Education » Gifted and Remedial Programs
Children who need extra help receive it at Highvale. We have a specialist remedial reading teacher who works with children individually or in small groups to assist them to reach required standards every year. In addition, Highvale’s dedicated teachers help children for 30 minutes before and after school in small groups for specific reading or maths tuition. This extra effort contributes to Highvale’s consistently high academic results.
Talented children are catered for in a variety of ways including graded classroom work, in which children of similar abilities work together, and extension programs in which some Prep or Year 1 children, for example, join a Year 2 class for reading. Similarly, some Year 6 children visit the neighboring Highvale Secondary College for Year 7 maths.
Year 6 students can also participate in “scholarship” classes before school two mornings a week to extend themselves or to assist their efforts to gain secondary college scholarships.
In instrumental music, high achievers can progress beyond standard levels. Individual music tuition offers the flexibility for students to develop skills at their own pace and gives superior abilities the freedom they need to flourish.
Those with sporting prowess at Highvale can progress to regional and Victorian levels in cross-country, football and athletics. Our German program also offers the challenge of statewide competitions - in which Highvale students are regularly successful - and children can also participate in leadership courses.
Highvale also hosts the regional G.A.T.E.ways program for highly able children from 15 district schools. Participants tackle a range of workshops aimed at challenging them and extending their normal classroom work. Subjects include science, poetry, environmental education, problem solving and meteorology and are taught by university lecturers, musicians, scientists and writers or other experts in fields related to the primary school curriculum key learning areas.