YEAR 11 NEWS

It has been great to see how many students are receiving positive referrals and awards from their teachers for a variety of positive actions. This includes attendance and engagement, consistent effort, and diligence. These students are definitely setting themselves up for success, not just here at Wyndham, but also into the future.

Attendance

Despite the colder weather, it is important for all students to be here on time each day. All students should be here at 8.00am if they have a session 1 class on their timetable. Missing just 5 minutes of a class each day, adds up to 3 full days in a year!

Year 11 Yearly Examinations

The Year 11 end of course examinations are scheduled for Weeks 9 and 10 this term, this is Monday 15th to Friday 26th September. Examination timetables will be issued to students in the next week so they can plan their study for the final Year 11 task. The timetable will also be emailed out to parents and uploaded to our socials.

All students are required to attend exams for all their courses as per the examination timetable. If a student is unable to present for the examination the school should be notified as soon as possible and they will require documentation, such as a medical certificate that states why they are not able to attend the exam on that day (and the medical certificate needs to be dated on the day of the examination). 

Students will return for the start of Term 4 in their Year 11 classes, and then will transition to commence Year 12 work in Week 3. This will mark the start of students studying their HSC (Year 12) courses and the start of their HSC Assessment program.

Course changes

In the next few weeks, I will be speaking to Year 11 about changes to their pattern of study. This will only be granted on a case by case basis and only for students electing to study:

• a permitted Extension course (English Extension 2, Mathematics Extension 2, Science Extension and History Extension)
• movement between English courses (Advanced to Standard or Standard to Studies)
• movement between Mathematics courses (Advanced to Standard 2 or Standard 2 to Standard 1)
• move from an existing Science course (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) to Investigating Science

No student will be permitted to drop a course at this stage, so will need to continue with their 12 units of study (or 13 if they have elected to pick up an extension course).

Classa Martinuzzi - Deputy Principal