Senior School
Physics at Luna Park
Senior School
Thank you to those parents who were able to come along to Parent Teacher Interviews. It was a fantastic opportunity to build partnerships between home and school. I trust that there were valuable conversations about how to best support your child in their learning. It was great to see so many parents and students during the day.
Please make sure you are asking questions about how school is going with your child. The vague, open-ended questions such as, ‘how was school?’ usually elicit a vague, general response such as, ‘good’ or ‘fine’. Try to be specific in your questions. This is where a knowledge of what subjects and assessment tasks your child is completing is important. ‘What did you learn in English today?’ or ‘Have you finished the Chapter 3 questions?’ are good, specific questions to begin a conversation. The more inquisitive (as opposed to ‘checking up’) you can come across—the better!
Please feel free to make contact with any of your child’s teachers. We in the Senior School want to be in good communication with you, and the more we can work together, the better outcomes for your child/our students.
John Presant
Head of Senior School
Year 9 Theatre
The Year 9 Theatre class learning about costumes on a recent excursion.
Karen Elbourne
Theatre Studies Teacher
History Happenings…
Year 11 students in Unit 1 have been learning about the development of writing by the Sumerians, during their Ancient Mesopotamian Class.
Students had a turn at copying the wedge shaped symbols onto clay to create their own written tablets known as cuneiform tablets.
Penelope Connolly
History Teacher
Year 12 Physics Excursion to Luna Park
Amazing sunshine, awesome aerobatics and stomach turning rides.
Understanding centripetal force, impulse, momentum, gravitational acceleration and Newtonian forces can be difficult at times and experiencing these concepts in action can help. The Physics students contemplated each topic as they rode the rides at Luna Park and focussed on analysing their motion for Area of Study 3 in Unit 3. They also enjoyed themselves and a good time was had by all.
Greg Crotty
Physics Teacher
Careers News
Please find attached St Andrews Careers Newsletter No 4.
Items in today’s issue include -
- A Day at Melbourne University
- 'Experience Clever' at La Trobe University
- Snapshot of Deakin University in 2018
- School Based Hospitality at Box Hill Institute
- Aviation at Swinburne
- Courses in Cyber Security
- What is Land Surveying?
- U.S. College Sports Information Session
- Commerce Degrees in Victoria.
If you have a question about a topic featured in the Careers Newsletter, please contact Careers Coordinator Mrs Irena Yevlahova iyevlahova@standrews.vic.edu.au
Irena Yevlahova
Careers Coordinator