Parent Information 

School Tours

All 2022 and 2023 Prospective Students and their Parents are invited to attend a school tour. Tours will be conducted on the following dates:

Thursday the 11th, 18th and 25th of March; Tuesday the 30th of March and Thursday the 15th of April

All tours will begin at the Admin Building (Bill Cane Court Entrance) at 9:30am. To book in please use the following link: 

A School Tour will be conducted on the Thursday the 22nd of April at 9:30am and run for approximately an hour: 

All booking to be made through Try Booking 

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=728133

An Information Evening for all 2022 Prospective Students and their Parents/Carers will be held in the library on Monday the 26th of April at 7pm in the School library.

We are working with the primary schools to arrange some transition dates as well. These will hopefully be two x ½ days and one full day in addition to the state wide orientation day. If you have any questions or queries about the transition program please call the school on 51471790

Kind regards,

Belinda Marshall

Learning Specialist, Transition Coordinator and H/PE Leader

Year 6 Information Evening

If you require any further additional information can you please contact Jennifer Roep or Cheryl Evans on 51471790

PRIVACY COLLECTION STATEMENT –Secondary Schools Information for Parents and Carers

During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at our school, school staff will collect your child’s personal and health information when necessary to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing or health. Such information will also be collected when required to fulfil a legal obligation, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law. If that information is not collected, the school may be unable to provide optimal education or support to your child or fulfil those legal obligations.

For example, health information may be collected through the school nurse, our school's First Aid Officer, Year Level Leader or Wellbeing staff member. If your child is referred to a specific health service at school, such as a Student Support Service officer, or school-engaged psychologist, the required consent will be obtained.

Our school may use online tools, such as apps and other software, to effectively collect and manage information about your child for teaching and learning purposes, parent communication and engagement; student administration; and school management purposes. When our school uses these online tools, we takes steps to ensure that your child’s information is secure. If you have any concerns about the use of these online tools, please contact us.

School staff will only share your child’s personal or health information with other staff who need to know to enable the school to educate or support your child, or fulfil a legal obligation.

When our students transfer to another Victorian government school, personal and health information about that student will be transferred to that next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of our students and assists that next school to provide optimal education and support to students.

In some limited circumstances, information may be disclosed outside of the school (and outside of the Department of Education and Training). The school will seek your consent for such disclosures unless the disclosure is allowed or  is mandated by law.

Our school values the privacy of every person. When collecting and managing personal and health information, all school staff must comply with Victorian privacy law. For more information about privacy including about how to access personal and health information held by the school about you or your child, see our school’s privacy policy: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/schoolsprivacypolicy.aspx 

Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes Principals, Teachers, Student Support Service officers, youth workers, social workers, nurses and any other allied health practitioners and all other staff at our school. This includes employees, agents and service providers (contractors) of the Department, whether paid or unpaid.

CSEF Information For Parents

Parents & Friends Committee

Maffra Secondary College is extremely fortunate to be well supported by a small but vibrant group of parents.

Parents & Friends Committee meets once a month and is open to any parent wishing to have a greater involvement in their child’s school. The committee has two core focuses – fundraising to support the purchase of key learning resources and supporting families in times of need. Parents Committee also play a major role in organising the annual Debutante Ball, guided by an appointed teacher - Carol Caffery, who coordinates the event.

All parents are encouraged to consider joining the committee. The Parents Club meet on the first Monday of each month (usually in the staff room, but new rules with COVID) excluding public and school holidays. This is a very informal setting with the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer attending. Usually the Principal or Vice Principal also come along and any parents that join us. You don't have to be on the committee to be part of the P&F.  Everyone is welcome. We appreciate everyone is busy and your time is valuable so we like to keep meetings brief. Past members have the annual fundraising events well organised for ease in the future. There really isn't too much involved. Aside from meetings we generally have one fundraiser each term. In recent years these have included Debutante Ball, Greyhounds Race Night, Wood Raffle and Cake Stall.

More information can be obtained by contacting the school on (03) 5147 1790, or the Parents Committee president, Sandra Dekkers, at sandradekkers@bigpond.com