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Sturt Street Community School is located on Sturt Street in the south western corner of Adelaide, Australia's CBD. It is a large heritage listed bluestone building which was built in 1883. It is the oldest school operating in South Australia and has featured in the photographic record of Early Adelaide Architecture 1836-1886.

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The school was first opened in 1883. It was one of the four Model Schools n the city, and was originally called City Model School (Sturt Street). The official opening was on June 11th and was marked by speeches from the honorable D. Murray the minister for Education (J.L.Parsons)and the head master (Alexander Clarke). ceremony was held on the 4th of June, before the official opening. All 800 students lined up on Grote Street. The Headmaster lead the marching band to the new building. As thy passed through Whitmore Square, the crowd cheered and majority followed them to the building. The total cost for the new school was £9380, and of that £2200 was spent on the land.

PAST PRINCIPALS
These are the early headmasters of Sturt Street Community school.

name:             years: Alexander Clarke  1883 and came back from 1906- 1913 William Neale     1884- 1890 Milton Maughan    1891- 1899 William Mc Bride  1901- 1905 Charles Bronner   1914- 1926 Christopher Bray  1926 Isaac Jacobs      1928 - 1929 George Bourke     1927 Herbert Oborn     1933- 1949

The current principal at Sturt Street Community School is Darren Briggs and has been since 2012.

Claire Hastwell was the first woman to lead Sturt Street Community School (1970-1972), and was a role model to other female headmasters taking her place in later years.

Many past principals have achieved Education Department roles after their time at Sturt Street Community School.

Curriculum
Like all primary schools, Sturt Street Community School study English, Science, Mathematics, P.E, H.A.S.S, I.T, Music and Art.

When the school re-opened in 2004, the local Greek community had a big influence on the school, therefore all students learn Greek as a second language. We also have a Greek Mother Tongue group for the students with a Greek background or that excel in Greek. Greek is taught every Wednesday an Friday.

Sturt Street uses ICT across the curriculum to support learning; the school have Ipads and laptops with easy and safe access and the one on one Ipad program. Students can bring their own Ipads but have to sign a user agreement to use their Ipads. The Ipads are used for school work and tests.

In term 4, week 5 the receptions to year 5 do swimming lessons at Unley Swimming Centre, while the year 6-7 do aquatics at West Lakes in week 4. The swimming lessons goes for the week and aquatics go for one day.

Bike ED is a road safety program that runs every second year in term 2. Like swimming it takes place for one week. This program is a part of the Way2Go road safety project and is for year 4-7.

The year 6-7 every year do choir and perform at The Festival of Music Centre.

Art is run by a specialist art teacher, we do lino, tye dye, drawing and researching and presenting famous artists. Art is every Friday and is based in the OSHC vinyl area.

We have a full time P.E teacher. P.E is a 50 minute lesson and takes place once every Wednesday.

The Sport Curriculum
At Sturt Street Community School, we strive to promote the benefits of living a healthy and active life, in and out of school. Due to our highly engaged and active staff members, student participation in sporting activities is very strong at SSCS. Students of all year levels take part in regular fitness and skill activities. Studies in health education and physical education provide students with a balance of knowledge, processes and skills which equip them for independent living based on informed decisions. Students so equipped are able to promote and protect their own and others’ physical, social and emotional wellbeing. A dedicated PE lesson with a specialist PE teacher concentrates on skill based learning across a variety of sports. Our older students may participate in SAPSASA sport trials and younger students can participate in team, Life Be in It sports. Throughout the year our OSHC program participates in the Sporting Schools program, which is a national initiative provided by the Australian Government that provides students access to sport and other structured physical activity programs after school. The South Australian Government also offers parents a yearly voucher to assist with the cost of membership to sports clubs. The Sports Vouchers program is a Government of South Australia initiative administered by the Office for Recreation and Sport. The program provides an opportunity for primary school aged children from Reception to Year 7 to receive up to a $50 discount on sports membership/registration fees. The purpose is to increase the number of children playing organised sport by reducing cost as a barrier to participate in sport.

Sports day:
Yellow = Freeman Green = Gilmore Red = Cahill Blue = Hewitt Sport History: Sturt Street’s student history in the recent decades is studded with numerous outstanding football, netball, cricket and soccer teams. Those of the well-remembered old scholars this period are those that went on after school to state, national and even international competition.

Historic Football (AFL):
` In 1919 the captain of the school football team was Jack Sexton. He later became an outstanding South Australian footballer winning the Magarey Medal in 1931. During his career, he played for Glenelg, West Adelaide, Fitzroy and Norwood where he was Captain-Coach. Although tragically, he died at the age of twenty-nine from pneumonia and pleurisy. An even better known footballer (AFL) to come from our school was Bernie Smith, the West Adelaide player who transferred to Victoria and won a Brownlow Medal in 1951. And Ron Benton, another old boy from Sturt Street, won the Magarey Medal while playing for West Adelaide in 1957.