Marrickville High School
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| Marrickville High School | |
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| En Avant (Latin:"To Advance") |
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| Established | 1973 |
| School type | Public, Secondary, Co-educational, Day school |
| Principal/ Headmaster |
Judy Kelly (Acting Principal) |
| Location | Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia  |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Enrolment | ~348 (7–12)[1] |
| School colours | White, Navy Blue and Sky Blue |
| Homepage | marrickvil-h.schools.nsw.edu.au |
Marrickville High School is a co-educational, Public secondary School, located in Marrickville, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school is administered by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.
Established in 1973, Marrickville High School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 348 students from years 7 to 12. The student body is a multicultural one, with approximately 92% of its students coming from a non-English speaking background.
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[edit] History
A small public primary educational institution named Marrickville Public School was built on a block of land on Chapel Street in the suburb of Marrickville in 1865, which was offered by Thomas Chalder. By 1874, the infants department on this campus was created. Neighboring the school was Marrickville's old Council Chambers, it was bought by the Department of Education on 22 November 1878, and was converted to the teacher's residence and made part of the already existing campus.
By 1900, the teacher's residence (which originally was the old Council Chamber) was demolished, and a two storey brick building was constructed on that site and would become a girl's school. On 1 January 1945, this girl's department was turned into a secondary school for girls, called Marrickville Girl's Intermediate High School. In 1922, the old Marrickville Town Hall located on Illawarra Rd. was bought and established as a Boy's Junior Technical College.
The collection of the Chapel St. School which included: Marrickville Public School which comprised of a primary boys and girls division with separate buildings, the infant school, the newly established Marrickville Girl's Intermediate High School and the Boy's Junior Technical College located off campus, was unofficially known as Marrickville Superior Public School.
In 1949, the boys of Marrickville Boys Junior Technical College were transferred to Dulwich Hill Junior Technical College and Tempe Boys Intermediate High School, to provide much needed accommodation for the girls of the infant, primary and secondary departments. It has been recognised for some time now that Marrickville Girl's Intermediate High School should become an independent institution even though they are still sharing the same campus. In 1954, it was turned into Marrickville Girl's Junior High School. On 28 April 1969, the proposal to build a new secondary school on Sydenham Rd. was favoured.
When the new Marrickville High School is opened, the students of Marrickville Girl's Junior High School would be transferred to the new school, leaving the Chapel St. school all for the primary and infant departments. Marrickville Girl's Junior High School on their new campus on Sydenham Rd. officially opened on Friday, 7 October 1977 by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Arthur Roden Cutler.
The school became coeducational so as to cater for more students. It officially opened in its new accommodation on Friday 7 December 1979, and officially was recognised as Marrickville High School. By 1984, Marrickville High became completely co-educational.
[edit] Facilities
[edit] Campus
The school has specialised science and computer labs, visual art rooms and music rooms. The school has recently installed two TAS rooms, two industry-standard hospitality kitchens, a Visual Media Darkroom, an IT Skills Resource Center and change rooms.
It also has a two-storey library, sporting fields and playgrounds, in addition to a covered quadrangle, two basketball courts, four cricket practice nets, and a multipurpose centre incorporating a gym and dance studio, an indoor basketball court and also acts as the schools assembly hall.
[edit] Support unit
Incorporated into the campus is one of many Support Units in high schools around NSW. A special education unit that has a modified curriculum and hires specially trained teachers to cater for the students with a intellectual disability and with learning difficulties.
[edit] Marrickville Intensive English Centre
In addition to the mainstream Marrickville High School classes, the school also provides an on campus Intensive English Centre (IEC), which is a unique specialist unit providing for newly arrived high school aged students from overseas. The students attend the IEC for three to four terms to learn the English language in four progressive stages, in preparation to enrol in a high school.
In addition to English students may also choose to learn a variety of key subjects including: Computing Studies, Graphic Communication, English, HSIE, Maths, Music, Numeracy, PD/H/PE, Science and Visual Arts.
[edit] Extra-Curricular activities
[edit] Leadership
Marrickville High has two captains and two vice-captains, all from Year 12. They are chosen by the principal and deputy principal annually. The captains and vice-captains run the weekly assembly, become an ambassador for the school in special events and occasions and also work in conjunction with the school's SRC.
Marrickville High also has a Student Representative Council, made up of four Year 8 and 9 students, four Year 10 and 11 students, and the school's captains and vice-captains. They work with the Principal and careers adviser to improve the school in different aspects. An SRC meeting is held fortnightly and common issues that are brought up include: school's involvement in the community, fundraising and charity work and enhancing school's facilities. The SRC has participated in numerous local and state SRC conferences including: Marrickville Council's SRC Conference, NSW State SRC Conference, 20/20 Summit and many school's own SRC conference.
[edit] Performing arts
The school has a Brass Band that is made up of the Pacific Islander students and play on many different occasions.
Marrickville High also promotes drama and theatre performance. Years 9-10 drama and Years 11-12 drama classes have the opportunity to perform at Enmore's Sidetrack theater and recently, Marrickville High worked in conjunction with Tempe High and local primary schools to put on a performance at the Seymour Center. Students also have the chance to display their culture through song and dance at the school's annual Multicultural Day, as part of the day's line up of performances and also at different venues, in different events.
As part of the English course, students are to make a class movie and develop their movie making skills and have experience in all the other roles.
[edit] Fundraising
The SRC organises fundraising for charity events like Australia's Biggest Morning Tea, Jeans4Jeans Day, Bandana Day, Sydney's Children's Hospital's Gold Week and for other occasions throughout the year. Year 12 students organise fundrasing for their year 12 formal, through bbqs, raffles, mufti and selling roses on Valentines Day. As part of a yearly tradition, Year 9 go out to collect donations for the Australian Red Cross in the local community.
[edit] Other
- Australian Law Students' Association's Mooting
- Australian Stock Exchange Schools Share Market Game
- NSW Department of Education's Annual Web Design Competition
- Rotary Model United Nations Assembly
- Rotary Youth Camp
- Tournament of the Minds
- Annual Chess Competition
- Crossroads Camp
- New South Wales Young Lawyers Shadowing Program - LEAPS (Lawyers Encouraging And Promoting Students)
- Peer Support Program
- Premier's Reading Challenge
- Schools BizLink
[edit] Sport
Sport plays an important role at Marrickville High and it has always been competitive and ambitious in sporting matches. Sports can be played on school grounds or out of school venues, in compulsory PDHPE lessons or as an extra-curricular activity. Weekly Grade Sports (Years 7 and 8) offered include basketball, cricket, netball, oz-tag, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball. Weekly Integrated Sports (Years 9 and 10) available include tennis, self-defence, swimming, ice-skating, ten pin bowling, dance and capioera (a Brazilian Martial Art).
The school competes in the Sydney East Knockout Competition, through which girls may compete in Touch, OZ Tag, Netball, Basketball, Soccer and Volleyball, and boys in Rugby League, Touch, Soccer, Netball, Basketball, Softball and Volleyball, Table Tennis, Indoor Soccer.
Marrickville High has a house system used commonly during school sporting carnivals, students are organised into teams based on their roll call class, the houses consists of:
- Freeman – Gold
- Perkins – Red
- Milton – Blue
Each year, two sporting captains are chosen from the senior years to represent and lead their team. The school holds annual school carnivals in Swimming, Athletics and Cross-Country. Results from these Carnivals determine selection for school representative teams and students progress on to the Zone Carnival for further competition.
[edit] References
- ^ Marrickville High School. School Locator. New South Wales Public Schools. Retrieved on 2008-02-29.
