| Box Hill High School | |
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Latin: Ad Altiora Certamus
To The Highest Endeavour
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| Box Hill, VIC, Australia | |
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| Type | Public School |
| Established | 1930 |
| Principal | Kate Mitchell |
| Enrolment | ~1022 |
| Colour(s) | Blue, gold, white |
| Website | http://www.boxhillhs.vic.edu.au/ |
Box Hill High School is a co-educational public secondary school located on the corner of Middleborough and Whitehorse Roads in the eastern suburb of Box Hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
With an enrolment of 1,022 students, it caters for students from years 7 through to 12. Year 11 and 12 students undertake the VCE program.
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Established in 1930 as a single-sex boys school, Box Hill High School is now a co-educational school. In 2007-2009, a large upgrade of the facilities, funded by the Victorian State Government, was undertaken. These upgrades included the creation of a number of new classrooms, a new gym, library, numerous computer labs and the refurbishment of existing science classrooms. A few classrooms still have blackboards from the school's opening but he majority have been replaced by white boards. Last year, the school celebrated it's 80th anniversary and celebrations included a reunion for previous students and the current students dressed up in clothes appropriate for the time period and were served commemorative cakes baked in the food tech classrooms.
Box Hill High School runs an extensive Select Entry Accelerated Learning Program (SEAL) for gifted students, which teaches the curriculum to these students at an accelerated rate. Box Hill was only the second public school in Victoria to introduce such a program. Entrance to the program is selective, and determined by examinations during Grade Six. Within the program, syllabus from Years 7-10 are compacted into three years along with curriculum enrichment and extension. Year 9 students in the Accelerated Program have the option of various pathways. These pathways include a fourth year of an accelerated/extended nature, a partial Year 10 and partial VCE, and full VCE. Students who proceed to a full VCE in the fourth year may also choose to study extra units at VCE level and to complete an extended VCE taken over three years rather than the usual two. Students are strongly encouraged to take the extended VCE rather than the two year VCE, regardless of their plans for the future.
Box Hill High School is to be the future co-located home of Project SATERN, a pilot community based science and education facility, involving schools around the Whitehorse area. It is currently being built and is to be finished in 2011.
Box Hill High School has a very extensive model solar car program, run by its dedicated Faculty of Engineering Technology. In 2009 around 50 students built 16 cars in teams to enter the Victorian Model Solar Vehicle Challenge. The school has been competing in the competition since 2001 where the school started building 3 cars with 20 students, and has collected multiple awards at both the state and national competitions. The programs running is assisted by volunteering engineers and former students, and students within it are taken through all steps of the engineering process.