Secondary News

Year 8 Surf Camp 

Surf camp departure date is nearing, 27th March, and students need to have returned their permission/medical forms.  These along with full payment of camp are due by Friday 17th March.  

Please contact the College office if your child has not brought home a permission/medical form.

Camp must be paid for before departure date.

Snow Camp

Year 10 Snow Camp deposits are due to be paid by Friday 17th March.   See below for the information letter.   For any enquiries please call the College office on 50 252 501

Secondary Swimming Carnival

By Solo & Will

Last Thursday, we had our school swimming carnival at the merbein pool. It was a great, hot day with the temperature being a perfect 38 degrees. It was good to see so many people showing off their house colours and it was even better that lots were participating in the different swimming events. 

Once we arrived at the pool, the under 13 girls started us off with butterfly, then followed by under 13 boys, all the way up to under 16 boys. We then went into the trials for the other events such as freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke with the top 2 from each event going through to the finals. 

As the day went on between events we had a few free swims as the temperature kept getting hotter. Then once all our events were done we moved onto our freestyle and medley relays. The day ended with an all in free swim while the numbers were being added up to see which house would win in our first sporting event of 2023. 

Congratulations to all houses, especially to the winning team being Cowra. 

We would like to thank Mr Lee for running the swimming events along with his awesome commentary skills, short Mrs Smith for putting all of the events together, and a huge thank you to everyone that participated in the swimming events and supporting your houses.

Lastly I’d like to say congratulations to all the swimmers and age group champions and good luck to those that will be going to the inter-school swimming sports as of tomorrow morning. 

Expressions of Interest - Instrumental Music Lessons

School Uniform

All students of Merbein P-10 College are expected to wear full school uniform that bear the College logo every day. The uniform must be worn to and from school, at lunchtime and recess, and on all school excursions. At all times the manner in which the uniform is worn will reflect pride in the College. This means that, the uniform: 

• will be clean and in a state of good repair,
• worn without non-uniform garments being visible (only plain white or plain black shirts are acceptable to be worn under the school polo top or shirt, not hoodies).
• School shorts and pants, should be completely black however minimal branding (Adidas, Nike etc). Black football shorts are not suitable school uniform.
• Hats and beanies are not to be worn inside.
• Students may wear the official school sports shirt to or from school if they have P.E. session 1 or 5. No other sports clothes may be worn to or from school, or at recess or lunchtime.
• Parents/guardians are expected to inform the College through a written note, email or phone call of any temporary variation to their child’s uniform. The note should contain a reason, date and an expected date of return to full school uniform

With the weather cooling down hoodies and other types of windcheaters are NOT school uniform.  

School jumpers can be purchased from the main office at any time during the day.

School Phone Policy

Students who choose to bring mobile phones to school must have them switched off and securely stored during school hours in their locker. If students are caught on their phone between 9am-3:17pm the following actions will occur:

1st Offence -phone is confiscated and stored in the main office. Phone will be returned to student at end of the day

2nd Offence- phone is confiscated and stored in the main office. Parent will be required to collect the phone.

3rd Offence- phone is confiscated and stored in the main office. Parent will be required to collect the phone. Student will be required to hand their phone to the front office each morning or leave their phone at home for a period of time determined by the Principal/Assistant Principal

4th Offence- meeting with the Principal and a suspension may be applied

Please contact Mr Morgan if you have any queries regarding the phone policy.

Doctors In Secondary Schools Program

Our Doctors in Secondary Schools program is available for all secondary students to access free (bulk-billed), confidential health care at school. This is a fantastic service which students can access for any of their health care needs including asthma/anaphylaxis plans, catch-up immunisations, mental/emotional health and any other medical concerns no matter how big or small. Students can see the school doctor for any reason that they would see their usual GP.

The rooms will be open every Wednesday during the school term from 9am – 2pm. Students can make appointments by contacting Amy in the general office or they can ask a teacher or wellbeing staff member to make the appointment for them – the only details required to make an appointment will be the student’s name and date of birth.

Parents are welcome to attend appointments if the student wishes.

School Wide Positive Behaviour (SWPB)