HAVE YOUR FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGED?

To ensure we are able to contact parents and guardians quickly and easily in an emergency, please keep your contact details up to date via Parent Lounge. Ensure you have an Alternate Emergency Contact listed for your family. Your Alternate Emergency Contact will be contacted if you are unavailable in the case of an emergency.

Where there has been a family separation and parents now reside at different addresses, please be aware we can effectively manage separate contact details on our system without compromising communication regarding your son. In the case of separated families, it would be ideal to have an Emergency Contact listed for each parent. If there is a new family court order in place and you require conditional communication or separate billing, please let us know.

Our intention is to provide the best possible communication between College staff and parents or caregivers. If you have any feedback on College communication, we would welcome your comments to marist@marash.qld.edu.au.

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS BEFORE SCHOOL

Parents, please be aware that the College’s formal yard supervision of students commences at 8:15am every school day.

Those boys who are attending sports training or other planned activities will always be supervised by the adult(s) in charge and, from 7:30am, boys are welcome to go to either of the libraries or to the Centre for Learning Enrichment for tutoring and other assistance. While there are always adults close by around the school from 7:00am these people are not actively supervising any early arrivals. Parents should take this into consideration. As there is no formal supervision prior to 8.15am, students who are at school prior to that time are required to sit quietly in the yard if not otherwise engaged as listed above.

ABSENCES AND/OR EARLY DEPARTURES

For your son’s safety and your own peace of mind, please notify the College of absences and/or early departures:

Email Student Administration office: studentabsentees@marash.qld.edu.au
Ring the College Absentee Line: 07 3858 4697

An SMS alert will be sent to parents of students recorded as an unexplained absence.

STUDENTS ARRIVING LATE

MUST sign in at the Student Administration offices (Primary School: Years 5 to 6 and Student Administration: Years 7 to 12) BEFORE going to their scheduled classroom. An email will be forwarded to parents when their sons arrive late to school, advising their arrival time and reason.

STUDENTS LEAVING BEFORE THE END OF THE SCHOOL DAY

Year 5 to 6 students must report to the Primary School office when they want to leave.

Year 7 to 12 students must also present a Head of House signature when signing out at Student Administration before they leave.

ENROLMENTS

If you have a sibling to enrol at the College, please register your son/s at https://www.marash.qld.edu.au/enrolments/online-application

If you wish to withdraw your son from the College, a term’s notice is required as per the Enrolment Agreement. Please contact your son’s Head of House and enrol@marash.qld.edu.au and advise your son’s departure date.

COLLEGE MAIN ADMINISTRATION

A reminder to all parents, that the hours for the College Main Administration are 8:00am to 4:00pm during term time. The College Main Administration is closed during the holidays.

A MESSAGE TO PARENTS ABOUT CHILD PROTECTION

The College has a Child Protection policy which can be accessed through the Parent Portal. The College takes its child protection responsibilities seriously. Please contact the College’s Student Protection Officers if you are concerned about the behaviour of anyone, which is causing you or your son concern.

Our Student Protection Officers are Mr Bruce McPhee (Deputy Headmaster), Mr Peter Serone (Head of Students), Mrs Angela Simpson (Head of Teaching and Learning) and Mr James Couper (Head of Boarding). Contacts are below. It is their responsibility to receive reports from students, parents and/or staff of any child protection matters. This includes reports of abuse, or likely abuse, harm or likely harm.

Mr Bruce McPhee: 07 3858 4535; mcpheeb@marash.qld.edu.au
Mr Peter Serone: 07 3858 4509; seronep@marash.qld.edu.au
Mr James Couper: 07 3858 4641; couperj@marash.qld.edu.au
Mrs Angela Simpson: 07 3858 4515; simpsona@marash.qld.edu.au

EXTERNAL TUTORING ON COLLEGE GROUNDS

If you are interested in arranging for an External Private Tutor (eg an Old Boy) to tutor your son on College Grounds, such as in the Library or within Boarding, you will need to seek permission from the Headmaster Mr Peter McLoughlin by emailing him the details to marist@marash.qld.edu.au. Please include the name of your son, his homeroom and the name/contact details of the Tutor you are enlisting to tutor your son.

As you may appreciate, we require all persons engaging in private tutoring on campus to hold a Blue Card, as well as to abide by the College’s Private Tutoring Guidelines. You will then be emailed a form that needs to be signed and returned and the HR department will make contact with the Tutor regarding their Blue Card.

Please note that until the Tutor provides proof of their blue card to the College, and is linked to the College, they are unable to tutor on the College grounds.

DROP-OFF AND PICK-UP

Please remember when dropping off or picking up students that road rules exist for the protection of everyone including your boys. Police and other authorities will be enforcing traffic regulations.

Please remind boys that if. for any reason, they are not picked up after school, they should go to the Health Centre and wait for a parent to arrive. The staff there are able to look after the boys and make every effort to contact parents.

LOST STUDENT ID CARD PROTOCOL

If your son loses his ID Card we recommend taking the following actions;

Place a block on the card immediately (the block will only last 24 hours)
If not found within 24 hours transfer all funds into the parent account
Ask your son to report the lost card to Student Administration
Order a new ID Card via the Monitor online purchases shop
Once the new card has been ordered it can be collected from the IT department

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