Message from our Campus Principal

Welcome to the pointy end of the school year.

Year 12 students are rapidly coming to the end of their secondary education. Year 12 VCAL students have been having meetings with their parents/guardians and school support staff to map out what needs to be done to complete their certificate and what strategies are in place to take them to the next stage of their life. 

Year 12 VCE students who are not planning to sit exams in Term 4 have already started sessions around preparing for job applications and interviews while focusing on meeting the outcomes needed to help them with their next step. For all those students sitting exams at the end of the year, they are busy finishing their outcomes, completing the SACs and SATs that are the school assessments contributing to their final study scores and getting ready for those exams. Revision lectures are available face-to-face at Fed Uni in the first week of the holidays as well as practice exams. Online revision sessions are also available in the second week of the holidays. You are right; for scored VCE students the next holidays are not really holidays!

On top of all that the General Achievement Test (GAT) will be held on Wednesday 7th September for all Senior VCAL students and all VCE students studying unit 3-4 VCE subjects. While the GAT is generally not part of a student’s final assessment, if something happens which stops a student completing an exam, the GAT results are used to help give the student a derived score. For this reason, it is important that students take the GAT seriously.

While teaching staff always find this the busiest and most stressful time of the year it is also a time when the work load of the education support staff also increases dramatically. With this in mind, congratulations to the Careers Team for being shortlisted in the Victorian Education Excellence Awards in the category of Outstanding Education Support Team. Announcement of the award winners will be made at the Regent Theatre on 31st October. Regardless of the outcome our school community is always aware of the valuable work the Careers Team does across our College. We are very lucky to have them and wish them all the best for their night at the Regent.

Congratulations to Lily-Rose Williamson, one of our Year 12 VCE students who has been drafted to the Essendon Football Club. Congratulations also needs to be given to our students and the Health/PE department teachers for the number of sports teams and individual students who have progressed into the later stages of the inter-school sports competitions this year. It seems that at every morning briefing Candy White is telling us about the student successes…AND the number of students who will be missing classes when the next round of sports is occurring. Still great to see students being more active now we are slowly moving away from the COVID limitations of the past two years.   

For all of you with students doing Year 11 courses we hope to see you at Parent/Teacher conversations on Thursday and Friday 15th/16th September. These meetings are an important way to find out in more detail how students are progressing in their subjects. They also give you a chance to share information with teachers about the issues your students are facing that we may know nothing about. So please, when you receive notification for bookings, book those meetings.

I hope you all enjoy the holidays and we look forward to working you with in Term 4 and beyond.