Knox Park Primary School
The School Improvement Team at Knox Primary School understand that their high-ability students’ wellbeing is integral to their students’ achievement of academic excellence.
Wellbeing is at the forefront of Knox Primary School’s education model, underpinning the school’s approach to promoting student voice, agency, and leadership. Activities that build opportunities for higher level learning are supported by clubs, events, and competitions where students’ achievements in diverse domains of high ability are celebrated and shared.
Initiatives like ‘Leadership Sprints’, focus on developing differentiation and different high-ability growth opportunities in portfolios like Numeracy, Literacy, Wellbeing/Inquiry and Student Voice. STEM Specialist teachers are increasing student engagement, especially among 'twice-exceptional students', and the appointment of a High-Ability Leader is developing the school’s capacity to identify and support the diversity of their high-ability learners.
Acknowledged with a Gold accreditation for their School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support model, the school is demonstrating that high-ability, excellence, and wellbeing are not only restricted to academic and sporting domains.
Preston High School
Preston High School's commitment to encouraging staged learner growth is ensuring all students, including high-ability learners, have the opportunity to excel.
The school’s Learning and Teaching Team lead a collaborative process of curriculum design and development that is enabling all students to access increasingly challenging content as they need it, extending high-ability students’ understanding of that content through its application.
Delivering targeted support to their students, the team has initiated community engagement and partnerships with other schools and universities to enrich their high-ability students’ educational experience and provide further professional learning opportunities and engagement.
In 2023, Preston High School developed the Preston High Institute to offer professional learning for schools and teachers. Partnering with the University of Melbourne, the school’s Learning and Teaching Team has led the use of developmental rubrics to better facilitate the tracking of student progress, to identify areas for individual improvement and provide targeted growth opportunities for high-ability learners.
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