Forest Hill College
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Upcoming Dates
Term 3 Dates:
Monday July 29th – Friday August 2nd : Appreciation Week
Friday August 16th : Pupil free day
Wednesday August 21st : College Athletics
September 12th & 13th : College Production – Legally Blonde
Welcome to edition 1 of Term 3
Welcome to term 3.
After a successful start to Week 1, we held our VCE information evening for those students moving into Year 11 in 2025.
Invited to that evening were those students moving into Year 10 who have met the requirements for an Early VCE Access pathway.
To qualify for this privilege students were required to have a GPA of 3, a CAT average of 80 and an attendance rate of 90%.
Congratulations to those 25 students who met the requirements with flying colours.
These students have demonstrated exemplary learning and study habits in Year 9, Well done!
We are looking forward to a busy term with all course counselling taking place and the commencement of planning for 2025.
Key events this term include:
- College Athletics – rescheduled to Wednesday August 21st,
- Appreciation Week -planned by Parliament this week promises to be filled with fun events
- Student Free Day on August 16th.
- Primary school visits
- College Production 12th/13th September
The Later Years team have been looking closely at student data this week and looking at what makes an excellent student.
Using a formula developed by our maths team we are able to fairly accurately predict a student’s study score in a particular subject.
Using this data has allowed us to have meaningful conversations with our young people regarding their future outcomes and pathways.
This week we are talking to our Year 11s ready for course counselling over the next few days.
With Term 3 comes an added level of intensity for our Year 12 students.
With a total of 10 weeks teaching time left in their school year, it is more important than ever that we support our young people to achieve their very best moving towards the exams.
As a parent please encourage your students not to take on any additional load at the moment, to ease off on shifts in their part time job and to consider how best to rest and recuperate whilst still maintaining a good level of study.
We know what our students are capable of, sometimes though, it can be hard for them to remember as exams come closer and final SACs are completed and graded.
The final hurdle is in sight so let’s encourage them to do their very best in these final few weeks.
Just a reminder hat the College Production Legally Blonde – the Musical will be held this term so look out for tickets on sale soon!
Have a great week
Nicky Buckingham
College Co-Principal
Appreciation Week
Appreciation Week is a chance for students to participate in school events and increase FHC’s culture.
It is a chance for us to show our appreciation for the environment, arts, teachers, ourselves, and the different cultures that make up our school.
It will run week 3, Monday the 29th of July – Friday the 2nd of August
Self appreciation: Monday the 29th
Yoga will be led in the gym at lunch.
Go to the library for guided meditations and colouring in
Art day: Tuesday the 30th
Our amazing school band will be performing near the gym and while you listen, you can add to our chalk mural
Teacher day: Wednesday the 31st
Write notes of appreciation for our teachers by writing notes for them in the library.
Dodgeball, students vs teachers, in the gym at lunch.
Wednesday will be a dress up day, so to show your appreciation for our hardworking teachers, dress up like a teacher
Environment day: Thursday the 1st
At lunch, you can go to the central courtyard to collect rubbish.
Gloves and bags will be provided, and Tribe points awarded.
Leo’s is also gardening if you want to help out.
In the library, there will be animal origami and a David Attenborough documentary
Culture day: Friday the 2nd
There will be a cake sale at breakfast club.
Bring some spare change to try some delicious baked goods.
Learn about different cultures with the posters hung up around the school
Jennifer S
Student Parliament Prime Minister
VCE Vocational Major activities – NGV and Melbourne Museum excursion and Garden Bed planting
This term kicked off with a busy start for our VCE Vocational Major students.
The Year 12s attended the National Gallery of Victoria for their Literacy class, exploring the My Country exhibition, which pairs emerging First Nations artists with an industry mentor.
Students then travelled to the Melbourne Museum for the TAC: Road to Zero Exhibition, to investigate road safety for their Numeracy class.
Here, they explored the impact of car crashes on the body, examined the safety features of vehicles and roads, and tested their reaction time at different speeds using VR headsets in the Physics challenge.
The year 11s have been working hard across term 2 to prepare the garden bed outside A block for planting, and have now planted a new batch of veggies in the garden.
The wonderful Marie from Vermont South Bunnings visited to teach students the basics of gardening and kindly donated seasonals including lettuce, spinach, parsley and a lime tree.
This was a great experience the students and they’re looking forward to continuing to care for and harvest the garden as we move into spring.
Allison Savige
Leading Teacher – Head of Curriculum
Basketball Marathon
Emily Y
Student Parliament Deputy Prime Minister