Senior School

Our Year 9 and 10 students have been studiously working through a range of assessment tasks over the course of this Stage 5 Assessment Week. Assessments have taken a variety of forms, with everything from in-class Music performances of long-rehearsed pieces, to submission of research tasks and more traditional examinations. 

Undertaking such an assessment week is a crucial facet of our students’ overall academic development, as in doing so they must learn a range of skills and grow the dispositions they will need to be successful in later studies. Preparation for such a week involves complex skills in time management and prioritisation, carefully considering both the weighting of tasks and their commitment of time and resources to them. It also requires students to consider the outcomes their teachers are testing their ability to meet, and how they can best demonstrate their performance of them. Such weeks can also test and grow the resilience of our young people, as they struggle to persevere in the final stages of preparation of assessment tasks, not to mention the wisdom to know when they have done enough. 

As students finish this big week, we wish all our Year 9 and 10 students the best in their assessments and a well-earned break thereafter. 

Student Achievement

Congratulations to Year 7 student Liam Baker, who has been announced as the 12 Years Winner of the 2021 Nan Manefield Young Writer's Award.  The Nan Manefield Young Writers’ Award is for young people 11 to 18 years and is judged in five age categories. 

Liam will be attending an award ceremony in North Sydney next week where he will be asked to read aloud his story to the audience. He will also be invited to attend a Masterclass writing workshop to be held during the school holidays.   Well done, Liam!

Mr Owen Laffin

Deputy Head - Head of Senior School