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Christian Brothers College Fremantle (CBC) is a private, Catholic, day school for boys situated in Fremantle, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It caters for students from Years 7–12. The school traces its origins back to 1901, when it was established by the members of the religious order of the Christian Brothers. Since its foundation, the school has been located on its current Ellen Street site, in the coastal community surrounding Fremantle. The campus consists of a Junior School (Years 7–10), Senior School (Years 11–12), performing arts, sporting grounds and gymnasium. CBC Fremantle is associated with Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) and has been a member of the Associated & Catholic Colleges of Western Australia (ACC)〔Unknown. ("Abridged History" ), "ACC Website", 23 September 2010, accessed 19 March 2011〕 since its inception in 1937. The College doesn't have an official sister school, but maintains good relations with both Iona Presentation College located in Mosman Park and Santa Maria College in Attadale. == History == The school's first building was opened in 1882 on High St in the port town of Fremantle under the name Fremantle Catholic Boys' School in a building still standing on school grounds, Edmund Hall.〔( Christian Brothers' College, Fremantle ), house.ksou.cn, accessed 16 August 2013〕 However this building was only constructed because the school had out grown St Patricks Presbytery where it had been started. The single storey building was designed by a former Fenian convict, Joseph Nunan,〔 an architect by profession who drew up the plans for the new school and it was built using limestone. The foundation stone of Edmunds Hall was laid on 26 January 1882.〔 The new school began with an enrolment of thirty primary-aged boys under the management of Mr Otto De Grancy. It opened on 14 November 1883. A change in the colony's Education Act in 1895 meant that all financial support for church-based schools was withdrawn. The recently arrived religious order of Christian Brothers was invited to take over the running of the parish school, and to establish a high school for the education of boys in the Fremantle area. In January 1901, the first group of brothers took charge of what was then known as St. Patrick's Boys' School. Thirty boys were enrolled but this number soon grew to ninety within four weeks. Soon afterwards, the High School opened with an enrolment of twenty-nine which soon rose to fifty-seven by the end of the year. In 1905 a Public Schools Association was created in Western Australia which had only four members. Its purpose was to organise sporting contests between the schools but it also created an elite club as other similar schools were denied membership. This school was a member with the High School, the Scotch College and the Guildford Grammar School.〔(Constitutional Centre of Western Australia ), wa.gov.au, accessed 16 August 2013〕 From 1901 to 1913, Christian Brothers' College Fremantle was one of the half-a-dozen schools in Western Australia preparing students for public examinations of The University of Adelaide. Until the University of Western Australia opened in 1914 with two brother and two former CBC students among the first graduates. In the last twenty years the school has become staffed by predominantly by lay teachers, with 2002 seeing the appointment of the schools' first lay Principal, Mr David McFadden. The years that followed saw CBC Fremantle undergo radical changes including the addition of a world-class gymnasium, new science labs, manual arts area, the renovation of the library, Year 12 common room and the addition of the new language buildings.〔Unknown. "College Diary". Positive Productions, 2011, p. 4.〕 In October 2007, Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) took responsibility for the governance of CBC Fremantle along with forty other Edmund Rice schools, including Aquinas College and Trinity College〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Brothers College, Fremantle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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