Page 3 - Lake Bolac College School Magazine 2015

Principal’s Report

Our year got off to a great start with senior “We have continued our emphasis
students and staff participating in an amazing on high quality literacy and
trip to New Delhi in India to set up a sister school numeracy education”
with G. D. Goenka Public School in Ghaziabad.
We also had an influx of students pushing our During the course of the year the College undertook an extensive
enrolments from 67 to almost 90 and to top it self-evaluation process a College Review was conducted by
all off we came back to school to see that the Pam Toose who spent four days at our school speaking with
secondary school buildings had been reclad students, teachers and parents about how they perceived the
giving the school a much needed face lift. school. As a result of these two processes a new Strategic
plan for 2016-2019 has been established and we are currently
Throughout the year we have continued our emphasis on high finalising a new vision and set of values for the College
quality literacy and numeracy education. The NAPLAN results that will guild us over the coming years.
that have come back this year have shown good growth by
almost all students. I believe that our CAFÉ literacy, Spelling It is an exciting time for the College and I would like to thank all
Mastery and now 7 Steps to Writing Success programs are the staff, students and parents of the College for a fantastic year.
really meeting the needs of our students.
George Porter
The school camps to Halls Gap (grade 1/2/3) Sovereign Hill Principal
(Grade 4/5) Canberra (Year 6/7) and Sydney (Year 8 to 12)
have been a real highlight for students this year and the
Prep Sleep Over is always one of my favourites.

Keeping our students fit and active has been another important
part of our program and this year our whole school P-12
swimming, athletics and cross country carnivals have really
been successful. We have also had a number of students
progressing to district and regional levels. The Dental Van,
Pet Education, Life Ed, Keys Please and Party Safe are just
some of the other programs that we have delivered this
year to support our students overall wellbeing.

The primary and secondary school plays, music concerts, a visit
from the MikMaks and a whole school excursion to see the
Mortlake College CATS production has ensured that our students
continue to have access to many Arts and Cultural experience.

The College and the community have continued to work together
to support local students and families with a wide range of
activities including, Milo Cricket, AusKick, Futsal, Working
Bees, Mother’s day and Father’s day activities, ANZAC services,
welcome BBQ, Pink Stumps day, secondary school information
nights, Gnurad Gundidj Leadership programs, Library visits, and
many more. In a partnership with local government, community
members and College an In Venue Family Day Care facility has
been established at the College and we are looking forward to
offering this much needed child care service next year.

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