Blackwood High School

Blackwood High School
Location
Eden Hills, SA
Australia
Coordinates 35°01′33″S 138°36′23″E / 35.0259°S 138.6063°E / -35.0259; 138.6063Coordinates: 35°01′33″S 138°36′23″E / 35.0259°S 138.6063°E / -35.0259; 138.6063
Information
Type Secondary school
Principal Sharon Goldman
Colour(s) Green, White and Red
              
Website www.bhs.sa.edu.au

Blackwood High School is a co-educational secondary school located in Eden Hills, a south-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia offering the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme with six nearby primary schools and Diploma Programme as the "Mitcham Hills College". It is also a special interest high school that specialise in netball.[1] Blackwood High also offers an enrichment program for identified "gifted" or "talented" students.[2]

Primary schools involved in the Mitcham Hills College are:

  • Belair Primary Schools
  • Bellevue Heights Primary School
  • Blackwood Primary School
  • Coromandel Valley Primary School
  • Eden Hills Primary School
  • Hawthorndene Primary School

The school developed a resource with Sturt Police on "Teenage Parties" that has been adapted by Victorian private schools Scotch College[3] and Toorak College.[4] The Adelaide-based hip hop group, Hilltop Hoods, formed at Blackwood High School.

The school also has a canteen

The school is the site of the Blackwood Community Recreation Centre.

Performing Arts Centre

The Performing Arts Centre, otherwise known as the PAC, the Auditorium, or the Blackwood Community Recreation Centre, was constructed in 2001 with funds raised in several school and community-based fund-raisers.[5] It features several sound-proofed rooms, computing equipment, musical instruments, and a large theatre and stage, with a booth for controlling the lighting and sound effects. The PAC is also used by the community as a church on Sunday mornings.

The main auditorium seats approximately 350, with the capability to have an extended stage because of retractable seating. In addition to the main performing areas, the centre boasts a recording studio, four small practise rooms, two classrooms, offices and storerooms.

Notable alumni

School publications

  • Each year, the school's year eleven students compile a yearbook which has, since its beginnings, been entitled "Cambium". Students contribute articles, photographs, artworks and written works which give a snapshot of the school-year.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Blackwood High School - Netball". Blackwood High School. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  2. ↑ "Blackwood High School - Gifted and Talented". Blackwood High School. Retrieved 25 August 2010.
  3. ↑ "Successful Teenage Gatherings" prepared by the Scotch Family Association with illustrations by Julian Collins. Adapted from "Teenage Parties" by Blackwood High School, SA and Sturt Police, SA
  4. ↑ Special Events and Notices
  5. ↑ City of Mitcham, Media Release Blackwood Community Recreation Centre is Open for Business: Official Opening 13 February 2004
  6. ↑ Whiting, Jessica (2008-09-30). "PHOTO GALLERY: Cooney - a long way from Flagstaff Hill". Hills and Valley Messenger. Retrieved 2008-11-11.

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