Today, you'll learn more about the different levels of qualifications and how they're relevant to your potential career pathways.

Today, you'll complete your Odyssey Plan! Get excited to think about three different life course pathways that you might take over the next five years!

Happy Mac.Rob Week and welcome to Super Connect! You'll be connecting with friends from other year levels today, and you'll enjoy lots of extremely fun activities, all designed by Raga, Salma and our Connect Captains. Hope you have a blast!

Today, you'll learn all about the ways in which Mac.Rob is, and always has been, a progressive institution, creating and suporting social change and reform to improve society and reduce inequality. Wear It Purple Day is an important date in our school calendar, and we use this day to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. Don't forget to wear a touch of purple this Friday 28th August!

Today, you'll complete the Challenge Success Survey, which is part of our partnership between Mac.Rob and Stanford University. This survey will help us better understand your experiences at school and at home, so we can plan processes and strategies for supporting your wellbeing and learning. 

We have our last Learner Model lesson today, with a focus on Principle 5: Growth Through Feedback. You'll learn about why it's important to maintain a growth mindset, and how you can do this. Happy learning!

We continue our Learner Model lessons today, with a focus on Principle 3: Explore and Expand Your Limits, and one of the strategies in this principle: Seek Help. This is one of our favourite things to do at Mac.Rob! We hope that you discover lots of ways that you can seek help with your learning here.

Over the next four weeks in Connect, you will become more familiar with our Learner Model. Today, you'll focus on Principles 1 and 2, reflecting on your foundations for mental health, which are essential for learning, and establishing strategies for focussing attention in order to improve your understanding and retention of learning content.

Today we are celebrating NAIDOC week - this is an opportunity for us to learn about First Nations cultures and histories, and celebrate the oldest, continuous culture on earth.