This scheme of pushing trials forward is a common trend in a number of schools in the last couple of years. My school has quite an extensive populous creative art subjects, such as Drama, Visual Arts, Music l & ll. With this there is quite a few students who study extension subjects; such as English Extension ll and History Extension. All these subjects have HSC Major Works, so moving Trials forward is useful to those students have major works which need to be submitted and completed at the beginning of term 3. So one positive is that you will have the holidays to concentrate on any major works, as Trials will have been completed already! n_n