Learning and Teaching News
Ms Jennifer Smeed, Mrs Roxanne Rosenberg and Mr Adam Knight
Year 12 Gold Optimus Breakfast with Dr Jeannette Young
Last Thursday, our Year 12 Gold Optimus Award recipients and their parents came together to celebrate the outstanding Unit 3 academic achievements of these students at the Annual Optimus Breakfast. We also welcome our 2021 Year 5-11 Dux and Proxime Accessit recipients to this significant academic event. This year, the Governor of Queensland, Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, addressed the gathering outlining the importance of acting as our College motto states, ‘courageously’ as to be grateful for the wonderful opportunities and support our College and most importantly, our families offer us. Alongside Mr Newman (Head of College) and Mr Mark Elliot (Regional Direct for Marist Schools Australia), Her Excellency presented the boys with their Gold Optimus Awards. Congratulations to all Year 12 Gold Optimus Awards on outstanding Unit 3 results.
JAMES ATKINS
DOUGLAS COWLISHAW
ARCHIBALD FORBES
ANGUS FRASER
PATRICK GILBERTAIDAN O'CONNELL
RYAN WATTS
BENJAMIN ADAMS
ZAC APELT
FRANK BAKER
DYLAN COOPER
JAMES FITZGERALD
MASON HOULIHAN
JACK MESTRIC
DYLAN NONA
SAMUEL PATTERSON
SAMUEL SCHMIDHAUSER
DYLAN SOLL
HENRY WARREN
Year 12 Head of College and Optimus Awards Presentation
Last Wednesday at assembly the Year 12 Head of College and Gold, Silver and Bronze Optimus Awards for study in Unit 3 were presented to students. Well done to all boys who have achieved highly in their results and learning behaviours across Unit 3.
A Head of College Award is awarded to students who receive all As in the behaviour and application criteria on their end of Unit 3 report card.
Congratulations to the Year 12 Head of College Award recipients:
JASPAR DRIML
JOSEPH IKIN
JAMES HEFFORD
PATRICK MAHONY
BENJAMIN WARREN
LOUIS VAN WINDEN
To receive a Bronze Optimus Award, students must receive a minimum of 80% for General subjects and an A in Applied subjects across 4 courses of study. Congratulations to the Year 12 Bronze Optimus Award recipients:
SAMUEL BRENNAN
PATRICK BYRNE
COREY CHALMERS
RILEY CHUGG
WILLIAM COLLINS
RYAN CONNOLLY
CLANCY COWHIG
MITCHELL COX
ELIJAH FOXOVER
RYAN HARTEN
MATTHEW HOWELL
LACHLAN KILLEN
CONNOR LYONS
EDWARD MANSON
BAXTER MELROSE
MICHAEL NOLAN
MICHAEL PRITCHARD
RYAN OOSTENBROEK
THOMAS REED
REGINALD ROSANOWSKI
TOMAS RUIZ
FINN THORPE
LIAM WEBB
LUKA WILDE
LACHLAN WILLIAMS
The following students received both a Head of College and Bronze Optimus Awards:
SAMUEL ALLPASS
THOMAS CUSACK
THOMAS DEMPSEY
ALEXANDER SOFRONOFF
ETHEN TSIAMALILI
To receive a Silver Optimus Award, students must receive a minimum of 80% for General subjects and an A in Applied subjects across 5 courses of study.
Congratulations to the Silver Optimus Awards recipients:
FLETCHER ARTHO
ANGUS BATHE
OSCAR BURG
WILLIAM CANNING
MICHAEL COLEMAN
GILBERT DONALDSON
WILLIAM DOWD
KIERAN EADES
RAFFERTY EVANS
HUGH FAGGOTTER
LACHLAN FORD
JAMES GURR
BLAKE HARROLD
RYESE HART
THOMAS HORTON
NOAH KELLY
HARRY MASEL
SAMUEL MEAD
THOMAS PEACOCK
JOSHUA PEGG
MYLES PROIETTI
DYLAN RABIE
ROMAN SCHUTT
SAMUEL WEINERT
DANIEL WITT
RYAN WITZERMAN
Congratulations to the following students who received both Head of College and Silver Optimus Awards:
TOBY ANDERSON
JOSHUA BARICHELLO
JACK CUDDIHY
WILLIAM JOHNSON
JAMES KELLY
LIAM LUCEY
LIAM MACCORMICK
NICHOLAS MCGIBBON
LUKE NISBETT
JAMES ROURKE
JEREMY STOWER
To receive a Gold Optimus Award, students must receive a minimum of 80% for General subjects and an A in Applied subjects across 6 courses of study. This is particularly impressive as this means that these students have achieved these high grades across all of their subjects of study in Year 12.
