"A lot of students... you know, can't do their times table." "A lot of them are writing like their writing text." "See it's all abbreviated." "Hence why they have problems with spelling." "You've never read anything." "I read picture books." "A quarter of a million students began year eleven in Australia this year." "By the end of the year an astonishing one in five will have dropped out." "Year eleven is tough." "And for these students it's tougher than most." "It's my third crack at year eleven." "I failed about five out of six subjects." "I missed roughly 70 days." "I got mostly Ds and Es." "No other schools will take me." "Bradfield's like my last chance at getting my HSC like I've tried at other schools and I just don't fit in." "Bradfield Senior College is a school unlike any other." "For starters, it only has students in years eleven and twelve." "But it's also a place where students who've failed to make the grade at other schools come good." "They've come to a junction in their journey for their education." "That's why they've chosen Bradfield." "So the marks are out of 100." "22" "45 out of 100." "22 out of 100." "It's not about what you did back then it's about where you are right now." "That's what's really important." "It's quite a slow process with some teenagers." "Often they have these rough edges which we'll work on over the time." "So that when a student leaves not only do they got an HSC" "They've got a sense of pride." "Some were dealt a tough hand by life." "Some failed because they didn't fit in." "And some have no one to blame but themselves." "Guys." "You're affecting my learning." "You want to play hardball?" "I can play hardball." "Okay?" "Jess." "Do you want to just wait outside for a minute?" "They can go *bleeped*" "In the year ahead we'll be following 15 students." "Charting their progress from their very first assessments to their all important end of year exams." "You may start writing everyone." "I'm incredibly proud of your progress over the year." "You've blitzed it in your last assessment and you've got top of the whole year." "And you did a fantastic home run." "A lot of potential there." "And I'd be very proud of you if I was your mum." "One class." "One year." "One unique college." "One last chance to make the grade." "Cheese!" "This is the class of 2011." "Daniel is one of the 15 students we're following." "He's nervous about starting at Bradfield." "Last year at my old school" "I was never treated well by anyone really." "I was bullied a lot and I basically failed every subject." "Lisa will be the youngest in the class." "She's hoping to reinvent herself at Bradfield." "This is gonna be hard." "The last year in year ten." "It was pretty tough." "Cuz I was very angry." "I just wasn't learning." "Every day there was fights." "No matter how hard I tried to stay out of the" "It just didn't work." "Koray mostly got Ds and Es in his school certificate." "Hardly a surprise." "He missed 70 days." "What pretty much stopped me from going to school was because my parents didn't care." "I haven't seen my mom since she left." "And that was 5 years ago." "And my dad, um, 2 years." "Koray now lives in a refuge." "Going to Bradfield is the next step in securing his future." "The kids pretty much that live at home, they've got like a safety net." "yeah, I don't live at home with my parents" "Well, um, so I'm just up there on a tight-rope without a safety net." "So, yeah, if I fall I'm gone." "For Lisa," "Daniel," "Koray and the rest of the class" "this is day one of the most important year of their lives." "If they don't get it right this time they may not get another chance." "Their first lesson... is English." "Did you add me on Facebook?" "There's a certain amount of apprehension but on the whole the challenege" " I'm looking forward to it." "Generally there are students that haven't fit into the mainstream." "Some of them have had issues with family." "Some of them just haven't really fitted into, um... the way that, uh, subjects are taught at other schools." "Okay." "Let's get a start." "Okay?" "Me." "My name is Matthey Anderson." "Okay." "You can call me Matt." "Matt." "If you've got any nicknames" "I'll be happy to- give 'em to me." "What I am all about is communication." "If you've got any problems, issues, talk." "If for example you don't think you're going to get an assessment