Hunter School of the Performing Arts

Hunter School of the Performing Arts is a public, co-educational, selective primary and secondary school which offers a comprehensive curriculum with a performing arts specialty, located at Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia.HistoryThe school has undergone many name changes since its first day in July, 1923.As a technical school 1923–1926: Newcastle Junior Technical and Domestic Science School 1927–1931: Broadmeadow Junior Technical School 1932–1960: Newcastle Central Technical School As a general High School 1961–1965: Broadmeadow Boys High School 1966–1975: Broadmeadow Boys School 1976–1992: Broadmeadow High School (co-educational) As a performing arts school 1993–1997: The Broadmeadow School of Performing Arts 1998–present: Hunter School of the Performing Arts A notable moment in this school's recent history was the June 2007 Hunter Region and Central Coast storms.The Hunter School of the Performing Arts was one of the most severely affected schools in the area. The school suffered a large amount of damage; the entire bottom level was washed away and the school's library was severely affected.Motto and coloursThe original motto was Advance, which changed after the school became a boys school in 1932 to Faber est suae quisque fortunae. The motto was changed in 1999 to its English form, Each of us is responsible for our own destiny.The original colours of the school were those of the 35th Battalion ("Newcastle's Own Regiment") of World War I, green and brown. In later years it changed to green and white. In 1999, students were given a survey in a bid for them to choose their own school colours; the students decided to choose jade, purple and black. To keep a link with the Newcastle colours, the new logo (of the mask, dancer and bass clef) has been incorporated into a shield which also has a ribbon of brown and a ribbon of green.