Agriculture & Horticulture
Experiential Learning
Learning on the Land
Ballarat Grammar is a Victorian leader in agricultural education, with programs to engage young learners in agriculture from early childhood through to their final year of secondary school.
Ballarat Grammar’s 120-acre Mount Rowan farm campus provides fantastic, hands-on agriculture and horticulture opportunities for all students. Whether it is our early learners relishing in Bush Kinder and cradling warm, freshly collected eggs, our Year 4 students getting involved in lamb scanning, or our Senior students investigating how sustainable agriculture practices will impact future food security, our farm campus provides students with opportunities to see, do, and learn things they might not otherwise get the chance to.
Our VCE Agricultural and Horticultural Program
- Enables students to contribute to a working farm enterprise, including making and evaluating on-farm decisions.
- Provides an understanding of the importance of agriculture to the Australian economy.
- Is delivered by an experienced team with strong industry and tertiary connections to support a variety of pathways into agriculture beyond school.
- Offers Senior students the chance to study Cert II Agriculture via the VCE VET pathway, meaning they can finish school with a qualification already under their belt.
Sheep Show
Students who join our Agricultural Show Team have the opportunity to be more deeply involved with running our studs at Mount Rowan, including our highly successful Corriedale stud. Students learn to care for and handle the animals, and prepare and present them in front of judges at shows around Victoria and interstate.
Show Team members also have opportunities for greater involvement in competitions, including wool judging, meat judging, and junior judging, with the possibility of representing Victoria.
Students spend additional time at our Mount Rowan farm as part of this program, supporting those away from their own farms to feel deeply connected to agriculture during the school term.
Acknowledgement of Country
Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Grammar School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we learn, live and work, the Wadawurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Commitment to Child Safety
Ballarat Grammar maintains a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child abuse and actively implements measures to identify and manage any risks of harm to students within our school environment. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people are central and fundamental responsibilities of the School. We are firmly committed to fostering a child-safe culture that provides an environment where students are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices heard in decisions that affect their lives. Ballarat Grammar values diversity and strictly prohibits any racist or discriminatory practices. All members of our school community share the responsibility to care for children and young people by promptly raising any concerns regarding their safety, promoting their wellbeing, and protecting them from all forms of harm or abuse.
