The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter SCHOOL COUNCIL
SCHOOL COUNCIL PRESIDENTS REPORT
Hello all,
As I write this, our Fundraising team is still buzzing from our Mother ’ s Day Breakfast last Friday! What an absolute awesome turnout for a first - time event to celebrate our mothers and special persons in our school community! To give an indication as to the turnout, we estimate over 250 plates of pancakes and 100 coffees were served! A massive thank you to all the mums, grandmothers and special persons who attended. A very special thank you also goes to our Fundraising team ’ s Briohny Voss for all of her organising and legwork in the days beforehand and to parent Grant Voss, Mr Panas, Mr Zull, Ms Spence and Ms Mackenzie who cooked up a storm on the BBQs, cooking hundreds of pancakes. A massive thank you to the many other staff who also helped towards the day from getting in early to help set up; helping out with the topping station; to taking photos, it is appreciated, and the Fundraising team are very thankful for your support. Lastly, I would also like to acknowledge Camp Australia for contributing towards the cost of supplying coffee to ensure it was free of charge to our families. This breakfast is an important step in further engaging our school community and strengthening school pride, both of which align with the core areas of focus in our Strategic Plan. I must also mention that we also had the most successful Mother ’ s Day stall ever on Wednesday 8 May. This year, Council approved to invest more money into the quality of gifts and that paid off with the most gifts ever purchased at the stall. The profit made will go back into the Fundraising revenue to spend on activities for our students. Thank you must go to Josie Benfari and Helen Skendaris who organise and run this stall and the Fathers Day stall each year.
In other news at School Council ’ s most recent meeting on 14 May, we:
• Were presented with a presentation on student literacy and numeracy data by our Leading Teachers in Teaching and Learning, Ms Short and Mr McLean. Our student growth rate and the increasing number of students achieving ‘ exceeding ’ results in these areas across the whole school is impressive and it is exciting to see how that growth/forward trajectory will continue in the future years. • Received an update on the status of our request for directional signage to be erected on Plenty Road as a wayfinding measure to our school; Merriang SDS; and the Collingwood English Language Centre. We are pleased to hear that signs will be placed along Plenty Road at both the Gordons Road and The Lakes Boulevard intersections. School Council acknowledges the work our administration staff have done in being in constant liaison with City of Whittlesea on this initiative. • Were presented with the results of the Department ’ s 2023 - 24 Agreed - Upon Procedures Audit on our school, as part of the Department ’ s Schools Financial Assurance Framework. In simple terms, this audit scrutinises the school ’ s finance procedures and processes. Our overall rating was deemed ‘ Acceptable ’, with some minor issues that have since been corrected.
Endorsed the school ’ s Confirmed Budget for 2024.
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• Heard about a fantastic project our Koori students across the school are working on to celebrate and embed our Indigenous connections. As always, if you have any issues, ideas, questions that you would like raised at our next Council meeting, or any other support, we are more than happy to hear from families so please feel free to send me an email to amanda.farrelly@education.vic.gov.au. Council meets twice per Term on a Tuesday at 5:30pm and visitors and observers are always welcome!
Amanda Farrelly
School Council President
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