Principal's Report

From The Principal

The College is extremely excited to launch a New Program for 2018. The SEE program is a program for students who show high academic aptitude and have high academic aspirations. 

Program Goals

SEE has been developed to address the needs of high achieving students who demonstrate academic excellence, high levels of task commitment and outstanding creativity. A ‘high achiever’ must be prepared to take on the challenges offered, be willing to take risks and to set more challenging goals.

The program aims to allow students to:

• Develop deep understanding and critical thinking skills
• Enhance their ability to work with more abstract and in-depth course material
• Become effective problem solvers
• Successfully work as independent and co-operative learners
• Create pathways to success for their future study and career aspirations

Please don’t hesitate to contact the College if you would like any further details about this program.

NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) tests were conducted this week for students in Years 3, 5, 7 & 9. Parents will receive individual results later in the year. Teachers will use the data provided from the NAPLAN results and other data to track student performance and improvement over time.

The Mothers’ Day stall organised by our Parents’ Group was once again highly successful with a wonderful selection of gifts available for students to purchase. I hope that the mums, grandmothers, and significant people enjoyed the gifts selected for them by the students.

The College Open Day was held on May 9th. It was great to see so many families from our community interested in finding out about our College. A special thanks to all of our students and staff who gave up their time to support the College during the day and on the night.

The College Annual Variety night is coming up on the 16th of May. I have been told that it is a great night and from the talent I have seen performing around the school I am sure it will be. It would great to see the theatre full supporting our students.  Please contact the office to purchase tickets.

Our Year 10 students will all be involved in Mock interviews on Thursday the 18th of May, as part of our Managed Individual Pathways program. Thirty-one guests from business and industry will be conducting the interviews, which are a valuable experience for our students. Thank you to Jodie McCarthy and Pam Naylor for organizing this important event.

I would like to let the school community know that the Canteen will be changing ownership in the coming weeks. Our current operators have had to finish up due to family circumstances. I would like to thank them for their service to our College community. Fina Foods will be taking over from Monday May 22nd. That will unfortunately leave the college without a canteen for the week of the 15th to the 20th. The Parents and friends group has kindly agreed to put on a Barbeque for 2 days, Our SRC will also put on a Barbeque and we are trying to arrange food for one other day. I will keep our community up to date on what is happening. I would,however,  like to remind parents that students are not to leave the grounds to buy food.

Pat Mulcahy