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Orbost Secondary College

Locality: Orbost, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5154 1084

Address: Arnold Street 3888 Orbost, VIC, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 This week’s lunchtime activity is going to look a little different and possibly more challenging for many of you. This week’s challenge is to see who in our school community can record the highest number of keepie-uppies with a toilet roll. I’m asking for students and teachers to give this a go and email me a video of your attempts. All videos needs to be emailed to me by no later than 5.00pm Thursday 3rd September. Videos will be posted on Compass on Friday. Below I have included a video of one of our school captains, James Russell giving it his best go. Videos need to be emailed to: [email protected]

25.01.2022 Happy Friday, This message is just a reminder that our parent feedback survey is still open and will be until Sunday night. We would greatly appreciate it if you could please take the time to follow the link on Compass and complete the survey.

21.01.2022 Amazing talent Sinead- so proud!

21.01.2022 Dear students and parents, On Friday 11th September, we will be holding Parent/Teacher Interviews online/over the phone. Students will have work set for their classes but teachers may not be available during the scheduled class times to respond to questions. Bookings for interview times can be made on Compass (or by calling the school) from Monday 7th September. Please contact the college if you have any questions. Peter Seal

21.01.2022 Wavez is looking for a teenager to work after school and over the holidays, duties will include cleaning, answering the phone and leaning basic hairdressing skills. Must look presentable and able to interact with clients. Please give us a message or ring the salon if interested

21.01.2022 2021 Year 8 & 9 Subject Selections Parents and students currently in Year 7 and Year 8 are reminded that on Wednesday 9th September a subject information evening will be held at 6pm via Webex Teams. For additional information refer to the letter that was mailed out last week or see Compass. Please call us at the College with any questions or concerns.

20.01.2022 VCAL Cafe trial run today was very successful! Huge congratulations to Alex, Nat, Caleb and Jack!

19.01.2022 Veitch Boats is Expanding... We require more Boatbuilder Apprentices at Veitch Boats. Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining why it is you think... you would make a great boat building apprentice at a cutting-edge luxury game fishing boat building company. Veitch Boats Team

19.01.2022 Picture perfect day for fishing for end of year activities- Hope to see all of our students tomorrow for presentation day!

19.01.2022 Sealy's Weekly Update - Term 3 Week 7 Remote and Flexible Learning at OSC 2.0 27/8/20 G’day everyone and welcome to Week 7 of Term 3.... I want to start tonight by thanking all students, parents and staff for their efforts throughout what has been a pretty tricky year so far. Throughout the year, our purpose has remained on working together to create opportunities for every person to be their best although while in the remote and flexible learning period, this has looked a little different than before. As mentioned previously, our focus has been on four areas: i. Provide suitable work for all students. ii. Provide schedules to give structure for students and families every day. iii. Maintain connections between all members of our school community. iv. Be agile and adaptable in addressing the unique circumstances of our individual staff and students We know that we haven’t got everything perfect, but we’ve continually sought feedback and re-assessed what we are doing to try and improve. Thanks to all parents who have completed the feedback surveys from the link on Compass. If you haven’t had the opportunity to complete these surveys yet, they will be open until Sunday 30th August and details are on Compass. Throughout this current period of remote and flexible and learning we have tried to increase the amount of feedback that students and parents are receiving. Teachers have been holding Webex classes and sending emails to students weekly and today we also posted student Interim Reports on Compass. The feedback that has come in through the parent surveys already, is that parents would like to know more about whether their child is completing work. To address this feedback, from next Friday 4th September, we will be posting Weekly Reports on Compass to provide information directly to parents about their child’s submission of work and attendance in Webex classes. We understand that learning from home can be very challenging, and we want to make sure we are doing our best to keep everyone informed about what is happening. Please remember that we are able to provide on-site care and supervision, and IT and Wellbeing support for any student who requires it. We are also able to provide support online and over the phone so if things are not going as well as you’d like at home, please don’t hesitate to call us to talk about how we might be able to help. We’re looking forward to having all staff and students back on-site as soon as possible so please try to do everything you can to keep yourself and others safe. Take care. Sealy See more

18.01.2022 The senior school team will be hosting a subject selection information session on Webex for all current Year 9 students on Monday 31st August at 6.00pm. Please see Compass for details. Contact the College if you have any questions.

