The Rowville Times

Rowville Secondary College
Term 2 Issue 9
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The Rowville Times
Friday, June 14th 2013
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Excellence students located on one campus we can have a
broader range of elective subjects in Year 10 and subjects that
had to be scrapped with too few students will be more likely to
operate given a broader pool of students.
An extension of this will be Year 10 students having a wider
choice of VCE acceleration subjects with the whole VCE
program available for them to choose from rather than just 2
or 3 subjects which is currently the case at the East.
Changing campuses one year earlier will also provide a longer
lead time into Year 12, providing a stronger integration of
students from the two campuses by the time they are in Year
12. Transition will still be supported by staff campus swaps to
ensure that students have familiar faces teaching them or
people that they know who they can call upon if requiring
assistance.
This new structure will also enable the creation of a new senior
learning neighbourhood for all General Excellence students in
Years 10 – 12. School Council will soon examine in more detail
how we might resource improvements to welfare support,
careers counselling and senior study facilities at the Western
campus over the next couple of years.
This will also enable us to make best use of all available physical
and teaching resources.
It needs to be emphasised that School Council has no intention or
desire to move away from offering a Year 7 – 9 General
Excellence program at the Eastern Campus. We believe it is
critical to give parents the opportunity to choose the nearest
campus in their first years of secondary education if that is their
wish.
This decision has been made with less lead time than we would
have liked. To minimise transport issues we will at least during
2014 provide a free bus service from the Eastern campus to the
Western campus each school morning. During Term 3 parents
can register for this service. Priority will be given to 2014 Year 10
students but in the event that capacity allows, other students
could also utilise this service.
Glenn Fankhauser
Principal