Education Week: College vision

THE Geelong College is a Uniting Church coeducational school day and boarding school, with 1300 students aged three to 18.
An open and inclusive community of learners, serving the needs of young people and their families, the college is renowned as one of Victoria’s finest schools and highly respected interstate and overseas for its student academic achievements and its broad, 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. This helps them to prepare for a rapidly changing future.
The college is passionately coeducational, believing 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 life as it’s known.
Research suggests that most students at school now will have jobs that don’t yet exist, will live and work in three different countries and have six career changes. To thrive, they will need to be good decision-makers, strong communicators, be able to think 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. Identity, creating, communicating, enterprise, creativity, thinking and contributing are the capabilities young people need to develop to become the independent and informed global citizens and to understand that the most important aspect of a modern education is learning to how to learn.
More information about education at The Geelong College will be available during its open days on 12 August and 21 October, or visit geelongcollege.vic.edu.au.