Message from our 

Campus Principal

Welcome to Semester Two and to another busy term of learning. 

 This term we will continue our commitment to providing a range of opportunities for our students.   Our Year 9s will travel to Melbourne for their year-level camp and Year 10 students from both Churchill and Morwell Campus will visit Tasmania for their camp.

Some of the other excursions and incursions on offer have been a performance by Brainstorm Productions for Years 7 and 8 students, and to assist Year 9 and 10 students to make informed decisions about their future pathways, they will be attending the Job Skills Expo at Lardner Park. It is important for families to keep track of Compass permissions to ensure students do not miss out on any activities planned. 

Last week our college celebrated NAIDOC week.  Although NAIDOC falls during the school holidays, our college always celebrates this significant event in the second week of term three, highlighting the cultural history of our Indigenous people.  This year we were proud to host the college event at Churchill Campus and celebrate the theme ‘For Our Elders’. 

We were equally proud to open our indigenous garden in the courtyard next to Hands-on Learning and are thankful for Aunty Helen’s painting of Tidilick the Frog which will be hung in the foyer. In the lead-up to our NAIDOC celebrations our students learnt about the significance of NAIDOC, the responsibility of elders, and about the dreamtime story ‘Tidilick the frog’.

Last year the college launched a documentary ‘Stop, Rewind, Play' which features some of our indigenous students discussing and addressing issues of racism and trauma. The documentary was aired during the school holidays.  Through structured lessons with our entire school cohort, we are currently addressing racism, racist behaviour, and inter-generational trauma.

Included in this newsletter is a flyer outlining the uniform for students.  Many students are wearing black pants instead of the required school colour, blue.  Our uniform provider, Lowes has a range of blue pants for students including a tracksuit pant with zipped pockets chosen by our student representatives.  Please let me know if you have any questions or need any assistance with uniform.  

Ms Cleo Lazaris

Churchill Campus Principal