Wide-ranging reflections upon noted Australian K-12 school Wesley College, Melbourne
by long-serving teacher Martyn Smith

WESLEY COLLEGE

MELBOURNE

Reflections

Martyn Smith

Wesley College former teacher, Martyn Smith

During the years before my retirement in July, 2002, I urged myself to place into one photo-copied publication an eclectic batch of my writings about Wesley College, Melbourne -- writings that had accumulated during my career at that 3500-student coeducational K-12 Australian independent school comprising three campuses, St Kilda Road, Glen Waverley and Elsternwick.

Good intentions, however, constantly crumbled into procrastination in the face of the manual compilation of such a collection.

A website though!! Now there was an opportunity!!

I had great fun gathering the material and creating this site. It was good to re-discover the themes and viewpoints that I found in these thirty or so pieces.

I offer them for any who may be interested.

The Contents page organises the pieces for you, giving the opening sentence or two from each one. The audience of each piece is provided when you arrive at its page.

Any response you may have to any of the writing will be very welcome. Simply come back here after reading and email me.

Best wishes,

Martyn Smith.

CONTENTS

Education Outdoors

Open Entry Enrolment

City Curriculum Project

History and Philosophy

"The College is established for the charitable object of providing for students a holistic education of the highest quality, based upon the concepts of innovation and wisdom and a vision of timeless principles of learning: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live with and learning to be, within the faith and unity of the Church."

Clause 3
Constitution of Wesley College, Melbourne

CAREER AT WESLEY

Glen Waverley Campus
   2006-2007 Teacher [casual], City Curriculum Project
   2004         Teacher [casual], City Curriculum Project
   2003         Acting Lay Chaplain [part-time]
   2000-2002 Head, Professional Development
   1997-2000   Head, City Curriculum Project
   1985-1997   Head, Junior School
   1979-1981   Secretary, Common Room Association
   1977-1985   Lay Chaplain

St Kilda Road Campus
   1974-1976   Boarding Housemaster
   1973           Year Nine Coordinator
   1972, July   Commenced teaching at Wesley

1980-1986 Member, Council of Wesley College

1978-1990 Wesley College parent
2014- Wesley College grandparent

1956-1963 Wesley College student

James Waugh said ....
Rev J.S. Waugh presided over, and resided at, Wesley College from 1866 till April, 1884 - Wesley's first eighteen years. His 11th January, 1866, Inaugural Address is a rich source of quotations proclaiming the philosophical foundations upon which the College is built. One of these, in an updating series, appears here.	"No man is deemed respectable now who is unacquainted with science and with books. The Ploughman, the Artisan, and the Miner of our day, know something of learning. The people of this new land of ours agree to cherish and promote it. Gold is not the only thing that men prize here. There are two things which Australia honours, and they are - Character and Education."

Wesley College Coat of Arms

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