18.01.2022 We have 2 positions available at our Newmerella site for an immediate start. If you are interested please drop a resume and application form (found on our websi...te www.evanspetroleum.com.au) off to the site or email it to [email protected]. If you have any questions please feel free to contact our site on 5154 1601 See more

17.01.2022 Dear students and parents, I’m sure that by now most of you have heard some of the information coming from the announcements made on Sunday by the Premier and Education Minister. From some responses I’ve seen on social media, and through conversations, it seems that there has been a little confusion. We have tried to condense the information so that we are clear about the timeline for Orbost Secondary College. - Remote and Flexible Learning will continue until the end of this... term (Friday 18th September) - Term Three holidays for two weeks - Remote and Flexible Learning will begin again on Monday 5th October Term 4 Week 1 (All students completing a Unit 3&4 VCE subject must attend on Wednesday 7th October to complete the GAT. Some VET/VCE/VCAL students may need to attend on-site for other ‘essential assessments’ and they will know in advance if required at school.) - On-site learning begins from Monday 12th October Term 4 Week 2 (Classes will begin ‘on-site’ at OSC for all Year Levels at 9am.) We hope that we will then be able to continue through until the end of the year with all classes being held on-site. We know that there will be more information about how schools will need to operate to help keep people safe. We will keep students, parents and staff updated as we learn more. Please contact the school if you have any questions or if there is anything you’re unsure of. Sealy

17.01.2022 Hi All, Due to the recent success of lunchtime activities, some students have been inspired to create their own. Mollie and Dusty are going to run an OSC Kahoot, which will be made up of facts about our students and staff. To organise this, they need your help! Please see compass for more information about how you can be involved!

17.01.2022 These pictures show the progress on an art project being completed by students and staff at Orbost Secondary College. The piece tells the story of the journey... of the Snowy River and once completed will be on permanent display at Orbost Regional Health. The project is being co-ordinated by Kathleen Alexander who is the Head of Art, and Lynette Soloman-Dent (pictured) who is the Koorie Education Support Officer at Orbost Secondary College. The project will take a break shortly for the summer holidays and will be completed in the new year.

14.01.2022 Attention.. All Parents that have a child or two that will be attending Orbost Seconday college, or Orbost Primary School in 2021. Do You know you can do paymen...t plans for your child's school books with us!! Pop in and see Paulene about setting one up. Every little bit helps. I know no-one wants to think about school 2021, but reality is, it's only 2 months away.

13.01.2022 Tomorrow there will be a lunchtime activity happening at 1.20pm. Please see compass for more information!

10.01.2022 Wednesday lunchtime games! Great Fun! Great Prizes! See Compass for log in details.Wednesday lunchtime games! Great Fun! Great Prizes! See Compass for log in details.

10.01.2022 Remote and Flexible Learning Parent Survey (You will need to log into Compass with your parent account to access this survey) Dear Parents, At the end of the Term 2 Remote and Flexible Learning period we conducted a short survey that was completed by many parents. The feedback we obtained from that survey helped us to make changes for this period of Remote and Flexible Learning, such as increasing the amount of feedback to students and parents. On Compass a link to a survey ...so you can again provide feedback about how we are going and what we can do better. We would appreciate it greatly if you could take the time to fill out the survey by Sunday 30th August. As always, if you'd like to discuss anything further, please contact us at school. Peter Seal See more

09.01.2022 ******PLEASE SHARE****** Anyone know of anyone or could suggest anyone interested in some part time cleaning work here at marlo ocean view caravan park??? Starting ASAP Please message me if interested or wanting more info

