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Scotch College
Address
Map
1 Morrison Street

Hawthorn
,
Victoria
,
3122

Australia
Coordinates37°50′3″S 145°1′46″E / 37.83417°S 145.02944°E / -37.83417; 145.02944
Information
Typeprivate school, single sex, Christian day and boarding school
MottoLatin: Deo Patriae Litteris
(For God, for Country, and for Learning)[1]
DenominationPresbyterian[3]
Established1851; 173 years ago (1851)[2]
FounderRev. James Forbes
ChairmanHamish Tadgell
PrincipalDr Scott Marsh
ChaplainRev. Dr. Douglas Campbell & Rev. David Assender
Staff~300
GenderBoys
Enrolment1,890 (P–12)
HousesBond, Davidson, Eggleston, Field, Fleming, Forbes, Gilray, Lawson, Littlejohn, Monash, Morrison, Selby-Smith
Colour(s)Cardinal, gold and blue
     
AffiliationAssociated Public Schools of Victoria
AlumniOld Scotch Collegians
Websitewww.scotch.vic.edu.au

Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the urging of James Forbes.[4] It is the oldest extant secondary school in Victoria[2][5] and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2001.

Scotch is a founding member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS),[6] and is affiliated with the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC),[7] the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),[8] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA),[5] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),[3] and the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.[9] The School is a member of the Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools.

An investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2021 found that Scotch is one of Australia's richest schools,[10] and had the largest financial investment portfolio of any Australian school (valued at the time at more than $144 million).[11]

History

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The School at its former East Melbourne site (circa 1906) prior to moving to the current site at Hawthorn

Scotch College is the oldest surviving secondary school in Victoria. Its foundation was due to the initiative of James Forbes, of the Free Presbyterian Church, who had arrived in 1838 as the first settled Christian minister in what became the colony of Victoria in 1851. It is "the outcome of the old Scottish ideal of education", in which church and school were inextricably connected. The school opened on 6 October 1851, under the name of the Melbourne Academy in a small house in Spring Street, with Robert Lawson, a Scot from Edinburgh University, as the first principal. The house was soon outgrown, as was a larger one on the northwest corner of Spring and Little Collins Streets (later the Ulster Family Hotel) and the Church applied to the government for a grant of land. Two acres were reserved for the school on Eastern Hill and substantial new buildings were erected there in 1853. The cost was met partly by a government grant and partly from funds raised by the friends of the school.

Lawson resigned in 1856. Under his successor, Alexander Morrison, the school grew and prospered; it came under the oversight of the newly formed Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1859. Morrison had been Rector of St John’s Grammar School, Hamilton, Lanarkshire [12]and remained at Scotch for 46 years, during almost all of which time his brother Robert was a master of the college.[13]: 2  William Still Littlejohn, who took over the school in 1904, served for 29 years, and his successor, Colin Macdonald Gilray, for 19. So, when the school became the first in Victoria to celebrate its centenary, Gilray was only the fourth principal.

Gilray was succeeded in 1953 by R. Selby Smith, an Old Rugbeian who had served in the Royal Navy during the war and was at the time of his appointment deputy director of Education for Warwickshire. Smith resigned in 1964 to become the Foundation Dean of Education at Monash University.

C. O. Healey, who had been Headmaster of Sydney Grammar School since 1951, succeeded Smith. Healey retired in January 1975.

In the following May, P. A. V. Roff, formerly Headmaster of Scotch College, Adelaide, was installed as the seventh principal of the college. Roff's tenure, though a brief seven years, was characterised by an expanding voice for staff in the day-to-day management of the school, the establishment of a Foundation Office at the School under the direction of a Development Officer and the widening of the House System to provide greater depth in pastoral care. His last few years saw the school in dispute over ownership of the school and, for the principal and his school community, it was a time of stress. In 1980 the decision was made to incorporate the school and a new Council was appointed, with representatives from the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, the Old Scotch Collegians' Association and the community at large.

