Hello Sauce
Welcome to Poms in Oz.
Do you already have the lists of independent schools for both states?
If not, please see here:
AISV - School Locator
About Independent Schools
With regard to schools in the Melbourne area, Alan Collett lives in Geelong. He might well be able to help with independent schools around Melbourne. I would suggest sending him a pM via Poms in Oz:
PomsInOz Forum - View Profile: Alan Collett
Obviously he does not act in a professional capacity when helping with a parent-to-parent query like yours. Alan is 45, and I know he has children but I do not know their ages.
On a Poms in Oz thread not long ago, Ormiston College in QLD was mentioned. The thread is here:
http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/educat...-457-visa.html
Sheerluck is now in QLD, so he might be able to help you some more.
PomsInOz Forum - View Profile: Sheerluck
You can just click under the person's user name, to the ledt of their posts, and the option to view their public profile and/or contact them privately should come up.
Additionally, we have a member called Quoll. (Quolls are cute little creatures, about the size of cats, but they are marsupials like kangaroos and carry their young in a pouch. I don't think they are mini-roos. I think they are probably distant cousins.)
Anyway, Quoll lives in Canberra but she has been in Oz for nearly 30 years, brought her own children up there etc. Quoll may have some professional involvement with education - I'm not sure. However, she is the Poms in Oz Member who always seems to be able to come up with solid information about anything related to education:
PomsInOz Forum - View Profile: Quoll
Best wishes
Gill
we now feel the need to move on, but before we head back to the UK we have decided to try Brisbane or Melbourne.
