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Melville Senior High School, as the school of choice for the local and wider community, will provide a distinctive, comprehensive education with strong academic and vocational pathways assisted by effective pastoral care programs where all students are given the opportunity to become confident, innovative and successful learners and are supported in the process of defining themselves as they prepare to meet the challenges of the future.
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About Us
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Contact Details
To alert the school of your child's absence, please use one of the following numbers.
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School Tour for Prospective Families
RSVP by phoning 6274 1300.
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Academic Extension Course
The Academic Extension Course (AEC) at Melville Senior High School offers students from Years 7 to 10 a diverse range of extended academic opportunities. The Program has two parts, Mathematics and Science being one and English and Humanities & Social Science being the other. Students can be accepted into one or both. The AEC students study each of their core subjects together for four hours a week:
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Music in Focus
The Music in Focus Program at Melville Senior High School offers students from Years 8 to 12 a diverse range of musical opportunities. Following a successful audition and interview, students receive four hours of classroom music each week throughout their five years of schooling in addition to continuing their instrumental lessons with a School of Instrumental Music teacher.The Music Department provides for facilitation of private instrumental lessons for instruments not offered by the School of Instrumental Music. In Year 10 students begin their preparation for upper school music, whilst in Year 11 and 12 they may choose to continue in either the examined or non-examined WACE “Music” course. Students enrolled in Stage 1 Music also complete the nationally recognized Certificate I in Creative Industries (Music Focus) in year 11 and Certificate II in Music in year 12.
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Our Beliefs About Teaching and Learning
Teaching and learning is at the heart of our purpose at Melville Senior High School. As the school of choice for our local and wider community, our staff provide students with the opportunity to excel in a learning and teaching environment that is engaging, dynamic and purposeful.
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Academic Extension Course
The Academic Extension Course (AEC) is offered to students in Years 8, 9 and 10. The course varies from the Gifted and Talented Selective Academic Program in that it is a school based program for students who show academic talent in science, mathematics and the humanities. This course is suited to academically able students who do not necessarily want the acceleration and additional pressureof the Gifted and Talented Program but enjoy the challenge of problem solving with an academic focus in various learning areas. Students may be moved from his program if they do not sustain the appropriate work standard from semester to semester. The program aims to extend and stimulate students whilst still progressing with mainstream topics. Students who wish to apply for this program are required to sit for a school-based test.
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Vocational Education & Training (VET)
Vocational Education and Training - VET
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In 2016, 14 certificates are being delivered across four learning areas at the school. Thirty two students access 18 different certificate courses under profile hours, not including School Based Traineeships, Aboriginal Based Traineeships and Education Support students. -
English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D)
The English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) course in the WACE is available to recently arrived migrant students for whom English is a second language. Indigenous learners for whom Standard Australian English (SAE) is a second dialect are also eligible to enrol in the EAL/D units. The course is designed to facilitate the achievement of four outcomes based on the mainstream English and LOTE outcomes in the Curriculum Framework. Course outcomes relate to competency in the areas of Speaking, Listening, Reading/Viewing and Writing. The course offers three stets of paired units at increasingly complex language levels: Stage 1 A/B/C/D, Stage 2 2A/B and Stage 3/B.
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