task in don't do it the day before, okay?" "Give a teacher a couple days notice and they may will be able to help you." "Okay?" "Mobile phones." "Okay?" "It's part of the college plan." "Your mobiles should be turned off." "But my phone won't turn back on if it goes off." "You can put it on silent then, okay?" "So that we don't hear it." "My phone doesn't go on silent." "Okay." "Well I'm happy to hold it for you then Mary-Anne, if you wish." "Okay." "They're pretty much my only rules." "Obviously common courtesy," "Okay." "common sense." "You came to Bradfield to be treated like adults." "Did you not?" "No." "Yes." "I'd like to treat you like adults." "But that's dependant on you acting like adults, okay?" "Okay." "Are there any questions?" "Hugh, please, fire away." "No." "Here we go." "Thank you." "How many would you say are acting like adults at the moment." "How many would you say are acting like adults." "Hugh, I would suggest that given time you'll develop into wonderful English students and adults." "I'm sure." "My teaching style I think" "Okay." "I really base on developing a relationship." "If I can relate to them, if there is a connection, something, um, that I might know about one of their interests or vice versa then I will push that connection." "Listen up everybody." "How do you say" "Shh..." "Okay." "Ryan." "What's your interest?" "What's your passions?" "Skating." "Skating?" "Cool." "Okay." "So, what sort of skating?" "Um, Street Skating." "Park skating." "Any skating." "It's all good." "Lyndsey." "What - what interests you?" "Uh, I like fairytales." "Okay." "Any in particular that you can..." "Mmm." "I like Peter Pan." "I just recommended that book to a friend of mine just yesterday." "Okay." "Daniel." "Uh." "I don't know what fascinates me." "Uh." "I don't know, like, football, ice hockey, music." "Yeah." "That's probably it." "Okay." "Koray." "What interests you, Koray?" "I don't know." "Tattoos." "I can't afford 'em though." "Tattoos?" "Yeah?" "Is it actually the- the process of tattooing itself?" "How it looks." "How it feels." "Like" " I know." "I just reckon life's too boring." "I know." "I'm bit emo like that." "Cuz... cuz..." "It's just I wanna like feel pain, so like, I feel, yeah." "I'm like yeah." "Okay." "Lisa." "Dancing." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Pretty much." "I've been dancing since I was about 2." "So you're a mover." "Um..." "Lisa is into hip hop." "At 16, her dream is to be a famous dancer." "Or maybe run her own dance school." "And if that doesn't work out" "She's thinking of being a cook." "She likes to read." "Vampire books are her favourite." "Academically though," "Lisa struggles." "In her school certificate she got D for Maths," "E for Science and E for English." "What do you hope to learn in English?" "Um." "Probably how to spell and... get my ideas onto the paper and just expand them." "Yeah." "Every subject here gives you written notification" "Okay." "of an assessment task 2 weeks before it's due." "Okay." "So we give you the assessment schedule." "You know when it's happening." "We also give you written notification to tell you when the task will be due." "2 weeks." "Minimum." "For example, today I'm going to talk to you about your first assessment task." "What you're going to do is you're going to write a letter" "Okay." "to me." "About yourself." "Now, I do not want 5 lines response." "Okay?" "If you are going to use this I expect at least that page." "At least." "Aw, seriously?" "Okay?" "So at least a page." "Give me an insight into you." "How I can best help and support you and your learning." "Okay." "I would just like to say welcome to Bradfield." "Um, it's been, um, an enjoyable first lesson." "Let's make sure we put the effort in." "Good luck." "I shall see you on Thursday." "It was... touching base today." "Like any class they feel if there's any weaknesses in a teacher, like a little baby does." "So, push, push, push." "What can I do?" "What can I get away with?" "Um, and hopefully they saw a few things." "Like I mobiles I might a bit dislike." "Um, so I think they- they pushed a little bit." "I'm hoping they felt a firm boundary." "And they go beyond that boundary then- then there'll be consequences." "So..." "Still to come..." "Okay." "That's funny." "Matt lays down the law." "You want to play hardball?" "I can play hardball." "Okay?" "Every