As Victorian students awake to check their Atars, Ethan becomes first in his family to get a year 12 certificate

Ethan Bundle-Bell, a Gunditjmara and Butchulla man, is the first in his family to complete year 12 after he undertook the vocational major program at Braybrook Secondary College in Melbourne’s west. Photograph: Supplied

Two years ago, Ethan Bundle-Bell was considering dropping out of school, considering himself “not a book person”. Yet he has now become the first person in his family to complete year 12.

“I didn’t think it would happen,” the 17-year-old says. “I didn’t think I’d be finishing year 12.”