Mordialloc Secondary College

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Mordialloc Secondary College
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Location
Mordialloc Secondary College
Station St

Aspendale/Mordialloc

Melbourne
,
Victoria
,
3195

Australia
Coordinates 38°00′44″S145°05′32″E / 38.0122°S 145.0923°E / -38.0122; 145.0923
Information
TypeState co-educational secondary
Motto Latin: Veho Spes Juventutis
(I Carry the Hopes of Youth)
Established1924
PrincipalMichelle Roberts [1]
Years offered7–12
Enrolmentc.950
Campus Aspendale
Colour(s)green, gold and blue
Website www.mcsc.vic.edu.au

Mordialloc Secondary College or Mordialloc College is a state co-educational secondary school located in the suburbs of Melbourne at Aspendale, City of Kingston, on the south bank of the Mordialloc Creek.

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Description

The College currently has over 1000 students in year 7 to year 12 and offers a broad range of academic and creative subjects. It also offers extracurricular activities including a rock eisteddfod, musical productions and bands, camps, overseas tours, competitions and Duke of Edinburgh Awards. It has an International Student Program with an accredited English Language Centre, supported by an established network of homestay families, and a Select Entry Accelerated Learning (Gifted Children) Program. The S.E.A.L program exists for years 7–10. [2]

History

It was founded in February 1924 as the Mordialloc District High School, with 148 students who were temporarily accommodated in the Mechanics Institute Hall in Albert Street, Mordialloc. [3] Later that year the school's name changed to Mordialloc Carrum District High school when it was officially opened by Cr Roy Beardsworth of the Borough of Carrum; [4] it was subsequently known as the Mordialloc Chelsea High School.

On 15 February 1928 the main redbrick building at the present site was completed with eight classrooms; subjects taught at that time included commercial studies, domestic science, woodwork, sheetmetal working and blacksmithing. [3]

In 1997, the College advertised its "new and refurbished facilities". [5] That same year, one of the school's graduates was "the first identifying Aboriginal to study science or technology full-time at La Trobe University". [6]

The College started accredited training in first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in 1999, with twenty students enrolled. Students completing the two year program qualify for a bronze-level Duke of Edinburgh's Award. [7]

State Government budget cuts in 2011 resulted in the los of $50,000 in funding for Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) programs at the College, but it had already made a commitment to double the size of the programs. [8]

As of 2022, Mordoc Secondary College has participated in "Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)" in which instructors employ "explicit meta-cognitive strategies and a desire to move away from 'teaching to the text', established practices which then informed the spatial redesign to utilise the space differently to achieve these aims". [9]

Alumni

The College Alumni Association was incorporated in October 2014. [10] One of its aims is to create a digital, searchable database of material and resources pertaining to the school, before the school's centenary in 2024. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Principal's Message". Mordialloc Secondary College. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Learning Extension Programs, Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL)". mcsc.vic.edu.au. 2023.
  3. 1 2 "College History". mcsc.vic.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 June 1998. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "First Students of Mordialloc-Chelsea High School | Kingston Local History". localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Mordialloc-Chelsea Secondary College (advertisement)". The Age. 17 June 1997. p. 62. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Goss, Sue (12 December 1997). "Aboriginal student sets a first in science". The Age. p. 35. Retrieved 11 October 2023– via newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Students keen to take the lead to save lives". The Age. 26 January 1999. p. 7. Retrieved 11 October 2023– via newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Wray-McCann, Jesse (31 August 2011). "Trouble in trades Futures uncertain as schools lose VCAL program cash". Mordialloc Chelsea Leader– via EBSCO Host. The future for Mordialloc-Chelsea students wanting a career in the trades is under threat after drastic cuts to vocational education funding. The State Government has axed $12 million from secondary school Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) budgets. Mordialloc College stands to lose more than $50,000 next year as a result. Principal Michelle Roberts said the school, which had 20 VCAL students this year, had already committed to doubling the program in 2012. "It's a growing program for us so we certainly won't cut it," Ms Roberts said. "It means we will be tightening the screws even further on what is already a very limited budget." "It's extremely disappointing because the Government is basically cutting a vital pathway for students." Mordialloc Secondary College year 11 VCAL student Jony Abley said he would find it difficult to realise his dream of becoming a carpenter without the program. "VCAL is great because we're learning the real tools of how to be independent after school," the 17-year-old said.
  9. ↑ Blackmore, Jill; O'Mara, Joanne (July 2022). "Putting professional learning practice first in innovative learning environments". Studies in Continuing Education. 44 (2): 232–246. doi:10.1080/0158037X.2021.1977921. S2CID   244232162 – via EBSCO Host. The programme-based reforms, such as at Mount Waverley Primary School and Mordialloc Secondary College, tended to be a strategic intervention that was issue-focused (student's disengagement). Mordialloc Secondary College's ILE emerged out of a long-term commitment to teacher action learning which focused on explicit meta-cognitive strategies and a desire to move away from 'teaching to the text', established practices which then informed the spatial redesign to utilise the space differently to achieve these aims.
  10. ↑ "MCAA". mordialloccollegealumni.org. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  11. ↑ Watson, Emma (30 August 2017). "School's historic gems unveiled". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 11 October 2023– via EBSCOHOST. The school will turn 100 in 2024 and a group of volunteers has been working behind the scenes to reveal the school's hidden gems... The goal is to update a digital, searchable database available to paying members of the Mordialloc College Alumni Association.


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