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Year 12 Parent/Carer Forum

CONNECT LEARN ACHIEVE

Sue Birkett

Director of Careers

EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER PATHWAYS

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

Betty Chau Director of Student Wellbeing

STUDENT WELLBEING AND PASTORAL CARE

PASTORAL CARE AND HOUSE TEAMS

Line Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 House Name Orion Aquila Tucana Hydra Phoenix Draco Scorpius Centaurus House Colour Yellow Teal Red Blue Orange Green Purple Black Coordinator Rhett Eldred Steph Boxall Karen Burton Heather Mutton Trudy Cheeseman Aaron Hill Natalia Pelle Andrew Beecher Assistant 1 Jen Cristaudo Lisa Green Angela Rega David Gould Pam Murray Christian Riley Troy Atkins Adam Salter Assistant 2 Kaitlin Burrough Keturah Manning Annette Jamison Surabhi Das Michael Loftus Adrian Poole Ranbir Kaur Conor 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 interactions,

• pt-in

sessions Opt-in sessions House Charities, Student Leadership House Points, Awards, Celebration of success Every teacher is a teacher of wellbeing – opt-in sessions

What positive activities do they enjoy? What are their strengths? Are their strengths being used in

• ther activities?

What links to the community do they have? Are they a part of something bigger than themselves? What goals outside and beyond school do they have? Who are their strongest connections with? Do they have support in each ‘circle’ (work, social, sport, etc)

Priscilla Wray

Associate Principal

STUDY SUPPORT

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 ATAR scores. The AST and study support Upstairs Green 6.00–7.00pm ANU Student Information desk Lecture Theatre Foyer

Mitchell Tummers

Director of Mathematics and Certification

UNDERSTANDING SCORES, SCALING, AST AND ATAR

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

• ne 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
• ther 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

Multiple choice: 80 questions

• 2 hours 25 minutes

Short response

• 1 hour 55 minutes

Writing task

• 2 hours 30 minutes
• An opinion/argumentative piece of 600 words on the

topic presented in the stimulus material

Interpreting, reasoning, explaining, justifying, problem solving

• graphs and tables
• logic problems and

processes

• mathematical problems
• scientific method
• prose (fiction, non-fiction,

advertising, etc)

• poetry/lyrics
• images and diagrams

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
• r 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)