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Year 8into
Year 9 (2021)• How does subject selection work?• Important Dates• Year 9 Curriculum• ExCEL• Selecting Subjects Using Web
preferences• Using the 2021 Subject website via
SIMON
How does subject selection work?
Subject selection commences on Friday 24th July. Students will be introduced to the process and the subject selection website during their first subject selection Tutor Workshop. They will have a second tutor workshop to discuss subject choices.
Students and their parents/guardians need to select the appropriate year level on the home page of the subject selection website and follow the steps outlined to access the relevant subject information and contacts for enquires.
Students will also receive in their school email account, an email containing their ‘Web Preferences Subject Selection AccessGuide’ link. This is how your son will submit his subjects choice. It needs to be completed by Wednesday 5th August (11:59pm).
The final part of subject selection is the submission of the printed receipt from Web Preferences with the signature of a parent/guardian. This needs to be submitted to your son’s Tutor Teacher by Thursday 6th August.
Subject selection
presentations and
information
VIEW
Subject choices and/or
pathway choices with
Subject Teachers and Tutor Teacher
DISCUSS
• Select subjects on Web Preferences
• Return printed signed receipt to
your Tutor Teacher• OR submit your
ERPP/VCAL/ Sports Academy
application
SELECT SUBJECTS
or
APPLY(ERPP/VCAL/
Sports Academy)
Parade College 2020
Important Dates
Parade College 2020
• DUE DATE for submission of printed and signed subject selection receipt.
Thursday 6th August
• DUE DATE for online subject selection.
• Subjects must be entered into Web Preferences (by 11:59pm).
Wednesday 5th August
Tutor Workshop #2• Tutor Teacher and
student discussion of potential subject choices.
Friday 31st July
Tutor Workshop #1• Introduction to Subject
Selection.• Email with Web
Preferences subject selection link sent.
• Web Preferences is now active.
Friday 24th July
Year 9 Curriculum Structure
1 Unit = Semester
Special Provisions
Intervention English and/or Maths If you’re currently doing an intervention subject (English
and/or Maths) you will continue in these next year
Altior If you are currently in the Altior program in English,
Humanities, Science & Maths, you will continue in these next year.
The Learning Areas 2021 Handbook is found on the College website, not on the SIMON.
Go to the Education tab > Curriculum > Learning Areas.
It shows you the subjects in learning area groupings through the six years at Parade.
Use the Learning Areas 2021 Handbook to see all the subjects on offer e.g. Design Technologies
Learning Area Handbook
Year 9 Mathematics
Mathematics programs: Year 9 Intervention Mathematics Altior (Gifted & Talented) Program Year 9 General Mathematics (semester one) Year 9 General Mathematics (semester two) or Year 9 Extension Mathematics
(semester two) In Year 9 mainstream Maths, your performance in Semester One General Maths
will determine your semester two subject. In Semester Two, you will be placed in either General Maths or Extension Maths.
Extension Maths leads on to Maths Methods in Year 10,11 and 12. As Year 9 students next year, you will be informed late in Semester One 2021
which Maths you will qualify for in Semester Two
This is the pathways Diagram for Mathematics and should be considered carefully. In Semester Two, you will be placed in either General Maths or Extension Maths, based on your Semester One performance.
Students not selecting a Language in Year 9
Students may decide to continue with a language in Year 9. Those not choosing to do so will have two free elective choices:
• Please note:
o Students will only be permitted to do two semesters of High Performance Sport or Health and Physical Education.
o Students are unable to select High Performance Sport in semester one and also do Health & PE. Students wishing to do Health & PE can study it as a single elective or can with High Performance Sport in Semester Two.
o There is a maximum of two units of Design Technologies (Food Studies, Electronics, Materials Design & Production). If you pick one of these in Preference 8, you should only select one in free choices (you can make it a reserve).
Health & Physical Education High Performance Sport
Discuss your Health & Physical Education or High Performance Sport options with: Your Health & PE Teacher and/or Mr Shaun Bowie (Learning Area Leader – Health & Physical Education) and/or Mr Paul Groves (Director of High
Performance Sport)
What is ExCEL?
Each Wednesday (day 3 and Day 8) Full day program (periods 1-6) Subjects and classes occur over both campuses. I.e. Preston students may have an ExCEL
class at the Bundoora Campus and Bundoora students may have an ExCEL class at the Preston Campus.
Many ExCEL excursions may involve independent travel to meet their teacher at the State Library in the city CBD.
