Curriculum News
By Mrs Anna Hardy - Assistant Principal - Curriculum
TUTORIALS
A reminder that tutorial sessions for students run from 3.15-4.15pm each Thursday and offer students the opportunity for more study time and teacher assistance with school work and assignments.
ASSESSMENT CALENDARS
These are live on the student’s ipad, under the icon Assessment Calendars – these should help students keep ‘on top of’ their assessment and plan for important dates. Students are to check the calendar regularly for changes and updates.
YEAR 12 QCS STUDENTS
Year 12 QCS students (all OP eligible students), will attend a Mighty Minds workshop in week 10. These workshops are valuable for students sitting the QCS test and it is an expectation that students attend all facets of the College QCS program. Therefore, when making out-of-school appointments for students it is asked that QCS and Mighty Minds workshop days are avoided. This will allow our students the best preparation and the opportunity to perform as well as possible for the QCS test. The next mighty Minds workshop is on Tuesday 25th June with QCS practice tests occurring on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th June.
QCS
The QCS test will be held on Tuesday 3rd September and Wednesday 4th September. Year 12 students sitting these tests will be unable to leave the College for appointments over these two days. Please be aware of this when scheduling appointments over the next few weeks.
END OF SEMESTER REPORTS
These will be posted to parents on the last week of term. If anyone has had a recent change of address we would appreciate it if you could notify our College office as soon as possible to ensure that all student reports reach the correct destination.
ASSESSMENT
It is important that both students and parents familiarise themselves with the policy. I wish to point out an integral detail in this policy; students will complete all assessment. If the student chooses not to submit an assessment item by the due date, it cannot be marked and the draft will be marked in lieu. However that student will still complete the assessment during a detention and hand it in. This will be kept in the student’s profile but will not be marked and graded. It is imperative that all assessment is completed.
EXTENSION PROCESS
As we move towards the end of the term please be mindful of the application for extension process.
Junior students - must complete the extension form, get their subject teacher to sign and negotiate a new due date and then they must get the Junior Curriculum Program Leader, Mr Kirby to approve the extension.
Senior students - All senior student extensions go through the Senior Curriculum Program Leader, Mrs Searson for approval.
Remember that extensions are for extenuating circumstances, extended illness (with medical certificate supplied in senior years), and family bereavement. Technological issues are not grounds for an extension as backing up electronic work is the student’s responsibility. Students can not apply on the due date for an extension (unless in extenuating circumstances) as they can email staff their assessment if they are not at school. Students must make every effort to get the assessment handed in on the due date.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any additional questions in regards to Curriculum at the College.
EXAM WEEK & STUDY LEAVE
There will be an exam block for Year 12 students at the end of this term. This will run during week 8 and 9 (13th-20th June). Year 12 students will have study leave during this time; however if students have outstanding assessment for subjects, these particular students will not be granted study leave and will be required to stay at school to complete outstanding assessment.