The Bulletin

General Notices

New Parent Notified Absences feature on SEQTA

We are excited to introduce to you a new feature through SEQTA Engage App/SEQTA Engage Parent Web Portal called Parent Notified Absences.

 

The Parent Notified Absences feature allows parents using the SEQTA Engage App to log absence notifications direct with the College on their mobile device. This can be through the SEQTA Engage App or through the SEQTA Engage parent web portal. 

These absence notifications allow parents to notify the College when their child will be absent, whether it's for that day or a future date. This could be due to reasons such as illness or a family decision to begin a vacation earlier than the end of the term.

 

Within ‘New Absence’

  • The ability to submit a new notification of an absence from their mobile device without having to contact the College in any other way 
  • The ability to submit a notification of absence for today, or any date into the future. Submissions for dates in the past are not possible. 

However, lodging a notification of an absence starting before the present moment but on Today’s date is possible. For example, submitting an absence for the day, at 8:45am when the school day started at 8:00am, is possible. 

 

A request can only be submitted for one child at a time. If parents/guardians have multiple children at the same SEQTA school, they will need to submit a new request for each child’s absence. 

  • Recurring absences cannot be submitted with this feature. 
  • Parents must choose a Reason for the absence from the list provided. 
  • Parents have an Comment box in which additional information can be portrayed to the school. 

Our current methods of email notification and the online form through the College website will remain operational for the remainder of 2024, however, we will be phasing them out by the start of 2025.

 

Please be advised you may need to shut down and restart your SEQTA Engage App for the Absences section to be visible. 

End of year enrolments and withdrawals 

Please be advised that if you wish to withdraw your child before the end of the year, to contact Jorja Viney, College Registrar, on 6240 4495 or email enrolments@mackillop.tas.edu.au.

 

Please also be aware that we are taking applications for Year 7, 2026, as well as Year 11 and 12 for 2025. Please submit an application using this link: https://www.mackillop.tas.edu.au/applications

Calling all MacKillop Alumni!

Join our Alumni Facebook group to stay up to date on all alumni achievements and any flashbacks from the archives as we celebrate the College's 30th anniversary. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/Enj8LAi1Ttb2yqWD/ 

Mobile Phone Policy

A reminder to all students and parents that our mobile phone policy is that all students with mobile phones are to switch off their phone and lock it securely in their school locker before Pastoral Care. Mobile phones are not to be accessed until 3:10 pm.

 

If a student is feeling unwell and needs to go home, or would like to contact a parent/caregiver, they can do so via the College Office. 

 

To read the full policy visit our website here. 

Parking at MacKillop

A notice to all parents/caregivers and students that normal parking rules and regulations do still apply when parking around MacKillop. 

  • Stopping in or near an intersection: a driver (3)  A driver must not stop on a road within 10 metres from the nearest point of an intersecting road at an intersection without traffic lights, unless the driver stops – at a place on a length of road, or in an area, to which a parking control sign applies and the driver is permitted to stop at that place under the Road Rules; if the intersection is a T-intersection – along the continuous side of the continuing road at the intersection.
  • When parking on the road the vehicle must face the correct direction of travel and the vehicle must be positioned at least one metre from the closest vehicle.
  • A driver must not obstruct or driveway, footpath.