2026 Course Selection
Thank you to our families who attended our Senior School Expo in Week 1. We saw strong parent and carer engagement in the post-school sessions with 31 families attending between 3:00pm – 4:30pm and over 100 attendees in the evening between 6:00pm – 7:00pm.
We appreciate your feedback on our new Handbook format being more accessible to you as parents and carers, helping you not only to understand all of our programs and subject offerings, but also supporting them to engage in conversations at home. Alongside conversations with our staff members, and scaffolds students have worked through in E4L we saw active participation and engagement from our community. We anticipate that this greater visibility of our pathways for our subjects will support our students with their course counselling conversations this week.
This week marks an exciting milestone for our 2026 course counselling process, our course confirmation meetings. By the end of this week all our current Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 students will have had a one-on-one conversation to confirm their individual course for 2026. All staff have participated in a whole-school professional learning session where we collectively increased our confidence in providing support to our students as they prepare for Senior School. In additional, staff who have volunteered as course counsellors have participated in training to support rigorous conversations with students that reflect their engagement in E4L and their course counselling activities.
NAPLAN
Last week the Department of Education begun reporting on this year’s NAPLAN data. With statewide and national data now available to us our School Improvement Team will begin their analysis of our 2025 Year 7 and Year 9 data.
Thank you again to Andrea Ganotis, Cassandra Mahony, and their support team in reaching nearly a 100% completion rate for our students across the testing period. This data informs us of student performance which we can triangulate with our annual PAT and bi-annual Teacher Judgment data.
We invite you to review our 2025 performance summaries below. As you can see, our school data outperforms the state of Victoria in every Domain, celebrating our collective contributions across all students and subjects.
The collated data outlines the percentage of our students who are in the following categories:
- Exceeding: the student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing.
- Strong: the student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
Congratulations to our community on such amazing results
Teaching & Learning Programs
Thank you to our Curriculum Leaders, Leading Teachers: Phoebe Allen (Year 7 & 8), Andrea Ganotis (Year 9 & 10), and Michaelle Tomolo (Year 11 & 12) who have supported staff in setting high expectations for our teaching and learning programs at the start of the term. Together they have monitored the publication of CAT dates for each of our subjects, checked if the unit planners were uploaded to the Compass NewsFeed, and checked in the Term 3 Snapshot tasks have been configured correctly in Compass. We thank our staff for following up and ensuring this is mirrored across all subjects.
Families can find our assessment dates through Compass, under School Favourites:
In addition, families can support student learning at home by familiarising themselves with our unit planners for each subject:
Reinforcing our high expectations in Senior School
Building a routine at the start of the term takes time for our students. As we move into Week 3, the 21-day mark approaches (commonly a time frame suggested to begin a habit). Over the past two weeks we have seen our students rebuild their automatic routines as they adjust back to Term 3. With this comes fatigue and for some, forgetfulness. Week 3 is an opportunity for us, as staff, parents and carers, to support them with their routine, directing their energy appropriately so they set themselves up for success.
- All students are required to stay within the school grounds during school hours (8:30am – 3:00pm). This includes study periods as part of a student’s timetable which is protected for private study in our Study Centres. If students have an approved absence they are to sign out at reception.
We thank families who communicate via Compass and with Liv Mitchell (Senior School Administration) to ensure attendance is recorded accurately to support student programs and our duty of care. - All students are to ensure they organise themselves before Tutor Group, planning for the resources they will need to Period 1 and Period 2. This will enable a consistent morning routine where all students arrive on time to class, prepared with their resources and are able to apply themselves productively in learning time.
We thank families who promote punctuality to school each morning through routines at home. - All students are to ensure they are wearing our winter uniform in Term 3. This includes Year 12 students who have elected to purchase a Year 12 jumper. Expectations regarding our school tie, school shirt and blazer are still in place, role modelling our school-wide standards to the younger year levels as well as promoting school pride.
We thank families who communicate with us when something arises regarding uniform as well as those who promptly ensure that items are found or replaced in line with our policy.
Careers & Pathways
Welcome to Jenni Chisholm! This week we have welcomed our new Careers & Pathways Leader, Jenni Chisholm to Auburn. A trained English and Humanities teacher, Jenni joins us from Heritage College where she has advocated for careers education for all students. Jenni has jumped in this week observing our course confirmation meetings and connecting with our local networks. We look forward to our students working with Jenni as part of the careers education at AHS.
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) has recently updated the Key Dates for the 2025 – 2026 Selection Period.
Applications for university and TAFE courses via VTAC or any interstate Tertiary Admissions Centre will open on Monday 4th August July 2025.
- To support students and their families with this process we invite parents and carers to a VTAC Information Evening on Wednesday 20th August at 6pm.
- Students will need a USI to apply for tertiary or Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses. If you do not have a USI (or are unsure if you do) Get one now
- Students will also need a Tax File Number when enrolling at university.
- Students should check the essential requirements for selection and admission for their preferred courses carefully. Courses may have additional requirements such as compulsory external testing (eg. UCAT, ISAT, CASPER), portfolio submission, audition or interview. These may be subject to limited booking and/or early closing dates.
Ella Price
Senior Assistant Principal