2022 Senior Outcomes
At the start of 2022, the Year 12 cohort chose the phrase, ‘You Got This’, as their inspiration for the year ahead. As a cohort they certainly embraced this approach to their academic studies as they coped with the challenges of a delayed start to the school year, and the impact of the flood to our local community. Despite this initial unexpected turn of events, our 2022 Year 12 graduands showed themselves to be caring, confident, creative and connected young women as they worked together to achieve their full potential. Our teachers walk alongside the Year 12s to expertly prepare the students for the internal, mock and external assessments. The St Aidan’s teachers continue to be involved in the QCAA quality assurance processes with 6 teachers appointed as Confirmers and 2 Lead Confirmers, 6 teachers as Endorsers, 13 teachers as External assessment markers, and 3 teachers involved in writing and scrutiny panels for the external assessments. This involvement with QCAA ensures that we are constantly building expertise to provide a quality academic program for the students. Academic achievement for the graduands of St Aidan’s was celebrated through their completion of QCAA General and Applied subjects, as well as vocational qualifications including the Diploma of Business and Certificate II or III courses. Each of these achievements contribute towards the students QCE and build their portfolio of knowledge and skills for future endeavours. The ATAR provides one mechanism for students to enter tertiary courses and is provided as a notional percentile rank, with a high of 99.95 representing performance in the top .05% of students in the state. Increments of .05 separating ATARs, result in a finer grained measure of student achievement. For the graduating class of 2022, a key focus was remaining focused on the three internal assessments so that they were able achieve as many subject marks as possible prior to the external assessment. For Maths and Science subjects, internal assessment marks were worth 50% of the overall subject result. For all other subjects, the internal assessments contributed 75% to the subject result. Three internal assessments combined with one external assessment to calculate their Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR).
97% of St Aidan’s senior cohort was ATAR eligible.Actual
Our 2022 Year 12 students are to be congratulated on their remarkable achievement. performance may be higher, as the small number of Their results reflect the hard work and dedication of the 2022 cohort and the quality and students who did not release data to the school have professionalism of the teaching staff and educational experience offered at St Aidan’s.
been included as having achieved below 80.
Mrs Jo Butterworth Dean of Studies BSc (App-HMSEd), MACEL
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