The Coordinate Program with Trinity Grammar School, provides the best of both worlds.
Ruyton Girls’ School and Trinity Grammar School enjoy a unique and significant educational partnership providing opportunities for both of our school communities to learn from and with each other.
This strong and historical partnership has grown and developed over the decades to now encompass age and stage appropriate learning and co-curricular experiences across both the Junior and Senior Schools. The Coordinate Program meets the emerging needs of our learners at different stages, enriching opportunities for broader community connection.
The most significant of these are:
Developed more than thirty years ago, the Coordinate VCE program is delivered across the two school campuses, with Ruyton and Trinity VCE students attending classes across both schools. Our senior students enjoy greater independence, access and agency through this extended university style learning model, with access to the facilities and resources of both schools offering opportunities to diversify and extend their educational experience.
This co-educational academic and wellbeing program is made possible through joint timetabling, shared subject offerings and selection processes, through the collaboration of our academic staff. It also provides a bespoke wellbeing program to build maturity and social skills in a co-educational setting, as students transition to life beyond school, while retaining the opportunities and advantages of single sex education. Most academic subjects are offered across both schools, providing the best subject access and timetabling opportunities for students. Subjects with smaller student numbers are based at one school, maximising student engagement and school resourcing.
Students from Prep to Year 6 at Ruyton and Trinity come together once a term in a program that provides appropriate learning, wellbeing and cocurricular engagements to support their age and stage of development. This program develops a strong foundation on the relationship between the two school communities continues to grow.
Each year shared senior theatre productions are staged by the two schools. The Ruyton/Trinity Musical, Senior Play and Year 9 Play showcase our student talent and provide highlights of the school year. Students can audition for roles in Ruyton/Trinity productions as a performer, musician or crew member.
Our student leaders work collaboratively to support the induction and orientation of Year 9 and 10 students entering the Coordinate VCE program and to provide opportunities for student engagement and agency across the two school communities. It provides our leaders with an extended opportunity to collaborate across a broader community and to pass on their learnings and experience to the next generation of VCE Coordinate students.
This unique collaboration offers our Ruyton and Trinity students the best of both worlds. They experience all the benefits, and advantages of a single sex education alongside a broad range of opportunities for co-educational learning and relationship building. The shared school environments foster an extended culture of inclusion and respect, enhancing collaboration, connection and citizenship. Additionally, the movement and engagement of students, staff and families across the two schools ensures that we maximise the use of our facilities and resources, diversifying and extending the educational experience we offer.
