Lilydale High School Newsletter

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

TERM 3

Term 3 Over and Out

Thanks to everyone for a successful Term 3, we have had some incredible achievements that involved staff and students, here are a few:

  • We Will Rock You - Great production!
  • 2019 Course Selection for Middle and Senior Schools
  • Awards Assemblies - Semester 1
  • Year 10 Driver Education 
  • Senior Boys Netball team – State Champs
  • Girls Football team – State Runners-up
  • EMR Regional Netball Championship team
  • Resilience Project – Student and parent sessions
  • Monash Accounting Week Case Competition Award Winners – James Laven, Ben Vincent, Damien Armstrong
  • Are you OK? Day
  • Student vs Teachers Netball/Basketball matches
  • VCE Music Performance Evenings
  • September Soiree
  • VCAL students – building a fairy garden at WNPS
  • Year 12 Coffee mornings
  • Year 8 Wellbeing Day
  • Year 10 MIPs/Careers Interviews 
  • Ross Huggard Year 12 English Lecture
  • Year 9 Yarra Ranges Tech School Visits
  • Great Book Swap
  • Premiers' Reading Challenge
  • Community Time  - Year 7 students
  • Duke of Ed visit to community members
  • Netball Victoria School Championships
  • VCE Ski Camp
  • World Challenge Fund Raisers
  • Athletics Carnival
  • Garden and facility improvements
  • Aeroschools Victorian Champs
  • New LHS Careers website
  • Cool Beans Cafe Barista Training
  • Chirnside Park Shopping Centre Art Display Competition
  • Lilydale Basement Food Hub  cooking sessions
  • PISA Testing
  • District Athletics
  • Grade 5 Mini Lessons
  • Australian Mathematics Competition

Duke of Ed – Community Service

An important aspect of the Duke of Edinburgh program involves  students undertaking a number of hours of community service.

 

Recently, the Community Connector from Chirnside Park Shopping Centre contacted us to enquire as to how we may be able to be involved with the community. It only needed to be a simple activity that would encourage connections with a view to building student confidence and resilience and, at the same time, contribute to the community.

 

Our students took up the challenge of bridging the generation gap by sitting and chatting with the community members over a latte. The students were wonderful, engaging with many people across a range of ages and discussing many topics.

 

Special thanks to everyone involved.  Particular thanks to Duke of Ed teacher, Jye Cuffe for setting up and facilitating the excursion and to Ian Bunston, Community Connector at Chirnside park Shopping Centre.

 

Three Way Conferencing

Thank you to those parents, guardians and students who attended the Three Way Conferencing held on Thursday 20 September.

 

The opportunity to meet parents and exchange information is important to us to ensure we can establish a partnership that enables students to succeed at school.

Road Safety

Members of the community contact me occasionally regarding the unsafe behaviour of some of our students when crossing roads in the school precinct. Their concerns are often in relation to students failing to use appropriate crossings which results in drivers having to take evasive action.

 

Can I urge all of our students to take care when crossing roads and use the pedestrian crossings to ensure their safety. 

Attendance - Everyday Counts!

Attending school every day is vital for students of all ages to fully achieve.  We all want our students to get a great education, and the building blocks for a great education begins with students coming to school each and every day.

 

Missing school can have a major impact on a child’s future – a student missing one day a fortnight will miss four full weeks by the end of the year.

 

There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.

 

Regular attendance is valued at Lilydale High School. Students who attend regularly give themselves the best opportunity to achieve academically by engaging fully in their learning and foster and maintain friendships. 

 

I ask all parents/guardians to encourage regular attendance for your child/children to ensure every chance for success.

Mobile Phone Policy

Over the years we have maintained the 'Mobile Phone Policy' that bans the use of phones whilst at school. Our focus is on learning and social interactions without the use of phones.

 

In the case of emergencies, staff must be able to discharge their duty of care according to department guidelines i.e;

 

'Whilst students are at school they are in the care of school staff, when there is an issue or emergency at school it is incumbent upon staff to be able to deal with it'.

 

This is sometimes difficult when students directly contact parents rather than speaking with Coordinators who are always happy to call parents for the student concerned.

 

Please don’t encourage your child to contact you during school hours – any student who is in need of assistance for any reason, must report to the Sub School Offices. In the case of medical issues, students must report to Sick Bay.

 

Thank you for your assistance with this in advance.

Holidays

Please have a safe and restful break.  We look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday October 8.

 

Wendy Powson

Principal