Professional Leaning Day

Our staff enjoyed a day of professional learning on Friday 3rd November exploring Reading Instructional Practices, completing units of work for handover at the beginning of 2024 and student assessment portfolios.

Opportunities for staff to work together intensively on our professional learning days are highly valued. Staff are able to spend dedicated time planning with a focus on embedding multiple reading strategies in units of work across all learning areas for 2024.

Year 11 Enrolments

Thank you to staff from Newstead and Launceston Colleges who came out for our enrolment sessions last week. Our own Year 11 Community Services program is going from strength to strength with 13 students enrolled here full-time in 2024. Our students have had many opportunities this year to make an informed choice about the location that best suits their learning pathway.

We also have a number of students who will continue with their Australian School-Based Apprenticeships next year with an increasing number also gaining full-time apprenticeships from the beginning of 2024.

All students in Tasmania need to be on an “Approved Learning Pathway” until they are 18. These pathways include TASC subjects in year 11 and 12, VET subjects in year 11/12 or Tas TAFE and apprenticeships/traineeships.

If any of our students missed the enrolment days, don’t panic! We work closely with all students to ensure their enrolments are completed as soon as possible over the next fortnight.

Student Leaders Camp

Last week the 2024 SLB students went to the Field Studies centre at South Mt Cameron on our annual leadership camp. The team spend considerable time learning more about leadership, themselves and each other as we begin to create the strongest team we can for 2024. Students have an opportunity to nominate and vote for the executive positions on the SLB and invariably walk away with a deep understanding of themselves as leaders and what skills and attributes they need to grow during 2024.

A big thank you to Cat Attenborrow and Kaleb Clark for their organisation and support of this camp and for Nigel Bent for travelling up to work on individual and team leadership development with the SLB students.