Andrew Chisholm

Assistant Principal

Dear Parents and Students,

Premier’s Awards

Recently the Premiers Awards were held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, recognising students who had performed exceptionally well in the VCE Unit 3 and 4 studies last year. Several JMSS students received these awards for being the top students in a particular study. 

These students are:

Tomas Kiprillis                   Maths Methods

Alexandra Keany              English

Hao Du                                 EAL

Kishore Murali                   Environmental Science

Tara Najibi                          Persian

Alexandra Keany pictured below with the education minister also was awarded a Top VCE All Rounder award for receiving a score of 46 or more in at least 4 VCE Unit 3and 4 subjects. Congratulations to all of these students on their remarkable achievement.

Tertiary Entrance for 2024 

Thanks to all the Year 12 parents and students who attended the recent VTAC information night at JMSS. There have been a number of changes to the VTAC process over the last few years, so it was great to have the opportunity to summarise these. 

Below is a list of dates related to the VTAC process this year that were covered at the information night. The most important date approaching is the JMSS date for students to complete all applications by. This date is set so that we can check that all details have been filled out properly and that all applications are completed prior to the Trial exams so that students can study for these without interruption.

Dates related to VTAC Tertiary Selection for 2024

8th September:                                         JMSS date for VTAC applications, SEAS applications and Reference Requests

25th to 28th September:                       (second week of holidays) Trial exams (Year 12 mock exams)

2nd October to 23rd October:                VCAA run LOTE orals, music performance exams, EI orals

17th October:                                            Final Day for Year 12:  SWOT VAC begins

24th October to 15th November       VCAA Written Exams (exam navigator will be disseminated to all Year 12 students so they know final exam schedule)

4th December:                                          Presentation Night

11th December:                                       Year 12 Results published

13th December:                                         Change of Preference closes

18th December:                                         Early round Offers

All Year 12 students also have a compulsory appointment with one of the careers counselling team between now and September 6th to discuss their options for 2024 and beyond. Appointments are made by the students via compass. Please don’t hesitate to communicate with us if you have any questions.

Trial Exams

In the second week of the Term 3 holidays, we will be running a full face to face trial exam program. This will be the first time we have been able to do this since 2019. In recent years we haven’t been able to do as much exam practice as we would like and get students to practice their exam techniques prior to the final exams in October and November. A trial exam timetable will be published shortly.

Andrew Chisholm

Assistant Principal