Character Education

Bacchus Marsh Grammar’s Character Education Program continues to provide our students with a Values and Virtues based education, underpinning the schools’ values of Knowledge, Wisdom, Kindness, Discipline, Leadership, Ambition, Confidence and Respect. The program has progressed in 2025 with a new and exciting P-4 curriculum, as well as our well established 5-8 and Inspire Programs. The character education model at Bacchus Marsh Grammar is based on mainstream educational research from universities in Australia and worldwide, including the University of Birmingham and the Jubilee Centre, ensuring that it is inclusive and relevant to all students and teachers at Bacchus Marsh Grammar.

In line with the schools’ programs and strategic plan this year a research project is being conducted in collaboration with the Australian Catholic University, ACU, aimed at better understanding and planning character education at Bacchus Marsh Grammar.

This project is being led by Dr. Kylie Kerr and Dr. Jonathon Sargeant from Australian Catholic University (ACU), both experienced researchers in education, wellness, ethics education and positive education. This research at Bacchus Marsh Grammar reflects the latest research on character education.

In the first round of research students from Year’s 8 and 10 have been invited to participate in the research and families have been contacted regarding this.

We very much look forward to improving and consolidating our Character Education programs and strongly believe that this is only possible through reflection, research, and feedback.

Mr Andrew Perks – Deputy Principal: Culture and Character Education