St Leonard's College is committed to catering for the needs of highly able students. Currently available talent development opportunities in
Middle School are:
The Prism Program
PRISM stands for Projects Reflecting Individual, Social and Multiple Intelligences. It is a program designed to provide
Middle School students from years 5 to 9 with academic challenges and extension of their particular talents in Science, Mathematics and English.
Participation in PRISM requires students of like-minds to meet each week in order to exchange ideas, investigate and problem solve. It has a selection of specialist facilitators who provide interesting and challenging activities in their particular interest areas. PRISM activities may also include excursions.
Specific Extension and Enrichment Programs
Some examples of these are:
• Future Problem Solving
• da Vinci Decathlon
• Tournament of Minds
• History Challenge
• Maths Talent Quest
• Philosophy Forum
• Student interchange with Minaret College
• Primary Maths Challenge
Key Learning Area Based Competitions and Challenges
Students are also encouraged to participate in a wide variety of subject specific competitions and activities.
For example in years 5 & 6 students participate in the following activities:
• The University of N.S.W. Science, English and Computer Competitions
• Epilepsy Foundation Trivia Challenge
• Science Talent Search
In the
Middle School secondary area, each faculty has a competition coordinator whose role it is to conduct both internal and external competitions. These are numerous and include:
•
German film making
• Rio Tinto Science Competition
• Genethics
• Eureka People's Choice
• Eureka Carbon Emissions
• Australian Mathematics Competition
• Japanese Language Speaking Competition
• Hiragana Writing Competition
•
Middle School Debating
•
House Music • Australian Geography Competition
• Norman G. Fary Public Speaking Competition
• Spellmaster
• Prose Creative Writing Competition
• Horror Movie Competition
For any enquiries regarding talent development in the
Middle School, please contact: