Box Hill High School
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| Box Hill High School | |
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| Ad Altiora Certamus "To The Highest Endeavour" |
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| Established | 1930 |
| School type | Public |
| Principal/ Headmaster |
Robert E Jenkins |
| Location | Box Hill, VIC, Australia |
| Campus | Box Hill |
| Enrollment | 900 |
| School colours | Blue, yellow, white |
| Homepage | http://www.boxhillhs.vic.edu.au |
Box Hill High School is a co-educational public secondary school located in the eastern suburb of Box Hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It provides education for years 7-12. Year 11 and 12 students undertake the VCE program. There are currently approximately 900 students enrolled at the school.
Box Hill High School runs an Accelerated Learning Program for gifted students, which teaches the curriculum to these students at a much faster rate. Box Hill was only the second public school in Victoria to introduce such a program; there are now twenty-seven. Entrance to the program is selective, and determined by exams during Grade Six. Within the program, syllabi from Years 7-10 are compacted into three years, after which time students proceed directly into VCE, completing it in either two or three years. Year 9 students in the accelerated program have the option of doing Year 11 Mathematical Methods and/or Biology.
The school also has a large Model Solar Car Program, detailed below.
[edit] Model Solar Car Competition
Box Hill High School has a reputation of consistently designing, building and eventually racing model Solar Cars at the Victorian and National levels. With production beginning in late term 1 or early term 2 the team has approximately half a year to create a fleet of vehicles (up to 12) worthy of the carrying the Box Hill High School name on their side. The Victorian state event, or VMSCC, is held at the ScienceWorks Museum, Spotswood, in October each year. The most successful years for Box Hill High so far have been 2005 (with 1st place, best engineered), and 2006 (with 2nd, 3rd, and best engineered). The team has not yet achieved a placing at the annual national event, but brings home the best engineered design award with unnerving consistency from both the the state competition and the national event.
The 2007 event is scheduled to take place at Scienceworks on 20-21 October.
[edit] 2006 event
'AZN PRD': 3rd place at the 2006 Victorian Event
'Kinki': 2nd place at the 2006 Victorian event
'Opel Kadett': Winner of the coveted 'Best Engineered' award in Victoria for 2006
[edit] Performing Arts
The school, not renowned for the performing arts, has a rapidly improving program within the school. It manages to hold two full scale productions per year, which star students, and even a few staff members. Past productions include The Outsiders, The Importance of Being Earnest, Guys and Dolls, Charley's Aunt and Kiss Me, Kate.Yes Yes Bravo jolly good show
