Curriculum News

Years 5-11 Awards Night - Academic Winners

Congratulations to all boys who received academic awards at our recent Awards Night.  The dedication and commitment to your studies is to be commended.   A special mention to the following students who were awarded Year level Dux and Proxime Accessit.

YEAR LEVEL DUX

Awarded to the student who has the top GPA for each Year level from Year 5 to 11.

Year 5 - Jack Davis and Kayden Kyoung

Year 6 - Connor Campbell

Year 7 - Fletcher Wessling

Year 8 - Daniel Kelly and Aidan Phillips

Year 9 - Charlie Cowlishaw

Year 10 - Angus Bosse

Year 11 - Douglas Cowlishaw

PROXIME ACCESSIT

Awarded to the student who has the second-highest GPA for each Year level from Year 5 to 11.

Year 6 - Ike Rowland

Year 7 - Alessander Javier

Year 9 - Ashleigh Bishop

Year 10 - Oliver Lee

Year 11 - Sam Patterson

Year 7 and 10 2022 Laptop Program

The e-learning vision for Marist College Ashgrove is to provide quality, challenging, technology-rich learning opportunities to nurture students to become innovative, informed, discriminative and confident users of information communication and learning technologies.   

In 2022, Marist College Ashgrove is rolling out its Laptop Program by providing individual devices for students in Years 7 and 10 (2022).  Parents with students entering these cohorts next year have received correspondence relating to what device their son will be receiving.  Further information will be provided to these families on January 27, 2022, where students will receive their device as well as learn about information regarding care for the device, software and data management, technical support, insurance and the student laptop agreement.

Friday Academic Detention

As per the College diary, students will be placed on Friday academic detentions for not meeting classroom expectations. This may be due to missed homework, incomplete drafts or non-submission of assessment to name a few.

The College has introduced Pastoral Comment (PC) entries for Curriculum Leaders to enter details for Friday academic detentions. This process will send automatic notifications to parents and students via parent lounge and student café.  Parents are asked to acknowledge notification of this detention when issued. 

Parents and guardians will be notified via email of a PC entry and will be directed to Parent Lounge to view and acknowledge the notification. 

Steps to follow are:

1. Parent Lounge: click on the notification tile 

2. A drop-down item will appear with details pertaining to PC Entry.  Click on ‘see more’ to read further details for the Pastoral Care Entry.

3. Once you have read the reason for the detention, please tick on the acknowledge box.  If you would like to see other PC Entries your son may have received please click on the ‘show history’ link.

Exam Blocks

Year 10 and 11 Exam Block will run from Tuesday 16 - Tuesday 23 November. The block provides students with the opportunity to study for their exams from home when they are not required on campus for exams. This exam block privilege is provided to students who are up-to-date with assessment for all subjects (including their VET courses and Work Skills modules). If your son has not submitted assessment or completed the tasks to a reasonable standard, he will be required to remain at school over this exam block in order to catch up on this work. You will be contacted before the commencement of exam block via email if this applies to your son. If you have any questions about this process please do not hesitate to contact the Secondary Learning Leader, Mrs Tara Franklin, at franklint@marash.qld.edu.au.

Year 11 Academic Check-in meetings 

All Year 11 students are invited to book a time with a member of the Academic Care Team (Ms Jen Smeed, Mrs Roxanne Rosenberg and Mrs Tara Franklin) to discuss academic progress in Units 1 and 2 and set goals for Units 3 and 4.  ATAR eligible students will be given a prediction based on Units 1 and 2 progress. Please note final ATAR will be calculated on Units 3 and  4 so this prediction is a guide only.  

Bookings are to be made by the student through the Marist Learning Portal:  Pastoral > ASH Program > Year 11 Academic Meetings or by clicking this LINK

Students, please note the following when booking:

• You are welcome to invite your parents/guardians along to the meeting. Be sure to confirm that they are available before selecting your timeslot.
• You will be given the option to select a suitable date, time and teacher.  It is first in best dressed.
• It is your responsibility to notify your teacher if this meeting is during class time by showing them your booking page in Moodle.
• Please take careful note of your date, time and venue and be punctual to your appointment.

Meetings with Mrs Rosenberg and Ms Smeed will be located in the Studies Office.

Meetings with Franklin will be located in the Careers Information Centre.

Any questions please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Tara Franklin or Ms Jen Smeed.

Week 5 Study Tips @ Study Hall

This week in Study Hall students will be reflecting on how they study and learn about the Pomodoro Technique- staying focused during study.

Study Hall is on Tuesday 3:30pm - 5:00pm and repeated Thursday 7:45am - 8:30am.