Issue 2 2025 - Deputy Principal

Deputy Principal

Alf Mungioli

Assemblies

We recently had assemblies with different year groups and acknowledged the great efforts of students with their progress/results/Farm work/Values. Students would have either received certificates and or points that contribute to obtaining other rewards.

Attendance

So many students are taking their work at our College seriously. It is pleasing to note that 40 out of 48 Year 10 students have achieved over 90% attendance so far this term. Significant improvements have been made by so many Year 11’s and Yr 12’s with their attendance, in comparison to late last year. Thanks again to the support of parents/guardians in helping our students understand the importance of being at work and being successful.

Please note that when students are away on a Farm Day they miss a rotation on a section of the Farm that they may not be exposed to for over 7 weeks. This impacts on the students ability to complete required work for their Certificate II in Agriculture.

We can appreciate that, at times, illness and other factors impact on attendance and our student services team and residential manager work closely with students to support them in these scenarios.

Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA)

As you may be aware, to achieve secondary graduation, students need to demonstrate a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy, either through pre-qualifying by achieving Band 8 or higher in their Year 9 NAPLAN or through the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA).

The OLNA has three components—reading, writing and numeracy. The reading and numeracy components comprise 45 multiple choice questions; the writing component is an extended response of up to 600 words. Students are allowed 50 minutes for the reading and numeracy components and 60 minutes for the writing.

Students who are yet to achieve their OLNA will have a letter sent home to update parents of their child’s current OLNA status. These students will have an opportunity to pass their OLNA early next term as we will have testing in week 2 of term 2. This would be an important week for students to be at school, as testing only happens twice a year.

After-school tutoring sessions are available for Maths/Numeracy (for all students) on Mondays from 4pm – 4.45pm. Thanks to Mrs Hughes and Mr Riley who support students after-school.

University Tour

We recently took 15 students to Perth to visit the Murdoch University Open Day and the Curtin University Open Day. The weekend was a busy one with so much on offer at the universities. It was an opportunity for our students to explore the range of options available and the pathways to higher education. Thanks to the students who came along and to Ms Goodwill on giving up her weekend to support our students. Without staff giving up their own time, these events could not occur.

Interim Reports and Parent/Teacher Afternoon

Feedback of student progress was recently sent home in the form of an Interim/Progress Report. Teachers have provided feedback on classwork and assessment task progress while also providing feedback on attitude and effort of students.

We suggest parents/guardians make a booking to attend the Parent/Teacher information afternoon on Monday 28th April, 2pm -5pm. This is a great opportunity for parent/guardians to visit the College and meet teachers.

We have adjusted our date for this event to enable more people to attend. We look forward to seeing you there.

I wish all students and their families a restful holiday and look forward to more student successes in term 2.

Alf Mungioli
Deputy Principal
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