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Wesley College
Motto	Sapere Aude 'Dare to be wise'
Established	1866
Type	Independent co-educational secondary; primary
Students	c.3000
Grades	K-12
Location	Melbourne, VIC Australia
Campus	Glen Waverley, Elsternwick, St. Kilda Rd.
Colours	Purple and Gold
Website	www.wesleycollege.net

Wesley College is a coeducational independent school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1866, the school is a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) and is of Uniting Church, a Christian denomination. As of 2007, it is Victoria's second largest school by student enrolment with 2980 students in total.^[1]

Contents 1 Structure 2 Clunes Campus 3 Notable Alumni and staff 3.1 Politics 3.2 Business 3.3 The Arts 3.4 Sport 3.5 Sciences 4 References 5 External links

Wesley has three day campuses - the original campus in Prahran (named the St. Kilda Road Campus from 2004 onwards), and campuses in Glen Waverley and Elsternwick - and a residential campus in Clunes. The College also runs a program called the City Curriculum Project (CCP) for students in Year 9 in terms 1 and 4. The program runs for 13 days for the two groups each term, and 10 of the days are spent in the city. Being the first registered school in Victoria, Wesley College Melbourne has a rich tradition of liberal, broad based education. It has been lauded for decades as being one of the few schools in the world with an equal emphasis on arts, humanities, maths, science and sports.

The school caters for students from kindergarten through to Year 12, and offers the Victorian Certificate of Education, IB Diploma Programme and Vocational education (VET) programs for Senior College students. Its motto sapere aude means 'dare to be wise'.

As of 2006 , Wesley College has introduced a new school structure which will see the Senior School comprising of students from Years 10 - 12, the Middle School from Years 5 - 9 and the Junior School comprising from Kindergarten Grade 4.

Wesley College Clunes is a residential campus located near Ballarat in Victoria. Year 9 students spend 8 weeks living in a house with other wesley students in a village. Students are responsible for cooking, cleaning, shopping, washing and also participate in many courses throughout the term including voluntary work, art and craft, drama and music. [1].

• James Swanton Waugh, president until 1883
• Arthur Way, headmaster 1882–1892
• Lawrence Adamson, headmaster 1902–1932

• Robert Menzies, former Australian Prime Minister
• Harold Holt, former Australian Prime Minister
• Herbert William Lloyd, World War I Major General and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Reg Turnbull, Leader of the Australia Party 1969–1970

• John Grice, National Bank of Australasia director and first boy to matriculate and qualify for the University of Melbourne
• Ross Oakley, former AFL CEO
• Graeme Samuel, businessman, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission since 2003
• John Schubert, businessman and company director

• Christopher Gabardi, actor
• Lachy Hulme, actor
• Justine Electra, musician
• Ollie Brown, musician
• Miles Brown, musician
• Barry Kay, stage & costume designer and photographer - alumni at Wesley College 1942-1948
• Kyal Marsh, actor
• Ollie McGill, keyboard player in The Cat Empire

• Fergus Watts, Australian rules footballer
• Mark Philippoussis, tennis player
• Natalie Porter, Olympic basketball silver medalist
• Nick Ries, Australian rules footballer
• Jesse Martin, Australian sailor, youngest ever person to circumnavigate the world solo
• Sharelle McMahon, Australian netballer
• Michael Klim, Olympic swimming gold medalist
• Luke Gavin, Australian water polo player
• Raymond Herbert Lowe, cricketer, opening batsman for Keith Rigg in 1923 and 1924
• Sam Loxton, former Australian cricketer
• Katie Mactier, Olympic cycling silver medalist
• Natalie Titcume, Olympic softball silver medalist
• Jodie Dobson, Olympic rower
• Sam Jewell, 100 meter olympic gold medalist

• Walter Rosenhain, metallurgist
• David Rivett, chemist
• William Sutherland physicist
• Ernst Hartung, chemist
• Qing Zhu, biologist

1. ^ Penrose, Helen (2006). Outside the Square: 125 Years of Caulfield Grammar School. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 0522853196. 

• Wesley College online
• Wesley College Aquatics
• Old Wesley Collegians Association
• Adamson Theatre Company
• Barry Kay at Wesley College