Principal's Message

Dear Parents/Carers,

“Empowering students for learning and life”

High Expectations

As we moved into the latter part of the first Semester it was timely to remind students of the importance of doing their best in all forms of assessment.  For our Year 12 VCE students, it is in preparing adequately for their school based assessment and continually revising work throughout the year in readiness for their end of year exams.  It is also about ensuring that they have done their very best when they sat the GAT on Wednesday 13th of June.  Our VCAL students need to ensure they complete all set work to demonstrate their outcomes and participate fully in the Work Related  Skills work  and VET courses.   For our Year 10 and 11 students it is continually revising their work and seeking feedback from their teacher to support them in doing their best in their Semester 1 exams, which they completed last week.  I wish all our Senior School students well in their assessments and remind them that by applying themselves and revising diligently they will achieve their goals.  A continuous effort that is required throughout the year.

Student Representatives on School Council

We had 9 students nominate for Student Representatives for School Council, and it was great to see our students interested in representing their peers and having a voice.  Congratulations to Heidi Neels who was the successful candidate for the two year position, Selina Jafari who was the successful candidate for the one year position and Nya-Christmas Kuach who is our Community Member for two years.    Lyndhurst Secondary College has always had student representation on School Council, with two students being community members in the past.  We are proud that for the next two years we have two voted student representatives and one student who is community member on our School Council.  We look forward to working with them to continue to include student voice in making important decisions in the governance of our College.

Year 10 Work Experience

Many of our Year 10 students, will be starting their work experience during the week of the 18th of June which will provide them with a valuable opportunity to see what a workplace is like and potentially learn some new skills. I remind our students that they are our ambassadors of our school, and we expect them to present themselves appropriately attired for their work and to be model members of the workforce they are experiencing.  Staff will be visiting our students over the course of the week and we look forward to hearing about their experiences.  A reminder that there is a special program running for students not attending work experience, and they are expected to be at school in full school uniform.

Course Counselling

Early Term 3 we will be starting the course counselling phase in planning and preparation for 2019.  This process is extremely important, particularly for our students moving from Middle School into Year 10 and our Year 10 students moving into Year 11, ensuring they are in the best pathway to support them in achieving their careers goals.  As part of the counselling process, we will be considering student results/reports to ascertain student readiness for the course they aspire to; thus the need for students to do their very best in their assessment. Our information evening is scheduled Wednesday July 18th (first week in Term 3) and we encourage all families to attend.   More details of the course counselling process will be provided later this term and early next term.

Athletics Carnival

On Friday 25th of May we had our annual Athletics Carnival which was extremely successful.  We enjoyed great weather and it was great to see a large number of our students attend and dress up in their house colours.  Our Year 12 students dressed up, participated and supported their House, enjoying their last Athletics Carnival of their secondary school life.  It was a great atmosphere with all participating and cheering on their peers.     These days require significant organisation and time and a special thanks goes to Mr Geordie Atkin, our Sports Leader and to all staff for their support of this very important event in the College year.

Cranbourne Region Trade Skills Centre

On June 5th we celebrated the opening of the Cranbourne Region Trades Skills Centre.  Mr Chris Crewther was in attendance (Federal member for Dunkley) to formally open the centre.  There was representation from the other three schools, with whom we are in partnership with at the opening – Alkira, Cranbourne and Marnebek.    Other VIP guests who were in attendance included Ms Anne Martin and Ms Janne Dempster from the department, Mr Andrew Simons, (CEO - SELEN)  Pauline Richards, representing Jude Perera’s office  (MP), Cr Amanda Stapledon, Deputy Mayor, School Council members,college staff were also in attendance.  Our school choir sang the national anthem and our students from the VET course together with Mr Indhiran Padayachee (our VET Automotive teacher) showed our special guests around the site.  It was a very successful event. Thanks need to go to Ms Claire Clancy who organised the entire event and ensured that everything ran smoothly.

Art Competition

The Lynbrook Village Shopping Centre art competition, where our students created Art pieces depicting ‘CULTURE’ – Incorporating Peace and the Environment has now been completed and many of our students beautiful and creative pieces have been on display at the shopping centre since the beginning of this term. 

1st, 2nd, 3rd winners have been chosen and 'Peoples Choice' voted by the public. All winners will be announced and presented with their prizes at a special celebratory lunch on Thursday 28th June in Lynbrook.  We are very proud of our students and are grateful to Lynbrook Village Shopping Centre for providing our students with this opportunity.  The winners will be announced in the first newsletter of term 3.

Year 12 Formal

The Year 12 formal this year is being held on Thursday 28th of June, and is an event organised by our school captains and student voice leader, Ms Lauren Shaw.     The event this year will be held at the Sandhurst Club in Sandhurst. We look forward to a great evening.

Student Feedback Survey

Over the last three weeks, our school has been conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our school. The Attitudes to School survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education and Training. The survey assists schools in gaining an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school.

Our school will use the survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your child's schooling experience.

The survey results will be reported back to the school in term 3. Survey results will be communicated to parents through annual reporting and at school council.

 Later in the year, we will be seeking feedback from our parent community and we encourage you to complete the survey, should you be randomly selected. Our school values the voice and opinions of our community in helping us to make improvements to our school.

School Holidays

The last day of the school term is Friday 29th of June.  The school day will finish at 2:30 and the office will be closed at 3:30 on that day.  There will be staff on yard duty until 3:00 pm.  We wish everyone a safe and restful holiday.  We look forward to welcoming our students back on Monday, 16th of July, for the start of term 3.

Konnie Prades     

Principal