With the end of the semester upon us, we look forward to a little bit of time to reflect on the year to date. I trust that all students and families have a safe and happy midyear break. Please be mindful of the new semester subjects for students in Years 7-10, these will commence in Week 1 of Term 3.

Reports

Semester reports will be available to download from Compass at the end of the last day of term so please keep a lookout for the notification.

I encourage all parents and guardians to spend 15-20 minutes with their child reviewing and reflecting on the report. This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate successes and to look for areas of improvement. Of particular importance is the effort, participation and completion of set work. As I have mentioned previously, there is no magic formula for success other than sustained effort, commitment and a want to succeed. Each one of us can improve our effort and efficient use of time. Academic achievement is built around student commitment to their studies.

VCE

It has been a very busy term for our VCE students, especially in recent weeks with the GAT and many significant assessments. I strongly recommend that our VCE students take the time during the break to summarise notes to help consolidate understanding.

Most Year 12 students will be in attendance during Week 1 to complete Unit 3 trial exams from Tuesday 2^nd July – Friday 5^th July. This is an opportunity to see what standard and level of understanding is expected by the end of the year and provides a terrific opportunity for feedback as we head into the final full term of Year 12.

Facilities

The building works in A Wing are on schedule to be completed prior to the end of Term 3. We wait with anticipation to have access to the full capacity of the school as this will free up spaces for staff and students and enable us to run our programs with minimal disruption.

I once again thank students and staff for their patience and understanding during the past two years. There will once again be a significant amount of building and maintenance activity during the term break as we are working to improve all areas of the College.

Staffing

At the start of next term, we welcome Sara Grimm who will be joining our Visual Arts team. She will be replacing Ms Virginia Singleton who will be taking maternity leave early next term. We wish Ms Singleton all the best with the birth of her second child and we look forward to working with Ms Grimm during the semester.

We warmly welcome back Ms Erin Quinn who returns next semester from leave and look forward to having her work with our Health and PE department once again.

Best wishes to Mr Murone for a well-earned break as he takes the next six months off. We look forward to seeing you back in 2025.

Acknowledgement

I also take this opportunity to acknowledge the tremendous work and effort of our wonderful teaching and education support staff who work tirelessly each day to make a difference to our students and in turn, improve the future outcomes of our society. The school values of Respect, Initiative and Learning (RIL) underpin our work and help develop our children into well rounded citizens of this world. Our moral purpose is to develop respectful, caring and intelligent young people who will contribute positively to the world around them. If you have the opportunity to do so, please thank our teaching and education support staff for their work and commitment to public education.

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.

As part of our financial literacy study, the Year 7s watched an episode of Teenage Boss hosted by Eddie Woo. Eddie, a maths teacher, works with teenagers to take over the family budget for a month.

Students were then required to ‘take over’ the family budget and make savings along the same lines as the Teenage Boss. The overarching goal was to reinforce to students the importance of planning and spending money wisely so that they can achieve their savings goals.

Students took the challenge seriously, and it almost became a competition to see who could save their family the most money! Most were quite surprised by how much a family spends week to week, particularly on their children.

The following reflections were provided by students upon completion of the task:

• It is hard to run a household and you should think more about what you do with your money, because if you have a plan, it is less likely for you to overspend or impulse buy.
• What surprised me is how much we spend on food. I didn’t realise how much we spent until we did this.
• Being the teenage boss was really hard, I had to calculate everything, think of needs and wants and put together a budget, but I think I did a pretty good job and most people in my family agreed with me on my budget.
• I have learnt that budgeting is an important part of managing your money.
• What surprises me is how much money that my family spends on my siblings and I. My family think I made really good changes and they agree with me as I did not cut down too much on necessary spending.
• I have learnt how much my parents spend on my brother and I and I am more grateful with the things they buy me. Next time, I will be more cautious when asking them to buy me something or adding a want to the shopping list.

A huge thank you goes to the parents/guardians for assisting their child to complete this task. I think they learnt a great deal from the opportunity.

Nellie Harbourd

HUMANITIES KLA LEADER

As part of our study on democracy in Australia, the Year 8 Money and Law class participated in a mock referendum to change the Constitution. With the overarching learning goal to examine the process for changing the Australian Constitution, what better way than to actually hold one in class.

The proposed change (although not one that would in reality require a Referendum) was: “To alter the Constitution to give power to the Commonwealth to change the school week to 4 days.”

The class was divided into four states, Ruby, Emerald, Diamond and Sapphire, in line with their house teams. As per a real election, students were asked three questions, ‘what is your name?’, ‘where do you live?’, and ‘have you voted before in this referendum today?’, before their name was marked off the electoral roll.

No surprise, a double majority was achieved, with the outcome of the referendum an overwhelming 90% majority YES vote, and all four states also returned a majority in favour of the proposed change.

Nellie Harbourd

HUMANITIES KLA LEADER

Our two Year 8 classes have been creating landscape artworks inspired by the work of UK artist Emily Schofield. The students have made their own textured papers using a combination of watercolour and acrylic paint. They then cut and tore the paper, layering it to recreate a landscape or scene that is special to them.

Virginia Singleton

ART & VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Year 12 Highest GPA

Year 12 Most Improved

Tanabata, the Star Festival, is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese legend. It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi, represented by the stars Vega and Altair. The date of Tanabata varies by region, but the first festivities begin on 7^th July.

Year 8, Year 9 and VCE students in Japanese classes wrote their wishes, created origami decorations and hung them on bamboo trees as in the ways Japanese people celebrate the festival. I would like to thank Ms Yoshiko Bowyer for organising such an exciting event and Ms Michiyo Naito for her support.

Takanori Hayakawa

LANGUAGES KLA LEADER

This term has been a HUGE term for interschool sport.

There have been 28 teams, and 357 students represent the school in various sports throughout the term: AFL, soccer, badminton, netball, basketball, and cross country.

Thank you to all of the amazing students who represented the school in such a positive way. Also a big thank you to the amazing teachers who took on a coaching role. These sports could not go ahead without you!

Sporting highlights:

• The Senior boy’s netball team won the Moonee Valley Division and have advanced to the Western Metropolitan region finals next term.
• Alexander Konstantinidis in Year 7 will compete in the State Cross Country finals early next term.

CROSS CROUNTRY

Last week, Rosehill had seven students represent the school in the Western Metropolitan Region Cross Country finals. The students ran either 3km or 5km at Brimbank Park.

Congratulations to the following students for making it through to this round; Laysha Adhikari, Vinul Arachchilage, Klarisa Cicolli, Brianna Comer, Chloe Kennedy, Lachlan Skilbeck.

A very big congratulations to Alexander Konstantinidis in Year 7! Alex came third out of approximately 120 competitors and has secured a spot in the State Cross Country finals early next term. What an incredible achievement Alex, you should be so proud! We wish you all the best, the whole Rosehill community are behind you!

SENIOR BASKETBALL

Last week, we took four senior basketball teams to compete in the Moonee Valley Division round robin. One Year 11 girls’ team, a Year 12 girls’ team and two boys' teams.

Both boys’ teams came away with two wins from three games and displayed some particularly good basketball skills throughout the day but unfortunately did not make the final.

Both girls’ teams won one game each. The Year 11 team came away with bragging rights after beating the Year 12 team. This was a terrific way to finish a fun day!

It is fantastic to see so many senior students enjoying their last years of interschool sport.

Keep an eye out on Compass for upcoming sporting events.

Chelsea Giannino

SPORT COORDINATOR