Information Evening 2022

On Monday April 4, we will be holding our annual Information Evening for prospective 2023 students. It is an evening that we thoroughly enjoy as a college as it offers an opportunity for Newcomb Secondary College to showcase all that is great about the college to future students and their families.

Transition Program 2022

Over the course of Term 1, we have been fortunate enough to once again have an opportunity to welcome our feeder school students back into Newcomb Secondary College. This is a fantastic opportunity for those primary school students in grades 3-6 to share in our facilities, take part in our learning programs and experience life at a secondary school. It is priceless to see the rich learning in action and the wonderful smiles on the faces of the primary school students participating in the program. Thus far we have, or will have welcomed students from Newcomb Park, Leopold, Tate Street, and Whittington Primary Schools. 

College Council

The March meeting of Council took place last Thursday evening. 

At the Annual General Meeting, Assistant Principal Mr Scott McLeod presented the 2021 Annual Report. Thank you to Mr McLeod and Ms Young for their work in completing the report.

We thanked the outgoing executive: President: Mr Mick Graham, Vice President: Mrs Cassie Clift, Treasurer: Mr Scott McLeod and Secretary: Ms Alison Woodard.

We co-opted Student Leader Bailey and parent Mick Graham as Community Members and welcomed new student Cooper. We then elected a new executive. Congratulations to Mr Mick Graham who was re-elected as President, Mrs Geraldine Dafter who was elected as Vice-President, Mr Scott McLeod who was re-elected as Treasurer and Mrs Alison Woodard who was re-elected as Secretary. In summary, the following people make up the 2022/23 Newcomb Secondary College Council.

Parent Representatives

Maryanne Cleasby, Angela Hancocks, Kerry O’Hara, Geraldine Dafter, Alison Woodard

DET Representatives

James Murphy, Scott McLeod, Tansy Young, Phil Walker

Student Representative

Riley Cameron, Cooper Rowbottom

Community Representatives

Cassie Clift, Mick Graham, Bailey French

Executive Officer

Phil Honeywell

The first meeting of the new Council followed with some discussions on our uniform supplier, Information Evening and the mobile phone policy.

Phil Honeywell, Principal
Scott McLeod, Assistant Principal
James Murphy, Assistant Principal

Clean Up Australia Day
Written by Kiara Flakemore

On Friday the 18^th of March the VCAL students participated in Clean up Australia Day. We started off at Limeburner’s Point and finished off at Eastern beach. We all split off into 4 small groups and went our separate ways. The weather started off great but soon turned terrible with rain, the whole class got soaking wet on our walk back to the buses. We all collected quite a lot of rubbish. My group found a lot of empty drink containers, cigarette butts and loose plastics.

We had a member of the public come up to us and ask us if it was Clean up Australia today, I said no it wasn’t it was on the 6th March but our school is doing it today to help keep the community clean and tidy and to help clean up rubbish instead of letting it go in the ocean and hurt our poor animals. Overall, I think we did a good job to collect as much rubbish as we could in the short time we had. We could have gotten more if the rain didn’t have a mind of its own and stopped us. Clean Up Australia Day is a great cause and I’m very proud to be one of the people to help and protected the environment. 

Even if you can’t clean up you can donate and that will help out a lot. 

Here is some feedback from a few of our staff and students on how the day went.

Bella B – “I think today was successful and fun, we worked productively as a group and the only thing that turned out negatively was the weather. We got rained on but still stayed positive throughout the day.”

Tahlia B – “Today was a great day, I had heaps of fun with my group, we picked up a lot of rubbish which was great, but we did see some really gross and smelly stuff. We had a great experience helping our environment.”

Georga D – “Today we picked up a lot of rubbish for our environment. All the small groups got a lot of rubbish, I felt like it went really well and we all put the effort in to tidy up the area. We did the best we could do with the weather conditions.”

Ms Mary – “I thought the day went very well. All the students who attended got involved and were picking up rubbish. Despite the rain, students stayed positive and happy.”

Mark Smith Author Talk
Written by Ruby-Rose

On the 15th of March the Year 9 students got the amazing opportunity to talk with the author of the road to winter trilogy (The road to winter, Wilder country, Land of fences) by Mark Smith. The students were able to get inciting knowledge from the author himself. He spoke about his journey of becoming an author, and about his feelings regarding the books supplied by the school's curriculum. The year 9’s asked thought provoking questions that helped them get an insight on not only his process of writing the books, but also the themes in the book.
Ruby-Rose

Our intermediate tennis team showing resilience and dedication yesterday, practicing in conditions that weren’t ideal!

Apollonian Gaskets and Fractals from Class 73 late last week (also known as fun Maths drawings!)

The year 9/10 Food class whipped up a delicious Honey & Lemon Chicken stir fry on Wednesday 16th March.

As part of his Certificate II in Engineering Studies, Bailey has been offered a regular work placement at one of our industry partners - Barwon Health Biomed team.

This team maintains all the medical equipment at University Hospital, the Grace McKellar Centre plus many other regional locations.

On his recent visit Bailey, who has an interest in mechanical engineering, got to meet the manager and the team members and see various examples of medical equipment that they maintain and was shown where his desk will be when he commences his “on the job” work placement this week.

