Western Port Secondary College in Hastings, Victoria | Secondary school

Western Port Secondary College

Locality: Hastings, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5979 1577

Address: 215 High St 3915 Hastings, VIC, Australia

Website: http://westernportsc.vic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 SUMMER ATHS HAS STARTED! 15 years and under...Great way to get fit and stay fit, make friends and build skills. Saturdays mornings behind Western Port Secondary College. Start 8:45am, finish before 11am. Register now for two free trials at: www.westernportlac.com.au... Sibling discounts! See more

25.01.2022 R U OK Day is always an important event for our College community. In preparation for this Thursday, Ms Sheridan has shared with us a beautiful time lapse dedicated to this national day of action when we ask are you ok? #ruok #ruokday @ruokday

24.01.2022 VIRTUAL COLLEGE TOUR: See what Western Port Secondary College has to offer!

23.01.2022 For our Senior students...

22.01.2022 SPRING is almost here! Look at our courtyard....we miss you all!

22.01.2022 Today we honour and celebrate the men in our lives both past and present. Happy Fathers Day from the WPSC family

22.01.2022 2021 Year 7 Families! Dont forget to register for the final Transition Evening Info session hosted tonight by the Mornington Peninsula Shire. Our very own Lucy Anderson (WPSC Transition Leader) is one of the panelists this evening! Lucy is currently working through our Grade 6 Transition Plan A, B AND C for Term 4 with our feeder Primary Schools. Stay tuned! #mornpenshire #westernportsecondarycollege #year7transition

21.01.2022 The Educator online magazine/journal publishes an annual Hot List of educators shaping the landscape in Australia. This year featured our very own Year 8 Learning Level Leader/English Domain Leader, Vanessa Dennis! This is such a huge accolade and another great example of the exciting things happening at WPSC. Congratulations Ms Dennis, we are all so proud Link to Vanessas bio: https://www.theeducatoronline.com//vanessa-dennis-w/272681

21.01.2022 Student Led Conference Success! A huge thank you to our whole WPSC community for supporting the running of our new HG Teacher online Student Led Conferences today. We are so proud to hear that each and every student 7-12 was able to reflect on this semester so far; the highlights, the challenges, tracking learning data/attendance and set goals for next term. Well done to our students and thank you again to our families and Home Group Teachers

21.01.2022 2020 Costumes! Very impressed...Well done Year 12s

21.01.2022 Ever wonder what your teachers get up to on a Friday afternoon after a big week of online teaching? They play rock, paper, scissors on Teams of course! #notcompetitiveatall

21.01.2022 Each year at 11am on this day Australians observe one minute’s silence in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. In the four years WWI, more than 330,000 Australians had served overseas and more than 60,000 of them had died. The social effects of these losses cast a long shadow over the postwar decades. Today as a College, we took the opportunity within every classroom to show our gratitude for those men and women who gave their lives. Remembrance Day 2020. Lest we forget.

21.01.2022 Course Confirmation Sessions please see Compass over the coming days to book these sessions in September!

21.01.2022 REMINDER: All Year 8s and 9s Course Confirmation happening now in the Course Confirmation Team. No booking? Thats ok, log in and well find you a Junior/Senior staff member to help confirm your course

21.01.2022 BEHIND THE SCENES! Congratulations to our graduating class of 2020 who today celebrated together for their Valedictory! In similar fashion to our Awards Evening, we will be streaming the event next Tuesday 15th Dec to our families. Link to come! See our story for a sneak peak

21.01.2022 REMINDER: All Students Tomorrow we have our Student Led Conferences and there will not be any scheduled classes - this was formerly Parent/Teacher Interviews. Bookings can be made on Compass or by ringing our Admin Office. Students will need to log onto their Home Group Team 5 minutes before their interview and access their private channel where the HG teacher will start the Conference

20.01.2022 Important Announcement 7-12 Student Led Conferences 15th September (pupil free day) Bookings via Compass or 59791577 See you online!

