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Further Opportunities

Debating and Public Speaking
Opportunities to extend public speaking and debating skills are available for students through extracurricular participation, representing themselves and our school, in Royal South Street Society Eisteddfod, Debaters Association of Victoria and Legacy competitions. Year 7 students can also hone their developing debating skills via our Term 4 inter-class public speaking competition.
Camps and Excursions

Students are provided the opportunity to expand their educational experience, and extend their social and practical skills through a range of camps and excursions.

Year 7

A two-night, three day camp delivered at the beginning for Term 1 supports students’ transition to secondary school and provides an important and early opportunity for the student cohort to get to know each other and form connections.

Study Tours
Germany – Three-weeks

An exchange with our sister school in Singen where participating German language students travel to Germany, Switzerland and Austria. During their stay students attend our sister school while also experiencing the German culture. Students visit the Black Forest, Bavaria (Disney Castle), the Swiss Alps as well as other tourist attractions. The following year participating students host a return visit from the students of our sister school.

Practical skills are developed as they apply their knowledge of German language to navigate everyday situations, such as buying train tickets, asking for directions, ordering meals and engaging in conversation.

Japan – Three-weeks

Through our school’s Japanese program we enjoy a connection, and an exchange program with our sister school, Meisei High School, located on the island of Hokkaido.

Every second year a group of Year 10 students and teachers visit Hokkaido where they attend Meisei, stay with host families and see the sights of Japan, including Tokyo, with a very popular trip to Disneyland. The following year students act as hosts to the Meisei students when it is their turn to visit Ballarat, an experience that not only develops students’ language skills, but fosters long-lasting connection and friendships.

World Challenge
Students have the opportunity to travel to less developed parts of the world, participate in conservation and social projects and explore new and exciting areas as part of the World Challenge cultural immersion program.

Participating students build their capability, enhance their leadership ability, extend themselves, embrace diversity and start to find their place in the world as a global citizen.

 

Energy Breakthrough

Energy Breakthrough is an annual STEM focussed challenge where schools from across Australia congregate in Maryborough to challenge each other to a race, with a vehicle which students have designed and built from scratch.

Ballarat High School’s Rat Pack each year includes students from every year level who construct a vehicle to compete in the human powered division. Our students collaborate and extend themselves to develop their creations during every spare lunch-break and after-school session, before ultimately competing on race day in front of a crowd of 30,000.

Ballarat High School is accredited under the Department of Education and Training’s CRICOS registration (00861K). For further information refer to www.study.vic.gov.au