A screen-free journey that builds your child’s confidence, resilience, and life skills—guided by you.
The Compass Award is a self-development program that parents’ guide their children through. It’s not just an activity or class, it’s a framework that helps children explore different activities, discover what interests them, learn who they are, set goals, and build persistence by following through on their commitments. With the support of parents, children choose activities across four evidence-based learning and development domains. They record their goals and progress in a Compass Record Book as they work towards completing the required hours for each level.
Every achievement is formally recognised with a printed certificate and badge. Our patron is the Governor of Victoria and completing Levels 5 and 6 provides students with an automatic early university entry offer through La Trobe’s Aspire program.
Compass complements school learning with real-world experiences at home and in the community. It builds wellbeing, confidence, and life skills, keeps kids fit and active and increases their engagement in school and learning, giving parents a meaningful role in supporting their child’s growth in and out of the classroom.
Our two boys have each completed a level of Compass and are now on the next stage of their Compass journey. Through the program they have gained new skills which in turn has increased their confidence in their abilities.
They’ve also formed meaningful relationships with their mentors which has given them the opportunity to grow as individuals. The thing I love most about Compass is that is fits snugly into our home education lifestyle and facilitates supported learning and growth at a pace and in a way that matches our children’s interests and learning styles.
– Chelsey, Home Educator, Queensland
Awards Victoria Ltd is committed to being a child safe and child friendly organisation. It recognises, respects and promotes children’s rights and is committed to protecting and empowering children who come into contact with the organisation. At Awards Victoria Ltd children are to be listened to, taken seriously and treated with sensitivity and compassion.
Awards Victoria Ltd acknowledges that children’s safety is the responsibility of the whole community and recognises its own responsibilities in keeping children safe from abuse. It has a zero-tolerance approach to child abuse.
Awards Victoria Ltd values diversity and will not tolerate discriminatory practices. It recognises the vulnerabilities of particular groups of children and pays particular attention to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children and children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the safety of children with a disability.
