The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter SCHOOL COUNCIL
Hello all,
A huge thank you firstly to parents/carers who have completed the Department of Education ’ s Parent/Carer Opinion Survey. If you haven ’ t already, our Leadership team would be incredibly grateful if you could complete it, please. Traditionally we have always had a very low response rate from our school community to this survey, which doesn ’ t really provide meaningful data and an accurate snapshot. The link to the survey can be found in your notifications in Compass. In general fundraising news, the Fundraising Subcommittee have been putting together next Friday ’ s Father ’ s Day & Special Persons Breakfast, following on from the success of last year ’ s one. Families and carers from both campuses are welcome! Money received from the gold coin donations will go to outside activities for both campuses. For Primary families, please also don ’ t forget to pre - purchase your Fathers ’ Day stall gifts on Compass, which closes at the end of today too. After the Breakfast, the team will then focus its attention on getting organised for the 2025 Welcome BBQ, making it bigger and better than this year! In the last piece of fundraising news, please also get behind the Shaving for a Cause fundraiser event on Secondary on Friday 13 September. Ms Lee, Mr Sicurella, Mr Serra and Helen Skendaris, one of our School Councillors, will be bravely having their hair shaved off to raise funds to provide care packages for students and families in our College community affected by loss and grief. These packages will bring comfort to our community members and show that we care! If you would like to donate, please click on the link in your Compass notifications.
In other news, at School Council ’ s most recent meeting on 20 August, we:
• Heard from our Primary School Captains about their 5/6 camp adventures last week and the benefits this semester ’ s new Learner Agency Hour has brought;
• Were presented with the School ’ s impressive 2024 NAPLAN results by Ms Short and Mr McLean. The results across both campuses and all year levels continually improve each year, but the results coming from Year 3 and Year 5 are simply outstanding and it will be exciting to watch how these cohorts track in to Secondary in the future; • Heard from Mr McLean about the Edutech conference last week that he and some of our staff attended and some new technologies we may consider investing in to provide a better teaching and learning experience for our students; • Discussed the bike area on Primary and debated whether it needs a cover. A survey to the Primary students is to go out to collect some data on what they would like and what are the barriers stopping more students riding/scootering to and from school;
• Discussed the process of issuing notifications to parents/carers if a student is late to class on Compass for Secondary students;
• Brainstormed how Primary assemblies could be improved and restructured to encourage more student participation and parent/carer attendance;
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Endorsed the motion to restructure Curriculum Charges for 2025; and
• Endorsed subsidising the Year 6 Graduation cost for each student to participate.
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!
Have a great weekend,
Amanda Farrelly School Council President
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