The Australian Computational and Linguistics Competition (OzClo)
Ozclo is a problem solving, code breaking, linguistics challenge using real and dead languages to decipher messages. This is timed, online, and completed in mixed year teams of four.
At BCGS, extension is part of who we are, challenging students to think deeply, stay curious, and reach beyond the standard curriculum. Our Academic Extension programme runs alongside everyday learning, with dynamic grouping across year levels and a mix of invite only and open opportunities, ensuring each student is supported and inspired to grow.
Our Primary Academic Extension programme is crafted to both challenge students and ignite their curiosity through learning opportunities that go beyond the standard curriculum. Participants are grouped dynamically, allowing talented learners to collaborate across year levels. Entry into the programme is determined through a combination of data analysis and teacher insight, ensuring that students who will benefit most are identified and supported.
Our Primary Academic Extension programme is crafted to both challenge students and ignite their curiosity through learning opportunities that go beyond the standard curriculum. Participants are grouped dynamically, allowing talented learners to collaborate across year levels. Entry into the programme is determined through a combination of data analysis and teacher insight, ensuring that students who will benefit most are identified and supported.
Academic Scholarships recognise students with strong academic ability and a genuine commitment to learning.
Music Scholarships support students who demonstrate musical ability and a willingness to actively contribute to the School’s music program.
Sport Scholarships recognise students who compete at a high level in their chosen sport and who demonstrate commitment, teamwork and positive character.
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Our Secondary Program provides a breadth of academic extension opportunities that challenge students to think beyond the classroom. Across disciplines such as STEM, humanities, linguistics, and the arts, students engage in intellectually rigorous experiences that foster curiosity, problem-solving, and a deeper love of learning.
Ozclo is a problem solving, code breaking, linguistics challenge using real and dead languages to decipher messages. This is timed, online, and completed in mixed year teams of four.
Da Vinci Decathlon is designed to stimulate the minds and academic gifts of students through challenging competitions across 10 disciplines: Engineering, Mathematics, Codebreaking, Art and Poetry, Science, English, Ideation, Creative Producers, Cartography, and Legacy. Teams of eight compete in mixed year group teams.
Through a variety of competitions and collaborative challenges, students are encouraged to apply their knowledge in meaningful and creative ways. These experiences promote critical thinking, adaptability, and the confidence to tackle complex problems alongside peers.
ToM is a problem-solving program which aims to enhance the potential of our youth by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time management, and the discipline to work collaboratively within a challenging and competitive environment. In teams, students choose a challenge from the following disciplines: STEM, The Arts, Language and Literature, and/or the Social Sciences.
The Thinkers Conference is a day of philosophical lectures and workshops examining universal questions in collaboration with other students.
Working in dynamic, mixed year-level environments, students further develop their communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. Each opportunity is designed to extend thinking, inspire innovation, and prepare students to thrive in an ever-evolving world.
What Matters is an online writing competition open to all Australian students aiming to build civic engagement. This is run as a one day writing workshop.
a chance to be historians, researching world history, examining Australia’s past, investigating their community or exploring their own roots. This is run as an afterschool club.
Run by Newcastle University and the Rotary Club, this day long competition sees 32 Year 9/10 students compete in teams of four to complete a series of STEM challenges.
Competing against International and National schools over Zoom, a team of 5-6 students will discuss complicated ethical case studies to arrive at ethical solutions. This involves preparation, critical thought, strong speaking skills, and deep philosophical understanding.
In the WACH’s Think Tank, Year 10/11 students are presented with a real health problem facing the regions and create, ideate, and pitch an idea to health professionals for consideration.
This is a mixed year competition held in Busselton involving philosophical debate, Socratic discussion, and ethical reflection.
Berbas is a fun and engaging computational thinking challenge that involves over 2.9 million students from 60 countries. This is run by the mathematics department.
This is an exciting mathematics initiative that uses a quiz-night format. Teams of six students race against the clock to solve four intense rounds of eight challenging problem. This is run by the Mathematics department.