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Osborne Ladies' College was an Australian girls school located in Blackheath, New South Wales from 1923 until 1958. It was renowned for being run in the tradition of the Royal Navy. ==History== Miss Violet Gibbins was a pupil teacher who attended courses at the University of Sydney though she did not obtain any qualification, she became a teacher and later the principal of Cairns High School. She started a school in Bondi in 1910 initially for boys, but the school was later changed to girls. The school was advertised as being run along Royal Naval lines with a White Ensign being presented to the school in 1912 by the visiting HMS ''Drake''.〔http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4817/is_1_91/ai_n29185757/pg_3/?tag=content;col1〕 During the First World War, Miss Gibbins brother, Captain Norman Gibbins VC, was killed in action at Battle of Fromelles.〔http://www.ipswichgrammar.com/w08/news/content/Grammar%20Word/08052009.pdf〕 She later moved her school to Epping, changing the name of her school from the Epping Ladies' College to Osborne Ladies' College after the Royal Naval College, Osborne on the Isle of Wight. In 1923 Miss Gibbins moved her school to its final location on near Blackhheath overlooking the Kanimbla and Megalong Valleys. The building was the former site of an unused hotel built in 1888.〔http://bmfh.org/index.php/The-Blue-Mountains/Places-of-Interest/Osborne-College-my-view.html〕 The average enrolment of the school was 50 students aged 7 to 16 years of age. 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「Osborne Ladies' College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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