Enhancement

The Enhancement program at Mazenod College aims to identify our most able students and provide them with an opportunity to engage in immersive, challenging learning across a variety of subject areas. These include - but are not limited to - English, Mathematics, History, STEM and Music, starting with Year 7 and continuing through to the VCE. Students are selected through a combination of standardised testing, teacher recommendation and elective choice, and are then placed on a pathway to accelerated outcomes in Senior School. For example, a student undertaking Enhancement History in Year 7 is on a pathway that culminates in completing VCE History 3 and 4 (Year 12 equivalent) in Year 11.

Enhancing the way we think.

The program has a long-established tradition of helping students achieve strong outcomes in their chosen subject areas, with classroom experts in place to broaden subject-specific thinking and expand students' range of capabilities to best suit the demands of Senior academic performance. The curriculum content of Enhancement subjects is tailored to stretch students of high ability and to keep them engaged and focused during their time as secondary learners. Mazenod College places great importance on the holistic development of young people and recognises that the second most at-risk group of students in secondary education is the gifted and talented cohort, in terms of school refusal and socio emotional wellbeing. As such, the Enhancement program was established to help the aforementioned students of high ability achieve their considerable potential through engagement and learning outcomes built on personalisation and differentiation, not simply more content."