F. G. Donaldson, a vice principal from Wallace High School (Northern Ireland), with a PhD in atomic physics from Queen's University Belfast, succeeded Roff in 1983. Under his principalship there was a significant building program that created new facilities for the education of boys, the development of ICT for administrative and educational purposes, and enhanced pastoral care of students.

I. Tom Batty was appointed as the ninth principal of Scotch and installed into office on 14 July 2008. Prior to his appointment he was Housemaster of Villiers House, Eton College in the UK. The early years of Batty's tenure saw the introduction of a new House-based pastoral care structure in the Upper School, which began at the start of the 2011 school year.

S. H. Marsh was appointed as the tenth principal of Scotch, commencing his term in January 2023. He was previously the Headmaster of William Clarke College in Sydney.

Name

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The name "Scotch College" appears at the entrance to the boarding precinct (2009)

The School was originally called "The Melbourne Academy", after its location, when it opened in 1851. In its early years it was also known as

  • Mr Lawson's Academy – named after the first principal, Robert Lawson
  • The Grammar School
  • The Scots' College – the college of the Scots
  • The Scotch College – the college that is Scottish

For a while all of these names were used concurrently until in the 1860s the usage settled on "The Scotch College", which was later shortened to be simply "Scotch College".[14]

Coat-of-arms and motto

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The Monash Gates feature the school's coat of arms (right side) and the symbol of the Presbyterian Church (left side)

The School's coat-of-arms (shown above, right) features the following elements:[15]

  • The Burning Bush – the Burning Bush, from the Book of Exodus, is a common symbol used by the Presbyterian Church, representing Christian faith.
  • A white saltire on a blue background – the flag of Scotland (St Andrew's Cross) representing the School's Scottish heritage.
  • The Southern Cross – the Southern Cross constellation is a common symbol for Australia, representing the School's location and home.
  • A crown – representing loyalty to the sovereign and legitimate government.
  • A lymphad or birlin – a Scottish heraldic ship with oars in use, thus rowing into the wind, and representing enterprise and perseverance.
  • A torch – representing the torch of knowledge and learning.

The motto of the School, shown in Scottish heraldic style in a scroll above the coat-of-arms, is Latin: "Deo Patriae Litteris". Its meaning in English is "For God, For Country, For Learning".[15]

Principals

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The Quadrangle (1975)

Tom Batty commenced his term in 2008 and resigned in mid 2022. His successor, Scott Marsh, commenced his term in 2023.[16]

Years served Name
1851–1856 Robert Lawson[4]
1857–1903 Alexander Morrison[17]
1904–1933 William Still Littlejohn[18]
1934–1953 Colin Macdonald Gilray OBE MC[19]
1953–1964 Richard Selby Smith OBE
1965–1974 Colin Oswald Healey OBE TD
1975–1981 Philip Anthony Vere Roff
1983–2007 Francis Gordon Donaldson AM
2008–2022 Ian Thomas Batty
2023–present Scott Hugh Marsh

Governance and denominational affiliation

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Littlejohn Memorial Chapel (2009)

Scotch is an incorporated body governed by a Council of seventeen members – who are directors – made up of three groups; Five Presbyterian Church of Victoria nominees (Group A), Five persons (usually Old Boys) nominated by the Old Scotch Collegians' Association (Group B), and seven persons nominated by Council from the community at large (Group C), usually with some connection with the School and the Christian church. All appointments are made annually by the Presbyterian Church from the first of November every year.[20]

Chairmen of the Council have included Sir Arthur Robinson, Sir Archibald Glenn, Sir James Balderstone, Michael Robinson AO, David Crawford AO and David A. Kemp AC.

