Year 12 Parent/Carer Forum CONNECT LEARN ACHIEVE
EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER PATHWAYS Sue Birkett Director of Careers
FINISHING WELL Check and double check your academic record to ensure it is ▶ correct (all expected points have been added) ▶ Regularly check the Careers website for university admissions, how to do an ATAR estimate, cut off dates, apprenticeships, short courses etc Check the noticeboard and TV screen outside Careers ▶ Explore the MyFuture website ▶ https://myfuture.edu.au/ Book an appointment in Careers for: ▶ work experience , career advice, resume and application assistance, volunteering options, university/tertiary institution advice, help with ATAR estimates http://bit.ly/GNGCCareers
EARLY LEAVERS OPTIONS/ADVICE You need at least 15 points to have leaver options; 17 points to leave. 1. Stay and make the most of your package - in Semester 2 complete WEX and make the most of college opportunities. 2. Go part time and work/study - it your responsibility to complete 17 points by the end of Semester 2. 3. No classes in Semester 2 and explore transition to work through work experience - apply through Careers 4. Do UC Connect as a sponsored Gungahlin student – apply through Careers. 5. Apply to university using a portfolio for design areas eg University of Canberra
MAKING AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE CAREERS TEAM http://bit.ly/GNGCCareers
STUDENT WELLBEING AND PASTORAL CARE Betty Chau Director of Student Wellbeing
PASTORAL CARE AND HOUSE TEAMS Line Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 House Orion Aquila Tucana Hydra Phoenix Draco Scorpius Centaurus Name House Yellow Teal Red Blue Orange Green Purple Black Colour Coordinator Rhett Steph Karen Heather Trudy Aaron Natalia Andrew Eldred Boxall Burton Mutton Cheeseman Hill Pelle Beecher Assistant 1 Jen Lisa Angela David Pam Murray Christian Troy Adam Cristaudo Green Rega Gould Riley Atkins Salter Assistant 2 Kaitlin Keturah Annette Surabhi Michael Adrian Ranbir Conor Burrough Manning Jamison Das Loftus Poole Kaur Bendle
PASTORAL CARE SUPPORTS ● Houses website: http://bit.ly/GNGCHouses ● House meetings ● BSSS expectations ● Opt-in sessions ● Support available every House line in Student Services
HOUSE CHARITIES ORION – St Vincent de Paul AQUILA – Lifeline TUCANA – Love Your Sister HYDRA – Make a Wish Foundation PHOENIX – Starlight Foundation DRACO – Salvation Army SCORPIUS – Karinya House CENTAURUS – Ronald McDonald House
Regular Every teacher is a House Points, interactions, teacher of wellbeing Awards, opt-in – opt-in sessions Celebration of sessions success House Charities, Student Leadership Opt-in sessions
Who are their strongest connections What positive What goals outside with? Do they have support in each activities do they and beyond school ‘circle’ (work, social, sport, etc) enjoy? do they have? What links to the What are their community do they strengths? Are have? Are they a their strengths part of something being used in bigger than other activities? themselves?
STUDY SUPPORT Priscilla Wray Associate Principal
STUDY AND SUPPORT ● Library facilities ○ hard-copy collections ○ joint-use facility with LibrariesACT ○ College Library website bit.ly/GNGCLibrary ○ Clickview - please grant permission! ● Study Support on every line (except Night) with Teacher Librarian - drop in or by appointment ● Tutoring available with College alumni/ANU students ● Study Smarter program (workshops in cross-curricular academic skills like referencing and time management; will run again in S2)
Q&A WEBSITE www.gungahlincollege.act.edu.au EMAIL gungahlincollege@ed.act.edu.au
SESSIONS AVAILABLE THIS EVENING TIME TOPIC VENUE 6.30–7.00pm UC Connect Main Theatre 6.30–7.00pm Apprenticeships Lecture Theatre 6.30–7.00pm Understanding scores, scaling, and Upstairs Green ATAR scores. The AST and study support 6.00–7.00pm ANU Student Information desk Lecture Theatre Foyer
UNDERSTANDING SCORES, SCALING, AST AND ATAR Mitchell Tummers Director of Mathematics and Certification
THE ACT COLLEGE SYSTEM ● BSSS - independent statutory authority for over 40 years ● No external, subject-based exams ● School-based assessment that is moderated through grade comparisons and the AST
YEAR 12 CERTIFICATE (STANDARD PACKAGE) ● Need 17 points: generally one subject for a semester is worth one point. ● Need at least four minors from three different course areas. A Minor is 2 points, Major is 3.5 or 4 ● Points from various activities can be counted
THE TERTIARY PACKAGE ● 20 points ● Three majors and three minors or four majors and one minor of Accredited or Tertiary ● To calculate the ATAR the BSSS ( Board of Senior Secondary Studies) need at least three majors and one minor at Tertiary. ● The Student must sit the ACT Scaling Test (AST).
STANDARDISED SCORES ● In addition to feedback on an Assessment Item (AI), in T subjects the teacher should provide the student with information on where they are ranked in the subject ● This could be a z score, raw score with course mean and Standard Deviation (SD), or Standardised Score (this is the student’s z-score applied to the subject’s historical and diagnostic parameters)
WHY DO WE USE STANDARDISED SCORES? ● Assessment items can vary in difficulty and spread. Standardised scores mean that all assessment items are treated equally ● Standardised scores should give a good indication of what the unit score will be
UNIT SCORES ● Each T unit gets a score and a grade. ● The grade is important but does not affect the ATAR ● The score is a ranking ● Please look at the report. What is your student’s score and what is the mean and standard deviation.
HISTORIC PARAMETERS ● Using a combination of diagnostic and historic information each subject is assigned a mean and SD ● This is designed to allow cross subject comparisons to the best of our ability ○ 70 standardised score in English is better than a 60 standardised score in Physics ● These are, however, a ‘best guess’. The scaling process determines the real parameters
COURSE SCORES ● Each semester potentially counts equally ● Use the best 80% of the unit scores ● Allows student to not panic if they get a bad semester score
SCALING AND ATAR CALCULATION ● Course scores re-standardised by AST scores and the other subjects a student is completing in a process called ‘Other course score scaling’ ● After scaling all course scores from all colleges are comparable ● Best 3.6 course scores are used ● Then an ATAR is generated
PREPARING FOR THE AST
THE AST PAPERS Interpreting, reasoning, explaining, justifying, problem solving Multiple choice: 80 questions ● graphs and tables • 2 hours 25 minutes ● logic problems and processes ● mathematical problems Short response ● scientific method ● prose (fiction, non-fiction, • 1 hour 55 minutes advertising, etc) ● poetry/lyrics ● images and diagrams Writing task • 2 hours 30 minutes • An opinion/argumentative piece of 600 words on the topic presented in the stimulus material
AST TRAINING ● AST trials and feedback to students (Year 12s have completed two already) ● Online practice materials, model answers and strategies available ● Year 12s: ○ Trial #3 25–26 June; feedback early Term 3 ○ Briefing assembly and Big Day In 30 & 31 August ● Year 11s: S2 Week 6 ○ Introductory assembly ○ Big Day In workshops Friday 31 August
PREPARING FOR THE AST: STUDENTS SHOULD ALSO... • Be doing their best in their courses • Reading widely and keeping up with current affairs • If your child is not taking a Science, Exercise Science or Psychology course, reading about scientific or research testing to develop understanding of the scientific method • Reading notices via What’s On and Google Classroom (Year 12 code sdle03)
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