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On Friday 27 September 2019 we say Goodbye to our Year 12 General Students for their time at Network Secondary College. On behalf of the college we would like thank them for their hard work from the start of the year, Now it's time for current Year 11 students to take their role as the Leader of the school.

Just a reminder that Year 12 ATAR Student have their ATAR & WACE Exams during the school holidays dates will be announced in few days time. It is with some sadness that we are sad to have let go Year 12 student this term. In few weeks time Our Year 11 student will take their break from school for 13 weeks of Holidays so we also would like to wish them the very best for next year too.

Secondly, Our principal has been busy today sorting out event for our Year 11 & 12 students. He also want to wish our Year 12 the very best for their future endeavours  for all of our students at college 

Our Year 8 and 9 students have created a wish luck card from Yesterday and Today they give it to our Year 12 students.

Lastly, we would like to wish everyone to have a safe and fun holiday breaks but remember School Commence on Monday 14 October 2019. We also will welcomes Ms. Jane Johnson for our new School Nurse.

See you all in Term 4 2019 

It's official that this match are schedule for WRESTLE War Ground 2019. WWE Champion will face the Winner of WWE Championship Tournament Jake Smith. This tournament was held earlier today. In couple of months time he will face our WWE Champion Frederic Adhitama where we know when it comes to destructive when anyone is in his pathways he will absolute enjoy it.

Who will come out of the arena with WWE Championship around their wrist or will Frederic Adhitama retain his WWE Championship against Jake Smith?
Find out at WRESTLE War Ground 2019 on Friday 8 November 2019

Reminder: On Friday 8 November 2019 two superstars will represent two different brands. Frederic Adhitama will be representing blue brand and Jake Smith will be representing the Red Brand

Relationships become more important to children as they grow up—especially as they enter adolescence. During this period, they regularly worry about being negatively evaluated by their peers (e.g., embarrassed, humiliated, and rejected). Some become so severely anxious that they meet the criteria for social anxiety disorder (aka social phobia).¹

There is disagreement as to whether socially anxious children are great or terrible at mindreading—reading people’s feelings and/or thoughts, based on available cues like an individual’s facial expression or gaze. A study, published in the July issue of Child Development, investigates this question.²

The question concerns two theories which have been used to explain the mind-reading abilities of socially anxious children.

1. The “sociocognitive deficit theory” suggests that socially anxious children, compared to mentally healthy children, have a poorer understanding of other people’s mental states. These children find social interactions unpredictable and confusing; therefore, they feel anxious in social situations.
2. A lesser-known theory, the “advanced sociocognitive ability theory,” suggests the opposite, saying that socially anxious children have greater mindreading abilities compared to others. So why do they feel anxious? Because these advanced mindreading abilities, despite their benefits, are associated with a heightened awareness of and sensitivity to being evaluated by others. Such awareness results in greater self-consciousness and social anxiety.  

The study reviewed below was a test of these two theories.

An investigation of mindreading abilities in socially anxious children

The sample consisted of 105 8- to 12-year-old children (44% boys) recruited from schools in the Netherlands. To participate in this investigation, these students were asked to come to the lab with their parents. In 77% of cases, they came with their mothers.

The child-parent duos then completed the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory. A sample item from the child version of this inventory reads, “I feel anxious when I am with other girls, boys, or adults and I am in the center of attention (when everyone is looking at me).” The parental version reads, “My child feels anxious when she or he is with other girls, boys, or adults and she or he is in the center of attention (everyone is looking at her or him)” (p. 1428).² The child and parental reports were correlated: r(95) = 0.5, p < 0.001.

Subsequently, children completed a mind reading task called Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task. Each child sat in front of a computer screen and looked at 28 black and white pictures of eye regions showing different emotions and states of mind—interested, sad, angry, etc. (The three examples in the picture below are not from the actual test).

Each picture was presented with four statements, only one of which was a correct description of the feeling or state of mind portrayed in the photo. Mind Reading ability was calculated based on the number of correct answers.

Next, children completed a task designed to provoke social anxiety: They were asked to perform their favorite song on the podium in front of a camera which supposedly recorded their performance for a “professional singer” to evaluate later.

