Haileybury, Melbourne

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Haileybury
Sursum Corda (Latin:"Lift Up Your Hearts")
Established	1892[1]
School Type	Independent
Denomination	Uniting Church
Key People	Mr. Derek Scott (Principal) Mr C. H. Rendall (Founder) Hon. Justice Mr. Ross Sundberg (Chairman) Rev. L. J. Stevens(Chaplain)
School Fees	AU$10,550-21,450 p.a[2]
Location	Berwick, Brighton & Keysborough, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°59′39″S 145°8′44″E / -37.99417, 145.14556Coordinates: 37°59′39″S 145°8′44″E / -37.99417, 145.14556
Enrolment	~3,500 (P-12)
Colours	Magenta, Black & Gold
Homepage	www.haileybury.vic.edu.au/

Haileybury is an independent school, located in Berwick, Brighton and Keysborough, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school incorporates both Haileybury College, an all boys college and Haileybury Girls College, an all girls college. Haileybury's Keysborough Campus caters for students in Pre-Prep to Year 12, with its Brighton, Victoria and Berwick, Victoria campuses catering for students in Pre-Prep to Year 10.

In 2008, tuition fees range from AUD$10,550 (Reception and Prep) to AUD$25,450 per annum (Year 9).^[2] Haileybury maintains strong relations with schools in China, Japan and France, and currently delivers the VCE program to a number of schools in China.

The college is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference,^[3] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),^[4] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),^[1] and has been a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) since 1958.^[5]

Contents 1 History 2 Students 3 Facilities 4 Campuses 4.1 Senior School/Newlands (Keysborough) 4.2 Castlefield (Brighton) 4.3 Edrington (Berwick) 5 Academic program 5.1 Parallel Education 5.2 Senior School 5.3 Pre-Senior 5.4 Middle School 5.5 Junior School 5.6 Extracurricular program 6 House system and pastoral care 6.1 Senior School 7 Notable alumni 8 References 9 See also 10 External links

[edit] History

The school began with just 17 pupils on 10 February 1892 at Wellington on the corner of New Street and South Road, Brighton Beach.

The first headmaster, Mr C. H. Rendall, an old boy of Haileybury College, England, adapted the buildings and grounds of Wellington to educational purposes and undertook his chosen task of building in Australia an English public school with a distinctive tradition of classics and cricket.

In 1999 Haileybury admitted the first girls into the Junior School and plans were announced to develop parallel education for boys and girls from year 5 on all campuses. The following year saw the introduction of an innovative pre-senior program for boys in year 9, allowing the boys, who begin to lose interest in traditional studies to broaden their horizon and participate in a number of Options (10 day camps).

In 2006, The Age newspaper published stories regarding a campaign by Haileybury Girls College to offer scholarships to girls in schools across Melbourne in order to fill its 2007 classes in Years 10 to 12. Schools including Toorak College, Sacre Coeur, St. Margarets College, and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School had students leave to attend Haileybury College The campaign was criticised by these schools, with two Catholic girls' schools - Killester and Kilbreda Colleges - vowing to submit a formal complaint to the Uniting Church, with which the school is affiliated.^[6]. It has also been alleged that Haileybury has been "unethically" hiring teachers from other schools. ^[7]

[edit] Students

Students attending Haileybury College come from all over Melbourne with 98% of all students travelling on school buses to get to the Senior School.^{[citation needed]} The school has the largest bus network system of any other school in Australia. The majority of Haileybury students come from Brighton, East Brighton, Sandringham, Hampton, Beaumaris, Black Rock, Malvern, Mentone, Wheelers Hill, Berwick, Mount Eliza and Mornington.

[edit] Facilities

The College Senior School is located in Keysborough.

As far as general facilities in Senior School are concerned, they include the following:

• Rendall Oval, which is the college's main oval named after the founder, Mr C. H. Rendall. It is a cricket/AFL oval.
• Brown Oval, which is a rugby ground.
• Orange Oval, which is a cricket/soccer ground.
• Hazlitt Oval, which is a soccer/cricket ground.
• Grenda Aquatic Center, which is an indoor sports complex consisting of 50 metre swimming and diving Olympic size pools.
• 24 tennis courts
• 3 hockey courts
• 2 outdoor basketball courts
• 1 beach volleyball court
• 1 weights room
• 3 netball courts
• 4 gymnasiums (indoor basketball courts)
• Dance studios

Other facilities include a 1,024 seat theatrette called the Aikman Hall Theatrette, Lecture Theatre, Cafe, Art Galley, Altera Terra Restaurant, the David Bradshaw Chapel etc.

