Top talents: Seymour College students Keely Wright, Emily Chapman, Phrynne Grant and Lucy Dawe.
Despite the trials and tribulations of 2020 and 2021, students across the state managed to complete their VCE, with results announced last Thursday.
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Every student who sat VCE at Seymour College received an ATAR, with 100 per completion rate across VCAL and VCE, and it has got plenty of students to where they want to go.
She didn’t want to share her exact score, but Keely Wright beat the 75 ATAR and 25 study score in English needed to do P-12 teaching in 2022.
“I was happy with it, it was enough to get me where I want to be,” she said.
Keely studied English, health and human development, PE and further maths in Year 12 and psychology last year, with health and human development her favourite.
She overcame studying at home for large parts of her VCE.
“It was definitely difficult,” she said of lockdown.
“Personally, I didn’t cope well at home.
“Trying to study was just not my thing, I had no-one to motivate me to be self-motivated, so I definitely lost motivation.”
Lucy Davis was happy with her result, and said she would look to take a gap year with the army before aiming to work with the police force.
Emily Chapman will wait on university offers in January, but is hoping for an offer from Latrobe University to study occupational therapy after studying PE in Year 11 and English, further maths, health and human development, psychology and environmental science this year.
“I really enjoyed PE last year, even though it's hard through online learning,” Emily said.
Big smiles: Lucy Dawe, Phrynne Grant, Emily Chapman and Keely Wright after getting their VCE results.
“I've just loved PE throughout the years so it’s my favourite subject.
“Lockdown was definitely difficult. I was quite lucky in that I had a lot of support at home with waking me up, getting ready for classes and things like that.
“So yeah, I was motivated and, you know, you only get one shot at Year 12.”
She thanked teachers for all their hard work.
“Thanks for staying on us and, you know, just motivating us to get through the day,” she said.
Seymour College VCE co-ordinator Sharon Hill said the students had done incredibly well.
“It's just been such a hard slog with remote learning over a couple of years, but it's really impressive that in spite of that, they've been able to do so well,” Ms Hill said.
“They all hung in there and worked really hard and used their teachers productively, and I just think it's ultimately a credit to tenacity and perseverance that they got through, and obviously families help enormously as well.
“If we don't have those relationships then it's really difficult.”
She said the results also reflected positively on teachers.
“I think teachers are just really, really tired and they've had to be incredibly flexible,” Ms Hill said.
“I think everyone is so committed that no-one gave up, and to have every student pass, it's just miraculous in the context of these kids having had two years learning from their bedrooms, ultimately.
“It's just really gratifying, especially to see some of the Year 11s do extremely well, also, and some of them struggled with remote learning, but they just kind of rallied when they needed to and prepared well for exams.”
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