Hale School | |
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Location | |
, Australia | |
Coordinates | 31°54′41″S115°46′51″E / 31.91139°S 115.78083°E |
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Type | Independent, day & boarding |
Motto | Duty |
Denomination | Anglican |
Established | 1858 [1] |
Sister school | St Mary's |
Chairman | Mark Foster [2] |
Head of Senior School | David Bourne |
Deputy Head of Senior School | Simon Hunt |
Head of Year 7 | Jackie Hunt |
Head of Junior School | Tim Simpson |
Headmaster | Dean Dell'Oro [3] |
Chaplain | Thomas Couper |
Employees | 257 |
Median ATAR | 91.85 (2021) |
Gender | Boys |
Enrolment | ~1,500 (1–12) [4] |
Colour(s) | Oxford blue & Cambridge blue |
Affiliation | Public Schools Association |
Website | www |
Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Named after the school founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, [1] Hale School claims to be the oldest private boys' school in Western Australia, a claim subsequently contested by historian and former Hale School Headmaster Dr Ken Tregonning. [5] The school was originally situated at the Cloisters on St Georges Terrace in Perth, relocated to the Pensioner Guard Barracks at the top of St George's Terrace around 1880, and then to new Havelock Street premises in 1914 in West Perth. In 1961 the School moved to its current premises in Wembley Downs. The campus now consists of a junior school for Years Pre-Primary to 6, a middle school for Year 7 and a senior school for Year 8 to 12. The school also consists of sporting grounds, and boarding facilities for regional and international students.
The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia.
Hale's sister school is St Mary's Anglican Girls' School located in Karrinyup, a nearby suburb.
In 2008, Hale School celebrated its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary.
Part of Australia's colonial history, Hale School claims to be the first high school in Western Australia, [6] and the school educated many prominent sons of the Swan River Colony. The school was originally known as Boys High School and the inaugural chairman was Archibald Paull Burt, a notable jurist and slaveholder in the West Indies. [7] [8]
Modelled on England's prestigious public schools, it has sometimes been accused of being elitist. For example, in his biography of explorer and politician Sir John Forrest, Frank Crowley described the school's values throughout the 1870s as "a heady compound of social snobbery, laissez-faire capitalism, sentimental royalism, patriotic Anglicanism, benevolent imperialism and racial superiority". [9]
In contemporary social commentary, for example Mark Peel's study of class and schooling in Australia, Hale School was identified as one of the most rigorous and selective schools for boys. [10] In recent times equity concerns have been addressed by a scholarship program, including the first full boarding scholarships in Western Australia for Indigenous students. [11]
The school was initially known as "Bishop Hale's Collegiate School", and later as "The High School". It has since been renamed "Hale School" in honour of its founder, and reconstituted under the Hale School Act (1876) of the Parliament of Western Australia. [12]
According to Edith Cowan, Western Australia's first female member of Parliament, the Act that evolved out Bishop Hale's School – the Church of England Collegiate School Act – co-existed with a public secular school instantiated under its own Act – the High School Act, creating two independent and theologically opposed legal entities. The latter then misappropriated the name "Hale School", the commencement date 1858 and other paraphernalia, about which Cowan laments:
"It is only those of us who remember Bishop Hale personally and his deeply spiritual and religious type of mind (yet broad and tolerant of the views of others) who can realise the travesty of giving his name to an institution whose foundations are so unmistakably opposite to the principles he invariably upheld. Can it be wondered at that the Diocesan Council takes exception, as do other members of the Church of England, to the present High or Hale School’s use of the old Bishop Hale’s School badge, to the foundation date on its new buildings and the incorrect statement that Bishop Hale founded the High School." [13]
Bishop Hale's Collegiate School was designed by Richard Roach Jewell in 1858 and is situated on St Georges Terrace. The buildings eventually became known as The Cloisters . In 1914, the School moved to a more spacious site at Havelock Street, West Perth, opposite the Parliament of Western Australia. Finally, in 1961, the school relocated to its current 480,000 m2 (120 acres) premises in Wembley Downs.
