Principals Welcome

LARA SECONDARY COLLEGE

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We are committed to our core business of teaching and learning but also understand that for all students to ‘realise their potential’ and succeed in the modern world, learning needs to take place beyond the four walls of the classroom. This is why we have developed an extensive co-curricular program, where all students can experience success. These programs include:

• The Enrichment program, where the most academically capable students are not only accelerated through the curriculum but are pushed and challenged as they delve further into the curriculum, promoting higher order thinking.
• Our comprehensive camps program, ensures students are exposed to unique experiences at every year level, whether that be international study tours, snow camps, chasing waterfalls in otways, summiting mountains, team building activities, urban experiences in Melbourne or staying on residence at university.
• We value the performing arts at Lara Secondary College, our school production is a continual success and our music program sees budding musicians begin learning to play an instrument in private lessons and results in student bands performing all across Lara and the Geelong region.
• Our Rugby and Cricket Academy’s compliment the other individual and team sporting opportunities at the college. The academies provide elite level coaching within the school day, while ensuring that students are set up for success post secondary schooling, regardless of their athletic performance.
• Students leaders, across every year level, do an incredible job of representing their peers, making meaningful change to our school, while developing their personal leadership skills. 
• An array of excursions, incursions, academic extension groups, debating and public speaking events, lunchtime and afterschool clubs all compliment our learning program, that sees students having choices in their pathway as they conclude their secondary schooling. 

At Lara Secondary College we understand and explicitly teach the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to be successful in an ever changing world. This is why our students continually succeed, long after they finish their secondary schooling. Whether it be pursuing further study at university or securing a vocational pathway, such as an apprenticeship, all students at our school are set up for a lifetime of success, regardless of their goals and ambitions.