Secondary School

Year Twelve examinations are going well and our Year Ten cohort are preparing for their first suite of exams next week.  Externally Set Tasks have now been completed by our Year Twelve students and this round of the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessments (OLNA) for our Year Eleven and Twelve students starts in a couple of weeks.

Examinations

Information about Examinations is available in the Secondary School section of MyGSG.  The examination folder contains information and guidelines for each set of examinations, examination timetables and information from the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA). 

See link here @ MyGSG - Senior School and scroll down to 'Documents'.

OLNA

This round of OLNA is available to Years Eleven and Twelve students and those students in Year Ten who did not sit OLNA at the end of Year Nine.  All students and families have been contacted directly about these assessments. 

All Years Ten, Eleven and Twelve students, as required, will sit OLNA in the next round of assessments in Term Three.

Information about OLNA, as well as advice and support, can be found in the Secondary School section of MyGSG here @ MyGSG - Senior School and scroll down to 'Documents'.

I am proud of the positive academic culture we have at GSG and seeing students strive to do their best, regardless of their future pathways is an aspect of our culture worth celebrating.

We were lucky enough to have six aspiring leaders from our Year Eleven cohort selected to attend a leadership camp during the last holidays.  The camp was held in Perth and GSG had more students attend than any other school, and they had also travelled the furthest. 

Our Year Twelve leaders were keen to hold a small event to support Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea but with the date falling so close to the exams, we decided to hand this opportunity over to the Year Eleven aspiring leaders.  This group relished the challenge and enjoyed learning about the process of putting on an event from marketing and promoting the event, to the logistics on the day, to the follow-up action required.  Their enthusiasm was contagious, and they put on a lovely event at lunchtime last Thursday with tasty treats, lawn games and vibrant music for the rest of the school.  We raised almost $400 on the day.

Well done to Colin Ferreira, Max Roots, Hamish Bee, Liesel Freebury, Chelsea Pearson and Amy Medway.  I look further to this group of students’ contributions to the more formal student leadership process next term.

Mrs Victoria Turnor | Head of Secondary

From the Careers Centre

M4 Wave Energy Prototype Visit

A few weeks back, I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend a presentation and demonstration of the M4 Wave Energy Project. The project aims to design, construct, deploy, operate and decommission a wave energy converter in Albany’s outer harbour, in King George Sound.

The total project value is four million dollars, of which the majority is reinvested in the supply chain of local businesses and Albany-based Marine Energy Research Australia (MERA) staff. The funding for this project has come from the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre and the Government of Western Australia. Presenters included Rana Everett (Everett Consulting), Manuel Grosshans (SMC Engineer) and Weibke Eberling (UWA Researcher and Head of MERA). 

I look forward to our students at GSG networking and connecting with these inspiring professionals in their subjects. The launch of the incredibly impressive M4 is scheduled for late August. Stay tuned for the details of this in the local media!

The M4 technology is non-commercial and based on the design developed by project partners at the University of Manchester, UK. The Great Southern coast boasts one of the world’s best wave energy resources for power density and consistency, and a grid connection point exists at the Albany Windfarm at Moodrenup/Sandpatch for a future full-size wave energy converter. The M4 project established a nursery site for wave energy technology testing and uses a full-size wave energy converter to model the potential for wave energy in decarbonizing nearby end user operations such as the Albany Shellfish Hatchery and Albany’s Historic Whaling Station on the Torndirrup peninsula. The M4 wave energy converter is surface-riding with two frame segments on floater buoys, generating electricity through the flexing motion in the hinge.

NIDA Online Open Day 

The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) online Open Day is on the 15 June from 9.30am to 3.30pm (AEST). 

You can register at the link below:

Open Day 2024 - The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

2025 UWA Early Offers and Entry Pathways Webinar

This event will be taking place on Wednesday 12 June.

You can register at the link below:

 2025 Early Offers and Entry Pathways: The University of Western Australia (uwa.edu.au)

Mrs Renae O'Donnell | VET & Careers Coordinator