St Kevin's College, Melbourne

St Kevin's College

Latin: Omnia Pro Deo
("All for God")
Address
31 Moonga Road
Toorak, Victoria 3142
Australia
Coordinates 37°50′10″S 145°1′29″E / 37.83611°S 145.02472°E / -37.83611; 145.02472Coordinates: 37°50′10″S 145°1′29″E / 37.83611°S 145.02472°E / -37.83611; 145.02472
Information
Type Independent, Single-sex
Denomination Roman Catholic (Christian Brothers)
Established 1918
Headmaster Stephen F. Russell
Enrolment 2,100
Colour(s) Green, gold and blue               
Slogan "Family, Learning and Fullness Of Life"
Website www.stkevins.vic.edu.au

St Kevin's College, founded 1918, is a Catholic, all-boys primary and secondary school. The college is located in Toorak, Victoria, Australia. It has four campuses, three of which are in the suburb of Toorak; the fourth in Richmond. The school owned a campsite 'Silver Creek' in the town of Flowerdale which was completely destroyed by the Black Saturday bushfires. St. Kevin's was founded by the Christian Brothers. St Kevin's College is a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria.

St. Kevin's overlooks Gardiners Creek, a tributary that runs into the Yarra River, with Scotch College on the opposite side. The college has a long-standing tradition with the historic St. Patrick's Cathedral and is responsible for the choral voices.[1]

St Kevin's is a school of the Archdiocese of Melbourne,[2] and is directed by Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA)[3] and the Headmaster is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[4] and is a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS).[5] and the IBSC (International Boys School Coalition).

History

The school was established in 1918 in East Melbourne by the Christian Brothers who set out to establish a strong tradition of high academic standards. St Kevin's was the matriculation centre for all of the Christian Brothers’ schools in Melbourne. With its early academic success, the enrolment soon outgrew its buildings in East Melbourne. In 1932, the school was moved to the corner of St George and Orrong Roads, Toorak. Property in Heyington was purchased and developed into playing fields. The Heyington Property is now the Senior School Campus, housing Years 7 to 8, and Years 10 through to year 12, in a vertical house system.

The Heyington Campus was built in 1960, notably the Kearney Building, which is visible on the approach from the Glen Waverley railway line. The Lansell Road property was opened in 1972, and that same year the Orrong road property was sold. In 1982, the K.C. Smith building was constructed for the middle school years on the Senior Campus, and in 1990 the Pavilion was opened. Since its opening, the Pavilion has flooded twice, both in 2005. Ovals one and two were completely submerged, resembling flooded school foyers in the 1970s.

Oval Number 1, Scoreboard in the background, and the Pavilion to the right.

The Cummins Building was refurbished in 1997, and currently houses the creative arts precinct, which includes arts, drama, music and artistic works. The McCarthy Building was opened in 1997, housing Art Studios, the Campus Library and the Administration Block. The Lansell Road property is now home to the Glendalough Campus, and in 1999 became a full primary school, housing prep to grade 6 students. Also in 1999, Year 9 students moved from the Senior Campus to a dedicated campus named Waterford in Richmond. Waterford currently resides in the former Vaucluse College FCJ site in Richmond.

In March 2006, a $16 million indoor pool, gym and sports facility, the Wilding Centre, was blessed by Cardinal George Pell and opened for the students.

In 2009 the Godfrey building was opened.

In 2010, the Boyd Egan Hall was opened at Glendalough and substantial floods filled the school's ovals and damaged the Fraser tennis courts.

In 2011, work began on a three storey 14 million dollar Science Wing, located adjacent to Heyington railway station at the end of the Kearney Building.

In 2013, the Kearney West building was officially opened. The building contains brand new science labs, chemistry labs and woodwork rooms, which are used for senior classes.

In 2014, the McMahon Music Centre was opened at Glendalough.

Campuses

St Kevin's College has four campuses:

Curriculum

St Kevin's College offers its Years 11 and 12 students the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), the main assessment program which ranks the students in the state.

