La Salle College is a Roman Catholic co-educational secondary school in

Middle Swan, Western Australia Middle Swan is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and forms part of the City of Swan local government area. The suburb is bordered to the west by the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River. The suburb is most notable for its various Winery ...

, an eastern suburb of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

. It caters for approximately 1400 Year 7-12 students, including about 40 Aboriginal boarding students from regional and remote Western Australia.

History

In 1954, three

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from the eastern Australian states opened De La Salle College with 61 male students. Lsc logo

Faced with declining vocations, the Brothers returned to the eastern states at the end of 1971. A College Board of Management was appointed by the Archbishop and Brother Fitzhardinge, a Christian Brother, was appointed headmaster. The name of the school was changed to La Salle College. In 1973 the girls from St Brigid’s Convent were relocated to the College resulting in La Salle becoming one of the first co-educational schools within Catholic education in WA.

Uniform

The La Salle College uniform is compulsory for all students attending the college. During term one and four, students are expected to wear their full college summer uniform, whereas in term two and three, students are expected to wear their full college winter uniform. The full college winter and summer uniform incorporates the school colours – red, green and gold. The winter uniform consist of grey trouser pants for boys and a grey pleated skirt with grey tights for girls. Both genders are expected to wear the white button down college shirt with the red, green and gold striped tie and the dark green college blazer. The red jumper is optional for students. La salle college summer uniform

The summer uniform consists of grey shorts for boys with the white button-down college shirt (tie optional) and for the girls, a dark green, pleated dress. All students must wear black leather lace up shoes, have neat and tidy hair that is kept off the collar, one simple stud-earring, no visible tattoos and all skirt lengths must be on/just above the knee.

Facilities

La Salle College is made up of buildings that were constructed in the 1950s and the 21st century. Today the original buildings coexist with contemporary facilities. Facilities include: *St John Baptist De La Salle Chapel *Nicolas Barre Auditorium *Br Fitzhardinge Trade Skills Centre *Br Eric Pigott Performing Arts Centre *Matthew Kennedy Aquatic Centre *Jan Jolley iCentre *Fr Lawrence Murphy Senior Learning Centre *Patricia Rodrigues Centre and *Peter Elloy Staff Centre. *Michael Ciccarelli Lecture Theater *Photographic and Art facilities *Two large ovals and tennis, basketball and netball courts

References

{{reflist Catholic secondary schools in Perth, Western Australia Middle Swan, Western Australia 1954 establishments in Australia Educational institutions established in 1954

History

Uniform

Facilities

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