Dear Families,

Thank you to the families who attended our Year 12 Success Information Evening on Monday 8th February, the Year 7 Meet the Teachers evening on Monday March 1st and the Year 8 & 9 Student Success Information evening on Wednesday 3rd March. All three events were extremely well attended. I hope parents enjoyed meeting some of their children's teachers and were able to gain a deeper understanding of how to support their child and provide strategies for success. Parents were provided with strategies on how to best support their child including motivation techniques, stress management, common issues and how to overcome them, information about good study habits and the difference between homework and study.

Student Safety

Students are advised to please be careful when out in the community and crossing the busy roads. Please ensure you are aware of your surroundings and looking around you at all times, not at your mobile phone. Students should use school crossings and pedestrian crossings at traffic lights wherever possible to cross the road.

Could all parents and carers please also be very careful when dropping off or picking up their children, particularly at the Junior Campus in Billingham Rd. Please do not use the school driveway to turn around or drop off children, as several students cross the driveway to enter the school and staff must be able to drive in and out. Due to the lack of parking in the area, it is advisable for parents to drop off or pick up their students in the side streets which are only a short walk away from the school.

The safety of our students is paramount and we ask everyone in our school community to make this their priority as well.

Open House

Our Open House is coming up on Monday 15th March at the Junior Campus, Deer Park in C Block. There will be campus tours in the morning and an evening presentation with interactive tours, starting at 6.00pm. Staff and students will be demonstrating classes during the evening including AVID, English, Maths, Music, Chinese, Science and Technology, Sports Academy, and lots more.

Bookings are essential due to density limits. Please register your attendance here.

If you have a child in Grade 5 or 6 or know someone who does, we invite you to come along and see our College in action. Our new school plans will also be on display.

Below are some photos of the construction in progress.

Changes to Student Absence notifications

A reminder to parents and carers that there is no longer a function to add attendance notes on Compass when your child is absent.

If your child will be absent from school for any reason, please call 8312 0243 or email absence@vusc.vic.edu.au before 10am that day.

Parents/carers will receive a call from our Attendance Officer if a reason for the absence has not been provided. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter to ensure that all student absences are accounted for.

VUSC Sports Captains

Congratulations to these students who have been elected as Sports Captains and Vice Captains for 2021:

Sports Captains Senior Campus

Jake Fox and Jayla Kenna

Sports Vice Captains Senior Campus

Taiwania Pua and Matthew Bethune

Sports Captains Junior Campus

Melissa Mesic and Lataia Aue

Sports Vice Captains Junior Campus

Kamila Nasyrbekova and Susana Siale

And a huge congratulations to Year 12 student Tarquin Damons who has made the VIC Men's Victorian Storm Touch Team to play in the NTF Inferno National League in Coffs Harbour from March 8-16. Good luck Tarquin!

Homework Club

Homework club runs at the Junior Campus from 3.05 until 3.45pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons in the Resource Centre. This is an excellent opportunity for students to revise the day’s work, research assignments, get help with any topics you are struggling with or just read a book.

Homework club participants must be willing to work, as the club is provided so that students have an opportunity to get help. Non-productive attendees will be sent home.

For those new participants in Homework Club, a permission form must be collected from office and returned as soon as possible with parent consent.

Breakfast Club “Grab and Go”

Thank you to the VCAL students and staff volunteers who are running our Breakfast Clubs at each campus. There are fresh apples and non-perishable foods available such as cereal, muesli, baked beans, fruit cups and long life milk. All welcome!

Locations:

Senior Campus Breakfast Club in class room A9 - every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8.30-8.45am

Junior Campus Breakfast Club outside the SWB Office - every Monday from 8.30-8.45am

Lunchtime Activities

A reminder to students that there are board games happening every day at lunch time in classroom G10 at the Junior Campus and classroom A2 at the Senior Campus. These are supervised by staff.

Staff are also running sports during the week at lunch times -

Junior Campus: Basketball, Rugby, Volleyball and Dance

Senior Campus: Volleyball and Soccer

Collaborative Community Mural Project

Brimbank City Council alongside with some local artists recently invited some VUSC students to participate in a project to design and create a large mural to be installed at the Deer Park Library. This project is an initiative to reconnect the library with the students. It is our hope that their creative expression will begin to weave together this relationship and reclaim a safe space.

Congratulations to the following students who are participating in this exciting project:

Thu Nguyen 9B, Talia Huynh 9B, Kamila Nasyrebova 9D, Rebecca Mastaky 9G and Bilal Qalib 9G. Thank you to Mr Eugenio for overseeing this project and supporting the students. We look forward to seeing the final masterpiece!

VUSC Music CD

A reminder that the CD produced by our wonderful music students and staff last year in lieu of the Annual Concert is for sale at the general office for $10. I highly recommend it!

VUSC Athletics Carnival

A reminder to parents to provide consent via Compass for their child to attend the Athletics Carnival on Friday 19th March. This is a free and compulsory event for all students. Students are encouraged to dress in their House colours on the day.

Please note that Term 1 finishes on Thursday 1st April. Students will be dismissed at 1.30pm. Bookings will open soon on Compass for parent/teacher interviews on Tuesday 30 March. As always we encourage you to discuss your child's progress with their teachers on this day.

Enjoy the rest of the term.

Elaine Hazim

College Principal

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Child Safety at VUSC

Victoria University Secondary College is a child safe organisation committed to protecting students from all forms of abuse.

Our College has stringent protocols in place and endeavours at all times to be fully compliant with the Child Safe Standards set out under Ministerial Order 870.

Our College has the following documents and policies in place to achieve compliance with the Standards. All of these documents are available for downloading on our website or contact the school for a copy.

Commitment to Child Safety
Child Safety Policy
Child Safety Code of Conduct
Child Protection Policy and Procedures

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