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.

Book a free school visit within the Metropolitan Melbourne area. 

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 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

Bookings open term-by-term – availability is released midway through each term for the next term.

2025 booking release dates:

  • Term 1 – 13 January
  • Term 2 – 18 March
  • Term 3 – 16 June
  • Term 4 – 1 September

 

Book your metropolitan school visit

Availability and bookings are currently closed while we prepare for Term 2.

  • Bookings for Term 2 open on 18 March

  • From this date, you can check availability and secure your spot for visits between 22 April – 18 July 2025.

Book a session – Email tours@parliament.vic.gov.au with your preferred available time slots and include:

Program name Metropolitan school visit
Date(s)  
Number of sessions per visit  
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  

Please remember, this is only a booking request, not a confirmed booking. You will receive a confirmation email once your request is processed.

 

Enquiries

 

Our committment to child safety

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

Child safe policy