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Bookings between 11.00am and 6.25pm can be made through your PAM account.

All conversations will be of 5 minutes duration.

Ensure you book early to avoid missing convenient times for you and your child.

Trinity students are expected to be actively involved in these conversations and we ask you to arrange for your child to be part of this booked session.

Please note bookings will close Wednesday 1 May at 9.00am . If you are unable to attend SLC but have concerns about your child’s learning, please email your child’ teacher.

The following staff will be unavailable on the day:

Mrs Rachael Randall

Mrs Jennifer Colbron

Mr Tony Duggan

For all other enquiries or if you require assistance booking your conversations, please contact College Reception on 5233 9200.

We look forward to seeing you and building the partnership to make a difference in your child’s learning.

Staff will provide parents/caregivers with feedback on achievements and opportunities for growth moving forward in 2024.

Mrs Karen A Hart and Mrs Kate Geary
Directors of Learning

Find out more about supporting teenagers at home and help children develop strategies to handle bullying at raisingchildren.net.au.

And dependant on what they are communicating online, it can affect their digital reputation. Friendships, relationships, and even future job prospects are all at risk. As a parent, it is very important that you are aware of what picture they are painting of themselves online.

Once information makes its way online it can be difficult to remove. Images and words can be misinterpreted and altered as they are easily and quickly shared around. Privacy settings on social media sites need to be managed in order to protect your child’s digital reputation.

For more information to support your child with online safety and healthy habits, please visit-

Digital Reputation | Trinity College - Colac (schooltv.me)

Although such incidents are rare, they can still be scarring. It's in these situations that it is vitally important for parents and carers to check in with their children. Being aware of what information they've been exposed to will hopefully minimise their emotional fallout in coming weeks.

Trauma in children significantly disturbs their sense of safety and normalcy, leading to substantial emotional and behavioural changes. Such disturbances often result from exposure to traumatic events, which may be exacerbated by continuous media coverage. This exposure can trigger stress, anxiety, and trauma, with varying recovery timelines due to the unpredictable nature of trauma's impact. Observing young people grappling with these effects can be highly distressing for parents and caregivers.

It is important to establish a nurturing environment to help restore a child's sense of security to help promote resilience. Active involvement in their recovery is essential, as is recognising the unique, personalised needs of each child in responding to trauma. Depending on their age, children may present with different symptoms, such as regressive behaviours in younger ones or withdrawal and agitation in older children and teens. It is important to monitor and manage the type of information children may access to reduce their emotional distress.

The brain stores traumatic events as powerful emotional memories, influencing behaviour through mechanisms beyond a child's conscious awareness. By providing young people with support and equipping them with coping mechanisms to handle uncertainty, parents and carers can greatly enhance a child's capacity to recover and build long-term emotional resilience.

SchoolTV’s Special Report will help you identify a child experiencing trauma and how you can support them to overcome it.

Here is the link to your Special Report https://tcc.vic.schooltv.me/wellbeing_news/special-report-trauma-recover