Scotch College (informally known as Scotch or SC), is an

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and secondary school for boys, located in the

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suburb of

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. It has both

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and

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students. Founded in 1897 by the

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, the school caters for approximately 1,900 boys from early learning, through

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. The school has undertaken the

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's Primary Years and Middle Years programmes since 2003; and offers the

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for year 11 and 12 students. The school continues to run the state education

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course and VET (Vocational Education Training). In 2023, Scotch College launche
Scotch Global
As a branch of the College, Scotch Global primarily offers online education to students of all genders. Scotch Global's offerings are split into three streams: Connect, Thrive and Accelerate. Connect programmes offer access to private education from home, including the Australian Curriculum from Years 6 to 10 and th
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
in the final years of high school. The Thrive stream offers extension and enrichment courses. The Accelerate stream offers career development for secondary school students and graduates. The school is a member of the

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(PSA), the

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, and is a member of

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Schools. Scotch College spreads over a large

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in Swanbourne. It also has an

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centre in Dwellingup. The campus in Swanbourne consists of a

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for years 9 to 12, a

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for early learning pre-kindergarten to Year 5, and

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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

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, 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

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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''

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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

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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. Memorial Hall Scotch College

The Memorial Hall was opened by Sir

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at the time, on 19 October 1957, the same year as the school's

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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

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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

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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

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after a province in Scotland where Clan Murray originated (the Moray camp site is adjacent to the

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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

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– through the International Baccalaureate's

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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

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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

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, a science, an art, a technology, and a humanities and

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subject. Boys in years 9 and 10 have the option of choosing which

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and

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classes they take for either the year or semester. They may also take drama and music. Technology includes

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, wood work,

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s and

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Senior school curriculum

Scotch offers the

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Programme to senior students in years 11 and 12. In addition to this, students in years 11 and 12 have the option of undertaking

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 ''

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''. In 2017, two Scotch students achieved 45, a perfect score for the

. In that same year, a

student achieved an

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score of 99.95. In 2005, a Scotch graduate received the

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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.

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were awarded to three students for five overall subjects.

Academics

The school appears regularly in the top 50 schools for the

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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

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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

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as well as

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and

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. 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

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. 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

, is set in Australian bush and is 66 hectares. Moray allows students to camp either outside in tents, under

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s, or inside cabins. Students here will learn about safety, the ecosystems and how native

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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

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. 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

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were cadets jump from a telephone pole and try to 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 to 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 is not 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

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they are related to. Houses compete against each other in sports such as inter-house athletics and academic contests like

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. 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

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PSA premierships

Scotch has won the following PSA premierships. * Athletics (21) – 1948, 1954, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1983, 1984, 1996, 1998, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 * 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 (24) – 1906, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1920, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1957, 1960, 1978, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2006, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2021, * Rugby (18) – 1963, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024 * Soccer (5) – 1996, 2003, 2013, 2017, 2018 * Surfing (7) – 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2018 * Swimming (24) – 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1985, 2023, 2024 * 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 ''

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'', '' Grease'', ''

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'', '' Blood Brothers'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Mad Forest'', '' Babe the Sheep Pig'', ''

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'', ''

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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

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during class time in the senior school. Students may also join the

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if their playing skills and marching skills are of a high standard. The pipe band

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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 The Virginia International Tattoo is a military tattoo that began in 1997 and is the signature event of the Virginia Arts Festival, a not-for-profit performing arts organization based in Norfolk, Virginia. The event was established in 1997, and ...

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 The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of military tattoos performed by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and international military bands, and artistic performance teams on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Ca ...

, and the

Basel Tattoo Basel Tattoo is an annual military tattoo show performed by International military bands, display teams, popular musicians, and tattoo formations in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2006, Basel Tattoo has had annual stage-arena performances within ...

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 "Highland Cathedral" () is a popular melody for the great Highland bagpipe. It was composed by the German musicians Ulrich Roever and Michael KorbPresbyterian Ladies' College, Perth The Presbyterian Ladies' College (informally known as PLC), is an independent, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, situated in Peppermint Grove, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Established in 1915 by the Presbyteri ...

