, motto_translation = With God as our leader , location = Castle Hill, Sydney, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Sydney , pushpin_image = , pushpin_mapsize = 240 , pushpin_map_alt = , pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan Sydney , pushpin_label = , pushpin_label_position = top , module = , type = Independent comprehensive

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day school Boys only Years 7-10 Co-educational Years 11-12 , denomination = Roman Catholic , religious_affiliation = De La Salle Brothers , established = , chairman = John Puleo , principal = Br Steve Hogan fsc , founder = De La Salle Brothers , affiliation = Independent Schools Association , educational_authority =

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, colours = Maroon and gold , enrolment = , enrolment_as_of = 2020 , grades = 7– 12 , grades_label = Years , num_employ = 207 , homepage = Oakhill College is a fee-paying independent Roman Catholic comprehensive

day school, located in Castle Hill, a suburb in the Hills District of the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1936, the College is run by the De La Salle Brothers in the tradition of Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and currently caters for approximately 1,800 students from Years 7 to 12. Oakhill College is a member of the Independent Schools Association.

History

The De La Salle Brothers purchased the Oakhill property in 1932. The College commenced in August 1936 with four male students, increasing to 30 in 1937 when there were 10 day and 20 boarding students. The College served the then rural area of "The Hills", and grew slowly until in 1953, its enrolment reached 100. In 1974 the decision was taken to phase out the boarding school and, in 1976 Oakhill College became a co-educational senior school. In the year 2006, the 100th year of the Brothers in Australia was celebrated with a mass at St Mary's Cathedral. The property was initially used as a training college for brothers; the school came later. The training college for brothers evolved into a training college for Catholic lay teachers, which was then merged into the

Australian Catholic University Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a public university in Australia. It has seven Australian campuses and also maintains a campus in Rome. History Australian Catholic University was opened on 1 January 1991 following the amalgamati ...

in the 1980s, which then became the Castle Hill campus of the ACU. Finally, in the 1990s, the ACU decided to consolidate their campuses in Sydney, and abandoned their Castle Hill facility, which then reverted to the De La Salle brothers. Since then, the original training college has been extensively renovated, named the De La Salle Building and forms part of the College. Oakhill College is governed by a Board of Directors.

Facilities

The Mackillop Commons is the newest addition to the College campus. The Centenary Sports Centre was built during the course of 2006, and was opened in late November 2006. It has a 25-metre pool, classrooms, cemetery, Chapel, tennis courts, Drama Theatre, green room, agriculture centre, farm, hall, kitchen, canteen, Library, Uniform Shop and a gym. The main part of the centre is a double basketball court, which is also used for College assemblies and connects to the Benildus Hall.

Co-curricular

The College offers a large range of co-curricular activities, such as: Show Team, Debating, Public Speaking, Coding Club, Chess Club, Basketball, Rugby, Rugby 7s, Football, Tennis, Touch Football, Cricket, Hockey, Athletics, Netball, Swimming, Drama Club, Choirs, Music Ensembles, Duke of Edinburgh, Art Club, Science Club and Mathematics Enrichment. Oakhill College conducts a major musical every two years, and a junior musical every alternate year, open to any student within the required year groups. Additionally, Year 10 and 12 respectively stage plays in the later part of the school year, with the cast and crew composed entirely of drama students, whose performance is graded and forms part of their assessment mark. Past productions have included: Senior Musicals (Open to whole College) Every ‘even’ year: * 1996 - Chess * 2002 -

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* 2004 - Hooked * 2006 - Jesus Christ Superstar * 2008 -

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* 2010 - Paris * 2012 -

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* 2014 -

Miss Saigon ''Miss Saigon'' is a stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera ''Madame Butterfly'', and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed rom ...

* 2016 - Starlight Express * 2018 - Strictly Ballroom * 2020 - Urinetown: The Musical * 2022 - Les Misérables Junior Musicals (Years 7-9) - Every ‘odd’ year: * 2011 -

Smike ''Smike'' is a pop musical adaptation of a small part of Charles Dickens' 1839 novel ''Nicholas Nickleby'', that was televised for the BBC in 1973. The musical is based on the character Smike from that novel. The TV production starred Beryl Reid ...

* 2013 - Tin Pan Ali * 2015 -

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* 2017 -

Boys Own McBeth ''Boy's Own McBeth'' is a musical comedy by Grahame Bond Grahame John Bond AM (born 21 November 1943) is an Australian actor, writer, director, musician and composer, known primarily for his role as Aunty Jack. Early career Bond began his ...

* 2019 - Oliver! * 2021 - School of Rock Year 10 Plays (October) - * 2008 -

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* 2009 -

Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'' is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickl ...

* 2010 -

A Few Good Men ''A Few Good Men'' is a 1992 American legal drama film based on Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play. It was written by Sorkin, directed by Rob Reiner, and produced by Reiner, David Brown and Andrew Scheinman. It stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cru ...

