Mordialloc Secondary College
Mordialloc Secondary College | |
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Latin: Veho Spes Juventutis (I Carry the Hopes of Youth) | |
Established | 1924 |
Principal | Michelle Roberts[1] |
Years offered | 7–12 |
Enrolment | c.950 |
Campus | Aspendale |
Colour(s) | green, gold and blue |
Website | www.mcsc.vic.edu.au |
Mordialloc Secondary College or Mordialloc College is a state
Description
The College currently has over 1000 students in year 7 to year 12 and offers a broad range of academic and creative subjects. It also offers extracurricular activities including a
History
It was founded in February 1924 as the Mordialloc District High School, with 148 students who were temporarily accommodated in the Mechanics Institute Hall in Albert Street, Mordialloc.[3] Later that year the school's name changed to Mordialloc Carrum District High school when it was officially opened by Cr Roy Beardsworth of the Borough of Carrum;[4] it was subsequently known as the Mordialloc Chelsea High School.
On 15 February 1928 the main redbrick building at the present site was completed with eight classrooms; subjects taught at that time included commercial studies, domestic science, woodwork, sheetmetal working and blacksmithing.[3]
In 1997, the College advertised its "new and refurbished facilities".[5] That same year, one of the school's graduates was "the first identifying Aboriginal to study science or technology full-time at La Trobe University".[6]
The College started accredited training in first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in 1999, with twenty students enrolled. Students completing the two year program qualify for a bronze-level Duke of Edinburgh's Award.[7]
State Government budget cuts in 2011 resulted in the los of $50,000 in funding for Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) programs at the College, but it had already made a commitment to double the size of the programs.[8]
As of 2022, Mordoc Secondary College has participated in "Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)" in which instructors employ "explicit meta-cognitive strategies and a desire to move away from 'teaching to the text', established practices which then informed the spatial redesign to utilise the space differently to achieve these aims".[9]
Alumni
The College Alumni Association was incorporated in October 2014.[10] One of its aims is to create a digital, searchable database of material and resources pertaining to the school, before the school's centenary in 2024.[11]
References
- ^ "Principal's Message". Mordialloc Secondary College. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Learning Extension Programs, Select Entry Accelerated Learning (SEAL)". mcsc.vic.edu.au. 2023.
- ^ a b "College History". mcsc.vic.edu.au. Archived from the original on 25 June 1998. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "First Students of Mordialloc-Chelsea High School | Kingston Local History". localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Mordialloc-Chelsea Secondary College (advertisement)". The Age. 17 June 1997. p. 62. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ^ Goss, Sue (12 December 1997). "Aboriginal student sets a first in science". The Age. p. 35. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Students keen to take the lead to save lives". The Age. 26 January 1999. p. 7. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Wray-McCann, Jesse (31 August 2011). "Trouble in trades Futures uncertain as schools lose VCAL program cash". Mordialloc Chelsea Leader – via EBSCO Host.
The future for Mordialloc-Chelsea students wanting a career in the trades is under threat after drastic cuts to vocational education funding. The State Government has axed $12 million from secondary school Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) budgets. Mordialloc College stands to lose more than $50,000 next year as a result. Principal Michelle Roberts said the school, which had 20 VCAL students this year, had already committed to doubling the program in 2012. "It's a growing program for us so we certainly won't cut it," Ms Roberts said. "It means we will be tightening the screws even further on what is already a very limited budget." "It's extremely disappointing because the Government is basically cutting a vital pathway for students." Mordialloc Secondary College year 11 VCAL student Jony Abley said he would find it difficult to realise his dream of becoming a carpenter without the program. "VCAL is great because we're learning the real tools of how to be independent after school," the 17-year-old said.
- S2CID 244232162– via EBSCO Host.
The programme-based reforms, such as at Mount Waverley Primary School and Mordialloc Secondary College, tended to be a strategic intervention that was issue-focused (student's disengagement). Mordialloc Secondary College's ILE emerged out of a long-term commitment to teacher action learning which focused on explicit meta-cognitive strategies and a desire to move away from 'teaching to the text', established practices which then informed the spatial redesign to utilise the space differently to achieve these aims.
- ^ "MCAA". mordialloccollegealumni.org. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Watson, Emma (30 August 2017). "School's historic gems unveiled". wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org. Retrieved 11 October 2023 – via EBSCOHOST.
The school will turn 100 in 2024 and a group of volunteers has been working behind the scenes to reveal the school's hidden gems... The goal is to update a digital, searchable database available to paying members of the Mordialloc College Alumni Association.