Top private boys’ school Newington College considers becoming co-ed
By Jordan Baker
February 16, 2022 — 4.21pm
A second high-fee private boys’ school is considering becoming co-ed, with Newington putting the idea to its community alongside a proposal to make the school more culturally and socio-economically diverse.
The school’s chairman Tony McDonald wrote to parents and alumni on Wednesday to outline the plan, acknowledging that the school’s existing demographics will not be “as appropriate in the decades to come as they are now”.
Newington’s proposal follows a similar discussion at Cranbrook, an eastern suburbs school that has educated media mogul Kerry Packer and his son James. St Paul’s College at Sydney University also recently announced plans to become co-ed.
The decision comes amid community questions about how high-fee, all-boys private schools - that also tend to be less culturally diverse than the communities around them - can prepare their students for the wider world.
Newington, opened by the Methodist church in 1893, is in the inner west suburb of Stanmore, and is a member of the Athletics Association of Great Public Schools, a historic group of boys’ schools that also includes The Kings School, Shore and Sydney Boys High School.
It would be the second GPS school after The Armidale School to become co-ed.
The culture at private boys’ schools has come under scrutiny after a petition calling for better consent education prompted thousands of young women to reveal they were sexually assaulted during their school years.
Newington’s headmaster Michael Parker will lead the consultation with parents, students, alumni and education experts. “The old adage of ‘two ears, one mouth’ will be crucial I think,” he told the Herald.
“I will be doing a huge amount of listening to students, parents, alumni and community - and not a lot of talking. I think these sessions will deliver important insights for the Newington College Council as they make some very consequential decisions for the future of the school.”
There is increasing demand for co-education in the inner west, which is dominated by private and public single-sex schools.
Sydney Catholic Schools is also re-thinking single-sex education, with the former Marist Brothers schools at Penshurst and North Sydney opening their doors to girls, and Champagnat in Maroubra to become co-ed next year.
As part of its long-term planning, Newington is also investigating how to “maintain socio-economic and cultural inclusiveness in a college that has always prided itself on its diversity but finds itself in a gentrifying area,” Mr McDonald wrote in his letter.
“Indeed, many of our current parents say diversity is one of the key attractive features of Newington. We would like to examine how to maintain and strengthen it.”
A third proposal, also to be debated by the school community, is increasing the size of the school, amid estimates that an extra 42,000 extra school-aged children would live in the surrounding area over the next 20 years.
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和barker一样?
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这家好像有IB。
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这个好，可惜我们是赶不上了
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对，有IB，今年四个IB满分。HSC排名94。
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这个好 but when
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请教这算得进顶私吗？从哪几点来说算？
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这个好，欢迎～
我女儿可以设立目标，就近入学。
华人家长大部分都是接受混校教育，没啥不好啊。
虽然男生女生不太一起玩，但至少知道并熟悉对方存在，知道社会组成，科目互补等。
还有一个好处就是多一些选择，部分家庭能就近
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标题这样写，我只是翻译一下，莫怪莫怪。可能作者按照学费来划分私校。
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请问楼主，如果想试考这个学校的（Y7入学）奖学金，到底是Year 5去考？
还是Year 6呢？
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一般来说新州大量的私校来说，学费3万5左右的学校都算top private 了，中文说顶私也行。
但是在中国人眼里大概只有SG是顶私。
Newington 是很老牌的好私校，GPS里的。在很多本地人眼里可能还高过knox.
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本来就难进，混校后男孩子更是不知道排到啥时候。
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听说现在学校还在内部征询家长意见过程中，没那么快定下来，万一家长大量反对就推不下去。估计就算最后决定招收女生，开始几年也不可能大量安排，最多先招一点点人开始磨合。
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支持混校，BARKER 目前就很成功，感觉这是教育的发展趋势
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借贴问一下，BARKER的宗教信仰气氛浓吗？
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女孩子又多了一个选择
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特别喜欢的男校，如果改了，多可惜。
纯男校，便于男孩子独立发展，体育，户外活动都方便，也减少早恋。女孩子相对成熟早，会对男孩产生压力，限制发展。
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我觉得挺好的啊 女孩子又多了个选择
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我是希望有那种男女有一半的课一起上（stem之类的），一半的课分开上（体育之类的）
我家孩子来不及了
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早就该改了
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本来就难进，再变成混校少了一半位置，就更难了
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SG也就学术好些吧？大部分选择去私校的不会只图学术。另外，有一年5万的私校吗？以为4万就到头了
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没有啊，我说3万5千左右。没有5万的
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不浓，基本可以无视。
也就一周一次的Chapel 聊聊基督的故事
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感觉天主教的宗教气氛比较浓，有的学校高考必须考宗教科目。基督教的私校，一般还好。
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