P - 12

Starting from less than $7,000p.a.

Students enjoy modern buildings with excellent facilities including our Information Resource Centre, art studios, robotics and control systems centre, a kitchen and restaurant, sports courts, ovals, 8 science laboratories, a performing arts centre with full fly tower and state of the art audio/lighting rigs, and a 25 metre heated pool.

Classrooms are networked and information technology is an every day tool in learning. Electronic white boards and high end software are in use.

The College has maintained its strong reputation for high academic outcomes since its establishment through the deliberate cultivation of a culture to support individual student achievement. Teachers are committed to the College’s ideals and work closely with students to support them in rising to the challenge to achieve their goals. Students are also expected to support one another in achieving their personal best.

In addition to offering subjects important in preparing young people for future careers and for making positive contributions to society, our teaching and learning practice combines the best of tradition with strategies based on contemporary knowledge of the way the brain functions and learns. We use the Teaching for Understanding framework (from Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA) as the basis for developing a thinking culture to help students go deeper in their understanding and relate learning experiences to real life situations.

In catering for individual student needs, we prepare students for university, trade based further education or careers. Since our first Year 12s graduated in 1994, an average of 99-100% of students have received tertiary offers, the remainder taking school-based traineeships that are usually converted into jobs or apprenticeships on graduation.

The academic curriculum is designed on a Prep to Year 12 basis so that students can follow a clear and well planned pathway from the first day of school to graduation.