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Independent, single-sex school in Malvern, Victoria, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
De La Salle College is a Catholic private school for boys in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern. The college was founded in 1912 by the De La Salle Brothers, a religious order based on the teachings of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, and is a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges. The college consists of three campuses (Tiverton, Holy Eucharist and Kinnoull) located in Malvern and Malvern East. De La Salle's sister school is Star of the Sea College.
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1318 High Street 9 Northbrook Avenue , 3144 Australia | |
| Coordinates | 37°51′21″S 145°1′55″E |
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| Type | Independent, single-sex |
| Motto | Latin: Deo Duce (With God As Leader) |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic (Lasallian) |
| Established | 1912 |
| Sister school | Star of the Sea College |
| Principal | Peter Houlihan |
| Years | 5–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Colour(s) | Blue and gold |
| Affiliation | Associated Catholic Colleges |
| Website | www |
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There are three campuses, Tiverton, Kinnoull and Holy Eucharist, all within Malvern. Because of their proximity and for government funding reasons they are considered one campus.
Approximately 430 students in years 10–12 occupy Kinnoull Campus, adjacent to Malvern Cricket Ground and Malvern Library. The site was purchased in 1955, and was initially a junior campus until it was established as the senior campus in 1984. De La Salle offer multiple pathways including VCE, VET and VCAL[clarification needed] Facilities include a chapel, Saint Miguel lecture theatre, amphitheatre, library, oval, and a cafeteria style canteen.
The Holy Eucharist Campus includes a dedicated Arts area, modern classrooms with up to date AV technology, a multipurpose school hall, bike and storage amenities, basketball court and located next door to the Holy Eucharist Parish Church. The campus offers an independent curriculum for year 9 students exclusively and is considered a formative year of personal development and growth for year 9 students prior to joining the Kinnoull Campus in Year 10.
Tiverton Campus is located on High Street and is home to year 5–8 students. Facilities include recently refurbished classrooms, a Performing Arts Centre, gymnasium, weights room, basketball courts, a chapel, large library and dedicated arts and technology spaces. The Rheims centre is an advanced technical and science space opened in 2018.[2]
De La Salle College offers its senior students the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).
| Year | Rank | Median study score | Scores of 40+ (%) | Cohort size |
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| 2012 | 136 | 31 | 8.2 | 217 |
| 2013 | 176 | 30 | 7.8 | 244 |
| 2014 | 186 | 30 | 6.4 | 241 |
| 2015 | 175 | 30 | 6.7 | 216 |
| 2016 | 232 | 29 | 5.3 | 226 |
| 2017 | 178 | 30 | 6.4 | 217 |
| 2018 | 115 | 32 | 7.2 | 207 |
| 2019 | 138 | 31 | 7.8 | 193 |
| 2020 | 165 | 30 | 8.5 | 200 |
| 2021 | 118 | 31 | 10.3 | 218 |
| 2022 | 240 | 29 | 5.4 | 160 |
| 2023 | 134 | 31 | 7.5 | 192 |
As a member of the Associated Catholic Colleges, interschool competition is offered to year 7–12 students in:
ACC matches are timetabled into the school week. Students are also involved in state and national level competitions in athletics, snow sports and weightlifting.
The college is known for its experienced football squads, having won the Senior football competition 52 times since its entry in 1948.
De La Salle has won the following ACC premierships.[4]
On the final day of term 1, the college participates in Mission Action Day (formerly Charity Action Day), which consists of a 13 km walk from Kooyong Stadium to T.H. King Oval, Glen Iris and back.
The walk is usually completed in two hours, with students sponsored for completing the walk, thereby raising much needed funds for schools in third-world countries, including the Philippines and Indonesia. This event has raised $30,000 AUD in 2021.
The De La Salle 'Yaluwo' are a group of recently graduated Year 12 students who travel to Sri Lanka to work on projects that help the Sri Lankan Lasallian community at Diyagala Boys Town. Money raised by the students throughout the year goes towards the completion of the projects.
The De La Salle students work as labourers for approximately four weeks and while they are doing so, live with the De La Salle Brothers and immerse themselves in the community they are helping.[5] This is an alternate way for students to celebrate their year 12 graduation whilst contributing to underprivileged communities. All students must commit to the immersion at the start of their year 12-year and raise a minimum amount per student for the building projects. Students also cover their own transport and living costs.
