The start of this term has been a very busy one with many different activities and some outstanding learning opportunities. Students in Year 7 had a great 3 days on camp. I was fortunate enough to attend for a few days and while it was very cold in the morning, we had some beautiful days.

To assist parents with planning our next Pupil Free Day is Tuesday the 18th^th of June. This is the day of the GAT, so it allows all students to sit the GAT without disruption.

We have had our Cross Country and thanks to Ms Kinsey for organising all of the sport activities. It was great to see the whole school involved in the Cross Country this year whether it was running or walking. Geelong High were also winners at the Bellarine Division Athletics, with a number of students moving on to compete at the Western Metro Finals.

At the start of the Term, we had our School Anzac and Investiture Assembly and I thank all of the students for the way they showed respect for those who have served and in particular our School Captains for leading us through this important recognition of our service men and women.

Thanks to Ms Cameron, Ms Gee and the Senior school team for all of their work in organising all of the activities for the Year 9 Careers Weeks. Students visited a number of venues to look at their future pathways. Students had the opportunity to visit the Gordon and the opportunities that exist there.

At the end of this term, we are planning to do some building works at the front office which will hopefully improve the service parents receive. This however will mean for the last 1-2 weeks we will have to move the front office to Y3. We will have signage directing parents but please understand it may take a little longer to answer questions and phone calls.

Recently we have updated a number of our Child Safe Polices and Code of Conduct. These are placed on our website. I encourage parents to have a look at these and if there is any feedback please contact me directly.

The school has a number of polices such as enrolment, excursion, yard duty hours of supervision and complaints process. If parents are looking for any school polices, you will find these on our website and please provide any feedback to me.

The selection process for the School of Student Leadership scholarship program at the Don Valley Campus is complete and the following students have been selected. They are all very excited, as they should be!

Ruby Barker

Makayla Ordner

Georgia Smith

Lachlan Harland

Ari Iliff

Aderinmola Ola-James