Rose Bay Secondary College
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Rose Bay Secondary College (frequently abbreviated as RBSC) is a co-educational public high school
located in the Sydney suburb of Dover Heights
, in New South Wales
, Australia. The NSW Department of Education & Training established the college as a result of the merger of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High School
.
The catchment includes the South Head Peninsula
and Northern area of the Eastern Suburbs
of Sydney and is roughly bounded by Sydney Harbour to the North, Randwick
to the South, Surry Hills
to the West and the Pacific Ocean
to the East. The college also takes in a number of out of area enrolments, including students from around Sydney who are academically selected and enrolled as members of the college's selective classes
. The main feeder schools are Bellevue Hill Public School, Bondi Beach PS, Bondi PS, Bronte PS, Clovelly PS, Double Bay PS, Glenmore Road PS, Paddington PS, Rose Bay PS, Vaucluse PS
, Waverley PS and Woollahra PS
with a number of students coming from Catholic Systemic and Independent primary schools, as well as out of area schools.
. Initially, the college operated using both campuses while construction commenced on extending and expanding the buildings and facilities at the former site of Dover Heights High School. The name, "Rose Bay Secondary College" was chosen after community consultation
developed by the New South Wales Board of Studies. Students in Years 7 to 10 undertake studies in Mathematics
, English
, Science
, History
, Geography
, Music
, Film Studies, Visual Arts
, Dance, Technological & Applied Studies (Metalwork, Woodwork and Home Economics
), Languages (French
, Hebrew, Italian
and Russian
), and Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
. Starting in 2011, the school offers courses in Japanese
and Spanish
.
Years 11 and 12 students undertake various units in courses developed by the Board of Studies, including studies in English, mathematics, science, technology, creative arts, personal development, health and physical education, history, geography, languages and Vocational Education and Training. Students may opt for units developed by the Open High School
as correspondence courses. Students in Years 11 and 12 also have the opportunity to undertake a variety of courses endorsed by the Board of Studies and developed by the college itself or by Australian universities
, TAFE institutes and other schools.
The majority of students continue their education at university or TAFE, with a smaller number going into apprenticeships or into the workforce. Of the students who go to university, most go to the nearby University of New South Wales
.
high school together with a number of other Sydney high schools, and takes on two classes of approximately 50 to 60 students in each year enrolled on the basis of their intellectual giftedness
.
Students are placed into the selective classes at enrolment in Year 7 on the basis of high achievement across the curriculum and on the Selective Schools Placement Test taken by students in their final year of primary school. After the beginning of Year 7, students are placed into the selective classes by the college on a student by student basis. The college also provides for gifted students not enrolled in the Selective classes through a variety of grouping strategies, and differentiation of the curriculum for those specific groups.
students in Years 5 and 6. These students come to the college for one day a week across a term and undertake advanced studies in a range of different areas. This program provides the opportunity for these gifted students to extend well beyond the normal learning that they would usually undertake.
In 2010, 65 students from 11 local primary schools were involved in the program. These students were nominated by the primary schools for the program on the basis of their giftedness
. These students undertake advanced studies in a number of areas that diverge from the usual syllabi for year 5 and 6 students. The units developed for the maGneT program include activities based in Laws & Ethics, Future Studies, Norse Civilisation
, Historical Fiction
and Cryptography
among others.
, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
and a variety of performing arts programs in Music, Dance and Film. A number of students at the school have had successes in co-curricular areas, including Marta Santos-Mariz' sculpture, entitled Decline being included in Art Express
2011.
, Let’s Hear it for the Boy and Holding Out for a Hero
.
Entrants are sought from public and private secondary schools across the Sydney Metropolitan area in two divisions, a Junior Division (for years 7-10) and a Senior Division (for years 11-12). Noteworthy entrants are shown at the Chauvel Cinema in nearby Paddington
. Entries are judged by a panel of experts and prizes are awarded to winners and second and third runners-up in each division as well as to the most popular film on the night as judged by the audience.
In 2010, Burwood Girls High School
won the Junior Division.
s at Bondi Beach, North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club. The goal of the week-long program is to provide Year 7 students with an opportunity to develop their skills and awarenesses regarding swimming at the beach. The students are separated into different groups according to their swimming ability and familiarity with beach swimming. At the culmination of the week, a Surf Carnival is organised with all students participating.
The college occupies one building with three connected blocks. These blocks include the historical buildings that comprised Dover Heights Girls High School and the extensions and renovations to that site completed in 2006. The blocks are arranged down the slope from Hardy Street in the East to the fields in the West. As such, the higher floors of the school are on the Eastern side, progressing down to the lower floors on the Western side.
Block A, in levels 5 to 7, situated by Hardy Street, houses the administrative and executive offices, Technical and Applied Studies staffrooms, classrooms for History, Geography and Mathematics, Metalwork, Woodwork, Home Economics and Visual Arts rooms, a Dance Studio and purpose built special education classrooms. For the most part, Block A is the site of Dover Heights Girls High School in its original state.
Block B, situated on the North of the site, houses the History, Geography, Languages and Social Sciences staffroom, the school canteen, school hall and gymnasium.
