On behalf of all the staff at Rosehill, we wish all our Year 12 students the best of luck with their future endeavours. What a terrific effort to successfully complete your final two years! Our Graduation venue has informed the College that they have additional capacity (whilst adhering to current rules and restrictions), so it’s extremely pleasing to be able to offer additional seats to family members. We look forward to formally celebrating our final year students’ completion of secondary school in a somewhat traditional and normalised manner on Monday 13th December.
Our Year 11 students have commenced their Semester 2 exams which will conclude on Friday 12th November. They will then transition into Year 12 orientation for two weeks. We hope the Orientation program allows for an insight into the strong work ethic required to be successful in Year 12. The easiest and possibly most important summer work all students should do (especially Year 12) is to read ALL their novels. I cannot emphasise this enough. Current Year 11 students should start now.
A reminder that truncated Year 10 exams will take place on 25th and 26th November. Year 9 students will not have official exams this year. The Junior school team is working on some exciting activities for our students in the lead up to the end of year and I hope all parents/guardians encourage their children to attend these activities in the final weeks of school.
I would like to thank Mr Ross and Ms Snow for organising and running the PAT testing over the past fortnight. This data is exceptionally valuable and together with the very pleasing NAPLAN results for our current Year 7 and Year 9 students, we can plan and target areas of need. Under the leadership of Ms Bruckard, the English faculty are currently running a Year 10 intervention program working with targeted students in the lead up to their exams and the Year 10 to 11 orientation program.
As you may recall, the College has been working with a few literacy consultants over the past few years and we are very pleased to have Adjunct Professor Misty Adoniou work with us for a second time this year. She will join us on 10th December and will be working with our English faculty and literacy staff to further embed our work on writing and enhancing the passion of writing.
Arthur Soumalias
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