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Select Entry Accelerated Learning
A Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) program is a form of streaming used in government secondary schools in Victoria, Australia to provide a focused educational environment for academic giftedness, academically gifted children. The program allows students to undertake Year 8 work in Year 7, and the option to complete their secondary education in five years instead of six, or students can choose to undertake a more comprehensive Victorian Certificate of Education that takes three years instead of two. In 2016, the Department of Education (Victoria), Department of Education stopped accrediting the SEAL program, with a spokesman saying that schools that offer the program should offer enrolment to local students before students outside the school's zoning region. Controversies As a form of streaming (education), streaming, SEAL programs by their very nature attract criticism from those committed to the principles of comprehensive education. Additionally, because they are not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary School
A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. There may be other variations in the provision: for example, children in Australia, Hong Kong, and Spain change from the primary to secondary systems a year later at the age of 12, with the ISCED's first year of lower secondary being the last year of primary provision. In the United States, most local secondary education systems have separate Middle school#United States, middle schools and High school in the United States, high schools. Middle schools are usually from grades 6–8 or 7–8, and high schools are typically from grades 9–12. In the United Kingdom, most state schools and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaffey Secondary College
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Lyndale Secondary College
Lyndale Secondary College is a co-educational government secondary school located in Dandenong North, Victoria, Australia. It has a student enrolment of approximately 1,200, and is known as one of the largest single campus schools in Victoria. The school is divided into two sub-schools—a middle school and a senior school. Its acting principal is Pam Robinson, and there are also two vice principals. The principal features of the campus are the Hugh McRae Hall, a Resource Centre (Library), a Senior Studies Wing, a Language Centre (West Wing), the well-equipped Graeme Fox Stadium, a STEM Centre, and recently completed Performing Arts centre. Headstart Program The Headstart Program is a new initiative that the college has launched where students from Year 7 to 11 commence the new school year late in November (25 November in 2013). The program lasts for 3 weeks with studies resulting in an assessment task/outcome. A feature of the school is the SEAL (Select Entry Accelerated Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilydale High School
Lilydale High School is a co-educational government secondary school located in Lilydale, Victoria. , the school includes science, media, technology and multi-purpose learning areas. History Lilydale High School was founded in 1919, at which stage it was housed in a single building not located on the current school grounds. In the May 2006 Victoria state budget, A$5.65 million had been allocated to the school for the completion of construction at the school, consisting of 15 new buildings and facilities to be completed between 2006 and 2007. Leon Bishop commenced as the school's Principal in 2006 after the retirement in 2005 of the previous school's Principal of 18 years, John Benison. In 2019, the school's Steam (STEM) coordinator, Tony Vallance, won the Australian Teacher of the Year award in the Australian Education Awards. Sporting achievement In 2006 the school was awarded the ''Eastern Metropolitan Region's Most Outstanding School Achievement in Physical and Sport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keilor Downs College
Keilor Downs College (abbreviated as KDC) is a government-funded high school which services the Keilor Downs area of Melbourne, Australia. The co-educational school caters for students from Year 7 to Year 12 Year 12 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes the twelfth or thirteenth year of compulsory education, or alternatively a year of post-comp .... A strong majority of 78% of students from the school achieved an ATAR above 50 in 2022. The school median ATAR for 2022 was 29, demonstrating strong overall academic achievement. Keilor Downs College was ranked 39th out of all state secondary schools in Victoria based on VCE results in 2018. Curriculum Keilor Downs Secondary College separates its students into two three groups. Junior School, Middle School and Senior School. Middle School follows the established national curriculum for students in Years 7 to Year 9. Senior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kambrya College
Kambrya College is a state government funded coeducational secondary school located in Berwick, Victoria, Australia. Opening in 2002 with 97 Year 7 students, the school quickly grew to over 1600 students by 2007. The school has facilities for visual and performing arts, information technology, science, hospitality, wood and metal workshops, dedicated automotive workshop as well as a fitness centre. The school also had over 25 portable classrooms, largely due to its rapid growth in its early years, however since 2014 at least 10 of the older portables have been relinquished. In 2018 a building project will see a new block of general purpose classrooms constructed. The school is organised into four Sub Schools, each with its own colour, mascot and representing one of the schools values. Each Sub School has their own building and is led by one Sub School Leader (Leading Teacher) and one Assistant Sub School Leader. Students enter one of these Sub Schools in Year 7, and remain until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsham College
Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby towns include Crawley to the north-east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south-east. It is the administrative centre of the Horsham district. History Governance There are two main tiers of local government covering Horsham, at district and county level: Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. Much of the built-up area of Horsham is an unparished area, but some of the suburbs are included in civil parishes, notably North Horsham. The town is the centre of the parliamentary constituency of Horsham, re-created in 1983. Jeremy Quin had served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Horsham since 2015, succeeding Francis Maude, who held the seat from 1997 but retired at the 2015 general election. Quin was defeated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleneagles Secondary College
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Glen Eira College
Glen Eira College (GEC) is a co-educational, public secondary school located in Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia. It is situated on Booran Road and backs on to Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. The current Booran Road school was originally Caulfield High School, which opened in 1962. Glen Eira College was formed through a merger of Caulfield High School, Prahran High School, Caulfield Technical School, Murrumbeena High School and other state schools. In 2021, GEC was named ''The Age'' "Schools that Excel" winner among government schools in Melbourne’s south. Curriculum and programs Glen Eira College students study towards the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the main secondary student assessment program in Victoria which ranks students with an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) for university entrance purposes. Practical VCAL subjects can also be combined in subject choices. The college had a VCE median score of 31 in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Enrichment progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladstone Park Secondary College
Gladstone Park Secondary College is a public state school in Melbourne, Australia founded in 1974. Introduction The school has around More than 1600 students, a figure which has remained roughly constant for over a decade. When it first opened, Gladstone Park Secondary School (GPSC) quickly became the largest school in terms of matriculated students within a 10 km radius, a position which it still holds today. School life The school has a special disability partnership with the local TAFE institutes, where most GPSC graduates enrol to do apprenticeships or diplomas. Facilities The school grounds contain many sports facilities including a football and soccer oval, outdoor basketball and netball courts, cricket nets and an outdoor hockey/ futsal pitch. There is an indoor sports centre with two basketball courts, squash courts and gym facilities. The school library is open to students and the public. A joint senior school office and year 12 study centre building opened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footscray High School
Footscray High School is a multi-campus secondary school in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ..., Australia. It consists of two junior, years 7-9, campuses (Barkly and Pilgrim) and a newly renovated senior, years 10-12 campus (Kinnear). Footscray High School is part of the Footscray Learning Precinct and has formed a network with the University of Melbourne which gives students a better chance of getting into the university after they leave high school. The network provides opportunities for Footscray High School to enter into a structured program that focuses upon excellence in teaching and learning practice and the improvement of student learning outcomes. History In March 1916, the Footscray Technical School began teaching at what is now Victoria Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairhills High School
Fairhills High School is a government high school located in Knoxfield, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Curriculum Fairhills runs classes for all secondary education levels but at a number of different streams, depending on the skills of each student. The mainstream classes are the standard classes. The enhanced classes are for students who wish to and are capable of progressing faster for that subject by doing advanced learning. The bridge classes are for students who need extra learning assistance in mathematics or English. Students can also apply to join the SEAL (Select Entry Accelerated Learning) Program which places them in enhanced classes so they complete the first three-year levels of secondary education within Year 7 and 8, allowing them to do VCE level studies in Years 10, 11 and 12. Senior students can also participate in tertiary level education at TAFE and other tertiary institutions. Co-curriculum activities Fairhills is well known for the qualit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
