Eden by Yuri Baranovsky - The Friends' School

will be presented. It will also be the first opportunity for the Head Boy and Girl for 2012 tospeak to the student body.Casual Dress DayCasual Dress day will be held on 14 October for the Sudanese Medical Relief Fund for a goldcoin donation.Progress ChecksProgress checks will be posted out next week. Enclosed with these will be a letter from TonyBarrett outlining some of the major upcoming events and expectations of our students for theremainder of the year. Please read this letter carefully.Early Release of TCE Results via EmailStudents have the option of having their Senior Secondary results emailed to them prior toreceiving a hard copy of results in the post.This service is provided free of charge. This is an early notification of students’ 2011 results.An official hard copy will be sent by post on the same day as the emailStudents need to register their email address with the Tasmanian Qualifications Authority, at:http://www.tqa.tas.gov.au/1865 using the online form between 1 August and 18 December2011. This is the only way of registering. Late applications will not be accepted.The following information will be forwarded via email to those email addresses that havebeen validated and verified:Statement of Results - 19 DecemberTertiary Entrance (only available for eligible candidates) - 19 DecemberExternal Assessment Advice - 19 DecemberStudent school email addresses are not to be used. Registrations do not carry forward fromprevious years.Support for StudentsSome students may be feeling under pressure at this time of the year. If parents think theirson or daughter is unduly stressed at this time please contact the School. This could be yourchild's tutor, the School Counsellor, Lyn Tunbridge, Anne Lynch or Tony Barrett.Jean Yeates Writing PrizeThe winners in this year's Jean Yeates Prize were announced at Assembly last Thursday.Lydia Birch won first place with her short story The Glass Cage and Anita Corrigan wasrunner-up. The adjudicator for the Jean Yeates Prize must always be a Friends' Old Scholar;this year's judge was acclaimed young writer Favel Parret, who now lives in Victoria. Favelcommented that “All of the entries were outstanding."5