Haileybury (Melbourne)
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Berwick, Brighton East & Keysborough, Victoria Australia |
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| Coordinates | 37°59′39″S 145°8′44″E / 37.99417°S 145.14556°ECoordinates: 37°59′39″S 145°8′44″E / 37.99417°S 145.14556°E |
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| Type | Independent, Co-educational, Day school |
| Motto |
Latin: Sursum Corda ("Lift up your hearts") |
| Denomination | Uniting Church |
| Established | 1892 |
| Chairman | Tom Poulton |
| Principal | Derek Scott |
| Key people | Charles Rendall (Founder) |
| Enrolment | 3615 (P-12) |
| Colour(s) | Magenta and Black |
| Website | www |
Haileybury is an independent school with campuses in Keysborough, Brighton East, Berwick and Melbourne's CBD. It also has a campus in the Tianjin outer district of Wuqing, China. Haileybury operates under the model of parallel education, which consists of Haileybury College (a school for boys) and Haileybury Girls College (a school for girls). Haileybury has been named as the largest independent school in Australia.
Haileybury maintains strong relationships with schools in China, Japan, France, Sri Lanka, England, Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Haileybury delivers the VCE program to a number of schools in China and most recently has partnered with the Dili International School. In 2014 Haileybury has a total of 3,615 students at its Australian campuses.
Haileybury was announced in The Educator as one of Australia’s Innovative Schools of 2015 for its work in China. Partnering with 8 schools across the country, 200 graduates are finishing each year in the VCE China Program. As Haileybury brings Australian Secondary Education to China, it is the largest provider in its field.
In October 2015, The Melbourne City Council unanimously approved Haileybury’s proposal for a City Campus. A ten-storey building in the CBD is set to be Melbourne’s first Early Learning Centre to Year 12 Independent school campus. Haileybury City will accommodate 774 students, with the Early Learning Centre opening in 2016 and the rest of the school following in 2017.
Haileybury City aims to represent the best of sustainability in the cosmopolitan CBD environment, enhancing and utilising Melbourne’s public transport. The location of the building will ensure each classroom overlooks the historic Flagstaff gardens.
Haileybury has experienced several controversies over the years, including complaints of Haileybury poaching top pupils from other schools with financial incentives, and anger from parents and former students over the school's involvement in a controversial television comedy - Chris Lilley's Ja'mie: Private School Girl.
Charles Rendall, a graduate of Haileybury College, Hertfordshire (1873) and Oxford University (1879), migrated to Australia, for health reasons in 1882. He quickly established a reputation as an outstanding teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek at Melbourne University, Melbourne Grammar and later at Scotch College. In 1892 with five staff and 17 students he opened his own Haileybury ‘Altera terra’ (in another land) in a 22-room mansion on the corner of New Street and South Road, Brighton, close to the Brighton Beach railway station. Magenta from his old school and black were adopted as school colours. The School was based on the traditional English public model with a strong emphasis on the classical texts of Ancient Greece and Rome for the mind and cricket for the body and character.
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