Yarra Valley Grammar

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Yarra Valley Grammar School
Yarra Valley Grammar crest. Source: www.yvg.vic.edu.au (Yarra Valley Grammar website)
Levavi Oculos
(Latin:"I lifted up my eyes")
Established 1966
School Type Independent, Co-educational, Day school
Denomination Anglican
Slogan "Confidence to Achieve"
Key People Mr. Neville J Lyngcoln (Principal)now Mr. Andrew X Hocking
School Fees AU$9,732 - AU$17,463 p.a[1]
Location Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Flag of Australia
Coordinates 37°47′1″S 145°15′36″E / -37.78361, 145.26Coordinates: 37°47′1″S 145°15′36″E / -37.78361, 145.26
Enrolment ~1,030 (ELC-12)[2]
Colours Red, Gold & Black             
Homepage www.yvg.vic.edu.au

Yarra Valley Grammar School is an independent, co-educational grammar school, located in Ringwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The school was established in 1966 as Yarra Valley Church of England School, and catered for boys only. Girls were admitted to the two senior levels in 1978, and the school progressively became fully co-educational from 1993 through 1995. At one time it was called Yarra Valley Anglican School.

The school has recently adopted a healthy food policy, ending the sale of a number of unhealthy foods within the school's cafeteria. This policy has since been adopted by a number of schools within the region of Victoria.

In 2006, the Yarra Valley Grammar celebrated its 40th birthday with many special events, including a whole school photo and an aerial photo of the students positioned to create the number 40. The school celebrated its birthday in a service at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in September 2006.

Mr. Neville J Lyngcoln (Principal), announced his resignation as Principle of Yarra Valley Grammar on Wednesday 27th of February 2008, effective as of July 2008, for personal family matters. Mr Andrew Hocking will be taking over the position of principal effective July 1 2008, for personal family matters.


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[edit] History

  • 1963, School Founded - at the time of the opening ceremony, surrounding the school were orchards which were progressively replaced with housing estates. By retaining the forest the school has preserved a slice of the area's history.
  • 1966, First assembly takes place - 135 boys attend
  • 1970, School invited to become a member of the AGSV
  • 1971, Headmaster invited to be a member of the Headmaster's Conference of Independent Schools Australia
  • 1978, The first girl students are admitted into the school
  • 2006, School celebrates its 40th birthday


[edit] Laptop issues

Unlike other private schools and some other public schools, Yarra Valley has decided not to follow the trend of issuing students school laptops. To substitute the absence of laptops, Yarra Valley has invested in multimedia machines and bandwidth intranet infrastructure to accommodate the ever increasing number of students interested in Multimedia as their future career.

[edit] House system

There are four houses in Yarra Valley Grammar that are named after important figures during the school's history.

  • Hughes - Yellow Shirt
  • Arnott - Maroon Shirt
  • Annells - Sky Blue Shirt
  • Plummer - Green Shirt

The four School Houses compete for the House Shield each year with a combined points system through competitive winter sports, swimming, and cross country.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tuition Fees 2008 (PDF). Fees and Payments. Yarra Valley Grammar School. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.
  2. ^ Yarra Valley Grammar Information Book 2007 (accessed:10-06-2007)

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Members of the Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria, Australia