Thanks again to Tung the manager and his team for their ongoing support of our Program.

This year the Year 7 beach day at Ocean Grove was run on Friday 18th March. All year 7 groups were graced with some incredibly unpredictable weather; overcast, heavy rain and concluding with some amazing sunshine.

The day was designed for our year 7 students to have fun, get to know each other a little better and try something new. The activities on offer were: Surfing, Beach Games, Beach walk and a BBQ lunch.

Strong swell meant that plenty of students were given a push for a fabulous surfing experience. Mr Amer, Mr Goward, Miss Hill and Miss Osborne were the expert instructors giving the kids the confidence to venture out into the surf. We are happy to announce that among the year 7 cohort we had some students who were able to stand up all the way to the shore. Well done!

Mr Unmack’s Great Beach Games were a great success, despite some heavy rain. Students participated in a variety of activities which involved jenga, tennis ball catapult, treasure hunt for letters to create an unknown word and a “hole in my bucket” activity along with several other fun challenges.

All students had a great time, with their Home Groups teachers; Mr Klingberg, Ms Wray and Mr Curnick. They were treated with food and beverages, including snags that were cooked to perfection and the soft drink cans were nice and cold.

Thanks to Mr Klingberg, Mr Amer, Mr Goward, Ms Wray, Mr Curnick, Mr Unmack, Ms Hill, Ms Osborne, Ms Muir, Ms Packer and Mr Pugliese for helping make Beach Day great.

Some quotes about the day:

It was extraordinary because not all schools get to do it and experience the day. - By April

The surfing was the best. By Hamish

I liked the beach walk. By Celeste

It was fun trying to stand up surfing and then falling down. By Bree

Mr Bamford

Hello everyone! I am very excited to begin my new role in Attendance Support here at Newcomb Secondary College. I am Geelong born and bred and am a proud former Newcomb Secondary College student; I am thrilled to be back!

Since graduating in 2014 I have studied teaching at Deakin, worked in education support and in disability support. I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, going to the beach, yoga, travelling and cooking, and I am also very passionate about health and wellbeing and nutrition.

I would like to thank the staff, students and families for the warm welcome and support, and I’m looking forward to working with you all throughout this year.

SCHOOL PHOTOS – 2022

Our annual school photos have been taken and are now ready to order.

Arthur Reed Photos uses an online ordering system where you can view your photos prior to ordering.

On photo day all students received a flyer which includes a code unique to them.

You will require this 2022 code to register online and view your photos.

If you have already registered, you will receive an email or SMS from Arthur Reed Photos with a link to view your photos.

If you have not yet registered, please go to order.arphotos.com.au and enter your code to complete your order.

If you have misplaced your registration code, please contact the Arthur Reed Photos customer service team directly on 5243 439 (option 1) or customerservice@arphotos.com.au

Please note that you will need to register online with your 2022 photo code to gain access to this year’s images.

All photo packages will be sent directly to your nominated address, so please ensure that you enter the correct details and nominated shipping address upon checkout.

If you require any assistance ordering your photos, please contact Arthur Reed Photos directly on 5243 4390 (option 1) or email customerservice@arphotos.com.au

There are many opportunities to sign up for sport in 2022. Please log into our Google sheet and put your name down for any sports you may be interested in. Additionally, there is a how-to video, explaining the process for Sport sign-up, and Team Play!

Opportunities in Term 2 include:
Intermediate Football
Year 8 Boys Football, Soccer
Year 8 Girls, Netball, Badminton 
Year 8 Boys, Badminton
Year 7 Soccer, Badminton
Year 7 Boys Football
Year 7 Girls Netball
Years 7 & 8 Boys Netball
Years 7 & 8 Girls Football

Go Seahorses

Corey Bell

Geelong Miniature Railway is a Not For Profit Charity group and is kindly supported by the Corio/Norlane Lions Club.
Both Clubs have come together to run a portable track system, that will raise funds for a permanent fixed railway and family park, within the Geelong region.
With additional funds from both projects being distributed among charitable organisations within our region.
We are looking for interested students aged from 16 years, who are interested in learning Miniature Railway Operations, Engineering, Drafting Fabrication, Management skills and much more.
Membership of Members between 16 and 18 years, must be accompanied by a full membership of a guardian.
Any member over the age of 18 years must hold a current Working With Children Card.
If you would prefer we can speak at your assembly.

Richard Walter
Secretary
GMRI
Lions Club of Corio Norlane

Geelong United Basketball (GUB) are running a social junior Basketball competition for school aged kids. 

When: Thursday Evenings between 4:30pm and 6:30pm

Where: At any of the GUB Affiliated Venues (will changes week to week)

Who For: We currently have 4 competitions for different age groups as below. Players don’t need to be from the same school, just in the right school grade.

Prep – Grade 2 - Mixed

Grades 3 & 4 - Mixed

Grade 5 & 6 – Mixed

Grade 7 & 8 – Boys and Girls

We can also work along side schools that would like to use this as an extracurricular activity for their students.

For more information, please contact us on the below email or phone number.

Admin@geelongunitedbasketball.com.au | (03) 5277 1388