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Important message for Year 12 families
On December 15, all students will be able to access their VCE results.
Students who have registered with VTAC can also access their ATAR at this point. This may raise concerns for some students, whilst for others it will raise the possibility of additional opportunities. Either way, students will be in a better position to evaluate how their ATAR relates to their immediate goals in terms of tertiary entrance for 2018, as well as their longer-term goals.
Any Year 12 student from this year who needs assistance with decision-making during this time should contact Kylie Witt, who will be available at school for Change of Preference counselling until December 20. Students can also contact Kylie next year if they need assistance with Change of Preference options during the university offer rounds. Please use email in the first instance.
It’s Work Experience Week!
All Year 10 students will be well into their work experience placement by the time this newsletter is published, and we hope they are enjoying the experience and learning from it.
As of Monday this week, the following data was correct:
- 30 work experience placements have already taken place
- 242 placements will take place during work experience week
- 4 students have arranged multiple placements with the one week
- 22 VET Structured Workplace Learning placements have taken place this year
- 4-6 students are undertaking placements the week after work experience week
- 100% of our international students are doing work experience
Work Experience has been proven to be one of the most effective career development activities in which a young person can participate, and we extend our sincere thanks to all those employers in the local community who have taken on the task of ensuring that our students can have this opportunity. Many of them have spent considerable time coming up with creative activities and meaningful tasks to make sure our students can fully participate in the work place. Tutors, teachers and families have also been instrumental in the process of finding and formalising these placements, so they all deserve a vote of thanks, too.