Assistant Principal - Learning and Teaching
Year 12 Assessments
Congratulations to the Year 12 students for undertaking their assessments this week. Attendance was excellent and the students really tried their best. Well done Year 12. The feedback from these tasks will be valuable as you move forward with your HSC course. Only 202 days until your HSC exams begin!
Year 11 Assessment Block
Weeks 9 and 10 see the Year 11 students undertaking their first Stage 6 assessments. Please make sure all are in attendance throughout this period and remember that a doctors certificate, or a telehealth certificate from a doctor must be provided if students are absent. Best of luck to Year 11!
NAPLAN
A huge thank you to Mrs Jo Day for all of her work administering the NAPLAN exams and to Mr Roger Shipton for his support. Thank you to the parents who ensured their children had headphones for the period, we appreciate your support. The valuable data collected by NAPLAN ensures we know what we need to be doing as a school to move students forward.
Reading Intervention
Thank you to those parents who have supported our reading intervention program that has commenced this Term. Our teachers Ms Deb Vermunt and Mrs Krystal Brady are highly qualified and competent literacy specialists who have engaged 55 students from Year 7 and 8 in this valuable program. We know how critical the skills of reading are for students to have in life.
“...reading competence is foundational, not only for school based learning, but also for children’s behavioural and psychosocial wellbeing, further education and training, occupational success, productive and fulfilling participation in social and economic activity, as well as for the nation’s social and economic future.”
Teaching Reading Australian Government Department of Education
Atomi
Congratulations to Parvathy Jayakumar and Luana Silk for being the highest Atomi users over the last two weeks. A canteen voucher will be gifted to you! Year 11 and 12 students should be using Atomi for revision and to boost their confidence in the lead up to assessments. Well done Parvathy and Luana!
Please reach out if you have any questions about the learning for your students.
Ms Kate Fullbrook - Assistant Principal - Learning and Teaching