Vaucluse High School

Vaucluse High School
Vaucluse High School
Location
	Old South Head Road, Vaucluse,; Sydney, New South Wales ; Australia
Coordinates	33°51′31″S151°16′49″E / 33.85861°S 151.28028°E
Information
Former name	Vaucluse Boys' High School (1960–1981)
Type	Public co-educational secondary day school
Motto	Latin: Lumen Scientiae; (The light of knowledge)
Established	1960
Status	Closed
Closed	2006
Educational authority	NSW Department of Education
Colour(s)	Gold and blue
Yearbook	Lumen

Last updated June 17, 2024

Vaucluse High School (VHS), formerly known from 1960 to 1981 as Vaucluse Boys' High School (VBHS), is a former public co-educational secondary day school that was, until its closure, located in Vaucluse, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2006 the school was merged with Dover Heights Girls High School to form the Rose Bay Secondary College.

History

In 1877, the Government of New South Wales acquired the 4-hectare (11-acre) site of Shaftesbury and established the Shaftesbury Reformatory for Girls in 1880. Several other institutions including the Shaftesbury Institute for Destitute Inebriates and the Shaftesbury Home for Mothers and Babies took the reformatory's place over the following decades, until the buildings were demolished in 1930 and the land sold; with the Government retaining a portion for later use.^[1]

Vaucluse Boys' High School was officially opened on 30 June 1960 by the Governor of New South Wales, Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Woodward at a ceremony attended by the Member for Vaucluse, Geoffrey Cox, the Director-General of Education, Harold Wyndham, and the NSW Minister for Education, Ernest Wetherell. The first principal was H. Keith Harris, who led the school from its founding to his retirement in 1971. The last principal of Vaucluse High was David Tomlin who remained at the school until its closure in 2006, and thereafter took up the position of principal at Manly Selective Campus.

The school won the Hume Barbour Trophy for debating in 1964, 1965 and 1968.^[2]

The school became co-educational in January 1982. It was declared in 2005 that Vaucluse High and the nearby Dover Heights High would be merged to form Rose Bay Secondary College. It was also decided that the Vaucluse High site would be closed and the college would be based on the Dover Heights site instead. The land on which Vaucluse High School stands was sold for an undisclosed amount of money. A Development Application was filed with Woollahra Council to convert the site into a retirement/nursing home operated by the Mark Moran Group.^[3]

In 2010, a fire was deliberately lit in the Hall which was subsequently torn down, along with the canteen, change rooms and the woodworking classrooms.

Notable alumni

Kerry Casey –Australian actor
Steve Finnane –Australian rugby union player
Bruce Jackson – audio engineer
Mark McInnes –former CEO of David Jones^{[ citation needed ]}
Austen Tayshus (born Alexander Jacob Gutman) –Australian comedian
Henry Tsang –architect, politician and former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1999–2009) and Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney (1991–1999)
Peter Weir –Australian film director

Notable staff

Douglas Daft

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References

↑ Hanna, Kim (2018). "Shaftesbury Reformatory". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
↑ "Speaking competitions - Hall of fame | The Arts Unit". artsunit.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
↑ Schiller, Emma (8 March 2013). "From Vaucluse High School to $93m aged care facility despite residents' protests". The Daily Telegraph . Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

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[1] Hanna, Kim (2018). "Shaftesbury Reformatory". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

[2] "Speaking competitions - Hall of fame | The Arts Unit". artsunit.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[3] Schiller, Emma (8 March 2013). "From Vaucluse High School to $93m aged care facility despite residents' protests". The Daily Telegraph . Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

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