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, headmaster = Dr. Alec O'Connell
, chairman = Mark Paganin
, slogan = Preparing Boys for Life
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Scotch College (informally known as Scotch or SC), is an
independent
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school for boys, located in the
Perth
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suburb of
Swanbourne, Western Australia. It has both
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and
boarding
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students.
Founded in 1897 by the
Presbyterian Church of Australia
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History
Beginnings
When captain James Cook landed ...
, the school caters for approximately 1,900 boys from early learning, through
pre-kindergarten
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to
Year 12
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. The school has undertaken the
International Baccalaureate
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's
Primary Years and
Middle Years programmes since 2003; and offers the
Diploma Program for year 11 and 12 students. The school continues to run the state education
WACE course and VET (Vocational Education Training).
The school is a member of the
Public Schools Association
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(PSA), the
Junior School Heads Association of Australia
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Officially established in Sept ...
, and is a member of
Round Square Schools.
Scotch College spreads over a large
campus
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in Swanbourne. It also has an
outdoor education
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centre in
Dwellingup. The campus in Swanbourne consists of a
senior school for years 9 to 12, a
junior school
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for early learning pre-kindergarten to Year 5, and
middle school
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for years 6 to 8. Also located on campus are playing fields spanning 15 hectares, and
boarding facilities for 160 students.
History
Foundation
Scotch College owes its foundations to a conversation at an 1896 dinner party, where the parent of a 12-year-old boy, Jane Alexander, wife of
William Alexander,
MLC, complained that there was an absence of a Presbyterian school for boys in Perth.
She offered
David Ross, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia,
£500 to establish Scotch College.
The announcement of the college came on Monday 4 January 1897, in the form of an advertisement.
[Gregory, page 10] The advertisement included the first location of the school, Shearer Memorial Hall, which is now the
Perth Trades Hall.
When founded, the school was originally named The Alexander Scotch College.
The school would later shorten its name to Scotch College in 1908 for banking purposes.
In 1905, the college became a founding school of the Public Schools Association, showing it to be by that time a well regarded independent school, and entitling it to take part in the most competitive schoolboy sporting competition in Western Australia.
World War One to World War Two
During
World War I
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, 475 boys enlisted to defend the empire as part of the
Allied forces. This number represented over 50% of all Scotch alumni at the time. A roll of honour is present in Collegians House, the current administration building, featuring the names of all past Scotch College boys who had volunteered to fight.
In 1939, the Head Masters' Conference approached the Commonwealth Government for financial assistance due to low staff salaries, the standard of the school's science facilities and the lack of money the school possessed. When gifts of money to the school became tax deductible in 1954 (provided donations were for the purpose of either repaying debt on buildings or helping to fund new building projects), people found they had more incentive to donate to schools. This led to Scotch, among other schools around Australia, beginning fundraising appeals within the school community.
[Gregory, Jenny (1996). ''Building a Tradition, A History of Scotch College, 1897–1996'' ]University of Western Australia
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Press
Post war
Even before donations were made tax deductible, an appeal to fund a memorial for past boys who served in the
Second World War
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raised £9,000 by 1950. When the school's council, the town in which Scotch resides in, inquired about the cost for a memorial hall to sit 650 people, they were shocked to discover it would cost around £30,000. A
fete organised in 1953 raised £2,500. Another fete was arranged and appeals to both past students and parents increased the total raised to £17,500. Despite lack of funds, David Brisbane, a council member since 1945, laid the foundation stone for the hall in early 1957. Although donations to schools over £1 had been tax-deductible since 1954, it was not until January 1957 that the Taxation Department informed the school that all donations towards the new Scotch College Building Fund would be tax-deductible. The appeal committee launched a major appeal raising £23,000 for the Memorial Hall.
The Memorial Hall was opened by Sir
Charles Gairdner
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,
Governor of Western Australia
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at the time, on 19 October 1957, the same year as the school's
Diamond Jubilee
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. The opening led to a further £30,000 in promised donations, although the actual amount received was below this figure. Eventually the cost of the hall led to the school having to be provided a £25,000 overdraft from the
ASB Bank
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; this led to an increase in school fees. The total cost of the Memorial Hall was £48,864 and the appeal raised £45,700. Gordon Gooch, who has a sports pavilion at the school named after him, met the shortfall.