The class of 2009 have been highest-performing academic group in the history of the modern VCE for St Kevin's College, making St Kevin's in 2009 the top-performing, non-selective, all boys, Catholic and Associated Public Schools of Victoria member school, with 33 per cent of study scores at 40 or over, and 14 perfect scores were achieved across 10 subjects.[6][7][8]

Co-curriculum

As part of upholding the value of "fullness of life" of the College, a number of initiatives are conducted:

Debating and public speaking

St Kevin's competes in the Debaters Association of Victoria Schools competition, and the Heyington Campus is the host venue for the Toorak regional competition. Five debates are held each year, and St Kevin's teams debate against other Melbourne schools on various current interest topics. St Kevin's participates in a range of other debating and public speaking tournaments, including those organised by Rotary, the RSL, UNYA and as of 2011, the WIDPSC, with one student competing representing Australia, and recording 8th place.[9]

Sport

St Kevin's College is a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria, the College teams take part in a competition providing a wide range of sports at different levels of achievement. In 2009 the College won the Soccer, Australian Rules Football and Rugby premierships – a feat that has never been achieved before in APS sporting history.

Theatre and drama

St Kevin's has a theatre department and each year produces a wide range of Plays, Musicals and Operas. A relationship between several different girls schools has been established to enhance the co-curricular dramatic arts program.

Aviation

St Kevin's College offers an aviation program to its students, and is the only secondary school in Australia to offer students the opportunity to earn a pilot's licence by the time they graduate.[10] The program has been commended by aviators and industry experts such as the late Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE, DStJ [11]

Coat of arms, crest and motto

The current school crest was adopted by Br Kearney in 1933. The school crest bears:

The school's motto is, in Latin, 'Omnia Pro Deo' meaning 'All for God' or transliterated means 'All things for God'. This is taken from a letter of St Paul.

Relationship with other schools

St. Kevin's College, Toorak has a long-standing tradition with Loreto Mandeville Hall with whom it established an ELC Centre, St. Peter's. The College also has a strong establishment with fellow independent schools Korowa Anglican Girls' School, Sacré Cœur School, Genazzano FCJ College and St. Catherine's School.

Notable alumni

Politics, public service and the law

Sport

Luke Mathews, Australian 2016 Olympian representative in the 1500m and 800m.

Media, entertainment and the arts

Clergy

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cathedral Choir". St Patrick's Cathedral: Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
  2. ↑ "Catholic Education Office – Directory". Web.ceomelb.catholic.edu.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  3. ↑ "Our Schools and Entities | Edmund Rice Education Australia". Erea.edu.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  4. ↑ "Schools". AHISA. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  5. ↑ "St Kevin's College". APS Sport. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  6. ↑ VCE Results
  7. ↑ Perkins, Miki (2009-12-17). "Full marks for Mount Scopus in VCE rankings". Melbourne: Theage.com.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  8. ↑ 17 December 2009 12:00AM (2009-12-17). "Mt Scopus in Burwood sees 44 per cent of its VCE students get 40 or more for their subjects". Herald Sun. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  9. ↑ http://aidpsc.webs.com/results.htm
  10. ↑ Vedelago, Chris (2005-10-29). "Passing the test with flying colours – National". Melbourne: theage.com.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  11. ↑ http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/aviation/nap/files/WALTON.pdf
  12. ↑ http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1949/1949repsvic.txt
  13. ↑ re-member – Parliament of Victoria
  14. ↑ "Pandora Archive". Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  15. ↑ "Famous alumni on Latham's hit list". Crikey. 2005-03-30. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  16. ↑ re-member – Parliament of Victoria
  17. ↑ "SavedQuery". Parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  18. ↑ http://www.clemnewtonbrown.com/about-clem.html
  19. ↑ re-member – Parliament of Victoria
  20. ↑ Archived 23 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  21. ↑ "A brilliant career interrupted by war". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 January 2008.
  22. ↑ re-member – Parliament of Victoria
  23. ↑ "The Samuel Griffith Society: Volume 11: Appendix 1". Samuelgriffith.org.au. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  24. ↑ "Parer, Damien Peter (1912–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  25. ↑ "Tipping, Edmond William (Bill) (1915–1970)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  26. ↑ "Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge". Archdiocese of Canberra – Goulburn. 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  27. ↑ "Lombard, Francis William (1911–1967)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
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