St Paul's handbook Essential information - St Paul's Collegiate School

ACADEMIC AWARDS
Scholars’ Ties
To be awarded a Scholars’ Tie a Year 11 student
must achieve a grade point average of 70%
or more in their best five subjects including
English and Mathematics. A Year 12 student must
achieve a grade point average of 70% or more
in their best four subjects. Scholars’ Ties are
awarded at a special assembly once results have
been processed.
Merit Awards
Merit Awards are given to students who have
achieved a certain number of merits during
the term. These are awarded each term. The
Assistant Headmaster collates the information
and passes it on to the Headmaster to award
at a School Assembly. Recipients of a Merit
Award receive both a certificate and a movie
voucher.
Headmaster’s Good Report
Morning Tea
At the end of each reporting cycle, students
with outstanding attitude grades on their reports
are nominated by their Housemaster to attend a
Headmaster’s morning tea. This catered morning
tea is an acknowledgement of those students
who have applied themselves in a motivated and
hardworking manner. This occurs across every
year level.
CAREER PLANNING AND
ACADEMIC GUIDANCE
The goal of the St Paul’s Career Service
remains that it is a school wide service and the
responsibility of every staff member. Careers
Education is embedded in the School’s culture
and integrated across curriculum areas and
pastoral care networks.
The School has qualified and experienced staff
that are available to assist in the provision of
careers advice and planning, particularly in the
area of careers profiling for seniors.
In brief, the school wide format is as follows:
Years 9 and 10
Short group sessions are held in classes in which
students are given tasks to introduce them to
the concept of career, as well as facilitate access
to the huge array of resources available to
students in digital and book form.
Prior to choosing subjects for Year 11, all Year 10
students are seen briefly on a one-to-one basis
to ensure that subject choices are accurate and
future career or study pathways are not limited.
This is reasonably straightforward at St Paul’s, as
the timetable is structured to generally allow a
broad selection of subjects.
Year 11
All students will have an initial one-to-one
interview with the Careers Counsellor during
the course of the year. Approximately one hour
per student is allocated to this and the process
entails formal career profiling techniques.
Students are encouraged to start investigations
into three or four areas of strength and career
interest. Students are given specific activities to
support this selection process and are required
to produce evidence of the progress of this
process over the next two years.
Each student is expected to have a careers
folder in which material of interest is retained.
Prior to the Year 12 subject choice submission,
students are required to indicate their career(s)
of interest. Students whose results/subject
choices are not consistent with the particular
career interests will be re-interviewed to identify
any issues that will prevent them from achieving
their chosen path.
Year 12
During one study period every cycle, students
will, under the guidance of the Careers
Counsellor, have the opportunity to fine tune
their plans using the many websites available.
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