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Senior School (Years 10–12)

Pathways to Success

Senior School is a pivotal stage where Year 10 - 12 students take greater responsibility for their learning and actively prepare for their future. 

Our Senior School provides a supportive and aspirational environment in which educators guide students through the final years of schooling, encouraging academic achievement, personal growth and a love of lifelong learning. While we are proud of our strong VCE results, our focus extends beyond academic success. We are committed to developing well-rounded individuals who are prepared for life beyond school. Senior School teachers play an active role in supporting students as they transition toward independence, helping them approach this important stage with confidence and clarity.

With access to personalised guidance, career development programs, and the opportunity to undertake VCE subjects from Year 10, students are empowered to build the skills, knowledge and values required for their future pathways. Purposefully designed learning environments foster collaboration, engagement and meaningful connection between students and staff.

Pastoral Care

The Senior School horizontal pastoral care model ensures that students remain within the same Mentor Group throughout Senior School, fostering a strong sense of belonging, continuity of support, and meaningful connections with their Mentor - their first point of contact for guidance and wellbeing. 

Our comprehensive Pastoral Care Program equips students with essential life skills, fosters resilience, and enhances academic and personal wellbeing. Through structured mentoring, we:

  • Develop students’ time management, communication, and study skills.
  • Reinforce expectations around attendance, punctuality, and uniform.
  • Provide early intervention and tailored support for individual needs.
  • Celebrate achievements and encourage personal growth.
  • Offer guidance on study pathways, peer relationships, and future opportunities.
  • Promote wellbeing through counselling, health education, and academic care.

With a structured pastoral care curriculum from Years 10 to 12, our program nurtures the whole person—shaping confident, capable, and compassionate young adults. Delivered by mentors, peers, and expert providers, it ensures students are equipped to navigate challenges, embrace opportunities, and thrive.

Principal Emily FitzSimons pictured in a formal school photograph alongside the 2025 Student Executive - a group of senior secondary school aged students representing student leadership at Overnewton.

Principal Emily FitzSimons and the 2025 Student Executive

Upper secondary school aged students playing cricket representing Overnewton in the Association of Co-Educational Schools competition, as part of the Activate Co Curriculum program.
Upper secondary school aged student proudly holding a certificate after participating in the WynSpeak Youth Public Speaking Competition, as part of Overnewton's Be Heard Co Curricular program.
Senior secondary school aged students performing on violins as part of an instrumental ensemble at Overnewton’s annual Founders' Day event, held at St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne.
The two lead actors of the annual College Musical, Mary Poppins, gazing out over the audience with the supporting cast visible in the background.
Senior secondary school aged students gleefully tipping buckets of ice over costumed Senior School teachers in support of the MND Big Freeze - part of Overnewton’s Synergy Co Curricular pillar promoting social justice and community action.
Low-angle shot at the waterline of a powerful senior secondary school aged swimmer mid-stroke during the Butterfly, coming up for air at the annual Activate Senior Swimming Carnival.

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We acknowledge and pay respect to the Marin Balluk people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which Overnewton Anglican Community College stands. We respect the knowledge that will be forever embedded within the Aboriginal Custodianship of Country and remember the loss of cultures, languages and Lands they have endured. Like the Marin Balluk people, we at Overnewton want to respect the Land, the cultures and the heritages, and learn from those who have come before us in the passing on of knowledge and the teaching of life skills, as well as continue with wise stewardship of our buildings and grounds. We honour their custodianship of this Land and offer them our deep respect.

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