Principals Report
Dear Fortians, Parents and Carers,
Year 12 Assessment Period
The official assessment period for Year 12 commences on Monday 28 March. Parents of Year 12 are invited to an HSC presentation/discussion in the school hall on Monday 21 March. This presentation will revisit much of the information shared with Year 12 in term 4 last year. For further details please contact Ms Cameron.
School Cross Country
Providing the weather is fine, all students will participate in the school cross country at Petersham oval on Thursday 7 April. Students are encouraged to wear house colours on this day and to participate in House Activities.
Induction Assembly for SRC and House Captains
A special assembly will be held on the last day of school – Friday 8 April to induct and badge our 2021-2022 SRC representatives and 2022 House Captains who will be elected during House Meetings on Friday 18 March.
Parent Teacher Interviews Year 11 and 12
Year 12 parent teacher interviews were conducted over zoom on Monday 14 March. Year 11 interviews will be held this Monday 21 March. If you were unable to speak with any particular teachers and would still like to do so please contact the school. All other year groups will have parent teacher nights held face to face in the school hall in term 2. Further details will be provided next term.
International Women’s Day
On Friday 4 March, Fort Street hosted a whole school assembly with an International Women’s Day focus. Later that day, the SRC executive, Mr Galvin and I attended a UN Women Australia fundraising lunch/conference at the International Convention Centre at Darling Harbour at which we were able to donate $1365.00 raised by our students earlier that week through an SRC hosted mufti day and sausage sizzle. I would like to congratulate the SRC for this outstanding contribution and for an excellent assembly.
NAPLAN
You may have seen through recent media reports that the NAPLAN 2021 results have recently been broadly published. Whilst I do not tend to agree with the publishing of league tables it was great to see Fort Street ranking 12th in the State for these results. Individual reports for Year 7, 2021 and Year 9, 2021 were sent home last year. Students in Years 7 and 9 this year will participate in NAPLAN in term 2 mid-May.