* 2011 -

Rusty Bugles ''Rusty Bugles'' was a controversial Australian play written by Sumner Locke Elliott in 1948. It toured extensively throughout Australia between 1948–1949 and was threatened with closure by the New South Wales Chief Secretary's Office for obsce ...

* 2012 - Lord of the Flies * 2013 -

Twelve Angry Men ''Twelve Angry Men'' is an American courtroom drama written by Reginald Rose concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It was broadcast initially as a television play in 1954. The following year it was adapted for the stage. It was adapted for a ...

* 2014 -

Alone it Stands ''Alone It Stands'' is a play by John Breen that tells the story of the 1978 rugby union match at Thomond Park between Irish provincial side Munster and the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union t ...

* 2015 -

Animal Farm ''Animal Farm'' is a beast fable, in the form of satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to cre ...

* 2016 - Two Weeks With The Queen * 2017 - The 39 Steps * 2018 - Journey's End * 2019 -

The Changing Room ''The Changing Room'' is a 1971 play by David Storey, set in a men's changing room before, during and after a rugby league football game. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on 9 November 1971, directed by Lindsay Anderson. The 1973 Broadway ...

* 2020 -

Chariots of Fire ''Chariots of Fire'' is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam. It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a de ...

Year 12 Plays (February) - * 2010 - Amadeus * 2011 -

The Government Inspector ''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the pla ...

* 2012 - The Imaginary Invalid * 2013 - Rumours * 2014 - Shakespeare in Hollywood * 2015 -

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* 2016 -

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* 2017 - The Bourgeois Gentleman * 2018 - Romanoff and Juliet * 2019 -

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* 2020 -

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* 2021 -

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* 2022 -

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Other - Notable Study Pieces: * Dream * latemail.com *

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* Treasure Island * Man Alive * The Importance of Being Earnest *

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* Norm and Ahmed

Pastoral care

Pastoral care at Oakhill involves classroom based programs in Years 7 and 8 and a House system from Years 9–12. The Houses include: * Benildus House — (Gold). Named after Saint Brother Bénilde Romançon (1805–1862); Feast Day: 13 August. * La Salle House — (Red). Named after St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719), the founder of the De La Salle Brothers; Feast Day: 15 May. * Miguel House — (Purple). Named after St Brother

Miguel Febres Cordero Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz (7 November 1854 – 9 February 1910), known as (later Saint) Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother. He became a professed member of the Brothers of t ...

(1854–1910); Feast Day: 9 February. * Mutien House — (Green). Named after St Brother

Mutien-Marie Wiaux Mutien-Marie Wiaux (also known as Mutien-Marie of Malonne; 20 March 1841 – 30 January 1917) was a Belgian member of the Brothers of Christian Schools, who spent his life as a teacher and is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. Lif ...

(1841–1917); Feast Day: 30 January. * Solomon House — (Blue/Light Blue). Named after Blessed Brother Solomon LeClercq (1745–1792), martyr, France. Feast Day 2 September. * Turon House — (Navy Blue). Named after Eight Brothers martyred 8 October 1934 in

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, Spain. Feast Day 9 October.

Notable alumni

Academia, business, public service and politics

* Dominic Perrottet - 46th Premier of New South Wales (Finished studies at Redfield College Dural) * Greg Whitby - Executive Director of Schools, Catholic Education Office

Media, entertainment and the arts

* Brian Castro, novelist and essayist (also attended

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) *

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, Comedian, broadcaster, filmmaker, host of '' Hungry Beast'' *

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, actor * Tim Rogers, vocalist/guitarist and primary songwriter of Australian alternative rock band You Am I at the Sydney Theatre Company *

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'') *

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Sport

* Lachlan Anderson, a professional

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player and Rugby 7s Olympian *

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, an Australian Olympic cyclist *

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, an Olympic swimmer, bronze medallist in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at 2008 Beijing Olympics *

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, a dual Gold Medallist at 2002 Winter Paralympic Games, Salt Lake City, USA * Catherine Cox, netball player and commentator * Nicholas Fitzgerald, a football player with the Melbourne City F.C. * Harrison Goddard, an U20 Melbourne Rebels, U20 Wallabies *

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, an AFL player with the Sydney Swans *

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, a professional rugby league footballer * Jason Baitieri, a professional rugby league footballer *

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, a NBL basketball player *

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, professional rugby league footballer * Jordan Thompson, a professional tennis player * Steven Ugarkovic, a football player with the

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, an Olympic rower

References

External links

Oakhill College Website
{{Authority control Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta Catholic secondary schools in Sydney Castle Hill, New South Wales Educational institutions established in 1936 Independent Schools Association (Australia) Hornsby Shire 1936 establishments in Australia Lasallian schools in Australia