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Adelaide High School is a coeducational state high school situated on the corner of West Terrace and Glover Avenue in the Adelaide Parklands. It is the first government high school in South Australia. It now has an enrolment of approximately 1,200+ students.
History
In 1879 John Anderson Hartley, Catherine Helen Spence and others created the Advanced School for Girls in Grote Street, Adelaide; the first public secondary school in South Australia. The school became the part of Adelaide High School in 1908, the same year the South Australian state high school system was launched.[1] Adelaide High School was officially opened on September 24, 1908 by the premier of South Australia Thomas Price. It was the first secondary school in the Commonwealth of Australia.[2]
It started off as two schools, with a boys' and a girls' campus; though these combined in 1908. In 1927 it had an enrolment of 1,067, making it the largest school of its kind in the Commonwealth. By 1929, the school occupied two sites - one at Grote Street and another at Currie Street (now part of the Remand Centre). The current site of the school on West Terrace was originally set aside for an army barracks in 1849, but an Observatory was built instead in 1859. This became the Bureau of Meteorology in 1939.
Based on an award winning 1940 design, a new building was erected on the site from 1947 to 1951. An application was made to have the building listed as a Historic Building on the Australian Register of the National Estate. The nomination was on the basis of the building's "Art Modern" style and significance in Adelaide education, but had not lead to the building's listing on the register as of 2007.[3] The original Grote Street school buildings were listed on the register as Historic in 1980. As of 2007 they were used as a centre for the performing arts.[4]
Adelaide is part of the longest running sporting exchanges with Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, both in Melbourne. It competes in the Prefects Cup with Melbourne High.
Head Master / Principal
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| Mr William J. Adey[5] | 1908–1920 |
| Mr Reginald A. West[6] | 1920–1948 |
| Mr C.M. Ward | 1948 |
| Mr A. E. Dinning | 1949–1954 |
| Mr Wybert M. C. Symonds | 1954–1962 |
| Mr A. H. Campbell | 1963–1968 |
| Mr W. J. Bentley | 1969–1977 |
| Mr Colin H. Brideson OAM[7] | 1978–1987 |
| Mr Peter Sanderson | 1988–1997 |
| Mr Stephen Dowdy | 1998 - to present |
Curriculum
Adelaide High School is especially known for being a Special Interest Language School. It offers its students seven different languages to study: Modern Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and German.[8] The school is also a centre for the Hearing Impaired and as an Associate School for Students of High Intellectual Potential.
Languages
Adelaide High School is a Special Interest Language School. Adelaide High School is currently a sister school to Asahi High School in Osaka, Japan, IT IS in Biella, Italy, No. 3 Middle School Nankai, Chongqing, China, Greensward College in Essex, UK and 7th Gymnasio Junior High in Ioannina, Greece. Every year there is an annual visit to Adelaide High by students from Asahi High School.
Sport
The school has four House teams which students represent in sporting events in the school. The Houses take the names of past principals of the school. The house names are, Adey (Red), Macghey (Blue), Morriss (Green), and West (Yellow). Sporting events include the school swimming carnival and sports day.
Adelaide High School has a range of girls and boys sporting teams and offers special interest sporting programmes in Cricket and Rowing. They participate in games throughout the year in the lead up to the main events; for cricket the 5 Highs Cricket Carnival and rowing The annual Head of the river. Other Sporting trips are for the volleyball teams travelling to the Australian Volleyball Schools Cup.
Adelaide High has taken part in a sporting exchange with Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and Melbourne High School since 1910 and it is the longest running sporting exchange in the state.[9] It is held in early Term 3 and one year the boys are in the Melbourne and the girls are in Adelaide and then the next year they swap. There are competitions in sports such as: Australian Rules football, soccer, tennis, rowing, basketball, netball, softball, chess, debating, theatre sports, volleyball, cross country and lacrosse. Sports previously played against Melbourne were baseball and field hockey.
Facilities
Facilities that students at the school have access to include a resource centre, gymnasium, weights room, tennis, basketball and netball courts, performing arts centre, science labs and lecture theatres. The school also has a boatshed on the bank of the River Torrens which holds the school's many rowing boats and where the school’s rowing crews train.
Notable staff and students
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- Hugh Cairns, first Nuffield Professor of Surgery, Oxford University
- John Stuart Dowie, Painter and Sculptor,
- Brian Ross Martin , 5th Chief Justice of the Northern Territory
- Anne Haddy, actress best known for her role as Helen Daniels in Neighbours.
- Simon Lewicki, aka Groove Terminator, electronic music artist.
- Greig Pickhaver, aka H.G. Nelson, actor, comedian and writer
- Mark Oliphant, former Governor of South Australia; physicist and humanitarian.
- Lou Vincent, New Zealand Test cricketer, AHS student 1993-96,
- Shaun Burgoyne, Port Adelaide Power footballer, AHS student 1996,
- Bob Hank, West Torrens FC and South Australian State Australian Rules Footballer, Dual Magarey Medallist.
- Neil Page, Former Australian baseball representative/player and the first Australian to sign a professional baseball contract with a US Major League team. Inducted into the Australian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.[10]
Further reading
- Adelaide High School Council (1983). Adelaide High School: 75th anniversary, 1908-1983 souvenir book. ISBN 0959388028. OCLC 220259206
References
- ^ Kwan, Elizabeth (1987). Living in South Australia, a social history (Volume 1, from before 1836 to 1914 ed.). Adelaide: South Australian Government Printer. pp. 145–175. ISBN 0-7243-6493-5.
- ^ Government of South Australia (2008). Adelaide High turns 100. Retrieved on 13 October 2008.
- ^ "Adelaide High School, West Tce, Adelaide, SA (Place ID 16566)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ "Adelaide Girls High School (Advanced School for Girls) (former), 101 Grote St, Adelaide, SA, Australia (Place ID 6430)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Condon, Brian (2006). Adey, William James (1874 - 1956). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online Edition. Retrieved on 16 November 2008.
- ^ Pash, J.H. (2006). West, Reginald Arthur (1883 - 1964). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online Edition. Retrieved on 16 November 2008.
- ^ Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia (2008). Medal of the Order of Australia: Mr Colin Herbert Brideson. Page 21. Retrieved on 16 November 2008.
- ^ "Adelaide High School 2010, year 8 curriculum" (PDF). Retrieved May 9, 2010.
- ^ Adelaide High School (2007). Melbourne / Mac.Rob Exchange. Retrieved on 27 May 2008.
- ^ "2005 Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductees". Australian Baseball Bederation. Retrieved 2007-11-22.