Especean

Curriculum and Learning

Years 5 to 12 Assessment Information for 2025

Over the next week or so, the Years 5 to 11 Assessment Handbooks and the Year 12 Assessment Tasks Calendar Terms 1 - 3 for 2025 will be available on the relevant CANVAS Year pages and the TASS Parent Lounge. Year 12 received their Assessment Handbook at the start of fourth term last year.

 

Each Assessment Handbook covers the course assessment program in all courses for the academic year. Included in each Assessment Handbook is the College’s Assessment Policy, Assessment Schedules (or Plans) and Assessment Tasks Calendar. Also, on CANVAS are the Examination Rules for Years 9 to 12.

 

The handbooks serve as official notification for all assessment tasks for the whole year. Additional specific course and/or assessment task requirements may be issued by individual teachers and Heads of Departments as deemed appropriate to the nature of the task.

 

It is expected that all students would familiarise themselves with this information to plan and organise an effective study regime that will assist them in achieving their academic potential. The College has put together a thorough assessment program that will provide opportunities to excel in a variety of assessment tasks.

 

Despite the College’s best intention, it is possible as with any large assessment program, that changes may occur. Any change, if it does occur, is expected to be minor and ample forward notice will be given to the relevant students.

 

It is important to note that the College’s assessment policies and procedures are drawn up in accordance with those of the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) and have the clear intention of being considerate and just to all students and their teachers.

 

Essentially, these policies and procedures ensure a level playing field and ensure justice to the great majority of students who consistently do the right thing by:

  • applying themselves with diligence to all set tasks

  • thoroughly familiarising themselves with the academic expectations of the College

  • submitting their own work by the specified due date

  • providing advanced notice, where possible, of absence for an assessment task

  • providing appropriate medical documentation to the relevant Head of Department immediately on return to school when absent for an assessment task or when work is not submitted on the due date

  • discussing the result of a task, with the relevant teacher, at the time the task is returned.

Students who are absent on the day an assessment task is due or to be completed, can expect to submit the task or complete it on the day of their return to school.

 

Ignorance does not constitute a reasonable or valid excuse to breach any of these basic common-sense procedures and will invariably result in a penalty or a zero mark being given.

 

I urge parents/carers to read with their sons all the relevant assessment information issued by the College. It is through its assessment policies and procedures, along with good teaching and wellbeing practices, that the College can set and maintain its high academic standards. The College’s consistent excellent results in all external tests and examinations, such as NAPLAN and the Higher School Certificate, are testimony to this fact.

 

Michael Cutrupi 

Director of Curriculum