University High School, Melbourne
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The University High School (UHS or Uni High) is a public, co-educational high school
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 Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 suburb of Parkville
Parkville, Victoria
Parkville is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,980....

.

History

Not to be confused with the private boarding school of the same name established by Thomas Palmer (1858–1927) in 1894 in the disused Teacher Training College, situated on the corner of Swanston and Grattan Streets, Carlton
Carlton, Victoria
Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...

, in 1910, the "University Practising School" was opened in a former primary school on the corner of Lygon and Lyton Streets, Carlton. In 1913, it changed its name to "The University High School" after the closure of the older private school
Private school
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Since 1930, the University High School has occupied a site in Story Street, Parkville, adjacent to the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Royal Melbourne Hospital
The Royal Melbourne Hospital , located in Parkville, Victoria an inner suburb of Melbourne is one of Australia’s leading public hospitals. It is a major teaching hospital for tertiary health care with a reputation in clinical research...

 and in close proximity to the Royal Children's Hospital
Royal Children's Hospital
The Royal Children's Hospital is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia.As the major paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital and offers a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and adolescents...

, newly built Royal Women's Hospital, University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

 and the Central Business District
Melbourne city centre
Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...

.

During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

 set up a camp on the school oval. Additionally, 240 extra students from MacRobertson Girls High School transported to UHS for schooling as their buildings were also seized by the military.

An A$8 million upgrade of the school facilities was completed in 1997. The school experienced major disruption and change during the previous years through dislocation of classes and staff. The completion of the works has given the school modern facilities with appropriate specialist rooms.

Principals

  • Mr. A. Wrigley (1910–1914)
  • Mr. M.S. Sharman (1915–1941)
  • Mr. L.R. Brookes (1941–1951)
  • Mr. E. Harrison (1950–1951)
  • Mr. R.E. Chapman (1952–1960)
  • Mr. G.S. Ellis (1961–1968)
  • Mr. G.R. McRae Williamson (1969)
  • Mr. G. Hayter (1970–1971)
  • Mr. J.E. Clark (1972–1985)
  • Mr. P.D.A. Bryce (1985–1996)
  • Ms. Bronwyn Valente (1997–2005)
  • Mr. Robert Newton (2006–present)

Enrolment

The University High School caters for 1,187 students, most of whom reside in the local area. A proportion of the school's enrolment comes from further afield, either to participate in special programs like music, the Acceleration Program or as a result of sibling claims. The population is socio-economically, culturally and ethnically diverse.

In 2001, The Sun-Herald
The Sun-Herald
The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper published on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000...

ranked University High tenth in Australia's top ten schools for the education of girls, based on the number of its female alumni mentioned in the Who's Who in Australia
Who's Who in Australia
The Who's Who in Australia is an Australian biographical reference first published by Fred Johns in 1906 as Johns's Notable Australians. It has been used by academics as a resource that identifies Australia's leading individuals, and has been analysed when studying the social backgrounds –...

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School structure

The school is structured within a 7 to 10 vertical sub-school framework and a VCE
Victorian Certificate of Education
The Victorian Certificate of Education or VCE is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete high school level studies in the state of Victoria, Australia. Study for the VCE is usually completed over two years, but it can be spread over a longer period in some cases...

 sub-school, consisting of Years 11 and 12. This vertical structure does not extend to the delivery of curriculum which is based on a horizontal year level program.

Years 7 to 10 have three sub-schools, Brookes (Red), Sharman (Blue) and Chapman (Green), named after previous Principals of the school. Students in Year 7 enter a sub-school and stay with this cohort for their management and pastoral care until year 10. Each of these units has a Head of sub-school and three sub-school Co-ordinators, responsible for approximately 250 students. The Sharman sub-school was named after Mr Matthew Stanton Sharman, the Brookes sub-school is named after Mr L. R. Brookes, and the Chapman sub-school is named after Mr R.E. Chapman. The Bryce sub-school is named after Mr P.D.A. Bryce, and consists of over 450 VCE students in years 11 & 12. The Head of the Bryce VCE sub-school works with a team of seven sub-school Co-ordinators and with the Work Education Co-ordinator. The sub-school's colour is yellow.

Curriculum

Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) is the state standard curriculum framework for students in Year 7 to Year 10 at the school. The School provides sequential curriculum across the eight Key Learning Areas: English, Mathematics, Art, Science, Foreign Languages, Technology Studies, Sociological and Environment studies and Health and Physical Education. After 10th year (and optionally as an elective in 10th year), the school offers classes to gain Victorian Certificate of Education
Victorian Certificate of Education
The Victorian Certificate of Education or VCE is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete high school level studies in the state of Victoria, Australia. Study for the VCE is usually completed over two years, but it can be spread over a longer period in some cases...

 credentials until they finish Year 12. The school offers a variety of VCE subjects including Specialist Maths, German, French and Latin and a number of Vocational Education and Training (VET) subjects .

