Update on Semester Reporting
Secondary Semester Reports were distributed during the first week of the holidays through the school portal and these gave our students the opportunity to reflect on the feedback received from teachers and to gain insights to help them rise to the challenges of their upcoming coursework and end-of-year assessments.
Subject Selection Showcase, 21 July (online)
Parents are reminded that the Subject Showcase Evening for Years 9 and 10 will take place this Thursday 21 July. This will be an online Teams event again this year. Initial details of the event were sent to parents by Mr Trollope via email last week, with further instructions regarding accessing meetings, forthcoming in the next day or so.
Normally, Year 9 students and families are invited to attend a special information session at School regarding Electives and VCE Studies in Year 10. This presentation will be available behind the 2023 VCE VET Showcase tile. Families should view this prior to the start of the interactive sessions which starts at 5.00pm on Thursday.
For Year 10s, there are four Maths and four English subjects available, and the overview videos which will be available on the portal should be viewed prior to Thursday to provide guidance with subject selection in those areas. All individual Senior subjects on offer next year will be outlined behind their respective tiles and subject teachers will be available to answer specific subject-related questions at the Showcase on Thursday evening. We invite you to attend with your child to hear specific details about the various VCE and VET subjects on offer in Senior College.
As in previous years, subject selection will be made on-line. This year, the process will commence on Saturday 23 July and will close at midnight on Monday 1 August. All Year 7-11 students have attended Subject Selection information sessions, where they have been given instructions on how to follow this process.
Students will receive a personal message via their Tintern email account on Saturday 23 July with a link to the on-line subject selection portal.
Course Guides and Handbooks are available through the Senior College Handbooks link on the portal or though the School website. Click here to access Senior College Course Guides and Handbooks
The Showcase Evening mentioned above will assist students to select the most suitable pathway and subject choices for 2023. Individual teachers and our Careers Consultants are available to assist with this process throughout the evening. Please read the instructions in your invitation email carefully, so you know how to access staff on the night.
Parents are reminded that it is not possible to meet all student preferences during the subject allocation process, due to the constraints of timetabling and blocking based on an overview of all students’ choices.
Student Progress Meetings
We plan to run a full day of Student Progress Meetings online on Tuesday 23 August from 9.00am to 4.00pm. Secondary students will not attend school on this day but will, instead, be expected to complete non-contact asynchronous work at home left for them on the portal by their subject teachers that day. Students are expected to take a break from their work and log in to these Teams meetings with their parents.
Currently, in response to feedback from parents and staff that a mix of online and face to face options was ideal, we plan to run two afternoon Student Progress Meeting events onsite at school between 4.00 – 8.00pm on Wednesday 24 August and Monday 29 August. However, with the changing COVID situation we may need to move these evenings online as well, in which case the meetings would start at 4.30pm on these dates.
Further information regarding the booking arrangements for these events will be forthcoming in the near future. The teachers look forward to meeting with both students and parents to discuss your child’s progress.
Alison Bezaire | Director of Studies
