Overnewton Anglican Community College

This is the official Facebook Page of Overnewton Anglican Community College (OACC).

Overnewton Anglican Community College, Keilor Campus opened in 1987 in direct response to community need for accessible quality education in the northwest of Melbourne. The second campus, at Taylors Lakes opened in 1996.

The College is organised into Junior School (Preparatory – Year 4), Middle School (Years 5 - 8), Canowindra (Year 9), and Senior School (Years 10 - 12). Each Campus has a Junior School and a Middle School with Canowindra located on the Taylors Lakes Campus and the Senior School at the Keilor Campus.

Each School has its own Head of School and its own Parent Support Team and is functionally self-contained. The structure gives a small school community intimacy to the entire College and is supported by our large-school facilities, large VCE subject choice and support services. The College is a safe, happy, ordered environment in which disciplined behaviour is a natural outcome of motivated students, engaging and demanding programs and excellent pastoral care systems.

Proudly Anglican, the College has a Chaplain at each Campus and every child attends Chapel once a week. Christian festivals are celebrated, Christian values are promoted and active faith is encouraged. Religious Studies is taught from Preparatory Year to Year 11.

To allow access to our education, the College maintains affordable fees that provide about one half of the cost of educating the child, with State and Commonwealth government funding providing the balance.

Recognising that education is a partnership, the College seeks high parental involvement and each family contributes 18 hours of service to the College per term. There are over fifty parent working groups helping in areas such as classroom assistance, gardening, yard duty, student banking, photocopying, catering, canteens and the annual fair. There are regular working bees at each campus. The parental involvement is a key to the success of a student's experience in the College. Students attend the College knowing they have the complete support and commitment of their parents behind them.

OACC proactively supports participation in social media online applications to enable professionals to engage in dialogue that is innovative and supports their continuing professional development.

Our official Facebook Page is one of several social media channels for educators. OACC values the responsible use of social media and expects that your participation be responsible and respectful.

OACC has policies and guidelines that govern the expectations of online behaviour via social media and reserve the right to remove content that we believe is in breach of these policies and guidelines.

OACC reserves the right to remove content if it contains:

Offensive abusive, obscene, profane, hateful or racist content links or images.

Comments that threaten or defame any person or organization.

The direct, full name or descriptive reference to an individual, irrespective of the post’s tone.

Solicitations and advertisements by other organisations or endorsements by other organisations or endorsements of other organisations.

Multiple or repetitive posts by a single user.

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Anything else that OACC deems inappropriate and does not align with our values, standards, policies and guidelines.