student in the class has come to Bradfield college for their own reasons." "Some for the TAFE based career oriented subjects." "Can you grab me a tray from up there?" "Today." "That'd be nice." "Others are looking for a more casual learning environment." "Many have struggled to fit in at regular schools." "But here education is handled differently." "Even in the most conventional subjects like Maths." "The message that I want to get to them is that it's not about how smart they are it's about how hard they work." "And whether they are prepared to do a bit of struggle." "Maths standards in Australia have been declining since the year 2001." "And Nev is about to find out just how much or little his new class knows." "Come in you guys." "Come in." "3 of the student's we'll be following through the year are in Nev's class." "Taylor." "Jesse." "And Koray." "And they're about to get their first taste of Nev's no nonsense approach." "You cannot learn Math by reading." "And you cannot learn Math by just listening to me." "You gotta do it." "And you're quite often going to make mistakes." "I just want you to know that no matter what your ability is in Maths" "You know, as long as you're in here and you have a go" "I'll be very happy." "So, could you please do the test which is on your table?" "What is this place?" "You've walked in and you've got a test first day." "Yeah?" "It's a test for you as much as for me." "So, do the best you can." "In his diagnostic test students have to answer a range of basic Maths questions." "For some it's a daunting prospect." "Math is just my weak point." "And I want to get so much better at it." "I probably don't have Maths more than anything else and" "Just like every other subject I've got." "Koray hasn't been to school for 4 years." "By any measure he's had a hard time." "He hasn't seen his mum since he was twelve." "And he parted company with his dad when he was just 15." "Homeless until recently" "He's starting to get his life back together." "But it's still tough." "He struggles to support himself by working nights." "And going to college in the day." "Stay there." "Koray." "Um." "Come on Koray." "Where's your sense of adventure?" "I feel like this is my last shot of becoming something." "I just wanna like... just- just just normal things like my own house, my own car, a proper job." "Just normal stuff." "All right." "You guys can have a couple of minutes early, but before you come back Thursday" "I'd like you to do exercise 1 and 2 please." "Thanks Nev." "Yeah." "Like many of its students" "Bradfield is unconventional." "There are no school bells." "No detention." "And no uniform." "The college day is also long." "Lessons don't finish until 5:30." "So far though, the class seems to be settling in well." "But there are plenty of distractions to their learning." "Me and Ryan are going out now." "Yeah." "So..." "Oh my God." "Oh." "Um, me and Lisa have been going out for 2 days I think it is." "I love her to bits" "He doesn't judge me." "He doesn't say oh, you're too loud." "Stop being loud." "She just yell and scream and laugh and" "I don't mind it." "I reckon it's pretty funny." "It's good because we're in each others English class and Connect class so we'll be together." "It hasn't affected my learning yet." "but, um, it definitely does play a big part cuz we are at school and school is school, but" "I can't see why we can't have a bit of fun while we're at school." "You just karate chopped me." "He's- yeah." "All right guys." "Guys." "Shh." "English is the only compulsory Higher School Certificate subject." "It's the one subject the class can't afford to muck up." "And despite best intentions" "Lisa and Ryan's relationship is starting to affect the class." "Lisa." "Learning log out." "Righto guys and girls." "Let's get a start." "Yes, I don't mind having a lollipop." "Okay." "Listen up guys." "Firstly, I set you some homework." "I have received some of my homework." "Lyndsey." "Thank you very much." "Nice writing Lyndsey." "Nice handwriting." "Okay." "Letters." "Guys." "You're affecting my learning." "That's funny." "Lisa." "Do you want to just step outside?" "Just relax for a tick." "Okay." "And while you're out there we might go for a walk down to curriculum." "You want to play hardball?" "I can play hardball." "Okay?" "Okay." "Take a seat." "I'll be with you in a