| Belmont High School | |
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| Address | |
| Rotherham Street Belmont, Victoria, 3216, Australia |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | Strive for the Highest |
| Established | 1955 |
| Principal | Garry Schultz |
| Assistant principals | Scott Hucker Julia Love Michael Caccamo |
| Faculty | Several |
| Years Offered | 7-12 |
| Enrolment | 1200+ (2009) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Green & White |
| Website | www.bhs.vic.edu.au |
| Administration building | |
Belmont High School is an Australian public high school located in Belmont, Victoria, a suburb in the city of Geelong. It is one of the largest public schools in Geelong. The school was established in 1955[1] and as of 2009, it has an enrolment of over 1200 students from years 7 to 12.[2]
The school has been progressively refurbished, with the most recent work costing $6.66 million and comprising new administration and staff areas, canteen, and four 'learning centres'.[3]
There is currently a new VET Science-Technology room in planning to be completed in 2010.
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The school offers a programme which includes a core curriculum in years 7 - 8 (English, Mathematics, Science, Italian, Indonesian, Technology, Arts, Studies of Society and Environment, Health and Physical Education). At years 9 to 12 a wide range of pathways are available. These include the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), Vocational Education Training (VET), Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) and school-based apprenticeships.
Belmont High School is one of 37 Victorian Government secondary schools providing a Select Entry Accelerated Learning Programme to address the learning needs of their gifted and high potential students.[1] This allows these students to begin VCE subjects in Year 9 and complete school a year earlier if they wish.
The school also offers specialised programmes catering for international students.
Belmont High School has numerous facilities including:
The school's grounds include:
The school has a number of allocated computer suites and a number of IBM laptop computers available for the year seven and eight students. Recently the school has seen the addition of many Lenovo S10 netbooks for use by students.
Belmont High owns a camp at Tanybryn, in the Otway Ranges.
The school offers a music programme, having several concert bands and offering instrumental tuition. While learning a musical instrument is not compulsory, many students choose to partake in instrumental music education. If students are learning an instrument, they are required to join at least one of the schools 5 concert bands:
As well as the schools many concert bands, it hosts an annual music competition. In this event, each house performs up to 10 minutes of music to a set theme, and are judged by a panel of judges.
The school has recently undergone a total revamp of its roll marking system, with a system called DayMap being used. DayMap is an online roll-marking system, where teachers mark the roll using their laptop or netbook.
The school issues students with student ID cards, which allows students to sign in and out of school, borrow books from the library, use photocopying facilities and sign in and out of the library during spare periods.
The school has a vertical house system currently consisting of eight houses: Blue, Ebony, Gold, Green, Mango, Purple, Red and Silver.
The students of each year level are divided into eight form groups, one for each house. Students are placed into a house when commencing at Belmont High, and remain within the same form group of students for their whole time at the school.
The houses compete against each other in various inter-house competitions, such as sport competitions including the swimming carnival, athletics day and the fun run, as well as the music competition.
The summer uniform for girls consists of a green gingham dress, bottle green jumper, black t-bar shoes and white socks. The winter uniform consists of a white shirt, and a long blackwatch tartan kilt.
The school uniform for boys consists of a white shirt, bottle green jumper, grey shorts or trousers and black shoes.
Year 12 students have their own navy jumper which they may wear with the regular uniform, with a design voted upon by the cohort. The jumper has their house colour on it and their 'nickname'.
On the August 8, 2008 a fire swept through a portable classroom, taking firefighters 40 minutes to control the blaze and another 90 minutes to fully damp down the site. fortunately, only one portable classroom was destroyed. There was also a fire in a science room, causing damage that had to be fixed over the start of 2011 holidays.[4]