Administration News

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            2024 TERM DATES

Term 1- 31 January  to 28 March

Term 2- 15 April to 28 June

Term 3-15 July to 20 September

Term 4- 7 October to 20 December

 

Curriculim Days 2024

  • Friday 17th May 2024
  • Friday 23rd August 2024

2024 SCHOOL TIMES

8.40-9.40am Session 1

9.40-10.40am Session 2

10.40-11.40am Session 3

11.40-12.00- lunch eating time (PS) and home group time (SC)

12.00-12.30pm- Lunch

12.30-1.30pm Session 4

1.30-2.00pm Recess

2.00-3.00pm Session 5

3.00pm Students dismissed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1 starts at 8.40am

This is a friendly reminder, for students and parents, that session 1 begins at 8:40am. Students who arrive after 8.40am will be marked as late

 

As a staff, we routinely review attendance data. We will be looking at this data in the next few weeks and contacting families where students are consistently late to class, particularly in the morning. 

 

If you have any questions regarding this, please contact the home group teacher. 

Change of clothes:

If your child is in Prep, or is prone to having “accidents”, please leave a change of clothes in their bag as the school has very little spare uniform to be able to supply a change. 

COMPASS COMMUNICATIONS & NOTIFICATIONS

Please note it is imperative you use compass as all school communications are sent through this platform. It's a good idea to get into the habit of checking your notifications in compass each morning. This will ensure you do not miss anything. For assistance with navigating the Compass app, refer to our dedicated Compass page later in this newsletter.

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Uniform - Buy, Swap, Sell

Dohertys Creek College BSS uniform page

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Lost Property:

We always aim to return what we can but often when items are unnamed, they are added and remain to the ever increasing lost property pile.

We hope to reunite as many items as possible with their rightful owners. If you think your child may have misplaced anything at the school, please take a moment to look through the wooden create located in the library entrance. 

Please LABEL your children's belongings!

 

We have an enormous amount of lost property that was not labelled.  Please make sure that all of your child’s uniform is labelled with their FULL NAME, as well as their lunch boxes, drink bottles etc, so that we can ensure that the lost hats, jackets, jumpers are returned to their rightful owners.

 

If you have already labelled these items, it is also a good idea to check that they are still legible, as a lot of them have faded or smudged in the wash, making it difficult to identify them.

Annual privacy reminder for 2024

Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy.

 

Please take time to remind yourself of our school’s collection notice, found on our website  to your school’s collection notice. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents

 

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