College Matters

School Council Report

Hi everyone, my name is Luiza Levenfus. My daughter Tejana is in Year 9 and we moved to MGSC at the end of last year. We are all looking forward to getting to know the new community. I have been a parent representative on a few previous committees with two of my other children and I find this role very rewarding.

I joined the Department of Education and Training almost three years ago and work in the central office (People Division) focusing on developing Diversity and Inclusion policies. I’m privileged to have exposure to new initiatives that DET implements that will have direct impact on student outcomes. One of the current projects I’m working on is increasing the number of staff with a disability employed by DET. The department is developing initiatives to ensure our environment is inclusive for all spectrums of diversity. I look forward to assisting the Council to identify areas of improvement and add value by contributing to the school’s strategic direction to meet the needs of MSGC community.

I attended my first School Council meeting for the year last week. Members of both the 2018 and 2019 School Council were in attendance at the commencement of the meeting.  The Council thanked the outgoing members of School Council Richard Elstone (parent), Louise Rieniets (staff/DET) and Nazy Jalali (student) for their contribution to School Council over their terms of office. The Principal, Linda Brown, called for nominations for office bearing positions, with the following results:

• President: Rachael Angus
• Vice President: Geri Sumpter
• Treasurer: James Malliaros

Congratulations to the elected office bearers. 

Other members of School Council who are continuing on from 2018 are:

• Simon Cleur (parent representative)
• Rosa Ferrari (parent representative)
• Sinead Garry (student representative)
• Wendy Harvey and Alison Pickard (staff/DET reps)  
• Darren Hawkless (community representative)

In addition School Council welcomed the newly elected members:

• Luiza Levenfus (DET employee & parent representative)
• Andrea Webster (DET employee and parent representative)
• Mia Evans (student representative)
• Phil Pearson (staff/DET representative)

The following people attend School Council meeting but are not members.  We thank them for their time and input into the School Council meetings.

• Assistant Principals - Carol Duggan, and Bronwyn Moline 
• Business Manager - Kelly Lloyd-Vanni 
• Secretary - Wendy Eman

Luiza Levenfus

School Council member

Parent/Teacher/Student interviews

The interviews for the Year 7-10 students will be held on Thursday 4 April between 1.30pm and 8pm, with a break between 5pm and 6pm. Please note that there are no scheduled classes on this day.

Bookings open for Year 7-10 students at 3.30pm on Friday 29 March.

VCE parents who were unable to attend the VCE interviews will have an opportunity to book an appointment at this session after 3.30pm on Tuesday 2 April.

Compass for payments and approval for excursions/camps

Compass is being used for payments and to give approval for excursions/camps/events. To do so, log into your parent portal. Any payments and consents that are due will be visible on your home page, above the news items. These items are highlighted in green. If all payments have been made and all approvals given, there will be no items to view.

To refer back to these events, click on the Organisation tab on the dashboard of your parent portal and select Events. You will then be able to see the details of all the excursions and camps for which you have given approval.

We are continuing to use Compass for News Feeds, monitoring attendance, providing feedback on learning tasks and booking parent/teacher interviews.

Please ensure that only you are the only one to access the parent portal, especially when entering student illnesses and appointments.

If you do not recall your Compass ID and/or password, please send an email to the ICT Helpdesk to request your Compass login and password. portal@mgsc.vic.edu.au

Open Evening - Tuesday 30 April

This year’s Open Evening will be held on Tuesday 30 April from 7 to 9pm. Many students will be involved as tour guides, performers and domain leaders. Parents are welcome to attend.

On this day we will have an early finish so staff and students can set up.

Parents & Friends’ Association (PFA)

Year 9 Migrant Story Expo on Tuesday 26 March

Thanks to Anna Borek, Rosa Ferrari, Linda McIntyre, Ales Nebesky, Elizabeth Semmel and Emma Walker for serving tea and coffee on the night. 

Next PFA meeting - Tuesday 23 April at 7pm

At the meeting we will be discussing:

• the proposal for a new bike shelter
• using PFA funds to support a school initiative such as project funding, prizes for House events
• ideas for more social events

All parents are welcome to attend.

Last day of term - Friday 5 April 

Please be reminded of the early finish time on the last day of Term 1, Friday 5 April.

There will NOT be a period 4 class and students will be dismissed at 2.15pm.

The bell times are:

Carol Duggan & Bronwyn Moline

Assistant Principals