Mentone Grammar School

Mentone Grammar School
Latin: Labore et Honore ("by work and with honour")
Location
Mentone, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates	37°59′15″S 145°4′4″E
Information
Type	Independent, Co-educational, Day school
Denomination	Anglican
Established	1923
Principal	Mal Cater
Chaplain	Roger Williams
Enrolment	~970 (K-12)
Colour(s)	Navy Blue, Gold & White
Website	www.mentonegrammar.net

Mentone Grammar School (formerly known as simply The Boys' Grammar in the local community) is an independent, Anglican co-educational grammar school in Mentone, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

History

Founded in 1923, Mentone Grammar remained a boys only school until 2006. Prior to this, the school hierarchy announced, in July 2005, its co-educational intent after a merger proposal put forth by the Board of Management was rejected by nearby Mentone Girls' Grammar School, its sister school.^{[citation needed]}

The School has adopted a parallel learning approach, where boys and girls are together from Kindergarten-Grade 4, from Grade 5-Year 8 the two are separate, and in the Year 9, 10 & VCE years there are mixed classes again.^{[citation needed]}

Headmasters

• Henry Tonkin
• Charles Thorold
• Lionel Large
• Keith Jones
• Neville Clark
• Tim Argall
• Mal Cater (current)

Cadet unit

The Mentone Grammar School Cadet Unit is an Australian Army Cadets Unit based in the school, founded in 1943. It once had a strength of nearly 400, due to the compulsory nature of service from halfway through Year Eight to halfway through Year Eleven. This made it one of the biggest Cadet units in Australia.^{[citation needed]} However the emphasis once placed on the cadet unit is no longer fostered. The AAC Training Management Package (TMP) is not completed within the training sessions.^{[citation needed]} This is due to time shortages with reduced time made available and frequency of sessions. Participation remains compulsory for Year Nine, but this is insufficient for TMP completion.

Houses

There are 8 houses at Mentone Grammar.

• Anderson House
• Deighton House
• Drinan House
• Finlay Anderson House
• Lionel Large House
• Jones House
• Were House
• White House

Sport

The Year 2010 has seen Mentone lure past star sportsmen back to the school to coach winter sports teams. An initiative developed by new sportsmaster Andrew Hayes, the idea has already led to success in the winter sport teams, an area where Mentone have struggled against the traditionally stronger PEGS (Association Football/Soccer), Assumption (Aussie Rules Football) and Camberwell (hockey).

Notable alumni

• Gary Colling, former Australian rules football player for St. Kilda Football Club
• Shane Warne, former Australian cricketer
• Mal Walden, co-anchor of Melbourne's Channel 10 News at 5
• Bill Granger, restaurateur and food writer
• Simon Storey, soccer player for Melbourne Victory
• Russell Hitchcock, lead singer of soft rock duo Air Supply
• Dav Whatmore, former Australian cricketer
• Andrew Ilie, former Australian tennis player
• Peter Russo, former Hawthorn Football Club player
• Leigh Fisher, St. Kilda Football Club player
• Rod Owen, former Melbourne Football Club, Brisbane Bears Football Club and St. Kilda Football Club player
• Craig Mottram, world champion middle/long distance athlete
• Robert Gillman Allen Jackson, former United Nations administrator
• Lee Cormie
• Mitchell Brown - Geelong Football Club player

See also

• Victorian Certificate of Education
• Australian Army Cadets

External links

• Mentone Grammar School website