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PRINCIPAL'S REPORT

Principal’s Newsletter Report 19/09/2025

It’s hard to believe term 3 is ending. We have achieved so much and have a lot to celebrate in terms of learning and engagement this term.

 

I have been proud of so many things and moments, some are highlighted below; -

 

  • We celebrated the learning success of our leaders and achievers in semester one with a presentation ceremony for our highest achieving academic learners with a lunch for them and their families.

  • We celebrated Science and STEM week.

  • We acknowledged “Wear it Purple Day”.

  • Charlee Sutherland and Duncan Coleman completed the Kokoda track as part of the Geelong Kokoda Youth Program.

  • Pathways have been a focus; the individual opportunities for students and families to engage with our careers practitioners and pathways team, and discuss what their goals and ambitions were for their learning and pathways. We have really enjoyed working with students and families to get excited about opportunities for further study and learning, both at our college and other organisations in 2026.

  • We have reflected on our well-being during “R U Ok Day”.

  • Our Senior Boys Netball team and Junior Boys Year 7/8 Netball Teams are state champions.

  • Our students participated in the State School Spectacular presentation at the John Cain Arena on Saturday.

  • Our gymnasium build is underway.

 

So many things to celebrate, be proud of, and smile about.

 

Learning Conversations

Thank you to the many parents who attended our learning conversations over the past 2 days. It is always a good opportunity to update on the learning progressions of your children.

 

Term 4 Arrangements

Term 4 will commence on Monday 6th October for students and staff.

 

I encourage all our students, staff and families to take a break over the holidays, get away if you can, and with the weather starting to look more like springtime and the longer days, it will give us more opportunity to enjoy the outdoors. I hope the Geelong Cats get up in the finals for all our cats supporters, and everyone stays safe.

 

 

Take care,

Fiona Taylor

Principal

Child Safety at WHC

Western Heights College is a child safe organisation committed to protecting students from all forms of abuse. Our College has stringent protocols in place and endeavours at all times to be fully compliant with the Child Safe Standards set out under Ministerial Order 870.

 

Our College has the following documents and policies in place to achieve compliance with the Standards. All of these documents are available for downloading on our website.

  1. Commitment to Child Safety

  2. Child Safety Policy

  3. Child Safety Code of Conduct

  4. Child Protection Policy and Procedures

Annual Privacy Policy Reminder for 2025

Our school collects, uses, discloses, and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy (found on the college's webpage).

 

Please take time to remind yourself of our school’s collection notice, found on our website. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents and carers on the webpage. This information is also available in nine community languages:

 

          * Amharic

          * Arabic

          * Dari

          * Gujarati

          * Mandarin

          * Somali

          * Sudanese

          * Turkish

          * Urdu

          * Vietnamese