- 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.

Notable alumni

Alumni Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. Th ...

of Scotch College are known as Old Scotch Collegians.

Academia and science

Akshay Venkatesh Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Indian Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equ ...

– mathematician,

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

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 variou ...

Arts and media

* Michael Charlton –

ABC ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script. ABC or abc may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Broadcasting * Aliw Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine broadcast company * American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...

-TV journalist * Tony Charlton – TV sports commentator * Nicholas Hasluck – novelist, poet and short story writer; chair of

Commonwealth Writers Prize Commonwealth Foundation has presented a number of prizes since 1987. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best First ...

''see also Politics and law'' *

Gareth McGrillen Pendulum is an Australian electronic rock band founded in 2002. Pendulum originally formed in the city of Perth, Western Australia, by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding. The band was later expanded to include members Ben M ...

– musician,

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and

Knife Party Knife Party are an Australian electronic music duo consisting of Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, two members of the drum and bass band Pendulum. The duo has worked with artists such as Swedish House Mafia, Steve Aoki, MistaJam, Foreign ...

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 course ...

– Australian actor and writer *

Rob Swire Robert Swire-Thompson (born 5 November 1982) is an Australian record producer, singer, songwriter, and DJ. He is the founder and lead vocalist of the drum and bass/electronic rock band Pendulum (drum and bass band), Pendulum, as well as Disc j ...

– musician, Pendulum and Knife Party

Business

Charles Bunning Charles R. Bunning (1 March 1905 – 3 June 1994) was a 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 migrant who, w ...

(1905–1994) – Chair,

Bunnings Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. Bunnings was founded in Per ...

* Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986) – Chair,

BHP BHP Group Limited, founded as the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, is an Australian multinational mining and metals corporation. BHP was established in August 1885 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria. As of 2024, BHP was the world� ...

Education

John Inverarity Robert John Inverarity (born 31 January 1944) is a former Australian cricketer who played six Test matches. A right-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin bowler in his playing career, Inverarity was also one of the enduring captains in t ...

– educator, headmaster of Hale School ''see sport'' *

Ralph Townsend Ralph Townsend (November 27, 1900 – January 25, 1976) was an American writer, consul (representative), consul and political activist noted for his United States non-interventionism#Non-interventionism before entering World War II, opposition t ...

– educator, headmaster of

Sydney Grammar School Sydney Grammar School (SGS, colloquially known as Grammar) is an independent, non-denominational day school for boys, located in Sydney, Australia. Incorporated in 1854 by an Act of Parliament and opened in 1857, the school claims to offer "c ...

Oundle School Oundle School is a public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging boarding school, boarding and day school) for pupils 11–18 situated in the market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire ...

and

Winchester College Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...

Military

* Sir Peter Drummond DSO & Bar, MC, MIDs (1894–1945) – Air Marshall,

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...

* Eric Lacy Vowles – commandant of the

Royal Military College, Duntroon The Royal Military College, Duntroon, also known simply as Duntroon, is the Australian Army's Officer (armed forces), officer training establishment. It was founded at Duntroon, Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon in Canberra, Australian Capi ...

Politics and law

* Roger Cook –

Premier of Western Australia The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia. The role of premier at a state level is similar to the role of the prime minister of Australia at a federal level. The premier leads the executive br ...

John Dawkins John Sydney "Joe" Dawkins (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 Empl ...

– Federal Treasurer in the

Keating government The Keating government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Paul Keating of the Australian Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. The government followed on from the Hawke government after Paul Keating replaced Bob ...

– justice of

High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary legislation. The High Court was establi ...

Federal Court of Australia The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court 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 indictable (mo ...

, &

Supreme Court of Western Australia The Supreme Court of Western Australia is the highest state court in the Australian State of Western Australia. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters (although it usually only hears matters involving sums of or more ...

* Nicholas Hasluck – justice of Supreme Court of Western Australia * David Sadleir – Australian Ambassador to China at the time of the

Tiananmen Square massacre The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between t ...

