Curriculum and Planning 

One of my roles at the college is to lead and manage what is taught, how it is organised and then how it is offered to students. This area comes under the ‘tag’ of Curriculum & Planning at Epping SC in 2022. I report to Mr Joshua Wolter, the Assistant Principal who leads Teaching & Learning at the college. 

With students returning to the first year back to onsite learning after two COVID-interrupted years of being in-and-out of Remote Learning, the delivery of our programs has also had to be reset. However, the great majority of students have taken to this quite successfully and have been adjusting well to being back face-to-face full time – the way it should be. The appearance and performance in classrooms tell us that students are very happy to be back to what we all agree is the preferred way of learning; for teachers also, it is certainly the preferred way of teaching. 

Whilst there have had to be some adjustments to assessments, dates, timelines and routines, the great majority of students and staff have been able to shift and cope admirably. Students have welcomed the return to a classroom routine, excursions, Interschool Sport and more – all of which mark the return to normality they (and we) all crave. Our Year 11 students have just undertaken exams and the Year 10s do so this week and again, the normality of school routine is assured and needs to be supported. (On behalf of the college, I ask that as parents, you impress upon your children the need to see this as the norm and not the aberrant exception that marked 2020 & 2021.) 

I look forward to informing you further about developments in our Teaching & Learning Programs over the rest of this year and urge you to support us in providing the best for your children so that they may enjoy school and thrive on the successes they experience at Epping Secondary College.

Hans Mulholland 

LT Curriculum & Planning