Heathmont College - Prospectus 2019

13 Opportunities to excel We challenge students to excel, balancing cooperation with competition across a range of formal and informal learning experiences. The breadth of offerings provides plenty of scope for students to find enjoyment in new interests, develop skills, exercise leadership, grow as a team player and experience success whilst strengthening relationships with others. OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS Language We’re big on literacy at Heathmont College. It’s taught explicitly across the curriculum to continually develop student competencies in listening and speaking, reading and writing. We also offer individual programs that promote reading and studies in literature that enhance student appreciation and understanding of the English language. Given the importance of internationalising the curriculum, we offer studies in German and Indonesian which include overseas immersion opportunities with our sister schools, Kaufungen Integrated Grammar School in Hesse, Germany and Karangmojo Secondary School in Java, Indonesia. VCE Chinese, First Language is also offered. GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM We are proud to offer the relatively rare, valuable experience of a German Language Immersion Program in which German is variously the instructional language for Science, Humanities, Maths, Art and languages classes, totalling 8 sessions per cycle. This should boost the rate at which students absorb German vocabulary and grammar and help them to reach higher levels of competence in a much shorter time. Benefits of a German Immersion Program: • It allows students to learn the language much faster plus they reach a higher level of competence. • This higher level of competence can positively impact on performance in Year 12 German which may boost ATAR scores. • Furthermore, having a high level of competence in German will allow your child to study in Germany were studying at a University is FREE. Technology ‘Hands on’ learning is ‘brains on’ learning at Heathmont College because producing a product is a problem based activity that puts the focus on the experience and process of investigating, proposing and creating solutions. It requires knowledge gathering and application. Our students create with fabric, foods, plastic, and wood with access to machinery and equipment that allows cutting, shaping, bending, cooking and stitching. The Technology Centre is the primary venue of this learning by doing.