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Blackwood High School

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Type
  
Secondary school

Colour(s)
  
Green, White and Red

Phone
  
+61 8 8278 0900

Principal
  
Marion Coady

Website
  
www.bhs.sa.edu.au

Address
  
4 Seymour St, Eden Hills SA 5050, Australia

Blackwood high school


Blackwood High School is a co-educational secondary school located in Eden Hills, a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia offering the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme with six nearby primary schools and Diploma Programme as the "Mitcham Hills College". It is also a special interest high school that specialise in netball. Blackwood High also offers an enrichment program for identified "gifted" or "talented" students.

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Primary schools involved in the Mitcham Hills College are:

  • Belair Primary School
  • Bellevue Heights Primary School
  • Blackwood Primary School
  • Coromandel Valley Primary School
  • Eden Hills Primary School
  • Hawthorndene Primary School

    • The school developed a resource with Sturt Police on "Teenage Parties" that has been adapted by Victorian private schools Scotch College and Toorak College. The Adelaide-based hip hop group, Hilltop Hoods, formed at Blackwood High School.

    The school is the site of the Blackwood Community Recreation Centre.

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    Performing Arts Centre

    The Performing Arts Centre, otherwise known as the PAC, the Auditorium, or the Blackwood Community Recreation Centre, was constructed in 2001 with funds raised in several school and community-based fund-raisers. It features several sound-proofed rooms, computing equipment, musical instruments, and a large theatre and stage, with a booth for controlling the lighting and sound effects. The PAC is also used by the community as a church on Sunday mornings.

    The main auditorium seats approximately 350, with the capability to have an extended stage because of retractable seating. In addition to the main performing areas, the centre boasts a recording studio, four small practise rooms, two classrooms, offices and storerooms.

    Notable alumni

  • David James Campbell, writer and film director
  • Chloë Fox, South Australia MP in the South Australian House of Assembly
  • Rebecca Morse, newsreader for Channel 10, South Australia
  • Peter Rathjen, medical researcher and Rhodes Scholar
  • Terence Tao, mathematician and 2006 recipient of the Fields Medal
  • Musicians
  • Julian Cochran (composer)
  • Beccy Cole (musician)
  • Matt Lambert (Suffa) and Dan Smith (Pressure) of the Hilltop Hoods
  • Nathan Leigh Jones (musician)
  • Sports people:
  • Adam Cooney, 2008 Brownlow Medal Winner, AFL, Western Bulldogs and Essendon
  • Peter Motley, Australian Rules Footballer - Sturt Football Club 1982-1985 & Carlton Football Club 1986-87
  • Matthew Nicks, Australian Rules Footballer - West Adelaide & Sydney Swans 1996-2005
  • Kerri Pottharst, Australian professional beach volleyball player and Olympic gold medallist
  • Bianca Reddy, Netballer for the Adelaide Thunderbirds
  • Liam Reddy, Hyundai A-League soccer player -Central Coast, Sydney, Wellington, Brisbane & Newcastle
  • Joel Reddy, National Rugby League player -South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wests & Parramatta
  • Ben Rutten, Former Australian Rules Footballer - Adelaide Football Club 2003–2014 All-Australian selection in 2005.

    • School publications

  • Each year, the school's year eleven students compile a yearbook which has, since its beginnings, been entitled "Cambium". Students contribute articles, photographs, artworks and written works which give a snapshot of the school-year.

    • References

    Blackwood High School Wikipedia
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