Haileybury, Melbourne

Haileybury
Latin: Sursum Corda ("Lift Up Your Hearts")
Location
Berwick, Brighton East & Keysborough, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°59′39″S 145°8′44″E
Information
Type	Independent
Denomination	Uniting Church
Established	1892
Chairman	Tom Poulton
Principal	Derek Scott
Key people	C. H. Rendall (Founder)
Enrolment	3400 (P-12)
Colour(s)	Magenta & Black
Website	www.haileybury.vic.edu.au/

Haileybury is an independent school affiliated with the Uniting Church in Australia, located in Berwick, Brighton East and Keysborough, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school incorporates both Haileybury College, an all-boys college and Haileybury Girls' College, an all-girls college. Haileybury maintains strong relations with schools in China, Japan and France, and currently delivers the VCE programme to a number of schools in China. Since 2006 the school has offered the International Bacaulaurate Diploma as an alternative qualification to VCE. The principal of Haileybury is Derek Scott. The head of Castlefield campus is Scott Doran.

The college is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV), and has been a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) since 1958.

Haileybury has received media attention in recent years over its practice of offering scholarships to successful students in other schools in various areas (including sports, music and academia). The moves have been criticised, particularly by Victoria's official academically and musically selective schools.

History

The school began with just 17 pupils on 10 February 1892 at "Wellington" on the corner of New Street and South Road, Brighton Beach.^{[citation needed]}

The first headmaster, Mr C. H. Rendall, an old boy of Haileybury College, England,^{[citation needed]} adapted the buildings and grounds of Wellington to educational purposes and undertook his chosen task of building in Australia an English public school with a distinctive tradition of classics and cricket.^{[citation needed]}

In 2000, Gaileybury admitted the first girls into the Junior School and plans were announced to develop parallel education for boys and girls from Year 5 on all campuses.^{[citation needed]} The following year saw the introduction of an innovative pre-senior program for boys in Year 9, allowing the boys who begin to lose interest in traditional studies to broaden their horizon and participate in a number of 'Options' (10 day camps).^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, The Age newspaper published stories regarding a campaign by Haileybury Girls' College to offer scholarships to girls in schools across Melbourne in order to fill its 2007 classes in Years 10 to 12. Schools including Toorak College, Sacre Cœur, St Margaret's School, and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School had students leave to attend Haileybury Girls' College. The campaign was criticised by these schools, with two Catholic girls' schools - Killester and Kilbreda Colleges - vowing to submit a formal complaint to the Uniting Church, with which the school is affiliated. It has also been alleged that Haileybury has been "unethically" hiring teachers from other schools.

International Baccalaureate program

Since 2006, Haileybury's Keysborough campus has offered the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma program as a substitute to the standard VCE curriculum available in most Victorian schools.

Students and facilities

Students attending Haileybury College come from all over Melbourne with 98% of all students travelling on school buses to get to the Senior School. The school has the largest bus network system of any school in Australia. The majority of Haileybury students come from Brighton, East Brighton, Sandringham, Hampton, Beaumaris, Black Rock, Malvern, Mentone, Wheelers Hill, Berwick, Mount Eliza and Mornington. The College Senior School is located in Keysborough, though since 2009, there have been two additional Senior Schools implemented at both Berwick and Brighton. The school has 8 ovals, tennis and hockey courts, an Olympic-size swimming pool with diving facilities as well as other academic, sport and fitness facilities.

Parallel Education

At Haileybury, the parallel education system provides education for boys and girls at the same school, and both genders are allowed to interact at any time with the exception of during class times, where only single gender classes exist. Parallel education at Haileybury incorporates two schools. Haileybury College is a school for boys, and Haileybury Girls' College is a school for girls. Each school operates from the Early Learning Centre to Year 12.

How Parallel Education Works;

• Girls and boys attend the same teaching precincts
• Learning and activities are arranged to reflect the age and gender of the student and the nature of the activities
• Students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 4 are educated in coeducational classes
• Years 5 to 9 move to single gender schools at Berwick, Brighton and Keysborough (with separate Pre-Senior Centres)
• The Three-year VCE is conducted predominantly with separate classes for girls and boys, with students coming together for classes when appropriate, such as music or drama, and social and cultural activities.
• The Two-year IB program is conducted co-educationally.

In all stages of schooling there is co-operation and interaction between Haileybury Girls' College and Haileybury College, whenever this is appropriate and beneficial to the students.

References and sources

• Old Haileyburians Association website, (accessed 23/08/06)
• "Haileybury College Corporate Report 2004", Published December 2004.
• "Independent Schools Financial Performance Survey for 2003"
• Haileybury College website, retrieved Monday 12 December 2005
• The Haileyburian May 2005 edition, Published May 2005 By Haileybury College
• The Haileyburian September 2005 edition, Published August 2005 by Haileybury College
• "Haileybury Assembly Book", Published 2001, re-printed 2002 by Haileybury College

See also

• List of schools in Victoria
• List of high schools in Victoria
• List of Old Haileyburians
• Victorian Certificate of Education
• List of largest Victorian Schools

External links

• Haileybury College website
• Old Haileyburians Association
• Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Hertford, England