1970 to 1990
In 1971, after observing the
May 1968 French riots, a group of Year 12 boys organised a "schoolboy strike" on the regulations of hair length, after the issue had been simmering for several months. The strike involved 60 boys refusing to return to class after the lunch bell, despite threat of expulsion, which led the headmaster to arrange an assembly for all boys after having a psycho. The ringleader of the strike, Cary Kallis informed the
Nine Network
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newsroom to announce the strike. However, Kallis informed several boys which led to news of the strike quickly spreading around the school. After being threatened by a teacher with expulsion, Kallis quickly called Channel Nine again, pretending to be a teacher, by saying "The strike has been cancelled and the boys have been disciplined". As mentioned above, the strike still went ahead.
In 1984, Scotch acquired Moray, the school's outdoor education centre where students would be able to attend camps. This was purchased after the school had considered, for over a decade, the possibility of acquiring a site for a school camp. The Parents' Association gave support to the project and the school purchased the property through a mortgagee sale for $220,000. It was named
Moray
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after a province in Scotland where Clan Murray originated (the Moray camp site is adjacent to the
Murray River
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).
The Scotch College foundation was established in 1986, when Judge Robert Keall was chairman of the college. The foundation raised $1.1 million within six months to partly fund a new Physical Education Centre. Robert Keall opened the $2.25 million centre on 29 March 1988.
1990 on
In 2007 the school built the Dickinson Centre, named after Scotch's previous headmaster, the late W. R. Dickinson, for assemblies and other functions. In June 2009 the school opened a Science, Design and Technology building next to the school chapel. Designed by Taylor Robinson architects, the new facility marks the completion of the first stage of the school's Master Plan. A memorial service was held for the late W. R. Dickinson, the fifth headmaster of Scotch College, on 10 May 2006. A pavilion was erected on the Scotch playing fields, and the School and Pipe Band formed a guard of honour for the Dickinson family members and the funeral cortege as they arrived. In 2015, a new middle school campus was opened along with library facilities and gallery. Memorial Hall was refurbished in 2017 with a new Heritage Centre that houses the school's archival collection. In February 2019, the school's PC Anderson Chapel was refurbished and rededicated with the appointment of two new college chaplains.
In May 2017, Scotch College announced the banning of phones on campus during school. This decision was made to remove lunchtime distractions and encourage more face to face discussions among the students.
Schools
Scotch College has many schools and facilities.
*The brand new School of Mathematics and Commerce. This is the newest addition to the school.
*School of Design, Technology and Sciences. Built in 2011, this building houses facilities for production of handmades. The building also houses the school's science department. The building has many design flaws which include no natural light in many spaces of the building.
*Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
*Department of Language Acquisition. The school offers studies in French, Indonesian and Spanish.
*Department of Performing Arts
*Department of Media and Visual Arts
*Department of Language and Literature
*Department of Physical Education
Student facilities
Student resource centres have a number of different facilities available, which include IT assistance, equipment hire, proofreading and late night study as well as a number of online resources. Compared to other departments in the school, the library has an incredibly large budget. This allows students to purchase reading material and academic journals at any time. The large budget also allows for the further development and initiatives within the libraries.
The college has an academic support department which provides assistance to students in the classroom and during exams.
Headmasters
Curriculum
Scotch offers a wide range of subjects in its academic curriculum. All students in years 8 to 10 study one language other than English – either French or
Indonesian – through the International Baccalaureate's
Middle Years Programme
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(MYP). In Year 8, boys undertake a community project.
Scotch awards several scholarships based on academic merit to students, but under agreed PSA rules no member schools may award sports scholarships. Entrance scholarships at Scotch are based on the results of scholarship
examinations
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. In Year 11 there are two scholarships open to sons of former alumni (PC Anderson Memorial Old Boy's Scholarship) as well as the WR Dickinson Scholarship. To be considered, boys must have several references and nominations from the staff and are required to sit an interview and submit a copy of their resume.
Middle school structure
From 2003, when the school became an International Baccalaureate certified school, students began to study two languages, a
maths,
a science, an art, a technology, and a humanities and
physical education
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subject.
