Westbourne Grammar School

Westbourne is a school with well qualified, dedicated teachers who empower their students and support them to be the best they can be. As educators, our shared purpose is to motivate and inspire, to communicate our vision, to champion and promote change in our classrooms and to plan for the future. We want our students to understand their ability is not fixed but will develop over time when they receive good teaching and when they respond to feedback.

Our shared sense of community and partnership with our families in educating each and every child is fundamental to our students’ continued learning and wellbeing. It is what makes this school a great school. Westbourne was founded in 1867 by visionaries with a burning desire to provide a great education for the young people of Melbourne’s west. We are enormously proud of our heritage and look forward to welcoming you to our community and sharing our achievements with you.

Committed to living its vision and values Westbourne Grammar School’s shared philosophy rests on the foundation of a strong moral purpose. In understanding and acknowledging that variance within a school is typically greater than variance between schools, Westbourne recognises the value of a moral purpose based on the concept that ‘every child can succeed and achieve significant growth’.

Westbourne Grammar School is characterised by its diverse community, which currently comprises students representing more than forty different nationalities and multiple faiths. Our value of community encourages respect and lies at the centre of how we engage with and care for each other inside and outside the classroom and, in a broader sense, with parents and the wider community. Respect for each other, our policies, the democratic principles of our country and the rule of law both reinforce and are fundamental to the school’s mission and values and apply equally to students and staff. In such a diverse community, religious freedom and tolerance are supported through open dialogue.

The school is committed to ensuring that its vision, mission and values are visible and lived through daily practices, while also used to guide our thinking and responses with respect to the ways in which we conduct teaching and learning for all students in our care.

Westbourne Grammar School supports and promotes the principles and practices of Australian democracy, including a commitment to:

• Elected government;
• The rule of law;
• Equal rights to all before the law;
• Freedom of religion;
• Freedom of speech and association; and
• The values of openness and tolerance.