The Hutchins School

The Hutchins School

Latin: Vivit Post Funera Virtus
Character Lives After Death
Location
Coordinates 42°54′21″S 147°19′46″E / 42.90583°S 147.32944°ECoordinates: 42°54′21″S 147°19′46″E / 42.90583°S 147.32944°E
Information
Type Independent, Day & Boarding
Denomination Anglican
Established 1846
Sister school St Michael's Collegiate School
Employees ~120[1]
Gender Boys
Enrolment ~1,000 (K-12)[2]
Colour(s) Magenta, Black & Gold[3]
              
Athletics conference SATIS
Website www.hutchins.tas.edu.au

The Hutchins School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Hutchins is the only K-12 boys' school in the state of Tasmania, and with a student population of approximately 1000, including 50 boarders, it is also one of the largest private schools in the state. Established in 1846, the school is one of the oldest continually running schools in Australia.

Hutchins is member of the Association of Independent Schools of Tasmania,[4] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[5] and a founder-member of the International Coalition of Boys' Schools.[2] The Headmaster is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia.[6]

History

The Hutchins School was established in 1846 at Hobart Town in memory of The Venerable William Hutchins, first Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land.

The School commenced operations under Headmaster John Richard Buckland at Ingle Hall, a large Georgian house which still stands in lower Macquarie Street, Hobart. Three years later it moved a few blocks up Macquarie Street to a purpose-built schoolhouse designed by Tasmanian architect, William Archer. By the 1950s the School was growing too large for this inner-city site and a new Junior School was built on an elevated site overlooking the River Derwent at Sandy Bay. The Senior School followed later, constructed on the adjacent site of the former Queenborough Cemetery.

The Macquarie Street building was sold in 1965, with Hutchins commencing full operations at Sandy Bay the following year. Continued growth and development on the Sandy Bay site has seen the School expand to encompass an Early Learning Centre, Junior, Middle and Senior Schools, science wing, boarding house, chapel, gymnasium, drama studio and auditorium, music school and performing arts centre, as well as sports ovals, hockey/soccer field and tennis courts. A new Library Learning Centre and careers office was completed in 2010, and The Hutchins Foundation Centre, comprising School museum and archival storage facility, opened in March 2011. In recent years, the Southport outdoor education centre, the Marieville campus for the Power of 9 program, the .Boarding House and the Early Learning Centre have been redeveloped and expanded.

The Hutchins School is a founding member of the International Coalition of Boys' Schools, an alliance of 350 schools in seven countries which exchanges information, ideas and the latest research into the education of boys. It is an accredited member of the Council of International Schools

Alumni

The Hutchins School runs the Hutchins School Old Boys Association for alumni of the School.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Positions of Employment". The Hutchins School. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hutchins School". International Boys' Schools Coalition. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  3. ↑ "School Uniforms". Australian Enrolments. The Hutchins School. August 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
  4. ↑ "The Hutchins School". Association of Independent Schools of Tasmania. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  5. ↑ "JSHAA Tasmanian Directory of Members". Junior School Heads' Association of Australia. 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  6. ↑ "AHISA Schools: Tasmania". Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. April 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  7. ↑ "OBITUARY.". The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) (Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 14 December 1931. p. 6. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Cain, Neville. "Giblin, Lyndhurst Falkiner (1872–1951)". adb.anu.edu.au. Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Jones, Elizabeth. "Murdoch, Thomas (1868–1946)". adb.anu.edu.au. Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  10. ↑ McLaren, Alex. "Bowden, Frank Philip (1903–1968)". adb.anu.edu.au. Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Hogan, Terry. "Abbott, Percy Phipps (1869–1940)". adb.anu.edu.au. Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

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