UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
Jul 8th 2020, 1:01 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
Jul 8th 2020, 1:48 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
And so BE loses another new poster, and another thread goes down the pan.........at least something is consistent in this crazy new world.
Jan 23rd 2021, 8:50 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
There's been a whole lot of hyperventilation on the thread about how difficult this all is, but it ain't necessarily so.
Your Plan A seems to be that your daughter will enter a Melbourne-area Year 11 program next year, i.e. late Jan 2021. Unless you have plans to return to the UK immediately thereafter, there's no point in her sitting GCSE exams; the immediate educational objective becomes a high VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) score, which in turn translates into an ATAR (Australia Tertiary Admission Rank) standing, which is the primary qualification for admission into Australian universities generally, including the 8 "sandstone" ones (broadly, the best ones here). If a transition back to UK (or other) for post-graduate education is desired later, a solid Australian baccalaureate from one of the top 8 unis will do the job.
Where to achieve that high VCE depends a lot on things you (understandably) don't detail in your OP in this thread. While I don't want to infer too much from your "quite lucrative [opportunity]" characterisation, I'm guessing at an income level that corresponds with an expectation of using private school options, and family location in a relatively 'leafy' inner Melbourne suburb. (I'd note in passing that there are also top-rank VIC-state selective-intake high school options for Years 9 -12, but your daughter has missed the normal exam-based intake for those.)
If that's the case, our family's recent circumstances have roughly intersected with yours. I'm willing to compare notes, if you like, but only via PM.
Your Plan A seems to be that your daughter will enter a Melbourne-area Year 11 program next year, i.e. late Jan 2021. Unless you have plans to return to the UK immediately thereafter, there's no point in her sitting GCSE exams; the immediate educational objective becomes a high VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) score, which in turn translates into an ATAR (Australia Tertiary Admission Rank) standing, which is the primary qualification for admission into Australian universities generally, including the 8 "sandstone" ones (broadly, the best ones here). If a transition back to UK (or other) for post-graduate education is desired later, a solid Australian baccalaureate from one of the top 8 unis will do the job.
Where to achieve that high VCE depends a lot on things you (understandably) don't detail in your OP in this thread. While I don't want to infer too much from your "quite lucrative [opportunity]" characterisation, I'm guessing at an income level that corresponds with an expectation of using private school options, and family location in a relatively 'leafy' inner Melbourne suburb. (I'd note in passing that there are also top-rank VIC-state selective-intake high school options for Years 9 -12, but your daughter has missed the normal exam-based intake for those.)
If that's the case, our family's recent circumstances have roughly intersected with yours. I'm willing to compare notes, if you like, but only via PM.
Hi,
Thanks Abner for your helpful comments. I am also going to be in similar situation soon. I am contemplating move to Melbourne in Aug-Sep this year.. My son (born 02.08.2006-- so now 14 1/2 years), who is currently in year 10 will be moving with me. My move is likely to be permanant, though nothing is guaranteed in life. I am confused and worried as to how best to handle his schooling. Going by the comments to this threat, it seems that if the move is likely to be a permanent one, then it makes sense to move as quickly as possible, to give a best chance to the child to settle in ans perform well in the VCE exam in year 11 and 12.
Any advice about best private schools in Eastern side of the Melbourne?
Jan 24th 2021, 10:05 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
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Hi,
Thanks Abner for your helpful comments. I am also going to be in similar situation soon. I am contemplating move to Melbourne in Aug-Sep this year.. My son (born 02.08.2006-- so now 14 1/2 years), who is currently in year 10 will be moving with me. My move is likely to be permanant, though nothing is guaranteed in life. I am confused and worried as to how best to handle his schooling. Going by the comments to this threat, it seems that if the move is likely to be a permanent one, then it makes sense to move as quickly as possible, to give a best chance to the child to settle in ans perform well in the VCE exam in year 11 and 12.
Any advice about best private schools in Eastern side of the Melbourne?
Hi,
Thanks Abner for your helpful comments. I am also going to be in similar situation soon. I am contemplating move to Melbourne in Aug-Sep this year.. My son (born 02.08.2006-- so now 14 1/2 years), who is currently in year 10 will be moving with me. My move is likely to be permanant, though nothing is guaranteed in life. I am confused and worried as to how best to handle his schooling. Going by the comments to this threat, it seems that if the move is likely to be a permanent one, then it makes sense to move as quickly as possible, to give a best chance to the child to settle in ans perform well in the VCE exam in year 11 and 12.
Any advice about best private schools in Eastern side of the Melbourne?
Feb 8th 2021, 9:25 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
Thanks. Yes, I have been told by a school that he will be put in year 9 if i move this year.
My tentative plan is to move around september this year.
My tentative plan is to move around september this year.
Feb 9th 2021, 7:51 am
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
You realise that the academic year in Australia goes from January to December so a September arrival will put him in year 9 until December then next year he will be in yr 10. Sometimes people do get confused because our academic year is different from the Northern Hemisphere.
Feb 9th 2021, 10:48 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
Yes, I know.
Mar 21st 2021, 12:03 pm
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid
Hi UK20054
I've just joined BE and noticed that this 4 page thread has turned into something about Meth?!
I wonder how you got on with your decision and what you have done. We are all leaving for Melbourne in the next few months and I have a year 10 and year 7 child. Was interested in what you decided?
I've just joined BE and noticed that this 4 page thread has turned into something about Meth?!
I wonder how you got on with your decision and what you have done. We are all leaving for Melbourne in the next few months and I have a year 10 and year 7 child. Was interested in what you decided?
Mar 22nd 2021, 8:00 am
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Re: UK to Melbourne with Year 10 kid