Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Engagement for Excellence: Supporting Every Student’s Future Pathway

A key part of our commitment to Engagement for Excellence is ensuring every student is supported to discover their strengths, explore their interests, and build confidence in their future pathway beyond school.

As a College, we recognise that senior secondary education is about more than completing subjects and gaining qualifications. It is about helping young people grow into capable, hopeful and aspirational learners, prepared for an ever-changing world. Whether students pursue university, TAFE, apprenticeships, employment or vocational pathways, we want every student to feel informed, supported and empowered to make decisions that align with their talents and passions.

To strengthen this important work, we have continued to expand our Pathways and Careers Program (PCP). This includes increasing our PCP staffing team to provide more one-on-one support for students, introducing a dedicated Year 10 Program, and delivering a range of career information sessions throughout the year.

As part of this commitment, we are excited to offer our Senior School Career Panel and Expo on Tuesday, 26 May, for students and families in Years 10, 11 and 12.

The evening promises to be a valuable opportunity for students and parents to explore a wide range of post-school options and hear firsthand accounts from those who have already navigated their own career paths.

Evening Overview

Location: MacKillop Theatre
Time: 5:45 pm – 8:15 pm

For workshop bookings click here.

Career Expo

Students and families will have the opportunity to connect with a broad range of external providers and organisations, including:

• ACU

• Deakin University

• Gordon TAFE

• Melbourne University

• Monash University

• Victoria Police

• Victoria University

• RMIT

• Federation University

• Deakin College

• Busy at Work Apprenticeships

• SEDA

• Victorian Training Group
  and many more.

Alumni Panel

We are fortunate to welcome back a number of College Alumni who will share their educational and career experiences. Their stories will offer inspiration, encouragement and practical insights to our current students as they consider their futures.

Workshops

A variety of workshops will also be available to help students navigate the opportunities and challenges of senior school and future planning.

We strongly encourage all invited students and families to attend this important event. When schools and families work together in partnership, we create the best possible environment for young people to thrive, dream big, and pursue excellence in whatever pathway they choose.

Performing Arts strong at our College

Congratulations to the cast and crew of our VCE Unit 3 Theatre Studies production of Come From Away, presented at the Bellarine Arts Centre over the past week. The musical tells the remarkable true story of the people of Gander, Newfoundland, who opened their hearts and community to stranded travellers in the days following the September 11 attacks.

This outstanding production once again highlighted the College’s strong reputation for excellence in the performing arts across our region. It was a wonderful example of our school improvement theme, Engagement for Excellence, with students demonstrating exceptional creativity, commitment, teamwork, and talent both on stage and behind the scenes.

Congratulations to all students involved and to their teacher, Ms Andrea Broadbear, for delivering such a professional and moving performance.

Canvas Back Online

Our College’s Learning Management System, Canvas, is now back online and operating normally.

The platform’s owner, Instructure, has advised its thousands of education and government clients worldwide that Canvas is fully operational and that its systems and data remain secure.

In addition, our College ICT team has implemented further safeguards within our Canvas environment to strengthen security measures.

I would like to thank our students, staff, and families for their flexibility, patience, and understanding during the disruption to our LMS.

As an added precaution, we encourage all members of our community to continue practising good online security habits, including:

• being cautious of unexpected emails or messages

• avoiding clicking on suspicious links or attachments

• watching for phishing attempts requesting personal information or passwords

• using strong, unique passwords across different services

• resetting passwords if there is any concern they may have been compromised.

Please remember that College staff will never ask you to provide your password or sensitive personal information via email or through Canvas.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our IT Support Team at itsupport@ignatius.vic.edu.au.

Best wishes for the next fortnight,

Michael Exton | Principal