Welcome
Copperfield College is a school absolutely committed to providing the very best pathway for every student. Central to this is our strongly held belief that ‘all students can learn’ given the right conditions. My job is to find the right conditions for every student, continually build the capacity of every teacher to teach as well as they can and ensure that the College remains on a continuous improvement cycle. This is evident in everything we do and you will see that philosophy throughout.
Our structure is unique as we have grown from one original school. We now have two junior campuses at Kings Park and Sydenham for years 7 – 10 students and a VCE/VCAL campus at Delahey for year 11 & 12 students. I am absolutely convinced that this environment is best for the learning development of adolescents and for young adults.
Junior Campuses are based on small teams for years 7 & 8 and 9 & 10. This enables the teacher to know the learning needs of each student very well and ensures that student connection to the school is made and maintained. The teams continue at Delahey, however in the young adult learning environment our students blossom into confident and articulate people, ready to take their part in the world.
Our mantra ‘Three homes, one family’ is used as a metaphor to describe the way we think about our school. It is one school with three campuses. There is a family vision, family plans for improvement and everyone who interacts with us is part of the family – students, parent and staff.
Our improvement journey is exciting and bearing public fruit in the form of:
- Outstanding VCE results
- A National Curriculum Innovation prize for our work on improving VCE and the Culture of the Delahey Campus
- Finalists Ed Awards 2011 Outstanding Leadership Team - Numeracy Improvement
- Unique Coach and Consultant Literacy Improvement structure.
Welcome to Copperfield, exciting times ahead.
Tony Simpson
Principal