Bellarine Secondary College
| Bellarine Secondary College | |
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Peninsula Drive and Shell Road Drysdale and the sub campus Ocean Grove, Victoria Australia |
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| Information | |
| School type | Public, Co-educational, secondary Day school |
| Established | 1957 as Queenscliff High School |
| Principal | Allison Murphy (Senior Campus), Wayne Johannesen (Junior Campus) |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Enrollment | 1400 approx. |
| Houses | Corio (red), Swan (Green), Lonsdale (Blue), Nepean (Yellow) |
| School Captains | Edward Ford, Evelyn Decosta (Junior), Stacy Van Rekum Ayers, Madeline Gooodger, Seamus Kennedy, Aaron Ford (senior) |
| Website | http://www.bellarinesc.vic.edu.au/ |
Bellarine Secondary College is a multi-campus school on the Bellarine Peninsula, Australia. The college consists of 2 campuses, one in Ocean Grove, and the main campus in Drysdale. The larger and main campus in Drysdale holds the students in years 9, 10, 11 and 12, while the smaller Ocean Grove campus holds the students in Years 7 and 8. The Drysdale campus holds around 1000 approx. students, and the Ocean Grove campus accommodates around 400 students. It has a SEAL (Select Entry Accelerated Learning) class, which means the students are able to do years 7-10 in 3, not 4 years. This also means that students have 3 years to do VCE, not 2.
Bellarine Secondary College is an amalgamation of Queenscliff High School, which was founded in 1945 as a Higher Elementary School and then upgraded to a High School in 1957, and Ocean Grove High School. The Queenscliff campus has since been demolished, but the Ocean Grove campus is a reminder of one of these two schools. At the Drysdale campus especially, the names of the houses and building wings are taken from Queenscliff High School, just as the board of Bellarine S.C principles is the same as the board for Queenscliff H.S Headmasters.
Bellarine Secondary has a multitude of past and present national standard RoboCup teams. The College has had multiple entries into the Australian Championships across the years. In 2008 a team went through to win the soccer grand finals. In 2009 two separate teams made it to the Australian soccer grandfinals with team Trigger Happy Bunnies taking the win. In 2010, a team went to Singapore to compete in the World Cup. Later in 2010, Bellarine entered a number of teams into the Victorian State Finals, with success in all of the levels, plus the recognition of winning the first Lego League Robocup event in the world. A similar format was used for the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in Manila in 2010, with the Bellarine team at the event being knocked out in the Quarter Finals 10-8.
In 2011, the college sent three students to the University of Tasmania for the 2011 RoboCupJunior National competition, respectively, they came 1st and 2nd in the GENII Soccer league. From this great win for the school they were eligible to go to the WRO the next year.
In 2012, Bellarine sent 6 students to the World Robot Olympiad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Their teams The Wombots and Blue Tongues finished 16th and 23rd out of the 60 countries to participate.
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