Boys in years 9 and 10 have the option of choosing which
technology
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and
arts
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classes they take for either the year or semester. They may also take drama and music. Technology includes
metal work,
wood work
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History
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,
electronics
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,
information system
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s and
3D modelling.
Senior school curriculum
Scotch offers the
IB Diploma Programme to senior students in years 11 and 12. In addition to this, students in years 11 and 12 have the option of undertaking
WACE or VET. The top student for each subject is awarded a prize on speech night, and the Year 12 student who finishes top of their year in their chosen pathway is awarded ''
dux''.
In 2017, two Scotch students achieved 45, a perfect score for the
IB Diploma. In that same year, a
WACE student achieved an
ATAR
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score of 99.95.
In 2005, a Scotch graduate received the
Beazley Medal
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, which is awarded to the top student in the state, for his TEE results. As in 2004, two students were awarded General Exhibitions.
Subject Exhibitions were awarded to three students for five overall subjects.
Academics
The school appears regularly in the top 50 schools for the
Western Australian Certificate of Education.
Scotch student life
Scotch offers a comprehensive extracurricular activities program for students. The school has boarding facilities for students who live in rural areas of
Western Australia
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, as well as international students. The major components of the program are sport, music, the arts and community and service. Students in years 10–12 may participate in
FESA Cadet programs. Activities offered: Cadets, Chess, Debating, Instep, UNYA, Duke of Edinburgh, SMARTS, Prometheans, Drama, Music and Pipe Band.
Boarding
All boarding students live in residential houses, with boarding staff who also live on site. Boarders have 24-hour access to medical services. In 2006, international students were required to pay an extra $5,700 in lieu of ''government subsidies and extra administration costs''.
On weekends boarders will often do a variety of activities that staff arrange. They also use the nearby
Indian Ocean
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as well as
Challenge Stadium and
Subiaco Oval. Boarders in years 10, 11 and 12 will also participate in sport on a Saturday morning.
A boarding tradition at Scotch is walking the entire
Bibbulmun Track
The Bibbulmun Track is a long-distance walk trail in Western Australia. It runs from Kalamunda in the east of Perth to Albany, and is long.
It is managed by government agencies, and has a foundation.
It traverses the Darling Range and has i ...
. Boys walk sections of the track each year.
Moray
In year 5 and years 7,8, 9 and 10 in the senior school, students will camp for several days, depending on their age, at Moray near
Dwellingup. Moray, close to the
Murray River
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, is set in Australian bush and is 66 hectares. Moray allows students to camp either outside in tents, under
swag
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s, or inside cabins. Students here will learn about safety, the ecosystems and how native
Aboriginal Australians
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lived in the area. They will also learn how to be more independent by cooking their own food and setting up their own swag. Students will also do activities on the Murray River such as kayaking or canoeing, climbing an outdoor rock wall, climbing a telephone pole, and doing a suspended
ropes course. The amount and difficulty of the activities available will increase as the years progress.
The cadets also use Moray for a weekend camp. The cadets do activities, like navigation designed to improve self-confidence like the rock wall or the
leap of faith were cadets jump from a telephone pole and try and grab a plastic wire. They are suspended from falling using a wire. One night over the weekend the cadets do a "night stalker" game where the senior cadets try and prevent the junior cadets from reaching a certain point.
House system
The pastoral care system is based on a
house structure which deals with all matters relating to a student's well-being or curriculum needs. Each student is placed in a house tutorial group that is overseen by a house tutor for each of the ten houses in senior school.
In junior school however, there are only six houses and had nearly nothing to do with pastoral care. The ten houses listed below belong to the senior school whilst these six houses: Andrew (green), Bruce (orange), David (black), Gordon (yellow), James (blue) and Robert (red) will not be listed below.
Most house tutorial groups have three students from each year level in that house. A house contains students from years 9 to 12. Each house is led by one head of house. The members of each house are led by a house captain, appointed by the head of house and the students in it. The houses meet on a regular basis. Prior to year 9, students are also placed in houses although the system isn't as involved.
The house tutor and heads of house work as a team to monitor the academic and personal progress of each student in the house tutorial group and house. Generally, the house tutor is the first and main point of contact between the parent and the school. For more serious issues a head of house is usually contacted.