Plans are underway to build a new indoor sporting complex which will house 3 basketball courts with 1,500 seats, additional weights rooms, table tennis rooms, squash courts, saunas etc. Plans are also underway to build a grandstand for the main college oval. The construction is schedueld to begin in mid 2008.

In addition to this campus, the college has two other campuses located in Brighton and Berwick, known as Castlefield and Edrington.

[edit] Campuses

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[edit] Senior School/Newlands (Keysborough)

In 1962 it became clear that the current location at South Road was no longer large enough to accommodate the growing number of students, and the decision was made to establish a senior school at Keysborough in 1969. Keysborough is now home to two teaching precincts- the senior school, catering for students in years 10 to 12, and Newlands, catering for students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 9. The Keysborough location was chosen to provide extensive new facilities as Melbourne's population moved to the south east. The Senior School was established first and Newlands opened in 1976. Today, Newlands has approximately 820 students and Senior School has approximately 900 students. As part of Haileybury's Parallel Education, co-instructional classes operate for boys and girls in Newlands' ELC and Junior School. The Middle School and Pre-Senior centre currently operate for both boys and girls while the Senior School currently operates for boys. Newlands and the Senior School run independently from each other.

[edit] Castlefield (Brighton)

Castlefield was where Haileybury began. Founded in 1892, Haileybury in Brighton quickly grew and by 1931 a new location was sought. Haileybury moved to its current location at South Road, and in 1932 classes began at which is now the Castlefield campus. Today, Castlefield caters for approximately 500 students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 10, all of which are in classes of a maximum of 18.

As part of Haileybury's Parallel Education, co-instructional classes operate for boys and girls in Castlefield's ELC and Junior School. Alongside the boys Middle School, Haileybury Girls College opened its Middle School to Years 7 and 8 in 2005. In 2006 the Girl's Pre-Senior centre was opened. The Senior School was opened in 2008 to cater for Year 10 students at Brighton.

[edit] Edrington (Berwick)

In 1989, a third campus was established in the rapidly growing suburb of Berwick. A bright, modern school, the Berwick Campus is located on part of the original Edrington property, owned by the Casey family, and came into prominence when Lord Casey of Berwick became Governor General of Australia. In 2000, girls started at Haileybury, Edrington.

Edrington caters for approximately 450 students from the ELC to Year 10.

As part of Haileybury's Parallel Education, co-instructional classes operate for boys and girls in Edrington's ELC and Junior School. The Middle School and Pre-Senior Centres operate for both boys and girls. The Pre-Senior Centre opened for boys in 2000 and girls in 2006. The Senior School was opened in 2008 to cater for students in Year 10.

[edit] Academic program

[edit] Parallel Education

At Haileybury, the parallel education system provides education for boys and girls at the same school, and both genders are allowed to interact at any time with the exception of during class times, where only single gender classes exist. Parallel education at Haileybury incorporates two schools. Haileybury College is a school for boys, and Haileybury Girls College is a school for girls. Each school operates from the Early Learning Centre to Year 12.

How Parallel Education Works;

• Girls and boys attend the same teaching precincts
• Learning and activities are arranged to reflect the age and gender of the student and the nature of the activities
• Students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 4 are educated in coeducational classes
• Years 5 to 9 move to single gender schools at Berwick, Brighton and Keysborough (with separate Pre-Senior Centres)
• The Three-year VCE is conducted predominantly with separate classes for girls and boys, with students coming together for classes when appropriate, such as music or drama, and social and cultural activities.

In all stages of schooling there is co-operation and interaction between Haileybury Girls College and Haileybury College, whenever this is appropriate and beneficial to the students.

