GENERAL INFORMATION
College Bus Information
A friendly reminder that all bus staff, adult travellers and students are still required to wear face masks as is the case for public transport.
SCSC has updated the College bus information on our website, including:
- Updated bus routes to/from the College
- Links to timetables
- 2022 PTV Student Application Form
- 2022 Conveyance Allowance Application Forms & lodgement cut off dates
CLICK HERE to be taken directly to our website. We encourage families to familiarise themselves with this information.
Compass - How to advise of an absence
If you would like to advise of your child's absence or would like to authorise to sign your child out for an appointment later in the day, you can utilise your Compass app on your phone, as follows:
The most common approval types are:
- Medical / Illness
- Medical Appointment (this also includes specialists e.g. psychologist, orthodontist)
- Parent Choice
So, for example, if your child needs to leave school at lunch time for an appointment at the dentist, you would select the start time as 12:30pm and finish time as 2:55pm.
Your child at the appointment time can then sign out at the Administration Office, our staff will check Compass for your approval and can sign your child out.
Family Account Payments
There are a number of ways for families to make a payment to the College for their child’s excursion, camp or event. Please see below:
Preferred: Direct Deposit
To make a payment by direct deposit please use the following bank details:
Account Name: Surf Coast Secondary College Council Official
BSB: 313-140
Account Number: 12031136
Please be sure to put your child’s name in the reference and notify us of the payment by emailing us at accounts@scsc.vic.edu.au
EFTPOS:
Over the phone on (03) 5261 6633 by calling our Administration Office.
If you have a credit on your account and would like to use this, please email accounts@scsc.vic.edu.au
Sick Bay
If a student is feeling unwell, to keep in line with the Department of Education & Training's Mobile Phone Policy, students are required to go to the Administration Office where a trained First Aid Officer will provide assistance and call parents/guardians if they are too unwell to remain at school and need to go home.
Please note, that the school will only call parents/guardians in regards to an unwell child. The school will never send a text message to advise that their child is unwell and requires collection.
If you have any questions regarding the above or other queries, please call our Administration Team on (03) 5261 6633.
Communicating with your Student's Teachers
Through the range of platforms at Surf Coast Secondary College there is also a range of communication mediums with your students teachers. This article will detail a couple of these opportunities and some supports.
The most straightforward means of communication is via a phone call to the school (03) 5261 6633, in this instance teachers may be teaching or engaged in meeting/planning time so you may need to leave a message or organise another time for contact.
To ensure communication with your students teachers the most consistent means of communication is via Compass our Student Management Platform. Compass will allow you to communicate with the teacher via email, it is also how the teacher will communicate with you and your student. To ensure communication between parents and teachers is considered and consistent we expect teachers will respond to emails within 24 hours or the next working day.
To ensure you can speak with your students teachers organising a time for a phone call or to meet onsite through Compass will ensure you and the teacher are available and prepared. Compass will also allow you to email all of your students teachers at once.
To communicate with a your students teachers via compass you can refer to the linked guide. “You will need to be in the browser version, Menu -> Open in Browser, to do this from the app.”
Guide Link - Pg - 17 - https://bit.ly/3NoYBQ5
The page where all past posts are stored is - https://bit.ly/3jzBzXz
Shaun Miller,
Digital Learning Specialist.
Annual Privacy Reminder for 2022
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. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in ten community languages:
* Amharic
* Arabic
* Dari
* Gujarati
* Mandarin
* Somali
* Sudanese
* Turkish
* Urdu
* Vietnamese.
E-Scooters
In cooperation and support with our local police, please take time to have a look at the attached flyer. This flyer will be handed out by police to students if they have been intercepted as a formal warning before adopting a zero tolerance approach in regards to E-scooters.
If you have any further queries, please contact your local police station for further information.
Road Safety - A Message from Local Police
Local Police from Torquay and Geelong Highway Patrol are actively patrolling all schools areas within the Torquay township. This is in relation to parents parking in and around the schools, along with speed zone enforcement. The purpose of the patrols is to ensure the safety of students of all ages and that they can attend to and depart school in the safest manner possible. Local police are committed to the safety of students within the Torquay area.
Whilst parking issues may seem minor, the impact of vehicles obscuring roadways and preventing students having a clear line of sight in regards to oncoming traffic, have to potential for serious injury. Speeding through school areas also has the potential to result in serious injury and complying with reduced speed limits during school times, can mean the difference between avoiding a collision or having local students seriously injured.
College Bus Information
School bus services will continue to operate. Bus staff, adult travellers and students are required to wear face masks as is the case for public transport
SCSC has now updated the College bus information on our website, including:
- Updated bus routes to/from the College
- Links to timetables
- 2022 PTV Student Application Form
- 2022 Conveyance Allowance Application Forms & lodgement cut off dates
CLICK HERE to be taken directly to our website. We encourage families to familiarise themselves with this information.
MYKI Card Reminder
An important reminder that students require a MYKI card with sufficient funds to cover their bus journey to and from the College whilst travelling on the below services:
T5: Grovedale
T6: Jan Juc
T7: Ocean Acres
T10: Ocean Views
and all public transport services.
McHarry's Buslines have advised that students may incur a $200 fine if they do not have sufficient funds or have a valid card.
Student Accident Insurance, Ambulance Cover Arrangements and Private Property
The Department and Surf Coast Secondary College do not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents/carers of students, who do not have student accident insurance/ambulance cover, are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance or transport as well as any other transport costs.
Private property brought to school by students, staff or visitors is not insured and the Department and Surf Coast Secondary College do not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage. This can include mobile phones, calculators, toys, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises.
As the Department and Surf Coast Secondary College do not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property, students and staff should be discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school.