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Elsternwick Campus: The Elsternwick campus of Wesley College is a “home away from home”, 12km south of the Melbourne CBD, combining the family atmosphere of a small school with the strengths of a large school. It is situated around a grand two-storey home featuring a spacious library, excellent facilities for sciences, the creative and performing arts, physical education and sport. The campus also features a specialist music centre. Close proximity to trams, buses and trains.
Glen Waverley Campus: Set on 54 acres of open playing fields 20km east of the Melbourne CBD, the Glen Waverley campus features contemporary learning spaces designed to maximise the range of learning activities. Junior School features a purpose-built environment designed to allow young children to learn well and to play safely. Middle School features walkways and open spaces linking specialist learning areas. Senior School provides an innovative environment for study with an excellent educational resource centre featuring the latest facilities including electronic and print resources. Close proximity to buses and trains.
St Kilda Road Campus: The St Kilda Road campus, site of the school established in 1866 and Registered School No 1 in Victoria, is 5km from the Melbourne CBD. The Junior School provides a safe and comfortable environment with separate recreation and play areas, while the Middle and Senior Schools are creatively designed to incorporate tradition with the requirements of contemporary education. Close proximity to trams, buses and trains.
Curriculum: From a one-campus school, it has now grown into an open entry, multi-campus college which has a strong emphasis on learning and pastoral care and offers students from diverse backgrounds and faiths, a rich variety of opportunities. Programs allow for individual learning and enable students to reach their potential in a challenging and positive manner. Individual needs are supported through a range of extension and enrichment programs. The curriculum for Kindergarten to Year 6 is based on the International Baccalaureate Organization’s Primary Years Programme. The unique middle years curriculum offers children in Years 7 to 9 a broadly based curriculum, to allow breadth of choice in the senior years. In Years 10 to 12, students are offered an adult-style learning environment, with more than 40 VCE subjects, 29 International Baccalaureate Diploma subjects and six VET subjects offered. In 2008, the median ENTER score was 84.30 with the median ENTER for IB Diploma students being 94.83. Five IB students achieved the perfect score of 45 Diploma points. Wesley also provides an exciting range of outdoor and environmental programs at the Healesville, Paynesville and Portland sites. Year 9 students also have the opportunity to be part of a unique residential campus at Clunes, an initiative that has transformed middle years education at Wesley.
Curriculum: Wesley provides a wide range of co-curricular programs to support students’ learning in the areas of music, performing and visual arts, sport and social services.
Cranbrook School was established in 1918 in historic sandstone buildings, which were formerly NSW Government House, and overlooks Sydney Harbour. Cranbrook challenges boys to be all that they can be. The School aims to develop and expand the unique potential of each individual boy and to equip him with the basis for acquiring vocational and leadership skills.
Facilities: In January 2011, Kindergarten to Year 2 students started at their new school in a park. In July 2011, the whole of the Junior School, Kindergarten to Year 6, will be together on one site in new, exciting, purpose-built educational facilities, which include a library, art rooms, a music centre, IT and science laboratories, a double gymnasium for Kindergarten to Year 12, tennis courts and traffic drop-off and pick-up areas. The Senior School is housed in modern classroom blocks, has 21st-century IT resources and sporting fields, an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium and a strength and conditioning centre.
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP): Cranbrook’s Junior School for students in Kindergarten to Year 6, is an International Baccalaureate World School authorised to teach the organisation’s International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (PYP). The program is international, inquiry-based and trans-disciplinary, designed to foster the development of the whole child, not just in the classroom but also through other means of learning. The PYP focuses on the total growth of the developing child, encompassing social, physical, emotional and cultural needs, in addition to academic welfare.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Commerce, Drama, Design & Technology, French, History Elective, Industrial Technology (Timber), Japanese, Latin, Music, Physical Activity and Sports Studies, Visual Arts, Visual Design.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Ceramics, Chemistry, Design &, Technology, Drama, Earth & Environmental Science, Economics, French, Geography, Information Processes & Technology, Japanese, Latin, Legal Studies, Mathematics, Modern History, Music, PDHPE, Photography, Physics, Visual Arts, Visual Design.
Sport: All boys take part in physical education as part of the school curriculum. Weekend competitions are arranged with other schools in most major sports including: basketball, cricket, cross-country, football, rowing, rugby union, sailing, skiing, swimming and tennis.
Co-curricular activities: AV Club, bands, ceramics, chess, choir, Crusaders, debating, drama & music productions, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, ensembles, lunchtime concerts, Open Day hosting, orchestras, outdoor education programs, Photography Club, production crew, public speaking, robotics, SCUBA Club, Student Representative Council, theatre sports, Travel and Explorers’ Club, weekly magazine editing. All boys in Years 7 to 12 are encouraged to involve themselves in community service.
Pastoral care program: The program recognises that the promotion of student wellbeing, and a safe and secure learning environment that challenges, encourages and supports all students, is fundamental to the achievement of the School’s aims. It promotes a whole-school approach and supports other initiatives to create an environment in which students feel safe, valued, engaged and purposeful.
Special features:
• Excellent academic results.
• Scholarships and bursaries program.
• International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Program.
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Cranbrook’s “Teaching and
Learning Framework”, through which the curriculum is
taught in the Senior School, incorporates 16 intelligent behaviours that the
School has identified as the key to success for boys, academically, socially
and physically.
• Cranbrook in the Field, where every boy in Years 7 to10 undertakes 10 days of outdoor education each year.
