Senior School

From the Prefects

The last few weeks have been some of the busiest so far for Senior School as we wind down to the end of a long term!

Beginning Unit 4 on the 15th of June, the Year 12s are now more than halfway through their classtime for the year, and the approach of the end of High School is feeling more real each week!

Year 12s and parents, don’t forget that valedictory tickets are available now! All information regarding valedictory has been both emailed out and can be found on the Compass newsfeed.

Congratulations to the Year 11s for having just completed their first round of VCE exams, for Unit 1 of their studies. We hope everybody is coming out of the exam period feeling that they did their best.

Very soon, on the 23rd of June, many Year 11s will also be departing on their Central Australia trip, and returning on the 14th of July, so good luck with the travelling and enjoy your adventure to those students!

Ariel Parker

The Downball Traditions Live On

The crowd cheered and swung their arms around vivaciously like if it was an Ed Sheeran’s concert whilst the Yr 12s came down in slow motion from their team bus and as heroic music played in the background… to be exact California Girls by Katy Perry was playing.

This was the scene of the annual and traditional downball tournament between the Yr 11s and Yr 12s. Music and live commentary by Jarrod Prest left the spectators bawling their eyes from laughter whilst they enjoyed some professional and clinical play from the Yr 12s, I cannot say that the Yr 11s too demonstrated amazing play because they were defeated!

But their effort and team spirit can be commended. Final score was 2-0. All of the teams look forward to the second round that will be happening next term and will decide if the Yr 12s remain unconquered victors or if the Yr 11s will prove they have game and get a draw. But I guess only time will tell…

Didier Iriarte Fattel

A Report on the GAT Memes of 2017

Week 9 of term 3 saw all students undertaking year 12 studies complete the dreaded, 3 hour long General Achievement Test (GAT).

This test of general knowledge and skills in written communication, maths, science and humanities ensures that school based assessments have been accurately marked, and is used to determine a derived exam score, should there be a need for it.

One of the things that gets us year 12’s through this exam is the promise for the creation of many a chuckle-worthy meme based on the paper.

Here we have included some of our favourites from this year that were posted on VCE Discussion Space (a Facebook group for students with over 100,000 members).

Leah Nichol