Curriculum News

Student Excellence Program at Camelot Rise Primary School 

In 2020, the Victorian Government helped establish a Student Excellence Program to focus particular attention to enriching high-ability students and their learning growth. This program has consolidated CRPS’ existing student programs to challenge their learning. 

High Ability Program

The most exciting highlight of this term has been the inclusion of 15 students in the High Ability Program in Primary Maths. Congratulations to the following students who are more than half way through their 10 week course:

Camelot Rise will host a masterclass for these and other VHAP students from local primary schools next term to celebrate their achievement. 

In Term 2, we will be participating in both Primary Maths and Primary English and expect to see Year 5s involved too! This program has select entry determined by the government’s Student Excellence team.

Challenge and Enrichment Series

Unlike the High Ability Program, classroom teachers can nominate students for enrichment courses (VCES – Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series). Last year, fifteen Year 6’s experienced fun across different courses, including the maths behind magic card tricks, fractions and irrational numbers, and the new STEM field of biomimicry. These online course are often 2 to 3 hours long. This term, we have expanded the program to include Year 4’s in a research into fractions and spirographs and we are sending another set of students to join the Royal Botanic Garden’s biomimicry program.

Future Programs

Congratulations to those Camelot Rise students who have already participated in the enrichment programs we have offered to date.  There are many other school – based enrichment programs we can look forward to this year.

Thank you to all the staff that have contributed to the administration and supervision of the student programs CRPS offer. If you have any queries in relation to these programs, please email the relevant teacher.