This edition of VCE Insights provides information to parents and carers of VCE students about upcoming academic and pastoral events. In addition, you will find information to assist with supporting your daughter through her final years of school.

  • Monday 26 August: SONY Camp Information session (Year 11 students)
  • Tuesday 27 August: Gala Concert.

Below is a list of subjects with SACs and Outcomes scheduled over the coming weeks. Please note that subject teachers will communicate with your daughter regarding the specific date their SAC or Outcome will run.

Term 3 Week 7

Year 12 SACs

  • Accounting
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Physical Education
  • French
  • Health

Year 11 Outcomes

  • Further Mathematics
  • Literature

Term 3 Week 8

Year 12 SACs

  • Accounting
  • Media
  • Theatre Studies
  • Psychology
  • Chemistry
  • Studio Arts
  • Specialist Mathematics

Year 11 Outcomes

  • Chemistry
  • Psychology
  • EAL
  • Economics
  • 20th Century History

Next week, I will be speaking with the Year 11 students about an opportunity open to them in December this year.

The SONY Camp is a holiday camp for children with disabilities, allowing respite for them and their family just before Christmas time. This camp represents the gift of giving at Christmas. The children are aged between 6 and 15 years.

This year, the camp will run for three days from Friday 13 December to Sunday 15 December 2019 at Scotch College. There will be two compulsory training days on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 December at Scotch College. There are two schools involved: Scotch College and St Catherine’s School. Each school will provide 16 students where they will be asked to look after a child day and night. It will be a time of joy, with singing, swimming, picnics, games and parties. It will be a challenging time with responsibility and hard physical work. The camp is sponsored by SONY Australia. The program is supported by volunteer teachers, doctors and nurses from both Scotch and St Catherine’s for the duration of the camp.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. More information, a short video and nomination forms will be uploaded onto the Year 11 Portal page shortly.

Ms Lilly Dusting, Head of Year 11
Mrs Tracey McCallum, VCE Coordinator and Acting Head of Humanities