Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) Program
Auburn High School offers a Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL) program for students in Year 7-9. The program brings together like-minded, high-achieving students, giving them a sense of belonging and extending them to fulfil their potential. The program is fully accredited by the Academy of Accredited SEAL schools (TAASS).
Teaching and Learning in SEAL
Students in the program learn Victorian Curriculum English, Humanities, Maths, and Science in their SEAL class. The teaching and learning programs are designed to emphasise opportunities for challenge, extension and acceleration above the curricula level of the cohort. This includes opportunities for students to:
- Exercise more complex skills during application tasks and assessment
- Learn curricula content at an accelerated pace
- Perform at achievement standards above the year level
- Participate in excursions, competitions, clubs, and other extra-curricular activities that complement and enrich learning
Students learn Victorian Curriculum Health and Physical Education, Arts and Technology and French in mixed classes with peers from mainstream, French Partial Immersion and French Binational programs. These classes support students to build social connections across the year level.
SEAL Pathways
Towards the end of Year 9, students engage in rigorous course counselling and subject selection for Senior School (Years 10-12). The Year 10 program includes a wide range of electives and courses which can be tailored to student interests and our three Senior Pathways: Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), Victorian Certificate of Education – Vocational Model (VCE-VM), or International Baccalaureate (IB).
Students at Auburn High School have the opportunity to undertake an accelerated pathway, by studying one or more VCE Subjects in Year 10. This provides the benefit of being able to undertake a broader selection of VCE studies and prepares students to achieve their maximum potential Tertiary Admissions Ranking (ATAR).
Given the academic rigour of the SEAL program, students are uniquely positioned to demonstrate the required academic and learning behaviours to be offered to study an accelerated pathway in Year 10.
Please note that offers are made subject to the acceleration policy, which ensures students have demonstrated a standard of achievement and learning behaviours that will support successful acceleration.
Entry to the SEAL program
Students must meet DET guidelines for enrolment at Auburn High School in order to apply for the SEAL program at Year 7. Once students and families have completed the Year 6-7 application form and have a confirmed place at Auburn High School, they can apply for the SEAL program.
The application process involves a written expression of interest including student reports and academic data and Edutest testing. Shortlisted students will be invited to an interview.
Entry to the AHS SEAL program is not based purely on academic grounds, but a holistic judgement of suitability and success for the individual student in the program.
The SEAL program is a competitive, select-entry pathway and students who are successfully accepted into the SEAL program are expected to model our school values (diversity, aspiration, respect, excellence) and uphold a high standard of learning behaviours.