Secondary School Years 7-12
Our Academic Talent Program is available for students in Years 7-12 who have been identified as academically gifted and talented. This program provides opportunities for students to participate in an array of extension and enrichment activities.
Extension
Extension activities involve the deepening of students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in a particular subject area. As part of our Academic Talent Program, we provide the following extension opportunities for academically talented students:
Differentiated Curriculum
Students who have been identified as academically talented are streamed into Academic Extension classes in Years 7-10. In these classes, students are provided with a faster pace of study, open-ended activities and higher order thinking skills that will enable them to pursue greater depth and breadth in their Learning Areas.
Academic Extension Classes
All Learning Areas follow a differentiated curriculum. This is a planned, documented and challenging curriculum that matches the ability of academically talented students to learn at faster rates, find, solve and act on problems more readily and manipulate abstract ideas and make connections to an advanced degree.
Specialist Programs
Gifted students in Mathematics in Years 7-9 are selected to participate in a withdrawal program for Mathematics. This program focuses on creative and divergent thinking and complex individual and collaborative problem solving in Mathematics.Talented writers in Year 7-9 are invited to the Talented Young Writers' Program, where they enjoy the privilege of meeting acclaimed Australian authors and sit in an creative workshops actioned by these fine writers.
Future Problem Solving Elective
Academically talented students in Year 9 and 10 are invited to choose Future Problem Solving as an elective. Future Problem Solving is an international educational program for Gifted and Talented students which focuses on the development of critical, creative and futuristic thinking skills. The program encourages students to have a positive impact in the society of the future.