Carey Baptist Grammar School

Carey Baptist Grammar School, commonly known as Carey, is an independent, co-educational, Baptist day school in Victoria, Australia.

This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. (December 2024)

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Carey Baptist Grammar School

Location

Kew & Donvale , Victoria Australia
Coordinates	37°48′53″S 145°02′51″E
Information
Type	Private, christian & day school
Motto	Latin: Animo et Fide (By Courage and Faith)
Denomination	Baptist
Established	13 February 1923; 102 years ago (13 February 1923)^[1]^[2]
Founder	Leonard Tranter
Chairman	Timothy Chilvers^[3]
Principal	Jonathan Walter^[4]
Chaplain	Timothy Edwards^[5]
Grades	Kindergarten–Year 12^[6]
Gender	Co-educational
Enrolment	~2,530^[6] (2023)
Colour(s)	Black, blue and gold
Song	Play the Game (since 1944)
Publication	The Torch magazine
Yearbook	The Chronicle
Tuition	K-12: $26,372–$40,824 International students: $51,365–$52,067^[7]
Affiliation	Associated Public Schools of Victoria
Alumni	Old Carey Grammarians
Website	www.carey.com.au

The school has five campuses: Kew (ELC to Year 12), Donvale (ELC to Year 6), the Carey Sports Complex in Bulleen, the Carey Sport Complex in Kew and an outdoor education camp near Paynesville in eastern Gippsland called Carey Toonallook.

Carey is affiliated with the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA),^[8] the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA),^[9] the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV),^[10] and has been a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS) since 1958.^[11] The school has offered its Year 11 and 12 students the choice to study either the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) since 1997 or the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).^[12]

The school is named in honour of William Carey, a Baptist missionary and self-taught language scholar who carried out humanitarian work in India for the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) in the late 18th century.^[2] Carey's motto was based on William Carey's 1792 sermon from Isaiah 54, in which he called on Baptists to establish a missionary society.^[13]^[2]

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House system

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House name	Colour
Cartwright	Green
Dunshea	Orange
Fullard	Maroon
Gadsden	Dark green
Hickman	Light blue
Moore	Yellow
Newnham	Purple
Steele	Dark blue
Sutton	Red
Tranter	Black

History

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Carey Baptist Grammar School was founded by Leonard E. Tranter in 1923 after the Urangeline estate was purchased by the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV) in 1922 for £14,000 in the pursuit of providing a Baptist education for boys.^[14]^[15] The Urangeline mansion estate was originally designed by architect, Joseph Reed for the Scottish-born solicitor, James C. Stewart.^[14]^[16] Work was completed in 1884 with the mansion being originally named Edzell then Mildura and finally Urangeline by its final owner in 1899. On Carey's opening day, 68 boys and four teachers were present for the official photograph on 13 February 1923.^[17]^[16]

In 1925, the school council appealed for a £10,000 amount to build a boarding house for students.^[15]^[18] After funds had been attained later that year, construction began and the Laycock House was officially opened in 1926.^[18] Between 1926 and 1951, it would be the boarding house. By 1951, the school chose to close the boarding house and convert it into classrooms.^[18]^[19] In 2008, the school decided to replace the Lacycock house in exchange for a new performing arts centre, named in honour of its principal at the time, Phil de Young, who opened it in March 2010.^[15]^[19]

Carey opened Raymond Hall and its preparatory school in May 1925 at a total cost of £5,000.^[17]^[20] The hall was named after George Nelson Raymond, a wealthy boot factory owner and Baptist.^[20] The hall provided for the space to conduct assemblies and other large events until the Memorial Great Hall was completed in 1955.^[20] By 1942, the preparatory school housed over 100 students. In the 1990s, the hall and rooms were repurposed for the Middle School.^[15]

By 1926, the student population had grown to over 200 boys, demanding the need for an oval on the Urangeline estate.^[21] At a cost of £1,250 from the Oval appeal, levelling went underway with 7,000 tons of earth moved by horse.^[22] In 1927, the oval was opened for use and named Sandell Oval after the 1926 dux of the school, Arthur K. Sandell.^[21]

The Memorial Great Hall (MGH) was opened by governor of Victoria, Dallas Brooks as a way to memorialise the fallen students who fought in World War II.^[15]^[23] It was opened in 1954 and seated most assemblies and other meetings. The hall included a stained-glass window of the school badge.^[23] However, the building was renovated on two separate occasions, first in the 1990s and more recently in 2020, in which it now seats 1,000 students.^[24]

In 1960, 14 acres of land were purchased by the school in the suburb of Bulleen.^[15]^[25] The Carey Bulleen Sports Complex was officially opened by the deputy premier of Victoria, Arthur Rylah in October 1962.^[25] Since then, the land has been used as the schools playing fields as well as hosting a gymnasium and pool.^[26]

In 1971, the William Carey Chapel was opened by the president of the Baptist Union, Merlyn Holly after two years of construction.^[27] The design was led by the chaplain of the school at the time, Alan Wright. Numerous pieces of artwork and a sculpture was designed by Clifton Pugh.^[17] The chapel was paid for by the 'Forward Carey' Appeal of 1960, totalling $102,000.^[27] In 2020, the chapel was declared heritage listed by the local Boroondara Council following an extensive renovation by the school.^[28]^[29]

The school began co-education in 1979 when girls entered years 11 and 12.^[15]^[2] Coeducation was extended to all years by 1984.^[2]^{[better source needed]} By 2011, the school had achieved an even gender split between boys and girls.^[15]^[2]

In 2019, the school bought the bowling club property of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) on Barkers Road.^[30] The school renamed the property the Carey Kew Sports Complex. The school celebrated its centennial year in 2023 with various celebrations throughout the year.^[31]^{[better source needed]} Carey purchased the Kalimna mansion from nearby Preshil in 2024 due to its financial difficulties.^[32]

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Principals

There have been eight principals (formerly headmasters before 1989) since the school was founded in 1923.^[15] The current principal is Jonathan Walter, since January 2020.^[4]

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Principals / headmasters of Carey
Years served	Name
1923–1944	Harold G. Steele
1945–1947	Vivian F.O. Francis
1948–1964	Stuart L. Hickman
1965–1989	Gerard L. Cramer
1990–2001	Ross H. Millikan
2002–2010	Phil W. de Young
2010–2019	Philip M. Grutzner
2020–present	Jonathan C. Walter