Magill Primary School
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help improve this article or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since September 2006. (help, talk) |
| Magill Primary School | |
| Image:Magillpslogo.jpg | |
| Aim High | |
| Established | January 22, 1846 |
| School type | Public |
| Principal/ Headmaster |
Senior: Mrs Helen Calvert |
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Campus | Two (Junior and Senior) |
| Enrollment | Approximately 700-900 |
| School colours | Green and Gold |
| Homepage | http://www.magillps.sa.edu.au/ |
Magill Primary School is a comprehensive public school that caters for students from Reception to Year 7. The school prides itself on good parent-teacher relationships and provides a safe, supportive and well-ordered environment in which children develop empathy for others as well as confidence, responsibility and a strong desire to learn and achieve.
[edit] History
There has been continuous schooling at Magill since 1846, when on 22 January land was conveyed to the "Magill School Trust" to permit a School Room to be built. Various sites have been occupied in the intervening years and buildings have changed from those of stone with high ceilings, arched windows and bare, scrubbed, knotted wooden floors to bright, warm, functional and air-conditioned places of learning equipped with cutting edge technology.
The first school was built in 1846 and extended in 1855. In November 1855 there were 38 boys and 29 girls enrolled, who were taught reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, drawing and singing - all by one teacher. By 1865 there were two teachers.
In 1875 the Education Act set up the system of state public schools. The new Magill School witha house for the Headmaster was opened in 1882. The students sat at long desks with slates and slate pencils to publish their work.
The school continued to grow and expand, with further new buildings in Adelaide Street built in 1926, and in 1962. Both of these buildings remain in use today, with many additions and alterations over the years to meet the changing needs of students.
Magill Olympics In 2000, MOCOG, the organisers of the Magill Olympics invited Richard Kelso and Peter Lanspeary, as representatives of the Adelaide University design team, to the opening ceremony of Magill Primary School sports day on August 28, 2000. The design team provided a relay torch and the prototype relay community cauldron for the ceremony. In August 2000, the design team made a ceremonial torch with the same fuel and combustion system as the Sydney 2000 Olympic relay torch. The new torch is a working "technology demonstration prototype". It is known as the MOCOG torch because it was used at the Magill Olympics. The event also featured a gymnastics display from students at Vale Park Primary and Magill's Calisthenics team. The Magill Olympics was filmed and later shown on the Seven Network in Adelaide that year.
[edit] Trivia
Over the years, students and teachers noted highlights of their years at Magill Schools - special days included holidays for coronations, peace days, Arbor Day, Empire Day, Royal Weddings and funerals. Some recorded events and comments of interest are:
- 1911 - Twenty boys were exempted from attendance to help with grape-cutting.
- 1917 - Electric light installed.
- 1918 - Cheers announced the end of World War I and the school had a day off to celebrate the occasion.
- 1920 - 1929 - The Headmaster rode a horse to school; students were alerted to his arrival by a bell. Magill School had a fine fife and drum band which competed in competitions at Tanunda.
- 1926 - there were 120 children in a classroom built for just 90.
- 1930 -1939 - In a heatwave at the beginning of 1939, temperatures reached 117 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius)
- 1940-1949 - When the school oval was planted, the children walked across the oval in a line and moved one step after each piece of grass was planted.
- 1942 - Squads of soldiers billeted in the area dug trenches in the school grounds.
- 1946 - The loudspeaker on the wall of the Grade VII classroom fell down and struck the teacher on the head.
- 1947 - Only 80 out of 338 children at school because of infantile paralysis (polio).
- 1964 - School houses to commemorate early pioneers and local history. Houses for Sports day named Ferguson, Murray, Penfold and Tolmer.
- 1969 - Children sent home at 10 am. Man lands on the moon.
