What you need to know

JAPANESE VISIT CANCELLATION

Unfortunately, the planned visit by 28 Japanese students from Shizuoka Prefecture to Castlemaine Secondary College has been cancelled this year.

The Japanese company organising the main component of the trip, Kokusai Kanko, has been declared bankrupt.  There is another Japanese company who is interested in organising the visits to Australia in the future but we won’t know details until later in the year.

We are very hopeful that the planned trip to Japan will still continue in 2019.  More details will be published as they become available.

We are very grateful for the support we receive from the CSC community to enable this program to run year after year and we hope we have your support again next year. We apologise if the cancellation has caused any inconvenience to anyone.

Lyn Ellery 

Japanese Exchange Co-ordinator

French Exchange

Call for more students currently in Years 9 or 10 French to participate in the French exchange in 2019!

We had a very good response to our call for interested students and families to participate in the next French exchange during 2019. At this stage, however, we have 7 students interested and our requirement is for 8 students to participate in the out-going exchange along with two staff members.

If you have been deliberating and as yet are undecided about you/your child going on the exchange I would encourage you to think further about it and if indeed your decision is positive then let us know immediately. You can get more details from us by calling the school’s number below.

I would like to reiterate here too that it is really a fantastic opportunity for students to live with a French friend and learn about the life, language and culture of France that a touristic trip will never be able to provide students, so consider that when thinking about the value of this kind of trip.

Please let me, Jane Macdonald, or Mark Johansson know if you are interested on 5479 1111 if you haven’t already done so.

WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK!

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perceptions of school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday 23rd July to Sunday 26th August.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be available in a range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (hakha), Hindi, Japanese, Greek, Turkish, Somali and Punjabi.

The survey results will be reported back to the school at the end of September and is used in the future planning of the school.