From the Office

CSEF Application 2016 (Camp Sports, Excursion Fund)

Attached is the 2016 application form for the CSEF (Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund).

CSEF Application form 2016.pdf

If you are an eligible Heath Care Card Holder, please complete the attached form, and a copy of your Health Care Card and return it to the Administration Office, or alternatively email your form to Linda Wheeler

lwheeler@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au

This fund will provided $225 per student for Camps,Sports and excursions for your child.

Please ensure your application is returned no later than 26th February 2016 for processing.

Linda Wheeler

Administration Office

Attendance Matters

ATTENDANCE LINE – 9845 7519

IMPORTANT INFORMATION –

DAILY ABSENCES

THE COLLEGE NEEDS TO BE NOTIFIED OF ABSENCES BEFORE 10AM ON THE DAY OF THE ABSENCE EITHER BY:-

PARENT APPROVAL ON COMPASS
CONTACTING THE ATTENDANCE LINE
IF YOU ARE LEAVING A MESSAGE PLEASE INCLUDE THE REASON FOR THE ABSENCE

This is particularly important for VCE students who have an 80% attendance requirement across all subjects

NB: VCE students who are absent for two or more consecutive days will normally need a medical certificate. Please contact the student’s Coordinator if you are unsure about this requirement.

Late to School

If a student will be late for any reason:

Notify the school via the attendance line where possible in the morning or send a note with your child
In both instances the students will need to sign in at the office on arrival.

To ensure that we can manage the welfare and safety of the student community it is important that you respond to any SMS messages you receive in relation to morning absence notifications in a timely manner.

If you have any questions or require assistance please contact the school.

Kay Priestly

Attendance Officer

First Aid

Welcome back from holidays and welcome to the new families that have joined our school community. We hope that you have enjoyed the break and are fit and healthy to start the new school year.

Now a bit of business:

If your child is sick and needs to come home they need to come to Sick Bay, and we will contact you. This is so we can account for each and every child and sometimes a rest is enough and your child can continue for the rest of the day but if your child is too unwell to stay we will contact you.

If your child has a headache or stomach pains and needs Panadol we require a permission slip to be signed from you to allow us to give them this medication.

Immunisation.

In accordance with Department of Health guideline, Maroondah City Council’s Immunisation team will be visiting the school to provide immunisations to students in year 7.

Recently there have been changes made to the Secondary School Immunisation Program that you may not be aware of, so we thought we would notify you of these changes.

All students in Year 7 in 2016 will be receiving

3 doses of Human Papillomavirus vaccine (HPV)

A single dose of Chickenpox vaccine

A single dose of Diphtheria, Tetanus & Pertussis vaccine (Boostrix)

The PROPOSED schedule :

First Visit:

27 April 2016

Yr 7 - Girls & Boys HPV (1) & Chicken Pox

Second Visit:

21st June 2016

Yr 7 - Girls & Boys HPV (2) & Boostrix (DTP)

Third visit:

18th October 2016

Yr 7 - Girls & Boys HPV (3)

For more information and fact sheets see: http://www.health.vic.gov.au/immunisation

By the time you are reading this Immunisation cards should have been distributed to all year 7 students.

ALL cards must be returned to the college whether your child is being immunised or not, we MUST a card registering your preference as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Head lice, yes the subject that we all do not like to discuss but is a common problem that needs to be dealt with.

We’re only a week into the school year but we have had several cases of head lice already so it is very important to PLEASE check your child’s hair TONIGHT!!! Please then check your child’s hair on a regular basis and if head lice or eggs are found, treat appropriately. Health regulations require that where a child has head lice that the child should not return to school until the day after appropriate treatment has started.

Finding head lice:

Step 1: Comb any type of hair conditioner on to dry, brushed hair.

Step 2: Now comb sections of hair with a fine tooth head lice comb

Step 3: Wipe the conditioner from the comb onto a paper towel or tissue.

Step 4: Look on the tissue and on the comb for lice and eggs.

Step 5: Repeat combing for every part of the head at least 4 or 5 times.

If lice or eggs are found the child’s hair should be treated. Purchase head lice treatment products from your local chemist and the product must be applied to all parts of the hair and scalp.

No treatment kills all of the eggs so treatment must involve two applications, seven days apart. The purpose of the first treatment is to kill all lice, the second treatment is to kill young lice hatched over the next six days.

There is no product available to prevent head lice but tying back long hair can help prevent the spread.

For further information see website: www.health.vic.gov.au/headlice

Finally there is lots of hot weather at the moment and it is essential for the students to remember to be sun smart. It is important to put sunscreen on and remember to wear hats when out in the sun especially at recess and lunchtime. It is also very important to drink lots of water!!

Heather Eisermann

First Aid

Facilities report

Feb 2016

The Facilities team has achieved some great things over the school holidays as detailed below. I have also listed some possible works for 2016 that will make for a very exciting year.

Parents-you are needed! Would you like to have play a role in the development of Ringwood Secondary?

Why not join our exciting Facilities Committee which prioritises works and oversees improvements at the College. Meetings are scheduled once per term with an emphasis on getting things done!

First meeting: Thursday 25th Feb 7.30pm Conference Room-all welcome.

Twilight Working Bee: The first Working Bee for the year will be held on Friday March 11 from 5.30pm-7.00pm. Please come along and help beautiful the College.

Recent Works

New poems on poetry boards
Hall and Pac floors re-varnished
Worst table tops replaced in most areas/table and chair caps replaced
Lockers all serviced and repainted
Decking and seating recoated
Oval works-fertilizing, verti drilling, etc-looking beautiful

OH & S report

Trees trimmed around the College
Yellow lines on steps repainted
Workplace inspections-rooms will be allocated in near future

Planned Building Projects for 2016 (TBC):

A new Mod 5 double classroom will be installed during February
Staffroom improvements-At this stage $65000 of improvements are planned
Wellbeing improvements- $15000 of improvements
Major Junior School capital works due for commencement in April this year
Major Solar installation
LED replacements

Chris Salisbury

Facilities Manager

From the Chaplain

I was reading this recently and it seemed to apply to a few situations I have found myself in or that others have been sharing with me. Though it refers to dating and marriage I think can apply to all relationships. I hope you find it helpful also.

"Apologising is hard work. Apologising and changing your behaviours is even harder, and what makes it so hard is pride. Dating and marriage always to some degree involve each person’s struggling for control. When your behaviors are driven by pride, you want to win every argument, always be right, see difficulties as your partner’s fault, bring up your partner’s admitted failures of the past, and explain away or deny your own problems and weaknesses.

You need other people’s input and critique to know how you sound, how you look, how your actions affect other people. In humility realize that you aren’t quite as brilliant and infallible as you think you are: “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment."

A humbling challenge for all of us at times.

P.S To all the new parents at the school welcome! We have a chaplaincy committee that meets once a term to support my role and if you would like to be a part of it or find out more info please contact the front office.

Adam Bryant

Chaplain