Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to the first edition of our online newsletter. Our new format is the perfect way to share information about the students experience in programs and projects across the school each month. It is a great vehicle for our students and staff to be able to develop content to share with our community and their contributions will grow with each edition. The monthly newsletter is intended to sit alongside the Compass newsfeed which has become our main means of daily and weekly communication for those reminders and announcements about events and programs for specific year levels. I hope that you will enjoy hearing from our teaching teams and students about the wonderful things that are happening across the school every month.

Semester Reports and Parent Teacher Interviews

The Semester report cards were released via the ‘reports tab’ on your Compass Dashboard on Tuesday afternoon. The reports provides a summary of the targeted teacher feedback for each unit or topic completed throughout the semester, this feedback has also been progressively reported throughout each term via the learning tasks tab in Compass.

Parent/Teacher interviews will be held on Wednesday 26th July in the afternoon and evening and on Thursday 27th July in the afternoon.

Bookings can be made through Compass and are now open. Please take the opportunity to meet with the teacher to discuss your child’s progress and how you can work in partnership with the teacher to support continued growth and improvement.

Foundation 2024 - Open Day & School Tours

We have had strong interest in our school for Foundation 2024. Many future families having already taken a tour of Belgrave South and submitted enrolments forms for next year. If you have a kinder aged child who will be starting at Belgrave South next year, please make sure that you collect an enrolment pack from the main office and return the form as soon as possible. If you have friends with kinder aged children, please encourage them to contact me to arrange a time to take a tour in Week 3 or 4 of Term 3. I would be delighted to show them around our wonderful school.

Camp and Excursions

The current economic climate and the rising cost of living is creating challenging conditions for families across the state. We are incredibly conscious of these challenges and are reviewing our arrangements for camps and excursions at each year level as we continue our planning to ensure that we balance amazing experiences for our students with the most affordable options available.

There are many options available to us to be able to provide financial support to families to enable students to participate in these parts of our learning program. It is also important to know that the funds raised through many of our fundraising activities such as the Mother’s Day stall and weekly canteen, are directed towards the costs associated with student programs to support all students being able to participate.

Please make contact with myself, our Assistant Principal, Jackie Rawson, or our Business Manager, Robyn Garrett, if you need to confidentially discuss what support may be possible.

I will be taking a short period of leave during the first two weeks of Term 3. Our Assistant Principal, Jackie Rawson, will be the Acting Principal while I am away from Belgrave South. I look forward to seeing you all on my return in Week 3.

Have a wonderful term break and we will see you all back at school for another incredible term of learning.

Take care and stay safe.

Stuart.

From the office

Robyn Garrett & Jackie Pancutt