14 May 2021
Edition Six
Newsletter Fortnightly news and events for St George’s Parents
From the Principal Tina Campbell
With many of our students entering ‘exam’ and ‘study’ mode with NAPLAN testing, final assessment tasks, and exams looming ever closer for our senior students, it is important that whilst we continue to encourage hard work and the principles of doing ones best in such summative assessment tasks, we equally need to put such tests and assessment tasks in perspective. They are merely one part of the learning journey for students and success in them does not define you as a person. Each of us cope very differently in different situations and there is so much more to ones personality than how one performs in an exam or end of unit assessment or NAPLAN. So often it is easy for students to live inside their individual student bubble where the stresses of exams are too much to handle or the assignment deadline coming up way too fast is overwhelming and creates feelings of worry and being under pressure. It is vital that we work together to support our children to manage such pressures in their lives and to see exams and assessments merely as part of their normal schedule of learning. They help them to see what they have mastered as well as A school of the Anglican Schools Commission Inc.
what they have not understood quite yet. Whilst we all aspire for our students to achieve to their potential and encourage them to have a study plan, to work hard and to ace their exams, the reality is that all of our students are so much more than any grade or individual mark. Marks do not, by any means, represent or define who they are as a person and acing an exam does not make them immortal or guarantee anything more that a solid grade for that period of time in that subject. Examinations are not everything, they are a small part of school life as a student. Believe me, there is most definitely life beyond exams with many different pathways to achieve ultimate success in life and success for each person is different too.