THE Geelong College is a Uniting Church co-educational day and boarding school, with 1300 students aged three to 18.
An open and inclusive community of learners, the college is renowned as one of Victoria’s finest schools and highly respected interstate and overseas for its students’ academic achievements and innovative learning opportunities.
Through a diverse range of pathways and learning opportunities, each student is encouraged and helped to achieve their best and explore their passions to prepare for a rapidly changing future.
Passionately coeducational, the college believes that girls and boys learn and lead best together.
With significant and rapid changes in industry, leadership and community and social structures, the college focuses on relevant learning for a future that will be very different to contemporary life. Research suggests that most students at school now will: work in jobs yet to exist; live and work in three different countries; and have six career changes.
To thrive they will need to: be good decision-makers; strong communicators; capable of thinking through major issues to inquire and solve problems; and be ready to show the world what they have to offer.
The college’s new Vision for Learning identifies and integrates a series of capabilities into all learning experiences, projects and co-curricular opportunities. Categorised as Identity, Creating, Communicating, Enterprise, Creativity, Thinking and Contributing, they are the capabilities young people need to develop to become independent, informed global citizens who understand that importance of learning to how to learn.
More information about The Geelong College will be available at open days on 12 August and 21 October or by visiting geelongcollege.vic.edu.au.
