Kent Street Senior High School Explained

Kent Street Senior High School
Motto:Courage to Achieve
Type:Public co-educational specialist high day and boarding school
Principal:Kacey Single
Location:Kent Street, East Victoria Park,
Perth, Western Australia
Country:Australia
Educational Authority:WA Department of Education
Pushpin Map:Australia Perth
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in, Western Australia
Pushpin Label Position:right
Campus:Suburban
Enrolment:1083
Enrolment As Of:2022
Colours:Red, blue and white
Area:100NaN0
Campus Type:Urban
Module:
Embed:yes
Designation1:State Register of Heritage Places
Designation1 Type:State Registered Place
Designation1 Date:31 March 2006

Kent Street Senior High School is a public co-educational specialist high day and boarding school in the Town of Victoria Park, located on Kent Street in East Victoria Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

Over 50 percent of students attending Kent Street live in neighbouring or other school districts. This is largely due to Kent Street's specialist programs (aeronautics, cricket, fashion & design, and Centre of Resources Excellence (CoRE)).[1] [2] [3]

History

The Western Australian Parliament received many proposals for a high school to situated south of the river through the 1920s but a lack of funds mostly due to the depression meant that the school did not eventuate. In 1932 a survey was conducted finding that 410 post primary age children were living in the South Perth and Victoria Park areas. Construction of the first building commenced in 1939 and the school commenced operations known as Kent Street Central School in 1940 with 354 students.

The buildings of the school are listed on the Western Australia Heritage Register and described as a complex of Inter-war Free Classical style brick and tile buildings and grounds.[4] School teams have entered Australian 5 Highs Cricket carnival, winning at Brisbane 1994, and at Melbourne 2000 and 2005. The school hosted the carnival in 1996, 2001 and 2006.[5]

Campus

The School is based primarily on its 10acres campus on Kent Street in East Victoria Park. The campus of the school is divided into three levels, because of its sloping hill it was positioned on. The school has no breaking in age groups except for a Canteen Quad for lower-school students and an Upper School Quad for upper school students.

Aviation course

The school began to offer a course in aviation to Year 11 students in 1979. The first class was composed of 27 students. In 1988 the course was opened for lower school students to enrol in. Fundraising was required to purchase some of the equipment required and Joan Terry, wife of the late Paul Terry, donated an aircraft hangar in 1994. By 2000 the school had developed a partnership with Edith Cowan University to promote aviation education in Western Australia. The aviation course was one of the courses trialled in the Courses of Study roll-out in 2004 and became a TEE (now ATAR) equivalent course.[6]

In 2008, the school joined a partnership with Skywest Airlines (now a subsidy of Virgin Australia), a Western Australian-based regional airline. With this partnership, aviation students can now undertake work experience and Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) at Skywest Airlines, assisting Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAME's) to undertake maintenance on Fokker 50 and Fokker 100 jet aircraft. In addition, upper school aviation students are able to undertake return flights with Virgin Australia pilots. Students work with the pilots to determine the weight and balance of the aircraft, decipher complex meteorological data and apply navigation principles relevant to these sophisticated jet aircraft.[7]

Rotary Residential College

The Rotary Residential College is on land leased from Kent Street Senior High School. The idea of the college was generated by the constant requests to metropolitan Rotary clubs for accommodation for high school students wanting to study special courses only provided at city based high schools. With the help of Federal, State and Local Governments, the corporate sector and guided by some Individual Rotary Clubs, this project is now a reality and has been operating since 1991.

Over the past 29 years some 450 boarders have availed themselves of the accommodation and they have come from nearly 100 country towns.

Notable alumni

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ministerial Media Statements Kent Street Senior High School . 2010 . 2010-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120226091610/http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Lists/Statements/DispForm.aspx?ID=131491 . 26 February 2012 .
  2. Web site: Department of Education - Specialist Programs. 2010. 2010-08-30.
  3. Web site: CoRE - Centre of Resources Excellence - Specialist Program. Kent Street Senior High School. 23 May 2018.
  4. Web site: Heritage Council of WA - Register of Heritage Places . 2005 . 2010-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090923080713/http://register.heritage.wa.gov.au/PDF_Files/03372%20Kent%20St%20SHS%20%28I%29.PDF . 23 September 2009 .
  5. Web site: Adelaide High School - Australian 5 Highs' Cricket Carnival . 2010 . 2010-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100916010049/http://www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au/australian_5_highs.htm . 16 September 2010 .
  6. Web site: Steve Irons MP - Kent Street Senior High School . 2010 . 2010-08-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110308164913/http://steveirons.com.au/News/Speeches/tabid/72/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/195/Kent-Street-Senior-High-School.aspx . 8 March 2011 .
  7. Web site: Kent Street Senior High School & Skywest Partnership . 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110301124538/http://kentst.wa.edu.au/aviation/industry-partnership-skywest-airlines . 1 March 2011 .
  8. Web site: About Us . 4 February 2022 . Kent Street Senior High School.
  9. Web site: 'Kentians' gather as Kent Street High School turns 70 . Media Statements . 4 February 2022 . 30 October 2010 . 8 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011920/https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2010/10/%E2%80%98Kentians%E2%80%99-gather-as-Kent-Street-High-School-turns-70.aspx . dead .
  10. Web site: Drew Porter Australia . ESPN.com . 4 February 2022.

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