Students are either put in a randomly selected house or into the house of any
alumni
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they are related to. Houses compete against each other in sports such as inter-house athletics and academic contests like
debating. Students march to assembly on Friday mornings in their house and are marked on their performance.
The house that wins the most points over all inter-house competitions is awarded the staff trophy. This includes the larger inter-house events like athletics, cross-country and swimming as well as some smaller competitions like
lightning chess and
indoor soccer
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.
Sport
Scotch College teams regularly compete in the
PSA
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Biology and medicine
* Posterior spinal artery
* Primary systemic amyloidosis, a disease caused by the accumulation of abnormal proteins
* Prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme used as a blood tracer for pros ...
sports competitions. The students of the college play or compete in association football, athletics, Australian rules football, badminton, basketball, chess, cricket, cross country, golf,
field hockey
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, rowing (see
Head of the River), rugby union, sailing, surfing, swimming, tennis, water polo and volleyball. A single year consists of two separate sporting seasons, winter and summer, which have sports unique to them. Winter has of four sports, five after year 10, while summer has a much larger amount that varies as the time in school progresses.
Scotch has regularly won the sought after Alcock Shield for
PSA
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Biology and medicine
* Posterior spinal artery
* Primary systemic amyloidosis, a disease caused by the accumulation of abnormal proteins
* Prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme used as a blood tracer for pros ...
athletics, alongside the Dickinson Shield in water polo, the Blackwood Cup in basketball, and the Corr Cup in tennis. Alongside this, the sailing team won the Western Australian State Championships for sailing. In 2013, Scotch had a successful sporting year, winning the Alcock Shield for PSA athletics, for the 3rd year straight, a feat only achieved once before in the school's history. Scotch, led by its captain and triple best and fairest winner Jack Prendiville, also won the Alcock Cup for the PSA football competition outright for the first time in 23 years. Scotch soccer was also able to win the Lawe Davis Cup in 2013.
Sport is compulsory for all students in the high school; teams usually train twice a week. Matches are held on a Thursday for the junior school, Friday for years 8 and 9, and Saturday for years 10 to 12.
Each year, tours are arranged for sports teams. Recent tours included the Australian rules football team visiting
Melbourne
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, hockey and cricket tours of South Africa and rugby tour to Fiji. Athletics, cross country and swimming are all major inter-house games and almost every student competes.
PSA premierships
Scotch has won the following PSA premierships.
* Athletics (16) - 1948, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1983, 1984, 1996, 1998, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018
* Badminton - 2016
* Basketball (5) - 2001, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019
* Cricket (21) - 1908, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1939, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1960, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1996, 2012, 2014
* Football (24) - 1906, 1917, 1925, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1979, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1997, 2013, 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022
* Golf (2) - 2005, 2016
* Hockey (15) - 1961, 1983, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015
* Rowing (5) - 1982, 1984, 2006, 2009, 2014
* Rugby (15) - 1963, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
* Soccer (5) - 1996, 2003, 2013, 2017, 2018
* Surfing (7) - 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2018
* Swimming (23) - 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1985
* Tennis (8) - 1983, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017
* Water Polo (6) - 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2017
Arts
Scotch offers students an opportunity to participate in the annual school production. Productions have included ''
Bugsy Malone
''Bugsy Malone'' is a 1976 gangster musical comedy film written and directed by Alan Parker (in his feature film directorial debut). A co-production of United States and United Kingdom, it features an ensemble cast, featuring only child actor ...
'', ''
Grease'', ''
A Clockwork Orange
''A Clockwork Orange'' may refer to:
* ''A Clockwork Orange'' (novel), a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (film), a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel
*** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (soundtrack), the film ...
'', ''
Blood Brothers'', ''
Holes'', ''
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
The story was originall ...
'', ''
Mad Forest
''Mad Forest: A Play from Romania'' is a play by English playwright Caryl Churchill. The three acts occur, respectively, shortly before, during, and shortly after the Romanian Revolution of 1989. The play is mostly written in English, but has sev ...
'', ''
Babe the Sheep Pig'', ''
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest may refer to:
* ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (novel), a 1962 novel by Ken Kesey
* ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (play), a 1963 stage adaptation of the novel starring Kirk Douglas
* ''One Flew Over the ...
