Deputy Report

Progress Reports

Student Progress Reports will be emailed to parents during the final week of Term One.  While the Progress Reports do not provide information on predicted grades, they do provide feedback on a range of important work attributes that will provide parents and students a very good indication of how things are progressing at the College.  I encourage parents to contact College teaching and training staff if they require further information about their son/daughters progress.

International Women's Day

The College hosted and celebrated International Woman’s Day on Monday 8th of March. Julz Carter police officer from the Denmark Police Station organized the breakfast for our young women, along with the Year 10 female students from Denmark SHS.

Guest speakers Hannah Gaffney (On-Road Sales for Elders), Summer Addy (CEO Denmark Chamber of Commerce) and Ceinwen Gearon (Denmark Shire President), shared their life stories of encouragement, courage and inner-self. It was a rewarding experience for our students to meet and converse with the local women in leadership roles.

Wagin Woolorama

College students travelled to the Wagin Woolorama on the 5th and 6th March 2020. Students were involved in junior judging, wool handling and parading competitions at the show. 

Well done to all students and remember, we don’t expect you to win, just participate. In particular I was very impressed with a number of Year 10 and 11 students who were involved in junior judging for the first time and willingly became involved in training and practice sessions prior to Woolorama. I am sure they will do very well at similar events at the Perth Royal Show and Albany Show later this year. Thank you and well done to College Farm staff for their supervision and training of students for the Wagin Woolorama. 

OLNA Testing

Students need to demonstrate a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy (in addition to a number of other requirements) to achieve a Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) at the end of Year 12. Students can meet this standard by demonstrating Band 8 or higher in the NAPLAN reading, writing and numeracy tests in Year 9 or by meeting the minimum standard of the reading, writing and numeracy components of the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) in Year 10, 11 or 12.

The first round of OLNA testing for those Year 10, 11 and 12 students yet to meet the minimum standard has now been completed.  As soon as the results are available to us we will forward the information on to students and parents.  It is important to note that students have up to six opportunities (two per year) from Year 10 to Year 12 to demonstrate the literacy and numeracy standard.  The next round of testing this year will be in September.

Maths

Maths Tutoring

College Maths teacher Deb Hatch is running Maths tutoring sessions on Thursday afternoons between 4.00 - 5.30 pm. These sessions are open to both residential and day students. I encourage all students who may be finding Maths challenging to attend, in particular ATAR students and those students who are still working towards meeting the requirements of the OLNA numeracy test.

Maths, more than just numbers

Learning and understanding how maths is applied in a practical sense on farm, was the basis of an excursion for some of our Year 12 students. They were tasked with gaining information on the size and area covered, as well as the workings, of a centre pivot irrigator. They toured a potato farm to inspect machinery and observe a centre pivot irrigator in operation. They then gathered information and used their maths skills to determine the irrigation area covered by the pivot.