REMINDER – END OF TERM ARRANGEMENTS & KEY DATES FOR 2025

A) Cycle 1 Reports are released to families and Student Progress Conferences (SPC) bookings are opened at 3.30pm on Friday 28th of March.

B) Student Progress Conferences (SPC) are online starting at 12.00pm until 7.00pm on Wednesday 2nd of April. Formal classes will not be running. All students are asked to attend interviews online with their parent/guardian.

C) Term One concludes on Friday 4th of April with a 2:30pm dismissal time.

D) Students return in Term Two on Tuesday 22nd of April with Term Two finishing on Friday 4th of July. (Note Monday 21st of April is Easter Monday).

E) Friday the 25th of April is a public holiday for ANZAC Day.

WELCOME TO NEW COLLEGE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 2025

I thank the members of College Council who are continuing in their role and those retiring and also welcome to the new members, and I thank them for forwarding their nomination. VSC held its first Council meeting with the new representatives on Tuesday evening. Thank you to all who were able to attend and at this meeting the following office bearers were appointed.

Council President: Frank Drost

Council Vice-President: Patrick Jackson

Council Treasurer: Kate Norman

Congratulations on these important roles/appointments and we look forward to another productive year.

VSC Council comprises four groups:

Parents (6), Department of Education (DE) employees (5), students (2) and community members (co-opted up to 4).

The term of office is two years, half the members must retire each year, and this creates vacancies for the annual school election.

Parents: In total there were three parent vacancies/representatives for the next two years, 2025 to early 2027.

Congratulations to Patrick Johnson, Kate Norman and Aidan Schanssema duly elected for the next 2 years (2025 to early 2027). Sam Daly, Frank Drost and Craig Lawton have one year of his two-year term remaining.

Staff: Congratulations to Cara Macfarlane and Kelly Stals duly elected for the next 2 years (2025 to early 2027).

Chris Paragreen and Mary Zervos have one year of their two-year appointment (2024 to early 2026) to complete.

Student Representatives – Congratulations to Jeremy L S Year 7) duly elected for the next 2 years (2025 to early 2027) while Yan Chi S (Year 8) has one-year of his 2-year term remaining.

Community Members (Co-Opted) - School Captains: Areeba Shakir and Caitlin Siebel.

Thank you to parent Rob Fuller, staff member Flora Moraitis and students Akhila, Amelia and Triyana for your time on College Council. Your input and participation have been greatly appreciated.

COLLEGE COUNCIL REPORT TUESDAY 18TH MARCH 2025

The newly elected council convened for the first time this year on Tuesday 18/3/2025. We welcomed the new student, parent and staff members to the committee and elected the president, vice-president and treasurer for the year 2025. Subsequently various committee members joined one or more subcommittees in Finance, Health & Safety and the Canteen.

Three council members are also VSCCA (Vermont Secondary College Community Association) members which further strengthens the good relationship and communications between the community association and college council. Note that any parent can join the VSCCA and attend their meetings where you can be informed about many aspects of the college, be it curriculum, wellbeing, future developments, fundraising, etc. Various decisions and discussions at the college council and various subcommittees are presented to the community at the VSCCA meetings.

Vermont Secondary College recently had its next 4-year Strategic Plan (2025 – 2028) approved and at the meeting the council approved the 2025 Annual Implementation Plan (AIP). The 2025 AIP sets out the aims and plans to initiate and develop the process(es) of achieving the goals of the new Strategic Plan.

Council further approved the spending for various projects, verified the accounts and approved signatures to the accounts, received an update on the budget, deregistered various obsolete school items, approved the hiring of our facilities by a community group, approved the hiring of several people to support the school in various areas (tutors, canteen, events, etc.), and were given an overview of all registered volunteers to the school. Reports of the subcommittees were accepted and the camps for the Year 8 City camp and Year 9 Phillip Island camp were approved.

Frank Drost – College Council President

COLLEGE COUNCIL - COMMUNITY REPORTING MEETING – TUESDAY 22ND APRIL 2025

The VSC annual Community Reporting Meeting will be held on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 6.30pm. At this meeting the VSC 2024 Annual Report will be presented, and once ratified by College Council and by the Department of Education (DE) it will be placed on our college website. Members of the college community are welcome to attend.

Once ratified, the 2024 Annual Report will be available on the college website https://www.vermontsc.vic.edu.au/

To access college data, go to the ‘Home Page’, click on ‘9 dots’ top right corner, click on ‘Resources’, click on ‘Resources’ again, scroll down to ‘School Accountability & Improvement Framework’. Documents available here –

1. School Strategic Plan 2025 - 2028

2. Annual Implementation Plan 2025

3. Annual Report 2023

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