Metropolitan Melbourne school visits

Metropolitan school visits provide an opportunity for students to learn about Parliament from experienced Parliament Tours and Outreach Officers in their own classroom.
Metropolitan school visits provide an opportunity for students to learn about Parliament from experienced Parliament Tours and Outreach Officers in their own classroom.

Our Metropolitan School Visit brings Parliament to your classroom, with a hands‑on, curriculum‑aligned role play that shows students how Parliament works.

If your school is within 50 kilometers of Parliament House, we can visit your classroom to run our interactive role-play.

During this 75-minute session, students actively engage in the law-making process by assuming roles such as Speaker, Clerk, Serjeant-at-Arms, Premier, Leader of the Opposition, and other members of Parliament.

We offer role-plays for students in grades 5/6 and VCE Legal Studies. To learn more about the role-plays we offer, visit our role-play page.


Our role-play sessions have been designed to align with the Victorian curriculum. 

 

Classroom preparation

We ask that you setup your classroom before we arrive, please click the button below for our seating map.

If you wish, you can click the button below to prepare a topic with your class for grades 5/6..

Classroom seating map How to prepare a self-guided role play script

 

Program details

Cost Free
Year level 5—6 & 11—12 VCE legal Studies students
Group size 6—30 students per session
Sessions 1 or 2 simultaneous sessions per visit
location
 Your school within a 50-kilometre radius of the Parliament House
Duration 75 minutes
Availability Monday—Friday, 9:30 am

 

Availability and bookings

We release dates up to 12 weeks in advance

The calendar only shows dates within this window. If your preferred date doesn’t appear, the program may already be booked, unavailable due to events or Parliament sitting, or outside the 12‑week release period.

 

2027 bookings are not yet open.

Bookings for 2027 tours and school programs will open in mid-January 2027.

Please check this page for updates. An opening date will be published closer to the end of the year.

We cannot accept 2027 bookings earlier as our programs are scheduled around the Parliamentary sitting calendar, which is not available until late in the year.

Regional schools visiting Melbourne in early 2027: please email your proposed dates to tours@parliament.vic.gov.au.

 

Book your metropolitan school visit

1. View available dates
  • Click the button below to see which dates are available for school visits.
  • After checking our current availability, close that window.
View available dates and times

 

2. Email your booking request
Program name Metropolitan school visit
Selected available date(s)  
Number of sessions per visit (up to 2)  
Number of students per session  
Year level of students  
Role-play topic/bill (VCE Legal Studies students only)  
School name and address  
Parking details at your school  
Contact number for the booking  
Any specific needs or accessibility considerations  

3. Wait for confirmation

Your booking is confirmed when you receive a confirmation email.If you do not receive one within 2 business days, contact us.

Please keep your confirmation email and have it ready on arrival.

 

Enquiries

 

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For more information on our child safe policy, please click the button below.

Child safe policy