moment." "Right." "You'll have 2 weeks free." "Okay?" "But you've got to come to your yearly exam." "Okay." "So, we're going to read something together." "I don't like reading." "You don't like reading?" "I read picture books." "Okay." "When you come back you're in big school." "Big school?" "Aww." "Okay." "So when you come back you're in year twelve." "Koray." "Why are you so late?" "Um, bus." "Okay." "Bus." "Bus." "Bus." "Bus." "Talk to me Lisa." "What's the problem?" "Why is it so humorous?" "I don't" " I don't know." "I just have a laughing problem." "Well, it's good to laugh at times but that was inappropriate." "You can't" "Sir, I really tried." "I really" "Should I move you and that will maybe stop the laughter?" "Oh, no." "No, no, no." "I'll stop the laughing." "Come on in then." "Stop being silly." "Koray." "Why are you so late?" "Bus." "Bus." "Okay." "Right." "Our area of study" "Is going to be journeys for this term." "Okay?" "We're going to take our own journey by writing a short story." "Okay?" "Okay." "I've got high hopes for all the students." "Some... may not make it." "Um... but, I'd like to think that they- you know." "It would be a challenge for me to get them all through." "If I could do that" "Um... by the end of year I would be ecstatic." "Is it going to be kind of weird that I've just told you, like, everything about me?" "Not at all." "Cuz it only stays with me." "It doesn't go anywhere else." "Okay?" "It's for my eyes only." "Still to come..." "Uh, why are not at, um..." "Connect?" "Lisa skips class." "She sh" " So now she's going to check all my class attendances to see if they're 100%." "I'm like pshh." "Yeah, but someone has to go to classes." "It's week one of the academic year at Bradfield College." "For many" "Bradfield represents the end of the educational line." "Their last chance to get their Higher School Certificate and leave their past behind." "Part of the issue that we have at school here..." "We're year eleven and twelve." "We don't have them from years seven to year ten." "So we don't know their history." "We're given a package right now that we have to deal with." "And sometimes it's quite difficult." "To help them keep focus" "Students at Bradfield have to attend what are known as Connect classes." "Compulsory, informal lessons designed to keep them on track." "Yes?" "Uh, yeah, I'm Daniel." "I came here basically cuz I'm too awesome for regular school." "You are." "I can tell." "You're giving me energy here." "Feeling the energy." "We're going to do a lot of stuff in Connect over the next year." "But the main- the main thing is guys" "Listen." "The main thing is that to keep you on track to achieve your own goals about what you want to do." "And my job is to support you." "And I'll give you 100% of my time." "Not just in here, but outside as well." "To help you get there and do that." "What do you want to do when you leave?" "Do you know what you want to do?" "Hospitality." "Hospitality." "And Mary-Anne?" "What did you want to do when you leave?" "Vet." "Vet?" "ADFA." "Pardon?" "ADFA." "What's that?" "Australian Defence Force Academy." "Either a primary school teacher..." "I love little children." "Great!" "You'll be great." "What- what do you want to do when you're finished?" "I have no idea what I want to do." "Like most 16 year olds" "Daniel isn't quite sure what the future might hold." "One day he wants to be an actor." "The next, a policeman." "He likes ice hockey and American football." "But most of all" "Daniel likes being different." "In the past though being different hasn't done him any favours." "At my old school" "I was being bullied a lot and my results have, you know, been reflected in that but" "I think this year is a great chance to actually make something of myself and to prove that" "I am smart and that I can do you know more than what people think I can." "We have a lot of students who are late." "Are they all in English at the moment?" "No." "We're just like all from the same English class." "Oh." "Right." "Okay." "The class is divided in 2 for Connect." "And 6 of our students are supposed to be with Tina." "But only Anthony has arrived on time." "I don't know where they are." "It's always difficult in the first few weeks." "A lot of the students are struggling" "In terms of getting into a routine here at Bradfield." "But once they start to realise that