Curriculum
2021 HSC Assessment Handbook and HSC Rules and Procedures Guide
On the first Monday back this term, I addressed Year 11 at a special assembly about the 2021 Higher School Certificate and Assessment. I also addressed parents of Year 11 regarding the same on the following Wednesday evening.
At the assembly the students received, and were “walked through”, hardcopies of the 2020-21 Edition of the HSC Assessment Handbook and the Assessment Tasks Calendar for the remainder of this year. Both these documents are also available on Canvas.
This week Year 11 students will also receive a hardcopy of the official NESA booklet titled, Rules and Procedures for 2021 Higher School Certificate Candidates.
It is expected that all students would thoroughly familiarise themselves with all this information in order to plan and prepare for the rigours and demands of the HSC year ahead. I would also urge parents to read this information with their sons.
The information presented in these documents focuses on the rules associated with procedural matters governing the HSC, particularly assessment and examinations, such as conduct, malpractice, illness/misadventure, etc.
It is also important to note that students will confirm they have read, understood and agree to abide by the HSC rules and procedures when they sign their HSC Confirmation of Entry from NESA in first term next year.
In the event the NESA booklet is lost or misplaced, it may be downloaded from the NESA website at: https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/11-12/hsc/rules-and-processes/2021-rules-and%20-procedures-guide
Changes to Speech Night 2020
It is with great disappointment that St Patrick’s College Strathfield will not proceed with this year’s Speech Night at the Sydney Olympic Park Quaycentre, Homebush. Instead speeches, presentation of awards and entertainment will now proceed in the College Gym during the school day on Thursday 3 December and it will be live streamed to all classes. Live streaming and recording of proceedings for the parent community are currently being explored by the Speech Night Committee. More details to follow in coming weeks.
The College Executive, in its extensive deliberations, considered a number of viable options and associated costs. The production costs, normally shared by a number of schools during the Quaycentre’s “Speech Night Week”, are too high for the College to incur on its own given the other schools have recently pulled out and especially for an event of this scale that will be inevitably and significantly compromised due to COVID-19 restrictions.
It is important to note that full student attendance at the College is compulsory and expected on each school day up to 3.10pm, Friday 4 December.
Michael Cutrupi
Director of Curriculum