The children’s blushing response during the first 30 seconds of this minute-long task was measured with a thermometer and a photoplethysmograph—which measured blood pulse amplitude through sensors that were attached to the children’s cheeks before the performance began.

Good or Bad at mindreading?

Results showed that both poor and advanced mind readers were more likely to be socially anxious than healthy children, though social anxiety was highest in poor mind readers.

These findings provide support for the existence of two pathways to social anxiety in children. One pathway, as noted earlier, involves mind reading deficits, meaning misinterpreting social signals—remarks, looks, and other behaviors—as necessarily critical.

To reduce their anxiety, children with deficits in mindreading often avoid social situations. But doing so has negative consequences. For instance, avoiding social situations results in fewer opportunities to practice and improve one’s ability to read people’s minds.

The present findings also supported the theory that social anxiety arises through a second pathway, that of advanced mindreading. Of course, advanced mind reading abilities are often socially adaptive because being attuned to cues in social situations helps bonding and cooperation. However, these abilities also allow greater awareness of being evaluated by others, which increases self-consciousness.

And self-consciousness—being associated with blushing and other physiological reactions—results in discomfort in social settings and avoidance of social situations.

In this study, the skilled mind readers who did not blush (and presumably did not feel self-conscious) showed less social anxiety. Therefore, self-consciousness seems to be a major link between advanced mind reading ability and the experience of social anxiety.

In summary, this investigation’s findings suggest that both advanced and poor socio cognitive abilities might have a negative impact on children’s social life, resulting in fear, discomfort, and avoidance of social situations. That is why, the authors note, prevention and early interventions are important: “For children with deficits in mindreading, these [prevention] efforts may focus on enhancing socio cognitive abilities, whereas for children with advanced mind reading, they may focus on tackling the excessive mindreading and dealing with heightened self-consciousness and sensitivity to others’ opinions” (1438).

This article is from Psychology Today. Thanks to them for offering this to us!

Shane McMahon has been subject to a lot of hate from WWE fans of late, due to being featured so prominently in storylines across both Raw and SmackDown Live.

Recently though, McMahon’s not been around as much, with his last appearance of note coming when he cost Kevin Owens his King of the Ring first round match against Elias.

So despite a rather refreshing break from Shane McMahon, there have been questions as to why he’s disappeared after featuring so prominently for so long.

The answer, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, is a pretty simple one:

Meltzer: “The writers haven’t had anything for him.”

Alvarez: “Nothing for him? He was in the middle of a giant storyline with Kevin Owens. He vanished. How do you have nothing for him?”

Meltzer: “Vince is the guy that’s been writing the show and he’s forgotten about him.”

Alvarez: “He’s forgotten about his son?”

Meltzer: “He forgot about his son’s angle, yeah. He hasn’t been on.”

It’s worth noting that Kevin Owens wasn’t able to make last week’s SmackDown due to the fact he was looking after his family due to the potential of Hurricane Dorian.

With that, perhaps there was something planned there that they simply couldn’t do because Owens wasn’t there. That’s just speculation though and there’s every chance Shane wouldn’t have been featured anyway.

If you use the above quotes please credit WrestleTalk.com.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced that a manufacturing and assembly plant will be built in Bellevue, to support the building of new trains, as part of the METRONET project. This work will create more than 200 new jobs working directly on the new railcars and plant, and hundreds more jobs in associated areas.

Since the Midland Railway Workshops were closed in 1994, new trains added to the network were mostly built in Queensland with only two per cent of the work completed in WA. Under the McGowan government, a new 50 per cent local content target has been set to ensure jobs are maximised in WA.

"These are WA trains, so they should be WA jobs.” Said Mr McGowan. "When people ride on a new METRONET train, everyone will know it was built in Western Australia, by Western Australians.

Budgeted at $1.6 billion over ten years, the project will deliver 246 new C-series trains over the next decade (102 for the METRONET rail expansion and 144 to replace the ageing A-Series) – the biggest order of railcars in the State's history.

Once the contract is finalised later this year, there will also be jobs created to maintain the fleet of rail cars for the next 30 years. Flow-on jobs will include train drivers and many other operations and maintenance roles.

