Senior School Report

Senior School Happenings

Throughout this term, our Senior School students have experienced a range of learning opportunities that aim to prepare for further education and employment; including guest speakers, course counselling, world skills and study sessions. 

Guest Speaker - Erchana Murrary- Bartlett

Scoresby Secondary College students were very excited to be given the opportunity to meet a World Guinness record holder Erchana Murrary-Bartlett.  Students were given an insight into her achievements and how she demonstrated resilience and determination to run 150 consecutive marathons from the top of Australia to Melbourne, having run 6,330km in 150 days. What a champion!

“I am truly inspired by what she has achieved” 

Josh Davies 

Year 11

Guest Speaker - Glen Gerreyn 

Scoresby Secondary College was very fortunate to host Glen Gerreyn who has spoken to over 500,000 people around the world. He has spoken at the world famous TEDx events, appeared on the Today Show and Can of Worms, and written blogs for Mamamia.com, and has also been featured prominently on ABC national radio.

On Friday the 11 August, Glen Gerreyn came to speak to the senior school students. He introduced himself as the founder of The Hopefull Institute, which is an institution that travels around Australia and the world to help young people to reach their full potential.

He shared his touching story about how his entire life fell apart after he was diagnosed with a rare illness that destroyed his Olympic dreams and ability to function in society. He started The Hopefull Institution with only $2 in his pockets, and it grew into an organisation that helps those worldwide.  

After that he began to provide us with a lot of helpful information in regard to motivating ourselves and setting us on the right pathway in life. He did this by giving us a five-step plan to foster our talents. Glen encouraged the students present to create a vision board with their goals for the future so that they can hold themselves accountable.  

His overall presentation was extremely engaging, and it’s safe to say that everyone took something out of that session. Glen was enthusiastic about communicating further with the audience to be able to provide more help with motivation and commitment to goals.

Anna Harper and Lilly Li 

Year 10 

A Message From Glen Gerreyn

What a very impressive group of students it was a pleasure to present to such an engaged and committed group.  Thank you for the opportunity of working with your students!

Knox Revision Program: 

Knox Secondary Government Schools work collaboratively together and are committed to not only providing the highest quality education for all secondary students within Knox but also improving and transforming secondary education in the entire Knox Local Government Area. 

This semester we are proud to continue to offer an extensive Year 12 VCE Revision Program for all students enrolled in Units 3 and 4 at no cost. This program will be conducted face to face between Monday September 18 and Wednesday September 20 (during the term break). The program will include online lectures by experienced presenters for many of the studies our schools offer, and access to additional online materials and practice exams for English, English Language, English Literature, EAL and Mathematics. Students attending sessions will receive excellent resources in the form of information packs prepared by each of the presenters

The subject sessions being run are:  physical education, psychology, business studies, physics, chemistry, maths – general, maths – methods and maths specialist.

Children’s University

There many activities and learning destinations for our Children’s University members to have fun, fun, fun and learn at the same time. Here are some activities for our members to participate in;

It’s never too early to start Celebrating Science Week! The 2023 schools’ theme is INNOVATION : Powering Future Industries, so in honor of this, over 10 hours of Projects have been developed where members will get a chance to develop solutions to make our future a brighter one! And of course, it’s a chance to put your inventors cap on!

2023 Book Week Activity @Mandy Foot

Zoo Food for a Panda! @Adelaide Zoo

FREE EXHIBITION - The story of the moving image. BOOK your tickets to see The Story of the Moving Image exhibition at ACMI for a 3 hr stamp in your passport.

These are just a few of the learning activities and learning destinations that I find quite interesting. Visit the CU Swinburne portal to participate.

Senior School Key Dates:

Ms Michelle deboer

Head of Senior School