Bathurst High School (New South Wales)

Bathurst High School
Location
Bathurst, New South Wales Australia
Coordinates	33°24′47″S 149°34′10″E / 33.41306°S 149.56944°E / -33.41306; 149.56944Coordinates: 33°24′47″S 149°34′10″E / 33.41306°S 149.56944°E / -33.41306; 149.56944
Information
Type	Public, Co-educational, Secondary, Day school
Motto	Altiora Peto
Established	1 October 1883
Principal	Geoff Hastings
Enrolment	969
Campus	Rural
Colour(s)	Royal Blue & Gold
Website

Bathurst High School (BHS) or as it is now known, Bathurst High Campus, is a secondary school in Bathurst founded in 1883. Along with Kelso High Campus it makes up Denison College of Secondary Education.

The school is very active in the Arts, with several bands and a range of art, visual design, dance and drama classes. It also has successful debating teams.

Denison College of Secondary Education

After the tragic fire in 2005 which destroyed Kelso High, Denison College was formed to share curriculum, facilities and staff between schools in order to enhance student choice.^[1] Bathurst High has since undergone a name change and is no longer known as Bathurst High School, but rather Bathurst High Campus. It is now a campus of Denison College of Secondary Education.^[2]

Astley Cup

The Astley Cup is a long-standing sporting competition between Bathurst High, Orange High and Dubbo Senior College. Bathurst High School won the competition in 2010 after having last won the cup in 1989. The Astley Cup incorporates rugby league, girls and boys soccer, tennis, hockey, basketball, netball and athletics. The Astley cup also includes the coveted Mulvey Cup debating competition. Bathurst High has had a long history of victory in this debating competition, successfully taking out the cup this year. The school mascots for the Astley Competition are Frosty the bear and Malfoy the dragon.

School song

Bathurst High School Song

Comrades all united by a common bond we throng.

Teachers, scholars, athletes lift your heads and join the song.

Through this sunny country let it echo, loud and long.

We are the Bathurst High School.

Hurrah! Hurrah! For we are young and free!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Triumphant we shall be!

Seeking higher things until we gain our victory,

For our beloved High School.

Flaunting to the heavens now our royal blue and gold,

Forth we go adventuring, like doughty knights of old.

Seeking fame, land, glory and inheritance untold,

Far from the Bathurst High School

Hurrah! Hurrah! For we are young and free!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Triumphant we shall be!

Seeking higher things until we gain our victory,

For our beloved High School.

Notable alumni

Allan Robert Callaghan - Rhodes Scholar (1925).^[3]
Rodney Rude- Stand-up Comedian, Poet and Writer
Brian Booth- Australian Cricket Captain
Archie Thompson - Long serving forward for the Socceroos

References

↑ — State Parliament Transcript list, (retrieved 24 August 2008)
↑ "Teach Web" — Teach Web list, (retrieved 24 August 2008)
↑ "NSW Rhodes Scholars" — University of Sydney list, (retrieved 16 April 2007)

External links

Bathurst High Website

Bathurst High Website

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