Principal's Report

Ms Meg Woolford - Acting Principal

Welcome Back

We are excited to welcome students and staff back to school this term. We hope that you have all enjoyed your holidays and had some time to spend with your family and friends. We look forward to a productive term.

Curriculum Day Tuesday 7th of May

Horsham College will be participating in a Professional Learning Day, provided by our Network. To facilitate staff attendance Year 7-10 classes and Alternate Programs will be cancelled for the day. Year 11 and 12 VCE classes will be running as normal. All students undertaking a VCE class on the day are expected to attend.

School Council

I would like to congratulate and welcome our new members* to the College Council and thank our returning members for their ongoing commitment to the College.

Parent Members

Heath Watson
Brett Thompson
Luke Wearn
Narelle Risson*

Nadine Hoffmann*
Sharyn Meyer
Jo Gellatly*
Liz Luy*

Staff Representatives

Shannon Argall*
Susan McKenry

Ronnie Couch*

Co-opted Community Members

Anthony Schache
Yolande Grosser

Ann Howell
Shaun Casey

Student Members

Will Schache

Mikayla Seymour

Nicole Timms has resigned from her position on School Council. I would like to sincerely thank Nicole for her commitment and support over the past two years and wish her all the best.

Uniform

As the cold well and truly sets in, a reminder to all students and families that only Horsham College uniform should be worn at school. We will continue to follow up with students and their families to ensure all students are wearing the Horsham College Council approved uniform.

In particular we are focused on ensuring students are wearing:

Black shoes
College Council approved jackets and/or jumpers
College approved long sleeve tops
College approved hats/beanies

We understand that there may be short periods of time when a student is out of uniform. Please provide a signed note in the diary for these short periods of time.

Student Attitudes to School Survey

We value student voice as a means to improving student engagement, wellbeing, and quality instruction, and are conducting a survey as one way to find out what our students think of their school.

The Attitudes to School Survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education to assist schools to gain an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school. Students will be asked about their thoughts and feelings in relation to their school, their learning, peer relationships, resilience, bullying, health, and wellbeing. We will be starting the survey in the coming weeks.

Finally, I want to wish everyone a great Term 2.