Wanniassa School
Location
Wanniassa School is a government P-10 school, comprising a Junior and a Senior Campus, as well as a Koori Pre-school, in the beautiful Tuggeranong Valley in Canberra. Wanniassa School strives to ensure that its young people develop the skills for making sense of the world and their place in it. The school believes that rigorous, connected and relevant study builds the foundation for young people to make informed, optimistic and responsible choices as future citizens of a local, national and global community.
Wanniassa School offers a Big Picture program on the Senior Campus for a group self-selected Year 10 students, with their parents’ involvement. The program is now in its second year, with the 2010 group of 20 students delivering a 100% Year 10 graduation rate and retention to further education or apprenticeships.
The program this year comprises two Advisory Groups with 12 students in each. Students attend Big Picture on 4 or 5 lines of their 7-line timetable, while also attending PE and elective classes, and/or outside programs where appropriate. The program meets the ACT Year 10 certificate requirements. Students complete four Learning Plans and four Exhibitions in the year, and also incorporate a Community Service or Service Learning project in each Learning Plan. All students also undertake real world learning, ranging from shadow days and workplace anthropologies to full LTI’s.