John Tonkin College

Sydney Private Schools introduces John Tonkin College in Mandurah, for all your education and learning needs.

John Tonkin College, centrally located in the City of Mandurah, heralds a new era for public education in Mandurah and provides outstanding opportunities for secondary students. The college offers the broadest choices of courses and programs for year 8-12 students in the Peel region as well as the southern metropolitan corridor.

John Tonkin College (JTC) is part of the Peel Education and Training (PET) Campus sharing the Peel Campuses of Challenger Institute of Technology and Murdoch University and the Tindale campus, adjacent to North Mandurah Primary School. In addition to this the College boasts additional off site facilities with a state of the art Marine Centre and a public learning centre, known as E2C (Education to Community.)

JTC is the provider of public educational services for students completing secondary studies in Mandurah. Being a split site, which is collocated with tertiary providers makes the college unique and provides access to industry standard facilities that are not available in a traditional school environment.

JTC is sensitive to the needs of tertiary institutions, commerce and industry and to provide assistance for further study or training for careers in these sectors. This is being achieved through productive partnerships with both community and tertiary organisations.

The design of JTC has recognised the need for flexibility in the use of the sites and the buildings as the needs of students and the community change. It also takes into account the changes in information and Communications Technology over recent years and the expectation that such changes will continue into the future. For these reasons JTC is well placed to remain at the leading edge of education innovation in the future

The college vision is “a unique centre of excellence for lifelong learning.”  A learning culture of high expectations for every student to achieve excellence in their pursuits is embedded through highly committed and professional staff, resulting in self reliant, motivated, well rounded, inquiring individuals with a strong sense of self identity and purpose.

Through the College’s mission, celebrating excellence in teaching, we challenge and support our staff and students to reach their potential. This mission is driven by the college’s values and exposes those held by the late Honourable John Tonkin:

Excellence: continually challenging ourselves to achieve our potential.
Respect: for self and others, and the college
Commitment: taking ownership for choices and responsibility to achieve Goals