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, founded in 1975.

Introduction

The school has around More than 1500 students, a figure which has remained roughly constant for over a decade. When it first opened, Gladstone Park Secondary School (GPSC) quickly became the largest school in terms of matriculated students within a 10 km radius, a position which it still holds today.

Uniform

The school's uniforms were brown and gold up until the early 1990s, when the school council introduced a uniform consisting of a white

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with a green logo and grey cotton shorts in summer for boys and a green chequered dress for girls. The winter uniform consists of grey cotton pants and a green cotton

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with a yellow emblem for both boys and girls. Year 12s traditionally wore a dark blue

with classmates' names in printed in white on the front and back. In 2009 the blue was changed to black. Since 2010 each year has had a unique design. In 2012, further additions were made to the school uniform and students can now be seen wearing blazers and/or neck ties along with the original uniform.

School life

The school has a special

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partnership with the local

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institutes, where most GPSC graduates enrol to do apprenticeships or diplomas.

Facilities

The school grounds contain many sports facilities including a football and soccer oval, outdoor basketball and netball courts, cricket nets and an outdoor hockey/ futsal pitch. There is an indoor sports centre with two basketball courts, squash courts and gym facilities. The school library is open to students and the public. A joint senior school office and year 12 study centre building opened in 2017.

Incident

On 1 March 2017, an intruder broke into the school in the early hours of the morning. They broke into forty Year 12 students' lockers and stole textbooks, scientific calculators and other objects. However, the school decided to not compensate the students for the theft of their valuables because the school was not "entirely at fault". This caused major uproar among students & parents, especially because students had "hours and hours of notes" that had been prepared for their VCE subjects.

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Reference List

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