Enrolment
Selecting a secondary school that best suits the needs of your child is a very important decision.
We thank you for considering our school, in entrusting your child’s education with us. Our staff aim to provide an educational environment in which your child can thrive.
Kelmscott Senior High School is a school of choice within our local and extended community. We are pleased to offer placement to those who reside within our defined local intake area; as well as those who live outside our local intake area via the range of approved specialist programs we offer.
The local intake area for our school contains all or part of the local intake areas of the following schools:
- Clifton Hills Primary
- Grovelands Primary
- Kelmscott Primary
- Kingsley Primary
- Westfield Park Primary
- Roleystone Community College (from Year 11)
Families wishing to enrol their child at Kelmscott SHS, will need to complete ALL the enrolment documents, and provide the listed accompanying documents.
Please provide original documents to the school.
Gifted and Talented Education Secondary Selective Entrance Programs
At Kelmscott Senior High School, we have an inclusive ethos, and a curriculum that responds to the full range of learning types and abilities. The Kelmscott SHS GAT Program focuses on rigorous studies in Science, English, Mathematics, Humanities and Social Sciences. Students benefit from being exposed to a differentiated curriculum designed to stimulate and develop the individual’s skills in inquiry, analytical and critical thinking, communication and creativity. The academically focused learning environment is intellectually challenging and designed to motivate students to extend their knowledge, understanding and application and to enhance their learning skills for a lifetime of personal progress.
Entry into GAT can only be obtained through successfully securing a place through an annual testing program that is managed by the Department of Education. The selection process starts in Year 5, with testing taking place in Year 6. Successful applicants will join the program in Year 7, with limited vacancies also available for entry into Years 9, 10 and 11.
Students are in discrete Gifted and Talented classes in Year 7 – 10, then join mainstream classes in Year 11 and 12. Intellectual and emotional support is provided by a Deputy Principal and members of the school’s student services team.
Our GAT graduates achieve high level success in a range of fields, and are confident, innovative, lateral thinkers, who collaborate with their peers and community members, and are engaged with the contemporary local and world issues. Our strategically linked, co-curricular learning model through Future Learning enables students to make important, creative connections across subjects, and to move beyond the theoretical to apply their high-level thinking in real-world settings.
Students enrolled in the Gifted and Talented Program are strongly supported throughout their studies with:
- Academic tracking
- Careers/future educational pathway counselling and guidance
- Targeted social and emotional support
- Extra-curricular enrichment activities
- Extension opportunities outside of MESH (Maths, English, Science and HASS) including participation in competitions, leadership development, and community service initiatives. These experiences enrich students’ educational journeys and broaden their personal growth.
You can find out more about Gifted and Talented programs at https://www.education.wa.edu.
Specialist Learning Program – Autism Spectrum Disorder
Specialist and Academy Programs
Applications for our specialist and academy programs are included in our main enrolment form.
Big Picture Application and Prospectus
Out of Area enrolments
Applications from parents/guardians outside our local intake area (see local intake area map) are considered with the number being determined by the school’s capacity to accommodate further enrolments based on the following criteria:
- First Priority – A child qualifying for a specialist program approved by the Director General for that year.
- Second Priority –A child who has a sibling also enrolled at the school in the current year. Siblings can only be accepted when accommodation is available.
- Third Priority – A child who does not have a sibling enrolled at the school in the current year; who lives nearest to Kelmscott Senior High School with the distance being measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane.
Intake area maps can be viewed in http://www.det.wa.edu.au/schoolsonline
As requests for out-of-area enrolments far exceed the number of places available, families from outside of local intake area are advised to first enrol their children at their local area school as unfortunately our capacity to accept these enrolments has been limited in recent years.