Manly Selective Campus

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Northern Beaches Secondary College

Manly Selective Campus
Capimus Sed Tradimus
What We Receive, We Pass On
Location
137 Abbott Road, North Curl Curl, NSW
Australia
Information
Principal Mr. David Tomllin
Enrollment

799[1]
Faculty 6
Type Government, Selective, Co-educational
Grades 7 - 12
Campus size 12km²
Colour(s) Blue and White
Established 1759 - at current site 1854
Information 61 2 9905 3982
Captains Brian Choi & Jesse Gong
Homepage http://www.manlyselective.nsw.edu.au/

Manly Selective Campus is a public, selective high school for students in 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 Sydney's Northern Beaches, formed in 2002. Admission to this campus is based entirely on excellence.

Manly Selective Campus tops the Northern Beaches on Merit List Rankings in the HSC, and came 18th in the state in 2008.

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[edit] History

Manly Selective Campus has a simple 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, at the same time as the nearby Manly Girls High also became co-educational and was renamed Freshwater High. Manly High was granted selective status in 1990, and was incorporated into the Northern Beaches Secondary College at its founding and given its current name in 2002.[2]

[edit] Students & Staff

Manly Selective Campus has a student population of approximately 700-800 students. There are around 127 students in each grade from 7 to 12, although Year 10 has a disproportionately large number of students and use this to their advantage. With approximately 60 staff members across 7 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 7,010 km² 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, however sections of it are highly degraded by weeds such as lantana and asparagus fern. 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.

[edit] Extra-curricular activities

Students are given the chance to participate in various extracurricular activities, only some of which are listed below:

  • Student Representative Council (SRC)
    • Manly School SRC
    • Northern Beaches Regional SRC
    • NSW State SRC
  • Drama Ensemble
    • Junior Drama Ensemble
    • Senior Drama Ensemble
  • Dance Ensemble, with various groups
  • Vocal Ensemble
  • School Musical
  • College Rock Eisteddfod
  • Chess Team
  • The Band Program, with 4 streams and 10 ensembles of various levels:
    • Concert Stream
      • Concert Band
      • Wind Ensemble
      • Symphonic Wind Orchestra
    • Stage Band Stream
      • Stage Band
      • Big Band
      • Jazz Orchestra
    • Improvisation Stream
      • I-Jazz
      • S-Jazz
      • ImproShop
    • Strings Stream
      • Chamber Strings Ensemble

Also notable is the Manly High School Rugby league team, known as the Turtles, the team has a habit of overcoming much larger and more skilled opposition, bringing pride to the community and school as a whole

[edit] Notable Students

  • Glenn Murcutt, architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1702
  • Doug Mulray, radio and TV host
  • Mark Gable, name changed from (Kitchen), singer CHOIRBOYS and radio host
  • Chris Puplick, Senator for New South Wales (1979-1981, 1984-1990)

[edit] References

  1. ^ School Locator - Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus. New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Retrieved on 2007-06-23.
  2. ^ Manly Selective Campus - About Us. Manly Selective Campus. Retrieved on 2006-12-30.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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Northern Beaches Secondary College
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Selective Schools of New South Wales, Australia
Fully Selective
Partially Selective
Selective Agricultural