Manly Selective Campus

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Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Selective Campus

*Capimus Sed Tradimus* What We Receive, We Pass On
Established	1859 1954 (at current site)
School type	Co-educational, Public, Selective
Grades	7 - 12
Principal	Mr David Tomlin
Deputy Principals	- Junior School Ms Josie O'Donnell - Senior School Ms Meg Tulk
Location	North Curl Curl, NSW, Australia
Colours	blue, white and grey
P&C website	http://www.manlypandc.org.au/
Website	http://www.manlyselective.nsw.edu.au/

Manly Selective Campus is a public, selective high school for students years 7 to 12 located in North Curl Curl, New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the Northern Beaches Secondary College, a 5 campus college across the Northern Beaches.

Manly Selective Campus tops the Northern Beaches on Merit List Rankings in the HSC, and came 28th in the state in 2006.

1 History
2 Students & Staff
3 Grounds
4 References
5 See also
- 5.1 Northern Beaches Secondary College

[edit] History

Manly Selective Campus has a long and complex history. The school was founded in 1859 as Manly Public School, on the corner of Belgrave and Carlton Streets in Manly. In 1882 it was moved to a site in Darley Road, where it operated until 1945, and is the site of the current Manly Village Public School.

1925 saw the school become an Intermediate High School, and became solely a boys school from 1926. The school expanded rapidly, and became Manly Junior High in 1944. In 1945, the school moved to the site of the current Balgowlah Boys Campus, and in 1949 had expanded to include senior years.

In 1954 student numbers reached 1200, and the bulk of these students moved to the current site on Abbott Road in North Curl Curl as Manly Boys High School. The school became co-educational in 1983 and was renamed Manly High School, and was granted selective status in 1990. It was incorporated into the college at its founding and given it's current name in 2002.^[1]

[edit] Students & Staff

Manly Selective Campus has a student population of approximately 700-800 students. There are around 125 students in each grade from 7 to 12.

There are approximately 60 staff members across 11 different faculties within the school.

[edit] Grounds

One of the prominent images associated with Manly Selective Campus are the stands of Radiata Pines planted around the school, giving name to the school's yearbook, The Pines and the newsletter, The Weekly Pines. Some of these pines have created a problem in a 0.7ha area of remnant bushland that lies on the school's property on a steep hill behind the school oval. Seedlings of the original pines grew up in the bushland after more of the radiata pines were planted in close proximity to the bushland in 1954. This bushland is some of the last remaining native sandstone heath east of Pittwater Road in Warringah. In recent years there has been an increasing effort to rehabilitate the heath back to pre-European quality, and in late 2006 many of the pine trees which had been seeded in the bushland were removed. Rehabilitation is continuing.