Years 7, 8 and 9 Program Leader | Mr Damien Coman

Year 9 2019 Subject Selection (current Year 8s)

This will be held on Thursday 23 August commencing at 6pm at the Campbell Centre for all Year 8s and their parents. After some background information is provided, staff will provide three information rotation sessions on their subject. A Subject Selection booklet is being distributed to all Year 8 boys today.  We would encourage you to discuss what your son is thinking of doing prior to the information evening next week.  The Subject Selection booklet contains information about the subjects and also how they should choose the subjects. It also outlines how to submit their choices online. I will also go around all classes to collect their printed receipts on Friday 31 August.
 

Please note

YEAR 7s DO NOT NEED TO ATTEND the subject information evening. It is in the hard copy calendar as we were waiting on more information from QCAA about the nature of the senior courses for ATAR and the flow on effect this could possibly have had on other year levels. We have determined that Year 8 2019 will continue as it has done previously with boys covering a wide variety of subjects rather than selecting subjects.
 
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the International Boys’ School Coalition Wellbeing Seminar at Shore school in Sydney. Among many great speakers, Dr Greg Wells from Canada certainly gave a great presentation about the very topics that we cover at different stages of our Years 7-9 Formation program - sleeping, diet and exercise and their link to learning and performance/wellbeing. An example can be found from his Ted Talk at the University of Toronto and it is certainly worth parents and caregivers watching for themselves:
 

It was a pleasure to watch the enormous number of students compete in the Australian Mathematics Competition last Thursday. We have students also continuing their Maths Olympiad challenge at present too.  

Topics in Formation recently have been equipping our students with information on:  

• Year 7 - Cyber safety, online reputation and cyber bullying.
• Year 8 - Working effectively in teams and the effects of time online.
• Year 9 - The benefits and obstacles to sleep, effects of drugs and alcohol on your body.