{"id":3919,"date":"2022-09-19T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3919"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:59:52","slug":"dean-of-academic-operations-11","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/article\/dean-of-academic-operations-11\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAN OF ACADEMIC OPERATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2580 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/02\/2021_PACEY-Chris-1-320x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/02\/2021_PACEY-Chris-1-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/02\/2021_PACEY-Chris-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>YEAR 11 SUBJECT CHANGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reminder that Year 11 students have now finished Unit 2 and will commence Unit 3 work at the start of Wednesday, 10 October (Week 1, Term 4). Students wishing to change subjects for Unit 3 and 4 can book a meeting with the Academic Office. Subject changes for Unit 3 and 4 must be finalised by Friday, 14 October (Week 2, Term 4). Any student that wishes to change subjects, must do so at the beginning of Unit 3, as any student that changes throughout either Unit 3 or Unit 4 will not receive credit for these paired units. To assist in these subject changes, Year 11 students will be issued with a summary of their Unit 2 Results in the September school holidays via email.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0YEAR 12 WORKSHOP WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Year 12 students have been emailed their workshop week schedule which will run from Monday, 17 October to Thursday, 20 October. In the same email, students were also asked to register their interest in these workshops. This is a great opportunity for students to meet with teaches to target any specific areas they would like to work on in the lead up to External Assessment Exams which start on Monday 24 October (Week 4, Term 4).<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the External Exams, students may find these hints valuable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start Early<\/strong> \u2013 the upcoming break should be valuable time to escalate the study phase \u2013 do not leave your study until the week before the Exam Block.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plan a Study Timetable<\/strong> \u2013 this is critical for the length of the External Exam Block and will ensure a certain amount of time each day is allocated to study.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find a place<\/strong> that\u2019s quiet and not distracting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Turn off social media<\/strong>, text messages and phone calls to avoid interruptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Mr Chris Pacey<\/h4>\n<p><strong>DEAN OF ACADEMIC OPERATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEAR 11 SUBJECT CHANGES A reminder that Year 11 students have now finished Unit 2 and will commence Unit 3 work at the start of Wednesday, 10 October (Week 1, Term 4). Students wishing to change subjects for Unit 3 and 4 can book a meeting with the Academic Office. Subject changes for Unit 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3919","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/spc-townsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}