Enrichment and Acceleration process
Marist College Canberra recognises, celebrates, and supports high-achieving, high-ability, and high-potential students.
As a core College belief, Marist aims for its graduates to have a thirst for knowledge, a love of hard work, and a commitment to academic integrity and rigour. Through this belief, the College commits to providing academic challenge within the classroom, to encourage all high-achieving, high-ability, and high-potential students to aspire to, and realise, academic excellence.
Importantly, the College recognises that academic excellence is the goal for all learners.
As such, academic challenge is available to all students who have exceptional measures of achievement, ability or potential, with or without external identification, where appropriate and beneficial to the individual.
Fundamentally, the College aspires for curriculum-compacting acceleration to be available to all high-achieving, high-ability, and high-potential students, through a same-aged, ability-grouped class model in core subject areas. In addition to targeted and explicit instruction of the Australian Curriculum, the College may extra-curricular enrichment opportunities such as competitions and programs. In exceptional circumstances, and following a thorough review process, further options for acceleration may be considered, including single-subject and whole-grade acceleration.