Senior School

Farewell Class of 2025

Article by Sarah Incani, Acting Year 12 Leader 

The end of Year 12 is always a big milestone, an end to 13 years of schooling. The Class of 2025 has shown such incredible unity, resilience and genuine pride in who they have become. Over the past month, we’ve shared many moments of celebration and reflection together as they approached the end of their schooling journey.  

At the Final Assembly on Friday 17th October, the Senior School came together to honour the Class of 2025. Watching the students walk through the Guard of Honour was a true reminder of how far they have come - from nervous Year 7s to confident young adults who are ready for the next chapter of their life. The speeches, laughter and quiet moments of reflection highlighted the memories that will remain long after the uniforms are put away. 

Then on Friday 21st November, the Class of 2025 gathered at Hyatt Place in Essendon for the Valedictory Dinner. It was a warm, heartfelt night that truly celebrated each student. Families, teachers and students shared a moment that recognised the countless hours of effort that went into the VCE exams, the challenges they overcame, and the friendships strengthened along the way. 

We wish the Class of 2025 all the very best as they await their VCE results and secure pathways for 2026. They should be so proud of everything they have achieved. 

Drama Wins The Vote

Last week our VCE Drama Unit 2 students performed their Solo Ensemble Exam in the M18 Blackbox Theatre to an electorate of audience. The performance aptly titled, 'The Candidate', each student performed a satirical character they had researched and created as a potential political candidate for our local Australian Parliamentary Federal Seat of Gordon that Overnewton is zoned in.

Students were given the following scenario:

Due to an unforeseen and embarrassing dramatic nation-wide emergency, a snap federal election has been called by the current Prime Minister November on 5th 2025. At a public meeting to galvanise support and win votes from concerned local businesspeople and residents for the upcoming Federal election.

Their candidate does this by:

• Recreating key moments of dramatic events which celebrate the lengths to which they have gone to pursue their own political status amongst their electorate.

• Showing moments that demonstrate their policies that promise results on important environmental and social issues that directly affect the Inner North - Western suburbs of Melbourne.

• Creating two examples or more of ‘modern’ Australian Culture that dramatically depict the contrast of what it was to be to an Australian Citizen in the 1950s compared to now.

The candidates were:

Our candidates masterfully tried to outplay each other on stage demonstrating the cruelty, grotesqueness and humour of politics through a theatrical campaign where even handing out their own how to vote cards didn’t come up ‘Trumps’! This only highlighted the common fatal flaw that all politicians suffer from and when the nappies stopped flying, nothing was recycled and price of living didn’t go ‘Down! Down!” our audience unanimously voted that the ‘drama’ created by our talented VCE Drama students was the winner.

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