Galileo Program

The University High School has in place a compulsory program for all year nine students in which one term of regular curriculum is replaced with a rich inquiry and community‐based curriculum. Students are given opportunities to personally and socially develop and are known and encouraged by a team of teachers who provide personalised feedback and support. The expectations within the program are high and students are encouraged to extend themselves as thinkers becoming lifelong learners, as well as confident and responsible global citizens.

Acceleration Programme

The University High School offers a Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development-recognised Select Entry Acceleration Program for willing, academically able students which allows them to potentially complete their high schooling in 5 years (in earlier times students participating in the school's acceleration program could potentially complete their high schooling in 4 years). The curriculum of years 7-10 is completed in 3 years. In reality, different subjects are accelerated different amounts. In particular, almost all students complete the pre-VCE Mathematics curriculum in the first two years (normally completed in four). Acceleration Programme students are also the only students to take three years of Latin. For simplicity, they are considered to have completed years 7, 9, and 10. After their third year at UHS, they graduate into VCE and complete years 11 and 12 as part of the main stream. This intense Programme gives participating students a head start for VCE.

To participate in the Programme, a student must undertake a test in their final year of primary schooling (usually grade 6). The sub-schools chosen to house the Acceleration Programme students is rotated each year between Chapman, Sharman, and Brookes; once VCE is reached all students are housed in Bryce. Acceleration Programme students are better known as 'Taskies', even by the teachers, as the program was formerly called the 'Gifted Children Task Force Acceleration Programme'.

From 2006, the school began to take on two Acceleration Programme classes each year.

Musicals

The school annually produces school musicals. Each musical usually begins in August of each year. The school chooses from a variety of musicals, as shown below.
  • 2011: The Boy Friend
    The Boy Friend
    The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...

  • 2010: Anything Goes
    Anything Goes
    Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...

  • 2009: Guys and Dolls
  • 2008: Oliver!
    Oliver!
    Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

  • 2007: Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

  • 2006: Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

  • 2005: Hello, Dolly!
    Hello, Dolly! (musical)
    Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....

  • 2004: Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

  • 2003: Hot Mikado
    Hot Mikado
    Hot Mikado is a musical comedy, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, adapted by David H. Bell and Rob Bowman...

  • 2002: The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...

  • 2001: Guys and Dolls
  • 2000: Oklahoma!
    Oklahoma!
    Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...

  • 1999: The Boy Friend
    The Boy Friend
    The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...

  • 1998: Pirates of Penzance

Buildings

The University High School is divided into 10 sectors: West, North, South, East, Music, Hall, Gymnasium, Quadrangle, Oval, and GTAC.

The North building was constructed in 1930 during the Great Depression
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

. Because of this, no additional facilities were constructed and therefore assemblies were held in other venues. The north building has four levels, and contains the rooms numbered 108 through 401. The North building holds the main entrance to the school as well as most administrative facilities. Inside the main foyer one can see a collection of photographs commemorating pupils and teachers from the school who were killed in the First World War.

The South Building is the next largest building containing the Library and VCE centre. The East Building is primarily used for Art and Technology classes and is the third largest of the four buildings. The West Wing is the smallest of the buildings, but is conjoined with the Music Wing.

The Music Wing was developed, planned, constructed and funded by ex-students and ex-teachers, including Mrs. Stella Langford and Mr. J. Economo.

Early in 2004, a new Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC) was opened for use by staff and students from across the state. This allows students from throughout Victoria to have direct exposure to cutting edge research in the genetics field.

An extension of the canteen was completed in the last quarter of 2006 which connected it with the M.S. Sharman Hall.

A fourth level extension to the South Wing was completed early in 2007 and was named the VCE Centre. The extension was made for VCE students. It has classrooms specifically for VCE students and the Bryce Sub-school Offices are located in the centre.

In late 2009 the school unveiled a new bridge linking the North and South Buildings from the west-end of the 700s corridor (South Building) to the centre of the 300s corridor (North Building).

Notable alumni









Academic
  • Professor Elizabeth Blackburn
    Elizabeth Blackburn
    Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...

     AC, 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  • Professor Brian Burdekin AO, Political Science
  • Professor Suzanne Cory
    Suzanne Cory
    Suzanne Cory, AC, FAA, FRS is an Australian biologist.Cory is the current President of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the first-elected female President of the Academy and took office on 7 May 2010 for a five year term...

     AC, Medical Biology
  • Professor Harold Ford AM, Law
  • Professor E S Hills CBE, Soil Science
  • Professor Louis Landau AO, Paediatrics
  • Professor Len Stevens AM, Engineering
  • Professor Frank Oberklaid OAM, Paediatrics
  • Professor A.T.S. Sissons, Pharmaceutical Science


Media, entertainment and the arts
  • Sam Lipski
    Sam Lipski
    Sam Lipski AM is a distinguished Australian journalist. He has been editor-in-chief of the Australian Jewish News and has worked as a reporter and columnist for The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was also Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, as well...

     AM, journalist
  • Peter Faiman
    Peter Faiman
    Peter Leonard Faiman is a well known Australian television producer with experience in film, live television and events. He has had a long standing working relationship with the Nine Network.-Biography:...

     AM, producer & director
  • Ben Lewinhttp://www.suchmuchfilms.com/ben.htm, writer, director, barrister, journalist, photographer
  • Olivia Newton-John
    Olivia Newton-John
    Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...

     AO, OBE, actor & singer
  • Ruby Rose MTV VJ and television presenter
  • Judah Waten
    Judah Waten
    Judah Leon Waten AM was an Australian novelist who was at one time seen as the voice of Australian migrant writing....

     AM, author
  • David Williamson
    David Williamson
    David Keith Williamson AO is one of Australia's best-known playwrights. He has also written screenplays and teleplays.-Biography:...

     AO, playwright
  • Noah Taylor
    Noah Taylor
    Noah George Taylor is an English-born Australian actor.-Early life:Taylor, elder of two boys, was born in London, England, the son of Maggie, a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. Taylor's Australian parents returned to Australia when he was five, and he grew...

    , actor
  • Sophie Tilson, actress


Military
  • Clifford William King Sadlier
    Clifford William King Sadlier
    Clifford William King Sadlier VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

     VC
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

    , winner of the Victoria Cross
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

  • Rupert Balfe, killed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, doctor, footballer, athlete



Politics and the law
  • Jean Baker OAM, former mayor of Heidelberg, Victoria
    Heidelberg, Victoria
    Heidelberg is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Banyule....

  • Neil Brown
    Neil Brown
    Neil Brown may refer to:* Neil Brown , Australian lawyer and former Member of the Federal Parliament of Australia and Minister in the Federal Government...

     Q.C., former Federal Minister
  • Ivan Deveson, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  • Justice Julie Dodds-Streeton, Victorian Supreme Court Judge
  • Justice Betty King
    Betty King
    Betty June King QC is an Australian jurist. She is currently a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria having previously served as a judge in the County Court of Victoria. She served as a member of the National Crime Authority in the 1990s.-Education:...

    , Victorian Supreme Court Judge
  • Joan Kirner
    Joan Kirner
    Joan Elizabeth Kirner AM , Australian politician, was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, the first woman to hold the position, which she held for two years prior to a landslide election defeat.-Biography:...

     AM, first female Premier of Victoria
  • John So
    John So
    John Chun Sai So JP is a Chinese-Australian businessman who served as the 102nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia. He was the first Lord Mayor in the city's history to be directly elected by the people; previously, Lord Mayors were elected by the Councillors.First elected...

    , former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  • David White
    David White
    David White or Dave White may refer to:*Dave White , Derringer Award–winning mystery writer*Dave White , U.S. journalist*Dave White , U.S. Navy submarine skipper*David A.R...

    , former Victorian Minister of State
  • Ralph Willis
    Ralph Willis
    Ralph Willis AO , Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government.-Career:Willis was born in Melbourne to Stan and Doris Willis and educated at Footscray Central School, University High School and Melbourne University, gaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree...

    , former Australian Federal Treasurer


Sport
  • Judy Amoore
    Judy Amoore
    Judith "Judy" Florence Amoore is a former Australian runner. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria.At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she won a bronze medal in the first 400 metres race for females, only beaten by countrywoman Betty Cuthbert and Brit Ann Packer...

    , Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     medallist
  • John Coleman
    John Coleman
    John Douglas Coleman was an Australian rules footballer and coach for Essendon in the Victorian Football League ....

    , AFL Legend
  • Corey Jones
    Corey Jones
    Corey Jones is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Kangaroos in the Australian Football League. Jones grew up in the small Victorian town of Wycheproof, near Bendigo.-Career:...

    , North Melbourne AFL Footballer
  • Pam Kilborn
    Pam Kilborn
    Pamela Kilborn-Ryan, MBE is a former Australian athlete who set world records as a hurdler. She was born in Melbourne...

    , Olympic medallist
  • Michael Klim
    Michael Klim
    Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...

    , Olympic medallist
  • Shannon Watt
    Shannon Watt
    Shannon Watt is a former Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club.Drafted at number 14 in the 1997 National AFL Draft from the North Ballarat Rebels, Watt was a key defender...

    , former North Melbourne AFL Footballer
  • Dr Allen Aylett
    Allen Aylett
    Dr. Allen Aylett is a former Australian rules football player and administrator. He was the chairman/president of the North Melbourne Football Club during the 1970s and then again from 2001–2005...

    , former chairman of VFL/AFL & North Melbourne F.C., All Australian, North Melbourne Best & Fairest, Cricketer
  • Adrian Gallagher
    Adrian Gallagher
    Adrian Lindsay Gallagher is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton.Gallagher made...

    , Carlton F.C. Team of the Century, Carlton Best & Fairest, Cricketer
  • Bob Keddie
    Bob Keddie
    Bob Keddie is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League and West Adelaide, South Adelaide and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....

    , Hawthorn F.C Best & Fairest, All Australian
  • Keith Wiegard
    Keith Wiegard
    Keith Wiegard is a former Australian rules footballer and Olympian. He played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League and represented Australia in Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics....

    , Fitzroy FC Player, Fitzroy FC CEO / President, 1960 Rome Olympian, Water Polo



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