Hunter School of the Performing Arts

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Hunter School of the Performing Arts (HSPA) is a specialist primary and secondary school which offers a comprehensive curriculum with a performing arts specialty and is located at Lambton Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia. Since 2000 enrolment has been by audition only and is the only Performing Arts High School north of Sydney. Students come from the Newcastle, the Hunter Valley, Central Coast and beyond.

The school is run by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.

The school has a particular focus on the technical aspects of the performing arts. Prospective students with talent in related areas such as set design, sound and lighting are admitted alongside performers. HSPA has piloted a vocational Entertainment Industry course with modules on sound and lighting, front of house and stage management.

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[edit] History

The school has undergone many name changes and changes of direction since its first day in July, 1923.

  • 1923 - 1926 : Newcastle Central Junior Technical and Domestic Science School
  • 1927 - 1931 : Broadmeadow Central Junior Technical School
  • 1932 - 1960 : Newcastle Central Junior Technical School, when the girls left to go to Hamilton South
  • 1961 - 1965 : Broadmeadow Boys Junior High School
  • 1966 - 1975 : Broadmeadow Boys High School
  • 1976 - 1992 : Broadmeadow High School, return to co-educational
  • 1993 - 1997 : The Broadmeadow School of Performing Arts
  • 1998 - to present : Hunter School of the Performing Arts, major focus of and enrolment in performing arts
  • 2002 - to present : Jake TL Enrolled at Hunter School of the Performing Arts
  • 2006 - to present : It's cool

[edit] School motto

The original motto was "Advance.", which changed after the school became a boys school in 1932 to "Faber est suae quisque fortunae." The motto was changed in 1999 to its English form, "Each of us is responsible for our own destiny."

[edit] School Colours

The original colours of the school were those of the Newcastle Regiment of World War 1 - green and brown. In 1999 the colours were changed to jade, purple and green. To keep a link with the Newcastle colours, the new logo (of the mask, dancer and bass clef) has been incorporated into a shield which also has a ribbon of brown and a ribbon of green.

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