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As published by Kent Street Senior High School. Congratulations Kevin. We are proud of your achievement. Bets wishes for...
19/12/2024

As published by Kent Street Senior High School. Congratulations Kevin. We are proud of your achievement. Bets wishes for the future.

30th October 2010 - KSSHS 70th Anniversary Celebration. 14 years ago, today.
30/10/2024

30th October 2010 - KSSHS 70th Anniversary Celebration. 14 years ago, today.

There must have been many productions organised or put on by the drama department, during the upper school's 60+ years o...
01/09/2024

There must have been many productions organised or put on by the drama department, during the upper school's 60+ years of operation. In the 1960s 'The Mikado' and 'The King & I' were big events, played to large public audiences. We don't have much archival material relating to subsequent productions and if you have anything tucked away at home we'd love to have digital copies (or the real thing). Email to [email protected]

We've made a little compilation of what we have below.
The Boyfriend (1983) The Little Shop of Horrors (2003)
A 'Pirates' show (2009) Frankenstein Meets Rocky Horror (2012)
Starry Night (date unknown)
We also have and entry on two other productions - Zombie Theft
and The Zombie Within (both 2011) but nothing to go with them.

Our mannequin Wendy in sports kit.
18/08/2024

Our mannequin Wendy in sports kit.

If you were at Kent St in 2003 you may have seen "Little Shop of Horrors", a production directed by Sally Floyd. In fac...
16/08/2024

If you were at Kent St in 2003 you may have seen "Little Shop of Horrors", a production directed by Sally Floyd. In fact, you may well have been in it: there are a lot of names in the Cast & Crew.

Shout to all our followers! Appreciate having you onboard!
13/08/2024

Shout to all our followers! Appreciate having you onboard!

The attached are 1967 photos showing:A. Prefects: formal photo at schoolB. Prefects: at the School BallC. Touring Hockey...
18/06/2024

The attached are 1967 photos showing:
A. Prefects: formal photo at school
B. Prefects: at the School Ball
C. Touring Hockey team 1967 Woodville South Australia
have been edited by adding most of the names. It is hope that this will jog old memories and the rest can be added.

Thanks all who made all who made this possible.

If you can identify the un-named, please contact [email protected] stating the photo by letter, the row (front or back and the position in the row (L-R).

When completed a new post will be created.

THE FORTUNATE LIFE OF PETER STOKESBorn in 1929 Peter Stokes attended Kensington primary, then went on to Kent St Central...
17/06/2024

THE FORTUNATE LIFE OF PETER STOKES

Born in 1929 Peter Stokes attended Kensington primary, then went on to Kent St Central School (later to become KSSHS) to complete two more years of education.
He took up essentially one vocation over his entire working life and that was to do with dental prosthetics. He began as a messenger boy at F.H. Faulding's dental dept., then went on to study under the instruction of a female technician for 10 years.

Peter met Jean, the love of his life, and they married in 1952, eventually having seven children. The couple physically built their own house in Bedford. When, in 1958 an opportunity arose for Peter to buy a dental laboratory in Perth he took it up, and even built another lab on his back veranda to enable him to work at night. Over the ensuing years the business prospered and he took on many apprentices. Peter became instrumental in the development and implementation of dental technology in W.A..

Despite his very busy life, Peter Stokes had many interests and hobbies - beekeeping, genealogy, and all aspects of photography, to name a few. And he played an active part in the Masonic Lodge, rising through the ranks to Grand Master; a role which involved a lot of intestate and overseas travel

His early connection to the Kent St has continued through financial support to the Kentian Society. Over several years Peter and Jean have donated well over $100K to various scholarships operated by the Kentian Scholarship Foundation.

Scholarships in Their Name

• Year 11 Jean & Peter Stokes English and Humanities Scholarship

• Year 11 Jean & Peter Stokes Creative Arts Scholarship

• Year 11 Jean & Peter Stokes Financial Assistance Scholarship (x 2). At least one of these to an Indigenous student.

Peter and Jean's generosity reaches far beyond this school: they financially support many associations including the RFDS, Cancer Council and the W.A. Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Stokes claimed to have had a fortunate life. W.A. is fortunate too, that he spent it here.

Peter passed away in January 2022

09/06/2024

Fifty one years ago, Warren Grellier, a newly appointed English teacher arrived at the school. There were no drama classes then so he decided to put on a whole-school production - a major undertaking. The show was called 'Salad Days' and was a success at many levels.

Warren describes the story of producing 'Salad Days' here. He is hoping to organise a reunion of cast and crew members.

Click on link below for Warren's article.

Some years ago (but we don't know exactly when), a concert called 'Starry Night' was performed by students from Years 8 ...
28/05/2024

Some years ago (but we don't know exactly when), a concert called 'Starry Night' was performed by students from Years 8 -11. All we have in the archives are the 3 pages shown here and the script for the MC.

