Southern River College

Southern River College
Location
Gosnells, W.A
Australia  Australia
Coordinates 32°05′06″S 115°58′49″E / 32.085031°S 115.980229°E / -32.085031; 115.980229
Information
Type Public, Co-educational
Motto Respect and Understanding
Established 1976
Principal Everal Pearse
Enrolment 868 Semester 2 2015
Campus Suburban
Colour(s) Blue and white
Website

Southern River College formerly known as Gosnells Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in Western Australia. The school is located on Southern River Road in the suburb of Gosnells.

The school was established in 1976[1] and caters for students from Year 8 to Year 12. The school consists of a Middle School for Year 8 and 9 students and a Senior School for Year 10,11 and 12 students.

In 1991 a Year 12 student of the school, Graham Alistair Thom, was awarded the Beazley Medal by the Curriculum Council of Western Australia for the highest TAE score in the state.

The catchment area for the school is Gosnells, Huntingdale and Southern River. Feeder schools include Gosnells, Ashburton Drive, Seaforth, Huntingdale, Wirrabirra and Southern River Primary Schools.

The school was a finalist in the WA Youth awards in 2003 for the Bushrangers Program where students work collaboratively with CALM.

The school introduced the Tribes program into the middle school in 2004.

The School actively embraces technology and introduced a 1:1 laptop program in 2010.

A new Technology and Enterprise Centre, Cafeteria, Senior school block and extensions to Administration and Library buildings costing $6 million were completed in 2005.[2]

Enrollments have fluctuated at the school from 847 in 2002, 783 in 2003, 676 in 2004, 643 in 2005, 622 in 2006, 630 in 2007, 627 in 2008, 568 in 2009, 465 in 2010, 470 in 2011, 463 in 2012, 565 in 2013 before rising again to 594 in 2014 with 868 in 2015.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Education Schools online". 2010. Retrieved 2011-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Department of Education and Training - School Profile system" (PDF). 2006. Retrieved 2011-09-18.

http://www.southernrivercollege.wa.edu.au/

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