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For most of the 2000s the school was known as King Alfred's Community and Sports College. In September 2011 King Alfred's was designated an Academy and retained sports college status. [3] On 25 April 2014 King Alfred's was visited by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex to open the new hall block at Centre Site. [4]
The District No. 5 School is located on the east side of Gore Road, a short way north of the rural village of North Alfred, and south of the road's junction with Avery Road. Set near the back of a grassy area surrounded by woods, it is a small wood-frame structure with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation.
In 1973, they started building a new all male school named Alfred T. Bonnabel High. Even though it would not be completed until 2 years later, they decided to call the morning shift “Bonnabel” and the afternoon shift “East Jefferson”. The following year the two shifts flip-flopped.
The Canberra Japanese Supplementary School Inc., a Japanese weekend educational programme, holds its classes at Alfred Deakin High, while the school offices are in Yarralumla. It was established on 1 August 1988. [15] The ACT German Language School also holds classes at Alfred Deakin High on Saturday mornings from 9:00am until 11:30am. [16] [17]
[2] After working as a farm hand and carpenter he finally had the opportunity to work on the original Lincoln High School. [2] He was later involved in the repair of the foundations of the State University building, the first building on Lincoln's campus. [2] Perhaps his most well known project is the Fairview House. [1]
There is one state secondary school in Wantage, King Alfred's Academy, and approximately ten primary schools. [36] The secondary school converted into an academy in 2011 and was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in that year. [37] [38] Between 1873 and 2006, an Anglican private girls' school, St Mary's School, was located in Wantage.
The district is predominantly residential with occasional examples of commercial, religious, and civic architecture. The most striking feature of the district is the wealth and quality of terra cotta as a building material and for decorative detail. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
Two other boarding schools were open during the 1950s: one (Windsor School) at Hamm in Westphalia and another (King Alfred's School) at Plön in Northern Germany. This second school was originally a German naval cadet training centre. During the period 1957–1959, it housed some 700 pupils - half boys, half girls.