the teachers are actually here to help them and support them they'll start to come around." "Tina needs to send a strong message to the missing students." "She gets on the phone after class." "Hello." "Oh, hi, Jesse, is that you?" "Uh, yeah." "Hi." "It's Tina calling from Bradfield College." "Hi." "How are you?" "Good, thanks." "How are you?" "I'm good." "Um, listen, the reason I'm calling, Jesse, you didn't come to the Connect program." "Um, no I didn't." "Um," "I got to school um, at, uh, 1." "At 1?" "Okay." "Well Connect goes to 1:30." "Oh, does it?" "All right." "I thought it was only half an hour." "No." "It's not half an hour." "It's actually a 1 hour program." "Yeah." "Yeah." "I'm" " I'm sorry." "I" " I forgot." "I am not going to be able to help you if you don't come to class." "And you need to understand that it is compulsory." "Okay?" "You must attend." "All right?" "All right." "I don't want to start off the year on a negative note." "Okay?" "Okay." "Lisa was another of the missing students." "Tina called her, too." "Uh, why were you not at, um, Connect?" "Because..." "She spoke to" " Tina spoke to me though." "She's just like" "Oh, Lisa, you have to come to every Connect class." "If you don't turn up to every Connect class you can um, get disenrolled from the school." "For 20 minutes I was there." "Are you serious?" "Yeah." "I'm just chillin'." "She speaks to me." "She's like where were you?" "I'm like, what?" "She goes" "So now she's gonna to check all my class attendances to see if they're 100%." "I'm like pshh." "Yeah, but someone has to go to classes." "The students have completed their first work in key subjects like Maths, History and English." "For the teachers it's an important moment." "They're finding out exactly what their students know and what they don't." "I'm just going through, um, some of the responses from the student profile that they had just completed in- in their last, uh, class which were quite amusing." "And I'm checking on spelling because a couple of 'em said that they wanted to spell better." "So I'm checking their spelling." "And just making a few comments on what they've written." "A lot of them are writing like they're writing text." "So it's all abbreviated." "Hence why they have problems with spelling." "Um." "Just marking the tests that the students sat on Monday." "So that's the, um, the diagnostic test that we give them on day 1." "There- there are students here who know their basics and there are other students who have no idea about their basics." "There's a question in here that they need to know 6 7s." "A lot of students can't work out how many 6s in 42." "Um..." "So I'd say the best mark would be about 80% and- and the worst mark would be about 5%." "5 to 10." "Still to come..." "Hi." "Hello." "Kirsty." "Have we officially met?" "Um..." "Koray cops it from Kirstie." "You might think I'm sitting here being really picky." "Yeah." "But I've had a lot of experience doing this." "Yeah." "I can see you skipping classes." "I can see that becoming a regular pattern and that- and that becoming a big problem." "It's the start of week 2 for the class." "Koray's been called in to see the assistant college director" "Kirstie Aggs." "Among the students" "Kirstie is the most feared of Bradfield's directors." "Students who get called to her office know they're in for some tough love." "Hi." "Hello." "Kirstie." "Have we officially met?" "Um..." "I don't think- think so." "Don't think so?" "Okay." "I need to have a chat." "Cool." "You can have a seat." "Personally I reckon this i- this is my last shot of doing something good." "So I don't really want to fail in it." "And..." "I also don't want to, um, be away for too long cuz that was one of my biggest problems back at school." "How do you think you're going?" "Um..." "I actually am pretty good at the mo" "You're good?" "Yeah." "I have just pulled up your stats on your attendance." "Mm-hmm." "And, um, had a chat to some of your teachers." "And so that's why I thought it would be a good idea to bring you in." "So I'll ask you again." "How do you think you're going?" "I still reckon I'm going pretty good." "Yeah." "My attendance?" "Um..." "I've slipped a bit there" "Yeah." "but I'm still trying to get used to the school life." "Okay." "So" "Which is a bit different." "Like, I'm" " I'm still trying to like" "Yeah just" "Yeah." "Cuz