Maffra Secondary College is a Year 7 to Year 12 government secondary college situated in the

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Maffra Maffra is a town in Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Wellington local government area and it is the second most populous city of the Shire. It relies mainly on dairy farming and other agriculture, and is the sit ...

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. It has around 700 students enrolled from Year 7 to 12, and takes in students from Maffra and surrounding towns, including Boisdale,

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. The school logo is a painting of the local banksia species '' Banksia canei'' with the words "Maffra Secondary College" encircled around it. The ''Banksia canei'' was named after a long-time school councillor Bill Cane, who was a local botanist.

Facilities

In 2002, a new science and technology wing was opened at the college, providing new, modern science labs, teaching classrooms, woodwork rooms, IT facilities and staff rooms for the growing school. The health, textiles and food technology wing was also upgraded, with new kitchens and a new canteen built. There have been new plans drawn up for more refurbishments and buildings for the school.

Academic programs

Maffra Secondary College has a large number of programs for students, including the new eXel program for Year 9 students. It has a strong VCE program, offering a large variety of Year 11 and 12 subjects. It also offers the VCAL program as an alternative program to the VCE. The school offers VCE subjects from a range of areas such as the sciences, arts and humanities, technology and physical and outdoor education. Indonesian and Mandarin are offered as languages at MSC, with other major languages such as German and Italian studied via Distance Education.

VCE

Maffra SC offers a wide variety of subjects for students the study in VCE. These include: *

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Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

Art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

- Art, Studio Art, Theatre Studies,

Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

(Group performance), Visual Communication and Design, Media *

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- English, History (Revolutions), Literature, Legal Studies *

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- General Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Mathematical Methods CAS, Specialist Mathematics *

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- Indonesian, Mandarin. German, Italian, Latin and Spanish can be taken by VSL. *

Physical Education Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys Ed. or P.E., is a subject taught in schools around the world. It is usually taught during primary and secondary education, and encourages psychomotor learning by using a play and movement explorati ...

- Physical Education, Outdoor and Environmental Studies, Health and Human Development *

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

- Information Technology Development.

Sporting

Maffra Secondary College has numerous sporting teams including football, netball, basketball, clay target shooting and soccer. These teams compete against other schools in the district in inter-school competitions. Each year in summer the inter-house swimming competition is held at the 50m Maffra Pool, while in winter, the athletics day and cross country are held. Hiking and camping are also a part of the school program due to its close proximity to national parks and bushland.

Uniform

Maffra Secondary College uniform consists of a white polo shirt with the school logo on the top left corner on the chest. The winter uniform for girls is a tartan type skirt which is mostly navy, with the white polo shirt and a navy windcheater with the school logo on it. For boys, grey trousers with the school shirt and jumper is worn. In summer, girls can wear a school dress which is blue and white checked. Boys can wear grey shorts with the white shirt. Year 12 students are able to wear a special VCE rugby top over their school uniform in the second half of the school year.

Dux of the College

Dux of the College is awarded to the Year 12 student with the highest ENTER/ATAR score for that year in the VCE. Past Dux recipients: *2019 - Mathew Angliss *2018 - Adele O’Doherty *2017 - Jack Hargreaves *2016 - Brody Hadden *2015 - Letitia Abdoo *2014 - Marni Cox-Livingstone *2013 - Erin Liddel *2012 - Patrick Elliott *2011 - Chelsea Hair *2010 - Ben Zmijewski *2009 - Madeleine Goodman *2008 - Wendy Allan *2007 - Chris Gargan-Shingles *2006 - Glen Swinburne *2005 - Jason Malcolm *2004 - Peter McNamara *2003 - Jade Goodge, Karla Cameron *2002 - Ruth McNamara

Alumni

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, the first Australian soldier to be killed in the war in Iraq, was a former student at Maffra Secondary College, completing his VCE there in 1998. *

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References

External links

Maffra Secondary College
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