From the school: At Cranbrook we strive to ensure that when boys leave school they will have four things that we believe are essential:
• an ability to think, to value thinking and to want to think, and to know that information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom;
• an ability to stand on their own two feet, balanced by consideration of the needs of others;
• a positive and spirited approach to life;
• a fire in the belly about something really worthwhile.
At Cranbrook we know boys will be boys. So we’ve taken on the challenge and adapted our methods to suit the way boys learn. Cranbrook’s unique “Teaching and Learning Framework” is designed to take boys’ learning above all expectations and beyond the traditional, not just for the years they spend at Cranbrook, but for their entire lives.
Established in 1929, Canberra Grammar’s campus is situated on 22 hectares in the heart of Canberra. The school offers a liberal curriculum suited to students whose capacities range from average to very high and aims to enable each student to attain his academic potential. Canberra Grammar is the only boarding school for boys and the only school in the ACT to offer the NSW Higher School Certificate.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Chinese, French, German, Latin, Music, Agriculture, Business Studies, Design, Graphics Art, Performing Arts, Practical Arts, Visual Arts.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Agriculture, Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Design and Technology, Drama, Economics, Engineering Studies, French, Geography, German, Latin, Mathematics, Modern History, Music, Personal Development and Health, Physics, Software Design and Development, Studies of Religion, Visual Arts.
Sport: Rugby, table tennis, athletics, basketball, squash, cross-country, badminton, swimming, rowing, soccer, cricket, tennis, orienteering, dragon boats, triathlon. A range of leisure options is also offered.
Extracurricular activities: Outdoor education, orchestra, string orchestra, concert bands, choirs, drama, debating, community service, computing, Venture Group, sustainability group.
Welfare and personal development: Canberra Grammar school excels at raising gentle, well-rounded men. A well-established pastoral care system is in place. There is one resident chaplain and an associate chaplain at the school, and two full-time counsellors to assist boys with individual problems. A house system operates in the senior school and students are placed in vertically aligned tutor groups to increase individual attention. Work experience is arranged for students in Year 10 with general career guidance available to all students.
Famous ex-students: Gough Whitlam, Shane Rattenbury, Peter Hazelhurst, Paul Murphy, Peter Leonard.
St Pius X High School caters for students in Years 7 to 10 and accepts children living in the immediate area according to Catholic Schools Office zoning regulations. Students wishing to complete their secondary education to HSC level usually go on to St Francis Xavier’s College, Hamilton.
Calrossy seeks to provide a learning environment where young women and men can develop faith, integrity and compassion, value learning and pursue life with confidence and initiative. The school encourages each student to achieve their potential through a challenging and stimulating teaching and co-curricular program and by involvement in the wider community. The needs of talented children are recognised and provided for. Specialist remedial assistance is offered.
Facilities: Multi-purpose hall, science laboratories, specialist technology rooms, art studios, music rooms, dance/drama facility, photography laboratory, resource centre including library and computer laboratories, oval, tennis, netball and basketball courts, swimming pool. There are excellent boarding facilities for both secondary boys and secondary girls.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Music, History, Commerce, Food Technology, Visual Arts, Design and Technology, Textiles Technology, Information and Software Technology, French, Japanese, Geography, Agriculture, Photography, Physical Activity and Sports Studies, Industrial Technology, Drama, Dance, German, Graphics Technology.
Electives Years 11 and 12: English (all courses), Mathematics (all courses), Biology, Physics, Agriculture, Chemistry, Visual Arts, Business Studies, Legal Studies, Economics, Senior Science, Hospitality, Geography, Music, Drama, Society and Culture, Modern and Ancient History, French, Japanese, PD/Health/PE, Studies of Religion, Design and Technology, Textiles and Design, Industrial Technology, Dance, Primary Industries. Some TAFE courses are also available by arrangement.
Sport: Cricket, tennis, oz-tag, soccer, hockey, swimming, athletics, water polo, basketball, netball, softball, touch football, horse riding.
Extracurricular activities: Secondary Boys Instrumental Program,
Primary Instrumental Program, dance, drama, music, concert band, school
orchestra, stage band and string
group, senior and junior choirs, debating, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme,
land care, and participation in regional and local agricultural shows.
Welfare and personal development: Personal development programs are fun for students at all year levels. There is a peer support program for all Year 7 students. Student welfare staff members include a chaplaincy team, senior teachers, school nurse, school counsellor, and head of boarding.
Special features: Innovative and flexible curriculum structure, development of independent learning, an agriculture and cattle program, a strong Christian education program, and dedicated staff.
RIDBC Alice Betteridge School is situated in the north west of Sydney and is part of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. It caters for children aged 4.5 to 18 years who have significant sensory impairments and up to a moderate intellectual impairment who require substantial specialist teaching from teachers trained in hearing and vision impairment. The school provides education for children in Kindergarten to Year 12. Learning outcomes, teaching and learning activities, assessment strategies, resources and adjustments and accommodations are identified through a process of individual planning. Instruction is provided in each of the Key Learning Areas identified in the NSW Board of Studies syllabus documents.
The students have individualised educational programs that combine academic and functional skills. Students are taught in small classes by skilled special educators, assisted by teacher’s aides. The educational programs are supported by a team of therapists that provide access for students to teaching and learning activities.
The school believes that through intensive teaching, students can reach their full potential and become active members of the community and that every child develops skills through systematic instruction in relevant environments.
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