DMSC
Will Thomson and Katie Griffiths
2024 School Captains
Dimboola Memorial Secondary College was proclaimed in 1921 and moved into the purpose-built Soldiers' Memorial Hall on our 'hilltop' site overlooking the town of Dimboola in 1924. We have been proudly educating our district's young people in the memory of our war fallen for the century since.
DMSC is a small rural secondary college situated in the Wimmera Region 36 km from Horsham. It is a traditional secondary college in its curriculum design but prides itself on its broad senior offerings including VCE and VM/VET pathways.
Everything we do at DMSC is designed to deliver ever improving learning experiences and outcomes that will enable all students to leave DMSC with the skills, knowledge, behaviours and values that drive quality life experiences.
Dimboola Memorial Secondary College would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the Wimmera Mallee area: the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagalk peoples, and pay our respects to elders past, present and future.
From our Principal - Friday 2nd August 2024
Subject selections for 2025
Our Careers teacher, Ms Naomi Kuhnell has begun the process of assisting Year 11 and 10 students with subject selections for next year. Parents of Year 10 students are asked to book a meeting with Ms Kuhnell to discuss subjects that best suit the possible career pathways for their child. This follows on from the Information evening that was held via Webex on Wednesday evening. Students and parents are encouraged to refer to the subject selection booklet that is available online or as a hard copy, upon request.
School Saving Bonus
You may have seen the recent announcement of the School Saving Bonus, as part of the Victorian Budget 2024/25. We are sharing more information about how families will be able to access and use this support. This one-off support will include $400 for each eligible student to help families cover the costs of school uniforms and activities in 2025. It will be available to parents and carers of every child enrolled in a Victorian government school in 2025. Cash will not be paid directly to individuals or families. Instead, families will receive the bonus as credits on their school accounts, which will help meet the costs of your children’s activities and uniforms.
The School Saving Bonus support will be in addition to existing and continuing meanstested supports for camps, sports, excursions and uniforms. The applicationbased Affordable School Uniform program, through State Schools’ Relief, will continue to be available to families experiencing financial hardship or other forms of vulnerability and short-term crisis. This program allows schools to make multiple applications for support on parents' behalf throughout the year, if needed. There will be more information and guidance about the School Saving Bonus later this term, ahead of its implementation in 2025.
Parents and carers of Victorian schools-aged children will receive the one-off School Saving Bonus ⇐click the link to find out more!
State Principals’ Conference
On Monday, both Mrs Pyers and I attended the annual Principals’ Conference at the Melbourne Conference Centre, together with more than two thousand other government school Principals and Assistant Principals. The Minister for Education, the Honourable Ben Carroll, spoke about the key directions in education and the importance of explicit teaching. This is a teaching strategy that DMSC has continued to embrace for many years, and our Year 9 NAPLAN results for both Numeracy and Writing are testament to the success of using this teaching technique in the classroom, as are our consistently strong VCE results over the past seven years.
I attended a session conducted by two secondary schools on how they have adjusted their VCE and VCE VM courses to provide choice for all students in the senior secondary years. This is important in ensuring that students remain in education until the end of Year 12, which is the message being delivered by many employers, and both federal and state governments.
Sally Klinge
2024 Documents
- Enrolment Form
- Find My School (findmyschool.vic.gov.au)
- Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) Application Form
Parent Payment Information
Booklists
Use the link below to access DMSC's online Campion page. Use the code QYCV (found on the front of the booklist) to set up your child's account.
Bushfire At Risk Register
Our school is on the Bushfire At Risk Register (BARR).
Schools on the BARR must close on a determined Catastrophic Fire Danger Rating day in their weather district. No staff will remain on site and all out-of-school care programs (including vacation, before and after school programs) will not operate on such days.
As a bus coordinating school all bus routes will be cancelled.
DIMBOOLA MEMORIAL SECONDARY COLLEGE
post PO Box 40 | Dimboola | Victoria, 3414
phone 03 5389 1460
fax 03 5389 1981
email dimboola.memorial.sc@education.vic.gov.au
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