Year 10 News

For all Year 10 students there are only four weeks left. How time flies!!! There are a lot of dates to be aware of below as our Year 10 students become Year 11 on November 28th.

Year 11 Courses for 2023

Most students have signed up for their VCE or VM courses for next year. If you wish to change your course please supply Mrs Tangi with a permission note.

Team Members

This year the Year 10 team members are: Sheryl Tangi (Team Leader Maths / Science and Numerack), Jessica Qu (Science, Life Skills and PBS Leader), Angela Thomas (Art and Photography), Mark Heiberg (Maths, Numerack and Humanities) and Cassie Keevers (English and Humanities) and Denise Cairnduff (English and Health/ PE).

Tech School Visit

Year 10 students from the Morwell Campus attended the Gippsland Tech School in Week 2 to undertake an Advanced Sports Science workshop. Students had the opportunity to experience technology used at an elite level to evaluate and improve athletic performance such as VO2 max testing, biomechanical analysis using motion capture suits and virtual reality. Through this experience, they developed their understanding of the impact this technology can have on health, fitness, injury prevention, return to sport, and performance enhancement.

CAMP

Monday 17th - Thursday 20th October – Well done to all who attended!!

Sixty Year 10 students from the Churchill Campus and Morwell Campus recently attended a four-day Melbourne Experience Camp. 

MONDAY

Embarking from Morwell the students and six teachers travelled down on the V-Line train to Melbourne, the students arrived at Flinders Street Station and then caught a metro train to South Yarra. The students checked into The Hotel Claremont, dropping their luggage off into their rooms before heading back into the city. After having lunch along Southbank the students visited the southern hemisphere’s highest observation deck, the Melbourne Skydeck. Taking in the city views from nearly 300 metres high some students even braved going out on the Edge which is a transparent glass cube that projects out from Melbourne Skydeck, leaving them suspended nearly 300 metres above the streets of Melbourne.

Later in the afternoon, the students then visited ArtVo, an immersive art gallery that currently features a fantasy theme, allowing the students to explore and interact with the ocean, polar ice caps, space and the forest exhibits.

Taking a tram the group travelled to Crown Casino Complex where the students had dinner, followed by a game of bowling and laser tag. Heading back to their accommodations, the students settled into their first night to prepare for another day filled of activities.

TUESDAY 

Up bright and early the students set out heading to the Graffiti Ally precinct on Hosier Lane, students took themselves on a self-guided tour. The group then travelled through the city to the Old Melbourne Goal, where the students embarked on a guided tour which educated them of the  history  between 1842 and its closure in 1929 where the gaol was the scene of 133 hangings including Australia’s most infamous citizen, the bushranger Ned Kelly. The students gained an insight into what life was like for the men and women who lived and died there all those years ago.

After lunch, the group travelled back to their accommodation in South Yarra to freshen up and prepare for dinner and their night time activity. Students enjoyed a meal at the Pancake Parlor, and then headed to O’Brien Icehouse over on the Docklands where they partook in a 30-minute introductory skating and then had an hour of free skating time to refine and show off their skills. 

WEDNESDAY 

Day 3 commenced with the students travelling to Southbank DFOs where they had the opportunity to shop the vast variety of retail factory outlets.

In the afternoon, the students visited Melbourne's iconic Princess Theatre where they viewed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Dinner was enjoyed at the Lion Hotel, an old English style pub in Melbourne Central. For their evening activity the students then headed to Hardrock Indoor Climbing. An instructor ran through all the safety work with  the students, including how to put on a harness and how to belay, before the students had the opportunity to attempt climbing the rock walls. 

THURSDAY 

On the students’ final day, after enjoying breakfast in South Yarra at the SOS Café, the students headed to the Jam Factory Village Cinemas and watched the film Black Adam.

The students then caught a tram back into Melbourne and departed from Flinders Street Station on the V-Line train where they arrived back in the Valley in the afternoon.

ATTENDANCE

This year we will be trying to increase student attendance rates especially at Year 10. We would really appreciate a phone call to the 24-Hour attendance line if your child is absent from school. This helps our attendance officer track students and improve our % attendance for each student.  

PBS

Students can receive a KPA SMS message to parents from teachers each lesson for positive behaviour. Students are also receiving postcards for displaying consistent behaviours for the four school pillars of Excellence, Relationships, Work Ethic and Engagement. This year we will be rewarding students with great attendance to school and for GPA reports at or above 3.5.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Reminders

-Students will require a device (please contact us if you need some support).

-Students need to be at school by 8:35 am.

-Students need to be in complete school uniform (please contact us if you need some support). 

- NO MOBILES during school hours

Contact Details

If you have any questions or concerns regarding Year 10 students please don’t hesitate to e-mail us or phone on 51650600

Sheryl.Tangi@education.vic.gov.au