Castlemaine Secondary College News

Parent information

NAPLAN

We are once again at the time of year where our Year 7 and Year 9 students undertake their NAPLAN testing. Tuesday 9th until Thursday 11th of May will see the students undertake the five different sections of NAPLAN. From the college point of view, we use the NAPLAN testing data to measure the change in our Year 9 students achievements compared to their Year 7 results. Our focus is generally on the overall results of the year level and it provides us with a valuable data set to see where we are having an impact. As a result, it is advantageous if we can have as many of our students undertake the test as possible and that the students give the test their best effort.

 

National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)

David Watson

Leading Teacher

What is the difference between Moodle and SMT(Xuno)?

There are two different IT programs used by the college so I would like to take the opportunity to outline the systems currently in use. SMT(Xuno) and Moodle have been designed for different uses. These are as follows:

 

SMT (XUNO)  - Originally designed as an IT system to assist in the daily organization of the school, e.g. record attendance, home contact details, roll marking and messaging. SMT will continue to be used for direct communication with parents by the school (i.e. messaging about absences). This requires a login to the portal There has been some feedback from parents who are confused about the dat http://portal.csc.vic.edu.au/

Your Username and password were provided in a letter at the beginning of the year.

You can 

  • Check student attendance
  • View school calendar
  • Access student timetables
  • Message your students teachers
  • View past reports
  • Book P/S/T interviews - when scheduled

 

Moodle – Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS). This means it is designed to allow access to what is being taught in the classroom.

We recognized the desire from the college community to have access to what is being taught in class so that parents can work with their students to ensure they keep up to date. In response, the college has embarked on providing online access to the curriculum to parents and students anytime, anywhere.  For parents to access the information they just need to go to the following address and log in as a guest – no password is required.

http://8824-moodle.csc.vic.edu.au

You can access

  • Each of the subjects your students are undertaking
  • Tasks that are being used in class.
  • Outline of the topics that will be covered either through the topic boxes or the course outlines.

Castlemaine Secondary College Parent Teacher Support Group

We would like to remind parents that there exists a wonderful opportunity to lend a hand at school through the Parent Teacher Support Group. John Terry and Cath South, former (and soon to be again) parents of CSC students are involved in processing requests from teachers. In the past, tasks that parents have worked on have included photocopying, gardening, guest speaking or providing technical advice, and even knife-sharpening! To register your interest, please email Cath South, cath@peoplepictures.com.au and you will be included in the group email for future requests.