In 1977, most congregations of the Australian Presbyterian Church left the church and joined with the Methodist and Congregationalist churches in Australia to form the Uniting Church in Australia. The Presbyterian Church of Australia continued with the remaining congregations. In the split, Scotch College, Melbourne was allocated to the Presbyterian Church of Australia by the Handley Commission which was appointed to distribute the assets of the churches, which included an even number of representatives from the Uniting Church and the continuing Presbyterian Church as well as independent commissioners. At the time the Scotch Council unsuccessfully appealed this decision.[21]

Campuses

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The Senior School, as seen from the forecourt of the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel, with the open-air pulpit in the foreground (2009)
  • Hawthorn: The school has a single boarding, sporting and academic campus of 27 hectares (67 acres) in suburban Hawthorn.[22] Sporting facilities include ovals and soccer/rugby fields, two synthetic grass hockey/soccer fields, tennis courts, an indoor swimming pool, an indoor diving pool, three gymnasiums, two weights rooms and three squash courts. As the school is situated on the banks of the Yarra River, the school has rowing and boating facilities located within its grounds.[22]
  • Healesville: The school has 80 hectares (198 acres) of forest with a lodge in the hills at Healesville east of Melbourne, used for Class Retreats, as well as Scout and Cadet camps.[22]
  • Phillip Island: The school has an absolute-beach-front residential seaside property at Cowes on Phillip Island, which is the site of a one-week orientation camp for Year 7 students and other camps.[22]

Boarding

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One of the three boarding houses - School House (2012)
One of the three boarding houses - Arthur Robinson House (2014)
Isabella Lawson Lodge, home of the Dean of Boarding

Scotch has been a boarding school since its foundation.[23] Today the School caters for 160 boarders of whom around 70% are drawn from around Australia and 30% are from overseas.[24] The boarding precinct is on "The Hill" which overlooks the Senior School at the main Hawthorn campus. There are three boarding houses: School House, McMeckan House and Arthur Robinson House. Both School House and McMeckan House were built as the gift of Anthony Mackie, and his brother and sisters, in memory of their uncle Captain James McMeckan.[25] Arthur Robinson House is named after a Chairman of the School Council, Sir Arthur Robinson.[26]

Curriculum

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Scotch students study towards the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), which is the main secondary student assessment program in Victoria which ranks students with an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) for university entrance purposes.

Scotch College VCE results 2012-2020[27]
Year Rank Median study score Scores of 40+ (%) Cohort size
2012 23 36 26.9 440
2013 22 36 27.0 459
2014 14 36 26.6 451
2015 32 35 22.3 443
2016 28 35 23.9 453
2017 16 36 26.8 439
2018 31 35 21.6 450
2019 24 35 27.2 427
2020 26 35 23.4 432

Extra-curricular activities

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The music and drama school - named the James Forbes Academy after the School's founder James Forbes (2009)
Ian Roach Concert Hall - one of the three main performing venues in the James Forbes Academy (2010)

Some extra-curricular groups and activities at Scotch are:

  • Army Cadet Corps: The Scotch College Cadet Corps was established in 1884, and holds an annual Tattoo. Cadets have weekly activities at the school and participate in camps and bivouacs.[28][29]
  • Pipe Band: The Scotch College Pipes and Drums Band was established in 1946 and is one of the oldest school pipe bands in Australia. It wears the Gordon tartan, and competes at national and international competitions and highland festivals. It performs at school and public events including in the annual ANZAC Day March to the Shrine of Remembrance. It is the current national champion in the Juvenile grade.[30][31] The pipe band performed on stage with Sir Paul McCartney on 5 and 6 December 2017, during his One on One tour. Sir Paul famously autographed the vellum of the bass drum on stage.[32]
  • Military Band: The Military Band performs at school, and in public including in the annual ANZAC Day March to the Shrine of Remembrance and on overseas tours. All members of the band are also members of the Australian Army Cadet Corps.[33]
  • 1st Hawthorn (Scotch College) Scout Group: Scotch has its own Scout Group, established in 1926, that is part of Scouts Australia. The Scout Group meets regularly each Thursday at the school and participate in off-campus activities such as camps.[34]
  • Sports First Aid: A Wednesday afternoon service that boys can choose to undertake to gain advanced training in first aid. Members of the service learn valuable skills such as CPR and soft and hard tissue injury management. Members help the Scotch College community by regularly attending Saturday mornings to treat any injuries suffered during sport matches. An annual camp is held at Cowes where boys practice the skills they have learned.[35]
  • Debating: Scotch regularly participates in debating, competing in the Debaters Association of Victoria Schools Competition. Each season, the school hosts the Hawthorn region of the Schools Competition. In 2008 the First Debating Team were the State A Grade runners-up, while the school was also runner up in the State British Parliamentary Debating Competition.[36] Scotch debaters have recently toured the United Kingdom participating in inter-school debating tournaments.[37][38] In 2009, Scotch won the inaugural Monash Viewpoint Economics Debate.[39] In 2010, Scotch made Victorian debating history when it won the A Grade (Year 12), B Grade (Year 11) and C Grade (Year 10) State Grand Finals in the DAV (Debaters Association of Victoria) Debating Competition.[40][41]

