College Matters
Presentation Evening
All MGSC families are warmly invited to the Presentation Evening, our final formal event for 2018 celebrating the outstanding achievements of students in Years 7 to 11. The award recipients will be notified soon.
This year’s guest speaker is Shanthi Pillai (MGSC Class of 2008 ) who currently works at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency and innovation catalyst.
Tickets are free and can be reserved on this link : https://tinyurl.com/yb9r47an
Digital Delivery Day
As advertised on our school calendar throughout the year, Cup Eve (Monday 5 November) will be a Digital Delivery Day. Students are not required to physically attend school. Instead, they are expected to complete work online for all four periods.
- Teachers will upload a lesson plan to Compass and any resources required will be uploaded to Compass or Google Classroom by Friday 2 November.
- Teachers will be available to respond to student emails for the duration of the lesson.
- Student work must be submitted via Compass or Google Classroom by the end of the class.
- Teachers will not set tests or CATs on the Digital Delivery Day.
- Any students who physically attend school are expected to work in the library and bring their computer/iPad with them.
- Students are only expected to physically attend if an incursion or excursion has been arranged for Monday 5 November.
Learning tasks and end of year reports
In 2017 Mentone Girls’ Secondary College introduced continuous assessment and reporting. The purpose of this was to provide students and their families with timely results and feedback, to encourage student learning and development throughout a semester and to engage parents in their child’s learning journey.
This semester teachers have been transitioning to providing feedback on Common Assessment Tasks though the use of rubrics and dot points. The rubric for a particular CAT will show each student’s specific level of achievement against particular criteria. Written feedback focuses on specific advice for each student which will provide them with strategies that can be utilised in order to improve. This written feedback may be written in prose or through the use of dot points.
The End of Year Report provides summary information on each student’s progress throughout Semester 2. This will include levels of achievement measured against the Victorian Curriculum Standards (7–10), satisfactory achievement of outcomes (VCE) and work habits (7-11). The report will show the grade for each CAT which has been completed in Semester 2, however no comments will appear on reports. To access the written feedback which has been completed throughout the semester please access the learning tasks tab in the Compass Platform.
More information on assessment and reporting at MGSC can be found in the Assessment and reporting Guide for Families on the college website
https://mgsc.vic.edu.au/curriculum/assessment-and-reporting-guide-for-parents/
This guide is also on the Compass parent portal.
Student wellbeing
Recently clinical psychologist Dr Megan Theuma joined MGSC to provide counselling and therapy sessions on site.
We are pleased to advise that Dr Theuma is now available on Mondays and Wednesdays. Referrals can be arranged by contacting our Student Wellbeing Coordinators, Leona Thomson and Christine Fay, on 9581 5200.
This is a fantastic initiative which will provide further support and intervention to our students in relation to their mental health and wellbeing
Parents and Friends' Association
Many thanks to the following members of the PFA who served food and drinks and helped to clean up the VCE Art & Design Show: Liz Giordano, Sam Hemingway, Kirsty King, Michelle Lafferty, Natasha Roussety, Elizabeth Semmel and Emma Walker.
Their support of the students and of the college is greatly appreciated.
Ms Carol Duggan & Ms Bronwyn Moline
Assistant Principals