Welcome back! At the end of term 2 we celebrated the achievements of our Year 11 and 12 students at a Senior School celebration assembly. We recognised those students that had upheld our iLearn values of integrity, learning, excellence, accountability, respect and nurturing, as well as those students with 100% attendance.
As Term 3 begins we are reminding our Year 12s that whilst they are fast approaching the end of their secondary schooling journey, there is still a lot to get through before we get there. On Monday July 22nd the Year 12s will attend an assembly with a theme of “one step at a time”. We will be reminding our students that we need them to attend, complete all their coursework, work hard in class, ask questions and keep doing their best. We are here to support them and encourage any student to come and chat with the coordinators if needed.
Graduation/Valedictory Dinner
In 2024 Year 12 students will celebrate the culmination of 13 years of schooling by attending a formal dinner at the Caulfield Racecourse. It has been some years since we held a formal dinner to recognise this significant achievement and we look forward to a fantastic night acknowledging this with both the parents and students of our class of 2024. Please make sure that you keep an eye on Compass to respond to any required actions for this event.
VCE Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences
On Thursday 18 July, VCE parents were given the opportunity to meet with their student’s teachers. This opportunity is provided early in Term 3 to our VCE parents to allow the discussions of students’ Semester One reports, and areas for improvement moving into Semester Two with enough time to ensure that change is possible. We hope the interviews also provided an opportunity for parents, students and teachers of Year 11 students to discuss subjects for 2025.
VCE Premier’s Awards
On Wednesday afternoon myself, Mrs Karen Wade and Ms Cara Hill had the pleasure of attending a ceremony for the Premier’s VCE Awards. The awards recognise top performing students for their academic achievements for their VCE or VCE subjects in 2023. For the first time top performing students in the VCE Vocational Major were also recognised. We had 3 students receive awards for their academic performance in a VCE Study. VCAA uses Individual Graded Assessment scores to determine the order of merit and identify the best students, students must also receive a study score of 46 or above. Sruthy S was awarded a Premier’s Award for Health and Human Development after receiving a Study Score of 50. This is an amazing achievement as the number of award recipients are also determined by the size of the subject. We would like to recognise Cara Hill for all her work in supporting Sruthy with this achievement. Two current Year 11 students also received Premier’s awards for their achievements in a language that they study externally so we also had the pleasure of congratulating Greta G (Italian) and Krisha R (Tamil) on this fantastic achievement.
Absences
Attendance in VCE is important to support our VCE students experience success in their chosen studies. The school has attendance policies in place to support our students in meeting the required number of hours of class time to meet the requirements set out by the VCAA. The Year Level Coordinators will be monitoring attendance and communicating with parents should concerns around attendance arise. If you are contacted regarding concerns about your student’s attendance we ask for support to ensure that you are supporting their attendance at school. Please also ensure medical certificates are acquired if a student is absent on the day of an assessment task or SAC/SAT.
Ms Lauren Kelly
Campus Principal – Senior School