News from the General Office 

If your child is sick during the school day

At times, students do become sick during the day.  If this happens, then the student should speak to their teacher and go to the Sick Bay.  If it is recess or lunch time students can go directly to Sick Bay.

Our Sick Bay is staffed by qualified Sick Bay attendants.  They will assess your child and determine if parent/guardians need to be contacted. If it is deemed that a student needs to go home, the parent/guardian comes to Sick Bay to collect them and your student is monitored and cared for if there are any delays.

If a student does go home sick from Sick Bay they will be signed out of school by Sick bay staff.  

At no time are students to contact their parents directly.  Students are required to have their mobile phones in their lockers from 8.40am - 3.10pm and they will be confiscated if a teacher sees them during this time. 

If your child contacts you saying they are sick we would appreciate your support in sending them directly to the Sick Bay.

Lastly, if you have any prearranged absences please ensure you put it on Compass before 9am so the student can simply sign out  and go home or meet you as arranged.  Putting your permission on Compass means you don't even have to come into the school.

Enrolment Information Form

In late April you would have received via e-mail an “Enrolment Information Form”. This document is sent out each year to ensure all information we have on file for your family is current and correct.

Would you please return the updated Student Enrolment Information form to Vermont Secondary College via e-mail or via hard copy to the office as soon as possible even if there are no amendments.

Please contact the College Office on 8872 6300 if you have not received this form.

Absences

Thank you to all the parents who have been entering their student absences on Compass. As you now know, adding an absence note to Compass is quite simple and is preferred to you writing and sending an absence note with your student.  

Now you can add your Medical certificates to the note so that all records are kept electronically and easily accessible by all who may need it.

Medical Certificates are compulsory for all medical absences for Year 11 and 12 students regardless of the length of time of the absence.  For Years 7-10 Medical Certificates are required for extended absences, but they are encouraged for all medical absences.  It is useful to get in the habit of asking for one for all medical absences regardless of Year level. 

It is now preferred that medical certificates are uploaded to the absence note on Compass by the parent and not handed to a teacher or Student Manager.  If a paper copy of a certificate is brought into School it needs to go the General Office to be scanned and uploaded.  The original will then be returned to the student.

Please find all the instructions in this Quick Reference Guide.

If you are unsure what to do please feel welcome to contact Tanya MacKenzie, Attendance Officer, on 8872 6300.