Dohertys Creek P-9 College

On Wednesday we had 50 students from Years 3-6 represent the school at the annual Truganina District Athletics Carnival at the Werribee Athletics Track. The children had an extremely successful day as exhibited by the number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons they had won. In fact, the day was so successful that Dohertys Creek finished second in the school's championship. A very proud achievement! We will now have a number of children that will qualify for the Wyndham Division Athletics Carnival on September 10th (Neville will contact families when he get the names for this). Congratulations and well done everyone! A big and special thank you also has to go out to our teachers Rimoni, Victor and Alex for helping organise and supervise our children on Wednesday.

Celebrating Principals’ Day 💙

Yesterday we celebrated Principals’ Day, recognising our Principal Class team and the leadership, care and commitment they bring to our DCC community.

We also welcomed some new faces to the team this term, with Jake joining us at the beginning of Term 3 and Justine and Lance joining us two weeks ago. Pictured are Justine, Dom, Noah, Darren, Matt and Jake, with Mal and Elysia in front. Lance, Anne-Marie and Tania are missing from the photo.

The day was also bittersweet as we farewelled Elysia, one of DCC’s founding staff members. Elysia leaves an important legacy through her work in wellbeing and inclusion, her advocacy for all—particularly those experiencing adversity—and her commitment to leading with a strengths-based approach.

A huge thank you to our students and staff who made the day so special. From Prep through to Year 9, we received thoughtful video and written messages, along with some fantastic portraits showing an uncanny likeness and some very creative interpretations of our Principal Class team! 💙

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**URGENT** Industrial Action Thursday 23 July 2026

The Australian Education Union has called on its members to take stop work action on Thursday 23 July 2026.

Please refer to the Compass post by Tania Sorbello.

Parents are require to fill out the google form attached in the Compass post by 2pm today (Wednesday 22nd July).

This week our two playgroups, Huddle Up and Sewing Circle begin.



Below are links to register.



Huddle Up (women's Only Zumba) (Wed 9 - 10 am) https://forms.gle/M7c855bkC2gq9rZH9

Pasifika Playgroup (Wed 11 am-1pm) https://forms.gle/wiVt4fSH36kg5okJ6

Poonam's Sewing Circle (Thu 9 - 10:30 am) https://forms.gle/9J3vuS2U1qxBh9B39

Bunjil's Place Playgroup (Thu 11 - 12:30 pm) https://forms.gle/yFcAy4dXJ421s7Nv8



If you have any questions please email [email protected]

On September 12th, Andre will be climbing 28 floors in 25kg of kit and helping to raise $1 Million supporting our beneficiaries, Lifeline, Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation and 000Foundation.

Please help Andre “Step up to fight cancer, depression, and suicide” by sponsoring me below.

100% of every dollar donated will go to cancer research and crisis support.

Scan the QR code or click this link to donate https://www.firefighterclimb.org.au/climber/andresmith/

Our final day of Celebrations of Learning for Year 9 was a huge success! Our students enthusiastically shared their work and progress with their peers and families, many of them even teaching our primary students about some big secondary school ideas!

Thankyou to all the families who came to celebrate a big semester of learning with us in Years 7-9

Photo 1 - Tua, Spartan and Jeremy teach our Grade 6 students about DNA

Photo 2 - Bianka and Lavi with their presentation on global warming and carbon emissions

Photo 3 - Hunar, Shiv and Mustafa with their board game about Democracy

Photo 4 - Rania and Maya with the year 9 Media Arts exhibition

This afternoon our Year 8’s took centre stage with their Celebrations of Learning! They shared work across Health and PE, Humanities, English, Science, Maths and the Arts. Students were creative and engaging - we are so proud of their efforts!

Photo 1 - Akshaya, Shaalin and Mackenzie with their presentation for Performing Arts. They covered a number of elements from their semester of work.

Photo 2 - Dev, Shareeq and Jibril with their interactive presentation for English on mythical creatures.

Our Years 7-9 students kicked off their celebrations of learning yesterday afternoon with our Year 7 students. We are so proud of the effort they put into their presentations and the way they positively and passionately engaged with the visitors.

Photo 1 - Leul, Nicholas, Jai and Sebastian with their learning from Maths. They gathered data about the hand span of their peers and determined the mean, median and mode as well as creating a range of graphs to represent this data.

Photo 2 - Preston, Savir and Faariz with their presentation about their learning in Art across the semester. Their presentation was interactive with questions for the participants. They included artists, famous artworks and learning about colour theory.

Photo 3 - Geethika, Rush*tha, Amber, Anishk and Edris with their presentation about states of matter in Science. The worked collaboratively and took it in turns to share their knowledge.