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Founded in 1858, Melbourne Grammar School values excellence in education. With a mission of ‘Fostering Learning and Leadership’, the varied individual talents of its students are encouraged, giving students the knowledge, skills and self-confidence needed to make the most of their abilities. The School encourages students to undertake leadership and, as a Christian school, it also emphasises the importance of service.
Facilities: Melbourne Grammar School is located on two campuses — in South Yarra (secondary) and Caulfield (primary). Grimwade House (Prep to Year 6) is a happy, secure and nurturing environment for both girls and boys. The middle school, Wadhurst (Years 7 and 8), boasts a state-of-the-art educational environment. The Senior School enjoys a combination of the most modern learning facilities together with the ‘bluestone’, a hallmark of a long and impressive tradition.
Facilities at each campus include a library, a hall, a physical education centre, a music school, a chapel, computer laboratories, an indoor swimming pool, tennis courts and playing fields.
Boarding facilities: Boarding facilities are located in South Yarra. The boarding precinct provides outstanding facilities with both single and double rooms. Years 7 and 8 students live in a Victorian terrace house with the head of house and his family. Years 9 to 12 students live on the South Yarra campus. There is a nurse on duty and a doctor is always on call. On weekends, students may go home once they have fulfilled their school commitments. The recreation program offers outings to plays, concerts and sporting events. Sports, creative arts and music facilities are available and students may go to films and other approved events in the city. Girls from local schools are invited to social functions and boys attend dancing classes outside the school.
Curriculum: The academic program is designed to give students a thorough grounding in the major disciplines, encourage flexibility of mind, lead students into co-operative team work and prepare them for life-long learning. A wide range of subjects is offered, including a Chinese language program from Prep level. Personal notebook computers are used extensively by students from Year 5 in all subject areas.
Extracurricular activities: These include most sports, the creative arts and an outdoor education program. The school has its own symphony orchestra, concert band, brass ensemble and choir.
Welfare and personal development: The School’s strong pastoral care program is committed to the growth of every student. Pupils are grouped into Houses under the guidance of a Head of House and tutors. There are three school counsellors, three chaplains and special education and careers guidance departments.
Cranbrook School was established in 1918 in historic sandstone buildings, which were formerly NSW Government House, and overlooks Sydney Harbour. Cranbrook challenges boys to be all that they can be. The School aims to develop and expand the unique potential of each individual boy and to equip him with the basis for acquiring vocational and leadership skills.
Facilities: In January 2011, Kindergarten to Year 2 students started at their new school in a park. In July 2011, the whole of the Junior School, Kindergarten to Year 6, will be together on one site in new, exciting, purpose-built educational facilities, which include a library, art rooms, a music centre, IT and science laboratories, a double gymnasium for Kindergarten to Year 12, tennis courts and traffic drop-off and pick-up areas. The Senior School is housed in modern classroom blocks, has 21st-century IT resources and sporting fields, an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium and a strength and conditioning centre.
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP): Cranbrook’s Junior School for students in Kindergarten to Year 6, is an International Baccalaureate World School authorised to teach the organisation’s International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (PYP). The program is international, inquiry-based and trans-disciplinary, designed to foster the development of the whole child, not just in the classroom but also through other means of learning. The PYP focuses on the total growth of the developing child, encompassing social, physical, emotional and cultural needs, in addition to academic welfare.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Commerce, Drama, Design & Technology, French, History Elective, Industrial Technology (Timber), Japanese, Latin, Music, Physical Activity and Sports Studies, Visual Arts, Visual Design.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Ancient History, Biology, Business Studies, Ceramics, Chemistry, Design &, Technology, Drama, Earth & Environmental Science, Economics, French, Geography, Information Processes & Technology, Japanese, Latin, Legal Studies, Mathematics, Modern History, Music, PDHPE, Photography, Physics, Visual Arts, Visual Design.
Sport: All boys take part in physical education as part of the school curriculum. Weekend competitions are arranged with other schools in most major sports including: basketball, cricket, cross-country, football, rowing, rugby union, sailing, skiing, swimming and tennis.
Co-curricular activities: AV Club, bands, ceramics, chess, choir, Crusaders, debating, drama & music productions, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, ensembles, lunchtime concerts, Open Day hosting, orchestras, outdoor education programs, Photography Club, production crew, public speaking, robotics, SCUBA Club, Student Representative Council, theatre sports, Travel and Explorers’ Club, weekly magazine editing. All boys in Years 7 to 12 are encouraged to involve themselves in community service.
Pastoral care program: The program recognises that the promotion of student wellbeing, and a safe and secure learning environment that challenges, encourages and supports all students, is fundamental to the achievement of the School’s aims. It promotes a whole-school approach and supports other initiatives to create an environment in which students feel safe, valued, engaged and purposeful.
Special features:
• Excellent academic results.
• Scholarships and bursaries program.
• International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Program.
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Cranbrook’s “Teaching and
Learning Framework”, through which the curriculum is
taught in the Senior School, incorporates 16 intelligent behaviours that the
School has identified as the key to success for boys, academically, socially
and physically.
• Cranbrook in the Field, where every boy in Years 7 to10 undertakes 10 days of outdoor education each year.
From the school: At Cranbrook we strive to ensure that when boys leave school they will have four things that we believe are essential:
• an ability to think, to value thinking and to want to think, and to know that information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom;
• an ability to stand on their own two feet, balanced by consideration of the needs of others;
• a positive and spirited approach to life;
• a fire in the belly about something really worthwhile.