Sport

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The school's boat ramp and boat houses are within the grounds of the Hawthorn campus on the Yarra River (2014)
Statue at the Melbourne Cricket Ground of Tom Wills umpiring the first recorded match of Australian rules football between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar

Scotch College competes in the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) league in athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, cross country, Australian rules football, hockey, rowing, rugby, soccer, squash, swimming and diving, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and water polo.

In addition to the APS competition, Scotch competes in a number of other sporting competitions, including:

  • Henley Royal Regatta: In 2017 the first crew went to Henley Royal Regatta after winning the Head of the River and Australian Rowing Championships. They won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup, becoming the first Victorian crew ever to win it and the third Australian crew.[42] In 2019 the first crew again made the final of the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup, coming second to Eton College.[43]
  • Cordner–Eggleston Cup: This Cup is contested each year by the first football teams of Scotch and Melbourne Grammar School. It commemorates the first recorded game of Australian rules football, which was played between the two schools on 7 August 1858, which ended in a 1–1 draw and is today commemorated by a statue depicting the game outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[44][45]
    Main article: Cordner–Eggleston Cup
  • The Batty Shield: This Shield is contested between the first cricket teams of Scotch and Eton College. The Shield was inaugurated in 2008 after a number of cricket tours between the schools, and is named after the ninth principal of Scotch who was previously a Housemaster at Eton, Mr I. Tom Batty.[46][47]
  • The Tait Cup: This Cup is contested between the first cricket teams of Scotch and Geelong Grammar School and commemorates the links between the schools back to their first cricket match in 1855.[48]
  • The John Roe Shield: This Shield is contested between the first soccer teams of Scotch and Saint Peter's College, Adelaide.[49]
  • The Colin Bell Trophy: This Trophy is contested between the first Rugby teams of Scotch and Melbourne Grammar School which recognises the first schoolboy game of Rugby played in Victoria in 1932.[50]

APS Premierships

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Scotch has won the following APS premierships:[51]

  • Athletics (19) – 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1935, 1940, 1942, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978
  • Badminton (10) – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  • Basketball (3) – 1991, 1995, 2016
  • Cricket (32) – 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1911, 1915, 1922, 1928, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1964, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2012, 2017, 2019
  • Cross Country (10) – 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2021
  • Football (36) – 1891, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1913, 1916, 1930, 1932, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1989, 1996, 2006
  • Futsal (3) – 2016, 2017, 2024
  • Hockey (10) – 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009
  • Rowing (47) – 1868, 1869, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1876, 1879, 1881, 1884, 1891, 1892, 1899, 1900, 1907, 1908, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1941, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 *less participation, 2022, 2023
  • Soccer (3) – 1992, 1994, 2016
  • Swimming (8) – 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
  • Swimming & Diving* (3) – 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Table Tennis – 2003
  • Tennis (4) – 1988, 1989, 2019, 2021
  • Volleyball (2) – 2012, 2022
  • Water Polo (3) – 2004, 2011, 2012

*From 1998 until 2013, swimming and diving events were awarded as a single premiership.

