AddressWelcome to Wheelers Hill Secondary College. We have a student population of approximately 700 and a team of passionate and dedicated teaching and non-teaching staff who are focused on providing the best learning outcomes for all students. We have excellent facilities and a beautiful and natural setting, showcasing expansive grounds within a well-established residential precinct. We offer a vibrant and engaged community that values our personalised care for students as well as our clear focus on achieving one¿s personal best in all areas of learning and wellbeing. The College was established in 1980 and is in the City of Monash, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. We welcome and support Diversity and Inclusion. The College has up to 30 feeder primary schools and a long-established International Student Program.
Our core and extra-curricula programs, at all year levels, includes Sports, Instrumental Music, Student Leadership, Voice and Agency, Robotics Clubs and a range of other activities. Our School Productions are enormously successful. We have outstanding STEAM Programs and work closely with the Monash Tech School, at Monash University, where students explore leading edge digital technologies and engage in a range of programs designed to support future career prospects. We also offer at Years 7 to 9 `RISE@WHSC¿ which has been designed around four key pillars: Resilience, Inquiry, Student Agency, Voice and Leadership; and Empowerment. It gives selected students the opportunity to delve deeply into 21st Century Learning based on: Collaboration, Communication, Creative Problem Solving and Critical Thinking.
Our College values are:
Respect: WHSC promotes respectful, inclusive and positive relationships. Our students and staff act with integrity and value diversity in their interactions with others. We understand that inclusive language and behaviours define us as individuals and as members of the Wheelers Hill community. We respect our own traditions as a College, and we respect our First Nations People and the land on which we learn.
Excellence: WHSC provides opportunities to demonstrate excellence in all areas of learning and wellbeing. It is only through perseverance, resilience and the capacity to learn from effort that true excellence can be achieved. Excellence is not simply a measure or a number but a recognition of all the parts that define us as authentic learners who have achieved mastery and autonomy in the key knowledge and skills that we aspire to.
Creativity: WHSC believes that creativity is the key to unlocking the potential in every student. Our students and staff are encouraged to seek innovative solutions and use higher order thinking skills as independent and collaborative learners. We believe that the Design Thinking Process is a significant tool in supporting young people to use creative critical thinking skills that are based on empathy and self-reflection.
Wheelers Hill Secondary College strives to develop students who are ready to embrace the future and become empathic and ethical global citizens.
The College consists of two sub schools: Middle and Senior. Every Year level has access to a broad range of core studies, and an extensive elective program is available at Years 9 to 12, with students recommended for VCE Advanced Placements in their areas of expertise and interest.
The College has also implemented a school-wide approach to Literacy, Numeracy and STEAM, with Learning Specialists in each of these areas to oversee initiatives. The College¿s Performing Arts Programs provide further opportunities for our students to excel as learners. For example, high quality opportunities exist in Drama, Music and Dance. Our Performing Arts Program supports Instrumental Music, an annual Whole School Production, numerous bands and choirs, together with various Showcases demonstrating student skills and talent.
We offer an excellent Sports Program, with dedicated teachers to support individual athletes as well as a huge array of team sports. Our House System also offers students the opportunity to build peer connectedness and personal wellbeing. Our dedicated Wellbeing space provides one on one consulting by our Wellbeing Team.
The College¿s primary administration platform is Compass. Students, parents, teachers and administration staff liaise efficiently and effectively through this platform. This is a powerful tool which underpins effective communication by sharing resources, communicating attendance, promoting student work, ensuring classroom materials are available and ensuring currency of documentation.
Our learning spaces include:
· A spacious Library facility to support learning and research, which forms the central hub of the College.
· A modern Science Centre, catering for the four major science strands of Biology, Chemistry, Psychology and Physics
· A Food Technology Centre
· Arts, Woodwork and Metals/Plastics Technology areas
· The Bunjil Centre, featuring a practical performance theatre, music rehearsal spaces and a full-size gymnasium with a giant digital screen
· A dedicated VCE Study Centre.
The College welcomes the use of our facilities by local community groups, including the use of classrooms, the gymnasium, and the College grounds for sporting and academic activities.