'', ''
Great Expectations
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'', ''The Addams Family'', ''The Wedding Singer'', ''The Government Inspector'' and ''We Will Rock You''.
Scotch has two poetry prizes awarded each year; the Raven Senior Poetry Prize for years 11 and 12 and the Raven Junior Poetry Prize for years 8, 9 and 10. The winning piece along with several other pieces of student poetry and art are published in the annual school publication, ''Reporter''. Raven prize winners are presented an award on speech night. There are also two annual prose prizes; the Raven Senior Prose Prize and the Raven Junior Prose Prize. Like the poetry prizes, the winning pieces are published in ''Reporter'' and the writer presented with an award on speech night.
Music
Scotch gives students the chance to learn
instruments during class time in the senior school. Students may also join the
pipe band if their playing skills and marching skills are of a high standard. The pipe band
traditionally leads the school in marching.
In recent years there have been several pipe band and music tours. In April 2006, the pipe band toured the United States. The band played in the
Virginia International Tattoo in that period It was the pipe band's fourth international tour and its second time participating in an international tattoo of that magnitude. The first was the
Nova Scotia Tattoo in 2000. In 2015 and 2018, the pipe band was invited to perform at the
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and the
Basel Tattoo in 2019.
All students in the senior school are eligible to play in the school's bands. The school's music bands include Jazz Band, String Orchestra, Big Band 1 (guitar, drums, brass), Big Band 2 (guitar, drums, brass), Big Band 3 (guitar, drums, brass), Middle School Concert Band (years 6 to 10), Chamber Strings, Concert Band (brass and drums), Wind Ensemble (with
Presbyterian Ladies' College), Vocal Ensemble, Brass Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble.
The school offers several music scholarships for students in year 7.
The school song is "God of Our Fathers" which is to the tune of "
Highland Cathedral". The song is sung at the first and last assembly each term and the music is performed by two pipers and a snare drummer from the pipe band, along with a small brass support band.
Cross-campus classes
As part of efforts to reduce costs and increase efficiency, Scotch College runs "cross campus" classes with
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth - their sister school. Shuttle buses operate between the two campuses every hour. These services along with the initiative provide students in Year 11s and 12 to further their education - by choosing subjects that interest them which may not be offered on campus due to budgetary constraints. The cross campus classes are particularly important for students studying for the IB Diploma. Money saved from the initiative is used to further the school's infrastructure - both academic buildings as well as sports pavilions and administrative buildings. The buses take away valuable learning time for students and often results in students being late for class, this also impacts time spent in House Tutor periods denying Year 12s the opportunity to lead.
Uniform
Scotch College, like most Australian independent
schools
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, requires
students
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In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, a "student" attends a secondary school or higher (e.g., college or university); those in primary or elementar ...
to wear full
school uniform
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An example of a uniform would be requiring button-down shirts ...
. There are currently two school uniforms – a summer and a winter.
In summer, a
khaki
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Khaki has been used by many armies around the world for uniforms and equipment, particularly in arid or desert regions, where it provides camouflage relative to sandy ...
collared short-sleeved shirt is worn with light green shorts, house tie, green Scotch socks and black lace-up shoes. On the left breast pocket, above the school badge, a house braid is worn. In the senior school, a Scotch coloured braid is worn, the braid is their house colour; year 12 students wear both braids.
In winter, a white long-sleeved collared shirt is worn, along with house tie, black belt, grey trousers, grey socks, black lace-up shoes and a maroon
blazer
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. Year 12s wear a striped blazer. A grey Scotch jumper may be worn over the shirt in both summer and winter uniforms.
Senior school students have two
ties – a house tie and a school tie. On most days, students wear the appropriate house tie. On special occasions, such as speech night, the school tie is worn. House ties are patterned with the respective house tartans.
Uniform requirements are enforced with an Orwellian degree of precision to maintain the school's apparent reputation as being particularly well-dressed.
Notable alumni
Alumni
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of Scotch College are known as Old Scotch Collegians.
Academia and science
*
Akshay Venkatesh
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– mathematician,
Stanford University
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,
Fields Medal
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list
Rhodes Scholars
*1922
Sir Walter Worboys (1900–1969)
*1998
James Edelman
James Joshua Edelman (born 9 January 1974) has been a justice of the High Court of Australia since 30 January 2017, and is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He is noted for his various ...
