#macquarie

Linguistics, Macquarie University

Macquarie Boys' Technology High School was a high school for boys in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

The present-day Macquarie Boys’ Technology High School location developed from a school located on a site in Macquarie Street, Parramatta. (That site is currently occupied by Parramatta High School and Arthur Phillip High School). Post-primary schooling for boys was provided for on that site by the Boys' Department of Parramatta District School.

The Boys’ Department of that school became known as Parramatta Commercial School and in 1920 was called Parramatta Intermediate High School. The title was changed to Parramatta Junior High School in January 1944 and a separate school was formed, still on the same site, with a separate principal.

In 1955 the name was changed to Macquarie Boys’ High School. At the end of 1957 the school moved to its current site on the corner of Kissing Point Road and what was then called Rydalmere Avenue, which was later absorbed into James Ruse Drive. In 1989 the word 'Technology' was added to the school's name.

At the beginning of 2008, Years 7 through to 10 were discontinued, while remaining Year 11 and 12 students completed their HSC course.

According to Nine News and The Daily Telegraph the school was to be shut down at the end of the 2009 school year because of major reputation problems throughout the school's history and the low numbers of students they had in 2007. This has subsequently been confirmed by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training.

The school was planned to be rejuvenated as the Lachlan Macquarie College, which was to begin operating on school grounds in January 2008. This new college was intended to specialise in Maths and Science.

In 2015, the Parramatta Sun Newspaper announced that the University of Western Sydney decided not to take up the lease and turn the school into the Lachlan Macquarie College, leaving the buildings of the school to be overtaken with graffiti and vandalism as a result.

Late in the night of 23 July 2016, a "suspicious" fire gutted the school's vacant main hall. Fire fighters were able to control the spread of the fire, but the main building appeared to be totally destroyed. Officials issued a call for leads into who may have started the fire.

On Saturday, 20 May 2017, another fire occurred. On Friday, 27 Of April 2018, A small fire was lit in one of the first buildings.

The school was eventually sold to developers, and eventually, in late August 2018, all buildings on the site were completely demolished to make way for 11 residential and three commercial blocks, accommodating up to 6,200 people.

[Day 55] Feeling under the weather & birthday celebrations! - 7/Mar/2018 

Today I only had my digital age tutorial class. I spent the morning relaxing and watching youtube which was nice and I feel like recently I haven't had chance to just stop!  

I decided to put on a mix of foundation and sun screen for the first time as I am looking very red on my face! I usually don't wear any make up on a day to day basis but at least it reduces the redness a little bit.

The weather has been colder recently, especially with the wind. Yesterday I wore trousers and today I am wearing a dress with thick tights. The dress is a little short for my liking due to washing it, but the tights eliminate that problem so today is a good day to wear it!

The tutorial went well, I got there early and spoke to some class mates and we all agreed that the book, Amnesia, is difficult to follow and is a little weird. We covered the first half today and will be doing the second half next week. We broke off into groups of 2 and were each given a different area of the text to look at; then we shared our ideas which worked well. 

On the iLearn  (Moodle) site, Toby posted a messaged from the Disability Services team which explained they are looking for students to provide thorough and typed notes for them and will pay $30 per hour! I had to email them a copy of my transcript and some of my previous notes, I hope they get back to me and allow me to do it although I am an exchange student. The extra money would be awesome!

After the class I thought I would ride the bus for fun! Not really, but the walk from this class to the station is a fair one and I know the bus goes that way. Only thing is, I got on the wrong side of the road! So after realising this I got off and crossed over and got on again. What's interesting here is you have to tap off when you get off the bus, where in London it is tap on only and all journeys are £1.50. My first journey only cost a dollar and the second one came up as free so that was good!  

I popped in the Macquarie shopping center next on a little mission. It's my "would-be Father-in-law's" 60th birthday! I got a card and a big 60 balloon which was interesting to take home on the train XD Happy Birthday Doug!