Organisation

ATTENDANCE REPORTING & UPCOMING CENSUS

At the beginning of the year, DET updated the attending policy and reporting codes, which you might notice is different in Compass. 

Please ensure you are all submitting your rolls at 9:00am AND 12:00pm. Ally has been sending daily reminder emails out through compass to those who have missed a roll. Attendance reporting, though it might seem tedious, is extremely important for Child Safety as well as school funding for each child attending.

On this, as the Compass Kiosk at Reception does not change a students arrival status when they sign in late, teachers MUST change their rolls to reflect the student has arrived late to class. 

Attendance data taken on the 27th of Feb and we need to ensure all data is accurate by this date. 

Le Journal has a section on school attendance for families and the importance of reporting ANY school absence including illness and family holidays. If you are aware of a child that in consistently late, absent or on an extended family holiday, please encourage families to enter these on Compass to ensure we have no Unexplained Attendance and let Leadership or Ally know so we can contact the families. 

COMMUNICATION

A reminder to staff to please let Reception know when you have organised for someone to come to the school to collect items, visit students, or have made phone calls and are expecting a return call. 

As all visitors are to sign in at Reception, we will know prior to them arriving why they are here and how we can best assist them.

If calling families, please leave a voicemail so return calls can be forwarded to you, or a message can be taken for you. 

Ally

Reminder - Student Roster for Le Jardin

There has been some confusion regarding whether we are still enforcing the roster for which days different year levels can play in Le Jardin and the answer is YES!!

Could all Senior Campus teachers please remind students of the following arrangement for playing in Le Jardin:

Foundation & Year 1: Every day

Year 2: Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Year 3: Tuesday & Thursday

Year 4: Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Year 5: Tuesday & Thursday

Year 6: Tuesday & Thursday

If you are crossing the road for a yard duty in Le Jardin please make sure that you are only taking students from the correct year levels across with you.  This helps with ensuring access to the play area without things becoming too busy and dangerous.

Kim

Yard Duty Timetable - Use of JC Tennis Courts

To reduce congestion on the Senior Campus during lunch and recess, each year level will use the Junior Campus tennis courts next week. Once access to the Senior Campus tennis courts resumes, play spaces will be less crowded and we will return to our usual areas. We might have to timetable year levels to certain spaces to ensure they are all used.

Each year level has been allocated a specific day in Week 4 to use the JC Tennis Courts.

Please ensure your students:

• know which day they will cross to the JC tennis courts
• are pre-taught the expected behaviours:
  • line up calmly and orderly at the Reserve Rd gate
  • cross Reserve Rd in a calm and orderly manner
  • walk to the Junior gate via Le Jardin
  • move directly onto the JC tennis courts
  • use the Junior Campus toilets respectfully
  • play kindly with everyone, take extra care with younger students and check on others if someone is hurt

Please refer to the yard duty timetable for details of staff supervision at the JC tennis courts.

We will send an update as soon as we have more information regarding our access to the SC Tennis Courts.

Nancy

Holi Festival of Colours - Week 6

The Colour Run will return in Session 5 on Thursday 5 March — please save the date.

Further details about the supervision schedule will be shared soon.

Nancy

2026 Telephone Extension List

This has been updated with the room changes.

It can be found here.

Kelly

Year level folders in Senior campus library

Just a reminder to nominate one person per year level to check/collect your year level folders from the SC office by Tuesday each week and distribute to your year level teachers. 

Any information, post, new action plans etc will be placed in these folders. These folders have replaced the old staff pigeonholes. 

Thanks

Jackie 

Mardi Gras Lessons Week 3

Mardi Gras is on Tuesday 17th Feb this year, we will have our Mardi Gras Parade on Thursday 19th Feb. Please implement a Mardi Gras lesson in the week so our students know what we are celebrating. 

Here is the link to our Mardi Gras - Carnival folder in our Drive.

I have 2-3 students in mind to present at assembly this coming Monday about the event also. 

Event Information - Thursday 19th Feb 2026 

All day: Dress up day for students to come in colourful outfits and masks. 

Session 1-4: 

As usual.

Session 5: 

2:40-45pm: Meeting on the SC Synthi Grass

2:50pm: Parade starts. Each year level to walk around the outside of the soccer pitch.

3:20pm: Finish Parade. Head back to class for end of day. Ensure JC classes are the first to move off. 

Details:

• Please nominate one teacher per year level to have a small yard duty first aid bag on them. 
• Please remind students of expected behaviour at whole school events.
  • Showing our school values
  • Encouraging and polite claps as other year levels complete their laps
  • Staying seated so everyone can see
• Parents will be invited to stand around the outer edge of the Synthi Grass (see orange lines on the image below).
• Each class will do 1 lap of the Synthi grass. Starting with F& Y6, through to Y5, finishing with an extra teachers lap. 
• Classes to line up seated as per the photo below. Y6s to be seated with Foundation so they may do their lap together.

🔴 Important AEU Update - Ballot and date for potential stop work action 🔴

Earlier this afternoon the AEU Joint Primary and Secondary Council endorsed a 24-hour statewide stopwork by AEU members to be held on Tuesday 24 March.  If the majority vote is YES it will be time to take immediate action!

It's not too late to be part of the ballot for industrial action. Please join us and support all teaching and ES staff in Victorian government schools, so that we can get our just recognition! We have just been advised of the key dates and you will need to be a member to receive the email and SMS instructions for your participation:

Notice of Ballot Distributed to Employees: Friday, 13 February 2026

Distribution of Instruction Sheet: Monday, 16 February, 9:00am

Ballot Commencement: Monday, 16 February, 10:00am

Close of Ballot: Thursday, 12 March, 5:00pm

Declaration of Results: Thursday 12 March, 7:00pm

Thanks!

Rachel, Julian and Stefan