The Transit of Venus - Randwick Girls High School

Principal’s message continued
expectations and hopes for our young women and
develop united approaches from the school and
family for best future outcomes for the girls.
The Year 8 and Year 10 Parent/Teacher evening
will take place in the next few weeks while our
Year 9 and Year 11 Parent/Teacher evening will
take place in July. We look forward to seeing you
at these times.
School photographs are always a very popular
event on the school’s calendar, the one day we
don’t have to nag about correct uniform. We have
now completed the initial process and the girls
will be receiving the completed photos in the next
few months. Thank you to our teacher
coordinator, Gerard Stewart.
The Transit
of Venus
Mr Hickey will give a presentation on the
transit of Venus at 6.15pm, Monday 4 June in
room 220 above the library.
Following the presentation, parents and
students will be invited to the oval to view the
partial lunar eclipse through a telescope.
The first assessment period is now well underway
across the school with a variety of assessment
practices ranging from informal class assessments
to class tests, subject tests and with Year 11 a
formal half yearly exam period. All students will
receive a semester one, half yearly report detailing
their progress in the next weeks either at your
Parent/Teacher Night or posted home.
Our Year 7 and Year 9 have now participated in
the national NAPLAN tests. We hear many
different comments about the value or otherwise
of these tests. By using the results of these tests as
a diagnostic tool we can, though, use them to
benefit our young women.
NAPLAN is not a test with winners or losers.
Unfortunately an ill-informed media misuses and
misinterprets these tests on the MySchool website
to create inaccurate league tables. We at
Randwick Girls and Boys know this all too well.
It’s intention is not to grade individuals or
compare one student to another, but rather to show
those areas where an individual student is
performing well and those areas where a student
will benefit from extra help on a given day – a
snapshot only.
Our learning support program is using our
NAPLAN results together with the many other
assessment processes our teachers use to ensure
that our students’ learning needs are best met.
Regards
Heather Emerson
Transits of Venus occur in a pattern that
repeats every 243 years with pairs of transits
8 years apart separated by gaps of 121½
years and 105½ years. Since the
phenomena was first recognised there have
only been 6 transits of Venus – 1639, 1761,
1769, 1874, 1882, the most recent in 2004.
The next transit of Venus is 6 June 2012.
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28 May – 1 June, 2012 WEEK 6B RANDWICK GIRLS HIGH 2