Deputy Principal - Year 8 & 12

Year 12 - An end of an era

Firstly, congratulations to all year 12 students on successfully completing their HSC and 13 years of schooling. Secondally, congratulations to the parents, carers and community members  that have supported these young people from their first day of school, camps and excursions, transitioning to high school, friendship development, friendship breakdown,exams, the highs, the lows and everything in between. Thirdly, to the staff. All their wonderful, caring teachers that had an impact and or influence from their  primary school teachers to our amazing teaching and wellbeing staff at Mount View. A huge thank you to Ms Ainslie Martin for supporting them as their Year Adviser, Mrs Julie Myers (retired) Head Teacher Wellbeing and Mr Shane Hookway (DP).

As their schooling officially comes to an end, Year 12 have been having some celebratory days at school. In week 7 they surprised the school body by coming dressed in book week costumes and held a highly successful fundraising BBQ. The video can be viewed on the Mount View High School Facebook page.

As their schooling officially comes to an end, Year 12 have been having some celebratory days at school. In week 7 they surprised the school body by coming dressed in book week costumes and held a highly successful fundraising BBQ. The video can be viewed on the Mount View High School Facebook page.

As a summary;

The key messages for students and exam staff remain: 

• Stay home if you are unwell 

• Maintain personal hygiene measures 

• Staying up to date with vaccinations is encouraged 

• NESA’s illness and misadventure process is available for students who are unable to attend an exam. Find out what evidence is required. 

Illness/misadventure applications are for cases where an illness or misadventure occurs (see section 5.5)

• occurs immediately before or during an HSC exam, which was beyond your control, and

• prevented you from attending or diminished your exam performance.

STAYING HEALTHY LEADING UP TO AND THROUGHOUT HSC EXAMS

The Stay Healthy HSC hub has advice on staying healthy, active and connected during the HSC. Students can use the resources for studying, self-care and staying informed.

YEAR 8 

As Term 3 comes to an end, Year 8 are in the middle of their final set of assessment tasks. I have had the pleasure of visiting classes and seeing the great work, dedication and effort being demonstrated by our amazing students. In science, students have completed a Depth Study whereby they hypothesize, design an experiment, measure, analyze and conclude scientific experiments on a range of topics from practical tasks such as the effectiveness of different densities of paper towel to absorb liquids to the impact of an individual's height on standing long jump results. There is a sustainability theme across their assessments too, whereby in geography they are justifying the sustainability of World Heritage Sites and in English they are considering sustainability by analyzing Tim Winton’s Blueback as well as other related texts. On return from the October holidays, assessments continue and I encourage students to use some of their break to complete any tasks to make the assessment period less stressful.

LITERACY FOCUS - Spelling, ideas and cohesion 

The school is also heavily focusing on the following literacy skills: spelling, ideas and cohesion. Assessment tasks, other than exams, have these three skills as components of the task and we expect students to reference and utilise the marking criteria. Comments are provided on these skills to the students with their assessment mark and feedback.

ATTENDANCE AND UNIFORM

It has been a difficult year with COVID, influenza and general illness. That is why it is really important that students attend school every day that they are well.

Year 8, in Term 3, had an average attendance rate of 83%. We are aspiring to achieve 90% in Term 4. If you require any support or assistance with attendance please do not hesitate to reach out to the Year 8 Year Adviser, Ms Alecia Killen, HT Wellbeing Mr Benjamin Dibben or myself.