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Headmaster
Parents’ Association Start of Year Social Functions Scholarship Examinations Year 11 Student and Parents Information Evening Year 7 and 10 Immunisations 2020 Australian Government Student Residential Address Collection Australian Open Victorian Under 20 Basketball Team
Middle School
Settling In
Meet the Form Teacher Curriculum Information Evening Year 8 Outdoor Education Year 8 Surf Camp Absentees Email Contacts Year 7 Immunisations
Junior School Photo Day
2020 Junior School Parent Teacher Meetings Key Dates Ahead
Sport Careers Calendar Support Groups OCGA Year Level Dates Links to Flyers
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Edition 76, 7 February 2020
From the Headmaster Parents’ Association Start of Year Social Functions The last of the Parents’ Association Welcome Back Drinks will be held this evening, parents of students from the Senior School will gather in The Camberwell Room in the Sports Centre. Thanks again to the Parents’ Association and to the Development Office for organising and hosting these functions. I have appreciated the opportunity to welcome parents from the various year groups of the School to a new School Year.
Scholarship Examinations Tomorrow morning, we will be holding scholarship examinations at School. Over three hundred students have registered for these examinations including some of our own students. We wish them all well, recognising that only a very few candidates will be awarded a scholarship, and that examination results do not define one’s worth as a person.
Year 11 Student and Parents Information Evening Next Monday, 10 February, we will be holding the Year 11 Student and Parents Information Evening in the Performing Arts Centre commencing at 7.30pm. The purpose of the evening is to provide an explanation of the structure, procedures and rules of the VCE, and to suggest some strategies which will help to make this year successful in every sense.
Year 7 and 10 Immunisations Year 7 HPV and Boostrix (Diptheria, Tetanus, Whooping Cough) immunisations and Year 10 Meningococcal ACWY will take place next Thursday 13 February in the Camberwell Room, commencing at 9.30am. Consent cards have been sent home and were due back yesterday. Please ensure that you have completed and returned your son’s consent card, even if your son is not being immunised. The goal is to have 100% of consent cards returned, ensuring all Year 7 and 10 students have been offered the opportunity of free vaccinations at School. The Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2009, states that Principals are now authorised to release student and parent/guardian contact details to local Council Immunisation Services for the purpose of delivering the secondary school vaccine program when requested to do so. Please contact our Co-ordinator of School Health, Mrs Rhonda Nicholson on 9845 1777 or at shc@cgs.vic.edu.au if you would like further information on our Immunisation Program.
2020 Australian Government Student Residential Address Collection The Australian Government Department of Education is seeking to confirm the current residential addresses of our students and their parents/guardians to assist in their determination of funding arrangements. We are required to provide you with a copy of the Data Collection Notice which can be found here. Many of you will have received a request from me earlier this month to complete, sign and return the School’s Administrative and Medical Information Form. This current request from the Department is in addition to, and does not replace, that earlier request from me. If you have moved address recently and have not yet advised the School of your current address, could you please contact our Student Records Office on 03 9835 1777 or sro@cgs.vic.edu.au no later than close of business Friday 21 February 2020. No action is required by you in relation to this data collection notice. If you have not however, returned your completed and signed Administrative and Medical Information Form, could you please do so at your earliest opportunity.
Australian Open
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Congratulations to Lachlan O’Neill (Year 9) who worked at the Australian Open during the January holidays and was selected as a ball boy for the Men’s Final for his exceptional performance and conduct both on and off the court. A wonderful experience and achievement for Lachlan.