you weren't in school last year." "Were you?" "Uh." "I wasn't in school for" "I haven't been in school for 4 years now." "Yeah." "So, uh, it's been" "It's a very different experience." "Okay." "So we're not like a school in the sense that we're a senior college." "But our expectations about your attendance and your work in class is a lot like a school." "So, mate, all this stuff on your timetable is all compulsory." "Yeah." "Our expectations of our students are that you attend." "On time." "Yeah." "And you do the very best that you can in your classes." "So I need you to go to them." "Is there other" "Are there any issues that you have here that you need to- to talk to me about?" "Oh, no." "Everything's sweet." "Getting on with everyone?" "Oh, yeah." "I get along with everyone." "Everyone's all sweet." "So there's nothing- nothing that's preventing you from going?" "It's just" " I don't know." "Outside." "Like job stuff." "How many hours do you have to work a week?" "Um... whenever they need me." "Oh, no, no, no." "If you're just going to work whenever they want you to work" "I can see you choosing to work and- and skipping classes" "I can see that becoming a regular pattern." "And that- and that becoming a big problem." "I mean, you might think I'm sitting- sitting here being really picky." "Yeah." "But I've had a lot of experience doing this." "Yeah." "And if we don't get it right from the beginning, and if you come off the train tracks at the beginning and the train's left the station." "Okay." "So you're trying for your HSC left on the 27th of January." "Yeah." "Chugga, chugga, chugga." "Down that path." "It looks to me like you're in danger of getting off at the next station." "If you get off, it's very hard to get back on." "Yeah." "So this is a bit of a wake-up call." "A reminder that you need to go to all your classes." "Uh, yeah..." "Cuz if we have to have another conversation about this" "It..." "It will be a more tricky conversation." "So she was actually just- yeah- just telling me maybe I should like cut down work a bit but" "I can't do that cuz I have no money." "So, yeah, I don't know." "Um, yeah." "Yeah, struggling." "Can hurt sometimes." "Thank you." "See ya." "See ya." "Like Koray" "Daniel has struggled with attendance in the past." "He was also bullied at his old school." "And in the end he just stopped going." "His results suffered accordingly." "At my old school" "I'd end up completely screwing up and not getting any work done." "And then in the end I just- you know" "Failed all my subject and everything." "And so didn't want to, you know, be distracted in class so yeah, I tried to keep to myself in most aspects." "This is what I want you to draw." "I'm just going to give you a piece of paper." "It's very traditional." "So I want to see how... where you're at with it." "Don't be embarrassed about this please." "This is something that I'll collect when you're finished." "But it gives me a really good idea um, what you're capable of." "I've never really been good at drawing still life in art." "So the first picture we drew was actually terrible." "Nice!" "It came out, like, really bad." "No, it's not!" "Do you draw much?" "Okay." "Yeah." "But that's what this term is all about is" "Doing some realism." "Good." "Yeah." "Well, you're in the right place." "So now I'll show you how to actually do it and put it onto some paper." "We're going to use shape and sight measuring to get some of that information onto our page." "All right?" "This is the coolest thing you'll ever learn." "Okay?" "And the most- one of the most important things about drawing" "And- and collecting information" "I know you feel like a dag but you have to do it." "Okay?" "She went through all the techniques with us" "And the second picture I drew was just 10 times better than anything I've done before with still life." "So- and that was just in the one lesson, so..." "I was very proud of that." "All right." "I've got a graph of your results on the test." "In Maths, the diagnostic test results are in." "The first thing you do with your test is you check that I've marked it correctly and you check that I've added up the total correctly for each part." "Nev plans to take each student aside to talk about their scores." "Taylor." "Do you want to have a chat?" "Pardon?" "Do you want to have a chat?" "Why?" "Would you like to come