Block C, in levels 1 to 6, is situated on the South of the site, houses the Mathematics and English staffroom, PDHPE, Science, Computing and Creative and Performing Arts staffroom, the staff common room, classrooms and labs for Computing, Science, English and Music, the School Library and two levels of staff carparks.
The school also has basketball courts and two fields on the West of the site.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in the Sydney suburb of Dover Heights
Dover Heights, New South Wales
Dover Heights is a coastal, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Dover Heights is located 9 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council...
, in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia. The NSW Department of Education & Training established the college as a result of the merger of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High School
Vaucluse High School
Vaucluse High School , known from 1960-1981 as Vaucluse Boys' High School , is a former high school in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia...
.
The catchment includes the South Head Peninsula
Sydney Heads
Sydney Heads , is the entrance to Port Jackson in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.North Head and Quarantine Head are to the north, South Head and Dunbar Head are to the south. Middle Head, Georges Head and Chowder Head are to the west and within the bay...
and Northern area of the Eastern Suburbs
Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)
The Eastern Suburbs is a general term used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the east and south-east of the Sydney central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Eastern Suburbs can refer to the suburbs within the local government areas of Woollahra, Waverley, Dover...
of Sydney and is roughly bounded by Sydney Harbour to the North, Randwick
Randwick, New South Wales
Randwick is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Randwick is located 6 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Randwick...
to the South, Surry Hills
Surry Hills, New South Wales
Surry Hills is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Surry Hills is located immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney...
to the West and the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
to the East. The college also takes in a number of out of area enrolments, including students from around Sydney who are academically selected and enrolled as members of the college's selective classes
Selective school (New South Wales)
Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit...
. The main feeder schools are Bellevue Hill Public School, Bondi Beach PS, Bondi PS, Bronte PS, Clovelly PS, Double Bay PS, Glenmore Road PS, Paddington PS, Rose Bay PS, Vaucluse PS
Vaucluse Public School
Vaucluse Public School, is a school located in Vaucluse Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is a co-educational public school operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training with students from years K to 6. The school was established in 1858.- Notable alumni :* Malcolm...
, Waverley PS and Woollahra PS
Woollahra Public School
Woollahra Public School, previously known as Woollahra Demonstration School for many years, is a main school located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Woollahra, near Edgecliff.-Description:...
with a number of students coming from Catholic Systemic and Independent primary schools, as well as out of area schools.
History
The college was established in 2003, following the merger of Dover Heights High School and Vaucluse High SchoolVaucluse High School
Vaucluse High School , known from 1960-1981 as Vaucluse Boys' High School , is a former high school in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia...
. Initially, the college operated using both campuses while construction commenced on extending and expanding the buildings and facilities at the former site of Dover Heights High School. The name, "Rose Bay Secondary College" was chosen after community consultation
Curriculum
The college follows the mandated statewide curriculumCurriculum
See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...
developed by the New South Wales Board of Studies. Students in Years 7 to 10 undertake studies in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
, Science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, Film Studies, Visual Arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
, Dance, Technological & Applied Studies (Metalwork, Woodwork and Home Economics
Home Economics
Home economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community...
), Languages (French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Hebrew, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
), and Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
. Starting in 2011, the school offers courses in Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
.
Years 11 and 12 students undertake various units in courses developed by the Board of Studies, including studies in English, mathematics, science, technology, creative arts, personal development, health and physical education, history, geography, languages and Vocational Education and Training. Students may opt for units developed by the Open High School
Open High School
Open High School is an American alternative public high school in urban Oregon Hill in Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1972 with the intention of helping students become independent, self-determined thinkers and learners...
as correspondence courses. Students in Years 11 and 12 also have the opportunity to undertake a variety of courses endorsed by the Board of Studies and developed by the college itself or by Australian universities
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
, TAFE institutes and other schools.
The majority of students continue their education at university or TAFE, with a smaller number going into apprenticeships or into the workforce. Of the students who go to university, most go to the nearby University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
.
Support Classes
The school provides support for students who have mild and moderate intellectual disabilities to undertake studies either in specially grouped classes or alongside their peers with support in mainstream classes. Students in these classes have the option to continue to Year 11 and Year 12, where they undertake a tailored program to allow for them to transition to post-school employment, further vocational education or employment.Selective Classes & Gifted Education
In 2005 the college was established as a partially selectiveSelective school (New South Wales)
Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit...
high school together with a number of other Sydney high schools, and takes on two classes of approximately 50 to 60 students in each year enrolled on the basis of their intellectual giftedness
Gifted education
Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented...
.
Students are placed into the selective classes at enrolment in Year 7 on the basis of high achievement across the curriculum and on the Selective Schools Placement Test taken by students in their final year of primary school. After the beginning of Year 7, students are placed into the selective classes by the college on a student by student basis. The college also provides for gifted students not enrolled in the Selective classes through a variety of grouping strategies, and differentiation of the curriculum for those specific groups.
maGneT Program
Coordinated in conjunction with the principals of nearby primary schools, the school runs a program for highly and divergently giftedGifted education
Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented...
students in Years 5 and 6. These students come to the college for one day a week across a term and undertake advanced studies in a range of different areas. This program provides the opportunity for these gifted students to extend well beyond the normal learning that they would usually undertake.
