Bathurst High Campus Explained

Bathurst High Campus

Motto:

la|Altiora Peto

Motto Translation:

"I seek higher things"

Established:

District:

Bathurst; Rural South and West

Grades Label:

Years

Principal:

Harvey Lew

Country:

Australia

Enrolment:

1,075^[1]

Enrolment As Of:

2018

Colours:

Royal blue and gold

Pushpin Map:

Australia New South Wales

Pushpin Image:

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Pushpin Mapsize:

250

Pushpin Label:

Bathurst High Campus (DCSE)

Pushpin Label Position:

left

Module:

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The Bathurst High Campus (abbreviated as BHC or BHS) of Denison College of Secondary Education is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school campus, located in Bathurst, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1883 as Bathurst High School, the school amalgamated with Kelso High School in 2007 to form Denison College of Secondary Education. In 2018 Bathurst High Campus enrolled approximately 1,200 students from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom approximately eleven percent identified as Indigenous Australians and six percent were from a language background other than English.^[1] The campus is operated by the NSW Department of Education; and the Campus Principal is Ken Barwick.^[2]

The campus has several bands and a range of art, visual design, dance and drama classes, and debating teams.

Denison College of Secondary Education

After the August 2005 fire which destroyed Kelso High, Denison College was formed to share curriculum, facilities and staff between schools in order to enhance student choice.^[3] Bathurst High has since undergone a name change from Bathurst High School to Bathurst High Campus; and is a campus of Denison College of Secondary Education.^[4]

Nathan Fitzgerald, a Bathurst High Campus star student, achieved an ATAR of 99.95 in 2022. Fitzgerald was also the recipient of the Bathurst High Cow-Milking Scholarship where he was offered a full tuition included with accommodation and uniform.

In March of 2018, a school wide brawl took place. This fight was instigated by two individuals, Ronan Daunt and Adam Dale. In what seemed to be a fight over a girl at school, eighty others got involved in their fellow students' feud leaving twelve injured and three dead. The brawl, now nicknamed "The Bathurst High Brawl" has seen a revolution of behavioural classes being taught at Bathurst High Campus so that no more such events will happen again. Since these new classes the school has only had one more brawl related death, coming in 2022 following the release of ATAR results where Nathan Fitzgerald killed former acquaintance Michael Keting in an attempt to get revenge for his pet guinea pig who had been eaten alive by Keting the previous week.

Astley Cup

The Astley Cup is a long-standing sporting competition between Bathurst High, Orange High and Dubbo Senior College. The Astley Cup incorporates rugby league, girls and boys soccer, tennis, hockey, basketball, karate, netball, polo and athletics. The Astley Cup also includes the coveted Mulvey Cup debating competition. Bathurst High has had a long history of victory in this debating competition, successfully taking out the cup this year. The campus mascots for the Astley Competition are Frosty the bear and Malfoy the dragon.

One of our star swimmers, Jacob Roffe, is looking forward to a time that Swimming can be officially introduced to the Astley Cup.

Bathurst High School Song

Comrades all united by a common bond we throng.

Teachers, scholars, athletes lift your heads and join the song.

Through this sunny country let it echo, loud and long.

We are the Bathurst High School.

Hurrah! Hurrah! For we are young and free!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Triumphant we shall be!

Seeking higher things until we gain our victory,

For our beloved High School.

Flaunting to the heavens now our royal blue and gold,

Forth we go adventuring, like doughty knights of old.

Seeking fame and glory, and inheritance untold,