Senior School Update – Term 3, Week 3

Dear reader, welcome to this week’s Senior School update.

Mid-Year Check-Up

The start of Semester Two is a great time to do a bit of a check-up to see if students can improve their approach to their learning.

Parents, you may like to go through these questions with your child and set goals together for Semester 2.

1. Have you set goals to strive for during this year?
2. Do you know what motivates you to learn and complete work for school?
3. Do you try to take a positive approach to school and your studies?
4. Do you make the most of class time, listening, focusing, and completing all work?
5. Have you been asking for help if you don’t understand something?
6. Have you been writing all your homework into your diary or online planner and getting it done?
7. Have you been breaking down bigger tasks and scheduling the work in your diary/planner?
8. Have you been keeping track of what you complete and rescheduling unfinished work?
9. Have you organised your folders for papers and digital resources for school?
10. Do you have folders or somewhere at home to file away all your work and notes for your topics?
11. Have you been working on study notes each time you finish a topic for a subject?
12. Do you have a term planner above your desk where you can easily when work is due?
13. Have you set up a good study environment at home, a place where you can focus and work?
14. Are you doing around an hour and a half of schoolwork most nights (2-3 hours for seniors)?
15. Have you thought realistically about whether you have too many outside school activities?
16. Have you allocated set periods of time for school work (e.g. at least 3x half hour blocks)?
17. Do you remove all distractions etc. when you are focusing on your schoolwork at home?
18. Do you priorities each afternoon what you will work on that night?
19. When you make study notes, are you making them visual with mind maps, highlighting etc.?
20. When you study for a test, do you both ‘learn’ the content and ‘practice’ the skills?
21. Do you try to do lots of the practice under examination conditions?
22. Have you reviewed the different study techniques that you should use for your learning preferences?
23. Are you doing more than ‘just reading’ when you study for an assessment?
24. Have you thought about how you will overcome the obstacles you face in achieving your best?
25. Have you set up some routines to try and create habits that will help you this year?

(from studyskillshandbook.com.au)

Senior Assessment Schedules

Updated Senior Assessment Schedules will be emailed to families on Friday afternoon.

Please note that the Year 12 Mock External Exam Block is Monday 19 August until Thursday 29 August.

Students will soon receive their exam schedule and sign out sheets. Students must have all their work up to date before they are able to remain at home during this exam block time.

Year 12 Cohort Photo

The Year 12 Cohort Photo and catchup photos will take place on Monday 2 September at 9am.

A reminder to all Year 12 students that attendance is required in Weeks 9 and 10 of Term 3 and Weeks 1 to 3 of Term 4 (prior to the External Assessment Period).

Kind regards,

Angela Ormonde

Deputy Principal of Senior School