Saint Ignatius' College, Adelaide

Last updated

Saint Ignatius' College
Location
Saint Ignatius' College, Adelaide
Adelaide
,
South Australia

Australia
Coordinates 34°52′37″S138°41′50″E / 34.876853°S 138.697201°E / -34.876853; 138.697201
Information
Type Independent pre-school, primary and secondary day school
Motto Latin: Deo Gloria
Religious affiliation(s) Catholicism
Denomination Jesuits
Patron saint(s) Ignatius of Loyola
Established13 February 1951;73 years ago (1951-02-13)
FounderThomas Perrott, SJ
ChairmanSean Keenihan
RectorPeter Hosking, SJ
PrincipalLauren Brooks
Head of school
  • Phil Donato (Senior Campus)
  • Nic Boys (Junior Campus)
  • Rosemary Allen (Early Years)
Years offered Pre–K–12
Gender Co-educational
Enrolmentc. 1,500
Campus
Houses
  •    Regis
  •    Xavier
  •    Kostka
  •    Campion
Affiliations
School hymnDeo Gloria
Website www.ignatius.sa.edu.au

Saint Ignatius' College is an independent Catholic pre-school, primary and secondary day school for boys and girls, located in Adelaide, South Australia. The school is part of the international network of Jesuit schools which began in Messina, Sicily, in 1548. [1] The patron saint of the College is the founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), Ignatius of Loyola. The College has two campuses: the Junior Campus in Norwood, containing the Junior School (Reception to Year 6 students) and Early Learning Centre (3 to 5 years old), and the Senior Campus located across some 16 hectares (40 acres) in Athelstone, home to the Senior School (Year 7 to 12 students). [2]

Contents

History

Saint Ignatius Church, Queen Street, Norwood Saint Ignatius College of Norwood, South Australia.jpg
Saint Ignatius Church, Queen Street, Norwood

Single-gender education beginnings and later developments

The College began in Queen Street, Norwood, commencing with fifty-two boys and six Jesuit fathers on 13 February 1951. The catalyst was Archbishop Matthew Beovich's [3] increasing interest in commencing more formalised Catholic schooling in Adelaide. Thus the Jesuit boys' day school was established. The initial intake was from Grade 3 onwards. Students prior to this year level were educated at Loreto College, St Joseph's Memorial School (the local parish school), or the local state schools.[ citation needed ]

The school grew quickly and in 1967 a secondary campus was opened at Athelstone, in the then outer suburbs of Adelaide and the Norwood campus became the Junior School. From 1971, the school accepted Kildare College enrolments from girls wanting to complete their secondary studies. At that stage, Kildare offered education up to Year 11. In 1996, the school changed to offer co-educational enrolments from Reception to Year 12, the first Jesuit school in the world to do so. [4]

A co-educational Reception to Year 12 college

Today, over 1500 students are enrolled at the college's Junior and Senior Schools. [5]

In 2005, the college and Mercedes College hosted their inaugural 'Intercollegiate Sports Carnival' ('Intercol'). Each year the senior students of both colleges participate in eight sports for twenty-one shields in the winter season. The school that wins the majority of the shields is the overall winner of the Carnival and of the 'Winners’ Shield’. Each school alternates the hosting of Intercol each year.

A significant celebration and event in the college community is the annual Patronal Feast Day of Saint Ignatius. A school mass is held at the Norwood Parish for current students and staff of the school; it is one of only two events in the college calendar where students from both campuses are gathered in one place. Saint Ignatius' feast day is celebrated on 31 July. [6]

Aside from Junior and Senior School swimming and sports carnivals, another major event is the school's annual Distribution of Prizes, known as 'Speech Day', which all students from Years 3 to 12 attend. Students from Years 3 to 12 are acknowledged for their achievements in various areas of their schooling life. The 'College Blue' prize is also awarded to any past or present student of the college for extraordinary achievement in their life. It is held at the Adelaide Convention Centre at the beginning of Term 4 (October/November). The majority of awards are books such as dictionaries and encyclopaedias, as well as a small number of medals and trophies. Future student leaders of the school are announced at this event. As of 2020, the Influencers Church hosted ‘Speech Day’ due to COVID-19 restrictions. [7]

Recent

Opening in 2011, the Mary MacKillop Library is a new double-storey library at the Junior School, developed to replace the previous, smaller library building. The Library contains more classrooms to accommodate the growing number of Junior School students, as well as more modern library facilities. Similarly, opening in early 2010, the new Senior School library building replaced the former Junior Campus administration building, and likewise, includes new classrooms for the increasing student population.

In 2014, the Senior School Performing Arts Centre, a Music and Drama Building, was completed, replacing previous demountable Performing Arts buildings. A new theatre was unveiled, named after St Peter Faber SJ, one of the founding fathers of the Society of Jesus. The new building houses student classrooms, tutorial and storage rooms, and an auditorium with raked audience seating for over 300 people. [8]

In 2017, the Caroline Chisholm building was opened. The building is three stories tall with the ground floor being for a reception, student services and a variety of offices for different staff at the school. The second level is a staff room and the third level is an open learning space for students. This learning space includes a green screen for the school run YouTube channel ITV (Formerly known as the "Home Group"), a 'building' workshop as well as a number of interactive classrooms which teachers can book and arrange in the layout they want for their class.

In 2022, the Mary Glowrey Centre was opened. The building is three stories tall. On the ground floor it features a science hub, auditorium and gymnasium. The second floor is dedicated to music classrooms, and tuition rooms. The third floor has four classrooms which hold the year six classes. The tennis courts were also resurfaced during the construction.

Headmasters

The college had their first female headmaster in 2022, Barbara Watkins. She was succeeded by another female headmaster, Lauren Brooks.

