Cornish College is an independent coeducational school in Melbourne, Australia. Located in Bangholme, the school caters for students in all year levels from three-year-olds, in the Early Learning Centre, to Year 12. Location Cornish College is located on the cusp of the Mornington Peninsula in Bangholme, Melbourne, Australia. The school is in close proximity to Port Phillip Bay and an hour’s drive south east of Melbourne’s CBD. Curriculum Cornish College offers a concept-based curriculum to ensure students gain rich understandings, a love of learning and vital enterprise skills such as creative thinking, collaboration and communication. The Early Learning Centre is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for children from 3 to 5 years of age and the curriculum centres on the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, a benchmark for excellence in teaching young children. Cornish College has been an authorised International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) school since its inception in 2012 and offers the PYP to 3 year olds through to Year 6. This approach to teaching and learning is embraced in a multidisciplinary, concept-driven and inquiry-based program in the secondary years. Senior secondary students can select a number of pathways to attain Year 12 graduation, including Design Futures, Vocational Education and Training, Structured Workplace Learning, School-based Apprenticeship and the Victorian Certificate of Education. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are key elements throughout the curriculum. Primary students explore STEM]] through a range of activities such as creating electronic storybooks, claymation projects, music and movie making, webpage design and robotics. Secondary students expand their STEM knowledge through Super Studies electives and VCE classes that offer diverse learning experiences spanning music technology, media design, photography, website design, designing solar-powered boats, videogame design, building a bluetooth-powered amplifier, investigating DNA data encryption and 3D printing. Students can also participate in Real Time Learning programs and the NCSS GROK competition. Rings of Sustainability The Cornish College Rings of Sustainability provide a lens through which every aspect of the college is viewed – operations, curriculum design and engagement in critical thinking. The Rings represent four dimensions of sustainability that are interdependent: The personal focuses on the individual, skills for living and wellbeing Socio-cultural examines beliefs, customs and practices Urban/technological takes an economic perspective The natural considers issues from an environmental perspective, including how we, as local and global citizens, manage our ecological footprint, value and protect biodiversity and work to understand how