PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

REPORTS: What did you think of the new reporting format used when your children brought home their reports on Wednesday?

And what did you think of their actual results? As I mentioned last week, there are no graduations on the new 5 point scale, therefore a child who has almost achieved a B rating will be graded a C. Similarly a student who has “only just” achieved a C will received he same report score.

Parent-Teacher interviews will be arranged as soon as possible after the holidays; stay tuned for times and other arrangements.

SPORTS DAYS: Yes, the wet weather has forced the second postponement of our sports day, which you should have received notification of already.

Our new date is the first Friday back in Term 3, namely Friday 13^th. Let’s hope its 3^rd time lucky!!!

Changes to the Calen district sports dates may yet follow as well. We’ll keep you informed.

LONG SERVICE/HOLIDAYS: I would like to wish everyone a happy and safe mid-year vacation break, and look forward to seeing all our regular families (and some new ones as well) next term, which starts on Tuesday 10^th July

I would also like to wish Helen Taylor and Iris Thomas “happy travelling” as they enjoy some well earned Long Service leave next Term..

SCHOOL NEWS

HAIL CREEK COMPUTER COURSES: I was quite surprised with the response to this course as evidenced by the numbers of community members at Tuesday night’s orientation session.

I have since spoken to the course instructors to confirm and clarify a few points which were raised at this orientation. These are as follows:

Hampden’s courses will run from 6.30 to 9.30 each TUESDAY night, commencing after the vacation on the 10^th July.
Participants can do all 3 courses, or individual courses as suits their needs.
Courses at other cluster venues will operate as follows:

Ø Farleigh – Wednesdays 7 to 10 pm

Ø Calen - Tuesdays 7 to 10 pm

Times are flexible – eg if you are confident in your knowledge/achievements of course requirements, you may leave earlier! If you miss a night due to unexpected circumstances you may catch it up the following week(s), or alternatively attend the Farleigh equivalent night.
We have decided to run classes larger than the recommended sizes due to the significant demand. To cater for this, the money which had been allocated for some participants to receive official certification will be channelled into providing additional workbooks for all group members to use. Participants wishing official certification will now be required to pay $75 fee themselves.
Any other questions will be answered on the 10^th.

PIE DRIVE: The forthcoming holidays will be an ideal time for our upper school students to collect orders for their school camp pie drive.

Please support their fundraising efforts.

PORTERS/YATES COMPETITION:

Unfortunately we weren’t amongst the place-getters this year, however our entry was noteworthy and will be on display at Sports Day.

The whole year 6/7 class have had many useful learning outcomes from this competition.

Thank you to those families who attended the judging to fly the “Hampden Flag”

OPTI-MINDS WORKSHOPS: About 14 of the 6/7 attended the second round of workshops today. I’m sure they gained as much knowledge, experience and enjoyment today as they did a fortnight ago.

Thank-you to Helen Taylor and the parents who have been ale to provide transport on these two occasions.

P & C NEWS

Details have just been provided to the P & C regarding the Footy Bars. We have agreed to supply workers for the middle weekend of the holidays.

As some of our regular “bar tenders” will be away on holidays, it would be great to see some new faces volunteer to give us a hand.

Please phone President Frank (49 540274) if you can assist us with a couple of hours of your ime on one of the following days:

SATURDAY 30 JUNE – 2 bars – 1 to 9 pm

SUNDAY 01 JULY – 2 bars – 10.30am to 6.pm

Congratulations to our last Milestone Award achievers for Semester One:

PERFECT PUPIL

RILEY CRUICKSANKS (80 AWARDS)

HAMPDEN HERO

DEMI CRUICKSHANKS (150 AWARDS)

SUPER STAR

TAMARA PATCHETT (165 AWARDS)

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

A good education is another name for Happiness.

Ann Plato, Educator and Author

Issue no.20, 22nd June 2007

Issue no.20, 22^nd June 2007