20.01.2022 2021 Year 7 Students...Get excited! Our enrolment packs have been mailed out today! Please take the time to complete these and return to your primary school. Our Parent/Carer Welcome Evening is also outlined in this information. In the meantime, please reach out if you have any questions

20.01.2022 University of Melbourne Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars (KLDYS) Program This is a great opportunity for motivated and high achieving Year 10 students to secure a place at the University of Melbourne and qualify for scholarships such as overseas study. If your pathway goals include the areas of Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Design or Science, then this may be a great opportunity for you. There are also application benefits for students who represent schools in our region, such as Western Port Secondary College. Please contact Ms Stevens or Sharon Mccarthy if you need any support. Link to the application process below Goodluck! https://view.comms.unimelb.edu.au/

20.01.2022 SHOP AT RITCHIES?! Our good friends at Ritchies have gone digital and you can support our amazing school by registering us as the recipients of your Community Benefits! You can download and use the Ritchie’s App every time you shop or use the Loyalty Card. Don’t forget we are registered as ‘Westernport Secondary College’. Thank you again for all of your support

19.01.2022 2021 YEAR 10 LAPTOP PROGRAM Reminder to all Year 9 families to contact the College to register for our virtual Year 10 Laptop Program Info session next Monday 23rd Nov 6pm! Chance to win a brand new Lenovo Laptop!

19.01.2022 2021 Yr10 LAPTOP PROGRAM Reminder to all Year 9 families to contact the College to register for our virtual Year 10 Laptop Program Info session next Monday 23rd Nov 6pm! Chance to win a brand new Lenovo Laptop!

19.01.2022 HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Wishing our whole Western Port Secondary College family a very relaxing end of year break. Thank you as always for your support through what has been an unusual school year!

19.01.2022 Years 9 - 12: We have only 3 spots left for the Womenat NASA: Leadership and Success in STEMM Q&A Session - Next Tuesday 9am-10am. Please contact Ms Kemp to register! All details here - https://www.quantumvictoria.vic.edu.au//women-at-nasa-lead @quantumvictoria

17.01.2022 ONE WEEK TO GO! The invites are out and our prerecording is ready to go! Stay tuned for the YouTube streaming link, ready to kick off on Friday 4th December at 7pm. Congratulations in advance to all students!

16.01.2022 BROADCAST NEWS Channel 7 Melbourne is proudly supporting the 2020 Victorian State Schools Spectacular. A special broadcast with behind-the-scenes highlights will air on SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER at 7pm on SEVEN in Victoria. It will also be livestreamed on the 7plus app and 7plus website, www.7plus.com.au, and will be available for catch-up viewing on the 7plus app and website for 30 days from the broadcast date. We look forward to seeing our WPSC students in action!

16.01.2022 Was great to have U-Climb portable rock wall today for our Year 9 Leisure and Rec and Leaders In Training and our Year 11 Outdoor Ed. Students (and teachers) has a ball challenging themselves on the 4 levels with students encouraging and supporting one another.

16.01.2022 STATEWIDE TRANSITION DAY! An official ‘Welcome to the Western Port SC Family’ finally took place today with our Grade 6 students joining us onsite for a variety of Year 7 classes. What a wonderful first impression they have made! Enjoy finishing Grade 6, we cannot wait for you to start with us next year

15.01.2022 RFL has been an incredibly challenging time for all of our students - particularly our Year 12s in their final year. To celebrate their dedication and resilience, our College will be delivering La Lupa Pizza straight to their door this Wednesday night! There will also be a pop culture/cohort nostalgia Trivia from 6:30pm (with prizes!). See you online!

15.01.2022 Earlier this week, our students enjoyed hearing about career paths and advice from Women working in STEMM at NASA! Students were inspired to hear that there are many pathways to follow in a career and that following your interests, determination and overcoming challenges is important in making the dream of loving your job possible. If any other students would like to watch this webinar - please contact Miss Kemp via teams for the recording link. Thanks to @rmituniversity and @quantumvictoria for making this possible

14.01.2022 2020 AWARDS EVENING The wait is almost over! Keep an eye out as invitations to our 2020 virtual Awards Evening are on their way to all award recipients! Details of the event to also be released soon...Ahhh the suspense!

14.01.2022 ENTREPRENEURS meet our Year 8s! Last week our Year 8 students took part in an online Q&A with the following entrepreneurs to gain an insight into starting a business. @antipodeanwitch @magic_porter @allday.pets ... Our Year 8s had 30 minutes to fire questions at our panelists. The responses were extremely informative for our students who are working on their own businesses in their Infinity 8 subject. A huge thank you to the businesses who joined us and took part in this special event! See more

14.01.2022 Reminder VCE booklist for Free Home Delivery ends 12th November!

14.01.2022 Stage 4: Remote and Flexible Learning continuing for all students for final two weeks of Term 3 Term 4 announcement: VCE return to complete the GAT only onsite in first week (more info to come) Monday 12th Oct; Prep, Grade 1/2 and VCE/VCAL and Yr 10s completing VCE subjects to return onsite... All Grade 3 > Year 10 students to remain in RFL until at least 26th Oct Return date subject to case numbers To our WPSC and wider community, please stay safe and strong. As always, please reach out, were here to help

13.01.2022 Year 9 Science students and families can get excited about what is heading towards their mailbox! You will find enclosed a letter, risk assessment and materials to run fun science experiments in our online classes! Hint: there will be some fizzing involved and a rainbow of colours Get excited, but not too excited that you use all the materials before your teacher can teach you how to use them online! Enjoy!

