College Matters
Annual privacy reminder for our school community
Our school collects and uses student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ privacy policy and the Schools’ privacy collection notice.
Our Photographing, Filming and Recording Students policy (See Mobile phones, recording images and related technologies section on MGSC policies) describes how we collect and use photographs, video and recordings of students. The policy also explains when parent consent is required and how it can be provided and withdrawn. We ask parents to also review the guidance we provide on how we use Google Workspace for Education]safely at the school and what parents can do to further protect their child’s information.
If after reviewing the guidance, you have any questions or concerns regarding your child using Google Workspace for Education, please contact the school.
For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ privacy policy: information for parents.
This information is also available in 11 community languages:
Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Dari, Gujarati, Mandarin, Somali, Sudanese, Turkish, Urdu
Vietnamese
Before and After School Supervision Parent Notification
Student safety at Mentone Girls’ Secondary College is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students. Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.
Before school: School grounds are supervised from 8.30am.
After school: School grounds are supervised until 3.25pm.
The library is open for students from 8am to 5pm.
Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a supervised extracurricular activity).
Parents/carers are requested to ensure that students do not attend school outside of these supervised times unless they are attending a supervised extracurricular activity such as aerobics practice. Families are encouraged to contact mentone.girls.sc@education.vic.gov.au if you would like any further information about our student supervision arrangements.
The MGSC Yard Duty and Supervision Policy can accessed this from the school website: https://www.mgsc.vic.edu.au/our-college/policies (Student Wellbeing and Engagement).
This policy includes the school’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school.
Easing into adolescence: resources for families
Free resources for families of adolescents aged 10 to 14 years.
The Department of Education has launched an Easing into adolescence webpage for families of students aged 10 to 14 (Grade 5 to Year 8).
The webpage has information and strategies you can use to help ease your child into adolescence and secondary school. These include:
- a guide to emotion coaching. Staff from The University of Melbourne’s Tuning into Teens Kids program developed the guidance.
- how to support your adolescent with their studies and more generally. Parenting expert and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller helped develop this resource.
Subtitles for videos by The University of Melbourne on the webpage are available in 10 languages. You can select your preferred language on the translations page.
For questions about these resources, contact the Strategic Partnerships, Transitions and Student Voice team.
You can email them at Secondary.School.Transition@education.vic.gov.au.
MGSC umbrellas
MGSC umbrellas will keep you covered in rain and shine. There are two sizes availale the class large 'golf' umbrella is $32 and the compact foldable umbrella - perfect for school bags - is $22. They can be purchased at the General Office 8.15am to 4.15pm Monday to Friday.
Canteen orders
The canteen operators use Spriggy Schools for their pre-orders, accessible through the website or App. www.spriggyschools.com.au
It's an easy way to pre-order for recess and lunch and view the full food selection available.
Parents and students are reminded that payments are by bank card or cash. Mobile phones cannot be used at school at anytime including for canteen payments.
Carol Duggan, Hayley Dureau, Jacki Mathews
Assistant Principals