Period | Details |
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1858–1863 | Canon George Hallett Sweeting |
1864 | Acting Headmaster – John Bussell |
1864–1869 | Rev. FT Taylor |
1869–1872 | Rev. FA Hare |
1872–1878 | Col. EW Haynes |
1878–1882 | Rev. D Davies |
1882–1888 | T Beuttler |
1888–1889 | N Millington |
1889–1914 | FC Faulkner |
1915–1928 | MA Wilson |
1929–1931 | PR Le Couteur |
1931–1946 | MA Buntine |
1940–1943 | C Hadley (Acting) |
1946–1960 | VS Murphy |
1960–1965 | JR Prince |
1966 | L Drake (Acting) |
1967–1988 | KG Tregonning [14] |
1989–2002 | John Inverarity |
2003–2016 | Stuart G Meade |
2017 | David Bean (Acting) |
2017– | Dean Dell'Oro |
Hale School's campus is a 48-hectare site located in Wembley Downs. The administration building, Memorial Hall (including the redfoot youth theatre), Tom Hoar Dining Hall, Stowe Drama Centre, Forrest Library, Chapel of St Mark, cafeteria, clothing store, IT department and Old Haleians' Boardroom are all located on the south west corner of the campus near the main entrance.
The Peter Wright Technology Building, which houses the Design and Technology Workshop as well as Computer and Design Suites sits adjacent to the Doug Poake Pool. Also adjacent to the swimming pool is the art complex, gymnasium and change-rooms.
The John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre is located on the western side of the campus facing Unwin Avenue. This building separates the Senior School from the Junior School which is located on the north west corner of the campus, along with the junior boarding residence, Brine House. The senior boarding house is located on the eastern side of the campus while the sports playing fields occupy the north east.
The new Teaching and Learning precinct on the site of the old boarding houses near the south entrance to the campus was officially opened on 1 July 2009. The main feature of this project, a new Library Resource Centre includes a dedicated Year 12 study area and Gifted and Talented and Curriculum Support rooms facing a central courtyard. Beneath the library is a new clothing store, IT department and Old Haleians' Boardroom.
While the library was open for student use from February 2009 school year, [15] the official opening ceremony was not held until 1 July 2009, when it was officially opened by Andrew Forrest and unveiled as the Forrest Library. [16] It honours members of the Forrest family, from Sir John Forrest to Alexander Forrest, and on to Andrew Forrest himself, who had been educated at Hale.
Also included in this precinct is a new cafeteria with internal and external seating opposite the library and a new Teaching and Learning building. The classroom block ('F-block') consists of 17 teaching spaces for History, English and languages, as well as two language oral work rooms and new office space for teaching staff. Another important feature is a set-down and pick-up road that runs from a new 50-bay carpark adjacent to the chapel, along the front of the classroom block, past the Library undercroft, before rejoining the main drive.
In 2010 the Australian Institute of Architects awarded the Forrest Library an Architecture Award for Public Architecture. [17]
The John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre comprises a large auditorium/theatre, backstage holding rooms, two main rehearsal studios, percussion and string studios, two large music teaching rooms and 19 music practice rooms. It was first opened for use in January 2001.
The centrepiece of the complex is the timber-lined recital auditorium which accommodates 353 patrons on stepped tiers with a flat performance area 17 m wide and 12 m deep. The auditorium design has been dictated by the requirements to have natural acoustics for music. This has been achieved through the use of a traditional 'rectangular box' design with a maximum ceiling height of 8 m. The auditorium can be tuned for different instruments and various music/drama performances to achieve desired acoustic qualities. This is accomplished by a system of moveable full-height wall reflectors, suspended ceiling reflectors and rotating wall panels with differing degrees of absorptive linings. The ceiling loft is mechanised with 27 variable speed automatic winch lines which give a great degree of flexibility for a range of shows.
The construction of a new Middle School facility commenced in January 2009 and was completed in January 2010. The Middle School site is located adjacent to Unwin Avenue, between the John Inverarity Music and Drama Centre and the Memorial Hall. The building contains 16 classrooms for Year 7 and 8 students. The Year 8 Classrooms are on the ground floor and the Year 7 Classrooms are on the first floor. The main entrance, reception & administration offices for the Head of Middle School, Deputy Head, Head of Curriculum & Head of Pastoral Care are located on a separate intermediate level, which is at street level with Unwin Avenue. Other staff facilities are located on the ground floor. In addition, the facility incorporates one of the School's existing buildings ('L-block' classrooms) which were refurbished as music, drama and science classrooms for the Middle School. The ground level of this building was refurbished as a Middle School Science Classroom (and store room), with the upper level refitted to house a Drama classroom, Music classroom (with store room) & 4 music practice rooms.
