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Dear Parents and Carers

It is with great excitement that I have resumed work at Castlemaine Secondary College this term. I am truly appreciative of the support I have received since my appointment as Principal late last term. I have always known that there has been very strong community support for our school, but this has been particularly evident to me over the past month. I look forward to working with our entire school community as we build on our school’s many strengths and work to make it an even better school for all young people in the Mt Alexander Shire.

The start of Term Three is always a busy period of time as we begin the process for selecting subject preferences for the following year. Following the parent information sessions that have just been held, all parents and students are encouraged to make an interview with the appropriate Mentor Teacher on Tuesday 1 August to submit their 2018 subject selections. Information has already been sent home about this interview day, but there are also further reminders included later in this newsletter. Although our current Year 7 and 12 students will not be required to enter subject selections for 2018, the mentors of these students will still be available for interviews on Tuesday. This will provide Year 7 and 12 students, along with their parents or carers, an opportunity to meet with their mentors to discuss general progress, review any issues from the mid-year report and to discuss goals for the remainder of the year. These interviews will run from 12pm – 7pm next Tuesday 1 August, and there will be no classes occurring on this day.

Paul Frye

Principal

Educational Pathways at CSC

Subject Selection for 2018

This term, CSC students select their subjects for 2018. This will occur on the Pathways Interview Day on Tuesday, 1st August from 12-7 pm. No classes will be held for students on this day. On this day, students and parents/carers meet with the student’s Mentor teacher to discuss their program and submit their subject selections for 2018.  Appointments of 20 minute duration can be booked online through XUNO (see Booking Instructions below for further information).  Although students in Years 7 and 12 will not be involved in selecting CSC electives for 2018, this will still be an opportunity for parents and carers of Years 7 and 12 students to meet with the mentor of their young person to discuss their progress.

CSC’s Course Selection Handbook, 2017-2018 for Years 9-12 This guide describes the extensive range of subjects offered at CSC as well as career pathways available through these subjects. The handbook is available in hardcopy from CSC Reception and online at  http://8824-moodle.csc.vic.edu.au/  under “Subject Selection Handbook” or on the webpage http://www.csc.vic.edu.au/  under “Publications/Subject Selection Handbook”

Year Level Information Sessions were held this week at support students and their families to select programs appropriate to their desired pathways and offer an opportunity for families to ask questions.

Subject “Speed Dating” During school time on the following dates, students will attend a short small group session with subject teachers to learn more about their preferred subject choices. 

• Year 9 – 24 July

• Year 10 – 31 July

Booking Instructions

XUNO bookings are now open, and will close at 2pm on Monday, 31 July.  If you do not have access to the internet please contact CSC on 5479 1111 and we will arrange your interview times for you.  

Please access the system as follows:

• Go to http://portal.csc.vic.edu.au/ and enter in your username and password;  or

• Go to the school’s home page www.csc.vic.edu.au

• Click the SMT link on the home page

• Enter your username and password.  If you have forgotten your log in details, please click on “forgotten your username or password?” and follow the prompts to generate a new one.

• Once you are logged into XUNO you will see your Home Screen with basic information about your child/children. 

From the Home Screen, select ‘Parent Teacher Interviews’ from the left hand menu.  Select the interview times that best suit you for each Mentor teacher you would like to meet with.

If you have any issues with logging into XUNO, please email ICT Manager Sam Murphy on murphy.sam.s@edumail.vic.gov.au.

 If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact Judith McLean, Assistant Principal or myself on 5479 1111.

RESOURCE SMART SCHOOL

IS COMING

School Council is working with Sustainability Victoria, the Student Representative Council, the school’s sustainability group, and the Growing Abundance Canteen to become a Resource Smart School.

One of the first things you can do to help is reduce the amount of waste that is coming in with students for lunch. We’d like to have a NUDE FOOD SCHOOL, which means no wrappers. And the other most important thing is that students need to take their waste home with them.

Please discuss these simple waste reduction issues with your children and help us get started towards becoming Resource Smart.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

SUB-COMMITTEE

We recently worked with the Department of Land Water and Environment (DELWP) to remove a huge section of weeds along the roadside of Lawson Parade. DELWP employed a crew of volunteers from Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) who not only cleaned up the roadside weeds, but also did some work taking out a dense section of blackberry and gorse on the school grounds.

Our next activity will be to plant some native grasses along the drain lines. Stay tuned for the date of the working bee.

Elizabeth Mellick

CSC Council President