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13 March, 2025
High school leaders named
MOSSMAN State High School’s senior class of 2025 has been inducted with nearly 100 students.
The senior cohort consists of 91 year 12 students. The induction ceremony also acknowledged the school’s junior and senior leaders.
Senior leaders for 2025 are captains Max Bohm and Amber Schumacher with vice captains Deklen Reynolds and Hayley Fischer
Emily Harris and Kaydee Reynolds are the junior school captains, with Bryson Collins and Natasha Scenna as junior vice captains.
School principal Ken Schaumberg said they were “a wonderful group of young people and I am sure they will be a great asset to the school and the student body”.
“The school is reinforcing the school values of being safe, respectful and being a learner,” he said.
“Each week we promote key positive behaviours for learning and unpack this with students on parade, in form classes and in every classroom.”
In the meantime, Mr Schaumberg has written to all school stakeholders about the importance of attendance.
“This time last year I wrote about attendance at school,” he said.
“For many students, they are attending at their maximum level, which is great for their learning, engagement and academic progression.
“When missing a day here and there because of sporting events, medical appointments or being sick, it is easy for students to catch up on missed work.
“However, when students are continually away for multiple days or a day each week, the gaps in learning and completion of work becomes more and more difficult to make up.
“This has the unfortunate effect of students losing interest in the subjects they are missing. This leads to poor grades and failure.
“Our current attendance rate is 83.7 per cent, ideally this should be 90 per cent or above.
“Every day counts and if your child can be at school, then they need to be here, in each of their classes, participating to the best of their ability, every day.
“We want all our students to have the best opportunity to learn and achieve at school.
“Teachers want to be in contact with parents about student positive performance and the achievements of students. If your child is away, and the school hasn’t heard from you about their absence, you will be receiving SMS messages and correspondence from the school asking you about the reason for your child’s absences on days and lessons they have missed.”
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