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We Are The School For Student Leadership.
Specialised Residential Programs for selected Year 9 Students attending Victorian Government Schools operating at four campuses in iconic locations of Victoria.
Our Place

The Alpine School Campus.

Lean more about our first campus situated at Dinner Plain, in the Victorian Alps.
Our Place

Snowy River Campus.

Learn more about our second campus situated near the mouth of the iconic Snowy River in Far East Gippsland.
Our Place

Gnurad-Gundidj Campus.

Learn more about our unique campus situated at Glenormiston South, in the Western District of Victoria, not far from the Shipwreck Coast.
Our Place
Don Valley Campus.
Learn more about our fourth campus situated in the Yarra Valley Ranges
School for Student Leadership

Providing transformational leadership education opportunities

Empowering students to reach their personal best
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Personal development & collaborative team learning projects

Young leaders who are socially aware and action focused

The School for Student Leadership is more than a school;

it is a home, a place of play, relaxation, relationships, friendships, emotions, health, sickness, eating, sleeping and waking, learning and adventure…

The School for Student Leadership operates over four campuses in Victoria:

The School for Student Leadership program is based on experiential learning which, in a nutshell, means we try to learn from all experiences rather than just those that take place in the classroom.

Experiential Learning.

Our students are able to increase their connectedness to the environment and their respective communities, develop their own self-worth and self-belief; and create stronger relationships with their communities of peers, families and staff.

Connectedness.

School for Student Leadership - Alpine School mountain & leaves graphic
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The School for Student Leadership provides opportunities that may otherwise be unavailable to state school students in Victoria.

Year 9

Year 9 has long been regarded as a challenging developmental period with measurably diminished student engagement.

Program Focus

The program is particularly focused on personal development, leadership education, student agency, and project-based learning.

Outdoor and adventure activities, expeditions, risk-based and team-based activities are a central element of the program.

Mutual trust, care & respect

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As our students, as emerging leaders live, eat, work, play, get ill, socialise and emotionalise at our place 24/7, the total care and wellbeing of our students is number one.

A Focus on
Student’s Care & Wellbeing.

Understanding how to care, attend to and support students undertaking a significant separation is the first priority of the success of our schools.

Communication between
families, students and staff.

A unique residential
education experience
for year 9 students.

Students live and work in a very close environment with up to 45 of their peers;

They sleep, eat, shower and work all under the one roof and share the same experiences of the neighbouring environment.

Don Valley Campus Life - Yr 9 students engaged & learning in one of our many unique classroom environments
SSL Students explore the local Alpine environment whilst out on their overnight expeditions (Expo)

Each term, school teams of year 9 students selected from both metropolitan and country Victoria regions attend the four School for Student Leadership Campuses.

Each campus sees a new intake of approximately 45 students drawn from Victorian Government Schools across Victoria. All programs are co-educational.

Government schools submit an expression of interest to participate and are allocated a certain number of student places. Each school then selects participating students based on their own selection processes.

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