Construction on the first stage of the Bellevue plant is expected to start next year and be completed in 2021. From 2022 the new C-series trains will run on the Mandurah and Joondalup lines initially, as these have the highest patronage demand, highest service frequency and the highest line speed.

While the final design and features are still to be finalised, the new six-car trains will carry about 1,200 passengers and have an operational life of 35 years. Technology including USB charging points, LED lighting and regenerative braking also be installed to make the new trains more efficient.

People employed to work on the construction of the Bellevue plant, and those building the new C-series trains, will have a fantastic opportunity to gain new skills and work with the latest design and technology.

"It means hundreds of quality, local jobs, more training and apprenticeship opportunities for our kids, and WA-made trains on our new WA built METRONET lines." the Premier said.

This is a great opportunity to skill up and get on board for these job opportunities! Hundreds of vocational education and training courses are subsidised through Jobs and Skills WA, including courses in building and construction; engineering and automotive technology.
 

Eczema Overview

The term eczema is derived from the Greek, meaning "to boil out." The name is particularly apt since to ancient medical practitioners it may have appeared that the skin was "boiling." Today the usage is rather imprecise since this term is frequently used to describe any sort of dermatitis (inflammatory skin condition). But not all dermatitis is eczematous. All eczematous dermatitis, whether due to a familial atopic dermatitis or an acquired allergic contact dermatitis, has a similar appearance. Acute lesions are composed of many small fluid-filled structures called vesicles that usually reside on red, swollen skin. When these vesicles break, clear or yellowish fluid leaks out, causing characteristic weeping and oozing. When the fluid dries, it produces a thin crust which may mimic impetigo. In older lesions, these vesicles may be harder to appreciate, but an examination of the tissue under the microscope will reveal their presence.

Eczematous dermatitis has many causes. One of the most common is a condition called atopic dermatitis. Often those using the term eczema are referring to atopic dermatitis. Although atopy refers to a lifelong inherited (genetic) predisposition to inhalant allergies such as asthma and allergic rhinitis (hay fever), atopic dermatitis is not known at this time to be a pure allergic disease. Atopic patients are likely to have asthma, hay fever, and dermatitis. Atopy is a very common condition, and it affects all races and ages, including infants. About 1%-2% of adults have the skin rash, and it is even more common in children. Most affected individuals have their first episode before 5 years of age. For most, the dermatitis will improve with time. For an unlucky few, atopic dermatitis is a chronic, recurrent disorder.

Other eczematous dermatitis include, but are not limited to, allergic contact dermatitis (cell-mediated allergy to a common substance such as poison oak or nickel), irritant dermatitis (from excessive contact with a harsh chemical substance), fungal infections (ringworm), scabies infestations, stasis dermatitis, very dry skin (asteatosis), pompholyx (dyshidrosis), nummular dermatitis, and seborrheic dermatitis. The differentiation among these conditions is often difficult and time consuming. In addition, it is not uncommon for atopic dermatitis to coexist with another eczematous dermatitis.

It is generally agreed that the tendency to atopy is inherited. For the purposes of this discussion, the term eczema and atopic dermatitis will be synonymous. Individuals with atopic dermatitis have a variety of abnormal immunologic findings, like elevated IgE antibody (immunoglobulin E) levels and defective cell-mediated immunity, which causes difficulty in fighting off certain viral, bacterial, and fungal infections. Despite a susceptibility to certain infections, eczema is not itself contagious in any way.

Like most other noninfectious diseases, atopic skin disease can be triggered by environmental factors. One of the hallmarks of atopic dermatitis is excessive skin dryness, which seems to be due a lack of certain skin proteins called filaggrins. Any factor that promotes dryness is likely to worsen atopic dermatitis. A very dry sleeping environment may be improved with a bedroom or house humidifier.

Common triggers of atopic dermatitis include the following:

• Harsh soaps and detergents
• Overwashing of skin
• Solvents
• Low humidity
• Lotions
• Rough wool clothing
• Sweating
• Occlusive rubber or plastic gloves
• Rubbing
• Staphylococcus bacteria
• Repeated wetting and drying of the skin (as occurs with food handling or other professions requiring frequent hand washing)
• While food allergies are implicated as triggers in some patients, there is no dietary restriction or recommendation which is universally helpful.
• Eczema may be worsened by the development of additional problems such as allergic contact dermatitis, which may occur as a reaction to preservatives and active ingredients in moisturizers, and even as a reaction to the topical corticosteroids used themselves.

