A supportive learning environment, unmatched opportunities to explore personal and future academic or skills-based pathways and a pastoral care promoting wellbeing, our Senior campus for students in years 10 – 12, exemplifies what “an education worth having” means.
Senior School – Waurn Ponds
Dedicated staff, faith-based values and local and global experiences, all contribute to our student’s capacity to thrive. We provide opportunities for students to explore their passions, know their purpose and find their pathway.
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SENIOR ART, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN PRECINCT
A dedicated space for studio-based learning where students explore individual creativity across a wide range of future learning areas using new and emerging technologies; creative software, computer-aided design, laser cutting, computer numerical controlled milling and 3D printing.
Melding creative thinking with self-direction
Our approach to educating the whole person through delivery of The Learning That Matters, seeks to encourage creative expression, build future-ready skills in creative, critical and design thinking and foster self-direction through exploration of art, technology and design projects.
Our Art, Technology & Design disciplines
Art Making & Exhibiting
Explore the role and practices of artists in society and follow your own ideas across traditional and contemporary artforms.
Art Making & Exhibiting provides opportunities for personal growth, expression of ideas and an examination of identity – and encourages you to make an ongoing contribution to the culture of your community through lifelong participation in the making and viewing of artworks.
Product Design
Start the process of creating products that fulfill human needs and wants. Apply design thinking through the product design process and build a structure for creative problem solving.
Product Design and Technology is investigated and informed by research to aid the development of solutions for human needs and wants – working in a medium of your choice, including materials – wood, metal or plastic; or textiles – fabric, yarn or fibre.
Systems Engineering
Design, create, operate and evaluate the integrated systems that mediate and control so many aspects of human experiences. Systems Engineering promotes innovative systems, design thinking and problem-solving skills.
Understanding how mechanical, digital and electrotech systems combine to form a controlled integrated technological system, enables your design ideas to flourish with processes of increasing complexity and a variety of materials, tools and equipment.
Visual Communication Design
Take a look at how visual language conveys ideas, information and messages in communication, environmental and industrial design.
The design process is shaped by many factors – VCD develops skills to communicate ideas using design elements and principles, selected media, materials and methods of production.
Media Studies
The media is ubiquitous and deeply embedded in our lives and culture. It entertains, teaches, informs, and shapes audiences’ perception of their lives and their worlds – and it’s all about telling the story.
Explore this in depth as you consider narratives, technologies and processes from different perspectives and examine debates about the media’s role as a contributor to, and influencer of, society.
Food Studies
Develop lifelong skills, understand and appreciate all things food – with an emphasis on health and sustainability.
Food Studies opens the door on many aspects of food – its production locally and globally; economic, environmental and ethical impacts; marketing and trends; while you learn and refine a range of practical skills.
The RW Gibson Music Performance Centre
The R.W. Gibson Centre for Music Performance at Senior School-Waurn Ponds opened in 2021.
The Centre’s showpiece is the 160-seat rehearsal/recital auditorium, which is acoustically tunable providing an outstanding venue for soloists, groups of acoustic musicians, amplified instruments and groups. There is also a range of other rooms and studios for the broad range of activities undertaken in Music studies.
The Centre is named after the late Dr Robert William (Bob) Gibson. A brilliant and exceptional man, Dr Gibson held a number of high-calibre professional, academic and community posts. He was also a Christian College Board member for 22 years, and with his great love for music, was a fervent supporter of the Christian College Music program.
The R.W. Gibson Centre for Music Performance auditorium is available for hire and use by the local community. Click here for more information.
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Pathways to the future
Students in their final years can choose from a diverse range of subject selections. This opens up opportunities to explore passions in academic, creative, experiential and vocational learning. Multiple pathways are offered through VCE, VCE/VM and VET.
Learning through experience
Learning by engaging in shared, authentic experiences takes many forms. The Outdoor Education year 10 elective explores the cultural connection to ecosystems by paddling kayaks through the internationally recognised Barmah floodplains in Yorta Yorta country, northern Victoria.
Global perspectives
Our World is an elective that explores social issues by immersing students in the cultures of Central Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia or East Timor. Living and working in one of these communities enables greater understanding and empathy, focusing students’ studies and research.
Campus Contact Details
Head of Campus
Elissa Huddart
Phone Number
Address
135 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds 3216
Villa Paloma Contact Details
Contact
Steve Sobey
Phone Number
The RW Gibson Music Performance Centre Contact Details
Centre Manager
Andrew Dunlop
Phone Number
Address
135 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds 3216