Congratulations to the following students who received Gold Optimus Awards:
JAMES ATKINS
DOUGLAS COWLISHAW
ARCHIBALD FORBES
ANGUS FRASER
PATRICK GILBERTAIDAN O'CONNELL
RYAN WATTS
Congratulations to the following students who received both Head of College and Gold Optimus Awards:
BENJAMIN ADAMS
ZAC APELT
FRANK BAKER
DYLAN COOPER
JAMES FITZGERALD
MASON HOULIHAN
JACK MESTRIC
DYLAN NONA
SAMUEL PATTERSON
SAMUEL SCHMIDHAUSER
DYLAN SOLL
HENRY WARREN
Year 10 Subject Selection
The online subject selection link has been emailed to all Year 10 students. The link which was being sent from 'web preferences', will be active until 9:00pm tomorrow evening (Wednesday 15 June). Before this time, boys are to log in and add their study preferences (6 subjects and one reserve option).
A reminder that boys should generally be enrolled in subjects now that they are wishing to study in Year 11 and 12 e.g. if they are wanting to study Geography in senior it should be on their current timetable. This allows them to develop their skills and some basic knowledge before they commence their Unit 1 work in 2023.
Elevate Education Parent Seminar
Upcoming Webinar for Parents - How to Prepare Your Child for Exams
We’re excited to announce that parents of our school have exclusive access to Elevate Education’s Parent Webinar Series this year. Elevate works with our students, delivering high-impact workshops on study skills, motivation, wellbeing, and exam preparation. By tuning into their webinar series, you will learn how to better support your children at home through reinforcing the skills they learn at school.
Wednesday 15 June at 6:30pm (AEST) How to Prepare Your Child for Exams
Here's what Elevate will be covering:
- How your child can manage their study schedule before exams to study all areas - not just their favourite subjects!
- The best revision techniques and how to use practice papers effectively
- How to optimise exam room performance.
The webinar is run live online from 6:30 - 7:30pm (AEST) where the presenter will share Elevate’s key research and skills, and will conduct a live Q&A so you can ask them questions directly. If you are unable to make the webinar, don't worry! If you sign up to attend, you'll receive the webinar recording on Thursday morning:
Should you have questions or would like to contact Elevate directly, their details are listed below. 📞 1300 667 945
✉️ aucoaching@elevateeducation.com
💻 https://go.elevateeducation.com/e/891981/au-schoolwebinar/8w651/226169081?h=lvGIfVUpNQATh0wqODqeTdD3qlXNkFJVxeRljsy4-yQ
Middle School Exam Schedule (Friday 10 to Thursday 16)
Make up Exams
If your son has missed an exam due to illness, he will be able to catch up these exams on Thursday 16/6.
Year 7 –9
Boys are in normal timetabled classes during the day, therefore catch-up sessions will be held after school, starting at 3:15pm. A schedule will be released to these boys as soon as possible.
Year 10
Boys will be required to come into school from 12 noon. A schedule will be released as soon as possible to these boys.
Please follow the normal absentee process for your son.
Semester 1 Reports
At the end of Week 10, all boys will receive a Semester 1 Academic Report. You will receive a notification of when these become available. To access, please follow the steps outlined below.
How to access Academic Reports – Parent Lounge
Please follow these steps to access academic reports
1 - Open parent portal and click on “Parent Lounge”
2 - Academic Reports are accessible via the link of the left-hand side of the page, or at the bottom of the main screen. Click on the academic report you would like to see.
Accessing LMS for task specific feedback
At the completion of each drafting stage and final completion of assessment (both written and exam), your son will receive task specific feedback from his teachers. It is important that your son/s access this feedback, so they are aware of their strengths and limitations. Parents are also encouraged to access this information.
Please follow these steps to access task specific feedback.
1 - Open parent portal and click on “Parent Lounge”
2 - On the left-hand tab select “Curricular Activities Due” and select “view all activities” on the top right-hand side of page.
This will take you to a screen that lists of your son/s assessment to complete, or has been completed.
3 - Click on a subject to view feedback.
4 - Once you click on the subject you will be able to find the following information:
- Task sheet for assessment – this will outline what your son needs to do to complete the task successfully
- Draft due dates and due dates
- Criteria sheet
- Feedback
- Result
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability
The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place every year.
The NCCD is a collection that counts:
- the number of school students receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability
- the level of adjustment they are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students.
Students are counted in the NCCD if they receive ongoing adjustments at school due to disability. This ‘help’ allows them to access education on the same basis as a child without disability. The NCCD uses the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992.
Schools provide this information to education authorities.
For more information please read the following: