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Applecross Senior High School

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Established
  
1958

Campus
  
Suburban

Motto
  
Achieve

Founded
  
1958

Principal
  
Paul Leech

Phone
  
+61 8 9314 9393

Number of students
  
1,475

Type
  
Public, Co-educational, Day school

Enrolment
  
1,475 (15 February 2016)

Colour(s)
  
Black, Green, Red & White

Address
  
Links Rd, Ardross WA 6153, Australia

Similar
  
Melville Senior High Sch, Willetton Senior High Sch, Rossmoy Senior High Sch, Leeming Senior High Sch, Perth Modern

Graduation speech cam tinley applecross senior high school 5 december 2011


Applecross Senior High School is a public, co-educational High School, located in Ardross, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Founded in 1958, it has traditionally been one of the top public high schools in the state of Western Australia, and consistently ranks academically within the top 10 non-selective secondary schools in the state. Applecross has produced two Rhodes Scholars.

Applecross runs dedicated art, tennis and chess programs, and has traditionally been dominant in these areas. It also runs Academic Extension classes, for those students talented in the areas of English, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, French and Japanese.

Applecross senior high school special art fremantle mural project 1979


History

The school was opened in 1958 to service the rapidly growing south-of-the-river suburbs of the city of Perth, Western Australia. Today, around 1,500 students from Years 7 to 12 attend the school.

From about 1999 to 2002 the school underwent renovations to improve its layout for Education Elizabeth Constable launched the construction of a new library, visual arts block, science laboratory, a tiered auditorium, cafeteria and administration block. The upgrade will take four years to complete at an estimated cost of A$56 million.

School Crest

The school crest is a combination of a black swan, signifying the proximity to the Swan River, with a hand holding a scimitar, emerging from a five-pointed crown (“issuant from an eastern crown or, a dexter hand holding a scimitar, in fess all proper”), the family crest of Sir Alexander Matheson Bt of Lochalsh, founder of the suburb of Applecross.

Academics

The school has produced two Rhodes scholars: G. A. Robinson (1971) and Vinay Menon (2012).

The school has performed consistently well in the WACE school rankings and is often the best performing amongst all of the public schools in the state.

Notable alumni

  • Dean Alston - Walkley Award winning newspaper cartoonist
  • Marcus Beilby - Noted realist painter, winner of Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting, works held by: National Gallery of Victoria; Parliament House, Canberra; National Library of Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia
  • Darren Bennett - Former Australian Rules football player and American football punter in the NFL
  • Jenny Boult (1951-2005) - Author and poet, won 1981 Anne Elder Award for first book of poetry
  • Jim Gill AO - Chancellor of Curtin University, Western Australia, former: CEO of WA Water Corporation; WA Commissioner of Railways
  • Jeanette Hacket AM - Vice-Chancellor of Curtin University, Western Australia (2006-2013)
  • Adele Horin (1951-2015)- Walkley Award winning columnist and reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald, previously international correspondent for the National Times.
  • Peter Lewis AM - Former Australian Consul-General and Senior Trade Commissioner in San Francisco
  • Bill Louden - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2009-2013) and Dean of Education (2006-2008) of University of Western Australia
  • Vince Lovegrove (1947-2012) Journalist, music manager, television producer, musician
  • Tonya McCusker - Classical dancer, wife of Governor of Western Australia
  • Vinay Menon - Rhodes Scholar, John Monash Scholar
  • Steve Pennells - Journalist, 5-time Walkley Award winner including Gold Walkley in 2012, 18 WA Media Awards
  • Graeme Robertson - Rhodes Scholar, former: Director of Muresk Institute of Curtin University; Director-General of WA Department of Agriculture
  • Diane Stone - Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK and Professor in Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest.
  • Lesley Vidovich - Winthrop Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia
  • Reece Waldock - Director General of WA Department of Transport, Commissioner for Main Roads, CEO of Public Transport Authority of Western Australia. Former WA Commissioner of Railways
  • Steve Ward - Boat builder, built 1983 12-metre class America's Cup winner Australia II, and challengers Australia, Australia III, Australia IV, Challenger 12 & South Australia.
  • Bruce Williams - Commissioner of Fair Work Australia, former Commissioner of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Perth
  • Jennifer Harrison - Commissioner WA Industrial Relations Commission 2012 to 2016

    References

    Applecross Senior High School Wikipedia