YARRA Hills Secondary College is a multi-campus state secondary school serving the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
The college has a Year 7 to 10 Mount Evelyn Campus, as well as a Mooroolbark Campus, which houses a Year 7 to 10 ‘junior school’ and a Year 11 and 12 ‘senior school’ on the same site.
Having recently completed a $20 million redevelopment on the Mooroolbark site, with further renovations at the Mt Evelyn Campus, the college has become a preferred destination for many local families.
Principal Darren Trippett has overseen this growth since joining the school in 2012 and considers the college now as a ‘transformational’ school.
“Over recent years we have been working hard to develop and promote our college values: Respect, Endeavour, Achievement and Pride,” he said.
“One of the things I noticed most when I first arrived at Yarra Hills was the lack of knowledge in the local community of the excellent programs we had in place.
“We have acclaimed co-curricular programs in instrumental music, performing arts, visual arts, sports and outdoor education.
“Being multi-campus also allows us to maintain smaller class environments in both of our junior school precincts, which then combine to feed into our senior school.”
With the larger numbers then available at senior school level (Years 11 and 12) they school is able to offer comprehensive VCE, VET and VCAL programs for their students.
This allows us to truly offer a ‘small school feel, with big school opportunities’.
Tours of both campuses are now available and can be booked through the general offices.
