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|staff = ~145<ref name="AnnualReport">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_2/pdf/pdf_1357.pdf Lauriston Girls' School: Lauriston Council Annual Report 2006] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>
|staff = ~145<ref name="AnnualReport">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_2/pdf/pdf_1357.pdf Lauriston Girls' School: Lauriston Council Annual Report 2006] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>
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}}</ref> the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),<ref name=AGSA>{{cite web|url = http://www.agsa.org.au/members.php?PageID=11&Alpha=L|title = Member Schools|accessdate = 2008-01-16|last = Butler|first = Jan|year = 2006|work = Members|publisher = The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia}}</ref> the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),<ref name=AISV>{{cite web|url = http://services.ais.vic.edu.au/ebiz/customerservice/schooldetails.aspx?ID=89|title = Lauriston Girls' School |accessdate = 2008-01-16|year = 2007|work = Find a School|publisher = Association of Independent Schools of Victoria}}</ref> and is a founding member of [[Girls Sport Victoria]] (GSV).<ref name=GSVmembers>{{cite web
}}</ref> the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),<ref name=AGSA>{{cite web|url = http://www.agsa.org.au/members.php?PageID=11&Alpha=L|title = Member Schools|accessdate = 2008-01-16|last = Butler|first = Jan|year = 2006|work = Members|publisher = The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719180654/http://agsa.org.au/members.php?PageID=11&Alpha=L|archivedate = 2008-07-19|df = }}</ref> the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),<ref name=AISV>{{cite web|url = http://services.ais.vic.edu.au/ebiz/customerservice/schooldetails.aspx?ID=89|title = Lauriston Girls' School |accessdate = 2008-01-16|year = 2007|work = Find a School|publisher = Association of Independent Schools of Victoria}}</ref> and is a founding member of [[Girls Sport Victoria]] (GSV).<ref name=GSVmembers>{{cite web
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'''<big>Armadale</big>'''
'''<big>Armadale</big>'''


Lauriston's main [[campus]] is located in [[Armadale, Victoria|Armadale]], seven kilometres from the [[Melbourne city centre|Melbourne CBD]].<ref name="Location">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_2/campuslocation111.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Campus Location] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref> The Armadale campus is architecturally interesting as it comprises not only classic [[Victorian architecture|Victorian buildings]] (such as Montrose in the primary school area), but also newer buildings such as a science and technology centre constructed from energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly materials. Kindergarten through to Year 12, excluding year 9, are educated at the Armadale campus.
Lauriston's main [[campus]] is located in [[Armadale, Victoria|Armadale]], seven kilometres from the [[Melbourne city centre|Melbourne CBD]].<ref name="Location">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_2/campuslocation111.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Campus Location] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829232819/http://lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_2/campuslocation111.asp |date=2007-08-29 }} (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref> The Armadale campus is architecturally interesting as it comprises not only classic [[Victorian architecture|Victorian buildings]] (such as Montrose in the primary school area), but also newer buildings such as a science and technology centre constructed from energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly materials. Kindergarten through to Year 12, excluding year 9, are educated at the Armadale campus.


===Howqua===
===Howqua===
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#7/8 Centre: Year 7 and 8
#7/8 Centre: Year 7 and 8
#Howqua: Year 9
#Howqua: Year 9
#Senior College: Year 10, 11 and 12<ref name="OurSchool">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/ourschool178.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Our School] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>
#Senior College: Year 10, 11 and 12<ref name="OurSchool">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/ourschool178.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Our School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829233019/http://lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/ourschool178.asp |date=2007-08-29 }} (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>


