Maffra Secondary College in Maffra, Victoria | School

Maffra Secondary College

Locality: Maffra, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5147 1790

Address: Bill Cane Court 3860 Maffra, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.maffrasc.vic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Remote Learning message from our Science Team

25.01.2022 MSC Weekly Update

24.01.2022 Hi all, Did you know that Heyfield has the most solar panels per capita in Australia?! Year 8 students are collecting data for their Collabor8 projects and need YOUR HELP!... One group is working on the Microgrid project a sustainability project in Heyfield and they are learning more about the understanding of sustainability and solar use in our community. Can you please complete this survey it will take you LESS THAN 3 MINUTES! https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ I understand that you are super busy and possibly over surveys, but can you help out these students please? Cassie, Megan and Jordy

24.01.2022 Remote Learning message from MSC past students

24.01.2022 New Mental Health Practitioner (Psychologist) Hi my name is Megan Kenny, I am Maffra Secondary Colleges new Mental Health Practitioner (Psychologist). I have attached a video introducing myself and this new role. I currently work Tuesday mornings (8:30am - 12:30pm), Wednesdays & Thursdays

23.01.2022 Congratulations to our winners of the Masterchef Challenge guest cook off this week - Education Support staff Tash and Kirsty. Their Mexican share plate blew the judges away! A wonderful curry and coconut sambol made by runners up English teachers Ms Whitwam and Ms Heber. Who knew we had such amazing chefs at our school?!

23.01.2022 Take a look back at some amazing past submissions! We cant wait to see what you create this year! Submissions for the 2020 Wellington Youth Film Festival are now being accepted! We are soooooo excited! To enter your film, complete an entry form at www.wellington.vic.gov.au/youth

22.01.2022 Remote Learning message from the Year 7 Team.

19.01.2022 Monday 31st Wellbeing Day This Monday is Maffra Secondary Colleges Online Wellbeing Day! There will be lots of fun events to participate in for your chance to win heaps of prizes! Log in to your Year Level Assemblys at 10am Monday morning for instructions. ... Equipment needed will be a camera or camera phone to upload photos and videos of you completing the events. See more

19.01.2022 TEMPORARY JOB VACANCY Canteen Assistant Maffra Secondary College is looking to engage a Canteen Assistant on a short term arrangement, starting immediately until the 11 December 2020. The position will require working 5 days a week, 8.30 am to 3.00 pm. The role will entail: Engaging with Suppliers, students and staff in a friendly and helpful manner; Food handling and preparation;... Cash Handling; Adherence with statutory hygiene requirements; Applicants will be required to have (or prepared to attain) appropriate certificates for Safe Food Handling and a Working With Children’s Card. Applicants are asked to submit a Resume and a covering letter address the above role to [email protected] . For further information, please contact the Business Manager on 03 5147 1790. See more

19.01.2022 Congratulations to past student Mackenzie Landy (2018) CITY OF MELBOURNE MELBOURNE FASHION WEEK 23 - 29 NOVEMBER 2020... Witness boundary-pushing collections created by talent from Melbourne’s top design schools in this digital presentation featuring work from fashion students of RMIT School of Fashion and Design, Holmesglen Institute, Box Hill Institute, Whitehouse Institute of Design Australia, The Masters Institute for Creative Education and Kangan Institute. Mackenzie’s ‘Pinstripe’ collection originated from her personal feeling as though something was missing in her life, and not quite normal. With this in mind, she designed pieces that would normally be considered as ‘normal’ apparel and took them up a notch for example using a classic navy and white pinstripe fabric with a pink embellished pinstripe.

17.01.2022 Exciting opportunity for students finishing year 12 to gain paid, hands-on work on a dairy farm Students finishing year 12 this year are being offered an opportunity to gain hands-on, paid, on-farm work at a local dairy farm next year as part of Dairy Australia’s industry based Dairy Gap Year Programme. The Programme will match interested students with the opportunity to consider a career in agriculture whilst undertaking a minimum of 12 months paid work on Victorian dairy fa...rms. To be eligible students must have a driver’s licence and be prepared to be enrolled in a Certificate in Agriculture while undertaking their gap year. The industry has sourced farms with strong HR policies and are committed to offering a positive dairy experience. Students will be linked to a Group Training Organisation to ensure all award conditions are met. Having worked on-farm for the past four years, two of those whilst completing VCE and two further gap years, 19-year-old Kyella McKenna said, I have been fortunate enough after finishing school to take the steps in following an agriculture career, which will lead me to a successful career in the dairy industry. The most enjoyable parts of working on-farm for me are working with animals day-to-day, the rearing of calves as well as animal health and nutrition. It is great to have learned about and actively take part in the various aspects to working on a dairy farm such as miking, working with the machinery and tractor work. I believe anyone can do what I have done. I don’t have a farming background, but took an interest in it and I’m now doing something I love. I’d recommend working in the industry to all young people. It is hard work but you have fun, work hard and best of all make money. In the recent Federal Budget; it was announced that from November 2020 to December 2021 a person who earns at least $15,000 through employment in the agriculture sector may be considered independent for Youth Allowance (student) or ABSTUDY purposes, meaning this Programme will provide a great opportunity for those finishing year 12 this year and looking to further tertiary study in 2022*. Do not let this great opportunity to pass you by. Even if you haven’t previously considered a career in agriculture don’t let that put you off. A dairy gap year will provide you with a great experience and will help you stand out as a potential employee or assist in your university interviews. For further information, contact GippsDairy’s Sarah Cornell on 0437 400 316 or at [email protected]

17.01.2022 R U OK? Message from staff and students

16.01.2022 Wellington Youth Film Festival Entries for the Wellington Youth Film Festival are now OPEN to young people aged 12-24 years who call Wellington Shire home (entrants must have a tangible link with the Wellington Shire) To enter complete an entry form below including a link to your finished film before midnight on Sunday 4 October 2020. Finalists will be advised by Monday 12 October 2020. Please watch the promotional video below for more information.... https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/

15.01.2022 A message from Alumni to our Year 12 students. Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to raise my voice with others in the community to celebrate the achievements of this group of students. Michael Waugh.

