Muirfield High School
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| Muirfield High School | |
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| Established | 1976 |
| School type | Government, Public, Secondary |
| Students | 571 |
| Grades | 7-12 |
| Principal |
Steve Billington |
| Deputy Principal |
Ian Beasley |
| Location | North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia |
| School colours | Green and Purple |
| Homepage | Muirfield High School |
| muirfield-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au | |
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[edit] General information
Muirfield High School is a secondary school situated in North Rocks, New South Wales, Australia.
It is a comparatively small school, with 571 students, but increasing each year. Both the principal and deputy principal, as well as many of the teachers, know the majority of the student's and parent's names, minimising the barrier between students, teachers and parents.
The school colours are bottle green and purple, which are seen on the junior school's (Years 7-10) school shirts. The senior school (Years 11-12) wear a white shirt (polo, business or blouse) which contains the school's purple and green Scottish Thistle emblem.
The Barclay Farm is a great feature of the school. Also relating to agriculture, every year Muirfield puts up a display at the Castle Hill Show, and for its most recent display, won a trophy for "Best School Display", Muirfield High School has participated in the Castle Hill Show every year for the past 15 years.
Muirfield is also notable for winning the Small Schools division of the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge in 2004, the first year Muirfield ever entered this competition.
There is also a baseball diamond at Muirfield, which is used extensively by Carlingford Baseball, in both the summer and winter baseball seasons.
[edit] Annual Events
Muirfield High School celebrated Harmony Day again, for the second year, on Tuesday 20th March.
National Harmony Day promotes the social, cultural and economic benefits provided by Australia's rich cultural and linguistic diversity. It is a simple and powerful way of expressing that there is no place in our community for racial intolerance or disharmony. It also encourages a sense of citizenship and pride in our nation and local community.
The orange ribbon originated as a symbol of anti-racism. Now, as a positive symbol of harmony in our community, it is a simple but effective way of showing others that we believe living in harmony in a culturally diverse society benefits all citizens.
On 8th March, Muirfield High School held a "Mother and Daughter Breakfast" to celebrate what women have achieved together to make the world a better place, and to recognise the work needed to ensure equality for women and girls around the world. This was the 2nd time this breakfast had been held.
The female students at Muirfield were encouraged to invite a significant woman in their life to the breakfast, such as their mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunty, sister, or female guardian.
On 22nd March, 2007, the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO and her husband Sir Nicholas Shehadie were guest speakers at this year's International Women's Day Assembly. This assembly was for junior students only, with the Year 11 and 12 students not being allowed to go, and it was an honour for Muirfield that they, with their very busy schedules, were able to find time to celebrate with Muirfield.
- Open Day
Like every school, Muirfield has an Open Day each year, to allow potential students, and their parents, to come and get a feel of Muirfield High School. This day involves current students touring the potential students and their parents around the school, showing them things such as the classrooms, the farm and the computer rooms.
[edit] Leadership
Muirfield High School is an advocate for student leaders, with an extensive range of leadership positions that are re-elected each year. This year, Muirfield High School's captains are Jozef Banati and Tiffany Hoy. The vice captains are Mark Brownscombe and Shereen Erikli. Muirfield also has a Student Representative Council (S.R.C.) lead by Gerardo Iacullo and Luke Suisted (president and vice president accordingly).
[edit] School Houses
After a recent vote within everyone in the school, it was decided that the school's houses would be refurbished. They were originally named after famous sports people from different fields and from different countries
These houses have been changed to Australian sports people, both men and women, whom most students have actually heard of.
- Thorpe (Blue, symbolising the water he swam in)
- Beachley (Yellow, symbolising the sand, and the beach)
- Freeman (Green, symbolising the track she ran on)
- Eales (Red, symbolising the blood he bled, which represents the effort he put into his game)
