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To our students and their families, we extend a warm welcome to the new school year. Especially to our new Year 7 students, who are commencing their secondary education and all other students new to the College. 2025 is a historic year for Parade with our VCE Vocational Major Preston Campus commencing co-educational classes. For our Year 12 students, 2025 marks the final chapter of their secondary schooling and we wish them all the very best for the year ahead and trust that their efforts will lead to successful outcomes. Parade prides itself on being an inclusive school, embracing a diverse student body. We encourage every student, across all year levels, to fully engage with the opportunities at their disposal.

2024 Year 7 to 11 Academic High Achievers

The Academic High Achiever Award acknowledges students’ academic achievement over the whole of 2024 and were handed out to students at the final Year Level assembly for 2024. The Academic High Achiever Award was awarded to the students within each year level that achieved the highest overall assessment grades across all subjects over both semesters. Students that achieved the highest three scores were identified. In each year level there are minimum of three students that are bestowed the award, but depending on grades achieved, there may be more than three. The Academic High Achiever Awards are intended to acknowledge the excellence that exists within each Year Level. The 2024 winners in alphabetical order by surname were:

Year 7

Darius Anthony H11

Nathan Dang L14

Ethan Mercadante H15

William Trull B18

Year 10

Yacob Abraham H06

Christian Dang L04

Alfie Eldhose B04

Noah Jordan B05

Orlando Pettinella T07

Jules Ristevski L04

Year 8

Bailey Brewer H15

Thien Dang L14

Jack Hattenfels T18

Max Maiorana T19

Year 11

Lachlan Elia H06

Ethan Gaspari H02

Jamie Geneopoulos T04

Marcus Grech L06

Alexander Larocca T08

Merric Stancombe H03

Year 9

Kevin Chen N12

Nicholas Cicero L11

Jarvis Kavanagh T19

Ronit Mirpuri L12

2025 Resource List Reminders

As we commence the new school year, we want to remind families who have not yet finalised their child's resource list to do so as soon as possible to avoid any impact on their learning. Resource lists were emailed to families and are also available online at Campion Education. To place your orders, please visit Campion’s website and use the following codes:

Bundoora Campus: XK72

Preston Campus: QKGK

For students enrolled in VCE Unit 1 and 2 or Unit 3 and 4 subjects requiring an Edrolo textbook and/or digital subscription, payments must be made via the Edrolo payment portal. These subjects are clearly indicated on the resource list.

All other Year 7 to 12 digital resources listed on your child’s resource list must be ordered and paid for through Campion Education.

Semester 1 Timetables

Student timetables are built around maximising students’ elective choices. At the end of Semester 2 in June, when students change their electives, many students may also have a change of teacher for some of their yearlong subjects.

As student programs become more elective-based, they understand that these changes become more necessary to accommodate their elective selections. As such, except for compelling cases, students are not able to make changes to their elective or core subjects. Finding a subject no longer enjoyable, or discovering it to be more challenging than expected, are not considered compelling reasons for making changes to elective subjects.

In such situations, students and their families should work with their child’s teachers to support them with their learning.



Article by Maurice Petruccelli

Assistant Principal - Teaching and Learning