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Yarra Valley Grammar School is an independent, co-educational grammar school, located in Ringwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school was established in 1966 as Yarra Valley Church of England School for boys. In 1973, Yarra Valley Anglican School established a Hearing Unit for the Deaf under the tutelage of Bill Robinson. Its premise was that deaf children should receive the opportunity to grow and develop with their "hearing" peers in normal classroom settings. Hearing impaired students were encouraged to participate in all extracurricular activities, such as school sports. It has since grown to encompass every year level. The Hearing Unit also has its own classroom facilities where students receive assistance with speech therapy and classwork. Girls were admitted to the two senior levels in 1978, and the school progressively became fully co-educational from 1993 through 1995. In 2006, Yarra Valley Grammar celebrated its 40th birthday with many special events, including a whole-school photo and an aerial photo of the students positioned to create the number 40. The school celebrated its birthday in a service at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in September 2006. And is approaching its 50th birthday in 2016. ==History== *1963, School Founded - at the time of the opening ceremony, surrounding the school were orchards which were progressively replaced with housing estates. By retaining the forest the school has preserved a slice of the area's history. *1966, Mr John Pascoe Headmaster. First assembly takes place - 135 boys attend *1970, School invited to become a member of the AGSV *1971, Headmaster invited to be a member of the Headmaster's Conference of Independent Schools Australia *1973, Hearing Unit for the Deaf established with Deaf students fully integrated as part of the school community. *1976, Mr George Wood Headmaster *1978, The first girl students are admitted into the school *1991, Opening of the George Wood Performing Arts Centre *1994, Mrs Margaret Peters Principal *1997, Mr Neville Lyngcoln Principal *1999, The school officially changed its name to Yarra Valley Grammar School *2000, Opening of the John King Sports Complex by Sir Charles Gobbo Governor of Victoria *2003, Opening of the Neville J. Lyngcoln Senior Students' Centre *2006, School celebrates its 40th birthday and the opening of the John Hempel Year 7 Centre by Prof David de Kretser, Governor of Victoria *2008, Opening of the Hockey and Tennis Centre *2009, Dr Mark Merry Principal and the Opening of the new Early Learning Centre *2011, Opening of the new Upper Primary Building and Foundation Hall *2012, Opening of the Brooke Nicholas Pavilion. An electrical fault causes a fire which destroys the school's science wing *2015, Opening of the new Science and Mathematics Faculty by the Governor-General of Australia Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yarra Valley Grammar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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