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Yarra Valley Grammar overlooks the Yarra Valley and picturesque Dandenong Ranges. Our students excel under the guidance of great teachers who love what they do and seek to inspire them to strive for excellence. The School offers an extensive range of contemporary opportunities and sets high standards of performance, encouraging all students to achieve their personal best. Great teachers are able to vary the way they teach to suit the way each student learns. This takes patience, flexibility and the ability to see things from the students’ perspective. Yarra Valley Grammar’s team of teachers know their material, love their subjects and love to teach. They have a genuine interest in getting to know their students, so they can teach them effectively, encourage them to achieve their best, identify issues or problems, and care for their welfare. Yarra Valley Grammar’s broad curriculum is responsive to individual student needs, with extra opportunities for enrichment and support. Key Learning Areas include Art and Design, Business Studies, Design and Technology, English, Health and Physical Education, Humanities, ICT, Languages, Mathematics, Outdoor Education and Science. A unique aspect of Yarra Valley Grammar is its spacious grounds and extensive onsite playing fields, superior facilities for music, drama and dance within the School’s Performing Arts Centre and Music School and the School’s internationally acclaimed Hearing Unit has a high-tech facility onsite.

The Trinity Grammar School story began in the Parish Hall of Holy Trinity Kew in 1903. Now, Trinity stretches across four locations – Kew, Bulleen, Lake Nillahcootie and Licola – with students hailing from over 80 suburbs in and beyond Melbourne. The Trinity classroom is a defined single-sex learning environment for boys from Prep-Year 10, with the opportunity to experience coeducation in VCE in partnership with Ruyton Girls’ School. Our Early Learning Centre accommodates both boys and girls at the 3 and 4-year-old level. We care for approximately 1,500 students from ELC 3 – Year 12. Predicated by the Victorian Curriculum and underscored by a philosophy of student agency, growth and resilience, our approach offers young people the breadth and depth to become their best selves. Our learning philosophy is underscored by the idea that education is not one-size-fits-all, using data to inform our age and stage approach. Our purpose is to be an aspirational learning community that inspires every individual to strive and contribute positively to society. Our values of truth, service, courage and community underscore our students’ experiences each day and stretch into an extensive alumni network, parent community and staff cohort who together characterise what makes Trinity, ‘Trinity’. We want our young people to choose their own adventure, and to build within them the confidence to write their own story; to make choices, change paths and navigate obstacles to define their own journey.

Marcellin College is a leading Catholic Marist secondary school for boys established by the Marist Brothers in 1950. We are a College founded on the spiritual and educational philosophy of Saint Marcellin Champagnat who believed that to educate young people we must love them and love them all equally. We do this by aiming to provide an environment where each boy is known and where each is supported to reach his potential spiritually, academically, culturally, physically, emotionally and socially. As a boys’ school we make a clear and conscious decision about the type of education we provide our students. At Marcellin College the educational opportunities provided to our boys are driven by a desire to engage and connect boys with their learning in specific ways. Our College’s motto: Virtute Ad Altissima means 'through virtue and courage to strive for the highest.' Our motto comes alive every day as we challenge our students to constantly aspire for personal excellence in all that they do. Our teachers are also challenged to provide best practice in boys’ education. It is our conviction that an exceptional education begins with good teaching and learning that empowers individuals to strive to be the best they can be. Marcellin College promotes excellence in learning by providing rich and varied educational opportunities and an environment where students, parents and staff work together in a family spirit of cooperation. The building and enhancement of relationships between students, parents and teachers is one of the most significant elements in the achievement of a student’s full potential and the College’s pastoral structures not only provide avenues of accessibility for home/school communication, they also provide parents with confidence that their son is known and supported. Our extensive and inclusive academic and co-curricular programs encourage our students to broaden and develop their skills and interests in a supportive and nurturing environment.