Term 1 Newsletter 2020

215 High Street, Hastings, 3915 PH: 5979 1577, Fax: 5979 3734 . Email: western.port.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au Web: www.westernportsc.vic.edu.au

2020 Swimming Carnival

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House Athletics Carnival

Year 9 Forensic Science

Year 9 Forensic Investigators joined forces with the local Police Crime Scene Unit to discuss and explore the real life application of CSI forensics. The students where most enthusiastic about the visit and listened attentively as the officers responded to the many questions from the floor.

This “real world’ look at forensics certainly opened the eyes of the students and possibly inspired some. Students loved the finger printing which were far superior to our efforts in class!

Year 11 Outdoor Education had a great time at Melbourne Cable Park, Knee boarding, wake boarding exploring the high ropes and learning all about man made vs natural environments. Awesome way to finish the week.

Year 12 Outdoor and Environmental students enjoyed their bike ride

around Point Nepean National Park where they studied past relationships with the environment including Indigenous and European Settlers.

Melbourne Cable Park Point Nepean

Tennis Titans! Congratulations to our Senior Girls who took the pennant earlier this term. Certainly a force to be reckoned with!

Outdoor Education Camp

Cleaning Up Hastings Year 9 students rolled up their sleeves to clean up parts of Hastings and our College grounds.

They did a great job and many of them signed up for the official Clean Up Australia Day which was fantastic!

Year 10’s Furniture and Design

Meet the next innovators in Furniture and Design!

Year 10 Product and Design students worked hard to put Ikea items together for our College Gallery. Gaining knowledge of design first hand and working out what to do with that one left over bolt!

Year 7 Camp—Howqua

Every year students create models of homes as part of their Indonesian studies. Second week back and look at what they've created.

The passion is certainly visible. Well done Year 8's!

Indonesian Homes

'I am generation equality, realising woman's rights'

Principal Chris Quinn spoke at an International Women’s Day event at the Wallaroo Community Centre. Hosted by Rosie Silva (Family Life) and Melissa Rigby (Good Shepherd). The theme of IWD 2020 is Each for Equal, an equal world is an enabled world.

Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day

We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women's achievements.

Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender equal world.

Welcome Ross

We are delighted to confirm that with the support from the Mornington Peninsula Foundation, we have appointed Ross Wettenhall as our full time Learning Guarantee Coordinator. Ross will be working across Western Port SC, Tyabb Railway Station PS and Crib Point PS.

As Principal’s involved in leading this project, Chris Quinn (WPSC), Tina Coumbe (CPPS) and Emma Slater (TRSPS) are excited by this appointment and looking forward to impacting the outcomes of young people across our community.

What a great first whole school assembly!

The Year 7's of 2020 were introduced to the College community.

Our College Captains made their debut.

The CARE Captains, HPV and Duke of Edinburgh award recipients announced. Harry Hansen applauded for his Australia Day award in recognition of his outstanding community achievements.

We heard about up coming sporting events, production auditions and rehearsals, STEM club, choir and Art Club!

Thank you to all of Parents and Carer's who came along. It's lovely to have your support.

SECONDARY SCHOOL ENROLMENT PRIVACY COLLECTION STATEMENT Privacy information for parents and carers

During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at our school, school staff will collect your child’s personal and health information when necessary to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing or health. Such information will also be collected when required to fulfil a legal obligation, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law. If that information is not collected, the school may be unable to provide optimal educa-tion or support to your child, or fulfil those legal obligations.

For example, health information may be collected through the school nurse, primary welfare officer or wellbeing staff mem-ber. If your child is referred to a specific health service at school, such as a Student Support Service officer, or school-engaged psychologist, the required consent will be obtained.

Our school may use online tools, such as apps and other software, to effectively collect and manage information about your child for teaching and learning purposes, parent communication and engagement; student administration; and school man-agement purposes. When our school uses these online tools, we takes steps to ensure that your child’s information is se-cure. If you have any concerns about the use of these online tools, please contact us.

School staff will only share your child’s personal or health information with other staff who need to know to enable the school to educate or support your child, or fulfil a legal obligation.

When our students transfer to another Victorian government school, personal and health information about that student will be transferred to that next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of our students and assists that next school to provide optimal education and support to students.

In some limited circumstances, information may be disclosed outside of the school (and outside of the Department of Educa-tion and Training). The school will seek your consent for such disclosures unless the disclosure allowed or mandated by law.

Our school values the privacy of every person. When collecting and managing personal and health information, all school staff must comply with Victorian privacy law. For more information about privacy including about how to access personal and health information held by the school about you or your child, see our school’s privacy policy: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/schoolsprivacypolicy.aspx

Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes principals, teachers, Student Support Service officers, youth workers, social workers, nurses and any other allied health practitioners and all other staff at our school. This includes employees, agents and service providers (contractors) of the Department, whether paid or unpaid.

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8/13 Eramosa Rd

Somerville 3912

Phone: (03) 5977 5277

NORMAL TRADING HOURS (Hours may vary on school

holidays)

Monday to Friday - - 10:00am to 5:00pm

Saturday - - 10:00am to 1:00pm

IMPORTANT Camps Sports and Excursion Fund Information

Any parent/guardian who holds a HCC/Pension Card and has not applied for CSEF please contact general office for an application form

CENTREPAY

WPSC would like to announce that we now offer Centrepay as another means of payment. This is a system to

assist families with automatic deductions from their Centrelink payments that can go towards College charges. There are no fees associated with this arrangement and the General Office is happy to assist with

registration.

Western Port Secondary College uses this App to communicate with you.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR

PARENTS/ GUARDIANS RE: Student Accident

Insurance Parents/ guardians of students who do not have student accident insurance are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance and any other transport costs. Student Accident Insurance can be purchased from commercial insurers.