| Rossmoyne Senior High School | |
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| Rossmoyne, W.A, Australia Australia | |
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| Type | Public, Co-educational |
| Established | 1967 |
| Principal | Leila Bothams |
| Enrolment | 1584 (2011)[1] |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colour(s) | Blue and White, Barra of MacNeil tartan |
| Website | www.rossmoyne.wa.edu.au |
Rossmoyne Senior High School is an public high school in Western Australia. The school is located on Keith Road, Rossmoyne, a southern riverside suburb of Perth, the state capital city.
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Construction of Rossmoyne SHS commenced in 1967 on land that was owned by the Webb family who originally came from Scotland. It opened for students the following year (1968). The name Rossmoyne has no connection with the area but was thought to be suitable for marketing a subdivision in the area.[2] Over the years the student catchment areas for Rossmoyne SHS were from Lynwood, Willetton, Riverton, Shelley, Bull Creek,[3] Ferndale, southern end of Mount Pleasant, Booragoon and Brentwood. Now Rossmoyne SHS has restricted its intake to students from Rossmoyne, parts of Bull Creek[3] and Willetton, Riverton, Shelley, Brentwood and Bateman, although it also has GATE (Gifted and Talented Education Program) for academically gifted students. Students from years eight to year ten in the gifted program are required to study a foreign language, with a choice of Chinese, German, French, and Japanese.[4]
The school is made up of several two storey buildings that together make an "H" shape. The administration block is located on the northern side. English, Mathematics and Society and the Environment are located on the blocks on the western side. Science, Home Economics, Woodwork, Metalwork and Arts are located on the eastern side. Coming in from Keith Road, there is an oval where students do their Physical Education. There is also the recently constructed Performing Arts Centre. At the southern side of the school there is a tennis courts with basketball hoops, gymnasium and swimming pool. Underneath the gymnasium is the relatively new dance studio which has female and male changerooms. In the centre lies the assembly hall, canteen and the library.
The School is also currently undergoing extensive reconstruction with plans to rebuild the school entirely in Four Stages. The School has just completed their new "Science Block" to provide more rooms for the core subject of sciences. This block, along with the recently constructed Performing Arts Centre (P.A.C. for short), is part of stage one of the Building Plan.
Since the end of 2010, Rossmoyne SHS has begun stage two of the building development after the state government allocated $14 million. At this stage, the exciting features of this stage will be:
Other than these new buildings, Current Visual Arts Classrooms (Room 50 and 53) will be converted to normal classrooms and there will be landscaping to the new courtyards. A Selection Panel consisting of parents, community and school representatives has selected an artist who has been commissioned to design and install art works for the new building: including an extensive feature screen on the proposed colonnade connecting the new buildings.[5]
In 2001, the school was named The Australian newspaper's School Of The Year,[6] beating one of the country's most exclusive private schools - Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne. The newspaper reported:
The school has produced three Rhodes scholars: Grant Donaldson (1985), Ian Reid (1988) and Craig Wood (1999).[7]
In the 2009 Western Australian Tertiary Entrance Examinations, Rossmoyne SHS had more students with a tertiary entrance rank of 99.95%, the highest possible rank, than any other school in the state.[8]