Newsletter 

GENERAL INFORMATION

College Bus Information

A friendly reminder that all bus staff, adult travellers and students are still required to wear face masks as is the case for public transport.

 

SCSC has updated the College bus information on our website, including:

  • Updated bus routes to/from the College
  • Links to timetables
  • 2022 PTV Student Application Form
  • 2022 Conveyance Allowance Application Forms & lodgement cut off dates

CLICK HERE to be taken directly to our website. We encourage families to familiarise themselves with this information.

Student Lost Property

To assist staff with returning items that may have been left behind in class, we advise families to ensure the student name has been written on the tag so we may return them to the rightful owner.  Any items that are found without a name will be kept for 2 weeks and if unclaimed, will then be donated. 

Compass - How to advise of an absence

If you would like to advise of your child's absence or would like to authorise to sign your child out for an appointment later in the day, you can utilise your Compass app on your phone, as follows:

 

The most common approval types are:

 

  • Medical / Illness
  • Medical Appointment (this also includes specialists e.g. psychologist, orthodontist)
  • Parent Choice

 

So, for example, if your child needs to leave school at lunch time for an appointment at the dentist, you would select the start time as 12:30pm and finish time as 2:55pm.  

 

Your child at the appointment time can then sign out at the Administration Office, our staff will check Compass for your approval and can sign your child out.

Sick Bay

If a student is feeling unwell, to keep in line with the Department of Education & Training's Mobile Phone Policy, students are required to go to the Administration Office where a trained First Aid Officer will provide assistance and call parents/guardians if they are too unwell to remain at school and need to go home.

 

Please note, that the school will only call parents/guardians in regards to an unwell child. The school will never send a text message to advise that their child is unwell and requires collection.  

 

If you have any questions regarding the above or other queries, please call our Administration Team on (03) 5261 6633.

Communicating with your Student's Teachers

Through the range of platforms at Surf Coast Secondary College there is also a range of communication mediums with your students teachers.  This article will detail a couple of these opportunities and some supports.

 

The most straightforward means of communication is via a phone call to the school (03) 5261 6633, in this instance teachers may be teaching or engaged in meeting/planning time so you may need to leave a message or organise another time for contact. 

 

To ensure communication with your students teachers the most consistent means of communication is via Compass our Student Management Platform.  Compass will allow you to communicate with the teacher via email, it is also how the teacher will communicate with you and your student.  To ensure communication between parents and teachers is considered and consistent we expect teachers will respond to emails within 24 hours or the next working day. 

 

To ensure you can speak with your students teachers organising a time for a phone call or to meet onsite through Compass will ensure you and the teacher are available and prepared.  Compass will also allow you to email all of your students teachers at once.  

 

To communicate with a your students teachers via compass you can refer to the linked guide. “You will need to be in the browser version, Menu -> Open in Browser, to do this from the app.”

Guide Link - Pg - 17 - https://bit.ly/3NoYBQ5

The page where all past posts are stored is - https://bit.ly/3jzBzXz 

 

Shaun Miller,

Digital Learning Specialist.

Annual Privacy Reminder for 2022 

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. For more information about privacy, refer to: Schools’ Privacy Policy — information for parents. This information is also available in ten community languages: 

 

* Amharic 

* Arabic 

* Dari 

* Gujarati 

* Mandarin 

* Somali 

* Sudanese 

* Turkish 

* Urdu 

* Vietnamese. 

E-Scooters 

In cooperation and support with our local police, please take time to have a look at the attached flyer. This flyer will be handed out by police to students if they have been intercepted as a formal warning before adopting a zero tolerance approach in regards to E-scooters.

 

If you have any further queries, please contact your local police station for further information.

MYKI Card Reminder

An important reminder that students require a MYKI card with sufficient funds to cover their bus journey to and from the College whilst travelling on the below services:

 

T5: Grovedale

T6: Jan Juc

T7: Ocean Acres

T10: Ocean Views

and all public transport services.

 

McHarry's Buslines have advised that students may incur a $200 fine if they do not have sufficient funds or have a valid card.