Rationale

Available **data** was telling a clear story:
 * Why are we doing this?**

Declining **VCE results**. Student dissatifaction revealed through the **Student Opinon Survey**. A staff survey was carried out at the start of 2009.
 * Anecdotal discussions** indicating widespread concern amongst teachers, parents and students.

Further to these sources has been the emergence of the **Year 7 & 8 'Eflex'** program. This initiative introduced through Leading Schools funding has meant that our Year 9 & 10 students are arriving from an open space learning environment, structured largely around thematic teaching approaches. The more traditional nature of the middle school classrooms seemed to need review in order to best cater for these students.

Questions were being asked as to whether the **'Vertical Modular Grouping'** initiative, succesfully implemented around ten years ago, was still meeting the different needs of our Year 9 & Year 10 students.

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