Monivae College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational high day and boarding school of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) tradition located in , Victoria, Australia. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat. Set on , the college was founded in 1954. Jonathan Rowe has served as the College principal since January 2020. Monivae College Mission Monivae College is a heart centred learning community that embodies the core MSC values of love, positive relationships and compassion. Monivae College is a proactive and future focused educational environment which embraces and engages with the world. Monivae College Vision Monivae College is a Catholic secondary co-educational day and boarding school welcoming to everyone. Inspired by the vision of Jules Chevalier and spirituality of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, students are at the heart. Success is nurtured through developing personal and physical growth, resilience, empathy, academic achievement and faith. Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Monivae is a Catholic, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) school. MSC () is an "international congregation of religious priests and brothers" founded by Father Jules Chevalier in France in 1854. The Australian province of MSC, which has approximately 140 members, was first established at the Sacred Heart Monastery, , Sydney in 1897. In the mid-1940s, then-bishop of the Ballarat diocese, Bishop O’Collins, "invited the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart to open a boys-only boarding school in the heart of the prosperous Western District of Victoria". Although live-in MSC priests and brothers at Monivae were phased out in the late 1990s, in the 2016 Principal’s Report, Mark McGinnity re-affirmed Monivae’s commitment to the MSC spirit: Ethos and identity review In 2016, Monivae was also "the first of the MSC schools in Australia to undergo the ‘Ethos and Identity Review’ where a panel visited the College for three days and assessed using four lenses how the school was Catholic and MSC". Principal McGinnity noted the panel’s report "was very positive affirming many of the good things … and encouraging all staff to attend spiritual formation courses at Douglas Park." McGinnity reported that "This year’s whole staff Spiritual Formation Day was conducted by Fr Richard Leonard SJ with an emphasis on how quality relationships in Catholic schools can form believers in our media saturated culture." (sic). MSC mission statement According to MSC Australia’s mission statement, "The Justice and Peace Centre (is focused on) actively drawing to the