The refurbishment of this building commenced in October 2009 but was not completed in time for the commencement of the school year in February 2010. The new building replaced the 'C-block' classrooms and Senior School Library that previously occupied the site and were demolished in December 2008. [18] [19]
The Hale Junior school was originally built when the Wembley Downs campus was opened. Today, it has classes from Pre–Primary up to Year 6, with around 400 students enrolled. It was demolished in 2017 to give way to an award winning new campus. Some awards include 'Architecture Award for Education Architecture, Western Australia 2019' and 'Learning Environments WA Chapter, Category 2: New Construction / New Individual Facility over $8m'. It features a modern design with the year groups split up into a 'Lower Junior' (PP to Year 2), 'Middle Junior' (Year 3 and Year 4) and 'Upper Junior' (Year 5 and Year 6). All buildings have open areas, called 'breakout spaces', where students can work together in small groups or presentations can be held. [20]
Hale School campus includes various sporting facilities, including: [21]
In 1885, the school entered a team into the West Australian Football Association (WAFA) for its inaugural season, but were forced to withdraw two rounds into the season due to a lack of players. [24]
Hale School has hosted important teams over the years, including the English Rugby Team on occasions, namely for training during the 2003 Rugby World Cup. The school hosted the English Cricket Academy, including international cricketers Michael Vaughan, Owais Shah, Stuart Broad, Rikki Clarke and Jon Lewis for nets sessions and practice matches, as seen on the front page of The West Australian on 29 November 2006. [25]
There are currently 10 houses in Hale Middle/Senior School. These include 8-day houses, and 2 boarding houses:
Loton was changed from a boarding house to a day house in 2005, following the completion of the new boarding house. Prior to this Loton's colour was brown. Year 7 & 8 boarders are housed in Brine House, which is located between the Junior School and the Music and Drama Centre, they are however also members of either Faulkner or Wilson houses.
There are also 4 houses in Hale Junior School, named after Rhodes Scholars:
Since 2000, Hale School has won five of the Beazley Medals, awarded to the student obtaining the highest marks in the state administered tertiary entrance examinations. [26] [27]
The school appears regularly in the top 10 schools for the Western Australian Certificate of Education rankings.
Year | % +75 in WACE [lower-roman 1] | State ranking [lower-roman 2] | % +65 in WACE [lower-roman 3] | Median ATAR | State ranking | % graduation [lower-roman 4] |
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2021 | 91.85 | 100 | ||||
2020 | 90.35 | 100 | ||||
2019 | 92.85 | |||||
2018 | 89.4 | |||||
2017 | 89.3 | |||||
2016 | 89.8 | |||||
2015 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | |||||
2014 | 27.09 | 7 | 59.89 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 5 | 100 [28] |
2013 | 28.17 | 5 | 58.59 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 5 | 100 [29] |
2012 | 28.77 | 4 | 66.95 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 3 | 100 [30] |
2011 | 36.69 | 1 | 72.14 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 2 | 100 [31] |
2010 | 25.73 | 10 | 65.47 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 8 | 99.50 [32] |
2009 | 6 | (prior to ATAR reporting) | 2 | 99.49 [33] | ||
Hale is a member of the Public Schools Association (PSA).
Hale has won the following PSA premierships. [34]
Hale School's main publication is the school's official book, The Cygnet, which is released at the start of each year and includes about 250 pages of the previous year's major happenings, school photos and sports results. The school also publishes an alumni magazine, The Haleian, twice a year, usually around June and November.
Former students have served in all conflicts since the Boer War with many having distinguished military careers. [35]
Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, Hale Class of 1995, son of Major General Len Roberts-Smith, is currently Australia's most decorated soldier, having been awarded the Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry.
One hundred and twenty four Old Haleians have died in conflicts since the Boer War. A Memorial Grove at the School site, honours these men with 124 plaques and a sculpture with an "eternal flame" theme. The great hall of the School has also been named Memorial Hall. The Hale School Museum contains important military and civilian records relating to the School and the state of Western Australia. A small Museum display is also located at the Old Hale School, now the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, on Havelock Street, West Perth.
An alumnus of Hale School is called an Old Haleian. Notable Old Haleians include:
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