14.01.2022 MSC Students paying respect to our fallen Heroes.

14.01.2022 Remote Learning 2.0 Message from the Year 9 Team

14.01.2022 Tune in at 1:30pm today to watch Huddo and Murph battle it out in the kitchen for the Mars Bar Masterchef challenge! Whole School Team for all staff and students.

14.01.2022 The LGBTIQA+ Lounge Zoom

13.01.2022 NEWS FLASH - PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITON STARTS TODAY Good Morning Everyone, The MSC Photography Competition starts today! All photos need to be uploaded to the Whole School Teams Page > MSC Photography Competition Channel > FILES.... When naming your file, please include your Name and your Year Level. PRIZES - Various Categories - All winning entries will receive a CANVAS print of their image. A small canvas image will also be displayed in the library of all winning photographs . PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED POSTER FOR MORE INFO... If you have any questions please post in the Chat bar on the MSC Photography Competition Channel BE CREATIVE!

13.01.2022 Wishing our Year 12 students good luck in their exams.

12.01.2022 Remote Learning message from the Senior Team.

11.01.2022 Remote Learning message from the Year 10 Team.

11.01.2022 Remote Learning message from the Year 9 Team.

10.01.2022 Maffra SC is embarking on a history making event! MSC will be one of 150 schools across Australia who will receive wattle seeds to germinate and grow. These wattle seeds are no ordinary wattle seeds they will have spent 6 months in space at the International Space Station! As part of this project (which will take 1-2 years), MSC students will have the opportunity to be involved in a real-world scientific investigation, comparing the germination and growth of seeds from spac...e with seeds that were not sent to space. The project is an historic opportunity for Australian schools offered through Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and One Giant Leap Australia Foundation. A group of Year 7 and 8 students worked tirelessly to create a video as part of our application for the program check it out! To find out more about the What’ll happen to the Wattle program go to https://onegiantleapfoundation.com.au/ See more

08.01.2022 Remote Learning message from the Year 8 Team.

08.01.2022 A message from Alumni to MSC Students

07.01.2022 Want to improve Mental Health for Young People in rural and regional areas? Good morning all Doctors in Schools Participants, Please see the opportunity below for a young person to influence improved mental health for young people across regional and rural areas by joining a mental health working group. You may like to promote this opportunity through your DISS clinic and school communications. ... Youth Affairs Council Victoria is asking young people (aged 12 -25) from rural and regional areas to apply to join a mental health working group. The working group will lead a new project to hear directly from young people and community members in rural and regional areas about mental health and their ideas for a better future. Members of the working group will be asked to join six meetings between September and February and will be paid for their time. Applications close on Wednesday 2 September at 7PM. You can find out more online https://www.yacvic.org.au//youth-mental-health-working-gr/ or by sending an email to Luke at [email protected]

06.01.2022 Remote Learning Message from our Senior Team

06.01.2022 A reminder that Monday 2nd November, School is open and all classes will run as normal. Tuesday 3rd November, School is closed for Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

03.01.2022 Doctors in School Remote Appointments

03.01.2022 2021 Transition Unfortunately due to DETs operational guidelines that only allows limited transition we have made the difficult decision to postpone the planned full day transition day for this Thursday the 12th of November. Once whole school transition groups above 10 can go ahead we will reschedule this full day. We apologise for the short notice but we were hoping that they may have been an update to the operational guide early this week. However we are going to start sm...all group transition. This will involve students attending a 2.5 hour session in small groups. These session will run over three days with each school allocated to ONE of these days. We are currently working with our feeder primary schools to arrange these dates and we will publish these as soon as these dates are confirmed. These session will run from 10:00am to 12:30pm. If you have any questions regarding transition can you please contact Belinda Marshall (Transition Coordinator), Lashay Tricker (2021 Year 7 Team Leader) or Cheryl Evans, Nathan Wallace or Jen Roep (Principal Team) on 51471790

03.01.2022 Over the past week we have held a number of transition sessions for our incoming Year 7s. The current restrictions meant that we were only able to have the students in groups of ten, but it was awesome to welcome them to the College and for them to have a short introduction to what Secondary School would be like for them next year. The students participated in a school tour, completed a number of mini-science sessions and an Art activity. We would like to thank our feeder s...chools for their support across these days and also the Maffra SC who conducted these sessions. With new announcements, we are very excited to be holding our full-day Orientation Day on Tuesday the 8th of December. Information regarding these sessions will be sent out to our Primary Schools early next week. If you have any questions regarding transition or the full day Orientation day can you please contact Belinda Marshall (Transition Coordinator), Lashay Tricker (2021 Year 7 Team Leader) Cheryl Evans, Nathan Wallace or Jen Roep (Principal Team) on 51471790

03.01.2022 Wellbeing Wednesday Continuing on from MSC Wellbeing Day on Monday, we have another boxing video for you after popular demand. If you dont have any boxing gear at home, dont worry you can shadow box and still get a great workout. Click on the link to access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srqd4HppZh0 And once restrictions lift, you can even go to in person to Boxing Classes at R3 Fitness Maffra https://www.facebook.com/R3Fitness1/ Enjoy punching some energy and frustration out

02.01.2022 MSC Principals weekly update

02.01.2022 Tune in to see our Principals fight it out over the oven in our Maffra Masterchef challenge today at 1:30pm! Students join in via the Whole School Team.