Blayney High Bulletin - Issue 4 Term 1- Week 8 22 March 2019

Parent Portal

By now all primary carers should have received a letter introducing our new Sentral Parent Portal. We will be continuing to develop the portal to ensure you are provided with more and more information. Already since posting the letters we have activated the calendar and Upcoming Events functions.

Over the next few weeks and months we will be striving to ensure we have updated email addresses. If your email address is accurate for you in Sentral we will be able to email you updates and letters so you can receive these instantly rather than by post which is now taking up to a week.

We will soon be activating a feature which will automatically email you if your child is marked absent that day and we have no reason marked against that absence. You will then be able to contact us to explain that absence (or allow us to correct the record if there has been an error).

Once in the Portal please have a look around and see what is there.

We are open to feedback if something can be added. Please let us know.

Year 12 Exams.

In the most recent HSC review NESA ruled that no more than one exam style assessment per course. As such the tradition-al pattern of students sitting a Mid-Course ex-am and a Trial exam at the end of the course for their school based assessment is no long-er permitted.

However, in Term 4 students will still sit an external exam worth 50% of their total mark for their course. As such exam performance is a vital skill if students are going to perform to their best. This is the reason we are continuing to hold Mid-Course exams. Additionally student performance in these exams will be a critical diagnostic tool for teachers in assessing learning progress to date with plenty of time to address any issues that arise before the end of courses.

While these exam results are not going to be included in the final school bases assessment calculation, we will still be providing these results on Mid-Course reports.

As such we are expecting all students to take these exams seriously in Week 10.

NOTE – English courses will be sitting a non-exam style assessment during the exam week and so this assessment WILL count toward the internal assessment. This has been notified to all students in writing.

Good luck

John Browett

Principal

Upcoming Events

March

Mar 22 Blayney Show setup

Mar 25 NAPLAN online Practice

Signature Week

Mar 26 NAPLAN online Practice

Mar 27 NSW Forestry & Industry Visit

Mar 28 Western Rugby League Trials

Heritage Choir Day

Schools Volleyball Cup

Mar 29 Western Rugby League Trials

April

Apr 1 HSC Mid-Course exam

Transition week

Apr 2 HSC Mid-Course exam

Transition week

Apr 3 HSC Mid-Course exam

Transition Week

White Card training

Apr 4 HSC Mid-Course exam

WSSA Rugby

Transition week

Apr 5 HSC Mid-Course exam

Transition week

Apr 8 HSC Mid-Course exam

Legal Studies visit Bathurst Courthouse

Apr 9 Powerhouse Museum Visit

Junior Boys Rugby League to Cowra

Apr 11 Debating Workshop

CHS Open boys Tennis

Apr 12 Athletics Carnival

HSC Assessment Calendar 2018-19

Term 1 2019

March

Week 8 Assessment Free

Week 9 Mid-Course exams

English - Advanced & Standard

CEC - English Studies

Week 10 Mid - Course exams

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

Visit our Facebook page to see what activities our students have been involved in.

https://www.facebook.com/BlayneyHS/

https://blayney-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/

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

Visit our School Website for all your

school information.

Stay connected with Blayney High by using the following links.