Communications

Newletters and "In the Next Week"
The Headmaster prepares a weekly “In the Next Week…” bulletin that advises of current activities. A regular newsletter is also prepared which reviews and previews school events and provides information and details of other school events. These are emailed home, usually on a Monday, and a copy is available from the homepage.


The Medbury Diary
Each boy is issued with a diary at the beginning of the year in which he records appropriate dates and his prep. The diary may also be used for messages from home to school and vice versa.

Your Contact Information
When boys enrol at Medbury their parent / guardian and emergency contact information is held at the school office. At the start of the year you will be sent a form asking for this to be updated. However, should your contact details change at any time, please inform the office:

Telephone: 03 351 6169
Facsimile: 03 351 6563
Email:

Requests for Information and Appointments with Staff
There will be occasions when you will need to telephone members of staff or make an appointment to meet with them at school.

Your first avenue of communication about your son’s education is his classroom teacher. As calls cannot be put through to teachers during class time, please leave your call back details with the school secretary.

For a full list of teachers’ email addresses click here

Teachers are available to discuss matters concerned academic or social progress both before and after school by appointment. Specialist staff are also available for interviews. The school secretary can arrange such appointments.

All enquiries about the physical education and sporting programmes should be addressed to the Director of Sport, Mr Glen Taylor, through the school office.

The Deputy Headmaster, Mr Bruce Blair, will directly handle any serious disciplinary concerns.

Please telephone the school office on (03) 351 6169 for an appointment.

Reporting and Interviews
Parents are invited to a class barbeque in the first month of the year to meet their son’s teacher, hear how the classroom programme will be run, ask any relevant questions and meet the parents of their son’s classmates.

Early in the first term, parents are invited to attend interviews to discuss initial progress and set goals for the rest of the year. Interviews are held again in Term 2, and this time the boys are asked to attend so that a three-way exchange of information may be held.

Before all interviews an ‘assessment of needs’ sheet is sent home. On this sheet parents, boys, and the class teacher outline points for discussion. Effort cards are sent out twice a term.

Written reports are sent home twice during the year; on the last day of Term 2 and on the last day of the school year.

Complaints Policy

Click here to download the Complaints Policy (pdf)

Education Outside the Classroom

Download Travel Consent Form (pdf)

During the course of your son’s education at Medbury, he will be required to visit places of interest outside the school grounds as part of the school curriculum. Buses are hired or sometimes parent vehicles are required.

At the beginning of their association with Medbury, parents or guardians are asked to compete a “travel consent” form giving the school permission to transport its students in private cars or hired buses.

All class trips and events will be mentioned in the newsletters or in notices from the teacher. Any costs involved will be charged to accounts unless parents specify otherwise.

Separate written permission is required for school camps and information will be sort by class teachers.