Every child deserves an opportunity to shine.
Music, sport, performing arts, leadership, camps and international travel — there’s a place for everyone.
Co-curricular life is woven through everything we do at Sunbury College. From the College Production to the cricket nets, from the Jazz Band to the Constitutional Convention, our students get the chance to find what they love and pursue it.
Instrumental Music
Instrumental Music runs as a separate elective subject. Students are withdrawn from rotating timetabled classes for individual or small-group lessons, and are reported on each semester.
Performance groups
- Concert Band
- Jazz Bands
- Strings Ensemble
- Brass Ensemble
- Woodwind Ensembles
- Percussion Ensemble
- Guitar Ensemble
- Rock Bands
- School Play
Performance activities
Tours of primary schools, festivals, annual instrumental concerts, the Carols Concert, performances for Senior Citizens groups and Probus, and VET Music students performing at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Performing Arts
Our annual College Production has run for over 40 years. Each year the production brings together cast, crew, musicians and designers from across the College.
Our annual Arts and Technology showcase, ‘Show Off’, brings food, performance and a textile catwalk together at the end of the year.
Sport
Inter-school sport
Netball, basketball, volleyball, cricket, badminton, squash and football. Sunbury College has won many State Championships across these sports over the years.
Inter-house sport
House competition runs in swimming and athletics across our four houses: Batman, Evans, Jackson and Clarke.
Academic Sports Program
Open from Year 10. Includes coaching, university visits, and representing the College in serious sporting competition.
Leadership
- College Captains (Middle and Senior)
- House Leaders
- Student Representative Council (SRC), with representatives who attend College Council
Camps and Overseas Travel
- Three-day camps at Year 7 and Year 8
- Year 9 leadership and resilience day camps
- Year 10 and 11 Outdoor Education and Geography camps
- Biennial trips to Japan via our Nagano High sister-school program
- Small Vietnam community-project trip
Year 9 Program & Work Experience
Our Year 9 Program takes students out of the classroom to ‘learn about their city’. Year 10 Work Experience is a two-week block; VCAL/VET students complete industry work placements as part of their program.
Awards and Celebrations
- Work Habits Award Night at half year
- Academic Awards Night at the end of year
- Year 10 Formal at the end of Term 3
- Year 11 Presentation Ball
- Year 12 Graduation Dinner
