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If there's life on Mars...
A team of students from Wesley College have been invited to compete in the finals of the Australian Space Design Competition. Held in the school holidays, the team of nine students and two staff travelled to the University of Queensland in Brisbane...
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Understanding Aboriginal Art – Lessons from Senior to Junior School
The Wesley College community’s commitment to reconciliation can be seen in both subtle and more tangible ways. In the classroom, developing an understanding of the concept, history and progress of reconciliation is an important part of continuing...
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New metrics make student achievement more than just a number
Students across Victoria recently marked the end of their formal years of study with the release of their VCE ATAR score. But what about their ‘other’ learning capabilities? How do we measure the prior achievement, service, character, strengths,...
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Assessment and learning
While high profile assessment events like NAPLAN and Year 12 exams draw attention to formal methods of evaluating learning, assessment is in fact a part of daily life in schools, right from the early years. Assessments take many forms, including...
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Lessons in sport: Girls inspired by pros Emily Gielnik and Akec Makur …
Female representation in a wide variety of professional sports has been identified as one of the key drivers in encouraging girls to participate in sport at school and beyond. At Wesley, we’re proud to have alumni across many sporting fields, from...
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A new tradition is born
There are many signposts in a school year: the commencement of a new school year, the end of each term, graduations and all of the assemblies, concerts, productions and events in between. At Wesley, we have introduced our own new traditions, some...
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OWs on the money
This image from a 1965 edition of the Chronicle, which is in the Prime Minister’s cabinet in the reception area at our St Kilda Road Campus, shows Harold Holt (OW1926) and HRH Prince Philip viewing the machine used to produce decimal currency...
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Historic win for Boys' Firsts Basketball
2023 was also historic for the Boys' Firsts Basketball Team, who won the APS premiership for the first time since 2010. This is only the fourth time since basketball was introduced by the APS in 1991 that the Wesley Boys' Firsts have won the title....
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Great golf courses of the world
Gary Lisbon (OW1984) was a chartered accountant with KPMG who always had a love of golf and never saw himself as an accountant in the long run. He started working with 1991 Open Champion Ian Baker-Finch, before branching out into running corporate...
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School ties that bind
In February 1973, Mike Hibbs (OW1978), Steve Godwin (OW1978), Neil Croft (OW1978) and Dave Okey (OW1978) all started Year 7 at Wesley’s Syndal Campus (now the Glen Waverley Campus) from various primary schools, joining the ‘old boy’ (who had...
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