Nossal Year 9 2023 Students
Hi all,
Should I call the school to get help in this situation? I got put into Japanese Beginner, but that wasn’t in my preferences. I put Japanese (intermediate) as my first preference, and French beginner as my second, so I am unsure how this could have happened.
Has anybody faced an issue like this as well?
Randomhuman24 Maybe you should, that's really strange
Also, what houses are you guys in? I got griffin
monket
I'm in Garuda doing Beginner Japanese. I really wanted to do Intermediate French but Japanese is fine. I'm in tute class 0A3 and teaching class 2. Both of which my friend isn't in but he's doing Beginner Japanese too so hopefully we have some class together. Also what electives are you going to choose since the two I wanted to do are in the same semester.
Ommahp I'm also doing beginner Japanese and my tute is 0N2 and teaching class is 6 The electives I'm going for in Semester 1 are art, food studies and then creative design (really don't want creative design but the others are worse in my opinion haha) and then semester 2 would be photography, theatre studies and then visual communications. All I know is that I really don't want electronics and then I'm okay
monket
Yeah I really don't want to do electronics either. I'll probably end up doing food studies, art and creative design for semester one even though I don't really like the options. Semester two I'll do music, photography or viscom. I wish that photography and music were in different semesters since those are the only two I want to do but I guess its fine.
monket I'm in Garuda doing beginner Japanese as well, tute class 0A4 I think...? and teaching class 1.
monket I have a feeling elec will be pretty popular so as long as you didn't fill elec as your first choice I don't think you'll get it as an elective
The Nossal application form for the instrumental music programs is now out:
https://www.nossalhs.vic.edu.au/parent-portal/music-at-nossal/
If any of you lot plan on doing instruments, which ones will you do? I'm probably going to apply for piano and voice.
Orientation is so soon now!!!!
Hey guys, a fellow year 10 from nossal. I was just wondering how orientation day went for y’all ?
(Did they give everyone these little sandwiches with like the tiniest slice of ham lmao)
justaperson_ Orientation day was pretty good, I really enjoyed it! They gave us donuts, fruit, juice boxes and varied burgers for morning tea and lunch, all of which was delicious (well I was also really hungry, so I’d eat anything at that point). I don’t know what book to choose for English though, any recommendations? I was thinking either Jane Eyre or Frankenstein.
Randomhuman24 I was thinking Frankenstein, honestly that head of English somewhat turned me off Jane Eyre by how intense she was about it
Oh haha yeah Dr Schroor… good luck with her … but anyways I’m glad to hear it was a good day for you all. I think Frankenstein was the most popular in my class and apparently had a pretty simple plot. I would recommend Frankenstein as it’s a very ‘quotable book’ (as in, you’ll need to memorise a lot of quotes for certain assessments and Frankenstein has these rlly good short and versatile quotes). I didn’t choose or read Jane Eyre so I have no idea haha. Btw what houses are u guys in?
monket honestly yeah I agree
justaperson_ Ahh okay, I think I’ll go with Frankenstein then. As for assessments at Nossal, what are they like? Are they tests or essays or something else? I’m in Pegasus house by the way
Randomhuman24 ohh nice ur in pegasus too (welcome haha). Just curious, what tute are you in (don’t have to answer if you don’t wanna). Uhhh in terms of tests, they are surprisingly really standard and at a pretty decent level. For example, in math you can choose to do a standard or advanced side for the test. English works differently where you get to kinda ‘choose ur assignments’ (you’ll learn more about it later). Then the other subjects are your stock standard test like any other school. We just did our exams and ngl they weren’t that hard compared to what I thought it would be. But ig that’s subjective huh. Anyways good luck