VICTORIAN CHALLENGE AND ENRICHMENT SERIES

High-ability students from Prep to Year 12 will benefit from the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series, a new series of high-quality, funded extension activities across all areas of the curriculum. Schools can nominate students to participate in activities within the series according to their abilities and interests.

The Department of Education is partnering with more than 20 expert education and not-for-profit organisations, universities, Tech Schools, teacher associations, and science and mathematics specialist centres to deliver activities within the series.

Up to 100,000 Victorian government school students will have the opportunity to participate in the series from Term 3, 2020, until Term 4, 2022.

Over the next two-and-a-half years of the series activities will be held in metropolitan Melbourne and regional areas, and delivered during school hours, after school, on weekends and during school holidays.

All activities will:

• be free for participating students
• have a minimum duration of 90 minutes and be conducted in groups
• be across one or more learning areas of the Victorian curriculum.

This is another exciting step forward in challenging, supporting and extending high-ability students.  My role as Great Ryrie Primary School's High-Ability Practice Leader is to:

• act as a point of advice for my teacher colleagues in relation to high-ability students;
   
• coordinate students from GRPS to participate in the Victorian High-Ability Program and the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series; and
   
• communicate GRPS's approach to the education of high-ability students within our school community.

All queries to : Ms Jacobs, High-Ability Practice Leader.

(sharon.jacobs@education.vic.gov.au)