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List Of Boarding Schools In Australia
The following are notable boarding schools in Australia. There are 189 boarding schools in Australia. Australian Capital Territory * Canberra Girls Grammar School, Deakin *Canberra Grammar School, Red Hill New South Wales Former boarding schools *Chevalier College, Bowral (until 2003) * Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill (until 2019) Northern Territory *Haileybury Rendall School *Kormilda College * St Philip's College, Alice Springs Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Former boarding schools *Huntingtower School, Mount Waverley, Victoria (until 2020) * Kilmore International School, Kilmore (until 2022) Western Australia See also * List of schools in Australia *List of boarding schools *List of international schools References {{Reflist Boarding Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boarding School
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend across many countries. Their functioning, codes of conduct, and ethos vary greatly. Children in boarding schools study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers or administrators. Some boarding schools also have day students who attend the institution during the day and return home in the evenings. Boarding school pupils are typically referred to as "boarders". Children may be sent for one to twelve years or more in boarding school, until the age of eighteen. There are several types of boarders depending on the intervals at which they visit their family. Full-term boarders visit their homes at the end of an academic year, semester boarders visit their homes at the end of an academic term, weekly boarders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loreto Normanhurst
Loreto Normanhurst is an independent Catholic, primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Normanhurst, a suburb on the upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1897, Loreto has a current enrolment of approximately 1,200 students from Year 5 to Year 12, including over 200 boarders, and is the largest girls' boarding school in New South Wales.Loreto Normanhurst – Information Booklet (16 June 2007) In 2006, the school was named among the top ten innovative schools in Australia. Commencing in 2015, the school reopened their primary school for girls in years 5 and 6. Loreto Normanhurst is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Paul's College, Walla Walla
St Paul's College is a coeducational day and boarding school providing secondary schooling in Walla Walla, New South Wales, Australia. It is a member school of Lutheran Education Australia, a network of 85 schools and 42 kindergarten/early childhood centres educating approximately 38,000 students Australia wide, and it forms part of the Riverina group of Lutheran schools together with Lutheran Primary School Wagga Wagga, St Paul's Lutheran Primary School Henty, St John's Primary School Jindera and Victory Lutheran College Wodonga ( Victoria). St Paul's College provides a Christian education. Location St Paul's is located in a rural setting on the northern outskirts of Walla Walla. Walla Walla is a town of approximately 600 people located 40 kilometres north of the cities of Albury-Wodonga and 100 km south of Wagga Wagga; 540 km south-west of Sydney and 350 km north of Melbourne. History When the Lutheran forefathers first settled Walla Walla they establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Ignatius' College, Riverview
Saint Ignatius' College Riverview is an Australian independent single-sex primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys located in Riverview, a small suburb on the Lane Cove River on the Lower North Shore of Sydney. Established in 1880 by Joseph Dalton SJ, Saint Ignatius' is a Jesuit school in the tradition of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. It is part of the international network of Jesuit schools that began in Messina, Sicily in 1548. Saint Ignatius' College has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,560 students from Years 5 to 12, including 335 boarders in Years 6 to 12. The College is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, and is a founding member of the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS). Numerous leading contributors to Australian politics, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Gregory's College, Campbelltown
St Gregory's College Campbelltown (abbreviated as SGC or Greg's or St Greg's) is an Independent school, independent Catholic Single-sex school, single-sex and Mixed-sex education, co-educational comprehensive and specialist Primary school, primary and Secondary school, secondary day and Boarding school, boarding school, located in Gregory Hills, New South Wales, Gregory Hills, near , a South-western Sydney, south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. With specialist expertise as an agricultural school, St Gregory's College provides a co-educational environment for students in the Kindergarten to Year Six, Year 6 primary school; and a boys-only environment for students in the Year Seven, Year 7 to Year Twelve, Year 12 secondary schools. Founded on 3 February 1926 and conducted by the Marist Brothers since 1929, St Gregory's has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,100 students, including 180 boarders. The college is located wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Francis De Sales Regional College
St Francis De Sales Regional College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day and boarding school, located in the Riverina town of Leeton, New South Wales, Australia.. Founded in 1956 by the Marist Brothers, the College is one of three secondary schools serving Leeton, most enrolments come from Leeton, with students also drawn from around the region as a result of the school's boarding program. These include Griffith, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Coleambally and Hay. The school is situated on Yanco Avenue on the southern approach to Leeton. Administration Mrs. Brenda King was appointed as the first lay principal in 2004, and served until June 2015. Upon her departure, Mr. Sebastian Spina was appointed as acting principal until 2017 when he became principal, which he served until the end of 2022. Significant events On an irregular basis the school stages musical productions which are conducted by the music department and its directors and teachers. In 2002, at Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Catherine's School, Sydney
