Maffra Secondary College

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Maffra Secondary College
Location
Maffra Secondary College
Maffra
,
Victoria

Australia
Coordinates 37°57′52″S146°58′58″E / 37.9644°S 146.9828°E / -37.9644; 146.9828
Information
TypeCo-educational government school
Established1950s
PrincipalJennifer Roep
Grades7–12 (VCE, VCAL and VET)
Enrolment~650
Campus Maffra
Colour(s)Red (Macalister), blue (Avon), green (Freestone) and gold (Thompson)
NewspaperMaffra Secondary College (weekly newsletter)
YearbookMaffra Secondary College
Website

Maffra Secondary College is a Year 7 to Year 12 government secondary college situated in the Gippsland town of Maffra, Victoria. It has around 700 students enrolled from Year 7 to 12, and takes in students from Maffra and surrounding towns, including Boisdale, Newry, Stratford, Heyfield, Valencia Creek, Briagolong and Cowwarr. [1]

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The school logo is a painting of the local banksia species Banksia canei with the words "Maffra Secondary College" encircled around it. The Banksia canei was named after a long-time school councillor Bill Cane, who was a local botanist. [1]

Facilities

In 2002, a new science and technology wing was opened at the college, providing new, modern science labs, teaching classrooms, woodwork rooms, IT facilities and staff rooms for the growing school. The health, textiles and food technology wing was also upgraded, with new kitchens and a new canteen built. There have been new plans drawn up for more refurbishments and buildings for the school.

Academic programs

Maffra Secondary College has a large number of programs for students, including the new eXel program for Year 9 students. It has a strong VCE program, offering a large variety of Year 11 and 12 subjects. It also offers the VCAL program as an alternative program to the VCE.

The school offers VCE subjects from a range of areas such as the sciences, arts and humanities, technology and physical and outdoor education. Indonesian and Mandarin are offered as languages at MSC, with other major languages such as German and Italian studied via Distance Education.

VCE

Maffra SC offers a wide variety of subjects for students the study in VCE. These include:

Sporting

Maffra Secondary College has numerous sporting teams including football, netball, basketball, clay target shooting and soccer. These teams compete against other schools in the district in inter-school competitions. Each year in summer the inter-house swimming competition is held at the 50m Maffra Pool, while in winter, the athletics day and cross country are held. Hiking and camping are also a part of the school program due to its close proximity to national parks and bushland.

Uniform

Maffra Secondary College uniform consists of a white polo shirt with the school logo on the top left corner on the chest. The winter uniform for girls is a tartan type skirt which is mostly navy, with the white polo shirt and a navy windcheater with the school logo on it. For boys, grey trousers with the school shirt and jumper is worn. In summer, girls can wear a school dress which is blue and white checked. Boys can wear grey shorts with the white shirt. Year 12 students are able to wear a special VCE rugby top over their school uniform in the second half of the school year. [1]

Dux of the College

Dux of the College is awarded to the Year 12 student with the highest ENTER/ATAR score for that year in the VCE. Past Dux recipients:

Alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Home". maffrasc.vic.edu.au.
  2. ↑ Jacob Kovco – Biography – The Biographicon Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Ricky Muir's maiden speech to parliament
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