Administration News
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Email: dohertys.creek.p9.co@education.vic.gov.au
2024 TERM DATES
Term 1- 31 January to 28 March
Term 2- 15 April to 28 June
Term 3-15 July to 20 September
Term 4- 7 October to 20 December
2025 TERM DATES
Term 1 - 29th January to 4th April
Term 2 - 22nd April to 4th July
Term 3- 21st July to 19th September
Term 4 - 6th October to 19th December
2024 Term Finish Times
Term 1 – 28th March 1:15pm
Term 2 – 28th June 1:00pm
Term 3 – 20th September 1:00pm
Term 4 – 20th December 12:30pm
Session 1 starts at 8.40am
This is a friendly reminder, for students and parents, that session 1 begins at 8:40am.
As a staff, we routinely review attendance data. We will be looking at this data in the next few weeks and contacting families where students are consistently late to class, particularly in the morning.
If you have any questions regarding this, please contact the home group teacher.
Tissues, tissues, Tissues
Dear Parents/carers,
Cold and flu & Hayfever season have well and truly arrived, with our boxes of tissues flying out the door as quickly as we are supplying them to the classrooms. If you have a spare box at home that you would be happy to send to school with your child, our classroom teachers would be very appreciative!
Thanks for your support
Change of clothes:
If your child is in Prep, or is prone to having “accidents”, please leave a change of clothes in their bag as the school has very little spare uniform to be able to supply a change.
COMPASS COMMUNICATIONS & NOTIFICATIONS
Please note it is imperative you use compass as all school communications are sent through this platform. It's a good idea to get into the habit of checking your notifications in compass each morning. This will ensure you do not miss anything. For assistance with navigating the Compass app, refer to our dedicated Compass page later in this newsletter.
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Discover how to get the most from your Compass Parent Portal
This FAQ will answer any questions you might have about how Compass works and guide you to getting the most from your Parent Portal.
https://www.compass.education/support/parent-faq
Uniform - Buy, Swap, Sell
Dohertys Creek College BSS uniform page
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Lost Property:
We always aim to return what we can but often when items are unnamed, they are added and remain to the ever increasing lost property pile.
We hope to reunite as many items as possible with their rightful owners. If you think your child may have misplaced anything at the school, please take a moment to look through the wooden create located in the library entrance.
Please LABEL your children's belongings!
We have an enormous amount of lost property that was not labelled. Please make sure that all of your child’s uniform is labelled with their FULL NAME, as well as their lunch boxes, drink bottles etc, so that we can ensure that the lost hats, jackets, jumpers are returned to their rightful owners.
If you have already labelled these items, it is also a good idea to check that they are still legible, as a lot of them have faded or smudged in the wash, making it difficult to identify them.
Annual privacy reminder for 2024
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.
Please take time to remind yourself of our school’s collection notice, found on our website to your school’s collection notice. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents.
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