Sport

* Bailey Banfield –

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footballer * Drew Banfield – Australian Rules footballer * Jamie Beadsworth – Australian waterpolo player *

Geoff Boyce Geoff Boyce (born 31 December 1981) is a field hockey player from Australia. Early years Boyce was born in Perth, Western Australia, son of Craig Boyce who was a member of the Australia men's national field hockey team, Australian national hoc ...

– Australian hockey player * Michael Boyce – Australian hockey player. World Cup Silver Medal in

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

. *

James Brayshaw James Antony Brayshaw (born 11 May 1967) is an Australian media personality and retired cricketer working in television for the Seven Network and radio for Triple M. For Seven Sport, he hosts and calls Test cricket during summer and Australian ...

– cricketer * Mark Brayshaw – footballer *

Ian Brayshaw Ian James Brayshaw (born 14 January 1942) is a former Australian sportsman. He played both Australian rules football and cricket. Both his sons, Mark and James, were noted athletes in their respective sports, and three of his grandsons have bee ...

– cricketer *

Mal Brown Malcolm Gregory "Mal" Brown (born 26 October 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL/AFL, Victorian Football League and West Australian Football League, West Australian National Football League. He is described as "one of the ...

– Australian Rules footballer * Jonathon Charlesworth – Australian hockey player *

Mitch Clarke Mitchell Bradley Clarke (born November 24, 1985) is a Canadian professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He fought as a Lightweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and is the head coach at Complete Fitness & Martial Arts in ...

– basketball player with

Perth Wildcats The Perth Wildcats are an Australian professional basketball team based in Perth, Western Australia. The Wildcats compete in the National Basketball League (Australia), National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Perth Arena, ...

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 Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ...

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 – former Australian Rules footballer and

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the f ...

ist * Cameron Green – Australian All-rounder test cricketer * Nick Hobson – cricketer *

– Australian Test cricketer *

Rowan Jones Rowan "RoJo" Jones (born 19 November 1979) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. Recruited at pick 28 in the 1997 AFL Draft by the Eagles from local WAFL club Clare ...

– Australian Rules footballer. 2006

AFL Premiership This page is a complete chronological listing of VFL/AFL premiers. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1989, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. The inaugur ...

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 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

Matthew Kelly Matthew Kelly (born David Allan Kelly, 9 May 1950) is an English actor and television presenter. Having been trained as a theatre actor, he first came to public prominence as a television sitcom actor, game-show panellist and television prese ...

– 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 S ...

– Australian Rules footballer * Tom Ledger – Australian Rules footballer with St Kilda * Tom Lee – Australian Rules footballer *

Luc Longley Lucien James Longley (born 19 January 1969) is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player. He was the first Australian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he played for four teams over 10 seasons. He m ...

– former NBA and

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basketballer – 3 x

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with the

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. Current assistant coach with the Australian Boomers. *

Ashley McIntosh Ashley David McIntosh (born 20 October 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). ...

– Australian Rules footballer. 2 x

player for the

in 1992 and 1994. * Hamish McKenzie – cricketer * Alistair Nicholson – Australian Rules footballer * Joel Paris – 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

winning player for the

* Barry Shepherd – test cricketer; state hockey player and cricket administrator * Brynn Teakle-AFL footballer * Jack Thompson - ultra cyclist * John Welborn – rugby union footballer; first Western Australian to play for the

Australian Wallabies The Australia men's national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative men's national team in the sport of rugby union for Australia. The Wallabies first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against ...

* John Winter – high jumper; won Australia's first gold medal at the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...

* Tristram Woodhouse – Australian hockey player

References

External links

Scotch College Perth web siteListen to the Highland Cathedral tune
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History

Foundation

World War One to World War Two

Post war

1970 to 1990

1990 on

Schools

Student facilities

Headmasters

Curriculum

Middle school structure

Senior school curriculum

Academics

Scotch student life

Boarding

Moray

House system

PSA premierships

Arts

Music

Notable alumni

Academia and science

Arts and media

Business

Education

Military

Politics and law

Sport

See also

References

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