Middle School

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Term 3

It has been a very busy and exciting beginning to term for many students at the College.  There has been a range of extra-curricular activities such as production, music and inter-school sport all featuring heavily.  Students have also been receiving information and support with their course selections for 2019.

There are a number of key dates upcoming in the near future, so please refer to the list below to ensure students and parents are aware of these and other important information.

Tues. 21st August:     

Year 10 into 11 Student Course Selection input

Wed. 22nd August:    

Year 8 into 9 online Student Course Selection closes

Wed. 22nd August:    

Year 9 into 10 Student Course Selection input

Thur. 23rd August:    

Year 9 City Experience Parent Information Evening  (6:30pm)

Wed. 29th August:     

Parent Teacher Interviews  (12pm – 8pm)

Mon. 10th – 14th September:

Year 9 City Experience

I hope students have had a great start to term by working hard to stay up to date with their studies.  With so many extra-curricular activities occurring, students must be responsible in completing work from classes they may have missed.  I look forward to some excellent performances from students, both in the classroom and the activities they may be involved in throughout the term.

Matthew Tucker

Middle School Leader

Year 9 Careers Day

Year 9 students recently participated in a Careers Day within the interGREAT Program.  Students had the opportunity to attend two selected sessions throughout the day, which focused on different careers and pathways.  Students also had a number of different speakers present to them during the day, sharing their career journeys.

On Tuesday, the 7th August the entire Year 9 cohort participated in careers discovery day. The two sessions I did were social work and child care they were both really good in social work we did a lot of activity’s that made us get to know some of the other students and work with them and in child care we learnt about what you have to do to get into child care and the different jobs you can get from it and got to play with play dough and make animals. Overall Careers Discovery Day was really fun and exciting.

• Dayna Ryan

On Tuesday the 7th of August 2018, all the Year 9s attended Careers Discovery Day sessions that they had chosen. I attended a social work and a business traineeship workshop. I enjoyed social work because it was a lot of fun and the speaker we had made it really interesting and it seems like a really cool job, although I wouldn’t want it as career I still really enjoyed it. I found the business traineeship one super interesting, I love that field of work and its definitely something that I’d love to do as a career pathway.

• Leylah Revell

Careers Discovery Day took place on Tuesday 7th August, involving the entire Year 9 cohort to take part in attending a maximum of two different sessions for the day. I attended the paramedic as my first session which I found out to be helpful with making me decide that I'm not interested in that part of the medical area, since the job requires you to work shifts at night. The second session I attended was the banking/finance session. I found this session very informative as I found out that there's a whole variety of jobs in that industry that appealed to me.

• Tiffany Hayes

On Tuesday the 7thof August all the Year 9 classes of 2018 were evolved Careers Discovery Day. This day is for us to hear and learn from people in different industries and help us find out what we want to do when we are older. We got to choose from 14 jobs and we got to hear from 2. I really liked Careers day because I got to realise what I would like to be when I’m older and what path and subjects I’m am going to have to choose to have the best possible chance of being a firefighter when I’m older. Careers Discovery Day was a blast and I loved learning about heaps of things for the future!

• Amber Hart