What Are Symptoms and Signs of Eczema?

Medical professionals sometimes refer to eczema as "the itch that rashes."

• Usually, the first symptom of eczema is intense itching.
• The rash appears later and is red and has bumps of different sizes.
• The rash itches and may burn, especially in thin skin like the eyelids.
• If it is scratched, it may ooze and become crusty.
• In adults, chronic rubbing produces thickened plaques of skin.
• Having one or more round areas is referred to as nummular (coin shaped) eczema and may be confused with fungal infections.
• Some people develop red bumps or clear fluid-filled bumps that look "bubbly" and, when scratched, add wetness to the overall appearance. This type of eczema is especially common on the sides of the finger in dyshidrotic eczema and also goes by the name pompholyx.
• Painful cracks in the skin can develop over time.
• Although the rash can be located anywhere on the body, in adults and older children, it is most often found on the neck, flexures of the arms (opposite the elbow), and flexures of legs (opposite the knee). Infants may exhibit the rash on the torso and face. It usually first appears in areas where the child can rub against sheets, since they may not have the coordination to precisely scratch yet. As the child begins to crawl, the rash involves the skin of the elbows and knees. The diaper area is often spared.
• The scalp is rarely involved.
• While the skin behind the ear may be involved, the outer ear itself is usually spared.
• Eyelids are often puffy, red, and itchy.
• The itching may be so intense that it interferes with sleep.
• While classic eczema and psoriasis are distinctly different and seldom coexist, both conditions may have severe erythrodermic (red skin) forms in which the patient has inflammation of most of the skin surface area.
• Asteatotic eczema is a term often applied to describe patients who have thin, dried, cracked-appearing skin, usually especially bad on the lower legs.
• Significant involvement of the palms and soles of the feet is not usual and may suggest a different condition such as fungal infection, scabies infestation, or allergic contact dermatitis.

When Should Someone Seek Medical Care for Eczema?

If twice daily applications of 0.5% or 1% hydrocortisone cream (available without a prescription) are insufficient to control the rash, then the individual should see a physician.

If someone is so uncomfortable that his/her sleep, work, or other daily activities are disrupted, he/she needs a more effective treatment and should see a health care professional.

Generally, eczematous dermatitis is not an emergency and should not be handled in a hospital emergency department. Exceptions include the following:

• When the skin becomes so irritated that it breaks down and becomes infected; if the rash has become red, hot, and painful; if red streaks are coming from the rash; or if the individual has a fever, an emergency department visit may be necessary if it's not possible to see a health care professional within 24 hours.

Any person with a weakened immune system or certain medical conditions (such as diabetes, on chemotherapy, alcoholism, AIDS, older than 70 years of age) and the above symptoms of infection should go immediately to a hospital emergency department.

What Types of Doctors Treat Eczema?
Most eczema can be managed by primary care physicians (family practice, pediatrics, or internal-medicine doctors). Dermatologists may be consulted when either the diagnosis is in doubt, patients are not responding to treatments that should be working, or higher-risk medications and long-term systemic medications may be needed to get adequate control of the disease.
When seeing a physician, it is important that they know of everything (prescription and over-the-counter drugs, and home remedies) that has been tried and which things helped and which did not. As it is normal for eczema to come and go depending upon many factors, a photo taken to show things at their best or worst may also be useful to the physician.

How Do Health Care Professionals Diagnose Eczema?

A medical professional can usually identify the type of eczematous dermatitis by looking at the rash and asking questions about how it appeared. Samples of scale from the rash may need to be examined microscopically to search for a fungus (ringworm). Occasionally, a portion of skin may be removed (a biopsy) to be examined by a pathologist, but this will not distinguish atopic dermatitis from allergic contact dermatitis. A baby with what appears to be eczema of the palms and soles may have scabies, which may be confirmed with a skin scraping.

