It’s hard to believe we are already halfway through the year, and what a busy few weeks we have had!

I would like to firstly congratulate our Year 12 teachers for a very successful first round of Senior English confirmation. This process involves the state-wide confirmation of senior assessment. It is very reassuring to know that our senior English team have successfully had all samples confirmed. Our Year 12 English Essential teachers will complete their state-wide quality assurance early next term.

Our Year 10 and 11 English teachers are also currently assisting the Senior Schooling team to review student achievement and suitability in General and Extension English subjects. The teams will provide recommendations about English subjects and pathways in the coming week as QCE reviews take place.

Further to this, our Year 9 and 10 students are about to undertake the exciting journey of planning out their Senior Schooling journey. Part of this involves selecting their Senior English subjects. In senior, English branches into multiple different subjects, each designed to support students on their own unique pathway.  

• Year 10 students will be selecting from the following subjects to study in Year 11 and 12.
  • Essential English
  • English as an Additional Language (EAL)
  • General English
  • Literature

• Year 9 students will be selecting from the following subjects to study in Year 10.
  • Foundation English
  • English Extension
  • General English

 Subject choices should take into consideration your child’s current effort, behaviour and achievement, subject pre-requisites and importantly, their future pathway.

If you have any questions about which English subject is right for your child, I encourage you to email your child’s current English teacher, or Head of Department - English, Ms Diesing to discuss.

On Tuesday 3rd June, our Junior Readers Cup team took part in the Brisbane West competition, going up against 22 schools. Despite being down a couple of teammates—and facing teams almost twice their size, some who even had reserves—our students demonstrated our values of perseverance and respect, not to mention teamwork, and a love of reading.

They turned the page on every challenge and proved that it’s not the size of the team, but the strength of their story that matters. We’re incredibly proud of the values they demonstrated throughout the day.

We would like to thank to Ms Wilkinson for her ongoing organisation and support of our students each year - without her, our students would not be able to participate in the Readers Cup.

Thank you to Ms Marks for her contribution to this weeks newsletter.