It has been so pleasing to see how our students have settled into the new school year, especially our new Year 7 students who have joined us here at the College. We are blessed to have a number of new students joining us at Years 8-10 also, bringing our College community to over 1000 students. It has also been refreshing to start the new year at school with less restrictions and having our students commence classes and school life normally. Our focus is putting the events of 2020 and 2021 behind us and moving forward as we work in getting the full potential out of all our students.

As your Deputy Principal of Wellbeing, it is part of my role to set high expectations around attendance, uniform, lateness, commitment to College events and behaviour. We endeavour to set the bar very high when it comes to these matters and appreciate the partnerships we have with families in supporting us. Some of these expectations include:

• Taking pride in wearing the correct uniform each day
• Ensuring students are at school by no later than 8:45am
• Adhering to our start and end of the day procedures in our classrooms
• Encouraging student involvement in our co-curricular program
• Making changes to our Recall system
• Including student attendance at College events on our semester reports
• Introducing a Community Liaison Officer to our Wellbeing Team
• Ensuring safe and respectful behaviour outside school when in College uniform

Again, I would like to congratulate our students on how they have conducted themselves in returning to school and the way in which they have remembered to take pride in being active and respectful members of Catholic Regional College Caroline Springs.