Muirfield High School
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| Established | 1976 |
| School type | Government, Public, Secondary |
| Students | 500 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Principal |
Steve Billington |
| Deputy Principal |
Ian Beasley |
| Location | North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia |
| School colours | Green and Purple |
| Homepage | Muirfield High School |
Muirfield High School is a secondary school situated in North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.
It is a comparatively small school, roughly 500 students, but is increasing each year, with next year's Year 7 already having 120 students registered (compared to half that for the current Year 12). Both, the principal and deputy principal, as well as many of the teachers, know the majority of the student's names, minimising the barrier between students and teachers.
The school colours are green and purple, which are seen on the junior's (Years 7-10) shirts. The seniors (Years 11-12) wear a white shirt (polo or blouse) which contains the school's purple and green emblem.
The Barclay Farm is a great feature of the school. Also relating to agriculture, every year Muirfield puts up a display at the Castle Hill Show, and for its most recent display, won a trophy for "Best School Display"
Muirfield is also notable for winning the Small Schools division of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in 2004, the first year Muirfield ever entered this competition.
There is also a baseball diamond at Muirfield, which is used extensively by Carlingford Baseball, in both the summer and winter baseball seasons.
[edit] School Houses
After a recent vote within everyone in the school, it was decided that the school's houses would be refurbished. They were originally named after famous sports people from different fields and from different countries
These houses have been changed to Australian sports people, both men and women, whom most students have actually heard of.
- Thorpe (Blue, symbolising the water he swam in)
- Beachley (Yellow, symbolising the sand, and the beach)
- Freeman (Green, symbolising the track she ran on)
- Eales (Red, symbolising the blood he bled, which represents the effort he put into his game)