down?" "Okay." "This is Taylor's second go at year eleven." "She had problems away from school." "Her grades started to plummet." "She dropped out." "But today she surprised herself." "She's come close to the top of the class." "When I look at this your mark is 70." "And a half." "And a half." "So what we have to do is set a target for the next topic test." "Yeah?" "Well, I would think you should get" "80." "80?" "So we're gonna put a target then here for you for 80." "Yeah?" "That's gonna be your target." "Jesse." "Can you bring your test and your book out to me please." "Okay." "Honestly I was a little bit surprised with some of these." "Do you think you were concentrating the other day?" "No." "Not really." "Do you like Maths?" "Yeah." "It's just on foul days I just forgot everything." "Jesse is disappointed." "His score of 43 out of 100 was well below his expectations." "But that doesn't stop him from aiming high for the next test." "90." "You sure about that?" "Yup." "Aim high." "90." "All right?" "Yeah." "Very good." "Okay Koray." "Can we chat?" "Can you come out here?" "You got your book still out?" "Koray is the last to get his result." "After 4 years away from school he didn't have high hopes for his test." "But his score is even lower than he feared." "Oh, this is embarrassing." "Um," "I got probably the lowest mark out of the class." "Like, 32 out of 100." "I" " I knew I was gonna to get that because I did not understand any of it." "Any of the Math things because even when I was at school I never pi- like- like" "People say I didn't pay attention to Maths." "Like I did not do anything at Maths." "You did terrible." "No." "No." "Not at all." "Not at all." "You" "You've got all the logic you need here." "You've done all of these steps in the right order." "Okay?" "You've broken it up." "And you can do well." "If you want to." "Yeah." "I previously haven't really wanted to." "Like I didn't know what to do." "Do you?" "Yeah." "But, um" "I reckon the last 2 years of school which was 4 years ago." "I didn't, like" " I pretty much did nothing at Maths." "So pretty much I'd say 6 years of, like, not doing anything." "Not learning anything about Maths." "Well, the- the test in" "Monday week is on these 3 topics." "Yeah." "I want to get from you a target, a number," "that you're going to aim for in that test." "What's the number?" "Gimme a number from naught to 100." "100." "100%?" "Nah, nah." "40, 45, 50." "All right." "Go on." "Decide." "45?" "We're going 50?" "Fine. 50." "50?" "I think you'll do much better than that." "But there's your target, right?" "Mm-hmm." "But we re-assess that after that next test." "Yeah." "All right." "It doesn't matter to me whether the results are good or bad." "It does matter that I have got that benchmark." "He'll make a- a huge improvement I think when he reviews the work." "He seems very enthusiastic about you know writing out some rules, getting organised." "I need to get some folders." "Yeah?" "So you can't afford 'em?" "I got to say first, yeah, a lot of money troubles at the moment." "Okay." "Uh, I'll see what I can give." "Can probably give you a 2 ring folder and a few sleeves." "and..." "I don't mind if you work on scrap paper but I'll give you a small book." "Or whatever." "We'll get you organised today" "Yeah." "straight after this." "Nev was really helpful." "Like he just took me down to the staff room gave me a like a couple of books, a folder, a couple sleeves." "I'm like great." "It's exactly what I need." "I just" " I just need a few more books and I'll be, like, set." "If you have a look at the stuff ahead of the class you'll kill these tests." "Got it." "Yeah." "Okay?" "Yeah." "Good on you." "Thanks for all this." "No worries." "He's a- he's a great teacher." "And I'm" " I'm actually looking forward to, like, learning from him." "And.. go what, what, what arm lines." "Very nice." "Dance is part of the New South Wales Higher School Certificate." "But very few schools offer it." "Good." "As a result some students come to Bradfield specifically for dance." "And 2 of our students," "Lyndsey Fay and Lisa, are among them." "The standard here is extremely high." "The classes are hard, yes, but I love my dancing so I'm gonna work hard." "Go." "Opposite arm. 2, 3, 4." "Go." "Tap it." "2, 3, 4." "Go." "Slap it. 2, 3, 4." "Go." "Flex it and drop it." "All right." "So you really have to keep your supporting leg really strong and stable with as much abdominal strength as you can." "Lisa." "Um." "Really really work to keep your supporting leg really still..." "Dance is the main reason Lisa has come to Bradfield." "It's the subject that means the most to her." "Even so she's still struggling to focus." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Can- can ya- can ya get it under control again." "Yeah." "Lyndsey Fay has her own problems." "She's struggling with the high standard." "I didn't realise there's a certain way to stand, there's a certain way to move and it's complicated because I don't know any of it." "So..." "I haven't ever done ballet." "After class both Lisa and Lyndsey Fay are taken aside." "When you look around at the other dancers working can you see the level of commitment and focus?" "Yeah?" "Do you get it?" "And Lyndsey, what happened?" "Feeling down about myself." "Well, okay." "Come and talk." "Lise, behaviour." "Different." "Yeah?" "I don't understand that." "I'm the same like that in every class." "Then you need to change it." "I don't want to have to become unpleasant." "It is not- it is not my way." "All right?" "I don't- don't like it." "Okay?" "So, anyway." "Can" " Just take that on board." "Next week, try a little bit harder and a little bit longer to concentrate." "And we'll see how we go." "The thing I didn't want to happen here that happened at my old school was that history repeated itself." "I just wanted to get through these 2 years perfectly." "Not have anymore dramas." "A fresh start." "That's what I was hoping for at Bradfield." "It is the end of the second week at Bradfield College." "Daniel has struggled to relate to his teachers in the past." "So what's wrong with the Jets?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, New York." "Come on." "New York." "Come on." "The Jets" "That's a terrible team." "But after only 2 weeks." "He's found some common ground with Matt." "Matt and I are both very interested in football." "So" " American football." "Which is very awkward at times cuz he goes for a team which I do not like." "It's Green Bay." "I hate Green Bay." "Why do you hate Green Bay?" "Cuz I go for Minnesota." "Yeah, I suppose." "Yes." "There's a bit of rivalry there, isn't it?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Just a bit." "It feels pretty cool to have some kind of connection with my English teacher cuz never really been able to, you know, have a talk like, you know, about sports or anything other than schoolwork with any of my old teachers" "at my old school" "Okay everyone." "Let's get a bit of a start." "Daniel's not the only one connecting with Matt." "It's taken a few lessons but after a rocky start the English class is finally settling in." "Even Lisa." "The most popular short stories as found in newspapers and magazines are generally the less su- subtle" "Is that right?" "kind and concentrate mostly on the narrative or story interest." "I think they're starting to realise where we're heading." "So from a- a teaching perspective um, getting them engaged in this second week is very promising." "How's your folder going?" "Now you've got that whole" "Okay." "If you're going to use your folder, there's some dividers." "In Maths" "Koray's also starting to knuckle down." "It's early days but he seems to be making progress." "Isn't it like a negative 4?" "Negative 4." "Negative 4." "I was getting the answers right and I just went, this is great." "Like I've learned how to so- do something new." "You know when you learn something new and just- just keep wanting to do it." "How many 56s in 83?" "1." "How many left over?" "27." "We put that over what we're diving by." "Yeah." "Oh, sweet." "Yeah." "So, yeah." "It was actually quite surprising because I" " I" " I know I need Maths." "I was just there" "I was just" "I'm not" " I just got interested in it." "Like," "I didn't even care about Maths and just- suddenly I'm just, like, doing it." "I finally understand what these symbols and these numbers mean." "Yeah." "I'm so happy." "For Koray and the rest of the students the year has just begun." "But there's a long way and a lot of exams to go before it's all over." "If it weren't for Bradfield most of them probably wouldn't make it." "This is their last chance." "They say they want it." "The question is will they take it?"