Alumni

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Main article: List of Old Scotch Collegians
"The Hill", which is the location of the boarding precinct, above the Littlejohn Memorial Chapel (2009)
The Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for Science (2017)
Interior of the Memorial Hall (2010)

Alumni of Scotch College are known as Old Boys or Old Collegians, and automatically become members of the School's alumni association, the Old Scotch Collegians' Association (OSCA).[52]

Studies over the years have found that Scotch College had more alumni mentioned in Who's Who in Australia (a listing of notable Australians) than any other school.[53][54][55][56] In 2010 The Age reported that Scotch College "has educated more of Australia's most honoured and influential citizens than any other school in the nation", based on research that revealed its alumni had received more top (Companion) Order of Australia honours than any other school.[57] Although knighthoods are no longer bestowed in Australia, at least 71 Scotch College alumni have been knighted.[58]

Alumni of Scotch College include

Images of Hawthorn campus

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  • The Quadrangle at the school's current Hawthorn site (2009)
    The Quadrangle at the school's current Hawthorn site (2009)
  • The Junior School (shown 2012) was the first part of the school to move to the current Hawthorn site
    The Junior School (shown 2012) was the first part of the school to move to the current Hawthorn site
  • The weeping elm in The Quadrangle (2009)
    The weeping elm in The Quadrangle (2009)
  • The elms of Monash Drive, named after Sir John Monash (2009)
    The elms of Monash Drive, named after Sir John Monash (2009)
  • Looking into the indoor swimming pool in the Glenn Centre from the Meares Oval (2012)
    Looking into the indoor swimming pool in the Glenn Centre from the Meares Oval (2012)
  • The Burning Bush sculpture is in the Old Scotch Square (2012)
    The Burning Bush sculpture is in the Old Scotch Square (2012)
  • The Shergold Building is part of the Junior School
    The Shergold Building is part of the Junior School
  • The "Mother and Son" sculpture
    The "Mother and Son" sculpture
  • The James Forbes Academy overlooking the Main Oval and the Littlejohn Chapel in the distance (2019)
    The James Forbes Academy overlooking the Main Oval and the Littlejohn Chapel in the distance (2019)
  • Keon-Cohen dining hall – the student tuck shop
    Keon-Cohen dining hall – the student tuck shop
  • Spencer Centre for Design and Technology
    Spencer Centre for Design and Technology

See also

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References

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  37. ^ No debating it - this was a marvellous tour, Great Scot, April 2006.
  38. ^ Debating around England and France, Great Scot, May 2008.
  39. ^ Scotch successful at Monash University’s inaugural Viewpoint Economics debating competition, Great Scot, September 2009
  40. ^ Unanimously, it was debating's annus mirabilis, Great Scot, December 2010.
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  49. ^ Scotch College Website. "Soccer". Retrieved 22 November 2009.
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  57. ^ Topsfield, Jewel (4 December 2010). "Ties that bind prove a private education has its awards". The Age. p. 11. The hard copy article also published a table of the schools which were ranked in the top ten places, as follows: (1st with 19 awards) Scotch College, Melbourne, (2nd with 17 awards) Geelong Grammar School, (3rd with 13 awards) Sydney Boys High School, (equal 4th with 10 awards each) Fort Street High School, Perth Modern School and St Peter's College, Adelaide, (equal 7th with 9 awards each) Melbourne Grammar School, North Sydney Boys High School and The King's School, Parramatta, (equal 10th with 6 awards each) Launceston Grammar School, Melbourne High School, Wesley College, Melbourne and Xavier College.
  58. ^ Fun Scotch Facts - K is for Knights, https://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/media/278487/K%20is%20for%20Knights.pdf
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Further reading

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  • Stuart Gerstman and James Mitchell, Visions of Boyhood - Scotch College in Pictures, Hardie Grant Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-74066-565-0
  • Stephen Matthews, The Pipes and Drums: Scotch College Melbourne - A History, Scotch College Pipes and Drums Auxiliary, 2007, ISBN 978-0-646-48090-9
  • James Mitchell, A Deepening Roar - Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001, Allen & Unwin, 2001, ISBN 1-86508-576-6
  • Desmond Zwar, The Soul of a School, Macmillan, 1982, ISBN 0-333-33840-5
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