Haileybury (Melbourne)
independent secondary college in Melbourne, Australia
Haileybury is an Australian private school with campuses in Keysborough, Brighton East, Berwick, Melbourne's CBD, Darwin, Northern Territory and online campus, Haileybury Pangea. It also has an international campus in the Tianjin outer district of Wuqing, China. Middle School (Years 5-8) at Haileybury introduces parallel education where students are separated into single-gender classrooms for their academic studies and for sport and camping programs. Although learning in separate classes, boys and girls share the same campus and socialise in co-curricular activities. Haileybury has been described as the largest independent school in Australia.
Haileybury is a member of the following associations:
Independent Schools Victoria (ISV)
Associated Public Schools (APS)
Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA)
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
History
Charles Rendall, an old boy of Haileybury College, Hertfordshire (1873) and graduate of Oxford University (1879), moved to Australia in 1882, becoming a teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek at Melbourne University, Melbourne Grammar, and later at Scotch College. In 1892, with five staff and 17 students, he opened a new Haileybury campus in Brighton East, Victoria. The school was based on the traditional English public school model with an emphasis on classical texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, and cricket.
Louis Berthon joined Rendall's staff in 1894. Due to Rendall's continuing health problems, especially after 1906, Berthon was often in charge.
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