Hobart College Newsletter 3 2011 - Tasmanian Academy

Special consideration for TQA examinations
Hobart College Joins the United Nations
Your child may be eligible for special consideration in the end of year TQA examinations if they have a pre-existing
condition such as:
• physical disability / medical condition.
• specific learning disabilities (including reading, spelling and writing) which are not related to their general
ability level.
Special considerations may include:
• Additional time. (30 mins on a 3hr paper and 20 mins on a 2hr paper)
• In rare circumstances, examinations could be sat in two sessions (morning and afternoon) as long as they do
not have two exams scheduled on the same day.
• Use of a word processor or scribe.
• Special seating arrangements.
• Permission to move about, take medication or food.
All applications to TQA have to be accompanied by supporting medical or other relevant documentation and must
be submitted no later than the end of Term 2. No applications for pre-existing conditions will be accepted after this
date.
TQA require that assessment reports accompanying the applications need to be dated no more than 3 years prior
to the end of 2011. In many cases these reports will need to be updated and this will require forward planning and
time.
If you believe that your son or daughter would qualify for special consideration in their exams please contact
Judy White as soon as possible. Judy is available at College (ph. 6220 3133) on Mondays and Tuesdays all day and
Wednesdays after 1.00pm.
Please Note: The following links will provide students and parents with information about examination procedures
and academic integrity as required by the Tasmanian Qualifications Authority (TQA) for externally assessed work
and the end of year examination period.
http://www.tqa.tas.gov.au/4DCGI/_WWW_doc/048749/RND01/2011_External_Assessment_Rules.pdf
http://www.tqa.tas.gov.au/4675
Food Fair Wrap-Up
All who were there already know that this year’s Food Fair
was a roaring success when assessed from an entertainment
and community building perspective. So, the “people” third
of the triple bottom line is nicely covered. One day, it
would be good to have the energy, finances and expertise
to introduce a “planet sensitive” aspect to the Food Fair.
The other third relates to “profit” and we’re proud to
announce that, now the expenses have been met and the
counting has been completed, the 2011 Hobart College
Food Fair has made a profit of $1545.00 making it the most
profitable of any Food Fair, probably ever! Home Groups
were inspired to work together to do the best they possibly
could which brought out the generosity of students, their
families and their teachers who in many cases donated
ingredients so that profits were maximised. Cheques are
now in the process of being organised and sent to Milpera
State High School in Queensland and to organisations
supporting the responses to the Christchurch and Japan
earthquakes. Congratulations and thank you to the whole
College community.
In early April, Kate Parrott (Iran), Rhiannon McMahon (North Korea), Edward Croger (Belarus) and Kristof Wing
(Portugal) joined with over forty other Year 9-12 students from around the state at the United Nations Youth
Assembly (UNYA) Tasmanian State Conference.
Over the course of four days, delegates were educated about the inner workings of the UN, debated their hearts
out at Parliament House as the Security
Council, ECOSOC or the Human Rights
Council, spent a day at the Menzies Institute
listening to speakers from the Australian Youth
Climate Coalition, Thank You Water, and
YEAH!, tweeted copiously, had a reception
at Parliament House with the likes of Andrew
Wilkie, Elise Archer, Bill Harvey, and Scott
Bacon, authored and presented a ‘Youth
Declaration’ to those politicians in the hope
that it will provide a voice for Tasmania’s youth
and, above all, had a marvellous time!
From the 40-odd delegates, ten have been
selected to go to the national conference - the
United Nations Youth Conference (UNYC), to
be held in Adelaide during July. Two Hobart
College students, Rihannon McMahon and
Kristof Wing have been selected for the state
delegation.
by Kristof Wing
1.4 Billion people in this world live on just $2 a day. Could you last one week?
From May 16 - 20 twenty-five students from Hobart College took up the challenge to Live Below the Line. This
campaign, run by the Oaktree Foundation in collaboration with the Global Poverty Project, challenges participants
from all over the country to taste extreme poverty, by living on just $2 worth of food. The World Bank defines
extreme poverty as living on just $2 Australian a
day (adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity) and this
is the reality for 1.4 billion people - the reality of
more than a fifth of the world.
L to R: Jesse Lynch, Jennifer Gason, Ruby Johnston and Sylvia Reddington
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L to R: Kate Parrott, Rhiannon McMahon, Edward Croger and Kristof Wing
The campaign not only gave participants a greater
perspective on extreme poverty (as well as a deep
resentment for rice, lentils and oats), it also served
to raise awareness and funds for the issue. Money
raised goes to critical initiatives in Cambodia, East
Timor and Papua New Guinea, creating sustainable
education, youth empowerment and microfinance
programs to break the cycle of poverty.
During the week Hobart College hosted a breakfast,
in which participants cooked and ate chapatis
and held a lunch time fundraiser of live music and
tasty food (which, alas, us Live Below the Liners
served up, but could not eat). These events raised
over $250 contributing to the team’s total of over
$2,200 so far.
Nationally this is one of the fastest growing campaigns
and has over $1.2 million in only its second
year.