Assumption College

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We here at Assumption College are proud to share something of our community, culture, aspirations, and achievements through this website. We are a unique school, with over 125 years of experience, tradition, and imagination in day and boarding education for the young people of our region and beyond.

As a Marist school, we plan and work so that everyone in our community can experience joy and hope. We are passionate about being a place where young people flourish. Assumption College could almost be better understood as a 'village' rather than merely a school. Set on 95 acres (33 hectares), we encompass a lively secondary school, a boarding community of students, families and their pets, a profitable farm, a celebrated restaurant, professional wellbeing, health center, and enviable sporting facilities.

Our students and staff are confident, creative, and generous people who love their school and demonstrate great pride in the privilege of attending Assumption College. We are progressive in our educational and pedagogical standards and are committed to offering students as many pathways to their chosen careers as we can manage. We celebrate academic, relational, vocational, physical, and spiritual growth.

Assumption College holds to the Marist pillars, providing an inclusive learning environment to prepare students for all aspects of life – continually reaching higher to achieve their potential and beyond in the spirit of our motto, Quae Supra Quaere.

Assumption College: an inclusive and transformative Marist community, inspiring one another to shape the future with audacity and hope.

The people of Assumption College have long aspired to 'seek the things that are above' by making visible the Marian face of the Church. Cherishing the rich heritage of having provided a quality Catholic education for rural families for over 120 years, we appreciate and recognize our unique place in the hearts and minds of Australians.

In a new way, we strive to cultivate young women and men who can confidently live as 'good Christians and good citizens' [1]. Our Marist inheritance is a gift that guides the school's daily culture in life-giving and challenging ways.

Our community's adults and adolescents are committed to a mindset of ongoing improvement and see life-long learning as the cornerstone of our development.

We are proud to support and encourage others to achieve their potential and know that partnerships with families, local schools, and other community and educational organizations enrich us and help us provide even more excellent opportunities for all.

Knowing that we are a community blessed with much, we hear the call from those on the margins and, in solidarity, advocate and toil for a more just and merciful world.

In a gradually becoming more urbanized region, we believe in and work for the values of a healthy and lively rural life – where people of all ages and backgrounds feel welcomed and nourished.

We are enriched by the presence of our borders, many of whom hail from families whose association with the land has shaped and changed our nation.

Together, our rural and urban families create a unique social environment that calls for a courageous discernment of evolving times and agility of response that ensures our students learn to know, be competent, live together, and, most significantly, grow as persons' [2].

As such, we affirm:

• Mary courageously said yes to all that God promised. Like her, we seek to witness and nurture in all a passionate and compassionate spirituality through which Jesus is known and loved.
• The early Marists proclaimed: 'Let it be said of us, as it was of the first Christians, 'See how they love one another' [3]. In a world thirsting for connection and belonging, we strive to be a place where a family spirit of love, respect, and mutual trust are the wellsprings of growth and healing.
• Marcellin responded to the needs of his time. Inspired by his example, we dedicate ourselves to building an aspirational and responsive school that ignites a love of learning and celebrates personal excellence.
• Gospel leadership is characterized by service. In our presence to one another and through the joyful giving of ourselves, we model and promote the dignity of all.
• We approach creation with a deep sense of awe and gratitude and are mindful that our resources are finite. We value simplicity and, as such, develop structures and relationships that enable a humble, honest, and balanced approach to life.

Mary courageously said yes to all that God promised. Like her, we seek to witness and nurture in all a passionate and compassionate spirituality through which Jesus is known and loved.

We plan and act so that upon leaving Assumption, our students:

• have developed a sense of the spiritual and sacred and are courageous in exploring their relationship with God
• appreciate the value of ritual, silence, prayer, sacramentality, and retreat in building a mature spiritual life
• live justly with compassion, understanding, and empathy, and
• appreciate the interdependence of spiritual, emotional, relational, and physical wellbeing.

The early Marists proclaimed: 'Let it be said of us, as it was of the first Christians, 'See how they love one another.' In a world thirsty for connection and belonging, we strive to be a place where a family spirit of love, respect, and mutual trust are the wellsprings of growth and healing.

We plan and act so that upon leaving Assumption, our students:

• are reflective individuals who actively nurture their emotional and physical wellbeing
• can form and promote positive, inclusive, respectful relationships
• understand themselves to be resilient, able to forgive and receive forgiveness, and
• care for the vulnerable and willingly place others' needs before their own.

Marcellin responded to the needs of his times. Inspired by his example, we dedicate ourselves to building an aspirational and responsive school that ignites a love of learning and celebrates personal excellence.

We plan and act so that upon leaving Assumption, our students:

• are creative and curious people who embrace learning as a life-long undertaking
• believe in themselves as confident problem-solvers, able to work collaboratively and independently
• seek and use feedback effectively for personal growth and consistently strive for ambitious goals, and
• are persistent, discerning risk-takers, who understand that challenge, and sometimes failure, are essential elements of learning and self-improvement.

Gospel leadership is characterized by service. In our presence to one another and through the joyful giving of ourselves, we model and promote the dignity of all.

We plan and act so that upon leaving Assumption, our students:

• understand themselves as servant leaders, always prepared to ask: 'what can we do for you?'
• use their consciences to live with courageous integrity and inspire optimism in others
• inform themselves about local, national, and global issues and can sit comfortably with the tensions of meeting immediate and more far-reaching needs, and
• Are grateful people who can celebrate the success of self and others with joy.

We approach creation with a deep sense of awe and gratitude and are mindful that our resources are finite. We value simplicity and develop structures and relationships that enable a humble, honest, and balanced approach to life. As such, we:

• care for our resources and make environmental sustainability a priority in the life of our school
• put student learning at the center of our resourcing decisions, and
• ensure all policies and procedures accurately reflect the needs of our college community.

Our Catholic faith is invitational. We welcome everyone who seeks, like us, to build the just, kind, peaceful, and joyful world that Jesus proclaimed. We believe in, and work for, respectful relationships and restorative words and behaviors. The Marist Brothers were invited to Kilmore to start a primary school for local boys in 1893. This they did – but as the new century approached, the Catholic educational needs of rural families from northern Victoria and southern New South Wales had to be considered.

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