Upon graduation, Lauriston students typically achieve high [[Australian Tertiary Admission Rank]] (ATAR) and [[International Baccalaureate]] (IB) scores. In 2016, 7% of students received an ATAR of 99 or over, 36% achieved 95 or over, and 60% of students received ATAR scores of 90 or over. The school has consistently ranked highly across the state, with a median VCE study score in 2016 of 36.
Upon graduation, Lauriston students typically achieve high [[Australian Tertiary Admission Rank]] (ATAR) and [[International Baccalaureate]] (IB) scores. In 2016, 7% of students received an ATAR of 99 or over, 36% achieved 95 or over, and 60% of students received ATAR scores of 90 or over. The school has consistently ranked highly across the state, with a median VCE study score in 2016 of 36.
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===Sport===
===Sport===
Lauriston offers over 20 sports, which may be played at both competitive and recreational level. The school is an [[inaugural]] member of [[Girls Sport Victoria]] (GSV), which is an association of 24 similar type girls schools throughout Melbourne. Through GSV, students in years 7 to 12 may compete at an inter-school level in [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]], [[Basketball]], [[Cricket]], [[Cross country running|Cross Country]], [[Diving]], [[Golf]], [[Hockey]], [[Indoor Cricket]], [[Netball]], [[Soccer]], [[Softball]], [[swimming (sport)|Swimming]], [[Tennis]], [[Volleyball]] and [[Water Polo]].<ref name="Sport">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/sport172.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Sport] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>
Lauriston offers over 20 sports, which may be played at both competitive and recreational level. The school is an [[inaugural]] member of [[Girls Sport Victoria]] (GSV), which is an association of 24 similar type girls schools throughout Melbourne. Through GSV, students in years 7 to 12 may compete at an inter-school level in [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]], [[Basketball]], [[Cricket]], [[Cross country running|Cross Country]], [[Diving]], [[Golf]], [[Hockey]], [[Indoor Cricket]], [[Netball]], [[Soccer]], [[Softball]], [[swimming (sport)|Swimming]], [[Tennis]], [[Volleyball]] and [[Water Polo]].<ref name="Sport">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/sport172.asp Lauriston Girls' School: Sport] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829233123/http://lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_4/sport172.asp |date=2007-08-29 }} (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref>


Lauriston has a successful history in rowing. They usually compete in IVs but have occasionally raced a VIII. At the 2010 [[Head of the Schoolgirls (Victoria)|Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta]] the Lauriston senior crews won the Div 1 schoolgirl IV, Div 2 schoolgirl IV and Div 3 schoolgirl IV. The first IV were national gold medallists in the Schoolgirl IV in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and won a bronze medal in 2015.
Lauriston has a successful history in rowing. They usually compete in IVs but have occasionally raced a VIII. At the 2010 [[Head of the Schoolgirls (Victoria)|Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta]] the Lauriston senior crews won the Div 1 schoolgirl IV, Div 2 schoolgirl IV and Div 3 schoolgirl IV. The first IV were national gold medallists in the Schoolgirl IV in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and won a bronze medal in 2015.


== Notable alumnae ==
== Notable alumnae ==
[[Alumnae]] of Lauriston Girls' School are known as 'Old Lauristonians', and may elect to join the school's [[alumni association]], the 'Old Lauristonian Association' (OLA).<ref name="OLA">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_5/ola-oldlauristoniansassoc114.asp Lauriston Girls' School: OLA – Old Lauristonians' Assoc.] (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref> Some notable 'Old Lauristonians' include:
[[Alumnae]] of Lauriston Girls' School are known as 'Old Lauristonians', and may elect to join the school's [[alumni association]], the 'Old Lauristonian Association' (OLA).<ref name="OLA">[http://www.lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_5/ola-oldlauristoniansassoc114.asp Lauriston Girls' School: OLA – Old Lauristonians' Assoc.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829231910/http://lauriston.vic.edu.au/section_5/ola-oldlauristoniansassoc114.asp |date=2007-08-29 }} (accessed:04-09-2007)</ref> Some notable 'Old Lauristonians' include:


*[[Hildred Mary Butler]] – Microbiologist<ref name="ADBButler">[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130362b.htm?hilite=lauriston Australian Dictionary of Biography: Butler, Hildred Mary (1906–1975)] (accessed:27-07-2007)</ref>
*[[Hildred Mary Butler]] – Microbiologist<ref name="ADBButler">[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130362b.htm?hilite=lauriston Australian Dictionary of Biography: Butler, Hildred Mary (1906–1975)] (accessed:27-07-2007)</ref>

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Lauriston Girls' School
Lauriston Girls' School crest. Source: www.lauriston.vic.edu.au (Lauriston website)
Location
Map
Armadale
,
Victoria

