Celebrations

We cannot believe we are coming into Week 8, gee the time is flying. Week 7 started with another of our successful My Education Days. For Grade 10’s this day centred around completing a program called Love Bites. This program was run by our school support staff including our school Social Worker, School Psychologist and School Nurse. Love Bites is a Respectful Relationships Education Program for young people aged 15-17 years. It aims to provide young people with a safe environment to examine, discuss and explore respectful relationships. We would like to thank Jasmine, Anita, Dani and all of the other invited guests for their contributions to the day, it was a huge success and most valuable to our students.

Last week our student leaders held a successful fundraiser, raising funds for the Motor Neuron Disease Foundation. Fifteen of our brave students and staff took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge during our lunchtime on Friday. To say it was freezing was an understatement, but it was short lived and a small price to pay to help raise funds for this worthy cause. Thank you to Grade 10 students Ashton, Lachlan, Mason, Ryan, Will and staff members Grady and Mrs Elliott who braved the cold.

This term we will be holding some extra college transition sessions for students who either missed our college transitions days or would like some more information. These sessions will be informal sessions and will be open to anyone who seeks interest. If parents wish to gain more information about what each college offers, both colleges have websites with videos, course selection guides and information about their campuses. The Newstead College website link is https://newsteadcollege.education.tas.edu.au/ and Launceston College’s link is https://launcestoncollege.education.tas.edu.au/

In addition, Newstead College has opened their VET course applications for 2022. If students are intending on studying at Newstead College and would like to be considered for a VET course, application forms can be obtained from Mrs Pel, Mrs Elliott or the Grade 10 staffroom. These applications must be completed and returned to Mrs Pel or Mrs Elliott as soon as possible. Launceston College will be completing their VET course application process in person next term when they come for enrolments. More information around this will be given closer to the date.

Sporting congratulations goes to the following students for winning their respective football grand finals over the weekend. Congratulations goes to Tyreece Williams, Deagan Madden, Jacob Maher-Maynard, Alex Lyons, Amber Madden and Taylah Weldon for being members of premiership teams in the NTJFA.

As the year ends, we have more opportunities available for our students to gain bursaries to further their education. One such opportunity is currently open to students who live in the Northern Midlands Council area. Applications are open for any student who lives within this council area to gain access to a monetary bursary for their studies next year. Application forms are available from Mrs Pel or Mrs Elliott and they must be completed and submitted to the school office by Friday 10th September. 

Academically, Term3 continues to be a very busy one for Grade 10s. Students will have the opportunity to make progress in their subjects from their reporting feedback and consolidate their learning opportunities within their subjects. In English students are continuing with their novel study on “This Is How We Change The Ending” by Vicki Wakefield. In Science our students will be are completing a module on Chemistry. HaSS students are continuing with their study on the World War 2. In HPE practical lessons students are completing a dance unit, with guest dance presenters scheduled to join our classes in the coming weeks. In Health lessons we are undertaking work based around sexual health and relationships.  Mathematics classes have our students working on nonlinear relationships and trigonometry.

In addition to our regular classes Grade 10 students will also be completing Grade 10 exams this week. These will be starting on Monday 6th September. The timetable below outlines times and days of each exam. Exams are conducted for each of our core subjects; English, HaSS, Mathematics, Science and HPE.

Email contacts for our Grade 10 Team: 

10A – Ms Karen Furley  karen.furley@education.tas.gov.au

10B – Mr Mick Bent mick.bent@education.tas.gov.au

10C – Mr Andrew McLean andrew.mclean@education.tas.gov.au

10D – Mr Solomon Walker-Bowd  solomon.walker-bowd@education.tas.gov.au

10E – Mrs Katie Mathews – katie.mathews@education.tas.gov.au

Grade 10 Leader – Mrs Megan Pel megan.pel@education.tas.gov.au

Grade 10 AST – Mrs Coleen Elliott coleen.elliott@education.tas.gov.au

Grade Focus

Our Grade focus this term will be preparing for the transition from Grade 10 to further education.

We will be setting ourselves goals that challenge us and establishing good learning behaviours and academic rigour in all classes.  We will also be placing focus on preparing our students for exams.

End of Year Dates: