We welcome and encourage general enquiries from families regarding enrolments throughout the year. Groves Distance Education is a learning community made up of supportive families, seeking quality schooling within the Christian faith tradition. Families that are willing to commit to sharing in the College community as described below should initiate an enrolment enquiry within the College. These commitments are:

For students, engagement expectations (which increase with age) include:

All prospective families are invited to learn more about Groves Christian College through a College tour. The tour presents information about the College’s values, Christian ethos, expectations and allows families to see the College facilities. You will be able to evaluate the College to determine if what the College offers is suitable for your family and the learning needs of your children. College tours are conducted by the Heads of School. If you are unable to attend a tour in person, we will make alternative arrangements for you.

If after attending a College tour you desire to be part of the College Community and support the College as detailed in Step 1, we will invite you to complete a formal enrolment application form. The application form must be returned fully completed along with supporting documentation. Documentation required to be provided includes:

There is no enrolment application fee at Groves Christian College. Submitting an enrolment application form does not guarantee entry into the College but starts the formal enrolment consideration process.

The College will consider and review the information and documentation provided to make a preliminary determination of its capacity to meet the educational needs of your child. The College may request additional information if required. All applications for enrolment are considered according to a range of criteria. The chief general criterion is based on the notion of mutual benefit. The College enrols students who will benefit from a Christian education at the College and from whom the College will benefit by their enrolment.

Once the College has reviewed the supplied information, we will schedule an enrolment interview with the relevant College staff. In conjunction with the interview, we will also arrange for your child to participate in literacy and numeracy testing. The purpose of the interview is to formally discuss the suitability of the College, Family and Student to each other. We consider:

This consultation gives all parties the opportunity to consider these aspects before entering into an educational partnership through a formal contract. Where information obtained by, or provided to ,the College indicates that the student has a disability or is at educational risk, the College will further consult with you to identify the support or adjustments that may be required. This may lead to requests for additional reports or medical documentation from specialists outside the College. This will beat your own expense. If the College determines the student will require adjustments, appropriate staff will be consulted to identify whether the adjustments are reasonable and in the interests (including safety)of all concerned (students and staff).

Following the interview, the College will contact you to confirm whether a placement is offered or not. If a place is offered, the College will provide you with an enrolment contract to sign along with additional document including information regarding fee payment. Any placement offer will be based upon the information provided by you during the enrolment process. In the event it is subsequently revealed that any information was inaccurate, false or misleading, the College reserves the right to review the enrolment and may decide to withdraw the offer or terminate the agreement if it has been accepted. If it transpires after enrolment that the educational needs of a student are beyond the reasonable capacity of the College to meet, the College may review the enrolment in consultation with you.

To accept an offer of enrolment, you must:

All enrolment offers have an expiry date, which is detailed on the Letter of Offer. Families are required to communicate with the College if they are unable to confirm their enrolment with the abovementioned requirements by the expiry date.

Once the Enrolment Contract has been returned, enrolment is confirmed for the commencement date in your Letter of Offer. If you are commencing at the start of a school year, you will receive a Start-Up pack during December for the following year. This pack will include all the key information for commencing, including uniform details, bookpack services and calendars. If you are commencing at another time, you will be met at our Administration on your first day by a College leader who is local to your student. They will be orientated to the grounds and introduced to their teachers and peers by the leader, with follow-up as required across the settling in period.