Psoriasis will lead to scaly skin but only rarely shows the weeping commonly seen with eczema. Psoriasis also doesn't itch much if at all, and eczema seldom involves the scalp while psoriasis and seborrheic dermatitis often do. While it is possible to have more than one chronic skin condition at a time, it would be unusual to have very active psoriasis and very active atopic dermatitis in the same patient at the same time.

On lighter skin, active eczema is usually red and can leave discoloration as it improves. On dark skin, there may be a mixture of light and dark color changes to the skin during and after a flare. Not enough color (hypopigmentation) is common, but total lack of color (depigmentation) should suggest other conditions, such as vitiligo or discoid lupus.

The three key elements in identifying atopic dermatitis are

• characteristic appearance and distribution of a chronic rash;
• severe itching; and
• atopy, or a personal or family tendency toward asthma and hay fever.

The latest national education test results show the writing skills of year 7 and 9 students have gone backwards over the past decade, with experts saying more needs to be done to assist struggling high school students. 

Preliminary results from this year’s Naplan tests, which cover reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, as well as numeracy, were released on Wednesday.

While the performance of primary school students was above the 2008 average in many areas, the improvements were not seen in secondary school.

Victoria’s education minister James Merlino has announced a special principal advisory committee to look at ways to improve the relevance of Naplan for year 9 students.

One idea on the table is a proficiency certificate based on student reading and numeracy results that would guide subject selection for year 11 and 12.

Students in year 9 around the country in both government and non-government schools experienced similar flat results and year 9 has long been considered the hardest cohort to engage in education, Merlino said.

“These results don’t reflect what students are capable of and we must investigate options to ensure our year 9 students are more engaged. This is about making the test more relevant, not adding unnecessary stress to Naplan,” Merlino said.

But educational experts were sceptical of that approach.

Grattan Institute school education program director Peter Goss said the focus should be on building better foundations in earlier years.

“It’s like trying to change direction on a super tanker, it takes a very long time and … happens very slowly,” Goss said. “Once you fall behind it is hard to catch up.”

He said more support was needed to help kids with the transition from primary school to high school.

“In year 7 a third of the kids might still be in that learning-to-read stage and yet they are expected to start covering more and more content. Secondary school teachers are not specialists in teaching kids how to read,” Goss said.

University of Sydney education expert Rachel Wilson agreed more effort needed to go into helping struggling students catch up before they got to high school.

“If those students haven’t been well supported through their primary school education and haven’t been given the fundamentals … they feel like shrugging their shoulders, holding up their hands and saying ‘I’ve had it, that’s it for me,’” she said.

Acara chief executive David de Carvalho said schoolchildren had generally improved their writing skills from the 2018 results.

“Students are to be congratulated for this year’s improvement, especially year three students, where the results are particularly encouraging,” he said.

But students in years 7 and 9 performed below the 2011 baseline for writing. Compared with the 2008 average, students performed better for year 5 numeracy, years 3 and 5 reading, years 3 and 5 spelling, and year 3 grammar.

The federal education minister, Dan Tehan, said state and territory governments should give greater autonomy to principals, and urged parents to play a greater role through bodies such as school councils.

“We’ve got to make sure that we’re decluttering the curriculum so teachers can teach in the classroom,” Tehan told the ABC.

The standardised national tests have long been a source of controversy in the education sector, with former New South Wales education minister, Rob Stokes, among its prominent critics.

Stokes said last year the program encouraged teachers to “teach to the test”, had fuelled “edu-businesses” and was limited in its usefulness.

This year was the second time some of the tests were taken online, an option taken up by about half of the nation’s schools. But the system was plagued by technical issues, with some students losing connectivity and others unable to log in at all.

Affected students were able to resit the tests but the issue resulted in a disclaimer on the preliminary results warning they should be “interpreted with care”.

Acara believed the pen and paper test results were comparable with the online versions.

However, Australian Education Union acting president Meredith Peace said teachers and principals shouldn’t trust the results as they were “so seriously compromised”.

“There is no transparency about how Acara have arrived at the results data published today, and the community must seriously question just how rigorous the independent assessment of the Naplan results were,” she said.

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An Australian Apprenticeship, commonly known as an apprenticeship or traineeship, is a learning pathway that combines paid on-the-job training and formal study with a Registered Training Organisation. It’s a great way to gain a nationally recognised qualification while earning a wage working in under an employment, rather than have to choose one over the other!

