I know that by the time this review comes out Father’s Day will have been and gone but just thought I would start with a 'Dad' joke.

Apparently NASA have opened up a restaurant on the moon. The food is amazing but there is no atmosphere…………………………..

Anyway, there are a couple of things I would like to highlight as we move toward the end of Term 3. The first is that very soon our Year 8 and 9 students will be receiving information about subject selection for next year. The subject selections can be done online and information is being sent home in week 8. The deadline for selections is Monday September 19 at 8am so please keep checking with your child to get all the information you need. If you need some assistance, then please contact the front office and they will be able to assist you.

The second thing is attendance. We understand that students and their families have appointments that arise and students need to leave school for. If you could put a note in their student diary, they can simply show this to their teacher, then come to Student Services and sign out. The other thing you can do is send a text message to 0407 384 039 (you might want to put this into your contacts for future reference) and state who your child is, what time they are signing out and the reason, then Student Services can then sign them out of school at the right time. This also means students aren’t accessing their phones at school, because as we know, the Department of Education rule is 'mobile phones should be off and away all day'.

The last thing to keep an eye out for is at the end of next term our amazing Year Coordinators organise some wonderful end of year events for our Middle School Students who have maintained their Good Standing. If you aren’t sure what that means then please go to our website and look at the Middle School Good Standing Policy document for further information. It would be great to have as many students eligible to attend these great events.

Finally, I just want to wish our Year 7 Coordinator Courtney Hanson all the very best. She is starting in a different role at another school so we want to thank her for the amazing work she has done for our Year 7 cohort. It has been really appreciated and we will miss you.