Northcote High School

Northcote High School

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Location
Northcote, Victoria,
Australia
Information
Type Government Secondary School
Established 1926
Principal Kate Morris
Grades 7-12
Enrolment ~1,595[1]
Houses Merri, Plenty, Batman, Sumner
Colour(s) Green, purple & gold.
Yearbook Ripples
Website www.nhs.vic.edu.au

Northcote High School is a co-educational, state secondary school in Northcote, Victoria, Australia. It is situated at the southern end of the City of Darebin, on St Georges Road, Northcote.

The school teaches from Years 7 to 12 and has a population of approximately 1,600 students.[1] Northcote High has a large music and science program, and has been recognised as a significant leader in the use of learning technologies in the classroom.[2]

History

Northcote High School was established in 1926 as a co-educational secondary school, one of the first six to be established in Melbourne by the Victorian Government. The school owes its establishment largely to agitation led by John Cain (senior), Northcote City Councillor and later Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Jika Jika, with support from the Principals of nearby Wales Street Primary School and Northcote Primary School. Cain's repeated efforts to establish a school to provide secondary education for the then predominantly working class suburb of Northcote were finally successful, despite an environment of opposition from conservative politicians and independent principals.[3]

Northcote High School main building, from St. George's Rd, Northcote

Although Northcote High School was established as a coeducational school, it became a boy's school after 1928 when Preston Girls High School was established.[4] In the 1980s Northcote High School again began to enrol girls in response to community pressure, officially moving to coeducation in 1989.[5] In 2012 there were approximately 840 boys and 710 girls enrolled.[1]

The school has a strong connection to the inner northern Melbourne suburbs of Fitzroy North, Clifton Hill, Brunswick East, Northcote, Thornbury, Fairfield, Preston and Reservoir with many of its students attending the school as their parents once did. A feature of Northcote High School is the number of staff who are former students (including two former School Captains) and others who have their own children at the school.

Northcote High School first offered a limited Maths and Science Matriculation (final year certificate) in the 1940s. Principal Alex Sutherland expanded Matriculation in the 1950s to include most subjects on the curriculum.[6] The school continues this tradition today with a very broad range of Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) subjects on offer, including a relatively wide range of humanities subjects.

Northcote High School celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2006. It remains one of very few Victorian government secondary schools that has not significantly changed its identity through closure, reorganisation or amalgamation.

Principals

International links

Northcote High School has a long tradition of developing ties with schools overseas. In the 1930s students at Northcote High School corresponded with a school in Poland, and in the early 1950s the school began the practice of enrolling and hosting students from overseas, partly under the auspices of the Colombo plan.[7] In 1999, a sister school agreement was made with Huaibei Number One High School in Anhui province, China. Staff and student exchanges are conducted with this school every year. A second sister school agreement was made in 2002 with the Romanazzi Institute in Bari, Italy.

In 2010, there are approximately 80 International students studying at Northcote High School, all in the post compulsory Years 10 -12. The students come from 14 different countries, including China, Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Thailand and Italy.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 See ACARA entry at
  2. ↑ Gary Israel, Itiel Bereson, Robert Bridges and Hector Gallagher (2010) The Green, The Purple and the Gold. A History of Northcote High School. pps 264-313. Published by Northcote High School, Northcote, Victoria, Australia. ISBN 978-0-646-54341-3
  3. ↑ Gary Israel, et al (2010) pps 20-26
  4. ↑ Gary Israel, et al (2010) p.46-47
  5. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.234-228
  6. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) P.123-4
  7. ↑ See NLA reference
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Northcote High shuns ties to Collingwood players who were former students, says Eddie McGuire
  9. 1 2 Gary Israel et al (2010) p.329
  10. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.330
  11. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.333
  12. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.335
  13. ↑ Noel Ferrier (1985) There goes whatsisname; The memoirs of Noel Ferrier. MacmIllan SBN 0 333 40121
  14. ↑ Northcote High School Newsletter 2011
  15. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.338
  16. ↑ http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1134
  17. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.340
  18. ↑ http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/2008/pdfs/20080617.pdf
  19. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.342
  20. ↑ Melb PC Personality Profile: Colin Lovitt (accessed:17-08-2007)
  21. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.347
  22. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.348
  23. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.354
  24. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.360
  25. ↑ Victorian Parliamentary website
  26. ↑ Gary Israel et al (2010) p.364

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External links

Coordinates: 37°46′26″S 144°59′22″E / 37.77389°S 144.98944°E / -37.77389; 144.98944

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