St Vincent's College, Potts Point

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St Vincent's College
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St Vincent's College, Potts Point
Rockwall Crescent

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2011

Australia
Coordinates 33°52′9″S151°13′26″E / 33.86917°S 151.22389°E / -33.86917; 151.22389
Information
Former nameVictoria Street Roman Catholic School
Type Independent single-sex secondary day and boarding school
Motto Latin: Scientia cum Religione
(Religion and Knowledge united)
Religious affiliation(s) Sisters of Charity
Denomination Roman Catholic
Patron saint(s)
Established1858;165 years ago (1858) [1]
Educational authority New South Wales Department of Education
PrincipalAnne Fry
Staffc.63
Years 712
Gender Girls
Enrolmentc.620 (2007)
Campus type Urban
Colour(s)Blue, gold and white
   
Nickname Vinnies
Affiliations
Website www.stvincents.nsw.edu.au

St Vincent's College (colloquially known as Vinnies), is an independent Roman Catholic single-sex secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Victoria Street, Potts Point, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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The college is the oldest registered Catholic girls' school in Australia, founded by the Sisters of Charity as a co-educational primary school in 1858. [2] St Vincent's College follows the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola. The college has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 714 girls in Years 7 to 12, including approximately 61 boarders.[ citation needed ]

St Vincent's is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), [3] the Australian Boarding Schools' Association (ABSA), [1] the Alliance of Girls' Schools Australasia (AGSA), [4] and is a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). [5]

History

St Vincent's College was founded as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School, by the Sisters of Charity in 1858, a year after the sisters established St Vincent's Hospital at the same site.

The school reopened as St Vincent's College, a secondary, fee-paying, private, independent school in May 1882, after the hospital's relocation to the neighbouring suburb of Darlinghurst.

In 2009, Mary Aikenhead Ministries (MAM) was established by the Holy See at the request of the Congregation of the Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia and the St Vincent's College was transferred to MAM.

In 2018, St Vincent's College celebrated its 160th anniversary [6] and in 2019 its 135th year of boarding.

Principals

PeriodDetails [5]
18581864Aloysius Raymond
18651881Frances McGuigan
18821896Ursula Brutin
18971912Gerard Ryan
19121920Kevin Purtell
19211922Benedicta Martin
19231925Joachim Burns
19261936Dympna Bruton
1937Carmella Kissane
19381943Francis Jerome Donovan
1944Maria Joseph Hegarty
19451948Marion Corless
1949Peter Fenessy
1950Laurence Young
19511955Isabel Waldron
19561959Joan Jurd
1960Amadeus Paine
1961Genevieve Campbell
19621969Marion Corless
19701976Mildred Carroll
19771983Maria Wheeler
19841994Margaret Beirne
19952001Caroline Duhigg
20022008Michelle Huggonet
20092014Fay Gurr
2015–presentAnne Fry

Notable alumnae

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