Learning for Life

Do you want your children to learn how to think independently and be adaptable? With 150 years of delivering educational excellence; Catherine McAuley College Bendigo is passionate about arming students with the skills they need to thrive and serve.

Join our welcoming community in 2026 and begin learning for life.

Open Day 2025

The Catherine McAuley College Bendigo community displayed its strength and spirit at Open Day, extending hospitality to close to 300 families with a child commencing Year 7 in 2026. With beautiful weather, tours, stalls, activities, food and entertainment on offer, it was a day of celebration and excitement with over 800 visitors at the Coolock Campus. Thank you to everyone who attended the Open Day and engaged with our community and the activities on offer. We thoroughly enjoyed meeting so many future Year 7s with their families.

Coolock Campus Tours (Years 7 – 9)

Families considering enrolment at Catherine McAuley College Bendigo are warmly invited to bring their child for a tour of the Coolock Campus. Walk around with members of our Leadership Team and ask as many questions as you like.

College Tours: Coolock Campus, 1 St Vincent’s Road, Junortoun 

• Thursday 24 April at 4.00pm
• Thursday 1 May at 4.00pm
• Thursday 8 May 4.00pm

Booking required for tours.

Additional Learning Needs Information Evening

TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2025

For parents and carers of a child with additional learning needs who is starting Year 7 in 2026.

Catherine McAuley College Bendigo’s Learning Diversity Team is dedicated to assisting students with additional needs so that they can experience success and achieve their personal best. A range of support methods are employed to help students who may have language difficulties, cognitive difficulties, physical disabilities or specific emotional-social needs. Individual support plans are developed to suit each student’s abilities and areas of interest.

DETAILS

• Students are not required to attend this evening.
• Tuesday 29 April 2025, 5.00pm – 6.00pm
• Catherine McAuley College Bendigo (CMCB), Coolock Campus, Junortoun in the Library

Register now and download Information Flyer below for further information.

Virtual Open House

Our virtual Open House site includes virtual tours and engaging videos to build Grade 6 students’ confidence about starting high school at CMCB. Explore the 360 virtual tours to find your way around the Coolock Campus and the Mercy Junortoun Sporting Precinct.

Orientation Day

TUESDAY 9 DECEMBER 2025

The intention of Orientation Day offers Year 7, 2026 students the opportunity to spend a day at the Coolock Campus and familiarise themselves with day-to-day life at Catherine McAuley College Bendigo.

Enrolment Dates

Online enrolment for Year 7 2026 will open on Wednesday 26 March 2025 and close on Friday 9 May 2025.