Australia Australia
Coordinates37°51′6″S 145°1′32″E / 37.85167°S 145.02556°E / -37.85167; 145.02556
Information
TypeIndependent, Single-sex, Day school
MottoTemplate:Lang-la
("Holiness, Wisdom, Strength")
DenominationNon-denominational
Established1901[1]
ChairmanElspeth Arnold
PrincipalMs Susan Just
Staff~145[3]
Enrolment~1,040 (P-12)[2]
Colour(s)Navy Blue and White   
Slogan"A school for life"
Websitewww.lauriston.vic.edu.au

Lauriston Girls' School is an independent, non-denominational, day school for girls, located in Armadale, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Established in 1901, Lauriston has a non-selective enrolment policy and is co-educational for three-year-old and four-year-old Kindergarten, and girls-only from Prep through to Year 12. The school currently caters for approximately 1040 students and offers the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) and is also one of the few Victorian schools that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) for the Year 11/12 students.

Lauriston is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),[4] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[5] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA),[6] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),[1] and is a founding member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV).[7]

Campus

Armadale

Lauriston's main campus is located in Armadale, seven kilometres from the Melbourne CBD.[8] The Armadale campus is architecturally interesting as it comprises not only classic Victorian buildings (such as Montrose in the primary school area), but also newer buildings such as a science and technology centre constructed from energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly materials. Kindergarten through to Year 12, excluding year 9, are educated at the Armadale campus.

Howqua

The school has a rural campus for its year 9 students, known as 'Howqua', near the town of Mansfield in the Victorian high country.[8] Attendance is compulsory for all year 9 students, with the girls spending the whole school year on the campus as full-time boarders. It is similar to Timbertop, run by Geelong Grammar School, but students generally take part in a wider range of outdoor activities. Students at Howqua participate in activities such as downhill and cross-country skiing, horse riding, solo camping, hiking, rafting, rock climbing and other outdoor recreational activities, culminating the year with a 6-day hike through Victoria's mountainous regions. Students also participate in a community service rotation during the winter term, which involves activities such as building tracks, planting trees, gardening, visiting residential homes, acting as assistant teachers in rural schools, and running their own radio station.

There are 10 houses, each able to hold 12 girls although generally holding 10. These houses are Hollyer, Gillespie, Thompson, O'Brien, Fitz-Gibbon, Wirringga, Arthur-Robinson, Cramond, Mirrabooka and Kirkpatrick. Each house has beds, a bathroom, a kitchenette, dining/main area, wardrobe spaces, hike room, drying room and two balconies. The campus also offers a dining hall, a "dungeon" which doubles as a fire shelter, class rooms, Resource center/library, music rooms, health center, art center, dance studio and staff houses. The campus offers running tracks such as the ring road, rainbow track, weir track (a 4 km run), lone pine (originally named Peg Slam J- using the letters of the girls names who built the track as part of their community service) and more. At the end of each term, a running challenge of 9.4 km is to be run in 1hr, called the Howqua River Road Challenge.

It began in 1993 and in 1997 it became compulsory for students to attend the Howqua campus for the duration of a full school year. Originally students stayed at Howqua for 1 semester only, now it is compulsory for them to stay the whole year.[citation needed]Girls return home once a term on exeats (3 to 5 days) and return home for term holidays, before departing for Howqua again.

The concept of Howqua is to help girls develop emotionally and physically independent of their family in a world without constant technology. Mobile phones and laptops are banned from use at Howqua and internet is also not allowed. It also aims to forge strong relationships between girls and social skills are greatly developed. All year-round Howqua girls are urged to push themselves to achieve their goals, strengthening their sense of self-determination. The year leads up to many major end-of-year challenges, including a 17.3 km run from Telephone Box Junction on Mt Stirling to the summit, continuing onwards up Bourke St to summit of Mt Buller.

In the 2006/2007 summer holidays, bushfires greatly threatened the Howqua Campus. The campus was also very threatened by fires and evacuated for the first time in early 2009.

Curriculum

The Lauriston curriculum is managed within five learning areas, based on the developmental stages of children and adolescents.

