Are there any good state schools in Mount Eliza?
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I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
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Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
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Originally Posted by penny31
I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
We live in ME and my 2 oldest attend ME Sec College which is state, we are very pleased with it on the whole.
Toorak and the Peninsula are private schools and are very very good, but with 3 children they are out of our price range, I know Peninsula does have a long waiting list so parents often put down their childrens names from a very early age.
If you need any more assistance feel free to ask, no worries
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Hi, Toorak, the peninsula, mentone, haileybury are all private not too sure about the others, Toorak is a girls school & they all have excellent reputations, the state school in mt Eliza is mt Eliza sec college www.mesc.vic.edu.au fees for the others are around $10,000 Toorak yr 10 is $14368, Mentone girls grammar is private & mentone girls sec college is a state school, i ordered a book called The good schools guide 2006 while in the uk to help with research, hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by penny31
I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
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Originally Posted by penny31
I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Kunyoung primary does have a website, I will try and find it and pm it to you.
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Hi Penny, Ive just pm'd you, took me so long to find website cos I was spelling Kunyung wrong!!!!!
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We have 2 boys at The Peninsula School, Year 3 and Year 1. We are very pleased with the school and it is difficult not to be impressed at the facilities available there. The school website is
http://www.tps.vic.edu.au/
You should be able to find the current fees on there.
Good Luck, Andy
PS If you do move over to Mount Eliza I know one of the teachers who has a furnished 2 bed bungalow on her farm. A number of expats have stayed there on arrival and have been very pleased with the accomodation.
http://www.tps.vic.edu.au/
You should be able to find the current fees on there.
Good Luck, Andy
PS If you do move over to Mount Eliza I know one of the teachers who has a furnished 2 bed bungalow on her farm. A number of expats have stayed there on arrival and have been very pleased with the accomodation.
Originally Posted by penny31
I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
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Originally Posted by penny31
I'm having a bad time searching the net for info on schools, it's all just too confusing for a mere mortal like me! Can you tell me if the following schools are state or private please. We think we would like to head for Mt Eliza but we won't know until we get there so we are looking all around. These schools seem to do well in the statistics tables that we found. Also what (ish) are the fees for private schools? We are not Catholic so if any of these are Catholic they are no good for us, we are Christian though if that helps! I have 3 children aged 10, 9 and 2, we are looking to buy house/land/cardboard box near to the secondary school, I'm not too fussed about primary at this stage. Hope to be in Aus in May (depending on house sale of course!) Thank you very much for any info you can give me, i really appreciate it, and I'm now off to bed!
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Cheltenham sch in Cheltenham
Firbank in Brighton
Haileybury College in keysborough
Mentone girls gs Mentone
Mentone gs Mentone (whats the difference?)
Marantha Christian College in Endeavour Hills
Mazenod College Mulgrave
The Peninsular sc Mount Eliza
Toorak College Mount Eliza
Woodleigh school Baxter
Try:
http://www.maytel.net.au/htmls/secondary.html
http://schlprv.vcaa.vic.edu.au/schoolsstudiessearch (for subjects offered at schools)
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/stati...choolstats.pdf (the closest you'll get to league tables for Vic schools)
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The Maytel link doesn't seem to work anymore - used to have links to secondary schools in Victoria.
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http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonline/ (includes lists of all state and private/independent schools)
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/ch/
http://www.immi.gov.au/settle/education/vic.htm
http://www.ais.vic.edu.au/ (association of independent schools)
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Originally Posted by caz41
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We live in ME and my 2 oldest attend ME Sec College which is state, we are very pleased with it on the whole.
Toorak and the Peninsula are private schools and are very very good, but with 3 children they are out of our price range, I know Peninsula does have a long waiting list so parents often put down their childrens names from a very early age.
If you need any more assistance feel free to ask, no worries
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We live in ME and my 2 oldest attend ME Sec College which is state, we are very pleased with it on the whole.
Toorak and the Peninsula are private schools and are very very good, but with 3 children they are out of our price range, I know Peninsula does have a long waiting list so parents often put down their childrens names from a very early age.
If you need any more assistance feel free to ask, no worries
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Originally Posted by taylor1
Hi, Toorak, the peninsula, mentone, haileybury are all private not too sure about the others, Toorak is a girls school & they all have excellent reputations, the state school in mt Eliza is mt Eliza sec college www.mesc.vic.edu.au fees for the others are around $10,000 Toorak yr 10 is $14368, Mentone girls grammar is private & mentone girls sec college is a state school, i ordered a book called The good schools guide 2006 while in the uk to help with research, hope this helps.
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Mum went to Firbank....private, think Cof E. Used to be VERY posh...dont know about now...they have a website which looks informative and enticing - I would definitely consider it if I were in Melb.
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Originally Posted by Joanne
Hi Penny, Ive just pm'd you, took me so long to find website cos I was spelling Kunyung wrong!!!!!
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Originally Posted by andy thomas
We have 2 boys at The Peninsula School, Year 3 and Year 1. We are very pleased with the school and it is difficult not to be impressed at the facilities available there. The school website is
http://www.tps.vic.edu.au/
You should be able to find the current fees on there.
Good Luck, Andy
PS If you do move over to Mount Eliza I know one of the teachers who has a furnished 2 bed bungalow on her farm. A number of expats have stayed there on arrival and have been very pleased with the accomodation.
http://www.tps.vic.edu.au/
You should be able to find the current fees on there.
Good Luck, Andy
PS If you do move over to Mount Eliza I know one of the teachers who has a furnished 2 bed bungalow on her farm. A number of expats have stayed there on arrival and have been very pleased with the accomodation.
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