Two types of ExCEL subjects:1) Extended Learning Projects (eight week program)2) Learning4Life (two week program)
ExCEL
Learning4Life Run for two full-days Four units:
Two compulsory units (Streetwise & Career Voyaging)
Two electives will be allocated from the five preferences you nominate
Must select two preference and three reserves
Extended Learning Projects
Run for eight full days Three units Must select three
preferences andfour reserves
ExCEL
Discuss your ExCEL questions with: Your Tutor Teacher and/or Dr Janette Berglez (Curriculum Leader) or Ms Imogen Lazarus (Preston Campus -
Curriculum Convenor)
Using the 2021 Subject websitevia SIMON
Research and explore the subjects available on the 2021 Year 9 Subject Selection Web Page on SIMON.
The Year 9 ExCEL Handbook will information on each Learning4Life subject and each Extended Learning Project.
Your subject choices are binding and the timetable is constructed based on your choices.
Changing subjects next year is extremely unlikely so take time to be fully informed about the choices you are making.
Selecting Subjects using Web Preferences
Parade College 2020
• Subjects are selected online using Web Preferences.
• An email with a link to Web Preferences, your code and password emailed to each students Parade email account.
• If you are unable to locate the email search for ‘[email protected]’
• There are five steps in the process.Step 1 – Log onto Web Preferences.Step 2 – Select your subject preferences.Step 3 – Confirming your subject preferences.Step 4 – Printing and signing your ‘Web Preferences Receipt’.Step 5 – Hand in to your Tutor Teacher your signed ‘Web Preferences Receipt’
• A step-by-step guide on how to select subjects on Web Preferences for each year level may be found on the subject selection website.
This is a quick overview of how to use Web Preferences. Please refer to the step-by-step instructions if needed.
Step 1 – Logging onto Web Preferences• Check your Parade student email account after Friday 24th July for the ‘Web Preferences Access
Guide for 2021 Subjects’.• Both your code and password have been emailed to your Parade email account today.
o If you are unable to locate the email search for ‘[email protected]’• Click directly on the link.
Step 2 – Selecting your subject preferences.
• The first choices to make are for the Year 9 ExCEL program.• Students must select four electives from Preference Groups 7-10, which includeHeath and Physical Education or ACC Sport, Arts, Humanities, Technology, or Languages.• Students wishing to continue with a language must do so in both semester 1 and 2.
• Students not studying a language have two free choices. Please note:o Students wishing to do Health and Physical Education can study it as a single elective or
can study it with High Performance Sport in Semester Two. o Students will only be permitted to do two semesters of High-Performance Sport or Health
and Physical Education in Year 9.o Students cannot select High Performance Sport in Semester One and also select Health &
Physical Education. o There is a maximum of two units of Design Technologies (Food Studies, Electronics,
Materials Design & Production).
Step 3 – Confirming your subject preferences.• This summary screen will now show ONLY the choices that you made.• If you made any incorrect or invalid choices, a message in RED will show you
why these choices were removed.• It is best to then click on Cancel and fix the selection problems before
proceeding.
If everything looks okay, click on Submit Valid Preferences.
• Step 5 – Hand in to your Tutor Teacher your signed ‘Web Preferences Receipt’.o Parents and students sign the ‘Web Preferences receipt’ and students submit the form to their
Tutor Teacher (who also signs it) by Thursday morning Aug. 6 (or earlier).
• Please note: It is important to note that there is no advantage in submitting your web preferences completed early, it will not increase your chances. Everyone’s preferences will be considered together equally, so long as you’ve completed it online by August 5.
Step 4 – Printing and signing your ‘Web Preferences Receipt’.
Further advice
• View the Year 9 Curriculum Website on SIMON (https://www.parade.vic.edu.au/Curriculum_Year9.aspx)
• Discuss you subjects with your Subject Teachers and with you Tutor Teacher.• ExCEL questions contact Dr Janette Berglez• High Performance Sport questions, contact Mr Paul Groves (Director of High
Performance). • Deleted or lost your Web Preferences email:
Contact Ms Kerry Mulvogue ([email protected])• Questions regarding the subject selection process contact Mr Maurice Petruccelli
(Dean of Learning Yr 7-9) or Ms Imogen Lazarus (Curriculum Convenor – Preston)
Summary
Subject selection commences on Friday 24th July.
Web Preferences needs to be completed by Wednesday 5th August (11:59pm). The printed receipt from Web Preferences with the signature of a parent/guardian needs to be
submitted to your son’s Tutor Teacher by Thursday 6th August.
Subject selection
presentations and
information
VIEW
Subject choices and/or
pathway choices with
Subject Teachers and Tutor Teacher
DISCUSS
• Select subjects on Web Preferences
• Return printed signed receipt to
your Tutor Teacher• OR submit your
ERPP/VCAL/ Sports Academy
application
SELECT SUBJECTS
or
APPLY(ERPP/VCAL/
Sports Academy)
Parade College 2020
