PEER TUTORS for 2025 were inducted into their new roles in Cloud 9 at recess on Wednesday, 26 February.  Pictured with STEM Coordinator, Ms Burke: Charlotte, Imogen, Mae, Cade, George, Sidney, Xander, Nithika, Paranjay, Nam and Iesa (absent: Elizabeth). Congratulations and best wishes to the team as they take up their duties of supporting and guiding a peer with the joys and challenges of a pre-tertiary STEM subject. 

MEL & MEL APP 

Marist e-Learning (MEL) is our online information platform for you to keep up to date with your child’s progress. We have a “Marist Regional College” MEL app that you are able to download for a more accessible way to access MEL rather than a desktop device. The majority of our parent communication will come through MEL. Some forms of communication remain via email and post.    

Also on the MEL app, you are able to submit student absences, access student reports, class specific feedback, student’s due work, student’s timetables, the College calendar and other important College information.  

MEL FEEDBACK  

MEL Feedback is a form of continuous reporting, in real time, on your child’s progress. In Term One, teachers will provide a minimum of one item of detailed feedback on MEL in response to a Common Assessment Task. In Terms Two and Three, teachers will provide a minimum of two items of detailed feedback in response to Common Assessment Tasks.  

In Term Four, teachers of students in Years 7-10 will provide a minimum of two items of detailed feedback in response to Common Assessment Tasks. Teachers of students in Senior College, and Year 10 students studying TASC courses, will provide one item of detailed feedback, typically indicating the internal awards for relevant course criteria.   

You can access this feedback via the MEL Parent Portal by clicking on your child’s subject which will take you to each class page. As progress is provided via MEL Feedback throughout the year, subject teachers do not write comments on reports.    

REPORT ACCESS    

   Term One  Term Two  Term Three  Term Four 
Year 7 – 10  Progress Report  Summative A-E Report     Summative A-E Report 
Senior College  Progress Report     Summative Criteria-Based Report  No report due to TASC results 

PARENT-TEACHER MEETINGS  

Parent-Teacher Meetings will take place in the first few weeks of Terms Two and Three. You are encouraged to attend Parent-Teacher Meetings with your child, even if there are no apparent concerns.  The meetings provide you and the teachers the opportunity to meet and to enhance the home-school collaboration that is so important in optimising your child’s educational outcomes.      

You can request meetings at other times during the year to meet with your child’s teacher. Teachers may also request meetings during the year. Ongoing communication with your child’s teachers is encouraged and welcomed. Individual teachers utilise various means to communicate with parents. This may be through diaries, emails, newsletters, MEL Class Pages and phone calls.   

We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing opportunities for ongoing communication between families and staff regarding student care, progress, and performance. We look forward to working with you in partnership, towards the best outcomes for your child in 2025. 

 

Mrs Emily Sass 

Deputy Principal Learning & Teaching