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Year 8 Camp
Homegroups 8_4, 8_5, 8_6
Wednesday 27th November Saturday 30th November
VCE Headstart:
Friday 29th November
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Regular practice. Promote reading. Use of learning tools to develop student skill in all the areas of writing. Push perseverance (anything worthwhile takes time).
Parents
Encourage writing for pleasure. Think about purchasing grammar software (there are numerous products online). There are also fun apps which help students to create stories. And most of all support your children to practise their writing.
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MATHEMATICS Access to Prevocational Maths 1 Essential Advanced General Maths - 3rd Ed Essential Advanced General Maths - 2nd Ed Essential Maths Methods 1&2 Essential Maths Methods 3&4 Essential Specialist Maths - 3rd Ed Essential Further Maths - 4th Ed Maths Quest VCE Foundation Maths
(all 8 workbooks MUST be included and not be written in)
MUSIC PERFORMANCE VCE Music Performance Musicianship Ess. Units 1&2 (if not written in) VCE Music Performance Musicianship Ess. Units 3&4 (if not written in) PHYSICAL EDUCATION Nelson Physical Ed. VCE Units 1&2 Nelson Physical Ed VCE Units 3&4 - 5th Ed Nelson Physical Ed VCE Units 3&4 Workbook - 2nd Ed (if not written in) Physical Education Notes VCE Units 3&4 - 2nd Ed PHYSICS Jacaranda Physics 1 - Units 1&2 - 3rd Ed Jacaranda Physics 1 - Units 3&4 - 3rd Ed PSYCHOLOGY Psychology Study Dictionary - 2nd Ed STUDIO ARTS (Photography) Artisan-Studio Arts for VCE Units 1-4 VCAL LITERACY Stack of Stories Ninety Packets of Instant Noodles The Boy in the Striped Pajamas VISUAL COMMUNICATION & DESIGN Visual Comm & Design VCE Units 1-4 -3rd Ed NOTE: Casio ClassPad 330 calculators. The new model of the Casio Graphic ClassPad calculator has been requested on booklists in 2014. The existing version of the calculator is still perfectly acceptable in class and does not need to be replaced if you already own one! There will be 25 of the black and white versions available for sale from the college class set at a reduced price of $75.00 for those who wish to purchase them. Parents and Friends will also still continue to accept these calculators as well as Casio Scientic Calculators FX100AU from students who wish to sell them through the book sale. Please write the price that you wish to receive for the calculater along with the other details requested on the 'bookslip' ie: name, address, contact phone. Thank you.
BIOLOGY Heinemann Biology One - Enhanced - Textbook Heinemann Biology One - Units 1&2 - 4th Ed Heinemann Biology One - Units 3&4 - 4th Ed Student Workbook (if not written in) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Key Concepts VCE Business Management 1&2 - 2nd Ed Key Concepts VCE Business Management 3&4 - 2nd Ed CHEMISTRY Heinemann Chemistry 1 - 4th Ed Heinemann Chemistry 2 - 4th Ed DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY Product Design & Technology VCE 1-4 - 3rd Ed 200 Projects Get You into Fashion Design Nelson Product Design & Technology W,M&P workbook (if not written in) Nelson Product Design & Technology Textiles workbook (if not written in) ENGLISH 1 & 2 Don't Start Me Talking The Things They Carried Jasper Jones ENGLISH 3 & 4 The Lot - In Words ENGLISH LITERATURE 1 & 2, 3 & 4 Insight - Literature for Senior Students - 2nd Ed Kinglake 350 In Cold Blood FOOD TECHNOLOGY Food Solutions Units 1&2 - 3rd Ed Food Solutions Units 3&4 - 3rd Ed INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Nelson Info Tech Units 1&2 - 5th Ed Nelson Info Tech Units 3&4 - 5th Ed LEGAL STUDIES Key Concepts VCE Legal Studies Units 1&2 - 2nd Ed Key Concepts VCE Legal Studies Units 3&4 - 2nd Ed
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From our experience over the past 5 years, we have learnt that the main things that effect cost and availability are: Robustness Student laptops work very hard. (5 days per week for 6 hours per day, plus homework, mostly powered by battery). The devices travel a lot during the day as well as to and from home. Warranty Most of the repairs over the life of the devices are 'warranty related' rather than accidental damage. The key types of repairs have been charger, battery, or hard drive failure, some times more than once. Maximum uptime Repairs undertaken at WRC: turnaround time 1-3 days. Repairs off site with laptop supplier: minimum turnaround 5 days up to 30 days. We have experience with Asus, Acer and Lenovo brands, and we have tested Dell and IBM devices. Lenovo has proven to the most reliable for us with the lowest downtime and the least costly to run when backed by a 3 year warranty.
Lenovo laptops may seem expensive, but include a 3 year warranty. Except for accidental damage, they should be cost free after purchase. The school has reduced the booklist cost since 2012 by between $430-$530 over years 7-9 to help parents with the purchase of laptops. The net cost of the Lenovo X131 is $70-$170 more than the year 7-9 2012 booklist over 3 years ($25$60 per year more). Whilst we have provided a variety of payment options, we are always happy to discuss individual circumstances.
Bring your own laptop if you wish, but do your research rst!
Parents can supply their own Laptop provided it meets our minimum technical and physical specications, and parents/ guardians clearly accept responsibility for organising repairs and meeting all ongoing costs. There are advantages Parents/guardians are free to choose a brand name. Potentially cheaper up front. Choice of warranty options/risks. There are disadvantages Parents/guardians are totally responsible for organising all repairs/warranty claims. Parents must ensure that the student has access to a replacement machine (the school can help with this). Possibly more expensive in the long term. We ask that all parents who opt for their child to bring their own laptop, carefully read the BYOD process and BYOD Parent Agreement. Each arrangement will be assessed on a case by case basis (to make sure the laptop will work) and the parent/guardian will be asked to sign our BYOD Parent Agreement.
diary dates
WWW Week 7 Group D7 School Council & Finance Meeting 6:30pm Year 10 & 11 Exams Unit 3 & 4 External Exams
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20 Nov
Thurs
21 Nov
Unit 3 & 4 External Exams Year 10 & 11 Exams Domain Leaders Meeting 3:30pm
Fri
22 Nov
Sun - Wed
24 - 27 Nov
Year 8 Camp Homegroups 8_1, 8_2, 8_3 depart 9am Sunday, return 3pm Wednesday
Wed - Sat
27 - 30 Nov
Year 8 Camp Homegroups 8_4, 8_5, 8_6 depart 9am Wednesday, return 3pm Saturday
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