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We are please to announce that the Environment Team here at Rose Bay Secondary College are in the finishing touches of our Native Bee Garden.

On Monday August 12 our students set out to make their way down to Perisher as part of the annual ski excursion for Rose Bay Secondary College.

Year 12 HSC Physics and Investigating Science students visited the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation at Lucas Heights on Tuesday August 27.

Is your child in Year 9 to 12 curious about their career choices? Now they can use LifeLauncher, a free online tool to explore and simplify their career choices.

Your child can explore courses and careers in-depth, at their own pace, anytime, anywhere and on any device. The tool includes 4,000 careers and 1,500 course options, all in one place.

How does it work?

Encourage your child to jump online and complete the 5-minute personality and subject quizzes to be matched to a range of career options that suit their passions and strengths.

If they take both quizzes, they’ll get more refined suggestions. They can even create free online pinboards to shortlist the courses and jobs that interest them.

When your child creates an account, they can save their searches and build a real understanding of the opportunities and pathways open to them.

What can your child learn about their career options?

Your child can explore the weekly salary of the career options they’re interested in. They’ll also find the employment and growth rates of those careers and the number of workers currently in those fields in Australia.

Each career option shows them the education they need as well as other related careers. They can follow links to other sites to find out more about a course to help them find the best provider for them.

Launch into the future today

Use this tool to chat with your child about their post-school options in a meaningful way.

Inspire your child to find their career match today at LifeLauncher.nsw.gov.au.

This week our School, Vice and Community and Engagement Captains welcomed the School and Vice Captains from Eden Marine High School for an Exchange Program.

Use our new Digital Citizenship toolkit to empower your child to understand how their online behaviour affects themselves and others.

You and your child can find information on:

• how to ‘be positive’ by understanding online behaviour and its effect
• ‘be smart’ by thinking critically and being digitally aware
• ‘be safe’ by protecting your security, privacy and wellbeing.

A toolkit to empower you and your child

You can find articles and videos to equip and empower your child to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities in our digital future.

We’ve partnered with leading researchers to produce a curated toolkit – aligned to the curriculum – which teachers and you can share with the young people in your lives.

Guide your child through important concepts such as:

• managing privacy settings in social media
• collaborating online
• avoiding scams and hoaxes
• understanding the law when it comes to online speech
• Internet banking, shopping online and much more.

Keep your child safe and happy online

Visit and bookmark the Digital Citizenship website. We’ll continue to add articles and resources to ensure the best possible tools are available to help you guide your child to be positive, smart and safe online.

This Australian Reading Hour, encourage your child to discover or rekindle their love of a good book. Take the time to learn, escape and relax on Thursday 19 September and read for one hour.

Reading has been shown to reduce stress by 68% more than listening to music, going for a walk, or having a cup of tea.

Take the Book Swap Challenge

We all have favourite books that we come back to again and again. 

To help celebrate Reading Hour take our Book Swap Challenge. We want students, teachers, staff and parents to try reading something new on the day. To get involved, simply pair up with someone and swap your favourite books.

Take a photo and tag it with #ReadingHour so we can see how you got involved. 

Video – Ben Law asks students about their favourite author 

Duration: 1:18

Author and #ReadingHour ambassador Benjamin Law talks with some of our students about their favourite books.

We had three teams of Year 8 STEM girls enter the GoIT Challenge this year and one of our teams have been chosen to represent our school at UNSW for the Grand Finals next term!

On Tuesday September 10, 16 students and 6 staff members of the Inclusive Education Faculty embarked on a pilot overnight excursion to Australia’s historic Blue Mountains.

Will you be joining us at Schools Spectacular 2019? Tickets are on
sale now. Experience our live show featuring a cast of thousands of
public school students from across metropolitan, rural and remote
regions of NSW.

Students from different ages, cultures and
backgrounds will share the spotlight as they dance, play and sing for
you. Choose from one of our four massive performances at Qudos Bank
Arena on Friday 22 November and Saturday 23 November.

This year’s events will feature:

• more than 380 schools
• 5,500 performers
• a 3000-strong choir
• 2,300 dancers
• an 80-piece symphony orchestra
• a world-class stage band.

Group bookings

Need to make a group booking for over 10 people? Complete the Schools Preview Order Form 2019 (PDF 110KB) to attend the discounted 11am Friday matinee. The Friday matinee is discounted for school students and accompanying teachers. 

If you’d like to grab a spot at one of the other three remaining shows complete the Group Booking Form 2019 (PDF 110KB). 

Tickets for you and your family and friends

Save you and your family a spot online or by phone on 132 849.

Video – Schools Spectacular 2019

Duration: 0:26