Exciting times in school’s history
WHEN Year 10 students at Southern Cross Catholic College in Annandale started picking out their senior subjects it was a milestone moment.
The cohort will next year become the school’s first Year 11 students since the addition of secondary students in 2015.
The current Year 10s will be the first group to graduate in 2019, with excitement building.
Southern Cross Catholic College principal Louise Vella- Cox said it had been a big year at the school preparing for the addition of senior schooling.
“These Year 10 students will be the first and last for us going through the OP system,” she said.
“The current Year 9s will receive an ATAR instead of an OP.”
Ms Vella- Cox said the Year 10 students were already thinking of just how to make their final year of high school a memorable one.
“Everything we do in that year will be significant and we’re hard at work,” she said.
“The students are already thinking about their formal and their graduation.”
Townsville Catholic Education director of leadership and school development Ross Horner said the current Year 10s had been part of the Prep half cohort of 2007, making it a small year level.
“We will have a group of about 45 become our first seniors in 2019,” he said.
“We have created a lot of secondary places at Southern Cross Catholic College.
“People were crisscrossing over town to go to Ryan Catholic College from Annandale and it made sense to add secondary places.
“We’ve now got 300 students in Years 7 to 10.”