From the Director of Student Learning (11-12)
Exams online – Year 12 are champions
Days 1 and 2 of Trial examinations are done and the students were awesome! The Janison invigilators are so impressed by their polite manners, resilience and ability to adapt to online exams in such a short period of time. Thank you to the parents and families for helping your daughters to be set up and ready to go and for being that calm voice when students get a bit anxious which is very normal.
We are immensely fortunate to have a fabulous Curriculum, Senior School and IT team to support these online exams. I am sure you can appreciate the long hours everyone is putting in to ensure these valuable learning experiences can take place.
Even though we had two practice events, there were a few students with unforeseen issues on the first day. All students were contacted by phone and we met with the invigilators to resolve these issues for the next exam.
Please read the points below to ensure a smooth exam experience moving forward.
- Make sure students have the latest versions of Canvas student and Microsoft Teams apps installed and are signed into Canvas and Teams with their Pymble email (not Gmail account)
- Unmute the chat function in Teams on the laptop.
- Don’t be late! Log in and join your exam 30 minutes before the start time.
- Number pages of writing paper clearly at the top and put the student number on every page in advance – tonight.
- Start each section/question on a new writing page to make sure the question number is written clearly. Write single-sided.
- Use the SCAN button in the Canvas app, not the camera if possible, (the writing is clearer) and hold the camera horizontally above the page.
Congratulations to all our conscientious Year 12 students and very best wishes for the rest of your exams.
Year 11
It was wonderful to be able to give a shout-out to the girls who were nominated by their teachers as being exceptionally engaged in learning online. Keep up the motivation as not long now until your exams.
The Year 11 students are following in the footsteps of Year 12 and will complete their exams online too. They will be:
- In Week 8 and 9 of Term 3 – click here for the exam timetable.
- Supervised online by Pymble teachers over Microsoft Teams using their laptop and a second device – phone or tablet.
- Open book – this means that students can bring a double sided A4 ‘cheat sheet’ to each exam but will not be able to access resources on their screen.
I spoke to Year 11 today in assembly about how their exams will be organised, click here for the link to the presentation.
Students can start to get ready by downloading the ‘Microsoft Teams’ and ‘Canvas – Student’ apps to their phone or tablet.
I will email students and parents with more comprehensive details and FAQs shortly plus the girls will have the opportunity for some practice tests in their classes.
Mrs Natasha Stanfield