Teaching & Learning

Celebration of Learning

On Wednesday 11th September we will be conducting our Celebration of Learning. This is a night where students welcome their parents and other family members into the classroom to share in their learning journey. This is an informal celebration that will run between 5.30 pm and 7.30 pm. Come for as long as you like.

While here your child will be able to show you the Visual Arts displays around the school and the STEM hub.

If you come straight from work or have hungry kids with you, we also have that covered with the Canteen offering coffee, tea and hot chocolates and of course the BBQ will be operating during the night as well.

This is an important part of our reporting and communication program for the year so we look forward to seeing everyone on the night.

Goals of the Celebration of Learning

• Provide students with the opportunity to connect further with their learning by prompting them to reflect on their goals and their learning in general and articulate this to their parents/guardians.
• To provide an opportunity for parents to better understand what their child is doing in class.

Attendance Notes and Unexplained Absences

This week’s Compass tip is to look at how parents can submit an attendance note and clear unexplained absences.

When ever your child is away from school an attendance note is required. This allows the school to submit up-to-date attendance data to the department.

Submitting an Attendance Note:

There are 3 ways to submit an Attendance note for your child:

1. Use your Compass portal to submit a note (see video below)
2. Ring the Buninyong Campus office.
3. Send an email to the Buninyong office.

Clearing Unexplained Absences: (check out the video below)

Every time your student is absent from school without a note an Unexplained Absence will be recorded against your child’s name. An Unexplained Absence is also recorded if you drop your child off late for school and do not accompany them to the school office.

You can add attendance notes to any Unexplained Absences by doing the following:

1. Go to your Compass portal.
2. Click on Attendance next to your child’s name.
3. Click on the Unexplained Absences tab
4. Choose the absences and click on Add Attendance Note.
5. Choose from the choices available.

If you have an Unexplained Absence that isn't accurate, that is fine, please just contact the office at the Buninyong Campus and we will clear the entry for you.

To help out please check out the video below that shows the process to follow.

Bicycles For Humanity

We are collecting bikes on the last 3 days of the term, so please feel free to drop bikes to the school.

EBT News

Exciting times are fast approaching and the count down has begun. 79 days to go!!

Energy Breakthrough training will begin this week between 4:00pm to 4:30pm on Wednesdays and 9am - 11am on Sundays.

We understand that it will be difficult for many families to attend the whole duration of training on a Sunday.  However we would appreciate it if you could bring your child along for at least 30 minutes of practice.

Training will be held at the asphalt tennis courts in Buninyong. We know that it will be difficult to get through all students  and would appreciate any support from families to help us train the kids up properly. As the weeks go on everyone will have a chance to share and practise as much as we can fit in by using the bikes and getting timed.

Due to pre-bookings over the next couple of weeks I have attached a monthly calendar to help with key training dates and up-coming fundraising events.

Thank you for everyone’s contribution to the Milkshake and Cookie days over the last couple of weeks.