Aitken College
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| Established | 1999 |
| School type | Independent |
| Key People | Principal: Mr. Doug Mahoney, Deputy Principal: Mrs. Josie Crisara |
| School Fees | ~$1000 per term |
| Location | Greenvale, Victoria, Australia |
| Enrollment | 1200 Students |
| Employees | Teachers and Staff |
| Colours | Blue and Green |
| Homepage | http://www.aitkencollege.edu.au |
Aitken College is an independent school of the Uniting Church located in Greenvale, Victoria, Australia. It offers schooling from Grade Prep through to Year 12.
The college opened in 1999, and is built on an 18 hectare site. The principal of the school is Doug Mahoney.
Aitken has two classes at each year level for Grade Prep to Year 6, and five classes at each year level from Year 7 to Year 12, which allows for three classes of students to enter at Year 7 from other primary schools.
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[edit] Structure of the School
The college is divided into five smaller "schools". They are:
- Preparatory School: Grade Prep to Year 2: Fairview
- Junior School: Year 3 to Year 5: Cumberland
- Middle School: Year 6 and Year 7: Dunhelen
- Lower Secondary School: Year 8 and Year 9: Glenarthur
- Senior School: Year 10 to Year 12: Brookhill
[edit] House System:
The school is divided into four different houses.
- Brodie (blue): Head of house: Lynn Treadwell
- Cameron (green): Head of house: Glenda Rumble
- Clarke (yellow): Head of house: Fiona Ganino-Day
- Millar (red, previously white): Head of house: Chris Monos
[edit] Courses of Study
The subjects studied at Aitken College are:
- English
- Mathematics
- Science
- Humanities
- Creative Arts
- Performing Arts
- Health & Physical Education
- Religious & Values Education
- L.O.T.E. (Indonesian)
- Commerce
- Technology
- Information Technology
- Library
- Sport
At different year levels, there are different "core" subjects, which are the subjects which are compulsory for the student to study. At certain year levels there are also "elective" subjects, which are optional for the student to study.
[edit] Facilities
The college facilities include several art rooms, science laboratories, computer laboratories, technology facilities, music rooms, a library and a gymnasium.
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The school really has a jack all they think they have lots of things but really all the classrooms are barns that they used to milk cows in. They dont have a footy field but the 99.9 percent of lebanese, italians and other wogs kinds of explains it self they have a crap soccer field which they are putting irrigation in there are 4 1x1 patches of crass the rest is dust the other day i saw a alawnmower going over it. what are they trying to do make the dirt shorter. They are thinking of putting a footyfield in up the top of the school if this ever happens which i doubt will. it would mean we spend our whole lunch walking up there by the time we got there the bell would go and we'd get bak to class with a roasting from our teacherwe' would try to explain about the distance but the teachers (who never listen to your side of the story) will send you to the head of school an we will get detention.
They always bring in get healthy programs for the kids, they dont have to lok to far to see why no1 is running around playing games you cant kik a footy in the ring road and all the other space is either out of bounds or ' you cant play there this is the little kids area or this is the older area' well wen we try to play in our area little kids come half way through our game and start playing were we are, wen sum1 gets knocked over or we kik there ball away. they go crying to the teacher and we get in trouble get our ball confiscated and we get kiked off. so we go to the kids area and try play there then we cop another beauty from the teacher you cantplay here this is the kids area. But miss there are no kids here i dont care go play some where else.
ANd dont forget the forever cancelled pe lessons its too cold so we have to stay inside and do body part wordfinds that we did in year1.thankyou (it is a farm school)
