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Byford Secondary College
Byford Secondary College is an Independent Public Schools, Independent Public Education in Western Australia#Secondary schools, secondary school in Byford, Western Australia, Byford, a suburb south-east of Perth, Western Australia. History Stage one of the construction of Byford Secondary College opened in February 2014, and cost $35.2 million. Stage two opened in July 2016, and cost $14 million. Facilities included in that stage are an education support facility, arts centre, gymnasium and extension of the technologies building. The third and final stage opened in September 2017, two years ahead of schedule. The third stage included a double storey senior school building for Year 11 and 12 students, a staffroom, student services area, 3 information technology laboratories, 75-seat lecture theatre, 15 general classrooms and 2 educational support classrooms. The final stage cost $15.9 million. Byford Secondary College opened to Year 8 students in 2014. An additional year group w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byford, Western Australia
Byford is a suburb on the south-eastern edge of Perth, Western Australia, and has its origins in a township that was gazetted under the name "Beenup" in 1906. "Beenup", a corruption of the Aboriginal name associated with nearby Beenyup Brook, was the spelling that had been applied to a railway siding there. The uncorrupted form, "Bienyup" received mention in surveyor Robert Austin's account of an expedition through the area in 1848. In 1920, the name of the township was changed to Byford. History Little has been documented of the Aboriginal occupation of the Byford area, but material traces of the district's original inhabitants have been found in numerous locations. The foothills were on the periphery of Thomas Peel's 1834 land grant, and during the 1840s European settlers took up small land holdings in the area. Names of early settlers included Lazenby, Mead, and Liddelow. Mead was an enterprising farmer with numerous landholdings in the foothills between the Serpentine Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
