High Potential Education
High-achieving, high-ability and high-potential students
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.
Enrichment and Acceleration process
Since 1968, Marist Canberra has been a part of and had its footprints on the land of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples. As a College, we acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we stand. We pay our respects to them and for their care of the land. May we walk gently and respectfully upon the land. We are, as Marists, an inclusive and welcoming community. We acknowledge that all are created in the image of our loving God and called to live our lives glorifying the Lord. People of all faiths, genders, sexualities, and cultures are therefore welcome and respected equally in the Marist Catholic community.