Haileybury students have enjoyed a stellar year with outstanding achievements in academia, sport, music, drama and the arts, and outstanding participation and behaviour across the huge range of Haileybury camps and Year 9 Explore and Expeditions that have been on offer.
In the past two weeks we have seen both the national testing results (NAPLAN) and VCE/ATAR results publicly released and, in both cases, Haileybury students have achieved amongst the very best in the country.
In NAPLAN, Haileybury was in the top three open entry schools in Victoria at each of Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 in literacy and numeracy. It is this very strong foundation of core skills that allows Haileybury students to go on to obtain exceptional VCE results, but also enables students to successfully develop their critical and analytical thinking as they move through the School, and for some to pursue an entrepreneurial mindset knowing they have the skills to achieve.
Haileybury’s VCE results were exceptional with more than 500 students graduating and 50% obtaining an ATAR placing them in the top 10% in Australia, and 94% obtaining an ATAR placing them in the top 40% in Australia. Once again, these results place Haileybury students in the very top tier of academic performance. These exceptional results open up the broadest range of post school study and work opportunities for Haileybury students.
On the sporting front, Haileybury has enjoyed a stellar year, winning seven APS and APS/AGSV premierships as well as a number of national titles in dance and aerobics. The girls athletics premiership was a particular highlight in Term 4 with 120 girls from Years 6 to 12 from all campuses representing the School and bringing home a hard fought premiership cup. Just as we received the outstanding VCE results last week we also received the news that the Haileybury boys basketball team had won the national Under 20 schools title beating Sydney school, Newington, in the final by two points. Under the leadership of Duncan Berg, Haileybury has won the last five APS basketball titles, and this capped off another outstanding year. Duncan is also a high performing member of Haileybury’s exceptional mathematics department which delivered a brilliant set of end-of-year results.
Last week I was in India with the Australian Education Minister Jason Clare for discussions with the Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan as a part of the third India Australia Education and Skills Council. We spent an afternoon talking with a number of Indian students who had used education to work their way out of a Delhi slum district, having received philanthropic support in India and post graduate scholarship support to study at The University of Melbourne. These were impressive young people and as Minister Clare noted, “Talent is not restricted by boundaries or background but opportunity often is.”
Haileybury students have both and we will continue to push them and support them to make the most of both their talent (in whatever area that might be) and the extraordinary opportunity they have been given through the support of families to receive an exceptional education.
Haileybury is proud of our multi-cultural and multi-faith community. We remain committed to educating and creating a safe and inclusive environment for our community and the nation. We offer our support to all at this difficult time in our country.
Derek Scott
CEO | Principal
