Pre-Senior School
Year 9
Developing resilience and independence
The Haileybury program is tailored to suit each student’s educational stage and builds resilient, independent learners with a strong work ethic and critical skills in decision-making, leadership and enterprise.
Students leave Haileybury as well-rounded young citizens with a love for learning, who are prepared for life on the global stage and who possess a drive to do more for society.
Our Pre-Senior program
Haileybury Pre-Senior School provides a unique and highly beneficial program that supports the transition from Middle to Senior School. Students continue to develop their knowledge and skills through a comprehensive curriculum with a strong academic focus.
Where appropriate, single gender classes continue, and boys and girls have separate study and recreation areas. These are complemented by shared community spaces that foster social development and strengthen personal character as students prepare for life beyond school.
myCore and myChoice — a range of engaging subjects
The Pre-Senior program includes a mix of compulsory subjects (myCore) and a choice of courses (myChoice) that cater to particular interests. myChoice is equivalent to electives in other schools.
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English Enrichment, Mathematics, Science, Humanities, Physical Education and Personal Excellence, and at least one language are compulsory, providing a strong grounding for VCE study options.
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Students can choose from a range of courses across Computer Science, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.
- Computer Science: Digital Solutions and Creative Technologies.
- Drama: Script to Character and Character to Script.
- Music: Music: Performance, Composition and Production I, Music: Performance, Composition and Production II.
- Visual Arts:Art Making & Exhibiting, Media and Visual Communication Design.
- Entrepreneurship: Social Impact Ventures
“The Year 9 program is structured to develop resilient, independent learners equipped to handle the challenges of Senior School and the VCE.”Dr Nicholas Grigsby, Deputy Principal Head of Senior Schools
Developing global citizens
Haileybury is a global school with an international outlook and connections across the world. We offer a range of exciting opportunities for students to broaden their horizons and build independence and maturity. Each program is carefully considered to prepare for the transition to Senior School.
Explore and Expeditions
Explore and Expeditions empowers Year 9 students to step into the world, meet new cultures, tackle physical challenges and discover what they are capable of.
Through two rich offsite experiences, students develop resilience, global citizenship and a clearer sense of who they are and who they can become.
The program includes include local, national and international options which provide age-appropriate challenges and enriching opportunities for every student.
The Explore program enables students select an area of interest they wish to learn more about so they can broaden their understandings of our world and different cultures.
The Expeditions program focuses on personal enrichment and physical activities in the outdoors.
For more information on Explore and Expeditions visit here.
The City CHASE Experiential Learning program: Students visit our City campus and explore Melbourne’s CBD to build self-reliance, teamwork and awareness of social issues in the community.
Students also participate in a range of Social Justice activities and develop valuable life skills through our Wellbeing program, Personal Excellence program and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award program.
Outside the classroom
Pre-Senior School continues to build on students’ interests and passions and offers numerous activities both as part of the co-curricular program and as extracurricular activities. Haileybury offers a wide range of sporting and creative pursuits, extension activities in the form of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and LEAP (Literature, English, Arts and Politics), competitions, clubs and community-based initiatives.
Our full offering of co- and extracurricular programs can be viewed on our Co-curricular page.
