Popular school urges families to sign up

The Geelong College’s commitment to innovation in learning in a caring environment is seeing the co-educational day and boarding school from early learning to year 12 go from strength to strength.
With wait lists at year seven, Geelong College Principal Peter Miller is encouraging families to plan ahead.
“Geelong is experiencing real growth and the demand for places into year seven in 2017 will be greater than what we are able to offer.
“People will need to plan further ahead if they wish to enter in high demand years such as prep and year seven,” Peter said.
He also encouraged families to consider Geelong College from the earliest years.
“Sometimes we feel as though people don’t know that we run an outstanding early leaning program with two classes for four and five-year-olds and two classes for three and four-year-olds – the second beginning in term two and enabling children to begin as soon as they turn three.
“The fees are comparable to most early learning centres and our program, which is part of the junior school, inspires the curiosity and confidence they will need to become big thinkers.”
“For prep we encourage families to enrol as soon as they make their decision. Our junior school is inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach and the small classes facilitate high levels of inquiry and engagement.”
“From year four our students move to the Middle School where they spend their first year immersed in an environmental education program followed by year five with a focus on Designing the Future, which offers hands-on learning in technology and problem solving, and the year six media immersion which develops the communication skills and understanding required for learning into the future.
These programs are developed specifically to engage all types of learners and teach core subjects by integrating them into year-long investigations, making sometimes foreign concepts easily relatable.”
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