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academically selective and specialist

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, Australia. HAHS is the oldest government boarding school in New South Wales.

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and Hurlstone Agricultural High School are the state's only public selective and agricultural schools that also include a co-educational boarding school. The Hurlstone Agricultural campus includes

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blocks, an operational

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, sporting facilities and student accommodation. Hurlstone was named the Macarthur region's best academic school, ranking 11th in the NSW top 200 list for the 2012 academic year. The school had 148 distinguished achievers, 13 on the state's top achievers' list, eight on the all-rounders' list and three students who topped the state in a course. Students are required to sit the

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in Year 6 to be granted enrolment into the school. The allowance mark is usually between 205 and 215 in the Selective test (out of 300). Students can also gain entrance by sitting a similar exam in other grades.

History

Hurlstone was established as a boys-only school in 1907 in

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, approximately ten kilometres south west of Sydney, at the present site of Trinity Grammar School. The original owner of the land was a teacher, John Kinloch, one of the first graduates of the

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. He named the land 'Hurlstone Estate', after his mother's maiden name and set up his own school on it in 1878 which he called the Hurlstone School and College.Hurlstone Agricultural High School
School History
In those days most students completed their schooling after

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and students at 'Hurlstone Agricultural Continuation School' (as it was known at the time) studied there for only two years. In 1926 the school moved to its present site in Glenfield, approximately 42 km south-west of Sydney (between

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and Campbelltown) and adjacent to Glenfield railway station. By then its student numbers had grown from 30 in 1907, to 148. The school supported government policy to promote productivity in the agricultural sector through the training of boys in all aspects of

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s and farm management. For a brief period in the early 1940s it was known as 'Macarthur Agricultural High School' in honour of wool-grower

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, but it soon reverted to its previous name. Hurlstone was a

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until 1979, when the decision was made to become co-educational. In 2008, the

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declared 140 hectares of Hurlstone's farmland 'surplus' and proposed the sale of the land, leaving the school with just 20 hectares. The announcement was met with immediate public protest and the formation of a local community group Save Hurlstone Educational and Agricultural Property (SHEAP) eventuating in a government inquiry into the proposed sale and proceeds of the sale. There was further pressure against the plans when the

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heritage listed the school in late 2009. The government inquiry resulted in a recommendation of the sale of a small parcel of school land with the proceeds intended to help upgrade school facilities. On 18 November 2015, there was another proposal to sell the land the school and its farm operated on.

Principals

The following individuals have served as principal of the Hurlstone Agricultural High School:

Population

Enrolment at the school is dependent on selective examinations of Year 6 students from across the state. New students coming in later grades have to sit a similar exam. The student population of about 975 is divided between boarder students (who reside on the school grounds and originate mainly from country NSW), and day students (who commute mostly from the south western Sydney region). The boarder-day student ratio is roughly 1:8. For sporting and accommodation purposes the school is divided into four houses:

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(red), Macarthur (yellow), Wentworth (blue) and

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(green).

Campus

Hurlstone Agricultural High School is located on a single

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, covering the area from Glenfield railway station, along Roy Watts Road and extending to sections of Quarter Sessions Road near the

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. Glenfield station is serviced by the T8 Airport & South Line, the T5

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and the T2

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. The school has several

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, including the Department of Education regional office. It also has several specialty schools, Ajuga School, Glenfield Park School and Campbell House School. Ajuga School supports students from K-12 with a complex trauma background and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder and supporting students to transition back into their mainstream 'census' school. Campbell House is for students with behavioural issues that cannot go to their local school (usually due to expulsion) while Glenfield Park is for students with intellectual disability and emotional disturbance. Hurlstone features a fully functional

and a commercial

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. Animals on the farm include:

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and

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sheep Sheep or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus '' Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticate ...

horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

s, pigs, and

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s and

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were also formerly farmed. The school's swimming pool is located adjacent to the boarding school, and was used for swimming carnivals, school sports and recreational purposes. Towards the end of 2012, the pool was closed down due to hygiene issues and cracks along the pool. Plans to rebuild the pool have been considered but no construction has started. It is currently assumed that the pool will never be repaired, due to the fact that the land on which it sits will no longer be a part of the new Roy Watts school after Hurlstone moves. However, in December 2019, the plan to move Hurlstone was cancelled. The boarding school has modern facilities, where boarders can sleep, study, exercise and socialise. Facilities include a well-being center, cardio rooms, spacious dining hall, a lecture theatre, a

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and private dormitories. The day school also have facilities including

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, toilets, an

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, football fields, careers office, music rooms, the John Edmondson hall, Covered Outdoor Learning Area, computer rooms, technology rooms,

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area,

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s, cricket nets and the Stanley Cook Memorial

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. Clarke House is a heritage listed building which houses Hurlstone's memorabilia museum. The school also hosts a memorial forest and

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on Roy Watts Road, past the boarding school. Established in 1950, it is believed to be Australia's first living war memorial, with a gum tree dedicated to each of the 600 students from the school who served in WWI and II. Currently,

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and

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ceremonies are held at the memorial forest. As part of the 2008 mini-budget, the

declared 140 hectares of the school to be surplus to educational needs and the land will be sold in 2011. NSW Government Mini-Budget - Andrew Stoner However, due to a strong public protest against this action, an inquiry was led into process of selling approximately seven-eighths of the school.http://www.hurlstoneinquiry.nsw.gov.au As a result, Mal Peters, the Inquiry Chair, recommended the school's agricultural sector to be upgraded in order to reflect current industry practice and standards due to it being an economic, wise and important public investment for the people of NSW as it supplies young scientists with the knowledge for the ever declining, but demanding agricultural sector of the world. In 2020 a new school called Hurlstone Agricultural High School was to open at Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury. The existing school in Glenfield would be renamed Roy Watts High School (after Hurlstone alumnus Roy Watts) and would remain fully selective but would no longer be an agricultural school. However, this decision was cancelled in December 2019. The farm land would have been converted to a new public school as well as housing and a shopping centre.

Extracurricular activities

The school provides opportunities for students to engage in both co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Students may participate in certain clubs which promote these activities. Some groups are unique when compared to public schools within the district, such as the Cadet corps,

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and Rural Youth. Hurlstone's Interact Club is the largest student run Interact in the Southern Hemisphere.

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is an important part of extracurricular life at Hurlstone. Hurlstone also participates in the Law Society of NSW's Mock Trial competition. The 2011 team came 2nd in the competition. Other extracurricular activities at the school include the Prefects, HCF (Hurlstone Christian Fellowship), School SRC, Environment Committee, Debating,

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, Boarder Council, Pops

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, Ensemble,

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, Hurlstone (Health) Youth, Archives, Safe Space and EPIC (Entertainment and Performing Arts Integrated Community). These groups help to improve the school in a number of ways from the environment to the entertainment sector.

Notable alumni

Education

* Tim Soutphommasane - Research Fellow in the National Centre of Australian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne and a senior project leader with the Per Capita think tank. He has also held the position of Race Discrimination Commissioner at the

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since 2013 * Alan O. Trounson (1958 - 1962) - biologist, stem cell researcher and IVF pioneerp. 45 ''Hurlstone Inquiry''.

Entertainment, community, media and the arts

* Toby Allen - singer for band ''

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'' * Phil Burton - singer for band ''

'' * Robert F. Cranny - ARIA award-winning music producer and songwriter * Peter Moore - author * Dan O'Connor - Top 12 of 2004 Australian Idol and actor *

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- actress and Radio Personality *

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- singer for band ''

'' * Michael Tierney - singer for band ''

'' *

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- comedian

Military

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- Chief of the Defence Force (CDF) Australia. *

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- soldier in

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; the Hurlstone school hall is named in his honour * Sir William Keys - National Secretary of RSLp. 619 ''Who's Who in Australia'' 1977

Politics, public service and the law

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- politician, former

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- politician, former Leader of the

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* Dick Klugman, Member for federal seat of Prospect 1969 - 1990, Co-founder of NSW Council for Civil Liberties; * Jim Lees - former Commissioner of the

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* Clinton Mead - politician,

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* Amanda Stoker - former Senator for Queensland 2018 - 2022

Sport

Scott Kneller Scott Kneller (born 1989) in central Australia. He is an Australian freestyle skier. He represented Australia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Competing in the ski cross, he came seventh. He came second in his 1/8 final, and then in ...

- Freestyle Skier and competed in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics * David Lyons - rugby union player, WallabiesPatty, Anna (26 May 2006)
From the principal's desk: furniture sale means I've been carpeted
''Sydney Morning Herald''. * Cec Ramalli - Wallaby * Paul Reid - football player, Socceroos * John Taylor - rugby union player,

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Agriculture

* David Lowe - winemaker & owner, Lowe Wines, President NSW Wine Industry, Vice President Australian Winemakers Federation * Charles Melton - winemaker

References

External links

* {{Authority control Agricultural schools Educational institutions established in 1907 Boarding schools in New South Wales Selective schools in New South Wales Public high schools in Sydney 1907 establishments in Australia Glenfield, New South Wales Macarthur (New South Wales)