09.01.2022 Remote and Flexible Learning 2.0 Information Update Dear students, parents and staff, This week I was lucky enough to sit in on a few Webex classes and see first-hand the amazing efforts of our teachers and students. Despite all that we’ve experienced this year, the focus is still firmly on learning. Well done everyone.... As I wrote in a Compass update last week, during this period of Remote and Flexible Learning we are providing feedback to students and parents on a regular basis. This is coming in the form of specific feedback about Learning Tasks being posted to students on Compass, weekly emails to students about participation in Webex classes and submission of work, and regular phone calls to parents. Next week teachers will be writing Interim Reports for students. These reports will be available for viewing on Compass from Thursday morning. As a result, teachers will not be sending feedback emails to students next week. On Wednesday, delivery and installation of our modular building began and you will see from the pictures attached, that it is now completely in place and ready for the ‘finishing touches’ to be applied. We are well and truly on track to have this building ready for action on the first day of Term Four. This period of Remote and Flexible Learning is flying past and we’re already 15 days in. Please make sure that you are doing all that you can to keep yourself and others safe and hopefully we’ll see you back on-site at OSC very soon. Sealy

07.01.2022 We are looking for someone to work over December and January, Thursday 10.30am to 1.30pm and Friday 10.30am to 1.30pm. If this would suit you please drop into Cozy Cafe or send a message. Thank you.

07.01.2022 Thanks to these students and staff for participating in our lunchtime activity today... our winner was George- but the true winner were the connections that were made

06.01.2022 Dwyers Motor Group are Hiring! We currently have 2 apprentice positions available. For more information, email [email protected]

05.01.2022 Splash of Color Tattoo Orbost would like to welcome Sinead into the world of tattoo, she’ll be starting her tattooing apprenticeship next Thursday and she’s und...erstandably very excited. Sinead is an incredible artist that I’m proud to introduce into the tattoo industry, her artistic ability at both drawing and painting will transfer over to tattooing beautifully and I very much look forward to seeing Sinead progress over the coming years. If you’d like a custom tattoo drawn up by Sinead pop in and have a chat to her, she’ll be more than happy to help you create your special tattoo from this coming Thursday. Please share with me a very warm welcome to Sinead MacDonell See more

05.01.2022 How awesome is this!! I just spoke to Tom the young guy doing a HUGE skate to raise funds (take a look at link) hes going to meet up with all thats interested a...t the skate park tomorrow Wednesday at 5.30 for a meet and greet, great opportunity for the youth of our town to see if you want to make a change you be that change and make it happen! https://www.gofundme.com/f/skateboarding-for-laos See more

05.01.2022 Peter Seal G’day everyone. Today I have the privilege of announcing the name of our new building and I’ve invited our KESO, Lynnette Solomon-Dent to help explain the significance of the name. Our current buildings are simply called Lower, Middle and Upper and we wanted a name for our new building that had local significance. Over the last few weeks we have consulted with local Aboriginal elders and grandparents of current students Christine Milliken and Susan Martin, about ap...propriate names. Lynnette was also involved in these discussions. We settled on putting the following three options to current students and staff (Dura, Croajingalong and Corringle) and letting them decide by voting Corringle was the clear winner. I’d like to ask Lynnette now to please outline for us the significance and importance of this name. Lynnette Solomon-Dent Wunman njinde. The Snowy River journeys about 352kms from the mountains to the sea and has many names. One of those is Corringle meaning many water reeds. Aboriginal people have a long connection to country and place. Corringle is one such place for many families who have fished and camped there for generations. Yarrabee Peter Seal Thanks Lynne. As you’ve just explained, the name Corringle ties neatly with our school values. Particularly Belonging. We’re looking forward to starting to use the Corringle Building with students, staff and parents on October 12th. We hope to see you then.

