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and Philosophy
1977 A
History of the School
"The
new institution is to be conducted, not on sectarian, but on general and
catholic religious principles. In subservience to this, it is designed
to afford the youth of our colony a first class classical and commercial
education, as well as instruction in the higher branches of literature"....
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1982 What
it means to be a Christian School
Within
minutes of commencing the inaugural address of Wesley College in January,
1866, College President James Waugh directed the overflow Wesleyan congregation
to "recognize the goodness of that Great Being whom in this undertaking
we desire to serve and glorify".... Go to writing
1987 The
Values, Philosophy and Ideology of the Culture of Wesley College
In
his 1985 paper entitled A Conceptual Framework for the Development and
Maintenance of a Co-ordinated School Culture, Dr Ross Millikan writes....
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1989
The Glen Waverley Story
A sequence of events starting thirty years
previously will complete a full cycle when the last finishing touch is made to
Wesley's new boarding facility at Glen Waverley late in 1994.....
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1990 A
History of the School
Wesley
College Melbourne is situated on three metropolitan campuses - Prahran,
Glen Waverley and Elsternwick - and two permanent camps, one in mountain
bushland and the other by the coast. Now coeducational, it was a
school for boys until December, 1977....
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1995 Select
thoughts following Glen Waverley CMT Wesley Review Meeting with Graeme
Samuel and Peter Clarke
I claimed at the meeting
that Wesley College's essential mission (the 'sap' of the Wesley 'tree')
is, in a nutshell, to nurture the goodness of all its students through
education.... Go to writing
1996 Thirty
Years Strong
Glen
Waverley Campus is thirty years strong,
Vive
la Compagnie!
So
in purple and gold we will sing you this song.
Vive
la Compagnie! .... Go to writing
1997 Wesley
College Song Book
The Wesley Song Book is
an important conserver of the culture of the College. It stands as
a 104 year old codification of the sentiments and values of the school....
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1999
10-Year+ Staff Questionnaire (Glen Waverley)
[Responses to research questionnaire used by historian Andrew Lemon]....
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2000
Wesley's Heritage
Wesley
College is founded in a person, John Wesley.
Wesley
proclaimed, in his brother Charles’ words, God’s “undistinguishing
regard” for all people. Believing
with St Peter that humanity “might be partakers of the divine nature”
(2 Peter 1:4),
Wesley strove tirelessly to transform eighteenth century British society.
His was a radical, social and personal gospel that brought, amongst myriad
other initiatives, an extensive network of common schools for the previously
unschooled.....
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Church
and School Go Separate Ways
The
Uniting Church stunned the educational establishment today when it announced
that it had sold most of Melbourne's 135 year-old Wesley College.....
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2002
There's An Open Road
Thanks Jenny. Thank you to Doug and to
Greg for all of those words. I appreciated every single one of them and
wasn't it good to hear Greg deflate a bit of ego there?....
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2003
1865 Name-Change at Wesley
David Dunn at GW has asked me to write a short piece re John Wesley and Wesley College.
A significant fact for David is the name-change from 'Wesleyan Methodist Grammar School' to 'Wesley College Melbourne' in late 1865....
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2003 John Wesley : Doing All The Good He
Could
Until just three months before it opened in January 1866, the school we now know as ‘Wesley College’ was to be named ‘Wesleyan Methodist Grammar School’, words that were to adorn the pediment of the new, cement-rendered building with its two grey towers on the road to St Kilda.....Go
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2003 L.
A. Adamson - For The Class Of 2004
One hundred and one years ago, this man, Mr L. A. Adamson - photographed here
in 1902 - became Principal or, using the title of the time, 'Headmaster' of
Wesley.....Go
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City Curriculum Project
1996 City
Curriculum Pilot Project Concept Statement
Based in CBD premises and
under the guidance of the Head of the Year 9 City Curriculum Pilot Project
and Year 9 Homeroom Teachers, Year 9 students, largely self regulated,
will use the resources found in the City of Melbourne.... Go
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1997 All
in Good Time
"...only through the
creation of a critical present is the future going to be more important
than the past." Poignantly significant, it was almost exactly
ten years ago that today's College President Daryl Jackson spoke these
intriguing words.... Go to writing
1997 Year
Nine City Curriculum Pilot Project
Forming one segment of a
planned revitalisation of Middle School curriculum, this project,
dubbed ‘the CCP’, came to fruition in 1997 following preliminary work commenced
in 1996.... Go to writing
1998 City
Curriculum: Imperatives
The CCP must remain true
to its genesis as a recommendation of the 1996 ‘Glen Waverley Middle Years
Project Team’.... Go to writing
1998 Why
Have a City Curriculum?
Because it nurtures occurrences
like this: It was some time between 10.30 and 11.00 am, Thursday,
3rd September - the second day of 9O's CCP. In the Homeroom, Brett,
Ashley and Tom were gently discussing the Legislative Assembly's
'Question Time'....
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2000 Farewell
to the CCP
The City Curriculum Project
is proving to be a champion thoroughbred. And what a lucky trainer
I have been!....
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Boarding
1974 Impressions
after a First Year
The
overriding 'impression' that I receive from this first year as Housemaster
of Adamson is the problem one faces in a community life like ours in, as
John Kennedy and Mr Prest both mentioned in their recent addresses, dovetailing
the worth of the individual and his rights into the worth of the community
and its rights....
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Miss
Bobbitt leaves Wesley
Miss Lucy Bobbitt, resident Assistant Matron since July, 1969, commands
unique perspectives of the Wesley College Boarding House..... Go
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Eulogy
for Ken Raper
Ken would forgive me, I know,
if I start with a football story.... Go to writing
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Coeducation
1981 Coed
can work
If
shortcomings attributed to coeducational schools (Accent, 4/3) are real,
it is repair of the schools' operations that is needed, not the abandonment
of the coeducational goal. A good coeducational school will have
consciously and effectively counteracted sexist prejudice and redressed
discrimination. (That's it! Item in
'Access Age', 'The Age' newspaper, 5/3/81.)
1998 Twenty
Years of Coeducation at Wesley
Pitted
together by ‘The Age’ last October, Wesley’s David Loader and MLC’s Rosa
Storelli jointly declared the primacy of school quality over gender in
a refreshing response to renewed debate regarding coeducation. A
pertinent touch of sibling school congruence!....
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