Aitken College Newsletter

Brookhill

                                                       Mr David Murphy

VCE/VCAL Subject Selection

Year 10 and Year 11 students will soon begin making their online subject selections. All students will be receiving instructions and passwords to log onto Web Preferences in the coming weeks. It is very important that the right choices are made at this point. All students have access to first-class careers and subject advice from senior teaching staff and the careers teachers. I hope that everyone is happy and settled with the decisions that they have made. If any student is still a little unsure about their intended course, I encourage them to keep asking questions; it is much easier to change a subject at this stage than a month into next year!

 

We are pleased to be able to offer VCE Religion and Society again at Year 11 level next year. This is an excellent subject, particularly for students interested in the Humanities/English field; I encourage students to find out more about this subject, seek further information from Mr Perri and include it in their program.

Study Skills

Year 10 and Year 11 students are having their last Study Skills seminar for the year on Tuesday 30 July. Elevate Education provide a range of resources to support students, families and schools with the implementation of effective study skill practice. Each session comes with a Student Implementation Guide, which students will be able to access via My Aitken, once they have completed this seminar. Students and families can also access the student support section of the Elevate Education website.

Student Website

The Elevate Education website, www.elevateeducation.com contains a range of resources students can access after the seminar. These include:

  • A copy of Elevate’s best-selling guide, Science of Student Success written by the company’s founder, Doug Barton. The book retails in bookstores for $20.00 but is FREE for Elevate clients. It is available to download in PDF mode under the tab ‘Books’.
  • A range of practice papers for each subject.
  • Video tutorials.
  • Tips from presenters all around Australia who have recently aced and faced their final years of high school.
  • Question forum that allows students to have support even after their Elevate session.

To access the online website students can use the following username and password:

  1. Go to elevateeducation.com
  2. Enter username VIC
  3. Type in password pacco