Brookhill

                                                                     Mr David Murphy

Year 11 Presentation Ball

Dance lessons will start on Monday 24 May, in preparation for the annual Year 11 Presentation Ball, to be held on Saturday 28 August. Students will once again be under the guidance of dance teacher, Mr Sebastian Riscica, and will have ten lessons at school. There will be three dance practice time slots: Mondays 3:30 to 4:40pm; Tuesdays 3:30 to 4:30pm; and Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:30pm. Participating students have been informed of which session they are allocated to. Invitations for families to attend the Ball will be mailed to families closer to the date of the Ball. Tickets will be purchased through TryBooking online booking; detailed instructions of booking procedures will also be mailed to families.

Mid-Year Exams

Mid-year exams are approaching. Year 10 and Year 11 exams will take place from Thursday 10 June to Thursday 17 June. The GAT, for all students studying a Unit 3-4 subject, is on Wednesday 9 June. It is very important that all students make mid-year exams their highest priority over this period of time. The exam timetable is quite tight, and students will have more than one exam on some days. This means that Year 10 and Year 11 students will have to prioritise study over the next few weeks. Organisational skills and forward planning will be important; study cannot be left to the night before an exam, particularly if there are two exams on a particular day.

I strongly encourage all parents to talk to their children about their preparation for the upcoming exams. At this stressful time, students need loving support and gentle encouragement from their families; parents should focus on helping children to achieve their own personal best performance. The following advice from Elevate Education, who provides Study Skills education to Aitken College is pertinent:

Notes should be completed at least 2 weeks before the exam. You need good notes for final preparation but making notes in the last couple of weeks is less effective. Elevate recommends the following process for effective use of notes:

1. Write notes. 
2. Review notes within minutes of completing them. 
3. Review the same notes after 24 hours. 
4. Review the same notes twice in that week.

Use colour in your notes and use key trigger words to aid memory recall. Do not try and memorise large chunks of notes but develop recall techniques around trigger words and phrases and colour.

Brookhill House Athletics Rescheduled Date

The Brookhill House Athletics carnival has been rescheduled for Thursday 15 July. An invitation from Consent2Go will be sent out towards the end of term. Please respond to the invitation as soon as possible.

Mrs Julie Wachter

House Sports Coordinator