Reddam House is an independent

Independent school

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, co-educational, non-denominational, day school

Day school

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, located in Woollahra

Woollahra, New South Wales

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 (Pre-School to Year 9) and Bondi

Bondi, New South Wales

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 (Years 10 to 12), both Eastern Suburbs

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 of Sydney

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, New South Wales

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, Australia

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The very first Reddam House was established in Cape Town, South Africa in January 2000. In Australia, the school was launched in Sydney by Mr. Graeme Crawford in June 2000. Publicised as a "dynamic, contemporary and creative schooling environment", it was created by a major renovation at the previous Taylors College in North Bondi

North Bondi, New South Wales

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The school attracted media attention with reports 36 percent of students, six times the state average, received "special consideration" in the 2006 HSC.

History

Reddam House started as a Years 7 to 11 school in 2001 at the current Bondi Campus

Campus

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. The school grew very quickly, this was owing largely to Mr Graeme Crawford's and George Balios' fresh contemporary approach to education. A new campus at Woollahra, near the Bondi Junction

Bondi Junction, New South Wales

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train and bus terminals, was opened in 2003.

The new Woollahra Campus enabled the opening of the Reddam House Primary School (Years K to 6) and the restructuring of the High School into a High School (Woollahra) and a Senior School (Bondi).

A new Middle School was added to the Woollahra Campus in 2007.

In addition to this Reddam House opened in Johannesburg Bedfordview as well as in Cape Town and Constantia.

Facilities

The Reddam House Bondi Campus hosts Years 10, 11 and 12. The Woollahra Campus hosts Pre-School to Year 9.
Reddam also has brother schools started by members of Mr Crawford's family. In Cape Town,South Africa Reddam Atlantic Seaboard and Reddam Constantia were started by his sister Mrs Sheena Crawford-Kempster. In Johannesburg, South Africa Reddam, Bedfordview (Main Campus and BCC Campus) were started by his father Mr Robert Crawford and Mrs Dalene Quayle, Mr Graeme Crawford's eldest sister.

Achievements

In the last four years Reddam has been placed in the Top 20 Schools three times and in the Top 10 twice.
In 2009 Reddam placed 7th in all Schools, 1st NSW Co-Educational Independent School, 1st NSW Co-Educational Non-Selevtive School, 2nd Out of all Independent Schools.