[edit] Senior School

Students at Senior School undertake a three year VCE program and can choose from over 80 different VCE and Vocational Education and Training (VET) subjects, this is also in-addition with the IB (International Baccalaureate) program. Haileybury is well known for its outstanding results, with more than 30% of students ranking in the top 5% of Australia and more than 95% in the top 50% of Australia. In the Senior School class sizes are capped at 15 for Unit 3 & 4 subject, with an average class size of 11. The Haileybury Senior School Program also differs from other traditional schools in offering a 30 Week teaching program rather than the traditional 24-25 week program, in order to achieve this longer program students will begin the 2007 academic year from October 2006. From 2007 students will be able to choose the International Baccalaureate, an alternative from the VCE program.

[edit] Pre-Senior

The Pre-Senior Program is for students in Year 9 and is a program that includes a special emphasis on literacy and numeracy. Alongside English and Mathematics a diverse range of subjects are offered including, science, Japanese, French, Social Science, English Language, Drama, Art and History. One notable difference between the Pre-Senior program and the programs at Senior School and the Middle School is the teaching of Geography, which is taught out of the classroom in special programs. Students in Pre-Senior are required to complete a geography assignment based on the geographical area in which their Pre-Senior options were based. Students in the Pre-Senior program also have the opportunity to commence VCE and VET studies, with VET Information Technology and VCE Health and Human Development and Religion and Society offered. Students from Year 9 at Castlefield and Edrington actually use their building allocated for them at these two campuses rarely, as every Thursday they travel to Newlands on the Senior School/Newlands buses and for 30 days of the school year they are on their chosen options.

[edit] Middle School

A key focus of the Middle School academic program is on areas such as thinking, problem solving and communication. The curriculum includes explicit tasks related to skills such as 'working as a team'. Another key focus of the academic program is Health and Development, as well as Social Education.

[edit] Junior School

The core component of the Junior School program is literacy and numeracy, as well as a focus on Information Technology, Communication and Development.

[edit] Extracurricular program

Haileybury offers students a wide range of sporting, musical and academic extracurricular activities to participate.

[edit] House system and pastoral care

The house system at Haileybury plays an integral part of student life. Most students will belong to two houses during their time at Haileybury, one at the Junior Campuses and one at the Senior School, Students in the Pre-Senior program are not part of the house system, however most students consider themselves to still belong to their houses at their respective Junior Campus.

[edit] Senior School

At the Senior School there are eight houses, in which students are allocated according to where they live, unlike at the Junior School. Another notable difference between the houses at the Senior School and the Junior Campuses, is that at the Senior School there are separate houses for Haileybury College and Haileybury Girls College.

Inside each house, every student is allocated to a tutorial group, and it is the aim that the tutor will be the first point of contact should a student be experiencing any difficulty. Matters can then be escalated to the Head of House, the school chaplain, or other specific advisors including careers advice, heads of department or campus.

There are numerous activities between houses, including sporting competitions for all common sports, debating, puzzles and chess and a chorale competition, the houses at the Senior School compete for the Thomason Shield.

[edit] Notable alumni

Alumni of Haileybury are known as Old Haileyburians, and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the Old Haileyburians’ Association.^[8] For a list of notable Haileybury alumni, see List of Old Haileyburians.

[edit] References

• Old Haileyburians Association website, (accessed 23/08/06)
• "Haileybury College Corporate Report 2004", Published December 2004.
• "Independent Schools Financial Performance Survey for 2003"
• Haileybury College website, retrieved Monday 12 December 2005
• The Haileyburian May 2005 edition, Published May 2005 By Haileybury College
• The Haileyburian September 2005 edition, Published August 2005 by Haileybury College
• "Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority", (12/12/05, Monthly Report published May 2003, Annual Report 2003-2004 published by the State Government of Victoria - Department of Education and Training.
• "Haileybury Assembly Book", Published 2001, re-printed 2002 by Haileybury College

[edit] See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of high schools in Victoria
• List of schools in Victoria, Australia according to 2006 VCE results
• Victorian Certificate of Education
• List of largest Victorian Schools

[edit] External links

• Haileybury College website
• Old Haileyburians Association
• Haileybury Computer Club
• Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Hertford, England
• Department of Education and Training (Victoria)
• Association of Independent Schools of Victoria

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