Dates
- Monday 6 February — student photo day
- Monday 6 February — Japan Study Tour Information Night
- Tuesday 7 February — Opening Mass and Top Achievers' Assembly, 9.00am (Doyle Centre)
- Tuesday 7 February — Year 7 2023 Parent Information Night, 7.00pm (Centennial Hall)
- Tuesday 7 February — Old Collegians' Association meeting, 7.30pm (College Reception)
- Monday 13 February-Friday 17 February — Year 7 camp/Stepping Forward
- Wednesday 15 February — Parents and Friends' Association meeting, 7.30pm (College Reception)
- Tuesday 21 February — catch-up student photo day/sibling photos
Contacting staff
Parents and guardians are advised that new email addresses for Year Level teams are now available. Emails will go to all members of that Year Level team to allow for a faster response. You can contact the Year Level teams at the following addresses:
Year 7
Cassandra Poynter and Natalie Hamment (Year Level Leaders)
year07levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
Year 8
Rachel Berka (Year Level Leader)
Kassidy Grant-Whiting (Assistant Year Level Leader)
Stephanie Tonietto (Year Level Learning Advisor)
year08levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
Year 9
Alan Torcello and Morgan Scott (Year Level Leaders)
year09levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
Year 10
Richard Komizayk (Semester 1), Greg Hysted (Semester 2) and Denver Carron (Year Level Leaders)
year10levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
Year 11
Marie Prusac and Tom Warren (Year Level Leaders)
year11levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
Year 12
Andrew Leaumont and Alison Schlueter (Year Level Leaders)
year12levelleader@mlmc.vic.edu.au
College Fees
Finance Office
Thank you to all 2022 MLMC parents and guardians who greatly cooperated with the payment of school fees allowing for the College to be in a strong position going into 2023. We are very proud to report that the College only had four outstanding accounts at the year’s end, with a couple of these accounts already paid it leaves just a few to be managed.
By now all families should have access to their annual College Fee Statement on the Parent Portal.
If you have not set up an automatic direct debit, credit card or other authorised payment plan, please make note of the following important dates:
13 February
1st quarterly instalment due. Please refer to your College Fee Statement for the amount. NB: If you are not paying your College Fees in full and are not on an automatic or authorised College payment plan then you must pay your 1st quarterly instalment amount by this date.
6 March
Annual fees paid by this date will be eligible for an early payment discount. Please refer to your College Fee Statement (emailed 12 January 2023) for the amount, but remember to take off your early payment discount from this amount (pro rata amount for split billers).
Families that have set up an automatic payment plan must ensure funds are available on the day the payment is processed. Please see below for dates:
If you require any information regarding the College Fees, please contact our Finance Office on 9237 1315 or 9739 2209.
Enrolment for Year 7 2025
Mrs Sharon Elderhurst
Enrolments Officer
Applications for Year 7 2025 are now open. Parents and guardians are asked to submit an online application via our website’s enrolment section as soon as possible and preferably before Friday 5 May 2023, with applicants to be contacted to arrange an application interview in Terms 2 or 3. Applications for Year 7 2025 will officially close on Friday 18 August 2023. All applicants are encouraged to attend a College Tour. Offers of places will be sent to prospective students on Friday 20 October 2023.
Organisation Skills
Miss Sarah Shallcross
Community Development Coordinator
With Term 1 underway, we are looking for parent volunteers to help our Year 7 students with the Organisational Skills Program.
What is Organisational Skills?
This program is run by volunteer parents. The program helps our young students to develop fundamental skills that they will carry with them throughout their years at high school. These skills include how to keep track of homework and assignments as well as how to keep a tidy locker. Our volunteers visit their assigned homeroom regularly, some visit every fortnight, others monthly (this is flexible and can work around your schedule).
How to sign up?
If you are interested in signing up for this program please call or email me, Sarah Shallcross, at sshallcross@mlmc.vic.edu.au or phone 9739 2220. Further information will be provided in the coming weeks to those who sign up.
I look forward to hearing from you!
College Choir
Mrs Caroline Dickason
Choir Director
Does your child enjoy singing? The College Choir is open to all students who love to sing. We sing at College assemblies, Mass and some liturgies, providing service for these important events. We also sing at community events such as Anzac Day and Remembrance Day and at the end of every term we celebrate our work with a fun ‘snack and sing’. The Choir is an excellent opportunity for your child to participate in a year-long program and sing with other students under professional guidance.
College Choir will run every Wednesday. There is no cost to parents, as it is fully funded by the College. It will be held in SLR1.1 (the music rooms next to Centennial Hall) each Wednesday at lunchtime from next week. It is open to anyone who likes to sing. Students are encouraged to come along, bring a friend, their lunch and a drink.
Instrumental Music
Mrs Sharon Flint
Instrumental Music Secretary
The College’s Instrumental Music program will commence for Year 8-12 students in the week beginning Monday 13 February. For Year 7 students, lessons will commence in the week beginning Monday 20 February. Parents and guardians are asked to please check your emails prior to these start dates to view the Term 1 timetable.
Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF)
Finance Office
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school excursions, camps and sporting activities.
If you hold a valid means-tested concession card, are a temporary foster parent or a student between 16 to 18 years old and have a means-tested Disability Pension or Youth Allowance card, you may be eligible for the CSEF.
The allowance is paid directly to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
The annual CSEF amount per student is $225 for secondary school students.
Parents who received the CSEF at the school in 2022 do not need to complete an application form in 2023, unless any of the following changes have occurred:
- new student enrolments: your child has started or changed schools in 2023 or you did not apply at the same school in 2022; or
- changed family circumstances: such as a change of custody, change of name, concession card number, or new siblings commencing at the school in 2023.
If a form was not lodged in 2022, parents or legal guardians are required to complete a CSEF application form and lodge it with their child’s school for processing.
Application forms should be completed and lodged with the College as soon as possible in Term 1 as payments are made from March onwards. The College will be able to accept and process applications up until the end of Term 2 each year.
For concession card holders, CSEF eligibility will be subject to the parent/carer concession card being validated successfully with Centrelink on the first day of either Term 1 (30 January 2023) or Term 2 (24 April 2023).
For more information please contact the Finance Office on 9237 1315.
CSEF payments are for the current application year and cannot be claimed retrospectively for prior years. CSEF application forms are available to download below, click HERE, or by visiting the College website, or visit www.education.vic.gov.au/csef
Parents must lodge a CSEF application form with a photocopy of your Health Care/Pension Card. No late applications can be accepted.
