Dear Parents/Guardians,
As we head into the final weeks of 2024, the Year 12 students have completed their exams and celebrated well into the night last Thursday. The Year 12 graduation event was a great success. Congratulations to Ms Lo Giudice, Ms Wilson, Mr Wallace and Ms Hudson in organising the event. They were superbly supported by our administration staff and in particular, Ms Hayes and Ms Kelly, and also Ms Beswick for ensuring the AV equipment at the venue worked without issue for the formal proceedings.
To our outgoing school Captains, Evan Mckenna Burke and Claudia Bradilovich - thank you for your work and efforts this year, well done and best wishes going forward.
I take this opportunity to welcome Delcine Li and Hugo Bliss, our new school captains for 2025, who will be well supported by our Vice Captains in Jaspreet Kaur and Thomas Hince.
Well done to all Year 11 leaders who applied for these positions. Our leadership program continues to produce wonderful candidates each year.
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Year 11 exams have concluded, and students are now into the final phase of their 2024 school year with the Year 12 Orientation program having commenced this week and concluding on Monday. This is an opportunity for the class of 2025 to begin to understand the demands of Year 12 VCE and be ready to hit the ground running on Day 1 next year.
Year 10 students are currently sitting their exams, which will then lead into their 2-day Orientation program next week. This too is an opportunity to experience the demands of Year 11 and begin the process of understanding the rigors needed to be successful in VCE at Rosehill Secondary College.
The Year 9 exams will occur from Monday 25th November and run for the core classes across three days.
Subject confirmations for students in the Junior school and Middle school will be finalised soon. The timetable coordinators are working around the clock to maximise student choice and preference allocation for as many as possible.
As has been well reported in the media, the staffing challenges persist despite the many initiatives introduced by the Department. Fortunately, we have been able to fill most positions which enables us to run a comprehensive program for 2025. As a school of choice in our area, we continue to attract teachers, which is a testament to the work of all our staff, the willingness of our students to embrace our school values of Respect, Initiative and Learning (RIL) and the support of our parents to help us maintain high expectations and standards across both key elements of FISO 2.0 - Learning and Wellbeing.
We continue to have minor works across the college. Although the capital works have concluded, we still have several priority areas that we are keen to address. In recent times we have completed the structural landscaping near the graded area of the new C Wing; laid more synthetic turf on the school grounds; mounted acoustic panels in classrooms and, installed motorised gates on the Albert Street entrance to limit vehicle access onto the school grounds.
The fourth and final day of training for the Berry Street Educational Model (BSEM) took place on Thursday 21st November. It's terrific to see all staff using elements of the training in their day-to-day work. We now continue our work in ensuring the BSEM learnings and strategies become a sustainable and coordinated aspect of the Rosehill pedagogical approach.
Finally, it was wonderful to see our local member, the Deputy Premier and the Minister for Education, the Hon Ben Carroll attend for the official opening of the new buildings. The minister spent time visiting classrooms and was entertained with a short performing arts show in our new Auditorium. I would also like to acknowledge Gorja Bhardwaj and Talia Celtek, Year 9 leaders, for chaperoning the minster and for their inspiring speech during the visit. Well done to all involved for planning such a terrific event.
