Capital Avenue Glen Waverley, 3150

Phone: (03) 9803 5144 Facsimile: 9803 4310

Email: highvale.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au

School Website: www.highvalesc.vic.edu.au

Newsletter No.11 29th May 2020

EXCELLENCE | INTEGRITY | RESILIENCE |RESPECT |RESPONSIBILITY

Important Dates

C A R E E R N E W S

Click the link – 24th April 2020

1st May 2020

Uniform Shop 2020

Click here

for Uniform Order Form

Term Dates 2020

TERM 2: 14th April—26th June

TERM 3: 13th July—18th Sep

TERM 3: 5th October—18th December

It is important that parents have checked their login details for COMPASS. If you have any questions or have forgotten your login details please email the school Highvale.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au. Students need to check their COMPASS login details. If they have any problems, please go to the ICT office in the library.

COMPASS LOGIN

Monday 8th June Queen’s Birthday Holiday

Tuesday 9th June Years 7-10 Students Return

Friday 19th June Report Writing Day—Pupil Free Day

Friday 26th June End of Term 2

Monday 13th July Start of Term 3

CONTACT INFORMATION During the school lockdown it was noted that a number of families had the wrong contact

information listed on Compass. It is vitally important, especially in the current situation,

that we have the correct information. Could you please check the contact information we

have listed for you. If there are any corrections needed please email them to

admin@highvalesc.vic.edu.au

Ian Watkins

Principal

Principal’s report 29 May 2020

Welcome back VCE students

It was great to see our VCE students return this week.

Report Writing day

Friday 19th June will be a report writing day. No students are required at

school. We anticipate providing modified Semester one reports before the

end of term 2.

Removal of portables

Our portables are just about gone now. Some have been with us for over 20

years.

The contractors will still be on site next week cleaning up the site and

repairing fencing and footpaths that were damaged by the very heavy

trucks.

Remote learning weekly winners

Congratulations to our winners. With only a few weeks left please get your last entries in!

Remote Teaching statistics

The attendance rates for our remote teaching continue to be above 97% for all year levels.

Justin (Y12) and Corey (Y10) Wright

Salil Gudup Y7

Abbie Dowsing

Debating

Debating Update

With the closures of extracurricular and external programs due to Covid-19 restrictions, unfortunately the traditional Debating program is unable to run this year. This is, obviously, very sad news for all involved.

Fortunately, due to the tech savvy-ness of our students, we have been able to run one online debate during the remote learning period. This was conducted between the Year 11 team of; Emily Badcock, Claire Mercado and Simran Bhatt and, the Year 12 team of; Josh Duncan, Felix Donahoo-Andrusiak and Catherine Cheng. The students debated the topic 'That the 'COVIDSafe' App should be legislated making it compulsory for all Australian citizens to download.' - and saw the year 12 team take out victory with their affirmative argument. All students spoke well and produced some great ideas.

Moving forward, the Debater's Association of Victoria (DAV) have set up an online competition that will consist of 3 rounds within the space of term 2. We are very excited to say that our year 10 team; Anjana Niranjan, Phoebe Ferguson, Ananaya Rajora and Novica Pearsall, will be participating in this opportunity. I look forward to one day being able to see our debaters in action again but, for the mean time, it has been fantastic to see the resilience and enthusiasm of our students as they adapt to the "new normal" for now.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Protecting Children from Abuse: For Parents and Carer

保護孩子免受虐待 給家長和照顧者的資訊

Bảo vệ Trẻ em khỏi bị Ngược đãi: Dành cho Cha mẹ và Người chăm sóc

학대로부터 어린이 보호하기: 부모와 보호자를 위한 정보

Dear parents

As adults we play a critical role in protection children from harm. The following link provides

you detailed information.

For Easy English version, please click the following website,

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/programs/health/protect/EasyEnglish_Second ar-

ySchool_FactSheet.pdf

For other languages, please click “Translated information” in the following website and select your

language.

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/parents/safety/Pages/child-protection.aspx (Click here)

Highvale Secondary College "Making a difference"

Highvale Secondary College Capital Ave, Glen Waverley Melbourne, Victoria, 3150

Phone: (03) 9803 5144 Facsimile: 9803 4310

Email: highvale.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au School Website: www.highvalesc.vic.edu.au