Eltham High School
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Eltham, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°43′31″S 145°08′30″E / 37.7252°S 145.1418°ECoordinates: 37°43′31″S 145°08′30″E / 37.7252°S 145.1418°E |
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| Type | Public, Day school |
| Motto | Deeds Count |
| Established | 1926 |
| Principal | Vincent Sicari |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Enrolment | 1,330 (1 October 2013) |
| School color(s) | Blue, red and gold |
| Website | http://www.elthamhs.vic.edu.au |
Eltham High School is a secondary school in Victoria, Australia. It is located in Eltham, a suburb which is north-east from Melbourne. It is mainly known for the creativity of its students, in areas such as art, drama, and music. It is also acclaimed for its successful volleyball program. The school is known for being one of 'free dress' and is the only non-uniform secondary school in the Eltham area. With the exception of a sports uniform, students at the school are permitted to dress as they please in order to express their individuality.
Eltham High School's internationally revered music program, currently being overseen by Rick Plummer, which has won numerous awards, is highly developed in the brass and symphonic band areas. The band was invited to play at the Chicago Midwest Clinic in 1997 and is one of the only high school bands to ever have attended the event.
A darkroom is available for student use and is capable of developing over 160 photographs per hour. Aside from the photography program, the school excels in most arts including media, Visual Communication and Design, ceramics and general art studies.
The year levels are broken up into three different groups which are:
At the end of 2011, Eltham High School started rolling out the One to One Laptop Program initiated by the then Rudd Government for the start of the 2012 school year. This program involved the purchase of several hundred Dell Inspiron M102z laptops, either under funding from the Australian National Secondary School Computer Fund (NSSCF) to provide access for students in Years 9–12 or funded through a lease agreement for students in Years 7 and 8.
This program has continued in 2013 with the roll out of more than 230 Dell XT3 tablet laptops to Year 7 students. All the notebooks in the program run a standard operating environment (SOE) provided by DEECD with a multitude of free and paid software. As of 2015, Eltham High School's chosen device was the Microsoft Surface Pro 3. The school also has licensing for a number of additional commercial software suites including Adobe Master Collection, which is available on all classroom and library computers and will be installed on select lease laptops dependent on student course enrolment.
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