Welcome to Essendon Keilor College
We deliver an outstanding, personalised education at our Junior School campuses (Years 7-9) in East Keilor and Niddrie, and our Senior campus (Years 10-12) in Essendon.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners the Wurundjeri people and we wish to acknowledge them as Traditional Owners of our land. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present and emerging.
Essendon Keilor College is accredited under the Department of Education and Training’s CRICOS registration (CRICOS provider name and code: Department of Education and Training, 00861K)
Our school zone
Our school zone is available on findmyschool.vic.gov.au which hosts the most up-to-date information about Victorian school zones.
Students residing in this zone are guaranteed a place at our school, which is determined on the basis of your permanent residential address.
The Department provides guidance through the Placement Policy to ensure that students have access to their designated neighbourhood school and the freedom to choose other schools, subject to facility limitations.
You can find more information and answers to frequently asked questions on the Department’s website under School zones.
Purpose, passion, positivity, and principles drive learning at our college because we’re preparing students for tomorrow’s world. It’s a world that requires specific new knowledge, skills, capabilities and qualities – the ones we’re helping students develop with the support of expert teachers in safe, stimulating environments.
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For 25 years we have been highly successful in responding to the educational needs of Years 7 to 12 students from diverse cultural backgrounds in Melbourne’s north-western suburbs.
Today, students at Essendon Keilor College achieve peak performance at every stage of their learning because we’re passionate about facilitating their progress. It’s achieved by providing the right conditions, opportunities and input in partnership with our students, teachers, parents, guardians and the wider community.
Our growing learning community of 700 local and international students benefit from excellent facilities and resources. We are delighted that learning on the Niddrie campus is complemented by a newly completed state-of-the-art rebuild and that upgrades at East Keilor and Essendon are increasing our capacity to work collaboratively, foster creativity and run highly effective programs in the focus areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).
Our discrete Junior and Senior School settings enable us to cater particularly well for each cohort’s specific lifestage needs. We provide the seamless transition that ensures students quickly excel in their new adult learning environment at the Essendon campus. The pride and status that comes with this rite of passage is unmistakable. It fosters the belonging and engagement that enhances learning.
Families are attracted to the college by our vibrant Languages, Performing Arts and Visual Arts offerings, and our specialist Sport and Recreation programs run in partnership with Victoria University. There are so many ways and arenas in which to develop holistically and excel at Essendon Keilor College.
Perhaps even more attractive is our unique spirit; the culture that reflects the outworking of our values: Excellence, Diligence, Integrity, Community, and Service.
We’re developing future-ready students; lifelong learners who emulate excellence, and know how to keep extending their potential. They are genuinely happy rising to high expectations. The resilience, satisfaction and achievement that comes with it is its own immediate reward. In the longer term, it produces accomplished, ethical citizens who contribute, live meaningfully and succeed.
Peak performance is underpinned by
our six Pillars of Learning
Dedicated to:
- working with students so they can achieve peak performance
- guiding learning as instructors, coaches and mentors
- using data to inform their instructional practice
- providing effective feedback and timely interventions
- empowering students to increasingly take responsibility for their own learning
- ongoing, targeted professional learning.
Committed to:
- keeping students at the centre; recognising them as co-learners and co-experts
- responding to each learner’s needs, passions, readiness and preferred learning styles
- providing diverse, stimulating learning environments and opportunities
- encouraging use of the right tools and technologies for the job whether designing, collaborating, building, presenting or evaluating
- instilling the ‘how to learn’ skills and resourcefulness that facilitates agility and lifelong learning
- fostering curiosity and creativity.
Ensuring our students:
- Know the new basics – digital, financial and global literacy, design thinking, wellness/mindfulness, entrepreneurship
- Use knowledge to achieve results, by thinking creatively and critically, working collaboratively to solve problems and communicate results
- Learn to be curious, tenacious, organised, emotionally resilient, team players and leaders
- Grow – have the growth mindset and ability to adapt, be strategic, learn, un-learn and re-learn
Fostering holistic growth through:
- physical, intellectual, social, emotional and cultural development across the academic and co-curricular program
- wellbeing input that promotes healthy minds and bodies; safe, positive and respectful relationships; the valuing of diversity; making responsible choices; and good online citizenship
- positive education – the teaching of knowledge, skills and attitudes that develop healthy growth mindsets, resilience and strategies for being happy and successful.
Promoting:
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
- entrepreneurship; learning to design, launch and run small businesses
- opportunities to explore, extend and express talent.
Committed to:
- specialist Sport and Recreation programs
- extensive co-curricular and clubs program
- student leadership structure
- camps and tours
- service projects.
