External Academic Opportunities

Every  year St Pius students enter into a range of external assessments and competitions. These further develop academic skills. The results are used by the College as a diagnostic tool to benchmark students with their peers across the state and country.

 

  • Academic Assessment Services placement testing

All students in Years 4 (prior to commencement), 6, 8 and 10 undertake Academic Assessment Services placement testing. This in conjunction with Year 5, 7 and 9 NAPLAN testing are used by the College as a diagnostic tool to benchmark students with their peers across the state and country

Other external academic opportunities include:

  • ACER PATR – Junior School

  • Australian History Competition

  • Australian Geography Competition

  • Education Perfect Languages

  • UNSW Computer Science and Engineering Prog Comp

  • Da Vinci Decathalon