St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle was born in Reims, France on 30 April 1651. He was 29 years old when he realised that the educational system of his day was inadequate to meet the needs of poor children. To provide a Christian and human education that would be practical and effective, La Salle founded a religious community of men, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Fratres Scholarum Christianarum), dedicated to the instruction of youth.
After many hardships, Jean-Baptiste De La Salle died on Good Friday, 7 April 1719. He was canonised a saint of the Catholic Church in 1900 and declared "Universal Patron of All Teachers" by Pope Pius XII in 1950. The feast of St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle is celebrated on 15 May by the worldwide La Sallian movement of approximately 1 million students in over 85 countries.
The Royal Commission estimated that 13.8 percent of De La Salle Brothers, Australia wide, were alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse.[6] De La Salle Malvern are known to have had two brothers actively offending whilst teaching at the college. One, Brother Frank 'Ibar' Terrence Keating, was sentenced in 2018 to five years and three months in jail for indecently assaulting eight students between 1969 and 1977.[7] Historian Edward Duyker, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities who gave evidence to the Royal Commission, has drawn attention to the presence of other paedophile Brothers who resided at the college and abused boys next door at St Joseph's Primary School, Malvern, in the 1960s. He has also documented sexual abuse, alleged abuse, or concealment of abuse by other Brothers, as well as child sexual abuse offences committed by former students of De La Salle College, Malvern (including a school captain), who joined the De La Salle Brothers or the priesthood.[8]
There are four Houses:
Houses help create a sense of belonging and identity for students within the College.
Each classroom at the Tiverton campus in De La Salle has a patron saint. There are seven in total.
Peter Romancon (Brother Benildus) was born in Thuret, France, on 14 June 1805. He worked quietly and effectively as a teacher and principal, educating boys – many of whom had never been to school before – in Saugues, an isolated village on a barren plateau in southern France. It was said of him that he was "always cheerful" in the daily routine of school. He died at Saugues on 13 August 1862, and was declared Blessed on 4 April 1942. He was canonised on 29 October 1967, and his feast day is 13 August.
Brother Dunstan Drumm was born in Ireland on 11 July 1880 in Ardee, County Louth, and arrived in Australia in 1912. He became the first Headmaster of De La Salle College and remained in that position from 1912–1917. He then taught in New South Wales, eventually returning to Ireland in 1922 where he taught in schools there and in England. He died on 24 September 1952 and is buried in Kintbury, UK.
Father Simon Hegarty CM arrived at St Joseph's Parish Church in Malvern in 1895 and was instrumental in negotiating the appointment of the De La Salle Brothers to Malvern to open a school for boys. His term as Parish Priest ended in 1914 when he volunteered as War Chaplain. He later returned to his homeland, Ireland, where he died on Christmas Eve 1935.
Brother Jerome Foley was born in Ireland on 9 August 1886 and is one of the original three brothers who commenced De La Salle College, Malvern, on 5 February 1912. He is the longest-serving Headmaster of the College from 1929–1946, which was followed by his appointment as Provincial of the De La Salle Brothers from 1929–1958. Brother Jerome died on 9 September 1975, and is buried in the Brothers Cemetery at Oakhill College in Sydney. Behind a somewhat gruff exterior, Brother Jerome concealed a sensitive heart. He had an uncanny knack for bringing badgering or cajoling them. He nurtured a whole group of young men remarkable for their academic achievements and for their loyalty to the church.
Nicholas Roland, born in Rheims on 2 December 1642, founded the congregation of the Holy Infant (Child) Jesus. As the spiritual Father of Saint John Baptist De La Salle, he approached him as his executor and begged him to secure the approval of the congregation of the Sister of the Infant Jesus, which he founded for the instruction and salvation of poor and abandoned children. He died on 27 April 1678. His feast day is 27 April.
Nicholas Leclercq (Brother Solomon) was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, on 15 November 1745. During the French Revolution he refused to take the oath to the Constitution and died a martyr on 2 September 1792 in the prison of Carmes (Carmelites), Paris. He was proclaimed as Blessed with his companion martyrs on 17 October 1926. His feast day is 2 September.
St Vincent de Paul was born in the village of Pouy in Gascony, France, in about 1580, and was ordained as a priest in 1600. In 1617, he began to preach missions, and in 1625 he founded Congregation of the Mission – or Vincentians – who now administer to St Joseph's Parish in Malvern. St Vincent is the Patron saint of the St Vincent de Paul Society (Vinnies), founded in Paris in 1833 by the Blessed Frederic Ozanam. His feast day is 27 September.
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