| Aberfoyle Park High School | |
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Technology Focus School
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| Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1984 |
| Principal | Liz Mead[1] |
| Enrolment | 1130[2] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colour(s) | Maroon, Black and White (Yr 8–11) White and Black (Yr 12) |
| Website | http://intra.aphs.sa.edu.au/ |
Aberfoyle Park High School is one of the largest public secondary schools in South Australia. Its facilities include the Community Library, Performing Arts Centre, Gymnasium, and the Information and Communication Technology facilities. The school focuses on extending gifted students through the Ignite (formerly SHIP) programme.
Aberfoyle Park High School has become a centre for international students resulting in strong relationships, with a number of schools in other countries.
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Aberfoyle Park High School was built in 1983 and opened in 1984 to service the growing suburbs of Aberfoyle Park, Happy Valley, Flagstaff Hill and other surrounding suburbs. An extra two buildings were completed in 1984 for Science and English / Computing studies at the school. In 1986, Elizabeth II visited the school inspecting the facilities and meeting the students. In 1987 a new Computing Facility was opened providing computers for the students. The school grew throughout the 1990s to a peak of over 1500 students and in the late 1990s the school expanded to include the former primary school site, south-east of the original site.
Aberfoyle Park High School celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2004.
Aberfoyle Park High has a unique open design, integrating educational and community services. It has a natural landscape with trees, hundreds of which were planted by students. General classrooms are carpeted and air-conditioned, many are housed in brick duplexes with their own toilets. There is a specialist performing arts centre and a computer network with over 350 terminals and Internet access from each. Sporting facilities include an oval, tennis and basketball courts and access to the Happy Valley oval and facilities for soccer, netball, tennis, and lawn bowls. The school has a strong community of support for developing Information and Communication technology and has been well resourced in this area.[3]
Specialist facilities include: a community library with extensive information technology resources, gymnasia, Performing Arts Centre, five computing labs. Computers are dispersed around the school, including into science labs, music rooms, Media, English area, technology studies, home economics, CAD technology room, and two photography labs. There is a recently upgraded home economics suite, including a commercial kitchen which is used for delivering VET.[3]
In 2008, Aberfoyle Park High School entered into a partnership with defense contractor, Raytheon Australia to provide $450,000 funding over the next 3 years for purchase of new computers for IGNITE, Science and Maths students at the school. The partnership was launched at the school in November 2008 by the Premier Mike Rann and Raytheon Australia managing director, Ron Fisher.[4]
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