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News & Competitions |
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Literature
Festival
20 August to 24 August 2012 |
Who will be this year's
champions?
Spelling
competition
Poetry
competition
Short
story competition
Dress as Your
Favouriote Literary Character
Friday 24 August
Guest speakers
Year 10: Tuesday 21 August
Bernard Caleo
(comics publisher)
Year 10:
(to be advised)
Year
11: Wednesday 22 August
Nick McKenzie
(investigative journalist
former MHS student; exit
year: 1998)
Year 10: Thursday 23 August
Paul Carter
(author of Eleven Seasons)
Neil Grant
Year 10: Thursday 23 August
(author of From Kinglake to Kabul)
Writing Workshop
Staff versus Student Debate
'Reading books never did anyone any good'
Tuesday 28 August
Memorial Hall, lunch-time
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Inter-School
Reading Projecthere.
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VCE STUDENTS TOP
THE STATE!
Outstanding Year 12 English Results |
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Study Scores 2012:
329 MHS boys completed VCE English in 2012. Of these 256 boys acheived a study score grade of A and above (52.1% – A+; 25.4% – A).
Examination Mean Scores 2012:
The following breakdown of the test scores shows the mean
or average total achieved by MHS compared to the State in
the end-of-year examination.
English
| Study
Areas |
MHS |
State |
| Text Response |
15.3 |
11.5 |
| Writing in Context |
13.7 |
11 |
| Language Analysis |
14.3 |
10.9 |
ESL Exam
| Study
Areas |
MHS |
State |
| Text Response |
16.4 |
11.3 |
| Writing in Context |
13.6 |
10.6 |
| Language Analysis Part 1 & 2 |
22.4 |
19 |
Literature Exam
| Study
Areas |
MHS |
State |
| Part A: Written Analysis |
32.4 |
26.4 |
| Part B: Written Analysis |
31.8 |
25.1 |
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LITERACY SCORES AT
MHS!
Outstanding English Skills Demonstrated by Year 9 |
ENGLISH NAPLAN TEST 2012
In April all Year 9 students across Victoria sat the State
National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy test. We
are pleased to announce that our boys excelled across all
areas of Literacy in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and
punctuation.
Of the 327 students who sat the test, 100% of MHS boys are
well above the National Minimum Standard for reading, writing,
spelling, grammar and punctuation. The overall Mean scores
for each tested area clearly show Melbourne High School students
performaing well above and exceeding the State and national
benchmarks.
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Below
NMS |
At
NMS |
Above NMS |
School Mean |
State Mean |
| Reading |
0 |
0 |
100% |
673.7 |
583.6 |
| Writing |
0 |
0 |
100% |
672.8 |
568.1 |
| Spelling |
0 |
0 |
100% |
693.6 |
579.2 |
| G & P |
0 |
0 |
100% |
694.5 |
579.9 |
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Student Achievements against the VELS Standards 2011
On average, by the end of the year, MHS students are working
well above the expected Level 6 Standard for all three dimensions
of reading, writing, and speaking and listening as the data
below demonstrates. The percentiles below combine both "above
standard" (B grade) and "well above standard"
(A grade) of the VELS Standards:
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Reading |
Writing |
Oracy |
MHS
Mean |
State
Mean |
| Yr 9 |
98% |
99% |
99% |
6.18 |
DNA |
| Yr 10 |
100% |
100% |
100% |
6.58 |
DNA |
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Latest State and National
Events and Competitions |
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The John Button School Prize
A new initiative
of the Foundation. This year we introduce the John Button
School Prize, an award for the best piece of writing on
politics or public policy - ideas for Australia's future
- by a Victorian secondary school student between Years
10 and 12.
The School Prize
will award $2500 to a student and $2000 to the winner's
school for an essay of no more than 2000 words that in the
view of our judges shows the most insight, originality and
judgment on a political subject or on an issue affecting
Australia's future. Details are provided here.
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Optus
and Bell Shakespeare Competition
Optus and Bell Shakespeare
invite you to choose one of the listed Shakespearean quotes
and interpret it in your own way. There are awesome prizes
to be won for you and your school. Full
details here. |
 Express
Media and John
Marsden are pleased to announce
that entries are now open for Australia’s foremost
literary competition for young writers, The
2012 John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers.
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