The Class of 2025 are an outstanding group. Students who embraced the breadth of opportunities Woodleigh offers, creating a culture of care, creativity, hard work and tenacity that has led to outstanding academic results. They are the first group that I have seen progress right through the Senior Campus, watching them grow up has been an absolute pleasure and I am so pleased to share these results with you today.

This year’s Dux is Danny Adams-Heitz, who scored 99.05 – an outstanding result, reflective of his efforts right across his time at the school. Like other Woodleigh Duxes over the years, Danny was involved in all areas of school life, including music, sport and our Broadening Horizons Program.

The gratitude our students have for their experience at the school is one of the defining features of Woodleigh students, in Danny’s words, “Everyone’s so open; there’s a genuine connection between teachers and students and they’re so encouraging of having extracurricular experiences – it’s so much more than just the content at hand. You’ve got all the camps, all the Broadening Horizons experiences and I think as I progressed through school, I’m just so grateful that I’ve had all these opportunities to have these experiences and to expand my worldview.”

Lily Lawson, Char Palmer, Poppy Mollett, Rani Jones and Aurelia Puleio, all students who took on a wide range of Woodleigh opportunities, have performed exceptionally well, with ATARs above 95.

Congratulations to our 90+ ATAR achievers: Danny, Adams-Heitz, Lily Lawson, Char Palmer, Poppy Mollett, Rani Jones, Aurelia Puleio, Lily Reynolds, Matthew Brown, Lily Carter, Felix Doughty, Miller Virtanen, Ollie Rivett, Griff Matthews and Anika Gay.

15.7% of our students scored ATARs above 90, and 38.2% scored 80 or above – reflecting the excellent work our staff have done in mentoring these students from their earliest days at Woodleigh.

The many successes of The Class of 2025 are cause for celebration, and I can’t wait to see what they go on to achieve in the years ahead.

Best wishes,
Nat McLennan