Collingwood College, Victoria
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Collingwood College is a state Preparatory to Year 12 school located in the former working class inner-city suburb of Collingwood in Melbourne, Victoria. The school's main campus is near Hoddle Street, on the corner of Cromwell Street and McCutcheon Way. The College has two annexes, the Alternative school in Collingwood, and The Island which provide VET programs and alternative education for students who may not ordinarily complete their high school education.
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[edit] Alternative education streams
In 1999, Collingwood College took on a free Steiner stream of education in addition to the normal Victorian state school stream. The Steiner stream is offered from Prep to Year 10, after which all students take the standard Year 11 and 12 for the Victorian Certificate of Education. The College also runs a Reggio Emilia inspired program for Prep to Year 5. As of January 2006, the College had a student body of 550 pupils.
The school has received many mentions and some praise in local newspapers such as The Melbourne Times for being the home of the first Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.
[edit] Teaching structure
Although all of the students share the same facilities, the main campus of the Collingwood College is divided for teaching purposes into a Junior school for Prep to Year 5, a Middle school for Years 6 to 8 and a Senior school for Years 9 to 12.
The school has good enrolments in the Junior school and lower enrolment levels in some Middle and Senior classes. In the Senior school there are two mainstream classes in Year Ten, one Steiner class in Year Ten, one Year Eleven class and one Year Twelve class.
[edit] History
A school was first built on the Collingwood College site in 1882. In 1915 a girls domestic arts school was incorporated into Collingwood Vere Street No 2462 as it was then known. The current manifestation of Collingwood College came about in the 1970s when the school was transformed into a prep-12 campus and rebuilt to accommodate the shift. At the time it was considered "leading edge" in-terms-of revolutionary state schooling in Victoria. A history of Collingwood College is currently being written with the aim of completion by September 2007 to coincide with the 125 anniversary celebrations of the school's opening in October of the same year.
[edit] Future of Collingwood College
In 2007 Collingwood College and Fitzroy High School will share some VCE and Year 10 subjects across both campuses. It is estimated that the combined Year 10-12 student body from both schools will comprise 300 students in 2009. The Schools will specialise in teaching design and multimedia. Victorian Education Minister Lynne Kosky promised "substantial funding for the two schools" for construction of new class rooms and facilities for the senior students when she announced the partnership in a media release on 15 December 2005.[1]
