Mackellar Girls Campus

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Mackellar Girls Campus
(part of the Northern Beaches Secondary College)
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Mackellar Girls Campus

Australia
Coordinates 33°46′55″S151°16′20″E / 33.781979°S 151.272222°E / -33.781979; 151.272222 Coordinates: 33°46′55″S151°16′20″E / 33.781979°S 151.272222°E / -33.781979; 151.272222
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Former name
  • Manly Vale High School
  • Mackellar Girls High School
Type Government-funded single-sex comprehensive secondary day school
MottoIn honour bound
Established1968;55 years ago (1968)
(as Manly Vale High School)
Sister school Balgowlah Boys Campus
School districtThe Beaches; Metropolitan North
Educational authority New South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalChristine Del Gallo
Staff~80 [1]
Years 712
Gender Girls
Enrolment~1,252 [1]  (2015)
Campus type Suburban
Colour(s)Blue, red, white    
Website nbscmgirls-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Mackellar Girls Campus

The Mackellar Girls Campus of Northern Beaches Secondary College is a government-funded single-sex comprehensive secondary day school for girls only, located in Manly Vale, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Established in 1968 as Manly Vale High School, and then became Mackellar Girls High School, named in honour of Dorothea Mackellar, the school caters for approximately 1,200 students from Year 7 and Year 12. [1] The school is operated by the New South Wales Department of Education; the principal is Christine Del Gallo.

Overview

Mackellar Girls Campus is a part of the Northern Beaches Secondary College, a five-campus college across Sydney's Northern Beaches, formed in 2003. It is generally considered to be the brother school to Balgowlah Boys Campus, another school within the College.

Mackellar Girls Campus was formerly known as Manly Vale High School, and then became Mackellar Girls High School until 2003 when it gained its current name after the famous Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar. Under the name Manly Vale High School, the school was believed to have been reinvented as a girls home economics school in 1967 upon the thought of creating strong and diligent girls to enter the work-force. The exact history of Mackellar as a school is not well-known, but it is believed to have been a school prior to 1967, rather as a co-educational school. Prior to being established at the site in manly vale, it was a co-educational campus at the current location of primary school, Manly Village Public School.

The school's unofficial motto, 'Mackellar Girls can do anything' was borne when the school expanded from a home economics school to include mathematics and science subjects not traditionally taught to girls, and the students were told they could now "do anything".

In 2015 it was ranked as the third top comprehensive girls' school in New South Wales. [2] It was 116th in the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC) rankings in 2015. [3]

Houses

Mackellar has a house system to facilitate school based competitions and activities. House activities include athletics, swimming carnivals and other sport related events. The school currently has four houses created based on the Aboriginal meanings for Australian native birds: [4]

Notable alumni

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References

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