Macarthur Girls High School
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Macarthur Girls High School is situated on the Parramatta River next to Parramatta City, New South Wales, Australia. The school was built in 1934 with later additions in 1955 and 1975. Its purpose is to encourage and empower students to achieve their potential and to be confident and competent users of technology with a positive yet critical attitude towards future developments. The school offers students a curriculum directed towards the Higher School Certificate with a combination of traditional and Vocational Education courses, ensuring that the needs and interests of all students are well met. Across all of these courses the development and application of computer and other technologies are integrated.
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[edit] School History
Macarthur is located on an area of land first granted to William Reid (a seaman from the HMS Sirius, the first ship of the First Fleet to enter Sydney Harbour), Thomas Haddock, Captain John Townson, and Captain John Piper. Later Rev. Samuel Marsden acquired the property where he built a home, Newlands. The property changed hands several times before the Education Department acquired it and built the present school in 1934. San Remo LaCava (longtime Head Teacher of the Mathematics Department) wrote a book entitled A Living History about the diverse history of the school.
[edit] School Students
Upon entry to the high school, it is obligatory for students to undertake a Human Sexuality Exam (HSE) in which they are determined a sexual orientation, the results of this test are what allows students entry to the school. In the final year of High School, the students must perform a High School Certificate (HSC) which allows them entry to a University.
[edit] School Principal
See: Brian Molko.
