Today (Friday 23 November) is the last day of the 2018 academic year.
On Monday students move up to their next year level, complete with new timetables and teachers.
Students can access their 2019 Timetables over the weekend via Daymap.
Our Early Start program lasts two weeks. In every class students will be asked to complete a 2019 unit of work. Please note that all assessments and attendance count towards 2019 progress!
Year 11 students - Friday 7 December
Year 10 students - Friday 7 December if they bring a note from a parent/guardian stating that they have appropriate holiday employment. Otherwise they are expected to attend until Friday 21 December.
Year 7-9 students - Friday 21 December
Information Nights commencing at 7.30 pm will be held over the following 2 weeks:
Thursday 29 November – Later Years Information Evening (Years 10/11)
Tuesday 4 December – Year 8 Information Night
Thursday 6 December – Year 9 Information Night
All will be held in the Later Years Centre.
Students can clean out their lockers after the last day of the Early Start, ie at the end of Friday 7 December.
We expect that they will continue using their locker as usual until then for bags and books.
At the end of our two weeks of Early Start, activities will continue for students still attending:
Monday 10 December - Friday 14 December
Community Based Learning or National Volleyball Championships
Monday 17 December
End of Year Activity 1: BeachDay to Pt Leo cost $25
Tuesday 18 December
End of Year Activity 2: Film Day at UHS with BBQ Lunch - no cost
Wednesday 19 December - Friday 21 December
End of Year Activity 3: Online Learning Courses - no cost
A very big welcome to our new Assistant Principal Tanya Au. Tanya will head up Later Years (Years 10-12) and the School Operations portfolios.
Tanya comes to us from Elizabeth Murdoch College where she has been leading VCE Teams. She has a large range of leadership experiences across a number of schools and we are very happy to have her on board.
Next year she will also be joining the English Domain, and teaching a Year 10 English class.
Welcome Tanya!
Early Start Notes...
Students are aware they will be required to bring something to write with and on for the next 2 weeks. 2019 textbooks will not be required and Year 8 2019 students will not require their BYOD. Should your child already have a new device they will be using in 2019 there will be an opportunity to bring it after 7 December to be linked in to the network.
School Shoes 2019
Just a reminder that when it comes time to purchase new shoes due to OH&S reguatlions they must be all black and hard leather.
Deb Martine and Tanya Au
Assistant Principals
In the lead up to the
2019 school year, all travellers wishing to access School Bus Program services,
are required to login to the School Bus Management System and submit their
travel applications.
The school wishes to stress to parents that safety is our number one priority.
If your child is not registered and is still travelling on a bus, then
the School Bus Management System and our school records will not have them
listed to catch the bus. In the event of an incident or a need to stop the bus,
we will not know that firstly your child is on the bus and will not know to
contact you.
To login to the School Bus Management System, please go to https:\\schoolbusapplication.ptv.vic.gov.au
Existing
Travellers
These are students who already travel on the
school bus and are registered on the School Bus Management System. If
your child requires continued travel on the school bus, then you must submit a
2019 travel application.
The chart below will help families already
registered on the School Bus Management System to:
· Renew Applications - If your child is already travelling and needs
continued school bus access and has not changed school or home address
· Add Travellers and New Application - If you are already registered on
the School Bus Management System, but have a child accessing a bus for the
first time
· New Application - If your child is already travelling but has changed
school or home address.
For your convenience, please see chart below to
help with the process.
All new families
seeking access to School Bus Program services for the first time will need to
register on the School Bus Management System. Please go to https:\\schoolbusapplication.ptv.vic.gov.au.
Once registered, families will be able to add
travellers and submit travel applications online.
For your convenience, please see the chart below to help you with the
registration and application process
Please open the link to the Second Hand Book and Uniform sale. If you have any books you would like to sell or uniform which is in good condition and you are able to donate it we would be most grateful.
The Chaplaincy Committee and Well Being Team
Goulburn River
We had a very successful 20 Year Reunion for the Upwey High Class of 1998 on Saturday 17 November at the Royal Hotel in Upper FTG. There were over 60 people there. As is usual at school reunions they arrived feeling nervous but very quickly were talking and laughing and feeling like they were 18 again.
It was a happy and fun night. Former teachers Bruce McIntyre, Mick Sheehy, Leisa Whitfield plus Stafford and I were the staff who attended.
A common thread in conversations was the great affection they felt for their school days and their old school. Justine De Bruyn wrote on our facebook group the next day “ That was so much fun". We really needed a whole weekend. I was a little disappointed I ran out of time to catch some of you. We really did grow up in an amazing part of the world, with such great people at a great school….I’m so grateful!!!”
Grant Nichol
Event Organizer
