20 George Street, East Doncaster, Victoria, 3109 AUSTRALIA
Phone (03) 9842 22 44 | Fax (03) 9841 8010 | E-mail east.doncaster.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au

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The college web site is
http://www.eastdonsc.vic.edu.au

Contacts 2008

Principal John Handley
Assistant Principals Christine Mitchell | Keith Butler

Telephone +61 3 9842 2244
Facsimile +61 3 9841 8010

E-mail east.doncaster.sc@edumail.vic.gov.au

College Description

East Doncaster Secondary College offers a broad general education from Years 7 to 12. The college has a strong multicultural background, with over 40 nationalities represented. In line with community expectations, there is an emphasis on academic achievement and disciplined conduct in a caring and safe environment. Because of the calm, tolerant learning environment, students are able to be successful and achieve their best.

Year Level Co-ordinators are responsible for each level, supported by staff such as the Student Welfare Co-ordinator, Learning Area Co-ordinators and the Careers Teacher. The college achieves impressive Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) results, with a high percentage of our students continuing to tertiary studies. The college is attractively landscaped and well-maintained, and provides excellent facilities for effective learning.

The college aims to:

• provide opportunities and encouragement for all students to become thinking, articulate and enriched people able to contribute to society
• expose students to a wide range of subjects and experiences
• achieve a partnership of parents, students and teachers in the education process
• enable all students to pursue their studies to the level of their choice (whether Victorian Certificate of Education, alternative courses, work situations or tertiary institutions)
• provide a well-equipped and well-maintained educational environment.

Number of students

1,300
The number of girls and boys is about equal at all Year Levels.

Languages

Chinese and Italian are offered at all Year Levels 7 to 12. Chinese is taught as both a maintenance language and as a second language.
Students in Year 7 study both Chinese and Italian (a semester of each). At Year 8, students choose which language they will continue to study to Year 10.
Victorian Certificate of Education Results

The excellence of the VCE results is clearly demonstrated by the high pass rates (100% in 1997); the number of A and A+ grades achieved by students in all Key Learning Areas, and the Australian Student Prizes and Premiers Awards achieved by several students in the sciences, business studies and graphic communication over the last two years. The number of students who gain a Tertiary Entrance Rank score above 90 is especially impressive.

Special Features

The college has outstanding facilities for Physical Education and sport, including a fully equipped gymnasium, a school oval, weights and gymnastics equipment, hard court areas and six tennis courts. Students participate in college swimming sports, athletics sports, the cross-country run and inter-college sport.
Music is a compulsory subject at junior levels and is an elective at other levels. A keyboard laboratory is available for classroom use. Visiting instrumental teachers teach strings, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments in a special purpose Instrumental Music Centre. The college has a junior and senior band, a string group and a vocal group.

Facilities

The college facilities include a science centre, a mathematics task centre, a music centre and an instrumental music centre for teaching and rehearsals, creative arts specialist rooms including art, food technology, textiles, visual communication and design, ceramics, metalcraft, and woodwork. The Educational Resource Centre contains over 32,000 books, video facilities, computer facilities including access to the Internet, a computerised catalogue, sound equipment and a colour photocopier for student use.
The college has extensive information technology facilities, including five computer laboratories, sevaral rooms of computers for class use, laptops for classroom use, an area for computers running graphics software, access to careers information via computer and a curriculum network which links classroom laboratories with the Resource Centre, providing network access to student directories, CD stacks and the Internet.

English as a Second Language

Our ESL program is an integral part of the college, providing classes at all Year Levels. The program has the respect of the community and attracts many students to the college from outside our neighborhood area.

Student Support

Student Welfare

• Year level Co-ordinators are available for advice in all areas of a student's life at the college. This includes curriculum choices, advice about work practices and counselling.
  Our Student Welfare Coordinator is available to assist students and parents in any matters relating to the welfare of students.
  

Careers Education

• The Careers Teacher offers advice on courses and careers, assists VCE students both before and after they obtain their results and organises career nights.
  The Work Experience co-ordinator organises an extensive program of work experience for all Year 10 students. Some Year 11 students also arrange work experience times.
  25th Anniversary