13.01.2022 TWO WEEKS! A reminder to our VCE Year 12s (and 11s with a 3/4 subject) that you need to be onsite by 9:30am for the GAT on Wed 7th Oct. This event will start promptly at 10am - 1:15pm in the gym. Do your very best and know we are so proud of you all for how you have handled this year

12.01.2022 The first day of SPRING Our favourite season which allows us all to really stop and admire our thriving College grounds

12.01.2022 Dont forget to jump online or contact our Front Office and book your course confirmation session for this Thursday (2021 11s/12s) and Friday (2021 10s/9s) #seeyouonline

12.01.2022 Due to the success of our @lalupapizza Yr 12 Pizza Party, our good friends at @dominos_au are helping us replicate it for our Year 11s! To celebrate their dedication and resilience during RFL, our College will be delivering @dominos_au straight to their door this Monday night! There will also be a pop culture/cohort nostalgia Trivia from 6:30pm (with prizes!). See you online!

11.01.2022 Reminder...tomorrow is a student free curriculum day and therefore LVCs and onsite supervision is cancelled. Our staff will be engaging in whole school professional development. See you back online Tuesday!

11.01.2022 VCAL NEWS! This year The Frankston and Mornington Peninsula VCAL Awards could not be held, so instead we had a mini ceremony at WPSC. Congratulations to our worthy recipients Delilah Smith Excellence Award and Georgia Hill - Encouragement Award. These prestigious awards recognise a high level of dedication to all aspects of VCAL. Well done Delilah and Georgia!

11.01.2022 2021 TRANSITION UPDATE Yesterday we received confirmation that the new easing of transition events for 2021 Year 7s is not as large scale as we might’ve been hoping for. At any one time, only groups of a maximum 10 Grade 6 students can come onsite and must be from the same primary school. We have since communicated our Grade 6 Tour Plan with all primary schools with allocated booking dates/times. PS’s will be in touch to book in any Grade 6 students who would like to come f...or a tour and meet and greet onsite during the allocated time slots. Parents/Carers will need to arrange transport to/from WPSC and wait for the 30 minutes. We will still be running our first virtual Transition Event on the 24th Nov and we will look to see if there is further easing of these restrictions heading into Statewide Transition Day on the 8th Dec. Regardless, we have a plan A and B! Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing some of our Grade 6 students onsite over the next few weeks! See more

11.01.2022 HAPPY WEAR IT PURPLE DAY 2020!!! Wear it Purple Day is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people, based in Australia. Our College proudly wore purple to celebrate diversity and inclusion across our school and wider community #schoolpride #wearitpurple #peninsulapride #inclusiveeducation #minus18youth #minus18

10.01.2022 HAPPY NATIONAL HPE DAY! WPSC are celebrating today with a Centurion 100 Points Challenge! Send through your examples throughout today to be featured in HG and the socials! #HPEday

09.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to our 2018 Graduate Bailey Williams who debuts this weekend for West Coast Eagles. A huge achievement for Bailey and a super proud moment for his family and WPSC! Good luck @baileywilliamms , well be cheering you on!

09.01.2022 YEAR 9 SCIENCE Our students have been revisiting chemistry and last week tested the pH of different household substances to investigate whether they were an acid, base or neutral. #stemeducation #stem #westernportsecondarycollege

08.01.2022 VIRTUAL SECONDARY EXPERIENCE DAY! A huge congratulations goes out to all of our 2021 Year 7s who logged on with Miss Harris and Miss Anderson for a virtual Secondary Experience Day today! We delivered individual Year 7 transition boxes to all primary schools full of important information and WPSC goodies. It was great to again engage with our awesome Grade 6 students and teachers in a range of learning activities. We look forward to continuing our small group tours heading into our *now* onsite Statewide Transition Day in a fortnight. More information to come to our Primary Schools in light of this recent plan!

