Hale School
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Duty
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| Location | |
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Wembley Downs, WA Australia |
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| Coordinates | 31°54′41″S 115°46′51″E / 31.91139°S 115.78083°ECoordinates: 31°54′41″S 115°46′51″E / 31.91139°S 115.78083°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, day & boarding |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Established | 1858 |
| Sister school | St Mary's |
| Chairman | Jon Birman |
| Headmaster | David Bean (acting) |
| Chaplain | Jean-Pierre Schroeder |
| Employees | 255 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrolment | ~1,500 (1-12) |
| Colour(s) |
Oxford blue & Cambridge blue |
| Website | www.hale.wa.edu.au |
Hale School is a selective independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School is the oldest private boys' school in Western Australia. The school was originally situated at the Cloisters on St Georges Terrace in Perth, relocating in 1914 to West Perth, and in 1961 to its current premises in Wembley Downs. The campus now consists of a junior school for Years 1 to 6, a middle school for Years 7 & 8 and a senior school for Year 9 to 12. The school also consists of sporting grounds, and boarding facilities for regional and international students.
The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and the Junior School Heads Association of Australia.
Hale's sister school is St Mary's Anglican Girls' School located in Karrinyup, a nearby suburb.
In 2008, Hale School celebrated its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary.
An intrinsic part of Australia's colonial history, Hale School was the first high school in Western Australia, and the school educated many prominent sons of the Swan River Colony. Modelled on England's prestigious public schools, it has sometimes been accused of being elitist. For example, in his biography of Sir John Forrest, Frank Crowley described the school's values throughout the 1870s as "a heady compound of social snobbery, laissez-faire capitalism, sentimental royalism, patriotic Anglicanism, benevolent imperialism and racial superiority".
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