NGSC Newsletter
Year 2025 - Issue 1

Middle School News

Welcome back to the 2025 school year!

Late to school and uniform passes

Subject Changes

Year 9 USI numbers

Year 10 S/N Learning Tasks

Daniel Grozdanovski
Middle Sub School Leader

Welcome back to the 2025 school year!

There have been some changes to the staff in the Middle Sub School and your key staff for each year level can be found below. We all look forward to supporting the Middle Sub School students this year.

Middle Sub School
Middle Sub School Staff

Late to school and uniform passes

With no Homegroup this year there is more ownership on students to be prepared for the day ahead. Any student requesting a late pass or uniform pass must report to Anna in the Middle Sub School when arriving. A reminder that these passes are not meant to be a regular thing and are a one-off when things don’t go to plan. If you need additional support in assisting students with uniforms or arriving at school on time, then please contact the relevant staff above.

Subject Changes

Students can collect forms from the Middle Sub School to request a change. This year there are very limited spaces in classes, so any changes will be difficult to accommodate. As always this stresses the importance of filling out your subject preferences correctly later in the year to avoid being disappointed. These changes must be completed by the end of this week 15/02/2025.

Year 9 USI numbers

Year 9 students will be required to have a USI number (Unique Student Identifier) this year for some upcoming excursions to the Gordon. Information has been shared on the Year 9 classroom page on how to create a USI. These will be collected by staff later in the year.

Year 10 S/N Learning Tasks

Students in Year 10 will receive a Satisfactory or Non-Satisfactory mark on all learning tasks this year.

The decision about satisfactory completion of an outcome/assessment is based on the teacher’s judgment of the student’s overall performance on a combination of

  • Regular attendance of classes
  • Completion of set work/homework
  • Contribution to class discussion and learning activities
  • Satisfactory completion of assessment tasks
  • Effort shown in class
  • Students will not receive an ‘N’ determination if they have genuinely attempted all of the work

This puts ownership on the students to regularly attend school and participate in completion of the set classwork. If a student receives multiple 'N' results they are at risk of failing the subject and repeating the school year.