NOW OPEN - Our new boarding house at 371 Church Street!
READ MORENOW OPEN - Our new boarding house at 371 Church Street!
READ MOREThrough our Year 7-8 school and boarding program, our Senior Boarding Houses and our Pathways Program, MITS supports young Indigenous people as they pursue away-from-home schooling in Melbourne.
Chief Executive Officer
Head of Cultural Strength
Principal
Head of Boarding and Wellbeing
Pathways Manager
Development Manager
Community Engagement Manager
Boarding Manager (Year 7)
Transition Manager
Business Improvement Manager
Alumni Learning & Careers Mentor
Executive Support & Operations Manager
Mental Health Practitioner (Alumni)
Operations Assistant
Boarding Coordinator
Senior Boarding Coordinator
Boarding Coordinator
Boarding Manager (Fellas)
Teacher
Lead Teacher
Teacher
Student Wellbeing Coordinator
Alumni Learning & Careers Mentor
Assistant Boarding Manager (Year 7)
Senior Boarding Coordinator
Chef
Teacher
Assistant Boarding Manager (Girls)
Boarding Coordinator
Operations Assistant
Boarding Coordinator
Senior Boarding Coordinator
Boarding Coordinator
Boarding Coordinator
Boarding Coordinator
Assistant Accountant
Acting Boarding Manager (Girls)
Assistant Boarding Manager (Fellas)
Senior Boarding Coordinator
Commis Chef
Boarding Coordinator
Teacher
Boarding Coordinator
Senior Boarding Coordinator
Located inside the Richmond Football Club, our school provides a highly differentiated Year 7 and 8 learning program which celebrates Indigenous cultures and enables each student to grow academically, socially and emotionally.
Through partnerships with organisations including Swinburne University, Bangarra Dance Company, the Monash University Museum of Art and many more, our students participate in a vibrant curriculum which makes the most of the opportunities and excitement of Melbourne. Wellbeing sits at the core of our school program and every student is supported to ensure their physical, social, emotional and cultural wellbeing is strong.
With a fire pit and yarning circle at its heart, our Year 7 Boarding House is a warm, culturally safe place designed to feel like a family home.
Located on Richmond Hill, our Boarding House is staffed by an expert team, many of whom are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. Our students enjoy a rich program of weekend and after school activities including weekend excursions to musicals, museums and cultural events, camping trips on country and AFL with Richmond Junior Football Club. Our students complete homework three nights a week and help our chef in the kitchen to prepare delicious evening meals.
Our students and families tell us that they want to attend the best schools in Melbourne while remaining strong in their culture and surrounded by their peers. Our Senior Boarding Houses allow our students to live in a MITS-run boarding house throughout the entirety of their high school years.
Our three Senior Boarding Houses are located on Richmond Hill, a short walk from our Year 7 Boarding House and close to trains and trams. Our Years 8 MITS students live in these houses, along with our Years 9-12 students who attend one of our Melbourne Partner Schools each day. A smaller number of senior students live with Partner School host families or in Partner School boarding houses.
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MITS is made possible through partnerships with charitable trusts, foundations and donors, with corporate pro bono supporters, with community organisations and many other supporters.
In 2022 MITS opened its third boarding house on Richmond Hill at 364 Church St, and began construction of its fourth at 371 Church St. We also prepared to launch our Year 8 program and students relished the joy of Melbourne life post-COVID.
Download PDFDespite the continuing challenges presented by the COVID 19 pandemic, 2021 was another highly successful year for our MITS students, our alumni and for our organisation.
Download PDFIn response to COVID-19, MITS relocated the majority of our operations to Darwin for Semester Two, ensuring our students could recommence in-person learning.
Download PDFWe are always keen to hear from prospective families, parents and students, interested supporters and new partners. To contact us, please complete the form below.
Edward is the founding CEO of MITS, where he has been responsible for the establishment, strategic direction, and growth of the organisation. Prior to MITS, Edward was a mergers & acquisitions lawyer with law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where he completed secondments to KWM’s Beijing office and to Leighton Holdings.
Edward is a 2017 Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellow, having studied organizations supporting the transition of young Indigenous people into mainstream educational opportunities across New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Finland. In 2019 he attended Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management as a Harvard Club of Victoria Non-Profit Fellow and in 2021 he completed the McKinsey & Company Executive Leadership Program as a Not-for-Profit scholarship recipient.
Edward graduated from the University of Melbourne with a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons). He is a member of the MITS Executive and Leadership Teams.
