Senior Parent Information Evening

1. Senior Parent Information Evening

2. Prayer

3. Mr Newman 2018 Senior Education Results • 52% OPs 1 - 10 • 88% OPs 1 - 15 • 100% OPs 1 – 18 • 100% QCE Completion Rate • 100% QTAC Offer • 100% Certificate or VET Qualification • 44 Students undertaking SBAs (Years 10, 11, 12) 

4. Principal’s Forum • Monday 4th March • 7pm • College Library • Followed by light supper and drinks • Content: • All activities of Year 11 and 12 2019

5. Overview of Program Year 10 and 11 • New QCE System (ATAR) Information Year 12 • The Current Queensland Certificate of Education System (OP)

6. Year 12 Parents to the Library Mrs Hannam

7. 2019 New QCE System Parent Information Evening

8. New QCE The Queensland Certificate of Education is the state education qualification and St Mary’s College expects all students to be working towards the attainment of their QCE.

9. Literacy and Numeracy Requirement

10. Subject Categories General Syllabuses Contribute the Calculation of an ATAR. For students looking for Tertiary Entrance Applied Syllabuses Maximum of One Applied Subject can be used in the calculation of an ATAR. Focus on Skills for the Workplace and Technical and Applied Future Options.

12. ATAR Eligibility - General Syllabuses

14. Shape of the Senior Years Year 11 Term 4 Begin Unit 3 Term 1 Unit 1 Term 2 End Unit 1 Begin Unit 2 Term 3 End Unit 2 Term 4 Revision Study Phase External Exams from Week 4 Term 1 Finish Unit 3 Term 2 Begin Unit 4 Term 3 Finish Unit 4 Year 12

15. Unit 3 and 4 Assessment Internal Assessment 1 Internal Assessment 2 Internal Assessment 3 External Assessment 4 Examination (50% in Maths and Science Subjects 25% in all others)

16. Unit 1 and 2 Assessment Internal Assessment 1 Internal Assessment 2 Internal Assessment 3 Mock External Assessment4 Examination (50% in Maths and Science Subjects 25% in all others)

17. General Syllabuses • Organised into Four Units across two years. • Units 1 and 2 occur in Terms 1, 2 and 3 of Year 11. • Units 3 and 4 occur in Term 4 of Year 11 and Year 12. • General syllabuses are assessed by 3 internal assessments and one external exam. • Once Unit 3 commences students cannot change subjects.

18. Assessment Approaches From a number of stand alone assessments scaled to the QCS test… 2 4 1 3 QCS TEST 7 6 5 To a Continuous Learning Journey where knowledge and skills are interconnected, interrelated and developmental. External Exam

19. Alternate Pathways to University “In a new report, the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University says that only 26 per cent of domestic students entering undergraduate courses in 2016 were admitted on the basis of their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank score. This is down from 31 per cent in 2014.”

21. Applied Pathway Students Can study both Applied Subjects, Certificate Courses and General Subjects Can undertake a School Based Apprenticeship or Traineeship or Tafe In Schools course

22. For students not pursuing tertiary entrance • TAFE – Year 10, 11, 12 • TAFE in schools – 1 day per week, 6 months – 2 years • Cost’s vary, payment plans available, Cert II, III, IV • Wide range of industries • School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships • 1 day per week (usually) in work setting • Some traineeships can occur outside the school timetable • Traineeships can usually be completed within 12 months • Trade apprenticeships lead to full time apprenticeships after school • Other Training Providers • Many courses available – speak with Director of Senior Pathways

23. Exam Blocks • Year 11 • One Exam Block End Term 3 • Year 12 • Two Exam Blocks • One Mock Exam End Term 3 • Final Exams Term 4

24. Assessment Styles • All General subjects have a 2 hour 20 minute exam in Term 3 Year 11 and Term 4 Year 12. • Extended Written Response • Combination Response • Investigations • Research Tasks • Compositions / Projects / Folios

25. Term 1 Assessments

26. Parent Teacher Interviews • Week 8 Term 1 • Please come and meet your son’s teachers and discuss his progress to date.

27. What does study look like?

30. Writing notes • Revising Notes • Filing and refining notes • Doing worked examples • Doing practice questions • Creating practice questions • Asking questions of teachers / peers • Reading

31. Cornell Notebooks

33. The ATAR Learner • Is self-motivated • Is organised • Keeps track of learning and learning materials • Knows how to chunk knowledge for easy revision • Uses colour coding and diagrams to make revision and knowledge retention easier. • Writes clear summaries of new information • Does a little each day to ‘connect the synapses’ • Asks questions. • Reads widely. • Accesses online study materials. • Works as a team with the teacher against the external exam. • Seeks and enacts feedback.

34. Stress and Senior Schooling • Manage stress through healthy habits. • Self-talk • Meditation • Taking a Break • Exercise • Socialising (face to face) • Breathing exercises

36. In a 2013 article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on stress mind-sets, the researchers Alia J. Crum, Peter Salovey and Shawn Achor noted that the human stress response, in and of itself, can put “the brain and body in an optimal position to perform.”

37. To reframe how we think about a phenomenon that has been roundly, and wrongly, pathologized, we should appreciate that healthy stress is inevitable when we operate at the edge of our abilities. Stretching beyond familiar limits doesn’t always feel good, but growing and learning — the keys to school and much of life — can’t happen any other way.

38. “Avoiding stress doesn’t work and is often not possible. To achieve and grow, we have to get outside our comfort zones and approach challenges.”

39. Three Little Words … and that’s ok.

40. Studiosity

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