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17 December, 2025
Timboon celebrates top students
TIMBOON P-12 School is celebrating the achievements of the Class of 2025, with strong VCE results and every graduating student once again moving into a meaningful post-school pathway.
Kyla Groves has been named VCE dux of Timboon P-12 School, recognised for outstanding achievement across their VCE studies, including English, Biology, Maths Methods, Physics, PE and Chemistry.
Kyla said she was hoping to attend Melbourne University next year, pursuing a Bachelor of Science.
“I haven’t gotten an offer yet but I’m hoping to go to Melbourne University for biochemistry and molecular biology,” she said.
“I kind of got side-tracked in my classes – instead of doing the actual classwork for biology and chemistry I’d do biochemistry work and go down a couple of YouTube rabbit holes.
“When I’m learning it in my classes I always do all the extension stuff around it because it’s interesting.
“I’m considering taking a postgraduate degree in biotechnology so I could look at genetics or I could look at genetically modified organisms or biosecurity maybe – just see where it takes me.”
Kyla said the advice she would give next year’s students was to focus on subjects they liked.
“In the lead up to the scores coming out, I was feeling pretty chill because I knew I couldn’t do anything about it,” she said.
“I was hoping for a higher score than I got.
“Pick subjects you like because it’s not as hard to be studying if you actually like the things that you’re studying – it’s much more motivating.”
Ruby Haugh has been named VCE-VM dux of Timboon P-12 School, recognised for her outstanding achievement including her School Based Apprenticeship in animal care, Literacy, Foundation Mathematics, Work Related Skills and Personal Development Skills.
Alongside her school studies, she completed a Cert II in Animal Care at TAFE, which she said was a prerequisite for the course she hoped to do next year, which is a Cert IV in Veterinary Nursing.
“I work at The Vet Group in Timboon and I work a little a bit at the Wollaston Clinic as well just to help out a bit,” Ruby said.
“I love it – there’s nothing that I really don’t enjoy, it’s all a new thing every day so it’s very good.”
Ruby said she was excited for her friends to get the scores they wanted more than she was thinking of herself.
“I didn’t even know that there was a dux if I’m going to be quite honest,” she said.
“I was excited for my friends to get their scores because they’d worked so hard.
“It was a moment of ‘Wow, that’s great’.
“I think I would tell students next year to just have a go at everything and always see what you can do because I guess at school it’s the easiest time to experiment and do whatever you feel like you’re going to do for your future so try it all while you can.”
This year, all 29 Year 12 students successfully completed their VCE and VCE Vocational Major studies.
VCE coordinator and Year 12 leader Carolyne Wakefield said the results reflect the hard work and resilience of the cohort.
“We are incredibly proud of this group of young people,” she said.
“They have managed the demands of VCE and VCE-VM while balancing work, family, sport and other commitments and they have supported each other throughout the journey.
“Our students are heading into a wide range of pathways – including university, TAFE, apprenticeships, traineeships and employment.
“Whether or not students choose to share their ATAR publicly, every result represents years of effort, growth and learning and that is what we are celebrating.”
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