NAPLAN results are FANTASTIC.

Amazing things continue to happen every day at Geelong High. The list over the last couple of weeks include Science Week, Book week, Elevate presentation, Sport activities, Subject selections, Music, and Dance Concerts. I know there are many others that provide some great learning opportunities for our students. Thanks to all the staff for organising these activities.

I have just received some overall school results for NAPLAN 2023 and as a school we should be proud of these. Teachers, students, and parents should be pleased with these results. It is only through the hard work of all of us that allow students to achieve some great results. While NAPLAN tests are a one-off result, they do provide a small snapshot and allow us to look at future direction for improvement. All of us can improve and I can assure parents that as teachers we are looking to improve every day and engage young people in their learning.

Well done to Ms Yee, Ms Albrecht, and all the students in the VET dance class for their amazing Dance concert. The feedback has been that the standard just gets better every year, and our kids are doing some amazing things.

The Spring Music concert was a great success. Mr Kypriotis and all the Instrumental music staff did an excellent job in preparing the students, there were some amazing performances. Thanks to Mr Crowe for all his technical knowledge and expertise.

Lachlan Kearton (aka Mr. Caldwell if you saw Urinetown), has obtained a scholarship with Melbourne Theatre Company. This scholarship allows him to enter a course which runs 18 Sep – 22 Sep at Southbank Theatre in Melbourne. Well done, Lachlan!

During this term there has been so many great activities and learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. Only last week we had 16 Year 12 students travel to Melbourne to be part of the audience for the television show Q and A. Thanks to Mr Foss and Mr O’Meara for attending, it was great for the media students to see how a ‘real’ TV show is put together.

The school also held a Model United Nations with students across all of Geelong from both Government and Private schools. Students had to be organised into countries and debate the issues of the day. Thanks to Mr Houghton for all his work on this.

Mr Molloy and Mr Truscott had the pleasure of taking students on the snow camp. While there was not a great amount of natural snow, there was plenty of man-made snow and students were able to enjoy some downhill and cross-country skilling.

We continue with our Positive Relationships Program and Life Changer during the term with a strong focus on the wellbeing of all students and ensuring that we create a community of respect. There are 1000 different individuals on site each day and as a school we want to ensure that everyone has a safe place to come, work and learn.

2 Students, Harry Jones and James Elliot represented Geelong High School in the ‘Come Together Festival’ at Queenscliff Town Hall on Sunday. They were judged the overall best act and won the ‘battle of the bands’ aspect of the event. They have won the opportunity to support a well-known act at an up and coming gig. It was a huge effort with essentially the best acts from each school in Geelong attending the competition.

Coming up early next term we have our Unit 3 / 4 Exams for students, and we wish them the best. I know they have been studying hard and all this work will pay off soon.

Our Year 9 GPEP students head off to central Australia in Term 4 and I know they are looking forward to this amazing learning opportunity.

On a final note – GO BLUES!!!