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Blayney High Bulletin - Issue 6 Term 2- Week 1 3 May 2019 Sentral We hope you are finding our Sentral Parent Portal to be useful. We are still very much in the learning phase for the finer points of what Sentral can do for us and more features will be open soon. In particular, look out for assessment dates to be added to the calendar and the Markbook section to be opened to allow you to see your child's results on their assessments. Mid-Course HSC Reports Our first round of reports is currently being written and we are on schedule to have these completed and posted in the same timeframe as previous years. We will be doing everything we can to ensure we meet this internal deadline and assuming our initial step of reports in Sentral runs smoothly these reports will be out in the next few weeks. When complete, reports will be made available in the Sentral Portal on the same day they are posted. Year 11 'Exam Week' In their recent HSC review the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) mandated that there can be no more than 1 assessment delivered in Year 11 that is a traditional 'exam'. As a result, last year we held no exam practice for our Year 11 students until their final end of course exams. The general feeling amongst teachers and students was that this was quite stressful and it did not allow teachers to adequately give students feedback on their exam performance prior to the major assessment. This year we will be holding a practice 'exam week' in Week 3. This will not be a traditional exam period where we hold no classes and students attend only for their exams. Instead, teachers will be using this week to practice exam style questions in class. These will be a mix of multiple choice, short answer and essay based questions. While these tasks will not be counted towards the students' final assessment grades, we believe this practice will be an invaluable learning tool for both teachers and students themselves to assess how they are going in their courses so far and what they need to do to improve before the end of course exams in Term 3 that do count! John Browett Principal
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Blayney High Bulletin - Issue 6 Term 2- Week 1 3 May 2019
Sentral
We hope you are finding our Sentral Parent Portal to be useful. We are still very much in the learning phase for the finer points of what Sentral can do for us and more features will be open soon. In particular, look out for assessment dates to be added to the calendar and the Markbook section to be opened to allow you to see your
child's results on their assessments.
Mid-Course HSC Reports
Our first round of reports is currently being written and we are on schedule to have these completed and posted in the same timeframe as previous years. We will be doing everything we can to ensure we meet this internal deadline and assuming our initial step of reports in Sentral runs smoothly these reports will be out in the next few weeks. When complete, reports will be made available in the
Sentral Portal on the same day they are posted.
Year 11 'Exam Week'
In their recent HSC review the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) mandated that there can be no more than 1 assessment delivered in Year 11 that is a traditional 'exam'. As a result, last year we held no exam practice for our Year 11 students until their final end of course exams. The general feeling amongst teachers and students was that this was quite stressful and it did not allow teachers to adequately give students feedback on their exam performance prior to
the major assessment.
This year we will be holding a practice 'exam week' in Week 3. This will not be a traditional exam period where we hold no classes and students attend only for their exams. Instead, teachers will be using this week to practice exam style questions in class. These will be a mix of multiple choice, short answer and essay based questions. While these tasks will not be counted towards the students' final assessment grades, we believe this practice will be an invaluable learning tool for both teachers and students themselves to assess how they are going in their courses so far and what they need to do to improve before the end of course exams in Term 3
that do count!
John Browett
Principal
Upcoming Events
May
May 2 Premier’s Debating challenge
May 3 Bathurst Show
Writers workshop
FACTS day
May 6 Parent / Teacher Interviews
May 7 Vaccination Year 10
Missed Vaccinations Year 7
May 8 CHS Girls tennis
May 9 Music study day
RYDA
May 13 Signature Week
Year 11 Exam practice week
Opens boys touch Bathurst
May 14 NAPLAN Writing test
May 15 NAPLAN writing catch-up day
White card training
May 16 CHS girls hockey
NAPLAN reading test
May 17 NAPLAN numeracy test
May 20 Driving simulator
May 21 Driving simulator
NAPLAN catch –up
May 22 Buckley Field gala day Bathurst
May 23 Questacon smart skills
May 24 Questacon smart skills
Premier’s debating challenge
May 27 Transition week
May 31 Year 7 - 10 Exams
HSC Assessment Calendar 2018-19
Term 1 2019
April
Week 11 Assessment Free
Term 2
Week 1 Modern History
Dance
Week 2 Drama
Week 3 Biology
Industrial Technology
Week 4 None
Week 5 Advanced Maths
Standard 1 & 2 Maths
Week 6 SLR
Week 7 CAFS
Ancient History
Business Studies
Design Technology
Chemistry
Physical Education
CEC—English Studies
Week 8 CEC—English Studies
Week 9 Dance
Extension English
Food Technology
Modern History
Physics
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Blayney High School offers its stu-dents and parents access to a Secure Portal which allows you to monitor your students progress at school.
If you have not received your login details yet, please contact Blayney High School on 63682100 to arrange this.
Go to the Sentral Parent Portal at
https://blayneyhs.sentral.com.au/portal2
The School Stream App can be down-loaded to your mobile device.
With the School Stream App you will be able to receive real time infor-mation from Blayney High School directly to your mobile device.
For how to download School Stream, go to
http://www.schoolstream.com.au/communication-tools-for-schools/
Students can borrow and read eBooks from our library anywhere, anytime, on multiple devices.using the Blayney High School ebook lend-ing facility at
https://blayneyhs.wheelers.co/
Students in Year 7-12 may loan up to 2 ebooks at the one time. The borrowing period for almost all re-sources is 3 weeks.
If you have a mobile device, you can download the ePlatform App from
https://blayneyhs.wheelers.co/help/apps/eplatform-app
or simply read your ebook in your web browser on your device
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