07.01.2022 How will you science this National Science week? Check out www.scienceweek.net.au for lots of activities, webinars and challenges to choose from! You can also log in to your stileapp.com account to explore, and escape, the Deep Blue Ocean Escape Room! Why not team up virtually to help each other escape?! #stem #stemeducation #scienceweek #nationalscienceweek #scienceiscool

07.01.2022 2020 VALEDICTORY! YouTube link to be provided shortly via Compass post and email to all Year 12 families for our screening of the Valedictory tomorrow night from 7pm. Congratulations again to all students

07.01.2022 The following information is in regard to booking both Course Confirmation sessions AND Student Led Conferences (formally Parent/Teacher interviews): Thursday 10th September: 2021 Year 11's and 12's (2pm 7pm) Friday 11th September: 2021 Year 9's and 10's (9am 3pm) Tuesday 15th September: Student Led Conferences (12.30pm - 7pm)... Bookings for both of these events are now available through the Conferences tab in Compass. More information to come on these important College events. If you have any questions, please contact the College on 59791577.

07.01.2022 Check this out! This is Monique of Year 8 during the Practice phase of Art. Our students are currently learning about how to be creative AND record in only one take! Nice work Monique

07.01.2022 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone and circumstances have made it even more important for us to all stay connected. Head on over to the R U OK?Day socials/website to know what to say when someone says theyre not OK and be guided through how you can continue a conversation that could change a life @ruokday #ruokday #ruok

06.01.2022 Last week, one of our Home Group sessions focused on learning Auslan. See the great clip below for simple ways our College can better support our Deaf community.

06.01.2022 And just like that...WE DID IT! Thank you to all of our families for supporting such a huge team effort this term. Its times like these you really come together as a community and we are so thankful to our students who have continued to log on each day and amaze us. To our staff, thank you and rest up for what will be a big Term 4! Stay safe over the holidays everyone and see you soon

06.01.2022 A sneak peak into a Year 12 Digital Art Development This trialling takes place within the exploration and experimentation phases of the Art Process, where students need to trial a range of mediums and techniques to inform their personal art practice and explore the conceptual possibilities within their chosen theme. Impressive!

06.01.2022 Recently our Assistant Principal Donna Geritz represented the college in an Evidence 4 Learning (E4L) panel, broadcast nationally. The panel explored the predictors of disengagement from school and how school leaders used data and processes during 2020 to identify students at risk of disengagement. The panel then reflected on preventative approaches to disengagement and innovative ways schools were combating this. Following our Victorian Education Excellence Award in 2019, we feel very proud that our work has again been recognised by the Evidence 4 Learning team who continue their mission to make great practice common practice in education.

06.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS! Thank you to everyone who tuned in tonight for our Awards Evening! What a perfect event to showcase our amazing students and staff. We are so proud

06.01.2022 2021 Year 7 Onsite Tours can resume! Check out our latest post with details of how to book allocated dates/times via Primary Schools

03.01.2022 GET EXCITED! Our Year 12 Care Packages are on their way! We wont be giving away any secrets on the contents yet but keep a look out for a special delivery from our Senior Team #westernportsecondarycollege #wpsc #carepackages #year12 #covidcare

03.01.2022 Were just as excited as this little pup for Wear it Purple Day this Friday...3 sleeps!!! Dont forget to access @minus18youth for great Teams backgrounds as well as wearing any purple you have available

02.01.2022 Reminder...Free Dress Day tomorrow!

02.01.2022 Age Group Swimming House Champions! Congratulations to our Year 7s - 12s who have been awarded as age group champions for swimming in 2020! Un 13s: Tabatha Sams & Kaos Trigwell Un 14s: Isabelle Stanley & Austin Armstrong Un 15s: Charlotte Mur & Beau Finch... Un 16s: Sophie Williams & Rory Lazic Un 17s: Sarah Clever & Matt Schneider Un 19s: Liz Dowler & Simon Jones Our overall College champions are: 1st: Sophie Williams 2nd: Matt Schneider 3rd: Liz Dowler Congratulations!!!

01.01.2022 Science Week kicked off today with a challenge set in Home Group...The paper plane flying competition has begun! Prizes awarded to the following 2 categories: 1. Furtherest Distance Flown 2. Longest time in the air... Rules include: - Only using one sheet of paper no bigger than A4 - Only using straight folds, no scrunching - Nothing can be added Send your entries to your Home Group Teacher by Friday...good luck!