HSC Written Exams Begin on Thursday
All the best to the HSC Class of 2025, who start written exams on Thursday 16 October!
Over the 17-day exam period, 79,712 students will sit at least one of the 123 exams. When HSC written exams end on Friday 7 November, more than 400,000 unique exams sittings will have been completed.
Our advice to students:
Plan your trip, check the transport timetable, and allow for extra travel time to get to exams. Check your exam timetable and location on Students Online. Train timetables are changing from Sunday 19 October. Use Trip Planner for the latest train times. Contact your school if you are unwell. Your school will support you to submit an illness/misadventure application – applications must be accompanied by evidence on the day of the exam.
What's New
NSW Teaching Gems Shining Bright
World Teachers’ Day will be celebrated here in NSW on Friday 31 October.
In the lead up to the big day, we’re calling on the community to recognise “NSW Teaching Gems” with the return of our interactive map!
We’ve received over 2,000 shout-outs so far from Orange, Kingsgrove, Wagga Wagga, Bathurst, Mount Kembla, Culcairn, and Tamworth.
Pop our posters up around your school/service and get students, family and friends to participate.
Search the Map for messages for your teachers. Read them out at assembly or hand them out in the staff room.
Share the Map in your newsletter and social media channels.
Shout out your “gems” on social media using #WTD2025 and #NSWTeachingGems.
NESA Shop Closes Next Month
NESA Shop will be decommissioned on Monday 10 November 2025, as we work on updating resources that support new syllabuses as part of the NSW Curriculum Reform.
You can continue to access and buy resources on NESA Shop until its closure on 10 November.
Students and teachers can continue to access and download free resources and curriculum support materials on our website.
What's On
ARTEXPRESS in New England Closes this Sunday
Don’t miss the last ARTEXPRESS exhibition of the year in Northern NSW this week, featuring exemplary bodies of work by 2024 HSC Visual Arts students.
Can’t make it in-person? ARTEXPRESS Virtual lets you explore bodies of work from this year's exhibitions from wherever you are.
For further information and important dates please click HERE
Regards,
David Browne
CEO
Professional Teachers' Council NSW
