Established 1960 Closed 2006 Yearbook Lumen Motto Lumen Scientiae (Latin) | Status Closed Colour(s) Gold and blue Ceased operations 2006 Founded 1960 | |
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Campus Old South Head Road, Vaucluse School types State school, Mixed-sex education, Secondary school | ||
Vaucluse high school demolition
Vaucluse High School (abbreviation:VHS), known from 1960-1981 as Vaucluse Boys' High School (abbreviation:VBHS), is a former high school in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia. It was merged in 2006 with Dover Heights Boys High School to form Rose Bay Secondary College.
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History
Vaucluse Boys' High School was officially opened on 30 June 1960 by His Excellency The Governor of New South Wales, Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Woodward at a ceremony attended by the Member for Vaucluse, Geoffrey Cox, the Director-General of Education, Dr. Harold Wyndham, and the Minister for Education, The Hon. Ernest Wetherell. The school won the Hume Barbour Trophy for debating in 1964, 1965 and 1968. The first Principal was H. Keith Harris, who led the school from its founding to his retirement in 1971. The last Principal of Vaucluse High was David Tomlin who remained at the school until its closure in 2006, and thereafter took up the position of Principal at Manly Selective Campus.
The school became co-educational in January 1982. It was declared in 2005 that Vaucluse High and the nearby Dover Heights High would be merged to form Rose Bay Secondary College. It was also decided that the Vaucluse High site would be closed and the college would be based on the Dover Heights site instead. The land on which Vaucluse High School stands was sold for an undisclosed, large, amount of money. A Development Application was filed with Woollahra Council to convert the site into a retirement/nursing home.
In 2010, a fire was deliberately lit in the Hall which was subsequently torn down, along with the Canteen, change rooms and the Woodworking classrooms.