Abbreviation | APS |
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Formation | 1908 |
Headquarters | APS House Hawthorn, Victoria |
Location | |
Membership | 11 member schools |
Official language | English |
Chair | Derek Scott Haileybury (2021 - 2023) |
Website | www |
The Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) are a group of eleven independent schools in Victoria, Australia, similar to the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales in New South Wales and the Public Schools Association in Western Australia. The descriptor 'Public School' references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public school.
The first meet of Public Schools Sports was held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 30 November 1870 [1] with Melbourne Grammar School, Scotch College and Wesley College competing and winning that order. The Association was established in 1908 [2] so that students of the member schools may compete against each other on the sporting fields, the original competition sports were Australian Rules Football, Athletics, Rowing and Cricket. Students now compete in a variety of sports, which are split into three seasons, Summer, Winter and Spring. Students in Year 7 and above compete on Saturdays and students in primary year levels compete on Wednesday afternoons. Major annual competitions include the APS Head of the River Rowing Regattas, the APS Combined Swimming & Diving Championships and the APS Combined Athletics Championships.
In March 2005, the APS member schools formed a set of guidelines regarding the awarding of sporting scholarships to students, following criticism of recruiting practices employed by some schools. [3] The headquarters of the APS is known as APS House and is located on Church Street in Hawthorn, Victoria. [4]
School | Location | Principal | Enrolment | Founded | Denomination | Boys/girls | Day/boarding | Year entered competition | School colours |
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Brighton Grammar School | Brighton | Ross Featherston | 1,301 | 1882 | Anglican | Boys | Day | 1958 | |
Carey Baptist Grammar School | Kew, Donvale | Jonathan Walter | 2,500 | 1923 | Baptist | Boys & girls | Day | 1958 | |
Caulfield Grammar School | Caulfield, Malvern, Wheelers Hill, Yarra Junction, Nanjing | Ashleigh Martin | 3,320 | 1881 | Anglican | Boys & girls | Day & boarding | 1958 | |
The Geelong College | Geelong | Peter Miller | 1,313 | 1861 | associated [5] with the Uniting Church | Boys & girls | Day & boarding | 1908 | |
Geelong Grammar School | Geelong | Rebecca Cody | 1,463 | 1855 | Anglican | Boys & girls | Day & boarding | 1900 | |
Haileybury | Brighton, Berwick, Keysborough, City, Tianjin, Darwin | Derek Scott | 4,054 | 1892 | previously associated [5] with the Uniting Church | Boys & girls | Day & boarding | 1958 | |
Melbourne Grammar School | Melbourne | Philip Grutzner | 1,795 | 1858 | Anglican | Boys (K-12) & girls (K-6) | Day & boarding | 1900 | |
St Kevin's College | Toorak | Deborah Barker | 2,079 | 1918 | Roman Catholic | Boys | Day | 1958 | |
Scotch College | Hawthorn | Scott Marsh | 1,875 | 1851 | Presbyterian | Boys | Day & boarding | 1900 | |
Wesley College | Melbourne, Glen Waverley, Elsternwick | Nicholas Evans | 3,145 | 1866 | associated [5] with the Uniting Church | Boys & girls | Day & boarding (GW) [6] | 1900 | |
Xavier College | Kew | William Doherty | 1,802 | 1872 | Roman Catholic | Boys (K-12) & girls (Kindergarten) | Day & boarding | 1900 | |
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Students from the Association's member schools participate in a number of Combined Sports (Championship Carnivals) during the year including Swimming, Diving, Rowing and Athletics.
The Victorian Head of the River race is contested between the 11 APS schools, the race is usually the last race of the official APS rowing season and has recently been rowed on Lake Nagambie which is a full buoyed international standard course allowing six boat finals. Girls from the APS also participate in the Head of the Schoolgirls regatta, where they compete with schools from the Girls Sport Victoria (GSV) group.
The Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS) is a sporting association of boys' schools in New South Wales, Australia that contest sporting events among themselves. The AAGPS was formed on 30 March 1892, and today has nine members - eight Sydney schools and one northern NSW country school. The descriptor 'Public School' references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public school.
Haileybury is a private school with campuses in Keysborough, Brighton East, Berwick, Darwin, Northern Territory and Melbourne's CBD. It also has an international campus in the Tianjin outer district of Wuqing, China. Haileybury operates under the model of parallel education, which consists of Haileybury College and Haileybury Girls College. Haileybury has been described as the largest independent school in Australia.
The Head of the River is a name given to annual Australian rowing regattas held in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia. The regattas feature competing independent schools, and the winner of the 1st division boys or girls race is crowned the "Head of the River".
Xavier College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, with its main campus located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Classes started in 1878.
Melbourne Grammar School is an Australian private Anglican day and boarding school. It comprises a co-educational preparatory school from Prep to Year 6 and a middle school and senior school for boys from Years 7 to 12. The three campuses are Grimwade House in Caulfield, Wadhurst and Senior School, both in the suburb of South Yarra.
The Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria (AGSV) is a sporting association of nine independent schools in Victoria, Australia, formed in 1920. The AGSV provides interschool sporting competitions between the nine member schools in a range of sports across Summer and Winter seasons, as well as additional premiership sports. Following the end of each season, the AGSV selects top-performing students from any of the schools to compete in a representative competition against the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS).
Wesley College is a co-educational, open-entry private school in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1866, the college is the only school in Victoria to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) from early childhood to Year 12.
Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The Geelong College is an Australian independent and co-educational, Christian day and boarding school located in Newtown, an inner-western suburb of Geelong, Victoria.
The Great Public Schools Association of Queensland Inc. (GPS) is an association of nine south-east Queensland secondary schools established in 1918. With the exception of Brisbane State High School, GPS schools are all-male, private schools. Similar associations exist in New South Wales (AAGPS) and Victoria (APS).
Adelaide High School is a coeducational state high school situated on the corner of West Terrace and Glover Avenue in the Adelaide Parklands. Following the Advanced School for Girls, it was the second government high school in South Australia and the first coeducational public high school in that state. It currently has an enrolment of approximately 1,500 students.
Established in 1905 the Public Schools Association, or the PSA, is an association of seven independent boys schools in Perth, Western Australia. The descriptor 'public school' references the historical usage of the term and the model of the British public school. The schools compete against each other in athletic competition throughout the year. There are three main events held annually; the Head of the River rowing regatta, The Interschool Athletics Carnival, and the Interschool Swimming Carnival.
Wesley College, informally known as Wesley, is an independent, day and boarding school for boys and girls, situated in South Perth, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak is an independent Roman Catholic single-sex primary and secondary day school for girls, located in Toorak, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is one of many Loreto schools around the world, established by the Loreto Sisters founded some 400 years ago by Mary Ward.
The Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC) is a group of thirteen independent Catholic boys schools in Victoria, Australia. The Association, formed in 1911, and renamed in 1948, provides the basis for interschool sporting and other competitions between member schools.
Girls' Sport Victoria (GSV) was established in 2001, and is one of the largest independent school sporting associations in Victoria, Australia, with 24 member schools from around Melbourne.
The Independent Girls' Schools Sporting Association, was established in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1922 with five founding members, all of them independent girls' schools.
The Victorian Head of the River regatta is contested between the eleven Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS).
The Victorian Head of the Schoolgirls regatta is contested between girls at schools from all across the state of Victoria Australia. Schools from the Girls Sport Victoria (GSV) and also Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS), as well as smaller school rowing groups which enter under a rowing club banner, compete in a range of events over 1000m for the Year 9 and Year 10 events or 1500m for the Open events.