Kwalejin Scotch, Melbourne

**Kwalejin Scotch makaranta** ce mai zaman kanta, ta Presbyterian kuma makarantar kwana ce ga yara maza, wacce ke Hawthorn, wani yanki na tsakiyar birnin Melbourne, Victoria, Ostiraliya.

The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the urging of James Forbes. It is the oldest extant secondary school in Victoria and celebrated its sesquicentenary in 2001.

Scotch memba ne na kafa Makarantun Jama'a na Victoria (APS),  kuma yana da alaƙa da Ƙungiyar Makarantun Yara ta Duniya (IBSC),  Ƙungiyar Shugabannin Makarantun Junior na Australia (JSHAA),  Ƙungiyar Makarantar Kula da Mata ta Australia (ABSA),  Ƙungiyar Makarannin Victoria masu zaman kansu (AISV),  da Taron Shugabannin da Shugabannin Mata. Makarantar memba ce ta Global Alliance of Leading-Edge Schools .

Binciken da The Age da The Sydney Morning Herald suka yi a cikin 2021 sun gano cewa Scotch yana daya daga cikin makarantun da suka fi arziki a Ostiraliya,  kuma yana da mafi girman saka hannun jari na kowane makarantar Australiya (wanda aka kimanta a lokacin a sama da dala miliyan 144). 

## Tarihi

Kwalejin Scotch ita ce makarantar sakandare mafi tsufa a Victoria. An kafa shi ne saboda shirin James Forbes, na Free Presbyterian Church, wanda ya isa a 1838 a matsayin ministan Kirista na farko da ya zauna a cikin abin da ya zama mulkin mallaka na Victoria a 1851. "Sakamakon tsohuwar manufa ce ta ilimi ta Scotland", inda coci da makaranta suka haɗu sosai. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida]&#x5B;**&#x5D;

An buɗe makarantar a ranar 6 ga Oktoba 1851, a ƙarƙashin sunan Kwalejin Melbourne a cikin ƙaramin gida a Spring Street, tare da Robert Lawson, ɗan Scotland daga Jami'ar Edinburgh, a matsayin shugaban farko. Ba da daɗewa ba gidan ya girma, kamar yadda ya fi girma a kusurwar arewa maso yammacin Spring da Little Collins Streets (daga baya Ulster Family Hotel) kuma Ikilisiyar ta nemi gwamnati don bayar da ƙasa. An ajiye kadada biyu don makarantar a kan Eastern Hill kuma an gina sabbin gine-gine a can a 1853. Kudin ya samu wani bangare ta hanyar tallafin gwamnati kuma wani bangare daga kudaden da abokan makarantar suka tara.

Lawson ya yi murabus a shekara ta 1856. A karkashin magajinsa, Alexander Morrison, makarantar ta girma; ta zo karkashin kulawar sabuwar Cocin Presbyterian na Victoria a 1859. Morrison ya kasance Rector na St John's Grammar School, Hamilton, Lanarkshire  kuma ya kasance a Scotch na tsawon shekaru 46, a kusan duk lokacin da ɗan'uwansa Robert ya kasance maigidan kwalejin.  : 2 William Still Littlejohn, wanda ya karɓi makarantar a 1904, ya yi aiki na shekaru 29, kuma magajinsa, Colin Gilray, na 19.

R. Selby Smith ne ya gaje Gilray a shekara ta 1953. Smith ya yi murabus a 1964 don ya zama Gidauniyar Dean na Ilimi a Jami'ar Monash.

C. O. Healey, wanda ya kasance Shugaban makarantar Sydney Grammar School tun 1951, ya gaji Smith. Healey ya yi ritaya a watan Janairun 1975.

## Sunan

## Hotuna na harabar Hawthorn

Fayil:Scotch_College_Quadrangle_and_elm.jpg|The Quadrangle at the school's current Hawthorn site (2009)
Fayil:Scotch_College_Junior_School.JPG|The Junior School (shown 2012) was the first part of the school to move to the current Hawthorn site
Fayil:Scotch_college_weeping_elm.JPG|The weeping elm in The Quadrangle (2009)
Fayil:Scotch_college_monash_drive.JPG|The elms of Monash Drive, named after Sir John Monash (2009)
Fayil:Scotch_College_Swimming_Pool.jpg|Looking into the indoor swimming pool in the Glenn Centre from the Meares Oval (2012)
Fayil:Old_Scotch_Square.JPG|The Burning Bush sculpture is in the Old Scotch Square (2012)
Fayil:Shergold_Building_Scotch_College_Melbourne.JPG|The Shergold Building is part of the Junior School
Fayil:Scotch_College_Statue.JPG|The "Mother and Son" sculpture
Fayil:JFA_Main_Oval.jpg|The James Forbes Academy overlooking the Main Oval and the Littlejohn Chapel in the distance (2019)
Fayil:Keon-Cohen_dining_hall_interior_Scotch_College_Melbourne.jpg|Keon-Cohen dining hall – the student tuck shop
Fayil:Spencer_Centre_for_Design_and_Technology_Scotch_College_Melbourne.jpg|Spencer Centre for Design and Technology


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