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College Vision and Mission
An MLC education inspires our students to be citizens the world needs.
Our students develop the skills, values, and confidence to embrace the challenges and opportunities at school and beyond and to contribute meaningfully to society.
MLC develops and nurtures a community of independent, resilient, ambitious learners, by providing an unmatched breadth of learning and wellbeing experiences and environments.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation in girls’ education, combined with the breadth of our curriculum, co-curricular activities, wellbeing programs, and College
Our values
Our inclusive and welcoming environment is driven and underpinned by our values.
resources, ensures our students benefit from an enriched learning environment that is unmatched in Melbourne’s education landscape, marking out MLC as one of the best schools for girls in Australia.
With the support and encouragement to explore everything that interests, challenges, and motivates them, our students become independent, resilient, and ambitious learners who possess the skills, knowledge and attitude to thrive throughout every stage of their schooling, and in an ever-changing, globalised world.
At MLC we celebrate all of the achievements, including academic merit to notable sporting achievements on the national stage, accomplishments in music and the creative arts, excellence in leadership and significant contributions to community service and social justice.
Our values are the articulation of what we stand for and aspire to, guiding the school culture we foster and the behaviours we expect of everyone within our community.
Each value is an action-oriented statement. It is not enough to say that respect, responsibility, compassion, and courage are important to us. At MLC, we demonstrate our commitment to our values through all our interactions with others.
Our inclusive and welcoming environment
MLC values the diversity of knowledge, thought, and experience and believes that a welcoming and inclusive culture is important for learning and teaching and facilitates a positive staff, student, and alumnae experience.
We learn and work in solidarity with and from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land, sky and water.
We foster a safe community that celebrates diversity, uniqueness, and respect for differences of people of every faith, ethnicity, age, ability, neurodiversity, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation.
Statement of Democratic Principles
As a registered school with the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA), MLC supports and promotes the principles of Australian democracy, including a commitment to:
– Accountable and democratically elected government
– The rule of law
– Equal rights for all before the law, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender or other attributes
– Freedom of religion
– Freedom of speech and freedom of association, the values of openness and tolerance, and respect for all members of the College community regardless of background
This Statement of Democratic Principles is communicated to staff, students, parents and guardians and the College community.
