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Senior School News
Headstart
Senior students were excited and also apprehensive to begin their VCE studies in Headstart. It was very pleasing to see them take on their new studies with such seriousness. Many of the students are starting to use the VCE Centre during their study periods and also before and after school.
Students should expect to do some work over the holiday break. Novels should be read, exercises completed and any additional work that is given to them for each of their studies. As we take the work done during Headstart very seriously, students can expect that there will be assessments soon after we return to school in 2018.
Year 12 Conference
The Year 12 students will be attending a two day conference on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 January 2018.
Teacher Leaders for 2018
The new Senior Sub School team is:
Director of Senior School - Ms Sylvia Christopoulos
Year 12 Managers - Mr Julian Day and Mrs Leah Liakos
Year 11 Managers - Ms Melanie Erwin and Ms Clare Selir
Absences
Absences are to be logged onto Compass or a phone call made to the Senior Office on 9581 5231. If your daughter is absent on the day of a SAC, a medical certificate will need to be provided as well.
Sylvia Christopoulos
Senior School Leader
Middle School News
Alpine School
We currently have four students attending the Alpine School in Dinner Plain - Sarah Pontifex, Loren Henry, Millie Jewell and Chloe Corcoran. The girls have been busy honing their leadership skills in the outdoors and working with students from all over Victoria, developing their team building and problem solving skills as well as surviving Victoria’s wild weather over the last week. The students will be presenting their Community Leadership Projects that they developed over their time at camp this coming Friday. We look forward to the students sharing their experience with our College community upon their return.
Headstart
Students are well into their 2018 Headstart program, having participated in all their electives and Personal Learning program and adjusting well to their new year levels. Students have one more week of Headstart for the year and should maintain organisation for all of their subjects for the remainder of this year, being able to smoothly begin the 2018 year with all their subject material ready to go.
Year 9 Aware Program
All Year 9 students will be participating in the Aware program in the third week of Headstart. This program focus on harm minimalisation around alcohol and other substances. This program will run for half a day across either the morning or afternoon on Wednesday 13 December.
Year 10 STEAM Incursion
On Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 December, all Year 10 students will be involved in an entrepreneurship activity to devise an app. They will focus on app development, design and marketing. We are excited to see the ideas our students can come up with.
Deb Jarvis
Middle School Leader