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14 December, 2025
Super studies: The Year 9 students on top of a region
TEACHING innovation, student respect and curriculum engagement have seen Pyramid Hill College students top the region.
The P10 college was last week named the best performing government school in the 2025 NAPLAN tests for literacy and numeracy.
The school has been a consistent achiever in the national assessments in recent years and several students become VCE dux at schools in Boort, Kerang and Cohuna.
Principal Fiona Moon praised the Year 9 cohort of 15 students - three in Australia less than three years and another two with English as their other language.
The school’s approach to innovative teacher and engagement was backed up last Friday by the students who this year have studied Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Maus telling two stories how writer Art Spiegelman’s father Vladek survived World War Two and the Holocaust.
Jamison Walters said: “The teachers push students to where you can go, not where the class is.”
Cooper Gould, who will play the title role when students act out Macbeth this week, said the school’s teaching approach helped them find “the right way (to learn) for you”.
He said mid-class subject breaks allowed students to reset and take in information that teachers explained well.
Mrs Moon said the larger class size for Year 9 this year had led to richer discussions among students.
“We’ve had staff coaching - both external and in-house - to build the capacity of teachers,” she said. “We are spending 100 per cent of our time actually teaching.
“Most our teachers have been at the school for five, 10 years and more.
“There is experience invested in the teachers while we’re also attracting young teachers. new and with their own vitality.”
Year 9 co-ordinator Luke Roberts said strong engagement between teachers and students meant learning “is both valuable and fun”.
“(NAPLAN results) show a country school is the place to education your kids,” Mr Roberts said.
Year 9 student Daemon Coussa arrived at Pyramid Hill College in 2023.
As his cohort was boarding the bus back to school after a session at Pyramid Hill swimming pool, it was Daemon who was last to leave.
He wanted to back Mrs Moon and Mr Roberts for their approach to teaching and student engagement.
“This is my fourth school. I have never seen or been to a school that is so accepting,” he said.
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