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Email: dohertys.creek.p9.co@education.vic.gov.au

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

2025 TERM DATES

Term 1 - 29th January to 4th April

Term 2 - 22nd April to 4th July

Term 3- 21st July to 19th September

Term 4 - 6th October to 19th December

2025 Curruculum Days

Term 1

1st Curriculum Day- Tuesday 28th Jan

2nd Curriculum Day- Wednesday 29th Jan

Term 2

3rd Curriculum Day- Tuesday 22nd April (1st day Term 2)

Term 3

4th Curriculum day in Term 3 to be determined

Term 4

5th Curriculum day - Monday 3rd November (Professional Practice Day)

2024 End of Term Finish Times

Term 1 – 28th March 1:15pm

Term 2 – 28th June 1:00pm

Term 3 – 20th September 1:00pm

Term 4 – 20th December 12:30pm

Session 1 starts at 8.40am

This is a friendly reminder, for students and parents, that session 1 begins at 8:40am.

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.

Hats

Just a reminder to all families that it is compulsory for students to wear a hat outside during break times. The weather has started to improve, and the sun has been shining.Even on overcast days during spring and summer, students are expected to wear hats as protection against the UV rays but also because routine helps build good habits and we want the children to make good choices about protecting themselves. Please ensure that your child has a hat at school. Teachers will be reminding them.

Thank you for your support in this matter.

It is almost time for our Library stocktake!

We have more than 2500 library books that are currently overdue. Please check to see if you have any of our library books at home. If so, please return as soon as possible to Kelly in library?

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.

Choose your preferred family language for our Newsletter

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Discover how to get the most from your Compass Parent Portal

This FAQ will answer any questions you might have about how Compass works and guide you to getting the most from your Parent Portal.

https://www.compass.education/support/parent-faq

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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* Amharic * Arabic * Dari * Gujarati * Mandarin

* Somali * Sudanese * Turkish * Urdu

* Vietnamese.

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