In 2010, 65 students from 11 local primary schools were involved in the program. These students were nominated by the primary schools for the program on the basis of their giftedness
Gifted education
Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented...
. These students undertake advanced studies in a number of areas that diverge from the usual syllabi for year 5 and 6 students. The units developed for the maGneT program include activities based in Laws & Ethics, Future Studies, Norse Civilisation
Norsemen
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...
, Historical Fiction
Historical fiction
Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...
and Cryptography
Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
among others.
Co-curricular activities
Students are able to join a number of co-curricular activities including debating & public speakingPublic speaking
Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners...
, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....
and a variety of performing arts programs in Music, Dance and Film. A number of students at the school have had successes in co-curricular areas, including Marta Santos-Mariz' sculpture, entitled Decline being included in Art Express
Art Express
ARTEXPRESS is an art exhibition which is a showcase of Higher School Certificate Visual Arts Examination artworks from across New South Wales, Australia. Whilst usually perceived as an exhibition of 'the best' artworks, this is not necessarily true as the chosen artworks are merely representative...
2011.
Footloose
In 2010, students and staff at the college produced the stage performance entitled "Footloose the Musical". Based on the 1984 movie, Footloose, it involved the performance of a range of songs from the period, including FootlooseFootloose (song)
"Footloose" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two single by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name. The song spent three weeks at number one, March 31—April 14, 1984 on the U.S. Billboard...
, Let’s Hear it for the Boy and Holding Out for a Hero
Holding Out for a Hero
"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler. It was released in 1984 on the soundtrack to the film Footloose. It later appeared on Tyler's Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire album. It hit #96 for the first time in UK in 1984,...
.
V-Fest
The college coordinates V-Fest, a festival for films created by secondary students. The festival has been run since 1999 (at which point it was coordinated by Vaucluse High School).Entrants are sought from public and private secondary schools across the Sydney Metropolitan area in two divisions, a Junior Division (for years 7-10) and a Senior Division (for years 11-12). Noteworthy entrants are shown at the Chauvel Cinema in nearby Paddington
Paddington, New South Wales
Paddington is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Paddington is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of the City of Sydney and the Municipality of Woollahra...
. Entries are judged by a panel of experts and prizes are awarded to winners and second and third runners-up in each division as well as to the most popular film on the night as judged by the audience.
In 2010, Burwood Girls High School
Burwood Girls High School
Burwood Girls' High School is a public, comprehensive, secondary, day school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
won the Junior Division.
Music
The college has a number of music groups, including a senior concert band, a junior concert band, senior stage band, a junior stage band, a choir, a vocal ensemble, a string ensemble, a percussion ensemble, and a guitar ensemble. The music programs have received a number of accolades, including Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for various groups at the School Band FestivalLife Saving and Surf Awareness
As many of its students are from the beachside Eastern suburbs of Sydney, the college coordinates a Surf Awareness program with one of the Surf Life Saving ClubSurf Life Saving Club
Surf Life Saving Clubs are volunteer institutions at Australia's beaches. The clubs conduct surf lifesaving services on weekends and public holidays and host many beach sport activities, such as Nippers, surf carnivals and other competitions...
s at Bondi Beach, North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club. The goal of the week-long program is to provide Year 7 students with an opportunity to develop their skills and awarenesses regarding swimming at the beach. The students are separated into different groups according to their swimming ability and familiarity with beach swimming. At the culmination of the week, a Surf Carnival is organised with all students participating.
Site & Facilities
The college is situated on a sloping block of land extending back from Hardy Street in Dover Heights. The site is close by to Bondi Beach, and the college makes use of the beach where it is able. The school has uninterrupted views West to Sydney Harbour and the Sydney CBD.The college occupies one building with three connected blocks. These blocks include the historical buildings that comprised Dover Heights Girls High School and the extensions and renovations to that site completed in 2006. The blocks are arranged down the slope from Hardy Street in the East to the fields in the West. As such, the higher floors of the school are on the Eastern side, progressing down to the lower floors on the Western side.
Block A, in levels 5 to 7, situated by Hardy Street, houses the administrative and executive offices, Technical and Applied Studies staffrooms, classrooms for History, Geography and Mathematics, Metalwork, Woodwork, Home Economics and Visual Arts rooms, a Dance Studio and purpose built special education classrooms. For the most part, Block A is the site of Dover Heights Girls High School in its original state.
Block B, situated on the North of the site, houses the History, Geography, Languages and Social Sciences staffroom, the school canteen, school hall and gymnasium.
Block C, in levels 1 to 6, is situated on the South of the site, houses the Mathematics and English staffroom, PDHPE, Science, Computing and Creative and Performing Arts staffroom, the staff common room, classrooms and labs for Computing, Science, English and Music, the School Library and two levels of staff carparks.
The school also has basketball courts and two fields on the West of the site.
External links
- Rose Bay Secondary College website
- www.rbscmep.net - Rose Bay Secondary College Music Ensemble Program
- NSW Department of Education and Training: Rose Bay Secondary College