St Catherine's School (commonly referred to as ''St Cath's'') is a private Anglican junior and senior day and boarding school, located in Waverley, an eastern suburb of Sydney, Australia. Established in 1856 as a school for the daughters of clergy, St Catherine's is the oldest Anglican girls' school in Australia. It is also the oldest private girls' school in Australia. It is a non-selective school, and currently caters for about 1,000 girls from Year K to Year 12, including 70 boarders. The school is affiliated with the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools. St Catherine's has been reviewed by the ''Good Schools Guide International''. History St Catherine's School traces its origins to 1855, when Jane Barker, wife of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bend Catholic College
Red Bend Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day and boarding school located in in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The College is run by the Marist Brothers, a religious institute. Established in 1926, the College has enrolled approximately 800 students from Year 7 to Year 12. History Prior to 1977, the Catholic education of students in this region was provided by three secondary schools; Our Lady of Mercy College, Forbes; Our Lady of Mercy High School, Parkes; and Marist Brothers' College, Forbes. In February 1977, these three schools combined to form one co-educational High School, with the name of Red Bend Catholic College, at the site of the former Marist Brothers' College, on the banks of the Lachlan River. This merger brought together the teaching traditions of the Mercy Sisters and the Marist Brothers. Principals The following individuals have served as College Principal: House system In 1943, four hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenswood School For Girls
Ravenswood School for Girls (often referred to as Ravenswood or Ravo) is an independent, Uniting Church, day school, day and boarding school for Prep to Year 12 girls, situated in Gordon, New South Wales, Gordon, an North Shore (Sydney), Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1901 by Mabel Fidler (1871–1960), Ravenswood currently caters for approximately 1100 students from Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Prep to Year 12, including 20 boarders from Years 10 to 12. The school has been an International Baccalaureate, IB World School since June 2004, and is authorised to offer the IB Diploma Programme. Ravenswood is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association, the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia, and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pymble Ladies' College
Pymble Ladies' College is an Independent school, independent, non-selective, day school, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, New South Wales, Pymble, a suburb on the North Shore (Sydney), Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. History and description Pymble Ladies' College was founded in 1916 by John Marden, due to the increasing enrolments at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney, another school established by the Presbyterian polity#General assembly, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of NSW. In 1921 Nancy Jobson became principal of the college. after the resignation of Gladys Gordon Everett. During Jobson's tenure, enrolments increased from 256 in 1921 to 414 in 1929 and the number of boarders from 95 to 161, however the Great Depression later caused a slump in enrolments to only 208 by 1932. Jobson left the school following a disagreement with the school council over proposed downsizing measures prompted by the economic downt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney
The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent Pre-school education, early learning, Primary school, primary and Secondary school, secondary school for girls, located in Croydon, New South Wales, Croydon, an Inner West (Sydney), inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school has a selective education, non-selective enrolment policy, and caters for approximately 1,500 girls from age 4 to 18, including Day school, day students and 65 Boarding school, boarders. Established in 1888 by the General Assembly (presbyterian church), General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbyterian Church of NSW, PLC Sydney is the oldest continuously running Presbyterian Church school in its state. PLC Sydney offers the option of Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) in Years 9 and 10 to supplement learning, in addition to the NSW Education Standards Authority courses (the HSC), as it enables students to sit e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale
The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale (PLC Armidale) is an independent, Presbyterian, Day school, day and boarding school for girls. The school is located in Armidale, New South Wales, Armidale, a large rural town with a population of 24,000 in the New England (Australia), New England region of New South Wales, Australia. PLC Armidale currently caters for approximately 400 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, including 80 boarders in Years 5 to 12. Enrolment at PLC Armidale is non-selective, and students from all races and religious affiliations are welcome. The college is affiliated with the Association of independent schools of New South Wales (AIS NSW), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA) the Association of Heads of independent schools of Australia (AHISA), the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), and is an affiliate member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). In 2006, PLC was named the top performing High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
