| Frederick Irwin Anglican School | |
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The Truth Will Set You Free
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| Location | |
| Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia | |
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| Type | Independent |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1991 |
| Principal | Geoffrey Arnold |
| Vice principal | Mr Pennycott |
| Staff | 169 |
| Colour(s) | Bottle green and gold |
| Website | School Website |
Frederick Irwin Anglican School (originally "Frederick Irwin Anglican Community School") is a private school located in Meadow Springs in Mandurah, Western Australia. It was founded in 1991 with 175 students, and currently has around 1370 students from kindergarten to year 12. The school motto is "The Truth Will Set You Free."
The school is named after Frederick Chidley Irwin, the acting Governor of Western Australia from 1847 to 1848. Frederick Irwin was a practising Anglican, a key figure in the Battle of Pinjarra who also helped to establish the General Board of Education. Irwin was also responsible for bringing the first missionary to Western Australian shores.
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The school is architecturally divided into the primary and secondary, bisected by the entrance road and connected via an underpass and a gymnasium with a mezzanine, sometimes used as an art gallery.
The library, surrounded by extensive green lawns, is adjoined by a performing arts centre and department. These buildings combine with the multitude of learning areas, divided into blocks, to form the basis of the educational side of the school. The school in recent years has been renovated so that the entry and focus of the school is to Oakmont Drive instead of the busy Gordon Road.
The school was divided into 4 houses:
All students in Primary and Secondary classes are placed in 'House Groups', usually three for each house, for each year. All students in Secondary attend 'House Period' before officially starting lessons, except on Wednesdays due to a School Assembly Period or Inter-house Sporting session. Primary students have "House Group" Sports lessons and carnivals.
Frederick Irwin Anglican School has a music program for its Students. All students in Year 8 take a compulsory Music course, in which Instrumental Guitar is taught, and may be carried on in further years of Secondary Schooling. The school provides Year 11 and 12 students with the newly adopted non-TEE subject 'Contemporary Music' alongside the TEE course, 'Western Music'.
Music Scholarships by Audition and Interview are awarded to four students in the entering Year levels of 8 (lower secondary) and 11 (upper secondary).
The recently completed Performing Arts Centre will see an integration of both the Music and Drama departments, providing students with:
The Frederick Irwin Anglican School Music Department offers many after school and lunchtime programs for its students. These include:
Each house has a house captain, vice captain and assistant.
Each year, in the 5th grade, the children elect and vote-in a house assistant while the 6th graders elect and vote in both a house captain and vice captain. The following year, in grade 6 the house assistant helps the house captain and vice captain in grade 7 run the Faction.
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