Leave Passes Reminder

For student leave passes, please send your child with a written note stating their leave time. They must show it to their teacher and sign out at Student Reception.

Students returning must sign back in.

Please do not call the school or use SEQTA app to arrange leave passes, as we are sometimes unable to relay messages to students in a timely manner.

Lost

GOLD AND DIAMOND WEDDING RING
A staff member has lost her gold wedding ring during Parent Teacher Interviews on Monday 4 May.
If found, please contact the office.

Mother's Day 2026

Last Thursday, Notre Dame College held our annual Mother's Day Breakfast.

Thank you to everyone who attended this special breakfast. We hope all the mothers and mother-like figures had a Happy Mother's Day on Sunday.

For more photos please visit our Facebook page!

Do It For Dolly Day 2026

On Friday, across the College, staff and students went 'blue to end bullying'. The colour blue is used on Do It For Dolly Day because it was 14-year-old Dolly Everett’s favorite color. The day is dedicated to honoring her memory, promoting kindness, and raising awareness to prevent bullying.

Students participated in multiple activities, creating a kindess wall where they cut out little butterflies and wrote positive affirmations on them before pinning them to their wall. Students watched a powerful video about the harm bullying can cause and were educated on ways to reach out for support.

As well as that, students at Emmaus decorated cupcakes in the colour blue and shared them among their peers. Students were encouraged to wear blue ribbons to show their support.

A BIG shout out to Lynzie Arter and Heidi Ossenberg in the Emmaus Café who baked the 350 cupcakes needed at Emmaus, and a special mention to our Social Justice Leader, Year 11 student Charlotte Stevens who championed the entire campaign at Knight St! All of the activities were her idea.

As a Catholic school we believe in the dignity of every human person and that we are all made in the image and likeness of God. We support Do It For Dolly day and strive to ensure no student is ever bullied in our school community.

Year 11 & 12 VCE VM - Pat Cronin Foundation

Our Year 11 and 12 VCE VM students recently attended powerful presentations by the Pat Cronin Foundation.

Pat was a 19-year-old who stepped in to help a friend being attacked outside a local pub. In that moment, he was struck from behind with a single coward punch, a blow that caused an inoperable brain bleed. Two days later, his parents faced the agonising decision to turn off his life support.

The presentations, Rethinking Anger and Violence is Never OK, were both confronting and deeply educational. They challenged students to put themselves in someone else's shoes and left them with a clear understanding that this can happen to anyone, anywhere.

The Pat Cronin Foundation's mission is to end the coward punch through social violence prevention education. By delivering programs for young Australians that promote positive behaviours, they work tirelessly to raise awareness about the senseless social violence that fuels one-punch attacks.

We are grateful our students had the opportunity to hear this important message.