Year 8 & 9
Assistant Principal's Report
What an eventful first term we’ve had, and I’m sure many of you will be looking forward to the Easter break and spending time with your families.
The middle years students have been working hard in their classrooms and have received the first of this year’s reports. Parent Teacher conferences were held yesterday and it was good to see many of you there to discuss your child’s progress and set goals for next term.
Lots has been happening outside of the classroom too with Harmony week taking centre stage last week. It was terrific to see all the students celebrating each other’s cultural diversity and sharing cultural experiences such as ceremonial wrist tying and dancing, orche face painting and henna hand tattooing. Most of these activities were student led and our students were consistently demonstrating outstanding leadership qualities.
Our year 7 and 9 students have just completed their NAPLAN assessments in Writing, Reading, Conventions of language and Numeracy. When this data becomes available it is invaluable to our school and teaching staff who use it to plan individual and cohort education plans.
Parent teacher interviews are also occurring at the moment and we really hope that you’ve been able to take the opportunity to come and meet your child’s teachers and discuss their progress.
We hope you all enjoy the Easter break and recharge those batteries ready for next term
Megan Taylor - Assistant Principal Years 8 - 9
Year Level Leader's Report Year 8
The Year 8's have had a great start to the year!
The swimming sports is tomorrow where we hope to see number of students able to show off their swimming abilities. A big thank you to Mr Barker and his team for organising and running a great day.
Our sports captains for year 8 are:
Niamh Byrne - Alkira Clark-Brown - Zephaniah Taufa and Keegan Gaundan 8K. Congratulations to these four students who will be helping out and promoting our school sports and athletics programs.
Attendance is so important for success at school.
A huge effort was made by the following student who were here every single day of term one:
Congratulations to: Sunday ALU, Connor BARROW-BURNETT, Emily Ngun Chin Tial BAWKKHENG, Jayani BHARDWAJ, Deshahn DEANS-TEWHAKAARA, Leo HADZIC, Ywa Blu Doh HTOO, Hserehku HTOO, Ehhserku HTOO, Maley JOK, Nyae Meh KLAW, Nay Blu Say KU, Jennifer (Jenni) KYIPOERAH, Jade LOON, Benjahmin (Benji) MOORE, Nay Thaung NAY THAUNG, Paw Sher Ti PAW SHER TI, Paw Wi PRAY, Julie RAMON, Thinuga RATNAYAKA GAMAGE, Joseph SARUM, Amanda SAY, Anaya SHEORAN, Zing Tha Hnem THAWNG THAWNG, Duy Khanh (Khanh) TONG, and Jasmine WONG.
These students received an attendance award at the year 8 assembly.
Swati VEERAPPA, Moon DYSON and Lucas OWEN are our student representative council members and have been fabulous at discussing upcoming events with our class captains. Our SRC members were welcomed in assembly and received their SRC badges.
At year 8 we have many opportunities for leadership, a massive hat off to the following students who have put their names forward to be class captains and succeeded:
8A Elvina Soloamana
8B Harlie Roberts & Hannah Mckay
8C Ekomvir Singh & Gaurika Gupta
8D Kobi Dumbleton
8E Rory Palmoria & Layderya Moo
8F Lisa Masoe
8G Beatrice Ntango & Anifa Mitungi
8H Tate Hammer
8J Jobe Bennet
8K Maley Jok
These students received their captain badges in assembly. All of our year 8 school leaders were able to attend a whole day work shop with YLead to enhance their leadership skills.
The year 8 team would like to wish everybody a very happy Easter and a safe holidays.
I’d like to thank the year 8 team for supporting the cohort. Everyday I am humbled by the effort and dedication that our staff show is supporting the educational, social and emotional needs of students.
We look forward to supporting you child/children throughout their time at Wyndham Central College.
Allan Nilsen - Year 8 Year Level Leader
andreas.nilsen@education.vic.gov.au
Year Level Leader's Report Year 9
Year 9’s have been very busy over the last nine weeks! I cannot believe it is already the end of term.
They sat their last ever NAPLAN test on Friday. They all worked incredibly well throughout the past two weeks and have all strived to do their best.
Our class captains have been voted on, selected and elected, congratulations to the following students:
9A – Samantha Raka 9B – Eva Bricknell
9C – Lilyana Lopez 9D – Harley Nisbet
9E – Esther Vahamulwa 9F – Lexyana Vaofusi and Brandon Toull
9G – Alicia Kunoo 9H – Feneti Ibrahim and Leon King
9J – Madison Wright 9S – Jacob Bohan
Earlier this term Year 9's also elected their Student Representatives Council members and have entrusted Tondan Nyugen, Franklin Ochi and Sofia Nan Soe Yadanar. Congratulations Tondan, Franklin and Sofia, you will all do a marvellous job representing our cohort.
We have also celebrated students who have demonstrated our school values and our cohort focus through our weekly “Student of the Week” award. We have had our students focusing on arriving to class on time and prepared, preparing for their CATs (by completing our Cornell Notes, asking for feedback and participating in class) and our interactions with others.
In our Tutor lessons we have been building our organisational skills and building a sense of community within each of our tutor groups.
I sincerely hope the year 9's have a restful break and come back ready for a jam-packed Term 2!
Amelia Coster - Acting Year 9 Year Level Leader