As an apprentices or trainee you will finish your higher-learning journey equipped with practical skills AND a formal education. This powerful combination of theoretical and hands-on experience is prized by employers across many industries and professions. Did you know the Australian Government may even provide you with funding and other benefits to assist with the costs incurred whilst you are undertaking your training?

There are more than 500 occupations that offer apprenticeship and traineeship pathways, ranging from Certificate II to Advanced Diploma levels, including traditional trades and a number of emerging occupations in most other sectors of business and industry. 

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

You can undertake an Australian Apprenticeship as a school leaver, if you’re re-entering the workforce and if you are an adult simply looking at a career change. You can even begin an Australian Apprenticeship while finishing secondary school under a School-based Apprenticeship arrangement

You may elect to study full-time, part-time, or a combination of both - earning and learning as you go!

How flexible is that?

APPRENTICESHIPS

An apprenticeship is a structured training arrangement of usually 3.5 or four years duration. The training combines practical experience at work with complementary off-the-job training with a Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

On successful completion you are issued with a nationally-recognised qualification and the on-the-job skills which are highly regarded by many employers.

TRAINEESHIPS

A traineeship is a training agreement between the trainee and their respective employer whereby the employer agrees to train the trainee in a specific industry, and the trainee agrees to work and learn.

Traineeships are available for people of all ages and usually last between nine to 48 months, depending on the vocation and certificate level undertaken.

For more information on how to get started call Apprenticeship Support Australia on 1300 363 831.
 

The Department of Training and Workforce Development has recently released a new Strategic Plan 2019—2023, which will guide the strategic direction of the Department over the next four years.

The strategic plan sets a clear, high level vision for the future of the training sector. It draws on extensive stakeholder consultation, which conveyed consistent views about the Department’s emerging priorities and primary activities. The goals of Our Priorities: Sharing Prosperity and other Government strategic initiatives are also embedded in the plan.

To achieve our vision of transforming people’s lives and creating strong, vibrant businesses and communities through training, the plan outlines key actions that we will take under the following five priorities.
 

1. Drive accessibility and participation in training that lead to jobs and careers, especially in the regions
2. Embed STEM and digital capability into VET
3. Drive innovative, quality training content and delivery with employers and industry
4. Support micro-credentials for more agile skills development
5. Promote a contemporary and dynamic VET sector domestically and internationally

The strategic plan provides a clear direction for the Department and we look forward to working with our stakeholders in achieving the Department’s vision.

View or download the Strategic Plan 2019—2023- external site

BREAKING NEWS-  We just received the most great news you've ever going to hear that our Year 9 coordinator Tony Selbert is commence his role tomorrow morning for the first time back since he last appeared last year on December. Tomorrow not only our Year 9 students welcomes him back to school but we also invited all of the seniors and junior Year Group to join us for welcoming him back to our Learning Environment. You also will be felt very surprised or even shock because maybe you haven't seen him for months and months. A special huge thank you to our Relief Year 9 Coordinator for guiding our students during their dark times and now it's time to focus on our learning, our academic and also our behaviour to keep it good until the day he comes back.

We hope that you all are fills with some joy and to comfort him back on his roles.

-Mr Peter Smith- College Principal

It’s no secret that Tommaso Ciampa is training furiously hard for his return to the ring after being sidelined with a devastating neck injury earlier this year, but The Blackheart’s latest video documenting his recovery not only shows incredible progress inside the weight room, but also takes aim at NXT Champion Adam Cole.

Since being cleared to get back in the gym, Ciampa has periodically posted such video updates on Twitter. Whereas the first clips after his neck surgery showed Ciampa lifting light dumbbells, his newest newest video shows him deadlifting some serious weight.

Or, as the self-proclaimed “Greatest Sports-Entertainer of All Time” put it, roughly three Adam Coles worth of poundage.

Although Braun Strowman clearly has his eyes locked on Seth Rollins’ Universal Championship, The Monster Among Men and The Beastslayer proved to be a strong team this past Monday night on Raw, conquering Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson to become Raw Tag Team Champions despite the attempted intervention of United States Champion AJ Styles.