Nossal High School
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Berwick, VIC Australia |
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| Coordinates | 38°2′21″S 145°20′14″E / 38.03917°S 145.33722°ECoordinates: 38°2′21″S 145°20′14″E / 38.03917°S 145.33722°E |
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| Type | Academically-selective government co-educational secondary school |
| Motto | Embrace the Challenge |
| Established | 2010 |
| Founder | Government of Victoria |
| Educational authority | Department of Education and Training |
| Principal | Mr Roger Page |
| Years | 9-12 |
| Enrolment | 832 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Houses | Griffin, Phoenix, Pegasus, Garuda |
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Black, Ecru & Rust |
| Newspaper | Nossal News (weekly newsletter) |
| Yearbook | The Butterfly Effect |
| Affiliations | Monash University, Suzanne Cory High School, Chisholm TAFE |
| Namesake | Sir Gustav Nossal |
| Website | www.nossalhs.vic.edu.au |
Black, Ecru & Rust
Nossal High School, also referred to as Nossal or NHS is a selective-entry government school for students in years 9-12. Located in the Melbourne suburb of Berwick, Nossal High School is the first co-educational, academically-selective school in Victoria. Despite its short history, Nossal has established itself as a school with strong academic performance, with its Class of 2015 cohort ranking 3rd out of government schools in Victoria, and 15th overall in the state according to VCE results. It is named after prominent Australian immunologist and 2000 Australian of the Year, Sir Gustav Nossal.
The school was opened in 2010, a year before Suzanne Cory High School and John Monash Science School, as per the Brumby State Government's education policies. With its students initially undertaking study in the Berwick campus of Monash University, pending completion of school building construction, Nossal is now located within the same campus, the site of the former Casey Airfields. Prospective students must sit a 6-hour-long uniform entrance examination, testing their knowledge and reasoning in English and mathematics, with the 2015 exam attracting about 3,000 applicants; the first Year 12 cohort graduated from the school in 2013.
Nossal prides itself on its progressive adult learning environment, its vision and curriculum directed by American educator Howard Gardener's concept of the Five Minds of the Future. The school is non-conventional in this regard, in the way in which trust and considerable responsibility is placed upon the students to be in charge of of their learning; for example, the school has no bells, as students are excepted to know when and where to be, and students from years 10-12 are afforded independent study periods in order to allow them to study in a way which suits them best. The two school buildings, both recently constructed, are very modern 21st-century pieces of architecture, the interiors characterised by bright colours and open and collaborative classrooms. Although Nossal prides itself on its strong academic reputation and results, the school heavily emphasises student leadership, extra-curricular participation and community involvement as ways of gaining greater experiences and learning breadth. Students have access to many extra-curricular programs, such as inter-school sport, debating, music, clubs/societies and various national and international competitions and creative-based events such as the Model United Nations Assembly and the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad.
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