SCHOOL INFORMATION
ATTENDANCE INFORMATION
If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify the school as soon as possible on the day of absence using one of the following methods:
- Online: log the absence directly using your Compass log in and password
- Telephone absence line: leave your child’s name, class, date of absences and reason – 9788 6290
- Email: absent@mesc.vic.edu.au
Notifying the school of your child’s absence either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfil your legal responsibility.
COMPASS INFORMATION
SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS
An election is to be conducted for members of the School Council of MOUNT ELIZA SECONDARY COLLEGE.
School Council provides parents the opportunity to contribute important viewpoints that help shape the direction of the College.
Parent/Student information and nomination forms are attached and can also be accessed from the school website. Nomination forms must be lodged by 4pm on Tuesday 5th March 2019.
Nomination forms can be scanned and emailed to hhiam@mesc.vic.edu.au or hand delivered to the administration office.
Vacancies as follows:-
3 Parent Member - 2 Year Term
1 Parent Member - 1 Year Term
1 DET Employee - 2 Year Term
1 DET Employee - 1 Year Term
1 Student Member- 2 Year Term
CAMPS/SPORTS EXCURSIONS/ FUND (CSEF)
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:
- school camps or trips
- swimming and school-organised sport programs
- outdoor education programs
- excursions and incursions.
Applications for 2019 are now open and will close on 28 June 2019 (end of term 2).
LEVIES
Please be reminded that College Levies were due in full before the commencement of 2019 unless prior arrangement has been made. Thank you to the families who have paid in full or have arranged an approved payment/instalment plan. It is an expectation that Essential Student Learning Items are paid to support the provision of quality materials and items. All funds collected as Essential Student Learning Items provide the only budget to our teachers (i.e. classroom materials for students). Students chose subjects and families approved the choice of electives in 2018, therefore subjects have been planned and costed according to the commitments made by families.
The college will be making contact with families shortly who may have overlooked making these payments. Alternately can these families please contact the office to check the amounts outstanding. We rely on the college community to partner with us in supporting the learning of our children so that the high standards expected of Mount Eliza Secondary College can be maintained.
PARENT/STUDENT/
TEACHER CONFERENCES
Thursday 4 April - 3.30pm - 7pm
Friday 5 April - 9.30am - 2pm- Alternative timetable - students must attend conferences with their parents.
Conference times will be made available on Compass shortly.
Tuesday 23 April - Student Free Day
VETIS
Students who have not paid their VET levy in full by Wednesday 6th March (excluding agreed payment plans) will be withdrawn from the course. Payment was due 30/11/2018. We enrol students into their chosen course in good faith that payment will be made to the school. Once the cut-off date is reached we are invoiced by each institute and are liable for all costs. Please contact the office prior to 06/03 with payment.
TERM DATES 2019
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM
Assessment is looking different at Mount Eliza Secondary College. Hopefully your students have been coming home sharing some of the new ways students are learning and being assessed at the college. This April we will finally begin our process of Authorisation for the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Program. One of the biggest changes the college will introduce is how we assess and report to students and parents in years 7-9, the Middle Years Program MYP.
Students will continue to receive an assessment against the Victorian Curriculum once a semester, however ongoing assessment will be generated using the MYP framework. MYP uses an Inquiry based pedagogy, while fostering students understanding of Global contexts and key concepts. More than ever it makes sense that we are teaching our students how to question, problem solve and inquire about their own environment and how that fits on a global stage.
Ask your students to bring home assessment rubrics that have been developed to assess their skills against MYP Criterion. When students complete a summative task they will receive a number form 1-8 that will be associated with a description about how well they have mastered a particular skill. We are currently working on a presentation that will further explain in more depth how students will be assessed. By the end of the month, you will be able to view MYP study guides for each subject. These guides will also help you to understand the purpose and requirements of each study.