Arts and media
*
Michael Charlton
Michael Charlton (born 1 May 1927) is an Australian-born Gold Logie winning former journalist and broadcaster, who worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for many years.
Biography
Charlton was born in Sydney to broadcaster Conrad and Haz ...
– ABC-TV journalist
*
Tony Charlton
Antony Erling Charlton, AM (28 March 1929 – 17 December 2012) was an Australian sports broadcaster.
Early life
Charlton's parents were both from New Zealand. His father, Conrad, was a radio broadcaster for the ABC, who had served in World W ...
– TV sports commentator
*
Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born 17 October 1942) is an Australian novelist, poet, short story writer, and former judge.
Early life
Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government u ...
– novelist, poet and short story writer; chair of
Commonwealth Writers Prize
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''see also Politics and law''
*
Gareth McGrillen – musician,
Pendulum
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and
Knife Party
*
Toby Schmitz
Toby Schmitz (born 4 May 1977) is an Australian actor and playwright.
He was born in Perth, Western Australia, attended Perth's Scotch College and briefly studied law at the University of Western Australia. He graduated from the acting cours ...
– Australian actor and writer
*
Rob Swire – musician, Pendulum and Knife Party
Business
*
Charles Bunning
Charles R. Bunning (1 March 1905 – 3 June 1994) was a Western Australia, West Australian businessman who played an early significant role in the development of major retailer Bunnings.
Biography
Charles was a son of Robert Bunning, an English ...
(1905–1994) – Chair, Bunning Timber Holdings (now
Bunnings Group)
*
Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986) – Chair,
BHP
Education
*
John Inverarity – educator, headmaster of Hale School ''see sport''
*
Ralph Townsend
Ralph Townsend (November 27, 1900 – January 25, 1976) was an American writer, consul and political activist noted for his opposition to the entry of the United States into World War II. He served in the foreign service as a consul stationed i ...
– educator, headmaster of
Sydney Grammar School
(Praise be to God)
, established =
, type = Independent, day school
, gender = Boys
, religious_affiliation = None
, slogan =
, headmaster = R. B. Malpass
, founder = Laurence Hynes Halloran
, chairman ...
,
Oundle School
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and
Winchester College
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Military
*
Sir Peter Drummond DSO & Bar, MC, MIDs (1894–1945) – Air Marshall,
Royal Air Force
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*
Eric Lacy Vowles – commandant of the
Royal Military College, Duntroon
lit: Learning promotes strength
, established =
, type = Military college
, chancellor =
, head_label = Commandant
, head = Brigadier Ana Duncan
, principal =
, city = Campbell
, state ...
Politics and law
*
Roger Cook –
Deputy Premier of Western Australia
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*
John Dawkins
John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins, AO (born 2 March 1947) is an Australian former politician who was Treasurer in the Keating Labor government from December 1991 to December 1993. He is notable for his reforms of tertiary education as Minister for E ...
– Federal Treasurer in the Keating Government
*
James Edelman
James Joshua Edelman (born 9 January 1974) has been a justice of the High Court of Australia since 30 January 2017, and is a former justice of the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He is noted for his various ...
– justice of
High Court of Australia
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The High Court was established following passage of the '' Judiciary Act 1903''. ...
,
Federal Court of Australia
The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) and indic ...
, &
Supreme Court of Western Australia
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*
Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born 17 October 1942) is an Australian novelist, poet, short story writer, and former judge.
Early life
Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government u ...
– justice of Supreme Court of Western Australia
*
David Sadleir – Australian Ambassador to China at the time of the
Tiananmen Square massacre
Sporting
*
Bailey Banfield – Australian Rules footballer
*
Drew Banfield
Drew Banfield (born 27 February 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Selected as the number 1 pick in the 1992 AFL Draft, Banfield was recruited to West Coa ...
–
Australian Rules Footballer
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*
Jamie Beadsworth – Australian waterpolo player
*
Geoff Boyce – Australian hockey player
*
Michael Boyce – Australian hockey player. World Cup Silver Medal in
2006
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.
*
James Brayshaw- cricketer
*
Mark Brayshaw
Mark Andrew Brayshaw (born 5 February 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL. He is the brother of James Brayshaw and the son of Ian Brayshaw. His sons Angus, Andrew and Hamish ar ...
