Buderim Mountain State School ensures we meet the needs of all our students as individuals, and we aim to prepare all students the best way possible for their futures. To help achieve this, we are proud to offer a diverse range of excellence and extension programs within our school. To extend the capabilities of students recognised as learning above and beyond their current year curriculum, and to connect them with likeminded students, we currently offer three extension programs. Solid Pathways, planned and delivered online by the Department of Education is a program for our high achieving First Nations Students, while our Aspire excellence programs, which are planned and delivered by our teachers, provide an opportunity for our students to explore the curriculum at their level. All three of these programs are supplementary to the differentiation offered in our classroom lessons and occur during school hours.
Aspire
Our extension program known as Aspire, enriches and extends the curriculum being delivered by the classroom teacher. Throughout the school year, we offer learning program for English and Mathematics for students in Prep - Year 6, facilitated and delivered by an experienced enrichment teacher. The extension program your child will be engaged in during this time will provide them with the opportunity to work with like-minded students, immersing them in challenging and inspirational learning experiences, related to their current units of classroom work. Selection into these programs is through A-E achievement as well as additional assessments.
Aspire+
Selected students with high potential and exceptional academic ability will have the opportunity to engage in a learning environment that is intellectually stimulating and rigorous. Aspire+ fosters advanced analytical, critical and creative thinking skills, enabling students to work on an individual curriculum plan in selected learning areas. Different year level curriculum is planned and co-ordinated by an experienced Aspire+ teacher, in consultation with the classroom teacher and our Head of Curriculum. Individual student needs are identified through learning and assessment data as well as additional identification processes.
Solid Pathways
Solid Pathways is an academic extension program for high achieving First Nations students in Years 4-6. Selected students participate in weekly online lessons aligned to the Australian Curriculum with a focus on critical and creative thinking, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture.