School News

UPCOMING OUT OF UNIFORM DAY

Wednesday 29th March – Week 8

Gold Coin Donation towards the 'Lift Off Scholarship’.

The Goulburn Valley Education Scholarship Program, established in 2014 and known as Lift Off, is an initiative of The Community Fund Goulburn Valley in collaboration with the Greater Shepparton Lighthouse Project.

The aim of the scholarships is to increase the number of young people from the region who are able to pursue their dreams for post-secondary education and is a response to studies showing that young people from non-metropolitan regions in Victoria defer university studies at twice the rate of their metropolitan counterparts.

The funds raised by the 4 schools of the Better Together Alliance will go towards a scholarship that will be named after the BTA and will be directed towards supporting a student from the BTA for their future studies.  This fund raising event will be an annual day to continue the scholarship into the future.

GOWOLA HOMEWORK CLUB

Please open the attachments, this might be just what your student needs........

FAMILY TIP SHEET

Common Sense onPrivacy and  Digital Footprints

What’s the Issue?

Our kids live in a culture of sharing that has forever changed the concept of privacy. In a world where everyone is connected and anything created online can be copied, pasted, and sent to thousands of people in a heartbeat, privacy starts to mean something different than simply guarding personal or private information. In this context, you might think about kids’ privacy in three categories: privacy and security, privacy and reputation, and privacy and advertising.

• Privacy and security: This is the private information (e.g. Medicare number, school ID, first and last name) that could put kids at risk for identity theft if it got into the wrong hands.

• Privacy and reputation: The information that could be personally embarrassing or hurtful to them or others if posted publicly.

• Privacy and advertising: The information about their habits and behavior online that companies collect in order to target them with ads and other content.

Why Does It Matter?

For good or bad, everything our kids do online creates digital footprints that migrate and persist. Kids share work with others and, as they get older, receive comments and feedback. This culture of sharing is beneficial in many ways. But if kids aren’t careful, their reputations can be harmed, or their information used in ways they never intended. For example, your child may think he or she just sent something to a friend, but that friend can send it to a friend’s friend, who can send it to their friends’ friends, and so on. Or they may innocently fill out an online form without understanding that this may make them vulnerable to identity theft. Their online behavior will likely be tracked without them knowing by the industry, which has little incentive to be responsible.

COMMON SENSE SAYS.............

• Make sure kids get your permission before filling out forms. Let kids know that you are the gatekeeper. They should ask your permission before filling out online forms, and they should always keep their School ID, Medicare number, birth date, address, and full name private.
• Help kids think long term. Everything online leaves a digital footprint. Help them think before they post so that they will be proud of their internet presence down the road.
• Remind kids that the Golden Rule applies online. Remind kids that they will be treated online as they treat others. Whatever negative things they say can and probably will come back to haunt them, in more ways than they can imagine.
• Help kids see through advertising. The next time an ad pops up online, or you see that you are being targeted by ads specific to your interests, point it out to your kids. Let them know that some companies advertise to you based on what kinds of things you look at online.

STUDENTS AND SICKBAY

When a student informs a teacher that they are unwell, the teacher will send them to the Student Administration Centre (SAC) with a note. Here our trained first aiders will assess the situation and if deemed the student is genuinely ill, the first course of action will be to ring a parent or guardian to collect the student. Our sickbay facilities are not intended to house students for long periods of time.

Students are requested not to ring their parents to arrange this pick-up and allow this to be organised through the SAC.

Parents/Guardians will be required to sign out the student.

Parent/Teacher Interviews Map

Below is the link for the map showing which rooms the teachers will be in for the Parent/Teacher Interviews.