De La Salle College Ashfield
in Ashfield, AustraliaCategory: Attraction
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De La Salle College is a Catholic systemic, secondary, day school for boys', located in Ashfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, the college caters to year 7 to 12 students from the inner-west Parishes of the Archdiocese of Sydney. The College is under the patronage of the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher.
De La Salle College is one of 18 Lasallian Schools in Australia, and in the 1970s became the first Catholic High School in Australia to have a lay headmaster.The school is affiliated with the Catholic Secondary Schools Association NSW/ACT, and the Metropolitan Catholic Colleges Sports Association (MCC).In education, they are accredited to run the Newman Selective Gifted Education Program (the Gifted and Talented program) which runs in a number of Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in Sydney Catholic Schools. They also prominently use Inquiry-Based Learning, focusing mainly on the Solution Fluency framework. The offer a number of co-curricular activities and experiences, including immersions to Lasallian schools overseas. The school follows the NSW Syllabus and Australian Curriculum.
