Greensborough College
Greensborough College is a school in the Greensborough and Watsonia district in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
Greensborough College has around 700 students, the bulk of whom are in years 7, 8 and 9. The school is sub-divided into two groups: Junior School (7, 8 and 9)and Senior School (10, 11 and 12).
History and Information
Greensborough College occupies the site formerly known as the Watsonia Technical School. The nearby Watsonia High School and the technical school were merged to form Greensborough Secondary College for the beginning of the 1990 school year, with the high school campus serving as a senior school for years 11 and 12 + 13, and the larger technical school used as a junior campus. It was renamed Greensborough College when the former high school campus was closed in 1992. It is currently a co-educational school.
Special Attributes
Greensborough College is one of the few schools around the area which has enough students to offer a wide variety of subjects and extra curricular activities, but is still small enough so that the teachers actually know the students well. Greensborough is also unique in the fact that it has the discipline based 'silent room'. It is the final step of the WSAD (Whole School Approach to Discipline). A student who is acting in a way that the school rules sees unfit is sent to the silent room, which is located right next to the Principal's office. They are required to spend the rest of the 50 minute period inside the room, remaining silent but also completing the work they were originally required to do. The room is in place to allow misbehaving students to calm down and to also remove them from the working environment that they are disrupting.
Greensborough College, also does a lot of charity work. At least once a term the SRC orangises an out of uniform day, where every student brings a gold coin and all the proceeds go to a chairty that the SRC chose. Recently Greensborough Secondary College Year 11 design students have been covered in paint from head to toe while decorating a colourful bath tub for charity Berry Street Victoria's Bath Tub Dash. The dash is a popular event on the Moomba Waterfest calendar. The charity asked the school to design and decorate a bathtub to promote it's event.
Leadership
The Principal is Mr John Conway and the Vice Principals are Ms S Campbell and Mrs D Matheou. The current school captains are Bryce de Prinse and Emila Buleslajevic and the vice captains are Jessy Hall and Hannah Ryan. The 2007 College Council President is Mr R Nicholls. There is also the Student Representative Program which gives the students a voice in everything from "out-of-uniform days" to School Council and the Curriculum committee. There is also a house program with four groups Cooper, Kalparrin, Plenty and Willinda whom are represented by sports and arts leaders from the junior, middle and senior sections of the school.
Activities
Greensborough College has a wide-range of activities. There is Year 12 "muck up day", usually held in the last week of school for the year twelves (i.e. mid-October). It mostly includes humorous acts such as impersonations of both the school staff and celebrities as well as singing impersonations that are purposely sub-par and 'hilarious'. It is organised and performed exclusively by students, with the consent of the Year 12 co-ordinators.
There are also House Activities which include The Swimming Carnival (including the inaugural 'Bomb' Competition and Fashion By the Poolside), The Athletics Carnival (including Fashion by the Trackside) and other smaller activities such as the Chalk Art contest, Year 9/10 theatre sports and the Room Decorating Competition which are designed to help bring the houses together and also gaining house points.
There is also the school Drama Production. This is always a high-callbre musical comedy featuring many of the students from Greensborough College. Though it is an amateur production, we have many people other than parents come to attend the night performances, as Greensborough College students display a high level of energy on stage. The production this year was "Sheerluck Holmes"
Greensborough College holds many night activities and camps for the new Year 7's and their parents each year. This helps to make the young ones feel more at home, and to settle in more quickly. The year 7 camps to Barjarg (where the school co-owns a campsite) are a highlight of the students' year.
Houses
| Greensborough College Houses | ||
| House Name | Colour | Mascot |
|---|---|---|
| Cooper | Red | Devils |
| Kalparrin | Blue | Sharks |
| Plenty | Black | Panthers |
| Willinda | Green | Crocodies |
Extra Information
- Greensborough College, A History. Written in 1967, revised in 1984. By Edward Arthurson.
- You can read more about life at Greensborough College by requesting a School Magazine (a yearly publication which is endorsed by the College. It is released at the end of term 4 or in the middle of term 3).