Reports

Interim reports are available on COMPASS, and this is the final opportunity for parents and students to take stock of their progress this term prior to the final semester reports and lead up to exams for students in Years 9-11. As always, I encourage parents to discuss results with their children and focus on elements which they can influence, such as effort, homework, behaviour, and attendance. If these factors are high, academic results will follow.

Year 12

Many of our Year 12 students have just commenced their VCE exams. We wish them all the best and urge them to continue to work hard until the final minute. To the students who are seeking pathways that do not require exams, well done and we encourage them to make use of our wonderful careers team at any stage, especially if additional support is required to secure a pathway.

Year 9 City Experience

Year 9 City experience runs next week. We thank Ms Aquilina for all her work in organising and planning this terrific opportunity. A big thank you to all the ID teachers and the staff who are attending to ensure students have a safe and positive experience in the Melbourne CBD.

Mobile Phones

A reminder that mobile phones and similar equipment are not permitted during the school day or during after school supervision sessions such as detentions and SACs. These devices will be confiscated and will be securely stored until an adult can collect them. They will not be returned to the child. Your support in helping your child focus and better concentrate during the day is very much appreciated.

Professional Learning Community (PLC)

Last week all teaching staff attended our PLC celebration meeting. This was a culmination of eight sessions of work, since mid-Term 3, and the focus of this work was based around the FISO 2.0 improvement cycle.

It was pleasing to see the passion and enthusiasm our staff demonstrate in producing evidence-based work, resources, and activities to help improve their pedagogy and in turn our student outcomes. Well done to all involved and to Ms Chapman for leading us through another PLC cycle.

Student Focus Groups

As part of our planning for 2024 there have been several student focus groups conducted in recent weeks. These are important in helping us better understand our data and unpack the information so we can make changes to continue our improvement journey. Thank you to students for their contribution and open and honest feedback.

Staffing

I would like to welcome two new staff members who join us until the end of the year. Mr Julian Maes will be covering some of Mr Murone’s mathematics and Mr Copping’s science classes. Ms Makayla Sutton is covering Ms Gorgis’ classes. We are very fortunate to have two terrific young teachers join us at this stage of the year.

World Teacher Day

Finally, if you have a moment, please take the time to thank a teacher. Friday 27^th October is World Teacher’s Day. An expression of appreciation can go a long way.

Arthur Soumalias

PRINCIPAL

School Policies have been updated in line with Department of Education and Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority requirements. Parents may review these on the school websitehttps://www.rosehillsc.vic.edu.au/under Our School > Policies > Minimum Standards Compliance – June 2022.

The Year 7 Humanities students participated in a highly creative, relevant project for their geography unit ‘Liveability’. ‘Sustainable Cities and Communities’ is one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. A sustainable city is one that respects sustainable development priorities from their social, economic, and environmental perspective, and that allows its inhabitants to live in good conditions and in harmony with their surrounding nature.

The students put in a great deal of effort to build some remarkable sustainable cities out of mostly waste material such as foil, paper, cardboard, plastic bottle caps, etc. Nowadays half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – live in cities. By 2030, almost 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. In the next few decades 95% of this urban expansion will take place in the developing world. 828 million people live in slums today, with this figure constantly increasing. The world’s cities occupy just 3% of the earth’s land, but account for 60-80% of its energy consumption and for more than 70% of its carbon emissions.

Quality education provides the appropriate tools to ensure the monitoring of waste management and air quality. It equips students with the skills to manage their resources properly and tackle climate change. Through participatory approaches, the students were engaged in discussions and in planning activities for the improvement of their own local communities. The understanding of basic human needs is deepened at this stage, as well as the knowledge of how these are addressed in local urban, peri-urban, and rural settlements. On this basis, students are capable of contextualizing these human needs within the needs of the greater surrounding ecosystems and become more interested in and responsible for protecting their immediate environment.

Manvi Nirula

HUMANITIES TEACHER

The Year 8 Visual Communication Design classes have worked hard to create realistic vector portraits. Along with their object patterns will create wonderful skateboard designs.

The work included is by:

• Tara Brown
• Nam Tran
• Max Smith
• Arian Sajjadi
• Chalee Loft
• Thomas Skiadopoulos
• Sonny Hammond
• Stefan Celic
• Tommy Nguyen
• Georgio Tseros
• Arusaan Uthayakumar

Virginia Singleton

ART & VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN TEACHER

Kimono Workshop

Year 10 students studying Japanese participated in a kimono workshop this year. They have learnt about the types of kimono, how to put them on and how to fold them back. Students who participated in this workshop were Ela Dogruyol, Hannah Ha, Hesanya Nambagodage, Jasen Ramientas, Justin Steele and Aimon Tran.

Mr Takanori HAYAKAWA

LANGUAGES LEADER

Haiku is the shortest Japanese poem. All haiku were translated by students. They also chose or created images for their own haiku.

What a fantastic Health and PE Week! The King of the Court volleyball competition was a highlight with lots of fun had by all involved. The Juniors’ competition took place on the Monday and the Seniors on the Thursday with more than 12 teams competing over the two days. It was great to see more than 80 students actively participating, not to mention all the wonderful students who came to spectate and support their friends. We were lucky enough to watch some very exciting rallies and impressive skills on show. Congratulations to the eventual winners of each competition and well done to all who were involved in some way. It was such a fabulous turnout and successful event thanks to your enthusiasm and participation.

The finale of the week was the highly anticipated soccer game between the veteran staff team and the youthful Year 12 students. Leading up to this match, the staff had won the AFL and Volleyball games and the students had won the swimming relay, so the Year 12s were looking to even the score. A number of Senior students were talking a big game, none bigger than Dante Larosa and Christian Apostolovski. Would they soon realise that experience triumphs over youth?

The staff kicked off the match with an exciting early goal from their super striker John Tetradis. This left the students confused and in shock, and before long they were down 2-0, after Gabriel Sarpa tucked away a shot into the bottom corner. Just before halftime, the students were able to sneak a goal which promised a thrilling second half. It was a long ball down the middle of the field and the undoing of the teachers’ defence, when Sathil Dharmadasa latched onto a bouncing ball. Confidently, the ball was blasted past Daniel Hagan who was left helpless in the goals.

The second half started off very heated, with Ben Derks, the makeshift referee, trying his best to control the game. The staff scored first with a goal from their student recruit Abdiriman Abdi in Year 11, who took back the two-goal lead with only 10 minutes left. The students then began to push for a goal back, knowing that time was running out. After some trickery on the wing, Nisith Perera put in a dangerous cross. Unfortunately, Chris Lawerence smashed it into the back of his own net to give the students a lifeline.

If it wasn’t bad enough, minutes later, Chris Lawerence and Billy Liberidis crashed into each other after poor communication, comically giving the students a through ball which Vitalia Meletis latched onto, passing it to Philip Choo-Koon, scoring to draw the game. With the game ending in a draw, an exhilarating elimination penalty shoot-out ensued. Daniel Wallace slotted his penalty coolly into the bottom right-hand corner, leaving Ariel Melnik with it all to do. The pressure was just too much as he tried to smash it through the middle, but Daniel Hagan was there to make the crucial stop. This final act made it 3 wins to 1, with the staff once again reigning supreme.

Thank you to all the staff and students involved in the week, through participation in the activities, assistance with the running of events and by offering your support as spectators and cheer squads. The Health and PE team is looking forward to an even bigger and better Health and PE Week next year.

Gabriel Sarpa

HEAD OF HEALTH & PE