Hale School

Hale School is the oldest boys’ school in Western Australia. An Anglican day and boarding school, it is constituted under the Hale School Act of the State Parliament. It provides that the governance of the School shall be in the hands of eleven Governors, of whom five shall be appointed by the Diocesan Trustees of the Anglican Church, and five shall be appointed by The Old Haleians' Association, all being appointed for a five-year term. The Act further provides that his Grace the Anglican Archbishop of Perth shall be a Governor.

The current Headmaster is Mr. SG Meade, who replaced Dr. RJ Inverarity in 2003.

History

An intrinsic part of the State's history, the school was founded in 1858 by the first Anglican Bishop of Perth, Dr. Mathew Blagden Hale, a Cambridge alumnus, educator, and social pioneer. Modelled after England's public schools, it was then known as "The Church of England Collegiate School".

The first campus was established at The Cloisters, St George’s Terrace, in Perth. In 1914 the School (which was called "The High School" between 1878 and 1929), moved to a more spacious site at Havelock Street, within walking distance of the Western Australian Houses of Parliament. In 1961, having acquired the name Hale School in 1929, it moved to Wembley Downs, where it is currently situated on a 48 hectare site, north-west of Perth.

Alumni

Some prominent Old Haleians include (this list is not exhaustive):

• The Rt. Hon. The Lord Forrest of Bunbury, the first Premier of Western Australia and the nation's first peer;
• The Hon. George Leake, Premier of Western Australia;
• The Hon. Sir Walter Hartwell James, Federalist, Premier of Western Australia, Agent-General;
• Langley Hancock, mining tycoon who discoverered the Pilbara iron ore deposits, founder of the separatist WA First Party;
• The Hon. Peter McCallum-Dowding, Premier of Western Australia;
• The Hon. Richard Court, Premier of Western Australia;
• Todd Pearson, sportsman and Olympics gold-medalist.

Affiliations

• The Public Schools' Association
• The Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia
• The Anglican Church of Australia

External Link

• Hale School
• The Hale School Museum and Archives
• The former Havelock Street campus, now the Constitutional Centre
• The Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia
• The Anglican Church of Australia

Sources

Much of the information from this article was gathered from the School's website and from Haleian publications. Further information may be obtained from The Hale School Museum and Archives.