- footballer
*
Mal Brown
Malcolm Gregory "Mal" Brown (born 26 October 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League and West Australian National Football League. He is described as "one of the most colourful and controversial characte ...
– Australian Rules footballer
*
Jonathon Charlesworth – Australian hockey player
*
Mitch Clarke, basketball player with
Perth Wildcats
*
James Clement
James Clement (born 4 September 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer for Collingwood and Fremantle in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was selected in the All-Australian Team on two occasions, represented Austr ...
-AFL footballer
*
Peter Evans – Olympic Gold medallist in swimming
*
Mark Gale – Australian Rules footballer with
Fremantle
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and
St Kilda
*
Terry Gale
Terry R. Gale (born 7 June 1946) is an Australian professional golfer.
Professional career
Gale had a successful amateur career before turning professional at a relatively advanced age in 1976. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s he won reg ...
– golfer
*
Shawn Gillies – cricketer
*
Ross Glendinning
Ross William Glendinning (born 17 September 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and for the North Melbourne Football Club and the Wes ...
– former Australian Rules footballer and
Brownlow Medal
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ist
*
Cameron Green
Cameron Donald Green (born 3 June 1999) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Western Australia and Perth Scorchers as an all-rounder. He made his international debut for the Australia national cricket team in December 2020.
Career
Green gr ...
- Australian All-rounder test cricketer
*
John Inverarity – Australian Test cricketer
*
Rowan Jones – Australian Rules footballer. 2006
AFL Premiership winning player for the
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football L ...
*
Matthew Kelly – cricketer
*
Don Langsford
Donald Leslie Langsford (born 7 May 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who was highly successful in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) playing for the Swan Districts Football Club.
Langsford was initially recruited from the ...
– Australian Rules footballer
*
Tom Ledger – Australian Rules footballer with St Kilda
*
Tom Lee – Australian Rules footballer
*
Luc Longley – former NBA and
Australian Boomers
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Since the late 1980s, Australia has been placed among the world elite ...
basketballer – 3 x
NBA Champion
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with the
Chicago Bulls
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. Current assistant coach with the Australian Boomers.
*
Ashley McIntosh – Australian Rules footballer. 2 x
AFL Premiership player for the
West Coast Eagles
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in 1992 and 1994.
*
Alistair Nicholson
Alistair "Big Jack" Nicholson (born 4 March 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer, who played with the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Nicholson was schooled at Scotch College, Perth, where he was scho ...
– Australian Rules footballer
*
Joel Paris
Joel Samuel Paris (born 11 December 1992) is an Australian cricketer, currently contracted to Western Australia and the Hobart Hurricanes domestically.
Career
From Perth, Paris represented Western Australia at under-19 level, making his debut w ...
– cricketer
*
Mark Seaby
Mark Seaby (born 1 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules football player. He is best known as a former premiership player with the West Coast Eagles as well as being a backup ruckman for the Sydney Swans.
Biography
Originally fro ...
– Australian Rules footballer. 2006
AFL Premiership winning player for the
West Coast Eagles
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*
Barry Shepherd
Barry Kenneth Shepherd (23 April 1937 – 18 September 2001) was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches between 1963 and 1965.
Career
Barry Shepherd was an outstanding junior sportsman in Australian rules football, hockey and ...
– test cricketer; state hockey player and cricket administrator
*
John Welborn
John Welborn (born 8 September 1970)
Scrum.com is a former – rugby union footballer; first Western Australian to play for the
Australian Wallabies
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*
John Winter – high jumper; won Australia's first gold medal at the
London Olympics in 1948
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*
Tristram Woodhouse – Australian hockey player
See also
*
List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area
This is a list of schools in the city of Perth, Western Australia. The Western Australian education system traditionally consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from kindergarten to Year 6, and high schools, which accommodate st ...
*
List of boarding schools in Australia
The following are notable boarding schools in Australia. There are 189 boarding schools in Australia.
Australian Capital Territory
*Canberra Girls' Grammar School, Deakin
* Canberra Grammar School, Red Hill
*Queyanbean Public High School, Quea ...
*
List of pipe bands
References
External links
Scotch College Perth web siteListen to the Highland Cathedral tune
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Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
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