The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter SCHOOL COUNCIL
SCHOOL COUNCIL REPORT
AMANDA FARRELLY SCHOOL COUNCIL PRESEDENT
Dear Families,
Like many of you are probably thinking, it is hard to believe we are almost half - way through the school year, and Melbourne winter has finally arrived after an unusually warm May. Many of our families and staff have been struck down with the flu and colds in recent weeks, so hoping everyone is resting up and feeling better soon! Thank you to all of our families who were able to attend our Education Week Open Day on May 21. Our Leadership Team are committed and focused on improving our school - family learning partnership and this initiative is important in achieving that goal. Lastly, best of luck to our students sitting the VCE General Achievement Test (GAT) next Tuesday.
At School Council ’ s most recent meeting on 20 May, we:
• Noted the decrease in parent/carer attendance at the Learner Review Meetings for both campuses in Term 1 and discussed possible reasons to understand the barriers and then strategies on how to re - engage with parents to attend. If parents/carers have feedback as to why they choose not to attend, we would love to hear from you!
• Endorsed the option of bringing forward the BYOD laptop program to Year 5 (currently Year 7).This will ensure students are “ laptop - ready ” when they get to secondary school.
• Noted and discussed 2025 parent /carer contributions, especially the impact they have on the school ’ s budget. We also endorsed the 2025 Budget.
• Noted the Victorian Government ’ s recent announcement to remove compulsory logos from shorts, pants and skirts for all Victorian Government schools. Mr Panas and Ms Lee have met with our uniform suppliers and there will be more to come on the nitty gritty on how this will be implemented at The Lakes in 2026.
Noted our 2025 preliminary NAPLAN results.
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• Endorsed updates to The Lakes ’ Attendance Policy, Bullying Prevention Policy and Student Dress Code Policy. Policies are all publicly available to families on the school ’ s website.
• De - briefed on the recent Mother ’ s Day Stall and Mother ’ s Day Breakfasts. Similarly to above, we would love to hear feedback from parents/carers on these activities!
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 reach out to me at amanda.farrelly@education.vic.gov.au, or to any of the other parent/carer reps. Council meets twice per Term on a Tuesday at 5:30pm and visitors and observers are always welcome!
Cheers,
Amanda Farrelly School Council President
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