Can somebody tell us what year it was performed or any other information, please.

By the way, if you have any programs or brochures of school productions lying in a box somewhere, why not dig them out and email copies to us and we can then post them on this platform for others to enjoy.

Two cricket boards in the cricket pavilion. Some fine bowling, and keep an eye on Weihan Beukes (a double century).
26/05/2024

Two cricket boards in the cricket pavilion. Some fine bowling, and keep an eye on Weihan Beukes (a double century).

From the many Items held in the Archives we regard one as a real treasure: now 84 years old it is the very first Inspec...
26/05/2024

From the many Items held in the Archives we regard one as a real treasure: now 84 years old it is the very first Inspector's journal with comments made by T. Edmondson on the day he opened the school - 14th Feb, 1940. Here are the first two pages.

The Remarkable Molly Dinham OAM (1923 - 2019)Mrs Dinham was a teacher, deputy principal and acting principal over a spa...
06/05/2024

The Remarkable Molly Dinham OAM (1923 - 2019)

Mrs Dinham was a teacher, deputy principal and acting principal over a span of 25 years, 1960 - 84. She described herself thus: Educator, Aviator, Historian, Author, Innovator, Traveller, Adventurer.

She arrived at Kent St in 1960 as a P/E instructor for the girls, where she soon brought in girls sports (netball was the only current one) such as hockey, basketball, cricket and gymnastics. She had a Swedish Beam built for her by Marsh Walker and Ken Armstrong. She also introduced a dance course with practice held at the Scouts hall across the road. Later she established a Drama and TV studies program and was instrumental in setting up the Aviation course. In fact she takes the largest portion of credit for the purchase of an aircraft for the course; (At the time she didn’t have a pilot’s licence but obtained one just before turning 60.)

During Mollie’s tenure the school expanded enormously and her skill at timetabling was sorely needed. The Ed Dept published a booklet, “Timetabling with Mollie Dinham - The Constructing of Timetabling in a W.A. School”.

After retirement she caught the travel bug, journeying solo or with adventure groups through 70 countries. She wrote and published three books; Travels to Exotic Places, Exotic Places Too and More Travels to Exotic Places.

Mollie lived to be 96. One of her staff evaluations read “Thank you for being a strong headmistress - I only have to ask one of those feisty Year 11 girls whether she would like me to mention her name to Mrs Dinham, and that is the end of the matter”.

Soroptimists International SEAP would appreciate anyone in contact with a recipient on the attached flyer making them aw...
28/04/2024

Soroptimists International SEAP would appreciate anyone in contact with a recipient on the attached flyer making them aware of this event.

A face familar to most Australians is that of Kelton Pell, an actor of the theatre, the big screen and television since ...
18/04/2024

A face familar to most Australians is that of Kelton Pell, an actor of the theatre, the big screen and television since the 1980s.

He trod the boards of the verandas at Kent Street from his enrolment year of 1980 before treading the boards at the
Black Swan Theatre Company, the Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre Company and others, where he acted in plays such as
‘The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘The Season’.
Some of the films he’s appeared in include ‘Red Dog: True Blue’, ‘Mad Bastards’, ‘Australian Rules’ and ‘Blackfellas’
And in television - ‘The Heights’, ‘Redfern Now’, ‘The Gods of Wheat Street’, ‘Mystery Road: Origin’.

Pell has also won a number of awards.. His full career in performance can be viewed at Wikipedia

27/03/2024

A quick visit on a working day at the Archives' office and 'dungeon' (where the material is archived).
If you'd like to visit us and see what we do, please email to archives@ kentians.org.au

25/03/2024

Kent Street Senior High School Alumni page on FaceBook has lots of class photos from the 1970s and 1980s.
If you're not aware of this page go and have a poke around. You'll probably recognise a name or two and an old face or two.
If you like the page it only takes a couple of seconds to join.

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A quick visit on a working day at the Archives' office and 'dungeon' (where the material is archived). If you'd like to visit us and see what we do, please email to archives@ kentians.org.au

Back in '63 the Kent St. Girl's Choir made a recording of 5 short songs. We found a CD in the archives and I've converted it to mp4 so that it can be played on FaceBook. Sorry there's no picture to go with it - I haven't worked out how to do that. There was no information on the disc. Perhaps someone will know the name of the choir mistress at least.

Two episodes of It's Academic with KSSHS, in the year 2000.

In 1965 Kent Street put on a production of The King & I which was played in the Capitol Theatre.

Do you recognise any of the staff at this function in 2000?

Early colour film of the school (known as Central School) made in 1945. There is no sound.

Year 7 students (primary school pupils then) enjoying a day visiting the swimming pool - and other aspects of their prospective high school. Year 2000.

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