Vermont Secondary College is a friendly and supportive place of learning that encourages its students to accept challenges and recognise each other’s contributions and worth. At all times staff strive for a caring environment that will extend each student to achieve personal excellence. Retention rate at all levels is high. Uniform is compulsory.
Facilities: Specialist rooms, science wing, gymnasium, open-space theatre, new instrumental music centre, large computerised library, five computer centres, art gallery, multiplex courts and attractive grounds.
Curriculum: Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, LOTE (French, German and Indonesian), Drama, Art and Music are compulsory in Year 7. The college offers comprehensive sequential courses of study for Years 7 to 12 in the Key Learning Areas of the Arts, English, Health and Physical Education, LOTE, Mathematics, Science, Technology and SOSE. A comprehensive range of VCE studies is provided for VCE students with accelerated access in Year 10 (Units 1 and 2) and Year 11 (Units 3 and 4). Years 10, 11 and 12 form a Senior School at the college, where the emphasis is on ensuring both breadth and depth of curriculum for all students.
Sport: An extensive sports program facilitates keen and highly successful inter-school competition.
Extra-curricular activities: Include camps and excursions, intra- and inter-school music programs and activities such as community involvement, Tournament of Minds, an annual school production and book club.
Student wellbeing programs: Full-time wellbeing and work education co-ordinators form part of a team with year-level co-ordinators and assistant principals. Support teaching is available to students with special needs. An excellent transition program for students in Year 7 provides a pastoral and subject teacher for nine periods per week through the integrated studies subject and a homeroom environment in the specially created Year 7 area.