Over 2024-2026, Ardoch aims to support 8,000 children in regional communities. Students in regional areas do not have the same opportunities as their urban peers, and the consequences for their education and lives are significant.
But we can take practical and meaningful steps to give these students opportunities to help redress the imbalance.
Each regional community comes with its own challenges, and students will have differing needs. Ardoch will work closely with students, teachers and local communities to develop programs and approaches that meet students’ needs, complement the curriculum and will make a sustained impact on students’ potential.
Our work in regional areas is with primary schools and will focus on the vital transition years of grades five and six to set the students up to succeed in secondary school.
The offered programs will:
Research shows that each of these are vital to give children every chance to succeed in secondary education – and in life.
Each school will be able to choose a program that best meets the needs of their year five and six students. For example, a school may identify that their students need extra support in:
Supporting student’s literacy
Strengthening students’ engagement in STEM:
Fostering students’ creativity and self expression:
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