Address  Duerdin Street Nottinghill Victoria 3168, Australia

Number of students  250


Introduction

Monash Secondary College is a small school with a harmonious multicultural population. It accepts students from Years 7 to 12 and offers individually planned courses that allow students to be accelerated in the areas where they are gifted or to consolidate in areas where they need further work. VET courses as well as traditional VCE units of study are offered at VCE level.

Monash Secondary College is among the few schools with interpreters and teachers of the deaf. AUSLAN (Australian sign language) is on the curriculum and available as a VCE study. Student life at this coeducational government school begins with a Year 7 orientation camp. International students are among the culturally-diverse local students. The college has an active sports program and its volleyball teams have a strong reputation in the competition in the Waverley District. A range of VCE subjects (especially mathematics, science and business) and a number of VET courses provide students with options suited to their destinations.

2001 VCE Results and Year 12 Student University / TAFE Placements

• 97 per cent of Year 12 students successfully completed their VCE, 15 per cent achieved a score above 90, and 20 per cent achieved a score above 80

• Extensive ESL program at all levels including VCE (Years 11 and 12)

• Japanese
• German
• AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language)

• Curriculum delivery organized in ventricular modular groupings at Years 7-10, allowing students to move ahead in the studies in which they excel and to consolidate skills at the expected year level in other studies
• Timetable arranged so that this is easy access for Year 10 students to VCE units where this is appropriate
• Flexibility of curriculum delivery and timetabling of special value to ESL students

• Deaf facility (deaf and hearing impaired students are integrated into the main stream with extensive facility support)
• A well designed theatre
• Extensive information technology facilities

• Student welfare program
• VCE student conferences
• School Parliament (Years 7-10 ) and VCE executive
• Peer support program
• Peer mediation program
• Sporting program
• Annual school musical production
• Annual multicultural concert
• Involvement with Red Cross in the Victorian Youth Development Program