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Moments In Time
1912
Kyneton High School established at the original Market Building in Piper Street. Students are taught English, Latin, French, Maths, Science, History, Geography, Manual training and Domestic arts.
1919
A memorial rose garden planted to commemorate ex-students killed in World War 1.
1921
School sporting events organised into a system of four Houses for the first time, originally Blue, Gold, Purple and Red Houses. Soon after, the houses are renamed for local place names Campaspe, Lauriston, Coliban and Baynton respectively but the old unofficial colour names remain in use for decades, often interchangeably with the official names.
1923
First edition of the Kyneton High School Magazine, titled O.A.U. (Only About Us) – a play on the school motto ‘Onward And Upward’.
1928
School relocates to the current site.
1930
School gardens commenced, instigated by Headmaster Arnold Briggs and supported by an enthusiastic student House Garden Competition. Memorial roses transplanted from Piper Street site to the new school.
1944
Two bus services commence, bringing students from around Redesdale, Metcalfe and Taradale in the north, and Woodend, Hesket and Newham in the south.
1956
Headmaster Culbert Fisher dies on the Kyneton Golf Links. He is commemorated in the memorial gate at the front of the school.
1959
Entries are invited for a new name for the school yearbook. The winning suggestion ‘Columns’ turns out to be the inspiration of Principal Ambrose Douglas. Nearly 70 years later the yearbook is still called Columns. Good call, Mr. Douglas!
1966
A technical component is added to the school and it becomes known as Kyneton Technical High School.
1973
Purple uniform introduced, replacing the grey tunic and dark purple blazer.
1978
Completion of the red brick “Commonwealth Library Block”, now the Senior Learning Centre.
1983
A private residence on High Street (the Gloster house) which had been surrounded by the school grounds for 29 years is finally purchased and the land becomes part of the school.
1988
The school uniform is abolished.
1990
When the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) is introduced, the school rebrands again as Kyneton Secondary College.
1991
Major building program completed, which includes the Boomerang building & amphitheatre (both still with us) and the Textiles, Art and Home Economics buildings.
1994
Uniform reintroduced with a dark green theme.
1996
School connected to the Internet.
1999
School’s first website launched.
2012
School celebrates its Centenary Year.
2017
Our latest major building and renovation program commences, which sees rejuvenation of the Boomerang (Junior Years) building and the former Library (Senior Learning Centre), as well as construction of the Ngurrak (Middle Years) complex and the Training and Innovation Hub.
2019
Major rebranding of the school. Uniform is redesigned in navy and green. The ‘Onward and Upward’ school logo, in use for 105 years, is replaced with the stylised ‘K’ you can see at the top of this page. School name comes full circle and reverts to Kyneton High School.
2023
The school yearbook celebrates its Centenary Year.
2024
Sporting houses given a rebrand. They now compete under not only their old colours and names, but also some local fauna.
2027
The Epping Street building turns 100.