Aitken College (Greenvale, Victoria)
Aitken College is an independent, co-education day school located in Greenvale, Victoria, Australi]. It offers schooling education from Prep through to Year 12.
Aitken College is a co-educational, independent school catering for students of all faiths and religious denominations in the northwest region of Melbourne. It opened in January 1999.
It operates in association with the Uniting Church in Australia but is not governed or managed by the Church.
Students
As of the 2018 school year, there were 1200 students. The college is divided into four smaller "schools":- Fairview - Prep to Year 2
- Cumberland - Year 3 to Year 6
- Dunhelen - Year 7 to Year 9
- Brookhill - Year 10 to Year 12
Key people
Principals
Deputy Principals
Chairmen
Heads of Preparatory School
Heads of Junior School
Heads of Middle School
Heads of Lower Secondary School (2000–2014)
Heads of Senior School
House system
A house system operates in senior, middle and junior schools. Each house is named after a significant historic family from the surrounding area. Sporting competitions are held between them each year.House | Colour | Origin of name |
Brodie | Blue | The Brodie brothers bought land in the area around Mickleham to service their sheep from around the 1840s. |
Cameron | Green | Donald Cameron purchased the land known as Ruthvenfield in 1848, to be later renamed by its new owner, Thomas Brunton, in the 1890s as Roxburgh Park. |
Clarke | Yellow | The Clarke family bought land in the area and took over land owned by the Brodie brothers and John Aitken. |
Millar | Red | The Millar family had a local involvement in the area from around the late 1860s. |