04.01.2022 Morning all, Due to the current power outage in Orbost and surrounds, we are unable to run Webex classes at the moment. AusNet are advising that the power will be back on around noon and I'm sure we're all hoping it might even be a little sooner than that. Once the power is restored and the internet is back up, we will resume Webex classes as scheduled. As always, please give us a call at the College if we can give you a helping hand in any way.

02.01.2022 Sealy's Week Term 3 Week 10 Update Remote and Flexible Learning at OSC 2.0 18/9/20 G’day everyone, thanks for joining us for our end of Term Three Assembly. Thanks to all staff for their willingness to accept the many challenges that we’ve faced this year. Your persistence and positivity has been inspirational. In particular, I’d like to thank you for your hard work in moving furniture and equipment around over the last few weeks while also continuing to teach classes online ...and provide care and supervision for students on-site. Thanks also to parents for the way that you have responded to the frequent changes to how we operate. Your flexibility and support is greatly appreciated. The feedback you have provided us has always been respectful and constructive, and has helped us to make regular improvements. Well done and congratulations to all of the students for your efforts this term and throughout the whole year. The resilience that you have shown has also been inspirational and we are really looking forward to seeing you all again back on-site to enjoy our new and improved facilities. Good luck to our Year 12 students as they begin the final term of your school careers. Over the coming weeks our VCAL students will be finalising assessments and then preparing to move into the world of work. Our VCE students will also be finalising assessments as well as preparing for the GAT. We are very keen to acknowledge and celebrate all that our Year 12s have achieved in their time at our school. At the moment, however, we are restricted by guidelines put in place by DET. We have begun planning for a celebration and will finalise our decisions through discussions with Year 12 students once they have completed the GAT on Wednesday 7th October. All students will be returning to on-site learning from Monday 12th October. This is a deliberate decision by DET to ensure that the GAT is protected and the possibility of disruption to due COVID infection is minimised. A lot of work has taken place, and continues to take place, to complete building works. We are excited to be able to share these new and improved facilities with all students and staff when they return on October 12th. Finally, I’d like to farewell Mandy Forrester and welcome her replacement, Dianne Barnes. Many people ‘coast’ into retirement, but this could certainly not be said of Mandy. She has done a power of work over her 20 plus years at OSC and has continued to be going flat out over the last couple of weeks to make sure that all our asbestos removal, demolition and new building works are completed before she leaves. Mandy will be greatly missed in our school, but we take comfort in knowing that she is only a phone call away, and is being replaced by the very capable Di Barnes. Welcome Di and thanks and good luck, Mandy. Please take care everyone and we’ll see you here on October 12th. Sealy See more

02.01.2022 Lunchtime activity happening TODAY at 1.20pm! Link is on compass! See you all there :)

02.01.2022 See compass for an exciting lunchtime activity tomorrow hosted by 2 students

01.01.2022 Dear students, parents and staff, We are looking forward to having all students and staff return to on-site learning on Monday 12th October. It has been a long time since we've had all students at school and a lot has happened in that time. To help students prepare for a smooth and successful transition back to on-site learning, Psychologist Lauren Short, has prepared the attached document. As always, please contact us immediately if you have any questions. Peter Seal

01.01.2022 Year 12 2020 - and that's a wrap Congratulations to all of our school leavers! What a mighty effort you've put in this year. The last exam finished at 5:15pm tonight and we have already had: - 8 students receive early admission offers to Tertiary education - 5 students have started apprenticeships... - 2 students have begun traineeships All this before the ink has even dried on the Italian exam that was just completed. We look forward to keeping everyone informed about the future successes of the Class of 2020. Well done. Peter SEAL

01.01.2022 OSC 2020 Remembrance Day. Lest We Forget. Apologies to Lokan Woerz who played beautifully, technical difficulties mean we only recorded the first half of your Last Post performance. Many thanks to Jen Green for video editing expertise.