Senior School
SAC Calendar
The Senior School is currently in the process of making SACs (School Assessed Coursework) visible on Compass. You may notice a green box on students’ Compass profiles, indicating an assessment for a specific subject and the session it will be conducted in. Please ensure you are checking this daily and liaising with classroom teachers for any updates.
If you are absent on the day of a SAC, please remember that you must provide a medical certificate or a statutory declaration. Submit this to the Senior School so that arrangements can be made for you to complete the assessment.
Study Habits
As we approach the end of the year, it is important that students effectively prepare for their exams in November. For VCE students, studying most nights is very common. Each student has a Coursework Checklist for each subject, and it is important that once coursework is completed, students shift their focus to revision. This can include activities such as creating mind maps, flashcards, graphic organisers and more.
In Term 4, we will be holding a seminar for our VCE students, where they will receive guidance on effective study strategies for assessments and exams.
Asli Dulger
Senior School Leader
Careers & Pathways
VCE:VM Update
We would like to congratulate students on attaining units in ‘Providing Basic Emergency Life Support’ and ‘Providing First Aid’. Please see the report from Adriel Rodriquez. Our students attending VET courses at Kangan TAFE & Melbourne Polytechnic will complete their first half of their certificate by the end of October this year. This is an exciting time as they reflect on their learning for the year. Please read Brodie Campbells report on the benefits of VET.
In addition, more students have signed up for a School Based Apprenticeship and Training (SBAT). Congratulations to Cooper Sinclair who has just signed up for an automotive apprenticeship.
Report on First Aid
On Monday the 5th of August the VCE:VM cohort completed a First Aid course. The first thing that was done was an introduction to the first aid course. After that we were taught DRSABCD and how to do CPR. We practice CPR on Dummies, an adult one and a baby one and were taught the differences of doing CPR to an adult and a baby. We were also taught about different acronyms so that we can remember. We also got taught different sicknesses like hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. Teachers also taught us how to deal with someone who has asthma and how to use an asthma puffer.
In the afternoon we had to complete a multiple choice test demonstrating our learning for the day.
The first aid course is very important because it could teach us how to keep someone alive till emergency services come and take over or even save someone’s lives. It also is a very great knowledge to know that we know how to help someone who is hurt because we have the knowledge which was taught to us when we learnt first aid.
Adriel Rodriquez
How VCE:VM is helping me achieve at TAFE
Taking VCE:VM this year got me a spot into building and construction at Kangan TAFE in Broadmeadows. I wake up early and get myself there every Friday. I’ve made new friends and learned so much: like how to make tools with timber and how to use the right equipment and how to use them properly like nailing and making half cuts with a circular saw, coping saw, back saw and chisels and hand planes. As part of the building and construction we do stuff for architects like drawing house scales and how to use scale rulers. We are going to learn how to use nail guns and saws – mostly power tools and we got to get our white card for free so we can use that for going into a construction site and we got our first aid certificate for free.
We do a lot of work on the computers. We have done OHS stuff and our SWIMS.
By the end of this they could help us get a job. It gives us a lot of tickets and it doesn’t just look at one construction job it looks at multiple things like concreting, carpentry, cabinet making, architect. I have a good teacher who teaches us everything that we need to know.
We finish at 3:30 so it gives us more time to learn about stuff compared to school that finishes at 3.
Brodie Campbell