2011 -The Year Ahead at Dromana Secondary The year 2011 will be an exciting, fulfilling and important year for the community of Dromana Secondary College.
We have welcomed our new and returning students to the College and are exceptionally impressed with the talents, high expectations and enthusiasm each individual brings to our school.
Visitors to the College will no doubt have noticed the important changes that are taking place.
Construction of our new 2 million dollar centre of language learning excellence is well underway, and will be completed in May 2011.
This five star state of the art building will facilitate exciting learning opportunities including an agreement this year with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT to deliver certificates in Japanese and Indonesian languages on campus, giving our students a head start with tertiary qualifications.
Similarly the college curriculum team has implemented studies in philosophy for students in Year 7 and 8.
These online courses, mentored by an expert teacher, are designed to provide extension for students who enjoy an extra challenge and who will benefit from an opportunity to enhance their thinking skills.
Our VCE students continue to achieve excellent outcomes more than 90 of our students who applied for a tertiary education position were successful in gaining first round offers.
The diversity of the post school pathways range from Architecture at Monash University to the Navy Gap Year and clearly reflect the quality of the programs available to our students.
Our extra curricula calendar is comprehensive and compliments our purpose of holding the academic learning program as our first priority and offering a broad range of learning experiences in other areas.
I am looking forward to our student s participation in many activities including Space Camp at the Kennedy Space Centre, USA, Instrumental Music Programs, Choir, Rock Eisteddfod, Surf Camp and the Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite any interested members of the community to visit the college.
Our Open Night is being held Wednesday 4 May 2011 commencing at 7 00pm.
For further information or to arrange a personal tour please contact Mrs Brooke Mollenkopf, Transition Leader.
-Alan Marr, PRINCIPAL Dromana Secondary College 110 Harrisons Road Dromana 3936 Phone 03 5987 2805 Email dromana.sc edumail.vic.gov.au Website www.dsc.vic.edu.au Beyond Boundaries at Toorak College At Toorak College, journeys are not taken in isolation.
It s not enough that the journey through school be busy and engaging, it requires selfleadership.
Leadership is about being in control of your own destiny as much as it is about fashioning the destiny of others, and it s about one s capacity for inventiveness and wise decision making.
Our children will increasingly live out their lives in a global context so education must reflect this in what is learned and how it is learned.
In today and tomorrow s world, the new internationalism will be about what we share rather than how we differ.
Noel Thomas, Principal Toorak College offers programs that enable students to pursue their interests, talents, and particular sense of adventure to extend them Beyond their Boundaries, outside of the school boundaries.
The learning journey can foster planning, creativity, innovation, passion and self-leadership.
Their Beyond Boundaries Program allows students to choose a portfolio of three journeys that will cater for their individual 84 good life, february -march, april 2011 passions and interests, and will enable them to experience the diversity that the Beyond Boundaries Program has to offer.
The Beyond Boundaries Program at Toorak College offers every student the chance to journey in Nature, Leadership, Culture Journeys in Nature enable students to view and reflect on the beauty of their natural surroundings in Victoria and surrounding states whilst engaging in challenging outdoor activities.
Students are also encouraged to reflect on how their decisions and actions impact on our environment.
Journeys can be to the Flinders Ranges, South Gippsland, East Coast Sea Kayak, The Grampians or Tasmania.
Journeys in Leadership provide opportunities for students to investigate and develop their social conscience, and leadership and communication skills by engaging in activities that encourage them to be empathetic, globally minded citizens of our world.
These Journeys involve Leaders of Tomorrow, Social Justice or Creative Communication.
Journeys in Culture enable students to explore the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices of a community different to our own, either to an international destination, or in an Australian community.
Students are encouraged to develop their leadership skills by serving the community in which they are visitors.
Destinations can include Thailand, Fiji, Italy, USA, UK, India or China.
For further information about the Beyond Boundaries Program please contact the school on 9788 7200.