Palmerston Senior College is situated in the rapidly growing City of Palmerston, 25 kms from Darwin. It is a government school that works in close partnership with the seven local primary, and one middle school in the area. The whole group is known as the Palmerston City Schools and the principals have formed a close, working group to provide a seamless education from ‘K to 12’ for Palmerston students. The college population comprises approximately 30% Indigenous students and large cohort of Defence Forces families. Now that the school has fully transitioned to become a Senior College comprising years ten to twelve the student population has reduced to around 560 students in 2012. Three pathways are offered to students: an academic, a VET and a multi-arts specialist program. The College has excelled in VET provision winning a significant National award in 2010 and 2011 for career education and VET provision. The College is a Beacon Foundation alumni school and a CISCO Academy, qualified to deliver the internationally recognised IT Essentials course that year eleven students convert to a Certificate 3 in ICT from Charles Darwin University. The college has also excelled in visual arts and has been selected by NT DET to become a Centre of Excellence in contemporary and Indigenous arts. Over the next few years this will result in an Arts Academy offering students training in music, dance, drama, art and digital film in both Western and Indigenous strands and a pathway to further studies at the Charles Darwin University. In 2012 we are trialling the online delivery of ‘Introduction to Media Studies’ for which students will gain university credit. A third area of excellence at Palmerston Senior College is in ‘ICT for learning’. The College has developed a robust and comprehensive computer network and infrastructure that has enabled the rollout of a laptop for every student (1:1) under the federally funded ‘Digital Education Revolution’ (DER) rollout. Ongoing professional development of our quality..