At Cranbrook we know boys will be boys. So we’ve taken on the challenge and adapted our methods to suit the way boys learn. Cranbrook’s unique “Teaching and Learning Framework” is designed to take boys’ learning above all expectations and beyond the traditional, not just for the years they spend at Cranbrook, but for their entire lives.
St Mary MacKillop College, formerly MacKillop Catholic College, was founded in 1998 following the amalgamation of two schools. St Mary MacKillop College provides excellence in education for students from Years 7 to 12 over two campuses, Years 7 to 9 at the Wanniassa Campus and Years 10 to 12 at the Isabella Campus.
St Mary MacKillop College has united the best of the two former colleges to create a “Dynamic Welcoming Community Based on Gospel Values”. The Wanniassa Campus is situated at MacKinnon Street, Wanniassa. The Isabella Plains Campus is situated at Ellerston Avenue, Isabella Plains.
Facilities: Chapel, library, computer laboratories, media facilities, science laboratories, music, drama, refurbished art rooms, refurbished food technology and textiles areas, an industrial kitchen, a large gymnasium, industrial arts area, a theatrette that seats 300, basketball, netball and tennis courts, and an oval. A new trade training facility for vocational education exists on the Isabella Campus. A new library at Wanniassa will be built in 2011.
Electives: A Middle School approach has been adopted for the Wanniassa Campus with electives in Languages, Art, Music, Food Technology, Textiles and Design, Industrial Arts, Electronics, Technical Drawing, Typing Skills, Word Processing, Computer Programming, Computer Applications, Recreational Studies, Physical Education Extension courses and Theatre Arts. These electives are run in conjunction with the core subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, Religious Education, Physical Education, and SOSE Extension courses make up the rest of the College’s curriculum.
Sport: Students participate in interschool competition in a variety of sports including netball, volleyball, various codes of football (including Australian Rules), swimming, cross-country, athletics, soccer and cricket.
Extracurricular activities: These include school choir, band, public speaking, sport, Mock Trials, debating, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, drama, charity and community service projects, and the college magazine. Considerable opportunities exist to foster student leadership.
Welfare and personal development: The College’s pastoral care policy is integrated throughout the curriculum and involves cross-age tutoring, access to a school counsellor, and pastoral care programs. Work experience is offered in Years 10 to 12 and a careers adviser is on staff.
Special features: A resource unit has been established on each campus to cater for the individual needs of the school population. Within a flexible framework, it aims to identify, assess and rectify learning concerns as well as provide extension units for the more able students.
St Francis Xavier’s College proudly structures itself within the Catholic tradition of education, and operates as a senior co-educational college enrolling more than 500 students in each of Years 11 and 12.
Electives: A wide range of subjects and courses is offered. The number of courses has risen dramatically as more and more students are selecting subjects that directly relate to the workplace.
Sport: The college enters all the major sporting competitions and carnivals at diocesan, state and national levels.
Extracurricular activities: Students take part in educational, social, cultural and physical activities. Many students participate in the college musical.
Special features: Families wishing to enrol students should know that the Catholic ethos is espoused and promoted, and successful applicants are to be actively engaged in all dimensions of the college program. Enrolments are taken in April.
Recognised for consistently achieving outstanding HSC results, All Saints’ College aims to bring out the best in all its students. All Saints’ College offers encouraging and dynamic programs to children of all abilities within a safe, picturesque country setting. With a wide range of subjects and co-curricular activities, the College gives every individual the opportunity and resources to grow — academically, culturally and socially.
Facilities: Library, computer laboratories, school clinic, extensive playing fields, gymnasium, tennis courts, swimming pool, agriculture facilities.
Electives Years 7 to 10: Agriculture, French, Japanese, Music, Visual Arts, Visual Design, Commerce, Design and Technology, History, Geography, Drama, Physical Activities and Sports Studies.
Electives Years 11 and 12: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Design and Technology, Modern History, Ancient History, Visual Arts, Japanese, French, Legal Studies, Business Studies, Mathematics, Music 1 and 2, Agriculture, Business Studies, Drama, Geography, Economics, Information Processes and Technology, Software Design and Development and Hospitality.
Sport: Competitive — rugby, volleyball, hockey, cricket, netball, swimming, athletics, cross-country, softball, tennis, soccer, basketball, water polo, aerobics. Leisure — horse riding.
Extracurricular activities: Debating, drama, orchestra, band, choir, public speaking, Tournament of Minds, Mock Trial, St Johns Ambulance courses, and Activities Week — when all students participate in a cultural or artistic activity.
Welfare and personal development: All Saints’ College is a very
supportive and encouraging place, with successful pastoral care and peer
support programs and a full-time chaplain. As a smaller school, All Saints’
College has the opportunity to recognise the strengths of its students and
foster
their development.
Special features: Each year a significant number of students are placed overseas after their HSC as part of the school-to-school GAP program.
Anson Street School is committed to providing individual education
programs through which all students can experience success. A program of study
based on the Key Learning Areas and life skills curriculum is provided.
Students have the opportunity to engage in a comprehensive program of lifestyle
leisure/recreation activities including bushwalking, horse riding, cycling,
tenpin bowling and sailing. Vocation training is also part of the senior school
curriculum.
Anson Street School is a centre of excellence for special education.
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