Sport and houses

Students of the College are separated into four houses under a College house system. House members are involved in various musical, pastoral, performing and sporting events alongside participants of their own house and opposing teams. The four houses are named after their patron Jesuit saints:

As well as this, the school has a proud inter-collegiate relationship with Mercedes College, a fellow Catholic school in Adelaide's South. Every year a sporting competition takes place in the winter season with the school that gets the majority of 21 shields taking out the competition. Redemption was complete in 2019 when the boys First XVIII Football team won their respected shield for the first time in six years.

Notable alumni

See also

Related Research Articles

St Mary's College is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for girls located in the "square mile" of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Aloysius' College (Sydney)</span> School in Australia

St Aloysius' College is an independent Catholic primary and secondary day school for boys, located in Kirribilli, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xavier College</span> Roman catholic school in Melbourne, Australia

Xavier College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, with its main campus located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Classes started in 1878.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prince Alfred College</span> Independent, single-sex, day & boarding school in Kent Town, South Australia, Australia

Prince Alfred College is a private, independent, day and boarding school for boys, located on Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town – near the centre of Adelaide, South Australia. Prince Alfred College was established in 1869 by the Methodist Church of Australasia, which amalgamated with other Protestant churches in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia.

Loyola High School is a co-educational subsidized private Roman Catholic school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, for grades 7–11. The school is located in the Loyola District of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1896 by the Society of Jesus as part of Loyola College, at the request of the English Catholic community in Montreal. It is named after St. Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuit Order in 1534.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Peter's College, Adelaide</span> School in Australia

St Peter's College is a prestigious independent Anglican primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It was founded in 1847 by members of the Anglican Church of Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview</span> Independent, day and boarding school in Sydney, Australia

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Aloysius' College, Glasgow</span> Independent, Jesuit school in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

St Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying, private, Jesuit day school in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1859 by the Jesuits, who previously staffed the college, and named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. St Aloysius' College is a co-educational school with a kindergarten, junior school, and senior school.

Marist Catholic College North Shore is an independent systemic Roman Catholic K–12 coeducational precinct, located in North Sydney, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Concordia College (South Australia)</span> Independent Lutheran school in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Concordia College (CC) is an ELC–12 independent, co-educational, Lutheran school with campuses located in the Highgate and Blackwood areas of Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1890, the college is a school of the Lutheran Church of Australia and has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School since January 2001, offering the IB Primary Years and Middle Years Programmes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rostrevor College</span> School in Australia

Rostrevor College is an independent Catholic primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, founded in 1923, located in Woodforde, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) from the Adelaide city centre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. John's College, Belize</span> Private religious secondary school and university in Belize

St. John's College is a private Catholic selective secondary school for boys and private co-educational university college, located in Belize City, Belize. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus as St. John Berchmans' College, a high school for boys only, it has since grown and now offers a wide variety of liberal arts and science courses at the secondary, British A-level, and United States junior college levels.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Loreto College, Marryatville</span> School in Australia

Loreto College Marryatville is an independent Roman Catholic primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls in Marryatville, an inner-eastern suburb of Adelaide, located approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the Adelaide city centre, in South Australia, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cabra Dominican College</span> School in Cumberland Park, South Australia, Australia

Cabra Dominican College is a private, independent Catholic high school located at Cumberland Park, an inner-southern suburb in Adelaide, South Australia. It was established by an order of Dominican sisters from Cabra, Dublin in February 1886 with nine sisters, and caring for 37 boarders and 4-day girls. Originally offering a co-educational primary education and a high school education for girls, it began accepting boys into the high school in 1978.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Peter's Girls' School</span> School in Australia

St Peter's Girls' School is an independent Anglican early learning, primary and secondary day school for girls located in the Adelaide suburb of Stonyfell, in South Australia, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Ignatius College, Geelong</span> Independent secondary day school in Drysdale, Victoria, Australia

Saint Ignatius College is an independent Catholic secondary day school for boys and girls, located in the rural hinterland of the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The school provides education from Year 7 to Year 12, conducted in the Jesuit tradition, and operates with oversight from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. The college is part of the international network of Jesuit schools begun in Messina, Sicily in 1548.

Gregory John O'Kelly SJ AM is an Australian Jesuit prelate of the Catholic Church and the former Bishop of Port Pirie.

Xavier Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in the Northern Rivers regional town of Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. A Companion School of the Society of Jesus, the school was founded in 2000 and is administered by the Catholic Schools Office of the Diocese of Lismore.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Ignatius' Church, Norwood</span> Church in Australia

St Ignatius' Church, Norwood is a Catholic Church located in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood, Australia. It is dedicated in honour of St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, the order of priests who founded the Church and have always and continue to administer the parish, on behalf of the Archdiocese of Adelaide.

References

  1. ↑ "Saint Ignatius College | Home". ignatius.sa.edu.au. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  2. ↑ College. Accessed 6 June 2016.
  3. ↑ History Archived 16 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Sisters of St Joseph, retrieved 2008-10-10.
  4. ↑ History. Accessed 6 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Saint Ignatius College | Home". ignatius.sa.edu.au. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  6. ↑ Senior school activities Accessed 12 September 2021.
  7. ↑ Activities, ignatius.sa.edu.au. Accessed 6 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Music and Drama Building – General News – The College – Latest News – Saint Ignatius College". www.ignatius.sa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
  9. ↑ Houses. Accessed 6 June 2016.
  10. ↑ "About our Bishop | Diocese of Port Pirie". www.pp.catholic.org.au. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  11. ↑ Warhurst, John (16 October 2013). "Jesuit influence overplayed". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  12. ↑ "AFL Tables – Tom Warhurst – Stats – Statistics".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.