  1. Kindergarten: 3 and 4 Year Old
  2. Junior School: Transition Prep to Year 6
  3. 7/8 Centre: Year 7 and 8
  4. Howqua: Year 9
  5. Senior College: Year 10, 11 and 12[9]

Upon graduation, Lauriston students typically achieve high Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) and International Baccalaureate (IB) scores. In 2016, 7% of students received an ATAR of 99 or over, 36% achieved 95 or over, and 60% of students received ATAR scores of 90 or over. The school has consistently ranked highly across the state, with a median VCE study score in 2016 of 36.

Co-curriculum

Music

Lauriston's music program caters for students from Prep to year 12, and offers a number of choral and instrumental ensembles, including bands and orchestras. Annually, there are approximately twenty-five performance occasions, including the 'Annual School Concert', which is held at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

From Years 3 and 4, a compulsory string orchestra group is formed. Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass is assigned to them.

Lauriston also stages one Musical and one Play each year, one for students in years 5 to 8 and another for years 10 to 12. Recent performances include Seussical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Little Mermaid Jr.

Sport

Lauriston offers over 20 sports, which may be played at both competitive and recreational level. The school is an inaugural member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), which is an association of 24 similar type girls schools throughout Melbourne. Through GSV, students in years 7 to 12 may compete at an inter-school level in Athletics, Basketball, Cricket, Cross Country, Diving, Golf, Hockey, Indoor Cricket, Netball, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball and Water Polo.[10]

Lauriston has a successful history in rowing. They usually compete in IVs but have occasionally raced a VIII. At the 2010 Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta the Lauriston senior crews won the Div 1 schoolgirl IV, Div 2 schoolgirl IV and Div 3 schoolgirl IV. The first IV were national gold medallists in the Schoolgirl IV in 2010, 2011 and 2013 and won a bronze medal in 2015.

Notable alumnae

Alumnae of Lauriston Girls' School are known as 'Old Lauristonians', and may elect to join the school's alumni association, the 'Old Lauristonian Association' (OLA).[11] Some notable 'Old Lauristonians' include:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Lauriston Girls' School". Find a School. Association of Independent Schools of Victoria. 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
  2. ^ Butler, Jan (2007). "womenleading@global.edu" (PDF). The Alliance of Girls' Schools Annual Conference. Melbourne, Vic.: The Alliance of Girls' Schools (published 2007-06-15). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2007-10-02. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help).
  3. ^ Lauriston Girls' School: Lauriston Council Annual Report 2006 (accessed:04-09-2007)
  4. ^ "AHISA Schools". Victoria. Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia. January 2008. Archived from the original on 2007-11-02. Retrieved 2008-01-16. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "JSHAA Victorian Directory of Members". Victoria Branch. Junior School Heads' Association of Australia. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2008-01-16. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Butler, Jan (2006). "Member Schools". Members. The Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia. Archived from the original on 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2008-01-16. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Mawkes, Leonie (2005). "Member Schools". Profile. Girls Sport Victoria. Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2007-10-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ a b Lauriston Girls' School: Campus Location Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:04-09-2007)
  9. ^ Lauriston Girls' School: Our School Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:04-09-2007)
  10. ^ Lauriston Girls' School: Sport Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:04-09-2007)
  11. ^ Lauriston Girls' School: OLA – Old Lauristonians' Assoc. Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:04-09-2007)
  12. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Butler, Hildred Mary (1906–1975) (accessed:27-07-2007)
  13. ^ a b c d e f Crikey.com.au: Famous alumni on Latham's hit list Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine (accessed:26-04-2006)
  14. ^ Fink, Esme Mary Sorrett (Molly) (1894–1967) (accessed:27-07-2007)
  15. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Irving, Sybil Howy (1897–1973) (accessed:27-07-2007)
  16. ^ de Silva, Janet (2005-08-29). "Girl power". Education News. Melbourne: The Age. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
  17. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Kirkhope, Elizabeth Kilgour (1896–1978) (accessed:27-07-2007)
  18. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Syme, Kathleen Alice (1896–1977) (accessed:27-07-2007)
  19. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography: Vasey, Jessie Mary (1897–1966) (accessed:27-07-2007)
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