ENROLMENTS FOR STUDENTS TRANSFERING FROM ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL

FLE (Flexible Learning Environment Years 8-12)

Latest Update April 2025.

TC has an enrolment restriction under section 2.2.16 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic). The restriction limits enrolments for the 2025 school year.

Our school will accept enrolments from:

• students who live within the school zone

• students with a sibling attending the school at the same time

• students enrolling on compassionate grounds, in exceptional circumstances.

Depending on available places, our school may be able to accept a limited number of out-of-zone enrolments according to next closest to the school.

The department will review this enrolment restriction yearly and provide updated advice as necessary for the subsequent school year.

We have now completed the enrolment application process for 2025. If you have just moved into our school zone, please email our Registrar Wendy Harford at wha@tc.vic.edu.au.

We will commence the 2026 application process for available places in years 8-12 for 2026 from Term 3, 21 July 2025.

Templestowe College applies the Department of Education Placement Policy for all applications. The policy can be found here-Enrolment: Placement Policy | education.vic.gov.au

For all other enrolment enquiries please contact our Registrar Wendy Harford via email, wha@tc.vic.edu.au or phone (03) 9851 4605.

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Most schools have a philosophy, but we are a philosophy that has a school. Our philosophy is based on the concept that students have far greater skills and abilities than they are generally given credit for and with the support and guidance of parents and staff, they have the ability to manage their own education.

TC has no year levels, so the students are free to study subjects at a level which suits them and only in areas that they see as relevant and important. This really benefits gifted students as they can rapidly accelerate.

Young people have brilliant ideas and can do amazing things. We will not let age be a restricting factor in giving young people the opportunity to display this. Young people have far more capacity than the traditional educational system gives them credit for. The nature of our individual programming, and lack of year levels is an exceptional opportunity for gifted and talented students to specialise in their areas of strength and passion, to meet their individualised learning needs. The acceptance @TC that “all of us are unique” has allowed many gifted students to seamlessly integrate within the school.

With input from their parents, each of the 1250 students develops an Individualised Learning Plan (ILP) with a 5 year time planning horizon. Students are supported in modifying and adapting this plan as their interests change. Once students demonstrate that they have established literacy and numeracy skills, they are free to select 100% of what they study from over 150 options. If there is something a student wants to learn that is not offered, they can devise their own elective called a Personalised Learning Project (PLP).

TC acknowledges that it is the student’s learning, not their parent’s or that of educators, and as such it is the student who must take responsibility for their learning. If any student, parent or staff member makes a suggestion, the answer has to be ‘YES’ unless to do so would take too much time, too much money or negatively impact on someone else. This is called the ‘YES is the default’ policy and is recognised by the Finish hundrED organisation as one of the most innovative educational concepts in the world.

Yet there are many ‘NOs’ at TC. No bells, no year levels, no compulsory uniform, no detentions, no yelling, no bullying and even no compulsory homework before VCE level. We believe that Homelearning is more relevant to the individual, as it caters to each individual’s needs.

Tours for students wishing to transfer from another High School for the following year will take place during terms 3 and 4. Following the tour you will be sent an email with the Expression of Intertest form.

Applications cannot be actioned until all of the requested documents have been received with the Application form.