Top End School of Flexible Learning (TESoFL) is a flexible education program for secondary school aged students.
The school provides a range of flexible options to support students in their next steps, which may include support to return to mainstream school, work experience, training or support to find employment.
Programs
Flexible Education
TESoFL provides a range of flexible education programs that respond to the needs of students who are at risk of disengaging or have already disengaged from education. TESoFL coordinates targeted programs for secondary students enrolled in NT government schools. The NT Quality Standards Framework (QSF) for Flexible Education Programs articulates minimum standards for flexible education programs and guides new establishment and continuous improvement of these programs.
Student Pathways
TESoFL prepares students to transition to four possible pathways. These pathways are identified in collaboration with students. Every student develops a pathways plan that outlines their goals and the steps they need to take to achieve them.
The four pathways are: School, Vocational, Employment and Community.
School
Students are supported to engage or re-engage in schooling. They may transition back to their home school or engage in NTCET.
Employment
Students develop knowledge and skills that will enable them to pursue, gain and maintain employment and a possible career.
Community
Many students want to transition back to their homelands/communities due to cultural, kinship, and family reasons. TESoFL enables student transitions to homelands/communities by supporting young people to establish or re-establish connections with key supports and services.
Vocational
Students focus on accessing and completing a range of accredited VET programs to develop skills, knowledge and interests in specific industry areas that will enable future engagement in Schooling or Employment pathways.
Our graduates
Transitions
All students are supported for every transition as they enter, leave or move between campuses. Transitions are planned in collaboration with education staff, students and families. Our program aims to facilitate a successful transition back to mainstream schooling (home school), vocational training, or employment.
Student voice is central to our transition and pathways processes. Wherever possible we aim to ‘walk alongside’ the young person encouraging their active engagement in planning and implementing their transition to and/or from TESoFL. We connect the student’s transition with their family, close supports and their home school or community.
NTCET
Students are supported and encouraged to undertake and complete their Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training (NTCET) whilst enrolled at TESoFL. Students may have already started their NTCET prior to joining TESoFL – our goal is to support continuity of learning.
Students need to accumulate 200 points, including compulsory subjects, across Stage 1 and Stage 2 courses. There are numerous pathways for students to achieve their NTCET. Students can access a combination of academic subjects, VET and community-based learning to achieve NTCET points.
Students currently access Stage 1 and Stage 2 subjects through a dual enrolment with the NT School of Distance Education (NTSDE). Our staff support students to engage in online learning with NTSDE, using Moodle and Compass to interact with the NTSDE teachers.
Tivendale Campus Programs
Tivendale Campus provides a broad range of educational, wellbeing and pathway programs designed to re-engage young people in learning and support their transition beyond school.
Together, these programs provide flexible, practical and meaningful learning opportunities that strengthen student engagement, wellbeing and life skills while supporting pathways into further education, training and employment.
Enrolment
Referral
Referral to TESoFL is through the school principal and in consultation with Student Attendance and Engagement Programs and Services business unit of the NT Department of Education and Training.
Home school partnership
Students are dual enrolled, meaning they are registered at Top End School of Flexible Learning and their home school. This dual enrolment facilitates students returning to their home school at the completion of their course or once they are ready to reintegrate into mainstream classes.