School Profile

The Swedish School was incorporated under its current name, Melbourne Swedish Community School Association Inc on 27 Jule 1990, but has records going back to 1979.

A committee elected by the parents (members) is responsible for the running of the school. Its current constitution was revised 1996.

Students from all over Melbourne and its surrounds attend the school. Currently students from the age of 4 to 18 are enrolled.

The school employs a number of teachers, who all regularly attend professional development programs.

The school is located in the magnificent former Victorian Governor's residence in St George's Rd, Toorak. In recent years, due to expanding numbers, the school also rents class rooms from nearby Uniting Church.

The school is fortunate to be able to provide students and their families with such a splendid backdrop. With lush gardens, big lawns, majestic oak trees, a playground and even a pool to enjoy before or after classes in summer, the setting is ideal as a meeting point for the Swedish Community.

The school enjoys an excellent relaitonship with its long term prime land-lord, the Swedish Church.

Other benefits include full access to the library and a safe storage for books, materials and other learning-aids.

Generally, a student is aged between 7 and 12 and comes from a family where one parent is Swedish and the other is Australian and where English is spoken as the first language and Swedish learnt as a second. Some of the students derive from Swedish ex-pat families who remain in Australia for a period of time. For these students, the school's academic aim is to provide maintenance and development for their children's native Swedish language skills.

The school also runs an increasingly popular and successful VCE Program (Victorian Certificate of Education) as well as catering for a number of correspondence students.

Within its mix and the commonality of interest of its students, the school promotes multi-cultural values and more particularly provides a bridge between the cultures and languages that its children share.

To facilitate this end, the school endeavours to engender its values outside the classroom as well as inside by encouraging students and parents to attend various excursions and outings thoughout the school year including our annual school camp.

The Melbourne Swedish Community School is committed to developing the students all-round individual capacity. So, the curriculum integrates a full range of various studies including Swedish heritage, history, geography and provides for a number of cultural activities.

The desire is to provide knowledge, understanding and some practical experience so that the individuak can grow and maintain their particular sense of cultural belonging.

Contact Information

To Contact the school please send an email to one of the addresses below. For privacy reasons we don't put the private phone numbers of our committee members or teachers on the web. In order to get the telephone number of the most appropriate person to speak to please send an email to the coordinator. If you don't have an email address, you can call the Swedish church and leave a message. The phone number is (03) 9827 5580 and the fax number is (03) 9826 6838

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