Secondary News

Year 10

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our year 10 students and families to Semester 2 of our exciting V1 program.

Semester one provided many new opportunities, challenges and successes along the way - Most certainly we witnessed growth and personal development in each of our children as they embarked on their first phase of V1.

All parents and students would have received Semester 1 reports, via compass, on the last day of Term 2. It is vital that all parents log into compass, view the reports and discuss it with their child.

I am very pleased to report that it has been a busy and relatively smooth start to Semester 2. Our year 10’s settled into their classes well. We welcome our newly enrolled students and look forward to witnessing their growth throughout the next two and a half years. So, to this extent I thank teachers, families and friends for assisting with uniform, books, technology, etc.. 

Throughout the last few weeks of Term 2 and the first two weeks of Term 3 all year 10 students had an interview with our MIPS Team. Our Senior School Course Expo was held last Wednesday evening. Next Thursday (3/8/17) will be the year 10 course selection interview day. It is expected that all parents and students would have read the reports, attended the course expo evening and arrive to their 15 minute interview ready to make informed decisions about next year’s subject selections.

Joe Haddad

ANCQ 

Registrations for the 2017 ANCQ being held on Tuesday 1 August are now open.

The ANCQ is a great opportunity to promote chemistry and the role it plays in our society as well as providing a useful benchmarking resource for gauging the understanding your students have of chemistry. 

The Quiz consists of 30 multiple choice questions, taking approximately 1 hour, split into four divisions.  The age divisions are Junior Years 7 – 8, Intermediate Years 9 – 10, Senior Division Year 11 and Final Division Year 12.  The ANCQ can be taken either online or hard copy.

The cost per entry is $5.75 incl. GST.  Registrations for this competition close on Friday 2 June.

All students are awarded for their efforts and receive a Certificate of Participation; we anticipate that approximately 40% of entrants will receive Certificates of Merit to acknowledge their efforts at Credit, Distinction and High Distinction levels.  Students who obtain a perfect score of 30 out of 30, receive a Certificate of Excellence and a lapel badge.

The ANCQ is a truly International competition with translations into seven different languages.  The Quiz attracts over 110,000 entries from over 1,600 schools throughout Australia and 17 neighbouring countries.  We anticipate an even greater response for the 2017 Quiz, including entries from Austria and Germany.

To register for the 2017 quiz please visit www.ancq.com and use the following information to log in.

Username:                          admin

Password:                           ancq2017

School Code                       317401

If you require any further assistance please contact the ANCQ schools coordinator at ancq@raci.org.au

Kyla Crawford