BAYVIEW Newsletter a ISSUE 1 Monday 1 February www.bayview.vic.edu.au
Message from the Principal A special word of welcome to all of our new students and their families. We look forward to forging strong and lasting relationships with you as together we support your children on their life-journey at Bayview College. To our existing families, we look forward to welcoming you back to a new chapter in the lives of your sons and daughters – one in which we trust that they will continue to grow in knowledge, and in Christ and His plan for their lives. As we begin 2016 I thought it would be worthwhile to spend a little time reviewing where we have come from as a platform for what you would like to see your children achieve this year. We have developed a strong reputation for excellent pastoral care and positive behaviour management. This is based on strong, resilient teacher-pupil relationships and provides us with the capacity to provide each young person with a positive, encouraging learning environment under-pinned by high expectations of each student to achieve to the best of his or her abilities.
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Principals Message Life changing experience motivates two young Portlanders Camp provides a unique educational adventure First-round offers end nervous wait for students How you can volunteer at Bayview College
Header Photo: Congratulations to 2015 Alumni Angela Bennett who was recognised for her contribution to the community by receiving the 2016 Glenelg Shire Young Citizen of the year.
Newsletter circulation Please note that the Bayview College newsletter will now be published monthly. Student diaries, website and our facebook page will keep you up to date on important upcoming events
Our dedicated Staff has put in many hours of Professional Learning, planning and preparation for all of our learning programs and this should provide you, our parents and students with confidence in Bayview College as a provider of academic excellence and rigor. There is no doubt that Bayview College provides an excellent academic program but, by itself and without the commitment of each individual student, success will be limited. We need every student to own their responsibility for their learning and this process begins in the quietness of your home when you discuss these issues and help your son or daughter to set realistic goals for the year ahead. I appeal to you to ensure that you allocate some good, quality time to this process in the first few days of school. Encourage your son or daughter to write out exactly what they intend to achieve and keep these goals somewhere where they are visible and can be regularly referred to throughout the year. Be sensitive to setting goals that are either too ambitious or not ambitious enough. Goals that are clearly out of reach for a particular child can only lead to heartbreak and disillusionment when they are not achieved and Goals that are not ambitious enough will merely set the child up to ‘cruise.’ Good goals ensure significant, incremental change throughout the year. The setting and achievement of meaningful goals is a life habit that can only benefit a young person in their future lives. The Goal-setting process that you undertake at home will be reinforced and supported during discussions that staff have with students over the coming weeks.
Best performing Secondary School in the South West Weekend Australian “yourschool” report June 20-21 2015
We look forward to working with you and your son or daughter this year as they learn, grow and experience success. Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself That one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt