the week

The student of the week in Mrs Eadie’s

room is Bridget, for using the word

PENULTIMATE for a step in her procedural

writing—”How to make hot chocolate”.

What a WOW word!

The student of the week in Miss Hanby’s

room is Charlie, for always being optimis-

tic and approaching work with a smile on

her face.

The Christmas end of year celebration reply slips are beginning to come through—thank you to those who have

indicated how many people will be coming and whether you are bringing a salad or dessert. It will be a special

night as we will be farewelling several people and families. Libby Ahern is retiring from her position as MARC

van teacher. Terry Frewin is also retiring from her role as Strathbogie campus office administrator. There is

Helen and Ben to farewell, as well as the McDonald, Middleton, Russell and Richards families. The year 6 stu-

dents have a special performance for their last concert and we have some fabulous musical items planned.

Thank you to Caltex, Merton, for the donation of disposable coffee cups, com-

plete with lids. These will be very useful for future fundraising events.

Stephanie’s exciting news is that she is expecting a baby in March. Her return

date has yet to be determined. Congratulations from us all!

The last visit from MARC van was an exciting one as

the children finished listening to a reading of The

Twits, then made a model of Mrs Twit’s eye out of

chocolate crackle, sultanas and icing. Trust Libby to

make her last session with the children a memorable one for the

children! On behalf of all staff and students, past and present,

thank you Libby for your work, your smile, your passion. We im-

agine you will be busier than ever in your retirement, making all

those dreams that have been on the back burner come true.

Cleaning Roster—if you cannot make your day please arrange a swap and let us know.

Monday

5th Green & Yellow Bins

Tuesday

6th

Wednesday

7th

Thursday

8th

Friday

9th

Miller Miller Chapman Cleaner Cleaner

If you’re not willing to learn, no-one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no-one can stop you.

What a sweet place the school has been this week. On Wednesday, the students put on their ‘quality control’ hats

to taste and evaluate chocolates with different percentages of cacao in them, then made lovely samples to take

home. Thank you Juana and Cindy for organising this tasty science experience for the kids and slaving over a hot

bain marie. It made a GREAT segue into the next day’s activity. Juana, you are a natural teacher!

On Wednesday evening, the students were very excited to be part of the Euroa Secondary College 2016 Grand

Concert at Strathbogie Hall. The Bogie kids joined in with singing Archie Roach’s “We won’t cry”, and Stephanie’s

students performed on piano and guitar. Also, thanks go to Ethne and Ruth for directing/accompanying the chil-

dren’s rendition of “It’s Raining”. It was a FANTASTIC night of entertainment. Thank you to parents who catered

for this event. The pizza and cakes were scrumptious.

On Thursday, the whole school enjoyed an incursion via Polycom about chocolate. Linking up with an Education

Officer from the Botanic Gardens in Sydney, students learned more about where cacao is grown, how it is farmed,

and finally how chocolate is manufactured.

This week in Mrs Eadie’s room, we learned about how maths is used to gather and organise data. We sur-

veyed the class about their favourite lolly treat and presented this information in a graph. Never has a lesson

been participated in with such enthusiasm. The students have been busy writing farewell notes to leaving

staff—a great, authentic reason to write neatly and spell accurately. Other purposeful writing involved writing

the method for making hot chocolate. Another delicious task. In reading lessons, groups of students read infor-

mation about different treats and reported back to the class, an exercise in reading for meaning and summaris-

ing. Sweet!

Delving into the science of sound, we made string telephones, demonstrating that sound can travel through ma-

terials other than air. Has anyone else played the screaming game underwater in the pool?

To our surprise, not ALL

tastings were as ex-

pected. Here Georgina

tries 90%dark

chocolate.

Miss Ethne Green (B. Music Education) is offering piano lessons to students from 7 yrs old, beginning in Term

1 of 2017. With over 30 years experience in music education, Miss Green brings a wide perspective to

piano tuition. Lessons are $25 per half hour.

For further information, please contact by phone (0408 287 976) or email (ethne.green@bigpond.com)

This week has been full of fun in the Senior Room. We have been finishing off units of work in Maths, comparing students own data to that of Usain Bolt's through the 100m as well as our Christmas Tradi-tions unit. Our novel, "Wonder" is in the last half now, and students are seeing how different perspec-tives can affect a situation. Changing feelings towards characters in the book are occurring as the dif-ferent perspectives are being read out, challenging the students to see the bigger picture. The students absolutely loved the chocolate tasting on Wednesday. Thanks again to Juana for setting that up, the students had an absolute blast. Also, the Chocolate Webinar was very informative, with the students learning lots about how chocolate is made.

Euroa Secondary College 2016 Concert

Including our very own Bogie students singing as a choir and play-

ing individually. Wade even ‘air’ played! He’s such a groover.

Charli

strums the

guitar

Cool,

man!

Singing Archie Roach’s song

“We won’t cry”.

Learning via Poly-

com…. Connecting

to the Sydney Bo-

tanic Gardens Ed-

ucation Centre to

learn all about the

‘sixth food group’

CHOCOLATE!