SMA Kent Street is a public high school located on the outskirts of East Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia.
More than 50 percent of students who attend Kent Street live in neighboring school districts or others. This is largely due to Kent Street specialist programs (Aeronautics, Cricket, Fashion, Design, and CoRE (Center of Resources Excellence).
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History
The Western Australian Parliament received many proposals for high schools located south of the river during the 1920s but a lack of funding was largely due to depression meant schools did not materialize. In 1932, a survey was conducted to find that 410 primary school age children live in the area of ​​South Perth and Victoria Park. The construction of the first building began in 1939 and the school started operations known as Kent Street Central School in 1940 with 354 students.
The school building is a listed heritage and is described as a classic inter-free style brick building complex and tile and lawn buildings.
The school has a famous cricket heritage. School teams have entered the Cricket High Cricket Australia carnival, won in Brisbane 1994, and in Melbourne 2000 and 2005. The school hosted a carnival in 1996, 2001 and 2006.
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Campus
The school is primarily based on a 10 hectare (4.0 acre) campus on Kent Street in East Victoria Park. The school campus is divided into three levels, because its sloping hill is positioned. Schools have no termination in the age group except for Canteen Quad for high school students and Upper School Quad from high school students.
Flight Course
The school began offering courses in Aviation to Year 11 students in 1979. The first class consisted of 27 students. In 1988 courses were opened for high school students to enroll. Fundraising is needed to purchase some of the necessary equipment and Joan Terry, wife of the late Paul Terry, donated the hangar plane in 1994. In 2000 the school has developed a partnership with Edith Cowan University to promote aviation education in Western Australia. The flight course was one of the courses piloted in the launch of the Study Program in 2004 and became a TEE equivalent course.
In 2008, the school joined a partnership with Skywest Airlines, a regional airline based in Western Australia. With this partnership, flight students can now experience work experience and Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) at Skywest Airlines, assist Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAME) to carry out maintenance on Fokker 50 and Fokker 100 jet planes. In addition, high school flight students can doing a return flight with the Skywest pilot. Students work with pilots to determine the weight and balance of aircraft, describe complex meteorological data and apply relevant navigation principles to this advanced jet aircraft.
Rotary Residential College
Rotary Residential College is on leased land from Kent Street High School. The notion of college is generated by the constant demand for the metropolitan Rotary clubs for accommodation for high school students who want to learn a special program that is only provided in city-based high schools. With the help of Federal, State and Local Governments, the corporate sector and guided by several Rotary Club Individuals, the project is now a reality and has been in operation since 1991.
Over the past twelve years, about 450 people have utilized their accommodation and they come from nearly 100 small towns.
Alumni
Kentian Community
The Kentian Society promotes social relationships between past and present school members, and supports the school by providing scholarships, scholarships and gifts through the Kentian Scholarship Foundation. All previous students and staff from Kent Street High School and their families are eligible to become members.
Founded in 1992, the Society is a former former student and staff association of West Australian government secondary schools. It was formed after the celebration of the 50th anniversary of a very successful school in 1990.
Famous Alumni
- Bradd Dalziell - AFL, Brisbane Lions 2008 - 2009, West Coast Eagles 2010 - 2013.
- Max Duffy - AFL, Fremantle Football Club 2013 - Present
- Michael Dighton - Cricket, Western Warriors, Tasmanian Devil's Soccer Club
- Milton Hook - The Seventh-day Adventist Historian
- Glenys Godfrey - MLA for Belmont
- Michael Jeffery AC, CVO, MC - Governor-General of Australia; Governor of Western Australia; Major General of the Australian Army
- Rod Marsh MBE - Australian Test cricketer
- Chris Mayne - AFL, Fremantle Football Club 2008 - Present
- Tendai Mzungu - AFL, Fremantle Dockers 2011 - Now
- Marcus North - Cricket, Western Warriors
- Phillip O'Hara - Professor of Political Economy, Curtin University
- Luke Pomersbach - Cricket, Western Warriors
- Luke Ronchi - Cricket, Western Warriors
- Duncan Spencer - Cricket, Kent County Cricket Club, West Fighter;
- David Taylor - Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire County Cricket Club
- Ashley Thorpe - Cricket, County Durham Cricket Club
- Andrew Vlahov - NBL, Perth Wildcats, Generation Boomers Australia, 4-times Olympian (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000)
- Ray Wardrop - Managing Director of the Perth Nine Channel, formerly Channel Seven Channel Manager and CEO of Australia Day Council of WA
- Christine Wheeler AO, QC - Justice in Supreme Court of Western Australia
- Shane Woewodin - AFL, Melbourne Football Club, Brownlow 2000 Medal, Collingwood Football Club
See also
- List of boarding schools
- List of schools in Perth, Western Australia
References
Note
Further reading
- Ex-Principal, Rod Breseford
- History of Kent Street High School, written by the past staff in 1985.
- Student Records in the School Science Block.
External links
- Official school website
- Kentian Society
- School website at www.TeachWeb.com.au
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