Kilvington Grammar School

Welcome to Kilvington Grammar! We know what an important and often difficult process it is when making decisions about your child’s education. When it includes the possibility of an independent school where there are fees involved, you want to know your child is going to get the best possible experience at a place they will spend up to 13 years of their lives. The challenge is choosing a school that will best meet your child’s learning, emotional, social and physical needs.

At Kilvington, we aim to be as transparent as possible. We will provide you with as much information as possible to help you decide whether Kilvington is the place for your family. We would encourage you to review our Mission Statement. In short, we are about academic excellence, building character and providing a warm and engaged community. A Kilvington education is based on four key pillars – Academic Excellence, Character, Community & Care.These pillars are interdependent to help our students become thinking, strong, caring and respectful people who once leaving school, will positively engage with and contribute meaningfully to the world around them.

We celebrate the individuality of each student and all that they can bring to our learning community. Teachers at Kilvington take into account who they are teaching as well as what they are teaching, as our teaching and learning goals are to plan actively and consistently to help students move positively along the learning continuum.

Differentiated instruction is embedded at Kilvington. If a student learns faster, or is ready for greater depth or breadth of knowledge, then our teachers vary the learning sequence and use methods such as compacted curriculum, tiered tasks, and acceleration in some cases to broaden the scope of the learning. If a student requires additional support then provision can be made. One size does not fit all at Kilvington and our programs are flexible so that we can maximise the potential of our students.

Our depth projects, cross-curricular projects, enrichment program, master classes and ever-broadening elective programs give students across the school the opportunity to contribute, be affirmed, stretched and accomplish things they may not have thought possible.

Kilvington’s Junior School is a place of rich and exciting learning experiences where children are respected and valued. Each student is viewed as naturally inquisitive, with enormous potential. We encourage enthusiasm, creativity, persistence and collaboration amongst our students and celebrate individual differences. Our inviting classrooms ensure students feel connected, valued, engaged and challenged at all times.

Our student’s needs, abilities and interests are placed at the centre of the curriculum, and differentiated programs are designed to ensure all children reach their academic, physical, social and emotional potential. We encourage our students to share their learning successes and discoveries with others and place importance on building strong home-school partnership.

Senior School is a place of challenges, where students can build on their previously acquired skills, while developing the resilience and maturity necessary to enter adulthood with confidence. Students and staff work together towards shared learning outcomes while students are actively encouraged to take more responsibility for their learning. Students are helped to gain a sense of place in the community at school, and beyond, by learning how to act responsibly and ethically in cooperation with others.

Senior school is all about preparing our students for life beyond Kilvington’s boundaries, ensuring they leave with all the skills necessary to participate fully in the world. Kilvington’s Senior School (Years 7 – 12) occupies two separate buildings, offering older students their own learning space. Both the Middle School Centre of Excellence and VCE Study Centre offer unique state-of-the art environments for students to learn in.

Central to the Kilvington educational philosophy is the uniqueness of each student within the School community. We celebrate the individuality of each student and all that they can bring to our learning community. Teachers at Kilvington take into account who they are teaching as well as what they are teaching, as our teaching and learning goals are to plan actively and consistently to help students move positively along the learning continuum.

Differentiated instruction is embedded at Kilvington. If your child learns faster, is ready for greater depth or breadth of knowledge then our teachers vary the learning sequence and use methods such as compacted curriculum, tiered tasks, and acceleration in some cases, to broaden the scope of the learning. If your child requires additional support then provision can be made. One size does not fit all at Kilvington and our programs are flexible so that we can maximize the potential of all our students.

Our Cocurricular program, Crosscurricular projects, Masterclasses and Enrichment Program, and ever broadening Elective programs give students across the School the opportunity to contribute, be affirmed, stretched and accomplish things they may not have thought possible. Our Years 7 – 9 girls and boys attend core subject classes; English, Maths, Science and PE separately. We find that Kilvington students respond well to a combination of single-sex and mixed classes at this stage of their learning.