Welcome Year 7 2027 Parents
SPORT
Macleod College offers a comprehensive and engaging sports program for its students, allowing them to develop skills, teamwork, and fair play. The weekly sport and PE programs, along with the opportunity to participate in interschool competitions, provide students with a well-rounded fitness experience. All Macleod College Year 7 students are involved in an organised once a week sport program as well as their PE program.
With the range of sports offered across all four terms, students can explore different interests, from traditional team sports like AFL, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Futsal, Netball, Soccer, Softball, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball to individual challenges like Cross Country, Athletics or Swimming. The competition against local schools and the chance to progress to the Northern Zone finals adds an exciting level of achievement and pride.
The College focus on upholding the values of Achieve, Respect, and Connect through sports is a great way to foster personal growth and community spirit among students.
These values align with the goals of their sports program, creating an environment where students not only compete but also collaborate, support each other, and strive for excellence and success.
HUMANITIES
Why study Humanities at Macleod?
At Macleod, we believe Humanities helps students make sense of the world and their place within it. Through History, Geography, Economics & Business, and Civics & Citizenship, students explore how societies have developed, how people interact with environments, how economies shape everyday life, and how citizens can participate in a democracy.
Humanities builds curiosity, perspective and judgement. It gives students the knowledge and skills to ask good questions, analyse evidence, understand different viewpoints and make informed decisions about the issues that affect their lives. In a world that is complex and fast-changing, Humanities helps young people become thoughtful, informed and capable members of the community.
Year 7: Macleod College students begin their History journey in ancient times, comparing ancient civilizations and undertaking an inquiry project into one aspect of an ancient civilization. In Civics & Citizenship, students experience the democratic process through a mock political campaign and election, and in Geography they investigate the liveability of their suburb.
Year 8: Students’ History journeys jump forward to the Middle Ages, the highlight of which is a whole day of medieval activities with the team from Kryal Castle, immersing them in chivalric culture. In Economics & Business, students learn how markets work and create a product and marketing campaign based on their own in-the-field research. In Geography, students explore the process of urbanisation by comparing megacities from around the world, and the challenges and opportunities they present.
Year 9: In History, students investigate the beginnings of the modern age, from the Industrial Revolution, via the colonisation of Australia, right up to WWI and its impacts. Students engage with a contemporary debate about proposed legislation in Civics & Citizenship, taking action to influence whether it gets passed or not. As part of their Geography studies, students complete fieldwork that compares the interconnectedness of different locations within the Melbourne metropolitan area.
Year 10: As part of Macleod College’s EnglighTEN program, students are given a wide range of subject choices in Humanities, with study options including how geography shapes human wellbeing, how a modern Australian identity has been shaped by pop culture, personal finance, famous assassinations from history, and many more. All students study the causes, key events and effects of WWII, picking up the story from where they left it in Year 9, with a Treaty of Versailles role-play.