Dear Parents, Guardians, Carers and Students

The weeks are flying by now that we are all back onsite. Today has been Book Week dress up day for the primary students and teachers and it has been fantastic. We have been so lucky with today’s weather that everyone could get out for recess and lunch in their costumes for a fun time. 

Year 12 Last day of classes 

Next week will be the last week of classes for our Year 12. Students will be in normal classes Monday to Thursday. These are important classes for our students and in particular this year as we have only just returned to onsite learning. 

Year 12 Celebration Day Friday 30th October 

We are planning a number of events for our year 12 students with as many inline with our usual Celebration Day traditions as we can, within the current operating guidelines. Fingers crossed for a lovely day like today in which to celebrate with our year 12 students and wish them all the very best for the months ahead. 

As this will be one of the last chances I have  before our Year 12s leave to study for their exams, if they have exams, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all good luck. I have heard you took the practice exams very seriously and worked right to the very end in each exam. 

There have been some outstanding results achieved by our Year 12s on school assessed coursework and VCAL projects throughout the year and a focused effort in these final weeks will enable you to capitalise on this success.

 You are encouraged to return to the College over the coming weeks during your external exams, to study and catch up with your teachers. It is not too late to put in the effort needed to improve your study scores and ATAR, whatever your performance to date has been. Take this opportunity to push yourself to achieve your personal best and take pride in the knowledge you will have done everything possible to meet your goals.

Year 12 Graduation Dinner

We have pushed back the Graduation Dinner to December 4th 2020, in the hope we will be able to hold an in person event. 

Public holiday tomorrow and Melbourne Cup day

Just a reminder tomorrow is a public holiday and so is Tuesday 3rd November.

Assistant Principal Kelli Jacobsen away for 10 days

Congratulations, Kelli who has been successful in her application for the Unlocking Potential: Principal Preparation program with Bastow. As part of that program Kelli has 20 days of shadowing a principal, 10 days this year and 10 days next year. Kelli will be away from the 28th October  to the 10th November and Mathew Gray will be replacing Kelli as Assistant Principal Primary for the 10 days this term and Ciaran O’Connor will be replacing Mathew as Leading Teacher - Teaching & Excellence Primary.

Library borrowing

We are now able to open the library for borrowing, which is just fantastic. To increase access to the library we are also advocating for parents and students to make reservations for books online. The following steps will allow you to do this:

·      LOG ON TO COMPASS

·      GO TO STAR ICON

·      Scroll down to School Library – Open

·      Library Home Page will appear (you can search the library from here. However, if you want to do extra things ie. Reserve items, you need to sign in.

·      SIGN IN – Top R.H.S.

·      On the sign in page click on the “G” symbol

·      Students and staff use their Department email details to sign in, ie the same one you use to access Google Classroom.

·      CLICK ON MY SCHOOL COLLECTION TAB

·      You can search for resources in the SmartSearch Bar or Scroll down the bookshelf to view the latest items catalogued

·      Open Reservation Tab – R.H.S.

·      Your Name and Photo will appear

·      Click on the item you want from the Book Shelf

·      Go to R.H.S. and click on Reserve

·      Your item is now Reserved for you

·      The library staff will notify you when item is available

Secondary exams and end of year dates:

Exams:

No Year 7 - 9 exams this year 

• This decision was made to help in relieving the stress from students and staff and allow for subject content to be delivered in depth throughout the term

Year 10 exams for Maths, Science and English only

• These exams will be completed in class during Week 8 - Mon 23rd - Fri 27th Nov

• Allow students to focus on revising for the Core subjects and ensure they experience exam situations

• Alleviate the stress for students on having to revise for all their subjects

• Percentage result will be shown on Semester reports as per usual

Year 11 exams for all subjects

• Year 11 exams will be completed between mid week 7 and mid Week 8 (17/11-25/11)

• Only difference to previous years is that these exams will be run during class time

• English exam on Wednesday 11th November (Week 7) will be for an extended time to prepare for VCE conditions

• Corrected exams will be posted to students

• Percentage result will be shown on Semester reports as per usual

End of Year dates

• Year 11 into 12 VCE, VCAL & VET Headstart: Thursday 26th and Friday 27th November (a double for each subject, with 2021 teacher where possible) 2020 Year 11 students last day of classes - Friday 27th November
• Year 10 into Year 11 VCE, VCAL & VET Headstart: Monday 30th November - Thursday 3rd December 2020 Year 10 students (with parent permission) last day of classes - Thursday 3rd December
• Report writing day - Friday 4th December (Week 9) 
• Last day of classes for Years 7 - 9 - Friday 11th December (Week 10) 
• Week 11 - Activities week for Year 7-9 students.

Have a wonderful long weekend.
Jean Olley
Principal 
Bright P-12 College